Chapter 375 – 375. The Face of the Family (3)
It wasn’t until a total of 13 hours after the operation started that three people came out of the operating room.
Derkin picked up Eris’ body, who had already fallen asleep, and reflexively stood up at the sound of footsteps breaking the tired silence.
Realizing who the dried blood on the blue scrubs stained bright red belonged to, he hardened his expression.
“My wife… Alice… How did it go?”
At that time, when the anxiety overtook me that something might have gone wrong, Eun-hyeon smiled and opened her mouth.
“The operation went well.”
After hearing that confirmation, Derkin’s shoulders shook slightly.
“I-really… ?”
“Okay.”
When she asked again, Eunhyun smiled and nodded her head.
“You will wake up from anesthesia soon. Then she explains to Alice and listens.”
“Ah, I see…”
Derkin finally realized that he was feeling very nervous, and he let out a small sigh.
“Derkin, for now, you have to stay here to keep an eye on the progress. You, of course, have no intention of leaving Alice and going home, right?”
“Of course.”
Derkin immediately nodded his head, as if asking that it was natural.
“I will guide you to a room where you can stay. First, let Eris go to sleep, and you too, get some sleep.”
Derkin, who had been waiting for his surgery to be finished here for half a day, was relieved of tension at the news of his wife and showed a tired expression.
“Yes… Thank you.”
“Master. Are you done?”
“Uh. We plan to take care of the rest while looking at the progress.”
Eun-hyeon gave an order to Lily, who came down to the basement workshop at just the right time.
“Lily, can you direct me to the guest room where Derkin and Eris can stay?”
“Yes.”
“I will be there too.”
Agies has also revealed his intention to remain.
“Are you okay with the temple work?”
“What. Didn’t you call me knowing that I was free?”
“Being away for too long is a bit like that, isn’t it? He’s not just a priest, he’s the Archbishop of Vesta.”
Since he had a position directly below the Pope of the Holy Land of Erenia, it was normal for him to have many tasks suitable for that position, but Agnes was an exception.
Compared to the other priests, Anies, who received overwhelming divine blessings, was a symbol of the Holy Kingdom and the temple just by her existence.
“Heh, it doesn’t matter. Alice’s eyesight is more important to me now.”
Eunhyeon, hearing Agies’ answer without a single thought, nodded his head.
“Lily. Show me to Agnies’s room.”
“Yes. All right.”
Lily took Derkin, Elvin, and Agnes, who were holding Eris, and went to the underground workshop.
“Whoa…”
When only the two of them were left with Eleanor, Eun-hyeon sat down in a chair and let out a small sigh.
“Are you tired?”
“What little. Is Eleanor okay?”
In response to Eunhyun’s question, who was experiencing her tremendous mental exhaustion as a reaction to her concentration for a long time, even while accelerating her thinking, Eleanor answered with a small smile.
“I’m OK. Perhaps because of the help of Monk Agnes, the consumption of divine power was not that severe.”
The burden imposed on Eleanor was not so great, perhaps because the two priests were in charge of the role of keeping Alice’s condition from deteriorating by purifying the entire interior of the operating room by maintaining the barrier of sanctification, and preventing Alice’s condition from deteriorating.
Eunhyun closed her eyes and leaned against the back of the chair.
In her mind, she recalls the face of Belldandi, who is not by her side.
Last month, because of the Gumiho’s arbitrary behavior, Verdandi, who felt greatly saddened by Eunhyun, went up to the divine realm and has not come down to the underworld for nearly a month.
“Are you thinking of Belldandi?”
Observing Eunhyun’s face as she stared into the void with a tired expression on her face, Eleanor asked.
“… That’s right.”
Eun-hyeon honestly and obediently acknowledged her, nodded her head, and smiled wryly.
When Belldandy ascended to the divine realm, he explained the situation to his wives, who were questioning her goddess’ behavior.
The reaction of the four female crew members was cold.
-You were bad.
-You were bad.
-… The owner was wrong.
-Hyun was wrong.
As one, everyone scolded themselves in unison.
As Eun-hyeon, she had no intention of harboring such feelings toward a gumiho, but it is certain that the story that her husband was almost possessed by another woman was not good news for them.
They deeply sympathized with Belldandi’s elevation to the divine realm.
-Well, the point that Shinsoo-nim pointed out is definitely something you need to fix, but it still doesn’t feel good.
It is a good story just to realize that the protection of the goddess bestowed on Eun-hyeon’s soul is not perfect.
If this part is supplemented and prepared, the protection of the goddess will be equipped with a more solid defense of the fortress.
But when Illyana heard the story, she came to the conclusion that rational reason and irrational emotion are not the same.
-Should I squeeze her out of bed so that no other woman can even look at her?
To Illyana, it was half a joke on her part, but to the extent that she had to beg for mercy from her eerie lines, Eunhyeon felt threatened for her own safety.
“You look like you don’t know what to do.”
“… Honestly yes.”
Eunhyun was feeling confused.
She herself was once resurrected from her death, and the goddess she was with never once showed her feelings of resentment or anger towards him.
She sometimes goes, although there were times when she looked at herself with a pathetic gaze.
Aside from that, before being her lover, Belldandy is a great understanding person who willingly accepts Eun-hyeon’s request and respects her choice with devotion.
After such a feeling of regret for the first time, Belldandi left her side.
“Don’t worry too much about it.”
“… Well.”
Even if he told her not to worry, the vacancy of Belldandi, who had never been away for such a long time, was by no means small.
“It’s not like Belldandi-sama is that angry with you either.”
Eleanor was sure that even though the feelings of sadness would remain, in the end, Belldandy would get rid of his anger and return to Eun-hyeon’s side.
Eleanor was able to guess Belldandi’s situation in that she was a woman who had the same man in her heart, even if there was a difference between a goddess and a human, an incomparable gap as large as heaven and earth.
It just takes time.
Sooner or later, he will be able to control his emotions and admit to himself that he took out his anger on Eun-hyeon for something unreasonable and come back.
“If you come back instead, you should be nice too?”
“That’s right.”
Eunhyun smiled bitterly and nodded his head.
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“Eww…”
A drowsy body doesn’t listen properly.
Alice, who let out a small moan and gradually awakened her consciousness, felt her drowsy body condition and tossed and turned to move her body forcibly.
“Woke up?”
“Ah…”
A familiar hand and a familiar voice belatedly holding one hand with both hands.
After a small sigh, he turned his head to the side where he heard the sound and slowly opened his mouth.
“… Honey?”
“Okay. It’s me.”
As the two hands holding her own held together with strength, warm warmth passed through her hands to Alice.
Alice, who soon realized that her eyes were tightly pressed with bandages, slowly grasped her own condition in her fully awakened consciousness.
“Surgery… Did it go well?”
“You said so.”
“Surely…”
The sensations before and now, when I lost my sight and lived as a blind man for nearly 20 years, are clearly different.
He could feel his own eyes squeezed hard by her bandages.
Alice had to feel the strangeness of her when her longing for her long-forgotten sense returned to herself.
“I can feel the sensation in her eyes.”
“Really?”
Derkin asked back with a look of surprise at Alice’s words.
“Yes.”
At her nod and her wife’s reply, Derkin quickly began to get excited.
“Now, wait a minute. I’ll call Eunhyun-nim right away.”
“Yes.”
There was a lot of excitement in Derkin’s tone as he spoke hastily and let go of his hand that he had clenched tightly.
When Derkin left and Alice was left alone in her room lying on the bed, Alice let out a small breath.
“Perhaps… Really… ?”
Could her own eyesight come back?
To the extent that she thinks it is not too much to have such expectations.
She is so alone when she is immersed in her thoughts, anticipating.
Squeak
I opened the door and Eunhyeon and Agnes entered the room where Alice was lying.
“Alice! You said you opened your eyes!?”
Anes, who runs with her light steps and checks Alice’s condition, is also in a very excited state.
Alice said to Agies with a small smile.
“Anes. Calm down a little.”
“That’s right. Even though her operation is over, Alice, who has just woken up, is still a patient.”
“Ah, that’s right. Sorry.”
At Eunhyeon’s point, Anies meekly withdrew.
If the physical condition is bad, the means to recover at once with divine power is also a means, but the best way is to rely on the natural healing ability and fix the prosthetic eye on the body.
That’s why Eunhyeon didn’t use the means to actively utilize the divine power.
“How are you feeling?”
Alice answered Eunhyun’s question about her condition.
“It’s a bit drowsy… My body hasn’t moved properly yet…”
“That’s because the drug effect of the anesthetic still remains in the body. Little by little it will improve. Other than that?”
“Well… I don’t think there is.”
“I see.”
Eunhyeon sat on a chair in front of the bed Alice was lying on and felt Alice’s pulse.
Knowing that she was in very good condition, she spoke.
“I’m going to remove the bandage from your eye now.”
Alice’s mouth, hardened by the coexistence of anticipation and tension, answered.
“… Yes.”
Upon Alice’s permission, Eun-hyeon immediately moved on to her actions.
“Anies. Raise Alice’s body.”
“Uh.”
She carefully lifted Alice up, tucked her pillow around her waist, and supported her upper body against the head of her bed.
She then slowly loosened the bandage around Alice’s head.
After removing all her bandages, Alice closed her eyes and waited for Eunhyun’s words to follow with her tense expression.
“Do you want to open your eyes now?”
“Yes.”
Alice gave a small reply in her trembling voice and nodded her head.
Even with her permission, her eyes did not open easily.
She swallowed her saliva and hesitated for a moment, but then the eyelids trembled and began to move little by little, indicating that Alice had finally made up her mind.
“Ah…”
Sensing the light seeping through her eyelids that slowly opened, Alice let out a small sigh.
The light I feel after 20 years.
She began to realize belatedly that she had regained the sight she had given up, and she gradually opened her eyes boldly.
The two pupils, moving slowly from left to right, capture the inside of the room and the people in front of them who are holding their breath and staring at them.
Eventually, the right end of her gaze, her husband, who was looking at her closest.
When Derkin’s eyes met, Alice and Derkin looked at each other and trembled.
Soon, tears flowed from Alice’s eyes.
They are not tears of sadness, but tears of joy and emotion.
Even though she got married and had a child as a result of their love, she could now see her husband’s face, which she hadn’t seen in 20 years.
“Ah, Alice…”
Alice smiled as she reached out her right hand and caressed Derkin’s cheek precisely, even though her anesthesia had faded.
“At las… I can see your face.”
