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-Hospital
3rd POV
After taking down the Chronosphere, Lawrence took a deep breath to calm his body. He spent a large amount of mana just to cast that one single spell. He is still not aware that what he did gathered the attention of every strong person on the planet.
Lawrence used the Arcane Boots to replenish the mana that he lost making him comfortable. After finishing that, he was about to explain some things to Bea when someone suddenly entered the room. He thought it was Fujino but his expectations was broken when a doctor entered the room.
The doctor didn't even looked at Lawrence or Bea, he instead walked towards Shiki who just slowly opened her eyes. She is confused to what is happening as she can see lines to everything around. The ground, ceiling, flowers, bed, and even the doctor who got closer to her.
Shiki backed away in fear from what is happening, the only thing that she could remember right now is that she was inside a void along with Lawrence who embraced her the whole time.
She has no idea why she is in a hospital or why she can see these lines. It was frightening her right now. The doctor stared at Shiki for a second before he lunged into her. The exhausted body of Shiki could not do anything but wait for the doctor reach her, fortunately such thing didn't happen as the doctor was twisted in the middle of his chest before exploding.
The girls were surprised about what happened, they turned towards Fujino who just entered the room but she also has confused look on her face. They changed their focus to the only person studied the same ability two years ago and that was Laurence.
They saw the three orbs on his body circling, It was Wex, Quas, Wex. Lawrence already completed the spell two years ago but has no chance to use it. Now he is quite satisfied that he could control it easily as he initially thought. "Hm? What?" he asked confused about their gazes.
"Why did you kill him?" Fujino asked pointing at the slab of meat laying on the ground. "He was trying to hurt Shiki. And besides it wasn't even human in the first place" Lawrence explained the reason but he was taken aback when he was suddenly tackled by someone. He looked at Shiki who is embracing him as if he was the only salvation she has in this world.
"What's wrong Shiki? Are you uncomfortable with your eyes?" Lawrence asked shocking her. She thought that no one is able to perceive what she is seeing however that thought was destroyed when she saw the same magical eyes on Laurence's face.
"I said it didn't I? I'll handle half of your burden. In this world where you can't see anything but lines. I will be your guide." Lawrence patted her head comforting the girl. He know how difficult it is trying to understand in a world where only lines exist.
Shiki just enjoyed the feeling. Right now the only proper thing she could see is Lawrence. Everything around her has lines of death, she knew that if she try cutting them off then they will die without any resistance. Lawrence on the other hand is clear blank without any of those. He has no lines of death as if he can't die.
Lawrence turned his attention to his maid who was quiet the whole time, he was getting worried if something happened or maybe her system malfunctioned during the process of her returning to time, "Bea? How do you feel? Is there any discomfort somewhere?" he asked.
Bea didn't respond and just feel her whole body. She stopped doing that as she turned her attention to Lawrence's face. There it is, the thing that she longed for this whole 2 years. The energetic face that show various emotions. This is what Bea wanted the most, she didn't hesitate and jumped towards Lawrence's hands embracing him.
Lawrence didn't interrupt the two from their emotional release, he is quite happy that nothing big happened. If Bea died before he could wake up then he might really do something that will force the Counter Force to move their hands.
After 30 minutes, the two finally calmed down. They are now sitting on the hospital bed with Bea cutting apple for Shiki and Lawrence. Bea handed the apple to Shiki who just stared at it, "I don't want an apple. I want the mango from before" she demanded making Lawrence sigh.
The way she asked was blunt as if she was the one who owned them. "Oh by the way, was there any items that appeared on my body while I was sleeping?" Lawrence asked munching an apple. He is sure that there would be bunch of them right now. "Yes master, everyday there are bunch of items appearing on your chest. We decide to place everything in your room... however there is a problem" Bea got a complicated complexion making Lawrence wonder what happened.
"The room couldn't house anymore of your items so we made warehouse that is also getting close to full" Bea said. Lawrence twitched his lips hearing it. He thought it is some kind of dangerous problems like it was stolen yet the thing she reported was not even a problem. "I'll look to it later, can you explain what happened 2 years ago when we lost consciousness?"
Fujino was the one who volunteered to explain so Lawrence handed the stage to her, was an hour after I came home. I was worried because an hour already passed yet the two of you are still not home so I told Miss Bea about it. Both of us went to the place where we saw both of you lying on the ground while another man was standing beside your body" Fujino stopped to take a breath.
Lawrence raised his eyebrow hearing about another man, he already has an idea to who it is but he still let Fujino continue her story. "The man was doing something in your body and Miss Bea confirmed that he was casting some kind of spell. I was about to interfere when the shield that was covering your body bounced the spell that the man casted. I was confused at that time because the man suddenly vanished"
Fujino finished her story with that, she told him that nothing else happened during the whole two years. The said man didn't even made appearance. "Master, there was a redhead woman who was looking for you a month after you went into coma. She said that she was your business partner, I didn't know her so I just sent her away" Bea added making Lawrence dumbfounded.
"Hand me my phone please" Lawrence said with Bea following it. He opened his phone and dialed a number that he called 2 years ago. The call immediately connected as Lawrence heard a voice, "So you're awake huh?" Lawrence heard Touko's voice from the other side.
Lawrence shook his head thinking that it was impossible for her to not know. "How is business doing?" he asked in teasing tone. "Yeah, it would have been good if not for a certain someone sleeping in the middle of a work" Touko complained making Lawrence chuckle in amusement.
"How high did the price raise?" Laurence asked. He only gave Touko 5 Mana Mango 2 years ago so without stock, the magus community will surely crave for the magical fruit. "... At least 800% of the initial price. The initial price is 800 grand" Touko said after some hesitation.
Her hands almost slipped many times, she was about to use Lawrence's part of the money and spend it for her own use. Thankfully she was a trustworthy woman and kept her hands away. "I'll send another batch. This time break the market Touko" Lawrence said before hanging up.
He turned towards the girls who are having a normal conversation, "So? Let's go home?" he asked smiling at them especially Shiki. She is probably the most disturbed one right now. The person she was relying on her whole life suddenly vanished.
It is not easy for to simply accept that. They are the same entity after all and even if the other one only brings trouble, she still love her. There is no way that Shiki can immediately become happy after knowing that.
Lawrence grabbed Shiki's hand as he smiled at her. "We will be together in this" he said patting her head. The group worked the papers of the hospital before finally leaving. Lawrence already missed his previous house because the experience he encountered on Void was not great at all.
Of course Shiki being there lessen that uncomfortable feeling but it doesn't really help when she was asleep the whole time leaving him alone guarding her. Lawrence wanted nothing more than to rest at his home right now. There is no greater joy than that.
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