A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 2 by Kazuma Kamachi

Author:Kazuma Kamachi [Kamachi, Kazuma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2016-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

7

“It only looks bad. Her wounds aren’t deep. She’ll be fine if we treat them,” said Deep Blood, Aisa Himegami, calmly to Kamijou after he dragged the Misawa Cram School student, the girl with glasses and braids, through the corridor with him.

“B-but she’s all covered in blood!”

He shouted back before he could think, staring at the girl lying on the hallway floor. He couldn’t tell what school her summer uniform was from, since it was dyed over with crimson. On her face, arms, and other parts, skin was visible; there were even places with torn skin clinging to her like a plastic bag.

“Her skin ripping only damaged her capillaries. If an artery had been severed, it would be far worse. Blood would come out like a geyser.”

“Wha…Well, but why—”

She’s not even a doctor—no, even doctors wouldn’t know this without a detailed examination. How can she declare all this so smoothly? thought Kamijou.

“Regarding blood flow. I know more than most.”

Kamijou was dumbfounded. Because he suddenly remembered the name of Aisa Himegami’s ability.

“Give me a hand.”

But Aisa Himegami didn’t even seem to notice him. In order to care for her wounds, she abruptly began to remove the girl’s clothes, right in front of Kamijou, a male.

“Wah, wa—”

“Keep calm. It’s rude to the injured.”

He didn’t mean it like that, but when he considered it calmly, he thought being conscious of the naked body of a girl is maybe morally wrong in this situation. A doctor would get fired on the spot if he got excited in an operating room, after all.

The subsequent events were truly the handiwork of a doctor, an emergency responder. Himegami meticulously stopped the bleeding with a handkerchief. For the bleeding on the girl’s wrist that didn’t look like it would stop by pressing a cloth to it, she used Kamijou’s pants’ belt to constrict her whole arm and completely cut off the blood flowing from her artery. Unbelievably, she used the wounded girl’s hair and a needle from a sewing kit to stitch her torn stomach flesh closed.

Kamijou couldn’t do much. All he did were things like lifting the wounded girl’s arms to a position above her heart or pressing the handkerchief to the mouth of the wound, all at Himegami’s instructions. His hands were covered in blood just from that. It gave him a strange sort of feeling when he thought about it being the blood from someone he was trying to save, rather than from someone he hurt.

“We’re done for now.”

Himegami made this declaration, paying no attention to the fact that her shrine maiden garments were soaked in blood.

“Hemostasis is complete. Her blood will coagulate in fifteen minutes. Then her wounds will close. But the disinfecting is incomplete. She’ll be fine for about two hours. Bringing her to a hospital for further treatment would be ideal.”

“…”

Once again, Kamijou looked at the wounded girl lying on her side. She was about the same age as Kamijou, but her body, and likely her heart as well, had been ripped asunder to such an unimaginable extent.

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