Chapter 374 – 374. The Face of the Family (2)
Eunhyeon checked Alice’s condition as she lay on an operating room made by remodeling a room in an underground workshop.
The slightly trembling corners of Alice’s mouth, covering her eyes with blindfolds, made it easy for anyone to see that she was in a state of tension.
“I will be asleep while the operation begins. You won’t feel any pain from the anesthetic, but… Wouldn’t it be too much to tell you not to be nervous?”
“It’s not that I don’t trust Eunhyun-nim. But… After hearing the process of how the surgery is performed, a little… I can’t help but be afraid.”
The method suggested by Eun-hyeon is to insert a newly created artifact, ‘prosthetic eye’, into Alice’s eye, fix it, and connect the optic nerve.
It would be more strange to be able to accept the story that he would do something like putting a knife directly into his eyes or inserting iron tongs.
It would have been better if you hadn’t explained it.
However, more than that fear, the priority in Alice’s mind now is to see the faces of her husband and daughter with her own eyes.
“Do not worry too much. While you are asleep, it will all be over.”
Eleanor reassured Alice like that.
Then she glanced back at her, staring at her priest, who was even greater than she was, her colleague of Alice’s, and spoke to her.
“Yes. Mr. Anies?”
“Joy. Of course.”
Anies nodded his head with a determined face.
The direct cause of Alice’s loss of her eyesight is that her eyeballs were damaged by her tainted mana.
In order to prevent the worst from spreading the contaminated mana throughout her body, starting with her eyes, Anies hurriedly gouged out her eyes as a first aid measure, but her life was spared.
As a result, even though the contaminated mana was purified, her damaged optic nerve could not be restored.
The only thing that even Anies, who has been blessed with the enormous divine blessing to restore even the damaged parts of the body to their original state, cannot be cured is the human body that has been corrupted by contaminated mana.
Her Alice’s saving her life was successful, but Agnes, who had no choice but to take her sight away from her, had her lifelong burden on her heart.
“Don’t worry. Because you will never do anything wrong.”
When the moment comes when she will one day heal her Alice’s eyes, her Eun-hyeon, who accepted Agnes’ request to call her herself, called her ahead of her Alice’s surgery today.
Looking at Alice lying on the operating table, Agnes did not let go of her hard expression.
Alice could read Agies’ tone of nervousness in her voice.
As much as she lost her eyesight, as much as her hearing and other senses became keener, it was not so difficult to read Anies’s thoughts.
“If you’re so stiff, I’ll be anxious as well.”
Alice chuckled and tossed her words mixed with her jokes to Agies.
It’s a paradoxical situation to the point where one wonders if the person who needs to undergo surgery encourages the person who needs to undergo surgery.
Agies also smiled and tapped Alice lightly on the forehead.
“I’m sleeping.”
“Yes. Please.”
“Then let’s begin.”
After the conversation between Agies and Alice, Eun-hyeon immediately began anesthetizing her Alice.
As the anesthetic started to wear off, she checked her sleeping condition and immediately carefully removed the black eyepatch covering Alice’s eyes.
“…”
The miracle that the two eyes were restored with the divine power of Agnes.
However, the eyeball, which is not connected to the nerve, has already lost light and does not respond to external light at all.
“I’ll gouge out the eyeballs first.”
“… Okay.”
The experience of having to extract Alice’s eyeballs not once, but twice, made Agies uncomfortable.
But the reason she’s trying this time is to improve her eyesight.
Anyes carefully removed Alice’s eyeballs from the operating table, who had lost her consciousness under anesthesia.
“Both of you, do a good job maintaining the barrier.”
“Know.”
“Yes. I know.”
The role of Eleanor and Agnes is to set a barrier of sanctification in the environment of the operating room where the operation is being performed.
The operating room inside, filled with the blessings of the divine, is a perfectly enclosed space where everything is blocked from the outside.
It purifies all elements, including the air inside, and blocks elements that can be infected with germs through the eyes in advance.
At the same time, the effect of keeping the body in an optimal state reduces the burden on patients undergoing surgery.
To be honest, it was possible to create an environment that could be more comfortable than the medical environment on Earth because Eunhyun had the medical knowledge of Earth and at the same time had the personal connections to use the best divine magic.
“Still, this part needs to be well controlled. As soon as it is extracted, if the area heals, the prosthetic eye cannot be fixed to the body. Because the area needs to be sutured right away.”
“Okay. I will do as you say.”
To be honest, it was a very annoying part, but Agies followed Eunhyeon’s words.
The part of ‘medicine’, which is a completely different field from the high-ranking prayer that merely restores a large amount of divine power, was a field that he was completely unfamiliar with.
The level of medicine on the Arcena continent reached the level of healing simple trauma or treating minor diseases, but it did not develop that much.
Most of the wounds on the body can be healed through the prayers of the priests belonging to the temple, so there was no need for medical science to develop like the Earth.
‘To be honest, this is my first field, but…’
Alice ran simulations in her head over and over again to get her eyesight to see her husband and her daughter again.
Now is the time to put it into action.
“… Whoa.”
After exhaling a small breath and taking a deep breath, Eunhyeon stared blankly at the prosthetic eye she had created.
Ingredients purchased from the Black Market run by the Brodia Mafia in the Duchy of Saviros.
The twigs and leaves of the World Tree that Alice and Derkin, along with her daughter, had taken apart as they came out of the elf’s breath.
And the sun fruit (仙果) that the revived nine-tailed fox hurriedly cultivated for about a month while feeding his spirit inside the shrine.
One prosthetic eye created by combining these is a special prosthetic eye that can only be used by Alice, who has a very high spirit affinity.
The weight and mass were produced the same as Alice’s eyeballs, but they were obtained from Alice’s way of living by grasping landmarks with the power of the spirit.
The one and only artifact that was born as a result of paying special attention to durability that is stronger than normal eyeballs and will never break unless subjected to a major impact.
The key to Alice’s surgery is to connect this prosthetic eye to hundreds of optic nerves in the eye and restore sight through fixation.
“Are you nervous?”
“It would be a lie if I said no.”
“Are you okay. You practiced and thought about it dozens of times. I’m sure you will succeed. I trust you.”
Eunhyeon smiled at the words of Eleanor who cheered her on with a small smile.
“It’s nice to have a pair of you guys, but don’t you choose a specific time and place?”
“Okay. Sorry.”
“Yes. Sorry.”
Eun-hyeon and Eleanor apologized obediently to Agies’ reprimand, who opened her eyes and said that Alice was the one to focus on right now.
Soon after, Eun-hyeon placed her hands around Alice’s eyes, concentrating her magical power.
Threads of magical power, as thin as her fine threads, spread through her eyes.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Accident acceleration]
In a situation where she was taking a huge risk of not knowing what would happen if she touched even one of her by mistake, Eun-hyeon, who accelerated her thinking, carefully moved the threads of her magical power and started her work.
The task is to completely cut off the tip of Alice’s optic nerve, which was damaged by contaminated mana during the war 20 years ago.
Then, her prosthetic eye and the severed optic nerve are sutured.
The fruit grown by the nine-tailed fox helps to activate and settle the cells just by eating it.
If the high-level prayer imbued with divine power is characterized by restoring the damaged part of the body to its original state.
Good fruit helps the body recover over a long period of time, just as a newborn baby grows little by little and weak bones grow and harden.
One of the elixirs that is said to have rejuvenated a dying 70-year-old man who ate this fruit and regained his youthful body.
Eun-hyeon said to the two women as if this was the beginning.
“From now on, it’s a physical battle. Never break the barrier.”
“Okay.”
“Yes.”
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The operation lasted over 10 hours.
Thinking of his wife’s situation where the operation was being performed beyond the isolated space, Derkin sat down on a chair and put her hands together.
He placed it on his forehead and closed his eyes.
“Words of the World…”
Derkin was very nervous as he uttered the name of the divine tree that embraced and cared for the elves in his mouth in an earnest voice.
Eun-hyeon had already explained in advance that it would take a long time, but perhaps because he was experiencing the situation himself, his heart burned with frustration.
Maybe something went wrong, Eun-hyeon took care of it, but I thought it couldn’t be, but the operation lasted for several hours and the result was not coming out, so I had no choice but to wait.
The elf, who had lived for more than a few hundred years, seemed to be experiencing a very long time that he had never experienced before, in this short moment.
“Dad. Are you okay?”
Was it because he saw his father so anxious?
Eris’ small hand gently caressed both of Derkin’s hands, who were praying to the World Tree.
“… Okay. Dad is fine.”
“Mom will be fine.”
“Huh?”
“Because that man will definitely save you.”
“…”
Eris’ half-assured tone of voice was enough to make Derkin’s mind fill with doubts.
On what basis did her own daughter, what did she see and hear, that she could make such a claim?
“Why. Dad?”
When Derkin stared at her with a strange gaze, Eris tilted his head sideways and asked again.
The figure was so lovely that Derkin immediately forgot the worries he had been harboring until now and smiled.
Even though his daughter is so resolute, a father who is rather encouraged by her daughter.
Face is not a word.
“No. Because my daughter is so proud.”
Does this part of the daughter resemble her mother?
There were not a few times when Alice, a human woman who hadn’t lived even one tenth of her own life, showed a wiser and more dignified figure than herself.
She fell in love with Alice, and accepted a human woman as her companion.
Derkin untied his clasped hands and hugged Eris tightly.
“Okay. Mom will be fine.”
“… Dad. I am suffocating.”
“Haha. Sorry. Sorry.”
Strangely, after talking with her daughter, the nervousness she had so far disappeared and she began to find stability in her.
“It will be fine. Because he is that guy.”
Eventually, Alvin, who was waiting for the end of her surgery together, helped her with a word of encouragement.
“… Know. He knows more than I do.”
As soon as she calmed her nervous heart with her daughter, Derkin replied, hardening her impression as if a little offended by Elvin’s words.
“… It was a mistake.”
It was not uncommon for Derkin to maintain a harsh attitude towards Erwin.
Alvin immediately lowered her head and took a step back from her.
She has spent quite a bit of time together doing her adventurer’s work and helping her wife, who holds the position of director of her nursery school, but for some reason she opens her heart as close to Alvin as she does. I didn’t want to.
The reason was none other than Eris.
“Dad.”
“Huh?”
“Why does Dad hate Erwin?”
“…”
Derkin couldn’t answer his innocent daughter’s question.
She panicked, unable to answer, staring at Derkin hesitantly, Eris followed her up.
“Elvin oppa, you can’t bully me.”
After escaping from Derkin’s arms, Eris jumped straight into Elvin and threw her into his arms.
“…”
Lately, after her mother, Alice, her priority was herself. Eris’s weight in her mind had suddenly surpassed herself and turned to Alvin.
The anxious premonition that I thought about at some point soon turned into a certainty.
“… !”
As Derkin glared at Elvin, her new second priority, with her fierce gaze, Alvin shook her shoulders slightly.
Derkin thought.
‘As expected, I hate this guy because of this.’
Her friendship with Alvin, who has monopolized her daughter’s affection, is a long and difficult one.
