Asura in Arknights

If Li Ang wasn't mistaken, Marna was probably at work at the company as usual? Unfortunately, Li Ang couldn't go to the company to find him. The Lin Guang family manor was currently the only place where they could talk in peace. If someone outside noticed Li Ang and Marna's conversation, things would get rather bad.

They found a spot in the corner of the living room and sat down. Neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere remained quiet.

But as time went by, Li Ang could sense that Zofia was becoming increasingly anxious.

This is not Zofia's home. If Leon came here to find Marna, then what is Zofia's purpose in coming here?

After Zofia drank the last drop of tea from the teapot, she finally couldn't contain herself any longer. She muttered under her breath, "Maria... really, she's off playing somewhere again. Why haven't we heard from her for so long? She hasn't even answered the phone..."

Zofia stood up from the table and walked towards Leon in the corner.

"Um... Hurricane Knight, aren't you Eyjafjalla's friend? Do you know where Maria and the others went? I still can't get in touch with them."

"...Just call me by my name."

Being addressed like that made Li Ang feel somewhat embarrassed. "But I don't know where they went."

“During this period... well, I’ve been mostly preparing for the Major main draw, so I haven’t been communicating with other people much.”

Upon hearing Li Ang's reply, Zofia became even more uneasy. In the past, no matter how much she made a fuss, the phone would always be answered. This was the first time she had been unable to contact Maria.

"What about Eyjafjalla? Please contact her; they should be together now."

Li Ang was somewhat embarrassed by the question. This time, apart from his weapons, he still did not carry any communication devices.

“I don’t have my phone with me, but here is Eyjafjalla’s contact information. You can contact her now to confirm.”

With that, Li Ang gave Zofia Adele's contact information.

Zofia didn't dawdle; she immediately took out her phone and dialed the number Li Ang had given her.

After a long wait, the call still showed no sign of being answered, and Li Ang's expression gradually became serious.

"...Lend me your phone for a moment. I need to contact Sarah and see if she knows where Eyjafjalla went."

Zofia handed the phone to Li Ang without hesitation.

After fumbling around on his phone, Li Ang dialed Sarah's number.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

"Sarah, it's me. I'm calling you from someone else's phone. To make a long story short, I wanted to ask if you know where Eyjafjalla is?"

Sarah had just met with Leon not long ago, so she was still a little surprised to hear his voice. She said, "As for Eyjafjalla... I haven't seen her for a few days. She called me last time and said that she was having some trouble at work and was planning to stay at Maria's house for a while."

Li Ang turned on the speakerphone so that Zofia could also hear Sarah's voice.

"By the way, you probably don't know Maria, right? She is..."

Sarah's voice continued on the phone, but that didn't matter anymore. Clearly, both Adele and Maria had lied. They weren't at the Nearl estate, nor were they with Sarah. Where could they be?

"Sarah, the last time you saw Eyjafjalla was a few days ago, who was she with?"

"Ah... she was with Maria, and two Sarkaz doctors, I think their names were Shining and Liz?"

"Oh, and one more thing," Sarah whispered on the other end of the phone, "Maria's sister is here too, so please don't tell anyone else."

late.

Li Ang thought to himself, while Zofia beside him had heard every single word he said.

Just got back from the hospital

That's all, updates will resume tonight.

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Chapter Fifty-Eight: Severe Injury

"!!!"

"what?"

Unlike the shocked Zofia, Sarah's words left Leon very puzzled.

Maria's sister? Who is that? Does he know her? Judging from Sarah's words just now, it seems like she's tacitly acknowledging that he knows Maria's sister... Wait... Maria?

"The person you're talking about... is she the female knight who was with those two Sarkaz?" Leon asked quickly.

At this moment, Li Ang remembered that the female knight's name was also Maria... and when she said this name, she seemed extremely hesitant, which aroused Li Ang's vigilance.

"Hey, don't you know Margaret?" Sarah asked, somewhat surprised, on the other end of the phone.

“We’ve only met once, so we can’t really call each other acquaintances,” Li Ang said, somewhat speechlessly. “Besides, when we met, she told me her name was ‘Maria’.”

Maria... Margaret... So that's how it is.

Did the older sister borrow her younger sister's name because she didn't want to reveal her own identity? For that righteous knight, lying must have been quite an unpleasant experience, no wonder she seemed so hesitant at the time.

Because Maria is a very common name, you could grab any two girls on the street and they might have the same name, so Li Ang didn't connect the two of them at all.

Such a simple thing... If Li Ang could distinguish their appearances in detail, he should have been able to find some connection from their similar appearances long ago. Unfortunately, in the black and white world of perception, Li Ang found it difficult to distinguish any similarities between the two.

At this moment, Zofia, who was in a state of shock, finally came to her senses.

"Give me back my phone! I have something to ask her!" Zofia angrily snatched the phone back from Li Ang's hand.

Li Ang shrugged and didn't resist, letting her snatch the phone away.

After Sarah's words, Li Ang roughly guessed what had happened... Neither Adele nor Maria had any accidents, but Zofia was a bit unlucky, as they had kept it a secret from her all along.

"Hello? Sarah, it's me, Zofia. I heard everything you said. When did Margaret get back? Is Maria with her now?"

"Miss Zoffy?"

Sarah panicked when she heard a different voice on the other end of the phone. After a while, she said somewhat awkwardly, "I met Margaret five days ago, but they left right then and there. I don't know where they went."

Zofia knew there was no point in pressing Sarah for answers, so she simply exchanged a few pleasantries with Sarah, inquired about her encounter with Margaret, and then hung up the phone.

"Damn it... what are those two bastards doing behind my back?" Zofia stomped her foot in exasperation, her phone squeaking as if it would shatter at any moment.

"Doesn't that solve the mystery? The two of them didn't encounter any accidents; they were just with Maria's sister," Li Ang said casually.

With the apostles by his side, Li Ang had nothing to worry about.

To everyone's surprise, Zofia shook her head solemnly. "No, it's not that simple. You're not from Kazimierz, so you don't understand what Margaret's return means."

Now that Li Ang already knew about Margaret's existence, Zofia saw no need to hide it from him. Instead, she explained to Li Ang why she was so worried.

Have you ever heard of the 'Radiant Knight'?

"Radiant Knight?" After a moment's hesitation, Li Ang replied, "Isn't that the title of the champion of the previous Major?"

“That’s right.” Zofia nodded. “Margaret is the champion of the last Major, the Radiant Knight, but that’s not the point.”

"The key point is that Margaret's actions angered some people, who used despicable means to make her an 'infected' person... In the end, the Witness Board permanently expelled her from Kazimierz."

“If the vetting committee finds out she’s returned to Kazimierz… things will get complicated,” Zofia said worriedly.

Upon hearing this, Li Ang frowned. If what Zofia said was true, things were indeed a bit troublesome.

Framed as an infected person and expelled from the country by the government of Kazimierz, it's hard to know what Margaret did three years ago to cause such a big problem. It doesn't seem like something that any single force could do alone... No wonder she was so careful to hide her name back then.

“However, she hasn’t been exposed yet, so things haven’t reached the worst point.” After thinking for a moment, Li Ang said quite easily.

If Margaret's whereabouts were exposed, the major media outlets should be reporting on the return of the 'Radiant Knight' like sharks smelling blood, instead of not hearing a single word about it now.

“…That’s true.” Zofia hesitated for a moment, then continued, “But we can’t just leave them alone; we have to find them.”

However, this is none of Li Ang's business.

After learning that Adele was unharmed and that Zofia's scare was just a false alarm, he knew that the remaining matters were internal affairs of the Nearl family, and he had no reason to interfere without permission.

Afterwards, if you can get in touch with Adele, you should warn her to stop getting involved in this matter. It's best to avoid things that involve multiple forces fighting each other.

Just as Zofia was pacing back and forth in the living room, trying to figure out how to find those two guys, a loud noise suddenly came from the next room.

"Splash—"

It sounds like the sound of a glass window shattering.

"What's that sound?" Zofia stopped abruptly, looking warily in the direction the sound came from.

“…It’s Marna who’s back,” Leon answered Zofia’s question.

In Li Ang's perception, someone smashed the glass of the neighboring window and fell awkwardly to the ground.

Judging from the aura emanating from the other party, this person should be Marna, but... his current condition seems to be somewhat bad. Marna's life force appears to be very weak, like a candle flickering in the wind, which may be extinguished at any moment.

"Something seems to have happened to Marna, I'll go check it out." Without hesitation, Li Ang walked towards the direction from which the voice came.

"Hey? Wait for me!" Zofia was stunned for a moment, then quickly set off to catch up with Li Ang.

In the next room, they saw Marna lying in a pool of blood.

P.S. I'm fine. I went to the hospital because my grandfather has terminal liver cancer and needs interventional surgery, so updates may be irregular for a while.

Chapter Fifty-Nine: Awakening

"Marna!"

Seeing that Marna's life was uncertain, Li Ang quickly went over and checked his breathing.

Fortunately, although Marna's breathing was very weak, he was at least still alive. With some effort, we should be able to save him. But... what exactly happened?

At this moment, Marner was not wearing his usual suit, but rather a very rare set of lightweight armor made of some unknown special material, which seemed to be even more powerful than the plasticizing gel provided by the Howling Guard.

However, this extraordinary armor is now completely ruined. The entire armor is covered with countless tiny wounds, and some of the weaker parts are torn to shreds, revealing a bloody and mangled wound underneath.

These injuries... it's as if Marna was thrown into a meat grinder; ordinary weapons could never have caused such fine wounds.

"What was he doing? How did he get injured like this?" Zofia was shocked by Marna's terrible condition.

“This is not the time to talk about this,” Li Ang said without turning his head. “We need to treat his wounds as soon as possible. Do you have anything at home that can treat this kind of thing?”

"Oh, right, I'll go get the medicine right away. Wait here for me." With that, Zofia hurriedly left the room.

After Zofia left, Li Ang carefully examined Marna's injuries again. Soon he discovered that although Marna's mangled back and limb joints looked terrifying, most of them were superficial injuries. What truly put Marna on the brink of death were the internal injuries.

Li Ang took out a vial of medicine he carried with him and injected it into Marna's body, intending to keep him alive for now.

Marna's internal organs were being eroded by some unknown energy; in addition to internal bleeding, some organs showed signs of failure. If Marna hadn't been physically strong, he might not have made it back here.

And what's worse, a small amount of energy still remains in Marner's body, causing ongoing damage to his internal systems.

However strange this energy may be, it is still a form of Originium energy and remains within Li Ang's control. Without interference from others, Li Ang easily extracted this energy from Marna's body.

It's possible that the amount of this energy was very small, or it might be related to Li Ang's violent actions damaging the spell's structure. So, after leaving Marna's body, Li Ang didn't have time to analyze it before it quickly decomposed into the most basic Originium energy.

"Here it comes! The medicine is here!"

Just then, Zofia ran back carrying a large suitcase. "How is Marna now?"

"He's stabilized for now, and shouldn't be in any immediate danger," Li Ang replied. "Let's stop the bleeding first, then bandage the wound."

"Ah."

The Linguang family is a true knightly family, and they naturally suffer injuries frequently during training. Therefore, they always keep a variety of medicines at home, and even now, they still maintain this habit, which is enough to treat Marna's external injuries.

Li Ang initially wanted to help, but when he realized he was only making things worse for Zofia, he simply stood aside and let Zofia treat Marna's wounds alone.

So far, Li Ang has been injured only a handful of times, and on the few occasions he has been injured, Adele has helped bandage him. He would never treat other people's wounds; at most, he can hand Zofia some medicine or bandages.

After carefully removing the armor from Marna and cleaning her wounds, Zofia bound Marna tightly with bandages. Then, Li Ang and she worked together to move Marna to a bed in the next room.

"Given the conditions here, this is all I can do."

Zofia took a deep breath, then turned to stare at Li Ang and said, word by word, "Now, can you tell me what you're doing?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ang frowned.

Zofia was clearly unaware of the deal between him and Marna, and Leon was now hesitant, unsure whether to tell Zofia the inside story.

After considering for a few seconds, Li Ang decisively replied, "Now that Marner is alright, I think it's better if you ask him about this yourself after he wakes up."

Even if Zofia is Marna's relative, Leon can't just reveal such a thing, so he simply passed the trouble to Marna and decided to wait until he woke up to make a decision.

Based on his impressions of Zofia from the past few times, Li Ang originally thought that she would be very angry after he rejected her, but to Li Ang's surprise, Zofia just nodded calmly.

"I see."

Zofia nodded calmly, then said to Leon with a somewhat surprised expression, "Although I don't particularly like this guy, I'm very clear about his strength..."

“There aren’t many people in all of Kazimierz who could have injured him like that.”

"What you're doing must be related to a business alliance, right?"

all hit.