Don't force me to use my right fist.

"How can you still keep smiling?"

Clutching the wet wipe Saya gave her tightly in her hand, the girl questioned Saya.

When Saya saw the girl who had regained consciousness, he initially thought she was going to demand compensation or blame him. However, after hearing the girl's question, he couldn't help but show a suspicious expression.

He managed to sneak into a hospital ward; shouldn't he be laughing, or crying?

"Because someone is helping me. Even though the doctor saw me like this, he still cared about me instead of thinking I was crazy and wanting to kick me out. Shouldn't I smile?"

After thinking for a long time, Sōyu finally came up with this excuse to brush it off.

"I still think you're mentally ill. I only did it out of a doctor's duty. Please don't misunderstand, thank you. As for Zuoyou, I don't know if he was lucky or if he did it on purpose, but those two arrows miraculously avoided bones and blood vessels. The injuries look terrible, but they're really just the kind of injuries that can be dealt with by poisoning and resting."

"Just because of that? But you shouldn't have laughed at Cai Shu. Isn't the inability to feel pain itself the most painful thing?"

Asashita Fujino covered her face, looking at Saya with an expression of disbelief.

"Being unable to feel pain makes you a heretic, completely different from ordinary people. Aren't you worried about others looking at you with strange eyes?" "It's a curse!"

After Saiyu shouted it out, Asashita Fujino took a deep breath and waited for Saiyu's reply.

Saya and the doctor, who had also stopped what they were doing after being yelled at, exchanged a glance and both saw the confusion in each other's eyes.

"So how is it a curse? Not being able to feel pain is your own business, and overall it's not really a serious matter. In fact, saying it out loud is kind of cool." Sawa looked at the girl with confusion, clearly not understanding what she meant.

"Incomprehensible, incomprehensible."

Saya watched the girl flee in panic, and then, as if remembering something, he looked down at the doctor who was still cleaning his wounds on his knee.

"Who is she?" Saya, who didn't recognize the other person at all and had no idea why she was telling him all this nonsense that had no meaning, tilted his head and asked the doctor, who might be the only one in the know.

"I don't know. Maintaining patient privacy is also part of a doctor's job. Now, you should wait for someone to carry you into the ward you've been desperately seeking, instead of coming to ask me."

Looking at the boy, who had been anesthetized and had his buttocks pierced throughout the entire process, yet acted as if nothing had happened, allowing him to treat his wounds with alcohol and other disinfectant tools as if he were a monster, the Chinese doctor got up and dialed the number of the nurses on duty, asking them to prepare to come and pick up Saya.

"Oh, it's time. There's one more thing I need to make clear to you. The emergency treatment you just received will also incur a fee, and if you want to be hospitalized, you'll need to pay the fees first."

The doctor, who clearly distinguished between public and private matters, quickly examined Saya, and the nurse who had been contacted arrived with a trolley to carry him upstairs to his ward. The doctor, feeling as if he had just woken from a strange dream, rubbed his forehead and sat back down; his work wasn't finished, and other patients were waiting for him. As for Saya, he successfully slipped into the ward floor. With the nurse's help, he changed into a hospital gown and was immediately thrown onto a bed, even given a perfunctory dose of glucose. This guy only had two bruises on his knees; at most, he'd get a couple of tetanus shots and some antibiotics. There was no need for such a fuss.

Furthermore, they couldn't understand why Sawa, once inside the ward, acted as if he were at home—not at all like a patient—even sporting a sunny smile. This was even stranger.

The guards, assuming Saya was just an oddball, ignored him and simply told him to press the emergency call button next to him if anything happened, before leaving his side.

Only Saya, his knee bandaged, remained in the ward. After secretly glancing around and finding no security cameras, he decisively pulled out a potato and started eating it. He had been making a mistake for far too long in trying to prevent his wound from healing too quickly.

"Well, now it's easier to investigate. I think that weird thing is probably hiding in these wards, just like me." Saya, who had finished the last bite of a potato and allowed his knee injury to heal completely, peeked out from the ward and glanced at the other wards before speaking to himself.

Chapter 187 Tragic Fate

The inpatient ward area was much quieter than the places where Sawa had just been. There were no other patients walking around, and at most, there were nurses and doctors rushing around. After all, it was a ward, so don't expect any special earthly atmosphere in this kind of place.

The air was thick with the smell of disinfectant. Zuo You cautiously emerged from his private room. The wound on his knee had already healed thanks to his full stomach, but because he was wearing a hospital gown, he didn't attract much attention from the other nurses. After all, many patients couldn't stay in bed and wanted to get up and move around, and this wasn't an infectious disease ward. The nurses weren't particularly against ordinary patients visiting each other. In fact, the nurses and doctors wanted to see more interaction from the patients, instead of their constant sighs and gloomy faces. Noticing that the nurses didn't seem to care much about him, Zuo You grew bolder and began to walk openly around the ward area. This hospital was indeed quite large; the inpatient area alone comprised an entire building. Zuo You strolled leisurely from one ward to another, peeking at the patients inside, taking nearly ten minutes. And this was only one floor; if Sawa remembered correctly, there seemed to be several more floors. Shaking his head, Sawa, after searching this floor without finding anything, could only take the elevator to the next floor, hoping to find some clues. This was only in such a short time without using stealth; Sawa estimated that if he had sneaked in instead of doing this, even a rough search would have been a problem. Not to mention he still hadn't determined what kind of thing the vampire was.

Once again marveling at the benefits of the minimap, Saya pondered where to get this mod. Judging from the last drop, killing monsters with specific abilities doesn't guarantee a mod drop, so it seems the only option is to grind monsters. Covering his face, Saya stepped out of the elevator, about to continue exploring for any more discoveries, when he overheard two nurses nearby making quiet, almost casual sighs.

"Sigh, that patient over there hasn't eaten again today, and he looks increasingly haggard."

"What can be done? I heard that her family members all died in an accident, and the compensation has not been paid. Now she is left with only this lonely, blind and paralyzed girl. I heard that the doctors crowdfunded to pay for her hospitalization."

"This is so pitiful. It seems like so many years have passed since she came to this hospital, and she's been living such a humble life. Now she doesn't even have any relatives left. I really don't know how she'll go on living." Two nurses passing by Zuoyou showed expressions of pity. In their eyes, this girl had always been very sensible, but the more so, the more they felt sorry for her. Zuoyou, however, listened intently to everything before turning away and letting the two nurses enter the elevator behind him. There are many pitiful people out there. Just now, as he walked along, he saw many patients suffering terribly from terminal illnesses and various ailments. But frankly, Zuoyou had no connection with them, so he didn't feel much for them, at most just a little reluctant to look.

But what the two nurses said suddenly reminded him of something, and he frowned. This tragic, speechless life trajectory seemed remarkably similar to the character from Kara no Kyoukai he had guessed about not long ago—Wu-jou Kirie. It wasn't that Saya had a particularly deep impression of this character; it was mainly because he had recently dealt with a strange being with similar abilities, and the sudden appearance of the girl at that time had prevented him from forgetting about it so quickly. Anyway, he decided to go and see. Regardless of whether it was that person or not, such a tragic fate was enough to attract Saya's attention. After glancing at the patients in each ward to assess their condition, Saya quickly stopped at the door of a ward located in a secluded corner. He first looked through the small glass window the doctor used for checking rooms, and then looked at the room number or something similar with the patient's name on it.

Black-striped mist painting.

Saya scratched his head. If it were according to the original story, this character wouldn't exactly be considered a good person. She lured a girl to jump off a building, and although she didn't know the consequences, she did it anyway. So, after realizing her mistake, she committed suicide. But the incident at the place Saya had visited, where others fell, was caused by another strange entity. Saya wasn't sure if this entity was involved. Therefore, how to deal with the woman lying there became a very pressing question for Saya.

"If you've been standing at my door, is there something you want to talk to me about?" Before Saya could figure it out, the girl who was half-reclined on the pillow in the room had already noticed his presence and asked him in a gentle voice. Saya paused for a moment, then decided to find out more before saying anything, so he didn't say anything more and simply pushed his way in.

"Judging from your footsteps, you're a stranger I've never seen before. Did you come to talk to me about my medical expenses?" Her lifeless eyes, which could no longer see anything, turned towards Saya. She looked much younger than Saya remembered, almost like a young girl, and gave him a poignant smile. "I'm so sorry, I have nothing left, so I can't pay your medical expenses."

The girl, who mistook Saya for someone from the hospital who had come to ask her for payment, leaned back on the pillow behind her, and a tear slid down her cheek.

"Um, well, I was just passing by. No, I didn't come here to ask you for money. Don't cry." Saya, who couldn't stand seeing girls cry, immediately panicked and hurriedly grabbed a tissue from the side to wipe the girl's tears, explaining nervously.

Damn, it turns out there are risks involved in just watching the drama unfold!

Chapter 188 A Kindness Reward

"I'm sorry, you must have seen this funny."

Finally, after Saya's explanation, Kirie Ujou realized that he was really just a curious passerby. She took the tissue that Saya had placed in her hand after wiping away her tears, and forcibly controlled her emotions before speaking to him.

"No, it's my fault for peeping into your room from the doorway and for forgetting to tell you my identity when I came in."

Zuoyou sat on a chair next to her hospital bed. There was nothing in the room, such as air conditioning. In fact, the equipment in this remote hospital room was pitifully scarce.

Based on the information Saya knows, she is only able to live here thanks to crowdfunding from those doctors, so she is already quite fortunate to have such conditions.

"It's alright. I haven't spoken to strangers in a long time either. I just hope you don't take what happened earlier to heart." Her lifeless eyes looked towards the window beside her, and the girl's hand groped along the windowpane.

"So, what are you curious about about me? I'd like to know too. What could be so intriguing about a useless person like me?" Without inquiring about Saya's identity or showing any wariness towards him, Ujou Kirie simply gazed out the window with her gray eyes, as if she could still see the same sky she once knew. Saya, on the other hand, looked at this pessimistic girl and felt that she seemed different from the one he knew—aside from her visibly aged appearance.

"Well, it's nothing really. I just saw you all alone here, and I overheard the nurses talking about you, so I couldn't help but get curious." Zuoyou scratched his head, and after thinking for a while, he finally told her the truth about why he was there.

There's nothing to hide; curiosity is just curiosity, a very simple thought.

Furthermore, Saga couldn't guarantee that she hadn't taken the lives of innocent people like he remembered, which would only make it harder for him to face her.

"Is it curiosity about my tragic past? Yes, that makes sense."

With a miserable laugh, Ujou Kirie leaned towards the window, barely managing to hold onto the edge before continuing to ask Saya her questions.

"So, you just want to come here to pity me, or are you bored and want to hear a real, tragic story?"

Zuo You pursed his lips. He couldn't very well tell her directly that he had come to ask her if she had killed anyone, could he?

"I'm not really a fan of tragic stories. How should I put it? I just wanted to know if your love of looking out the window stemmed from a longing to fly." After hesitating for a long time, Sōyu finally asked this rather philosophical question.

"Flying? No, it's not flying, it's freedom."

Upon hearing Saya's question, Ujo Kirie paused for a moment before reappearing the sorrowful smile on her face.

"How could someone like me, who can't do anything and has nothing left, not yearn for that kind of thing? But you have to understand, we are human beings, and wanting to fly is impossible." The girl murmured to herself, her face gazing wistfully against the window.

"These are some dreams I've been having lately. In them, I'm soaring through the sky, and around me, also taking flight, are pitiful souls controlled by vengeful spirits, jumping off buildings. It seems that if humans want to fly on their own, the only option is to die." Ujou Kirie shook her head at Wakasaya.

"But I don't like that kind of thing. All I crave is freedom. Perhaps one day I will yearn for companionship, but if the price is the lives of these humans, then I'd rather not have such a thing at all."

Sōyu roughly understood.

This guy was clearly quite different from the Wuzhao Wuhui he remembered.

Or perhaps, this is simply her nature. It's just that that strange existence allowed her to see the true nature of flight beforehand, and after that, she no longer held the same thoughts as in the original work. If that's the case, then Saya doesn't need to make any agonizing decisions. It's so good that she's a good girl.

As Saya thought this, his gaze towards Ujō Kirie softened.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I've told you so much nonsense, you must be confused. I'm really sorry to have made you listen to my complaints."

The girl, waking from her dream memories, nodded apologetically in Wakasaya's direction to express her remorse.

"It's alright, I roughly understand what you mean. You're a very kind person." Saku took an apple out of his backpack, picked up a small knife, and peeled it while comforting the girl who had been apologizing to him ever since he came in. Such a kind person shouldn't have such a tragic life. Before the tragedy escalates further, there might still be a way to save her. Saku wrapped the peeled apple in a wet wipe and placed it in the girl's hand. Looking at her lifeless eyes and her thin body hidden under the blanket, Saku pinched his chin. The eye problem was clearly acquired, so at worst, a regeneration potion or a golden apple could fix it. But as for her paralyzed body, he wondered if she needed any recuperation.

In short, what we should be doing now is giving her some hope to live. Judging from her expression and demeanor, she doesn't seem like she can hold on any longer.

"Thank you, thank you." Taking the apple from Saya's hand, Urajo Kirie, having nothing left to lose, naturally felt no suspicion towards Saya. Instead, she felt a sense of joy at receiving this gift. Holding the apple flat...

"It's so sweet." Seeing the girl's heartbreakingly happy expression after receiving just an apple, Saya sighed. Unable to ignore her any longer, he looked directly at her face.

"I said, do you want a healthy body? The kind where you can run freely and live in the sunshine?"

"Payment?" whl

She stopped chewing the apple and looked at Saya with lifeless eyes.

"Consider it repayment for your attempt to save me from jumping off the building, and a return for your kindness. What do you think?" With a gentle smile, Sōyu revealed his true identity to the girl.

"You, you're the one from my dream...?"

Chapter 189 Let's start with a bucket of milk to calm our nerves.

Ujou Kirie had always believed that what she could only see when she was asleep was just her dream. But Saya's words made her immediately think of the pumpkin-headed monster in her dream. After all, he was the only one she had ever helped who had survived.

"Deceive? You guessed it so quickly? I wanted to keep it a little suspenseful."

"But that was clearly a dream, how could it be real?"

Urajo Kirie covered her mouth, and the apple she was holding slipped from her fingers as she tried to grasp it.

Sōyū pursed his lips and helped her hold the apple in her hand.

"But, does such a thing really exist in this world?"

-The girl's worldview, which had always believed this was just a dream, was shaken, and she asked Asawa Saya somewhat perplexed.

"It's not just that little bit of stuff that exists. Miracles and magic—here, if you sincerely call upon them, you're sure to receive them."

Saya smiled at Kirie Ujou, who had become a kind girl due to the change in the world line, rubbed his hands together, and then leaned on her hospital bed.

"So, do you believe me? Do you believe I'm here to repay a debt of gratitude, the kind of person who wants you to live a healthy life?"

Even knowing that the other person's eyes couldn't see him, Sawa still looked directly into her eyes and asked the question.

I don't know. All I know is that it seems I have nothing left to lose. What could I possibly have that would make you want to deceive me?

The girl who didn't answer Sōyū's question but instead smiled at him already had her answer written on her face. Since there was nothing left to go, she naturally didn't need to worry about losing anything more, and even being deceived didn't feel like a burden.

"That's not necessarily true. You have to understand, the fact that you're still alive in this world and can experience its beauty is already something to be happy about. And now..."

While comforting her, Saya tugged at the blanket covering Ujou Kirie, and then asked her in a very careful tone...

"Can I examine your body? I want to know exactly what steps are needed to fully restore your health."

After sensing Saya's genuine and unpretentious respect for her, Ujou Kirie nodded her head and took the initiative to lift the blanket covering her, which the doctor had designated as her lifelong companion.

Compared to her upper body, which could be described as merely somewhat thin, her lower body, which had long been paralyzed and unable to move, was a truly pitiful sight.

It's no exaggeration to say it's skin and bones; if you just brushed it with white dye, you'd definitely think it was Shiro's lower body.

No wonder she wasn't worried at all about anyone having ill intentions towards her given her current sickly beauty. After all, seeing her withered legs and lower body would surely make anyone lose interest. However, what Saya cared about wasn't that. Instead, after pinching her thighs, which seemed to be nothing but skin and bones, he turned to look at the girl lying on the hospital bed. The girl shook her head. She could no longer feel her legs, and just touching them with her hands told her what her lower body had become. Even so, sensing the heartache in Saya's words, she still responded with a smile.