" What happened to your Fingers??!!! " His mouth dropped
How could Crystal not care about the fact, that her fingers were literally twisted backwards and were bleeding. It was not a pretty sight.
But, Crystal is your typical Ackerman so she didn't feel anything needless to say she felt pain.
" Hahaha" Crystal laughed at Tobi's shocked face, she honestly thought he was joking about how he felt about her crooked fingers.
" What are you laughing at sis?!!! Your fingers look like they've been butchered by some wild animal!! " Tobi was not joking around when he saw Crystal fingers but Crystal could not have enough of his caring attitude and made fun of him
" Hahaha you should look at your face hahaha" Crystal laughed even louder, she tried pointing her finger at him but clearly she couldn't use them.
" You're laughing?! You can't use your hand!! What stupid training did you do?!!!" Tobi yelled at Alfstrat, who was terrified at Crystal's humor,
" I just punched the shit out of huge fish that this big! " Crystal drew her hands at a very long range with so much excitement in her eyes.
" What in the world?! How is fish that big? " Tobi said in utter confusion
" I know right- "
" Why did you even punch it with your bare hands, you could have used a weapon or something" Tobi yelled at Crystal but all his talk went in one ear and out the other, Crystal was a crazy rascal.
" Why shouldn't I use my bare hand? It felt awesome!!" Crystal said with fire in her eyes.
Clearly she was running on some kind of fire, but whatever fire she was burning on, it was a very useless one.
" Sis... "
" Hahaha, yeah bro ? "
" Sis... "
" Tobi ? "
" Sis... I feel so bad for you... " Tobi kept his head down, pretending to get all teared up and sad but deep down we all know what's about to drop by from this boy's mouth.
" Tobi where's this coming from? " Crystal was a little bit confused about what Tobi had just said, she looked around her and everyone seemed to just shy away as if the knew nothing was about to happen.
" Boohoo... No man will want to marry my sis anymore because of her crooked fingers"
" WHAAAT TAKE THAT BACK! " Crystal shouted in disbelief at the outrageous insult, she couldn't believe the courage talk she gave Tobi had completely backfired!
" Never! "
" Take it back Tobi!!! "
" No! Ha! Ha! Your craziness is gonna chase all the men in this world away! And no one's ever going to marry you haha " Tobi said as he rolled on the floor with laughter
" Tobi... You better take it back" Crystal was furious at how the tables have turned and quickly! She became angry and irritated at Tobi's mockery.
" No way sis, you can keep on being crazy but don't come crying to me when you're eighty and no on wants to marry you haha " Tobi countinued the endless mockery.
" You're going to regret this " Crystal said as she walked out embarrassed and angry, this made everyone stares at Tobi with a look of " you went to far "
In Tobi's mind he was scared when he made fun of Crystal but all is well... At least she did not disgrace him in the public or at least beat him up to shreds...
But when the two teens were in the medbay to get treated, not only Crystal was getting treated but Tobi as well.
Crystal did not do anything crazy, why would she... after all that drama that went down between her and Tobi. It was Tobi's eyes that called for attention after it was poked by Domi.
" your eyes are a red young boy " Alfstrat looked at Tobi from a distance as they both stood outside the medbay waiting for Dr. Dona to finish treating Crystal's fingers.
" Yeah, I know... It'll go away after some time " Tobi shoved the old man's concern away.
" Young boy... your eyes are bloody red " Alfstrat looked at Tobi like he was telling him, "What are you going to do now? "
Tobi looked not the least worried about his eyes as he held the pain in, yep, his eyes were hurting... a lot. But he couldn't tell anyone, look at Crystal, she got all her fingers twisted but she was still able to joke around with everyone.
Tobi might want to conclude that it is courage that made him hold back his pain, but he knew that Crytal knew that he knew that his eyes were hurting, so at this point, his trying to beat a game of who can tolerate pain the longest.
But jokes on him, one benefit of being an Ackerman is that, depending on how strong they are, their pain tolerance is inversely proportional. The stronger they are, the less pain they feel.
Crystal being the strong Ackerman that she is was not even feeling any pain, he practically left Tobi in the dust with whatever pain tolerance completion he made up.
Eventually, he could not tolerate the pain any longer and rushed into the medbay with tears in his eyes.
slam!
" FORGIVE ME MY WONDERFUL SISTER " Tobi knelt beside Crystal's bed with full repentance on his face. Now, it was at this moment the tables were once again in Crystal's favour.
" Ho ho ho how the gods have decided to avenge me " Crystal laughed at Tobi's pitiful fate. Dr. Dona was stunned to see Tobi, at that moment she realized that, he was Crystal's brother.
" Excuse me, are you okay dear? " Dr. Dona said in an angelic voice, Tobi thought he must have been visited by the angel that came to save him from his sister's plan to vent her anger on him when he went to the room.
" boohoo... Mr. Angel please save me... I'm dying " Tobi opened his teary bloody red eyes which struck Dr. Dona by surprise!
" Don't worry I'll treat you "
...
A few moments later, Tobi sat on the opposite bed from Crystal, avoiding eye contact with her because of the shame and guilt he felt for how unwell he was unable to handle the pain.
Alfstrat was also in the room with the two kids and shook his head sideways at Tobi's lonely aura.
' poor kid '
When Dr. Dona was done with Crystal's fingers she told her and Tobi and Alfstrat that
" Any form of training should be restricted for at least a month, her bone will have to heal up since they're all broken "
" Now, young boy tell me what happened to your eyes "
" I rather not " Tobi shied away from the question which made Crystal taunt him with her mocking looks on her face.
" Why? Are you scared ?~ "
" No! I'm not! it's just... " Tobi remembers Domi's weird aura, he wasn't scared of Crystal exactly... but God only knows what Domi would do to him if he ever told anyone about this incident.
" Haa~ It must be Domi isn't it? " Dr. Dona said pitifully
" h... how did you know? " Tobi was scared at what Domi might do to him again the next time he goes to the laundry crew and he doesn't want to screw himself up.
" oh~ I know it's her. It's always her~ " Domi shrugged it off
" Now let's begin the Treatment-"
" Doc. I'm gonna head out " Crystal waved her hands at her the two men and Dona and placed her freaking hands in her pocket.
" Crystal! Your hands! " Dr. Dona cautioned Crystal
" you might feel the pain but... if you disregard the fact that a part of you is hurt you're going to end up delaying the part of you that needs healing "
Crystal looks at her fingers and sighed as if she was disappointed at the fact she was now unable to do anything crazy or in her head... her daily life was ruined.
She left the medbay and Tobi inside feeling bumped out and went to her room to relax and feel a little bit better.
As she walked to her room, a fiery presence engulfed her slowly, as she opened the door she heard a familiar voice.
' Hey '
[ huh? Where am? ]