Alicia, who had never spoken before, made Rufus and Belle fall silent for a moment as she immediately said. Their gazes also looked like they had just seen something rare, and it made her blush.
'Heee, why are they all silent! Will they be mad?!' Alicia immediately panicked when neither of them responded to her words. Despite the panic, she tried not to put on a strange expression and continued to keep her expression calm.
They were silent for about 15 seconds until Belle responded cheerfully to Alicia's words.
"Your voice is soft, Miss Alicia."
Alicia almost cried because of the silence after she spoke. It made her nervous and embarrassed.
"I'm glad that you can speak. At first, I was worried that the organs that make you speak are problematic, and healing isn't reaching those parts. I'm relieved that my guess was wrong... Then we can start examining your internal health." Rufus's opinion differed from Belle's response, a healer who was more worried about her health than her soft voice. Without waiting long after hearing Alicia's request, Rufus immediately took his bag in the Shelf Trolley to start the health check.
Alicia was happy that the plan to cover up her lies worked perfectly. Still, she had to make sacrifices by going through the medical check-ups she dreaded.
Reluctantly Alicia participated in a series of medical check-ups conducted by Rufus and assisted by Belle. She had absolutely no idea what kind of medical examination they were doing on her because Rufus had no explanation. What is clear is that her entire body is examined, such as vision, hearing, teeth, limbs, and nerves. Some of the checks also involved strange contraptions that always made Alicia break out in a cold sweat.
"We're almost done... Hmm, I'm glad that you're doing well and everything's normal. But I found some problems with you, I don't know why your heart rate is so high and you're also sweating profusely. Do you feel something strange in your body? ?" While writing on the board he was holding, Rufus was surprised by Alicia's symptoms. He tried to provide consultation to find the root of the problem.
Alicia knows that it happened because of her trauma, but she can't tell the dark times to the people she just met. She was worried that if they found out that she was previously a prisoner of the Holy Kingdom, they would look down on her.
She doesn't want their kindness to turn into hatred because they know her dark past.
"I just had a nightmare." That reason was the safest to tell them and minimal risk of causing misunderstandings.
"Hmm, I've just heard that nightmares can cause things like an increased heart rate and excessive sweating… But for now that will be the diagnosis, I'll check on you regularly until you're completely healed. Get plenty of rest and eat well." Putting the pen on his chin, Rufus looked confused about why these diseases appeared. But because he could not explain the cause of the illness medically, he decided to make Alicia's complaint a temporary diagnosis.
"T-thank you, Mr Rufus." Even though Alicia didn't know what wound Rufus had healed, but she really thanked him for treating her so well.
"Since you are Young Master's guest, just call me Rufus. And just call him Belle." Smiling, Rufus asked Alicia not to add titles to his and Belle's names.
Alicia nodded and agreed to Rufus' request.
"Yosh, then let's do the final check. Belle, you wait outside."
She was surprised because there were still a series of medical check-ups, even though she thought the consultation was the last one.
"Okay." Belle immediately followed Rufus' instructions and left the chamber.
Alicia was a little worried about what Rufus meant until she had to ask Belle to leave the chamber. Her gaze continued to stare at Rufus' every move suspiciously.
'Eh, so the box is also a medical device too?' Alicia saw Rufus, who took a white box from the Shelf Trolley.
She had indeed seen the box on the middle shelf before because the frame only contained medical devices. She didn't dare to go through them one by one.
Rufus opened the city and took out a shelf filled with empty laboratory tubes. Alicia looked at the thing Rufus had just taken out anxiously.
'Those tubes look like they're about to be filled with my blood. B-but there are so many!' There were 8 empty tubes on the shelf, but that wasn't what she was afraid of. The next thing that Rufus will take is enough to make her shiver. Yes, it is a syringe!
Alicia knew that the tubes were where the blood was stored because she had seen them at the village health center.
"I will take your blood to be examined in the laboratory, you better close your eyes if you are afraid of needles... Just relax your hands, it will hurt if you stay tense like that." Rufus tried to calm Alicia, who looked very tense.