Chapter 56: A Moment of Peace
"What is this?"
Yukino was shocked.
"Don't tell me... I really can use Immortal Arts?"
Under the white light that was spreading from her palm, the wounds on Jun's arm began to close.
The blood flow, which had been heavy, was now clearly slowing down and almost stopping.
"This is amazing."
Jun also felt his body becoming lighter.
He looked at his status panel. His health value was slowly going up again. But...
"I already told you, you have Immortal Arts. You're the only one who didn't believe it..."
Jun said this, almost laughing out loud.
"But it would be better if you stopped now. My wounds aren't that bad…"
He saw that Yukino's sanity value was dropping quickly.
Even before his wounds fully healed, Yukino might pass out first.
Yukino started to sweat.
She was losing not only her sanity but also her stamina.
She didn't understand how the white light came out of her hand when she wanted to save Jun.
And it really worked.
She made the light brighter and wider.
"Yukino! Stop now!"
Jun grabbed her wrist.
At this point, the light had almost completely covered his body.
But Yukino only raised her voice,
"Stop talking! It's almost done!"
That voice made all the girls around stop talking.
Yukino could feel how bad Jun's injuries were and how hard he was trying not to feel the pain.
The anger and anxiety that suddenly overwhelmed her made everyone silent.
Even Jun didn't say anything else.
They were shocked as the wounds closed, the blood stopped flowing, as if a magic spell from a video game had become real.
"This... this doesn't make any sense."
Utaha muttered under her breath.
"Yukinoshita-san... she's like a healer in an RPG game..."
On this island, things had changed.
It felt like time was moving slowly.
But one thing was certain: all of Jun's wounds had disappeared.
But before anyone could celebrate, Yukino suddenly swayed and fell toward Jun's reclining body.
"Yukino!"
"Yukinon!"
"Yukinoshita-san!"
The girl didn't move. Her face was pale. Her breath was still there, but it was weak.
She had given up too much, too quickly.
Nobody knew where that power came from.
"Haah..."
"It's supposed to be summer now, so I wonder how cold winter will be."
"Stop moving so much. Your hair is getting messy again! Seriously..."
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"Ulaa..."
At the shallow riverbank, five girls of various body types were washing themselves.
This time, Utaha was the one who had to bathe Nanako.
But the usually well-behaved girl panicked and thrashed around when she got into the water.
Utaha had no choice but to ask Yui for help in holding Nanako's body.
Yui took a step forward, smiling mischievously, and then put her hands under Nanako's armpits, lifting her out of the water.
Nanako was suddenly pulled out of the water. She froze for a moment, then started to struggle again. She let out a faint cry, "Ulaa!" Water splashed everywhere, her legs hitting the surface and creating large ripples.
"That's enough, Yuigahama-san. Don't do that..."
Megumi, who was rinsing Ginko's hair, also got sprayed by Nanako's flailing.
"But Nanako's skin is really pale."
When Yui took off her dirty, grass-woven clothes, she noticed how bright and smooth the wild girl's skin was.
"Maybe that's just how it is... kids usually have whiter skin?"
Utaha looked at Ginko, who was nearby.
The fourteen-year-old girl also had smooth, white skin and a lot of potential.
From Utaha's point of view, Ginko's chest size was likely larger than Utaha's at that age.
"Even though we're still young too..."
Yui looked at her own white arm.
It was fair, but it still felt dull compared to the savage girl.
"Ulaa!"
Nanako took the opportunity to move away from Yui.
She felt uneasy. What if this "ugly girl" was also from the Dragonback Tribe?
Earlier, Nanako was sure that the "ugly girl" had deliberately rubbed her two round things against her back.
"Yukinoshita-san will be okay, right?"
Ginko looked towards the camp that was far away.
There, her brother Jun was taking care of Yukinoshita Yukino, who was still unconscious.
"It looks like she'll be okay. Jun says that Yukinoshita-san fainted because she ran out of mana."
Utaha's face looked a bit strange when she said that.
She tried to explain Yukino's condition in a way she could understand.
"Like... an RPG game?"
Even now, Megumi still didn't know how her brother had managed to move that giant bear.
He said it was because of a new skill, and told them not to worry.
"My brother has been acting strangely lately. Often hiding something, sometimes even lying…"
Megumi made a angry noise in her cheeks when she thought about it.
"By the way, Katō-san said we all have skills, right?"
Yui seemed very interested in the skill topic.
"I'm an expert in zoology, and Megumi-san is a botanist."
Yui felt she and Megumi were meant to be.
They had been stuck together from the start, and now their skills were also connected.
"I'm a musician. Nanako... seems to be learning."
Utaha looked at Nanako in front of her, then began washing the little girl's armpits with a complicated expression.
"Haha!"
Tiny Nanako couldn't handle the ticklishness and giggled faintly.
"That's why I said, Nanako definitely isn't a real savage girl. If she was, how could she have a skill? Didn't Katō-san say that savages and animals don't have skills?"
Yui approached Nanako again and suddenly grabbed the girl's breast.
"Ulaa!!"
Nanako flailed her arms and legs in the water.
Ginko, who had been quiet, looked a little sad as everyone talked about skills.
Her senior said her skill hadn't awakened yet, but it would soon.
But Ginko was worried.
What if she really didn't have a skill?
That meant she couldn't help the others.
"It's okay, Gin-chan will definitely have an amazing skill. In games or anime, the ones who get their skills last usually end up the strongest."
Utaha saw that Ginko was worried and tried to make her feel better.
"Utaha-senpai..."
Ginko was happy that Utaha still wanted to make her feel better, even though they had fought before.
"If you're touched, then help me scrub my back!"
Utaha suddenly changed the subject by pointing at her own smooth white back.
"Give me back that touching moment right now!"
Ginko pouted and went over to Utaha, then "attacked" her shoulder hard.
"Ouch! That hurts!" Let go!"
Utaha laughed and whined at the same time, trying to get Ginko's hands off her.
"Hurry up and finish bathing and go home, the water gets colder the later it gets."
Megumi looked at the three with a blank expression.
Deep down, she hoped her brother could handle the relationships between these "older sisters."
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