Chapter 535 – Episode 58. Dinner and Rest.
On Saturday, I went to the hospital where Ei Asada, the daughter of Fukushi Asada, a former administrator at St. Francis Girls’ Academy, was staying. It was the only large hospital in Miya City and was run by the Ota family.
Since I spent yesterday evening and morning with Otagi Yuka, Saionji Diana, and Sakagami Rena, we came together to Miyashi Otagi Hospital for a casual date and to check on Ei Asada’s condition.
“Long time no see. “I received blood here before I cut ties with the family.”
Otagi Yuka opened her mouth with a slightly nostalgic expression. Oh, I guess so. As a vampire, Yuka Otagi shared her meals with other girls, but she still needed blood to continue her life. I was wondering how she got her blood from Miyashi, so far away from her family, and she got it here at the hospital.
Since we had contacted Asada Fukushi in advance about our visit, we were quickly given directions to the hospital room.
When we opened the door, cold air welcomed us. I think it’s almost 0 degrees? The weather was in the middle of fall, but the room was very cold. In the middle of the hospital’s special room, a woman was lying on a bed with several devices on it, with her eyes closed. She was a woman about the age of a college student with light blue white hair, and she was frowning as if she was in pain and had an intubation in her mouth.
“What exactly are your daughter’s symptoms?”
“I don’t know the exact name of the disease, but it is temperature allergy. “If the temperature rises above a certain level, I can’t stand it because I complain of severe side effects, such as losing my mind.”
Asada Fukushi, who was touching her daughter’s cheek with a worried expression, answered my question. Allergy to temperature… After listening to the story, it seemed that if the temperature exceeded a certain level, it would be fatal.
I wondered if there was some kind of abnormal condition, so I put on the glasses of the ruins and looked at Ei Asada.
◆Name: Ei Asada Lv8
〈 Status abnormality: high temperature, fainting 〉
Abilities
Body
Strength:6 Dexterity:10 Stamina:9(-2) Resistance:8(-2) Recovery:5 Nerves:10 Appearance:14
Spirit
Intelligence:8 Knowledge:10 Focus:8(-2) Will:8(-2) Creativity:7 Charisma:12 Judgment:8
Other
Luck:7 Cold:1
Technology
◆Information Manipulation (Rare Technology Lv9): Information can be manipulated through various operations.
◆Information Collection (Rare Technology Lv8): Ability to obtain desired information.
◆Shooting (General Skill Lv10): Shoots with a long-range weapon. As the level increases, accuracy increases.
◆Language – English (General Skills LV9)
◆Disarm trap (rare skill Lv8): Install and disarm traps, pitfalls, mines, etc. The higher the skill, the faster the installation and disarming speed becomes without being caught by the opponent.
◆Trap Search (Rare Skill Lv5): Find out if there are traps in the surrounding area.
Characteristics
◆Owl’s Eyes [Rare+ Trait]: You can see through the darkness and if you concentrate, you can see far away.
◆Sneaky Movement [Rare Trait]: Move without being noticed by people around you. The sound of footsteps becomes quieter and movement speed increases. The darker it is, the more you assimilate into the environment and the lower your chances of being caught.
◆Inquisitor’s Sense [Narrative + Trait]: Can instinctively detect an opponent’s lies. If you see through an opponent’s lie, all physical stats increase by 1 when fighting that opponent. The maximum value of judgment and concentration stats increases by 1.
◆Master of setting traps: Become a master of setting traps.
◇Snow Woman’s Bloodline [Legacy Bloodline]: Obtain the special stat ‘Cold’. She can increase her cold stat by absorbing the surrounding cold, and the higher her maximum cold, the better she can withstand the heat. The maximum value of cold stats increases by 5, and in cold places, 50 to 80 percent of cold stats are added to all physical stats depending on the temperature.
However, in hot places, stamina, resistance, will, and concentration stats decrease by 2 to 6 depending on the temperature. These debuffs are displayed as [High Temperature]. [High Temperature] If the debuff lasts for a long time, you will faint.
Aren’t these the stats of an ordinary woman? Although the stats seemed a bit low because there were a lot of kids around with amazing stats, they were good enough to be used as troops in the game. Is it because your father is in the intelligence unit? Or did you follow your father and become a soldier?
“Did you serve in the Self-Defense Forces like Mr. Asada?”
“Yes, he was in the same intelligence unit as me. “I had not worked for several years, but seven years ago I suddenly collapsed and was discharged.”
It seemed like seven years ago, when World War II ended and Asada Fukushi started manufacturing drugs. After reading all the status windows closely, it seemed like the last trait, Snow Maiden’s bloodline, was the problem. The downside is that you get debuffed when the temperature is high, but it was a conditional morale trait that allowed for a huge increase in your strength stats as long as you could gather cold. However, since they didn’t know that, they would have continued to live, and in cases like midsummer, they would have collapsed because it was fatal.
However, in the case of Asada A, the problem was that he could hardly collect cold energy, so his cold stat was only 1. The solution seems simple. Just absorb the cold and increase the cold stat.
And if possible, I also hope that Ei Asada wakes up. I’ve been thinking about forming my own intelligence team since yesterday, and some of Ei Asada’s skills and characteristics seemed perfect for being an informant.
By the way, the snow girl… It seems that either Asada Fukushina or his wife inherited the snow woman’s lineage. Among Ei Asada’s characteristics, there were none that were very interesting except for her Snow Maiden bloodline, but if she fully awakened her Snow Maiden bloodline, her traits could change like Yukiko did when she fully awakened her succubus. This was a point of expectation. If you does it right, you could become really strong, right?
“Well, what about my daughter over there?”
As I was looking at Ei Asada in silence, Asada Fukushi looked at me with a worried expression and asked for my opinion. I opened my mouth with a reassuring smile.
“I think it can be cured.”
“Is that really true?!”
Asada Fukushi is very happy with my words. She had been selling drugs for several years and was only supporting her daughter’s life. I couldn’t help but be happy when she told me I could treat her.
“But what kind of treatment…” ?”
“Do you know what cryotherapy is?”
Cryotherapy is a form of extremely low-temperature cryotherapy that some sports players use after a game, but in the case of A. Asada, the cold had to be absorbed continuously for almost the entire day, not just for a short period of time like after the game. Actually, I think it would be okay to leave this bed in the freezer, but my father is listening and says, ‘I can’t just say that your daughter will get better if you put it in the freezer, so I used cryotherapy, which seems a little more luxurious.’ It was used.
You can ask Eve for this. Eve really enjoys observing things like supernatural powers, so if you ask her for something in return, she will accept it.
“Well, I see.”
“If treatment doesn’t work, we’ll send you back here and pay for your treatment, so don’t worry too much.”
He looked at me a little suspiciously, as if he still had a hard time completely believing what I was saying, so I reassured him and contacted Eve. When I spoke to her via private chat, she said that the Miyashi branch had a freezer with a cryotherapy machine and that they would send a freezer truck soon.
“You will probably be able to see your daughter in better shape in a few days.”
“Thank you… !”
Feeling like something is being resolved, Asada Fukushi repeatedly bows his head and says hello to me. At this rate, Asada Ei’s problem would be solved and there was nothing more for me to do here.
“Have you tried contacting Mr. Kurayamada?”
“Yes, I agreed to see you tomorrow. “I’m not going into PMC alone, but the guys under me are going together, so I decided to say hello at once.”
While waiting for the refrigerated truck, I asked Kirie Kurayamada about the new PMC he was building, and Asada Fukushi gave me the answer he knew. Actually, I didn’t know much, but we were planning to meet officially tomorrow. In fact, Asada Fukushi caught me not long ago. She got it the night before the sports day, and yesterday was the sports day, so it’s only been two days.
As I was going through the formalities for discharge, the dark-skinned delivery men who had received Eve’s orders arrived. When the hospital heard that a patient paying tens of millions of yen every year was being discharged, they were embarrassed and tried to dissuade him from being discharged, but the situation was quickly resolved when Yuka Otagi came forward.
“If you go home and rest, you will be contacted within a few days.”
“Thank you… !”
I walked out of the hospital after Ei Asada left and said hello to Fukushi Asada who was gathering her luggage. Yuka Otagi was pouting, as if she felt bad that she had helped her drug dealer.
“You don’t have to forgive.”
“When I say it’s for my daughter, I actually want to forgive her and I don’t like it.”
There were such complicated feelings. Yuka Otagi seemed to have complicated feelings because she lost her friend because of drugs.
“If it were our family, they would have thrown it away right away. Seeing this makes me hate my family even more.”
Diana Saionji, who had been abandoned by her family since the injury that severed her limbs, also seemed to be in a strange mood.
“Sir, how about pizza for lunch? “I want to eat Tomino’s pizza after a long time.”
Rena Sakagami didn’t think much of it. She was just hungry.
