"Why are you acting weirdly?" Yuki asked, she doesn't know why Anna is being like this but somewhere in her heart she felt warm. The feeling was foreign to her so she doesn't know anything about it whether it was a good or bad feeling.
But instead of letting go, Anna only hugged Yuki even tighter and answered slowly.
"I was worried about you."
"Worried, Hahaha. We have only met today and you're already like this? Don't say that it's because I saved you earlier because I will not believe it if it's your only reason." Yuki said, pushing aside Anna.
Anna felt depressed that Yuki doesn't trust her like she does, but she can somehow understand why she being like that.
'She must have experienced a lot when she was young. It doesn't matter, I will try everything I can do for her to trust me and possibly love me back like I do.' Anna said.
"Don't worry I don't have any malicious intent towards you. I just want to get closer to you, that's it." Anna smiled sweetly at Yuki.
Yuki was stunned at her answer because she was not expecting something like that. She was actually expecting Anna to probe her about her Blood Skills, but it seems like she was wrong.
And because she can clearly tell that Anna is not lying, she lowered her guard and answered lightly.
"Well then, good luck on trying to get closer to me, An-" Yuki stopped at her words when she suddenly felt pain all over her body and she again started to cough of blood before finally collapsing.
"Yuki!" That was all Yuki last saw before her vision had darkened. Anna picks up her body before it touches the ground.
Yuki finally woke up, but she found herself back in Aria's mansion. Feeling confused about it, she looked around the room to see if she was hallucinating or not, but when she saw the Ice Sculpture of her mother, she no longer had doubts and accepted it.
"Why am I here?" Yuki slowly tries to get up, but finds her body unable to as it hurts everywhere.
"Well, it looks like I'm staying on the bed." Yuki sighed and relaxed herself, but when she felt something grabbing her whole body, she tensed.
Yuki then snapped her fingers and aimed an Ice Dagger in the blanket. She then revealed who his cover and eas was about to stab it, but when she saw that it was only Anna, she froze and dispelled the Ice.
"Why is she here?" Yuki held onto her forehead as a headache came in just from thinking about it.
She can never understand the intention of why she wants to get closer to her. There are no benefits whatsoever, the only reason that Yuki can think of is that Anna is either guilty or she wants her to do something for her.
Yuki nudged her to try to wake up, but Anna seemed to be in deep sleep. Anna didn't even wake up when Yuki had slapped her cheeks two times.
And just as she was about to try some other methods, she heard the door to her room open and soon two crying figures were heard, greatly shocking Yuki.
"Why are you in this state again Mom!?" Both of them asked.
When they saw Yuki being carried by Anna when they were about to exit the City, they stopped at their tracks and immediately left their Quest and went to Yuki.
"What did you do to her!?" Yumie asked as she was the first one to recognise the three.
"We did nothing, she got injured in the process of a battle. But the person she fought is not ordinary, that's why she got injured badly." Anna hurriedly explained and continued without waiting for them.
"We need to treat quickly, her body is badly injured, and she has a high fever!" Anna said she felt depressed that she cannot even do anything useful to Yuki right now.
Even if she can heal, it will do more bad than good. Because Yuki's body is currently in a bad shape where it would be better if she would get treated by a doctor and heal on medicine than healing her with her powers.
Sylvie and Eren also felt useless, because they cannot do anything to help Yuki in any way while attacking Feng Huang. They noticed that when Feng Huang died, all the Monsters in the are fled away.
So they thought that the reason why there is even a Monster attack is because of Feng Huang, they didn't even need to wait for an explanation from Dong Huang because Yuki is a bad shape currently and needed to be treated as soon as possible.
"Give her to me!" Yumie hurried.
Anna gave Yuki one last look before giving her to Yumie.
Once Yumie felt Yuki's body, her face went pale. Yuki's fever is not normal, she is burning, and combined with her injuries her life was definitely at risk.
So Yumie rushes towards Aria's mansion to get some help. When they finally arrived, Yumie quickly went to look for Aria for help.
"Aunty Aria!" Yumie shouted.
"What's wrong?" Aria suddenly appeared behind her.
"It's mother! She is sick and needs to be treated quickly!" Yumie said while crying, she can no longer hold back her tears as it started to come down.
"Wi- will she be o- okay?" Yumie and Katsumi asked, they now both were crying.
"I don't know. She is injured pretty badly, and the worst one is it's damaged by a Spirit. Spirit attacks are dangerous because they have little damage to our physical body but instead they are feared by Attacking our core which is the soul, and from what I can see Yuki's soul is damaged by at least 20%. Aria shook her head.
"Will we not see her anymore?" Yumie's knee went weak as she knelt on the ground.
"This is your fault!" Katsumi looked at the three who followed them with bloodshot eyes.
"If my mother doesn't wake up, I will kill all of you!" Katsumi screamed at them while pointing her spear.
But Anna ignored all of it, and walked towards Aria with a heavy heart.
"City Lord, is there no way for her to get better?" Anna asked as her knees finally gave in and she knelt on the ground with tears streaming down her face.
"No, I can't lose her." Anna mumbles, she felt extremely guilty that Yuki got hurt. If she is only stronger, maybe she can at least help Yuki a little bit.
"No, there is no way for me to help her, it's too dangerous. We just need to let her rest and her Soul will naturally be healed." Aria said.
"Then she can still live?" Anna asked, with hope in her eyes.
"That I'm not sure, her soul is pretty damaged resulting in her body not getting any better. The best course that we can just take is to wait for her soul to get better. It will probably take at least 2 weeks to 2 month, depending on her Soul Strength." Aria explains.
"Will there be any side effects when she wakes up?" Yumie asked.
"Yes, but it's probably a good thing because her soul will get stronger once it fully heals." Aria answered.
"Good thing?"
"Yes. The Soul is the foundation of a body, the stronger one's Soul is the more power he/she can store or bring, because the Soul is the vessel of your Mana or Qi. So imagine if someone has a damaged soul, what will happen to it." Aria asked.
"That person will not be able to use any power."
"Not exactly, but every time she uses her powers her whole body will feel pain because her body cannot take the toll of using powers without any proper Soul." Aria explains and continues.
"There are some people who cultivate Soul power to make them stronger, but it always becomes a failure because it's too dangerous. But those who managed to succeed became a person with great feats."
"Take Yuki back to her room, clean her first okay before giving her medicine and let her rest. I don't even know how she got this injured." Aria shook her head.
"That's because-" Aria heard Anna's meak voice and looked at her as if saying to continue.
"We were doing a Quest at Evergreen Village, when suddenly the spirit of their ancestor named Feng Huang showed up and said that Yuki is evil and he would eliminate her." Anna said, after saying all this she felt her anger boil.
If not for Feng Huang, Yuki will not be injured to such a degree.
"Feng Huang? That sounds familiar." Rory said.
"Of course it's familiar, it's the person who thinks of him a Saint from God. He said that he will kill the people who sinned to the Gods, causing him to have a massacre of over 200,000 people about 8,000 years ago. The innocent people that he killed even exceeded the true evil ones causing the people to retaliate and resulting in him being hunted down." Aria said.
"Oh I remember now, it's that guy. If I remember right, I was also one of the people who killed him, and if I must say he is not an easy person." Rory chuckled.
"But since he is dead there's no need to think about that anymore. Let's concentrate on getting Yuki better." Yumie cut off.
"Big sister is right, there's nothing more important than Yuki right now."
"Don't worry she will definitely get better." Rory patted their heads.
"I see so that's what happened." Yuki mumbles and continues.
"Then what about her, why is she in my room and even sleeping next to me?" Yuki asked.
"That-" Katsumi cannot answer Yuki's question, causing Yuki to get more suspicious.
"It's because she was the one who took care of you while you were unconscious." Yumie answered.
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