Small talk abounded for a while, and soon they got a few more guests. There was Oslo and a few others, bringing some paper bags with them. "We brought some food."
"As expected of my brother!" Ansel said with a smile. He then looked at Winona, "Are you not ashamed?"
"Then go date him!"
"Are you jealous?"
"SHUT UP!"
She yelled, blushing.
In fact, when he fell unconscious, Ansel heard Winona cry pitifully for him. Carrying the baby in her arms, she sobbed the whole way while he was brought to the hospital. He could hear her shaky voice asking how he was, if he was going to be alright, and the like.
At the time, he thought, he couldn’t die. If he did, what would this woman do?
Anyway, it broke the last bit of the paper wall between them and he just couldn’t stop himself from teasing her now.
Not that Winona appreciated it, of course!
"Where are the others?" Althea asked, looking around. In retrospect, all their team members were there except for Eugene and Sheila.
"Melissa fainted and hadn’t woken up."
"Sheila… she’s in another room," Winona said. "She’s with Eagle."
After settling the babies, the couple then went to visit the other teammates. They saw Luis and the others awkwardly standing outside though.
Eagle’s arm… unfortunately couldn’t get reattached in the end. Due to the healing potions and the natural improved regeneration of the body in Xeno, the window for reattachment was greatly narrowed down. Combined with the low-technology that they had, even Volohov wasn’t able to save Eagle’s arm.
Still, Sheila couldn’t help but keep trying, and she tried to use her ability on him, using as many cookies as she still had in her space to recover her mana.
As she did so, she was crying while Eagle was just watching her fondly as if it wasn’t his arm that was lost.
Sheila continued to sob, trying to heal him, and the heartbroken Eagle couldn’t help but stop her (for the nth time since she started trying). "Silly Sheila, even if you spend all your mana everyday it won’t grow back."
Sheila broke into sobs, and Eagle looked genuinely lost. It was here that Althea and the others decided to save him and knock on the door, making the two flinch.
They pretended not to see the red eyes and greeted them as normal as possible. Sadly for Sheila, she was unable to hold back and hugged Althea as she broke into sobs.
"Altheaaaa wuuuu—" Althea gave a reassuring smiled and patted her back. "This place is so magical," she told her, "Who knows what will happen in the future?"
"Wuu…"
Eagle heaved a deep breath, his eyes not leaving Sheila’s back for a while before turning to Garan and then his teammates, giving them awkward smiles. "Hello Captain, everyone."
"How are you?" Garan asked.
"Alive and well, thank you."
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