"Two hours," Maxim replied, anticipating her next question.
He then lifted his hand from her shoulder and stepped out.
Not long after, he returned with something in his hand.
"Drink this," he said while passing her a glucose drink with a straw inserted. "If you're not feeling dizzy afterward, you're free to go back to your class."
Ash took the drink and thanked him.
Then, she noticed something odd: the young doctor in front of her had nothing on his right hand—no glove or marking.
It wasn't that Ash had any particular fascination with hands, but according to her inherited memories, every Beast Master in this world bore a "Beast Mark" from their wrist to the back of their hand after forming a soul bond with a Spirit Beast.
This mark represented the type and attributes of their contracted Spirit Beast and was the simplest way to identify if someone was a Beast Master.
Generally, Beast Master wore fingerless gloves to conceal their marks and hide any information about their Spirit Beasts.
However, this intern doctor not only didn't wear gloves, but his hand was also entirely unmarked.
It seemed that not everyone in this world was a Beast Master! Ash thought while sipping her glucose drink.
She'd never seen a Beast Master's mark before and had hoped to finally see one here, only to encounter another ordinary person like herself.
But she didn't dwell on this detail too much.
After finishing her drink, she said goodbye to the new school doctor and left the infirmary.
Since she had fainted in front of everyone due to low blood sugar, her teacher had given her the rest of the day off, allowing her to go home and rest instead of attending afternoon classes.
That's perfect!
Ash was eager to see what this world, where people lived alongside Spirit Beasts, was truly like.
Before she transmigrated here, she'd been a huge fan of Pokémon.
She'd played nearly every Pokémon-related game—if not every single one, then at least a dozen or so.
Especially the Pokemon battle games on a certain website; she would play it every single day.
Even after graduating from college and becoming a corporate slave, she'd still play the ranked matches as long as they were updated every week.
And let's not even talk about that globally popular franchise!
Ash, like every other player, would grumble about the developers' laziness whenever a new game was announced, but every time one was released, she'd be the first one to buy it.
She'd set a timer to make sure she could snag it as soon as possible!
Now she'd ended up in a world with a setting strikingly similar to the Pokémon universe.
As a fan, Ash was more than a little excited.
"I wonder what kind of Spirit Beast I'll meet in the future," she mused while heading toward the commercial district.
As she walked, she noticed a small Spirit Beast walking beside their owners with curious eyes.