Indeed, she was quite distracted and was cutting the lean meat with a rather blunt knife, so she applied a bit of force when cutting the meat.
It was strange that it took so much effort to cut the meat, but when the knife reached her finger, it suddenly became sharp and sliced a long gash on her left middle finger.
Blood was gushing out, so she quickly dropped the kitchen knife and grabbed her left middle finger with her right hand, rushing toward the study room's doorway as that was where the band-aids were.
The band-aid in the study room was bought by her when Joseph Thompson accidentally cut his finger while killing fish before his business trip, and she had kept the remaining ones in the desk's drawer.
She arrived at the study room's doorway, but the door was tightly closed, and both her hands were occupied, leaving her unable to turn the door handle!
