The Reverse Healer Case Files by Hiyodori

Author:Hiyodori
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Wist was still making the rounds of the northern territories. No monsoon there.

Late at night, as we spoke through my ear cuff, I asked if she could hear the rain hitting the street outside my apartment.

The ear cuff wasn’t made for that, she said. All she could hear was my voice.

She sighed a little as I reached across the bond to heal her. She’d been using intense skills without breaks for day after day after day. As a result, she’d needed treatment nearly every night. There were moments when the creaking and aching in her magic started to leak over to me.

Sometimes Wist stayed at hotels. But on this trip, they’d decided to put her up at the local Osmanthian consulate.

I imagined her curled up on a fluffy bed in an unlit room with toile pattern wallpaper, staring dead-eyed into the shadows. She’d mentioned that sealing vorpal holes all day long—having to look at vorpal holes all day long—gave her a headache.

I asked offhand about where she’d gotten her vorpal beasts, the ones she kept at the tower.

Sounding sleepy, Wist told me she’d picked them up by accident. It happened back when she was deep into experimenting with things like vorpal hole scrying and vorpal hole travel. Back when she’d been frantically inventing new magic skills that she alone could use, and that no one else knew were even possible.

“Why didn’t you just chuck them back where they came from?” I asked.

“They seemed to like it in the tower. I felt bad.”

“You’re such a softy.” I yawned. “All right, we both better get some sleep, so—”

“Clematis.”

“What?”

“I’m almost done here. I’ll be back in Osmanthus next week at the latest.”

“Oh yeah? Congratulations.”

“Try not to do anything too dangerous before I come back.”

“What makes you think I would?” I said sweetly. “I mean, life is dangerous. But I’m not that much of a thrill-seeker.”

Luckily, Wist seemed too tired to press the issue. I distracted her by slipping the ear cuff off and giving it a noisy smack of a kiss. I cackled when I felt her wince through the bond. Poor exhausted Wist. She really did need more sleep.

Maybe my sudden curiosity about vorpal beasts had gotten her worried. Well, my dear Wist had nothing to fear.

I did plan to go take a closer look at some real-life vorpal beasts, but it would be in a perfectly controlled environment. Couldn’t be safer. Cross my heart.

That weekend, I went to Anthum Coliseum for the first time in my life.

Anthum Coliseum was the largest magesports stadium in the entire metropolitan area. It took on the shape of an ancient royal crown, tall and glittering, with spikes that dwarfed every other building for miles around. No matter which direction you approached from, it appeared to coronate the brow of the earth.

Today, under ragged gray skies, the coliseum looked duller than it would on bright midsummer evenings. If I didn’t already know the building’s purpose, I might have assumed it was a dictator’s citadel. Or perhaps a particularly showy prison, one designed to intimidate the plebes.

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