The weather in April is probably at the transition between spring and summer, so although the sun is bright, it's not hot... The temperature is still cool and pleasant...
'Who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going...' Li Xuan, who had yet to fully come to his senses after opening his eyes, began to contemplate life while staring at the snow-white ceiling...
"This is... the medical room..." Li Xuan, finally waking up from his groggy state, lazily turned his head to look around while resting on his pillow. He quickly confirmed this fact... but also relaxed. Since he was back at St. Freya High School, it meant that everyone else had also made it back safely... As long as they were okay...
"......" Li Xuan lay in bed, feeling a bit down. It might be because he was injected with some kind of medicine... his body was still a bit numb...
'Speaking of which... this is probably the most serious injury I've had in my entire life, right?' Li Xuan stared blankly at the ceiling, as if flowers were growing on it... Since he had transmigrated to this world, although he had been injured a little at the beginning, things had gone smoothly for him since then. Plus, with the shield of the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb', ordinary monsters couldn't even break through his defense...
But... after half a year, he had once again caught a whiff of death.... when Shigure Kira's longsword pierced through his body, he came infinitely close to that feeling...
"So... I still have to get stronger..." Li Xuan muttered with a sigh. He never expected there would be a weapon that could directly break through his shield and harm him... It really goes to show that 'the world is vast and full of wonders'...
Of course, what he didn't know was... when the end of the world came in the future, the injuries he would sustain would be the most severe... in many ways...
"My wound..." Li Xuan touched his chest and tried to sit up from the bed... but as soon as he moved, a tearing pain shot through his chest, making him wince...
"Eh... I'm still wearing the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb'..." Li Xuan looked at the clothes under the blanket with some surprise. Logically, shouldn't he have been changed into a blue and white striped hospital gown...
"Huh?... It's not torn?" Li Xuan's eyes widened as he looked at his chest. He had clearly seen the clothes on his chest get pierced through along with the shield by Shigure Kira's sword... How was it still intact now? This isn't scientific...
"...Wait..." Li Xuan stared at the clothes on his body and suddenly had a strange feeling... It was a feeling of being connected by blood... as if it had become a part of his own body...
"What is going on?!..." With a thought, the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb' on his body emitted a faint golden light and, to his astonishment, transformed into a blue and white striped hospital gown...
"Majibakune (Incredible)..." Li Xuan gently stroked the hospital gown on his body as if caressing a lover. Unlike before, when he had to force the Xuanyuan Festive Garb to transform, causing it to be unstable, this time the 'Xuanyuan Festive Garb' maintained its transformed state very stably... It wouldn't be a problem even if it remained as a hospital gown.
This was a scene straight out of a fantasy story....
"Why did this happen?..." Li Xuan put aside his surprise and began to think about the reason. As a student with excellent grades, he often calmed down after encountering new things, had a sip of tea, and thought things through carefully....
Of course, there was no such thing as tea in the hospital room... so Li Xuan picked up a glass of cold water from the bedside table and made do with it to calm himself down...
'Yuck... this tastes a bit weird...' Li Xuan frowned after taking a small sip of the 'cold water'. Has this water been sitting out for too long? It tastes strange... and there's a hint of medicine...
'Alright, let's sort this out first.' Li Xuan took a deep breath to clear his head and began to think... "The festive garb was torn before... When it was torn, I also got a nice stab through the heart... The result of that was... of course, I bled like a fountain...."
"The reason the clothes are still on me... is because... unless they can't be taken off!?" Li Xuan had a sudden realization.... "Could it be that I had surgery while wearing the Xuanyuan Festive Garb?!...."
"How is that possible..." Li Xuan lifted the collar of his clothes to look inside. On the left side of his chest was a hideous wound. A thick scab had already formed on the wound, but there were no signs of conventional surgical treatment... not even stitches....
"The wound healed on its own..." Li Xuan immediately realized... His wound had healed on its own to that state. With his tenacious constitution, he had managed to heal such a large sword wound... With this kind of physique, could he also become something like Captain America if he went to the United States?
"So that means... the clothes had already repaired themselves by the time I got back?" Li Xuan raised an eyebrow, feeling that things were not that simple...
"Other than myself, the Xuanyuan Festive Garb hasn't touched anyone else... wait...." Li Xuan finally remembered something... After being stabbed, he had immediately bled a lot, and the blood had even soaked the Xuanyuan Festive Garb! But now there were no bloodstains on the clothes!
"The legendary... Blood Pact?!" Li Xuan was amazed... Why did it feel like a scene from a second-rate fantasy novel again...
"I need to test this..." Li Xuan was the type to act on his thoughts. A golden longsword appeared out of thin air in his right hand...
"I don't have a small knife, so this will have to do..." Li Xuan took out a silver, metallic-looking emblem from inside his chest pocket... the five-star equipment 'Gale Arts (High Tier)'... He casually picked up the glass containing the 'cold water', drank it all in one go... and then placed the emblem on the glass...
"..." Li Xuan picked up the Xuanyuan Sword and hesitantly brought it to his arm. He just needed to make a small cut to get some blood... just a little bit of blood would do... This process had to be done carefully to avoid any external interference, in case...
Just as Li Xuan, in the Xuanyuan Festive Garb that was disguised as a blue and white striped hospital gown, was squatting on the bed and slowly trying to make a small cut on his arm with a golden longsword... "Click!~" The door to the hospital room suddenly opened. Yae Sakura, still in her miko attire, stood at the door and saw that Li Xuan was awake...
Yae Sakura's face initially showed a hint of joy, but when she saw Li Xuan's current state, her expression changed completely... Anyone who found their boyfriend in a hospital gown, holding a sword and looking like he was about to slit his wrists... probably wouldn't be in a good mood...
"Don't, Xuan-kun!..." Yae Sakura rushed over in a hurry, trying to stop Li Xuan's actions...
"Huh?" Li Xuan saw Yae Sakura rushing towards him, and in his excitement... his hand trembled... and the sharp blade of the Xuanyuan Sword touched his arm...
A bloody incident thus occurred quietly...
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"Li Xuan, you hurt your hand too?...." Fu Hua, who had come to visit Li Xuan early, pushed up her glasses. Her gaze fell on Li Xuan's bandaged left arm, which was tied with a very cute bow...
"Cough, cough... this, this was actually an accident... By the way, thank you very much for visiting me, Class Rep Fu Hua..." Li Xuan said, changing the subject. Beside him, Yae Sakura lowered her head in embarrassment...
"As the class representative, it's my duty to visit a classmate..." Fu Hua said in a serious tone. "Besides, I heard that Li Xuan performed very well in the mission this time. Principal Theresa even praised you in yesterday's weekly summary...."
"Haha... is that so?" Li Xuan said with a dry laugh. After all, he had taken a blade for Kiana... Who could have performed better than him? Who else?!
"Yes..." Fu Hua nodded lightly, her face suddenly turning a little red as she said, "Principal Theresa has already found me. In a month... we will be heading to the Divine Land to find something... The specific details will be told to us by Principal Theresa then..."
"The Divine Land, huh...." Li Xuan murmured with a sigh. The Divine Land of this world was basically the equivalent of China in his original world...
"Yes, we will be going to 'Guangzhou' then..." Fu Hua said, pushing up her glasses a little nervously. "Um... it's just... my parents heard about you and are very interested in you, Li Xuan... so, when the time comes, could you... meet my parents?"
"..." Li Xuan's mouth fell slightly open. The legendary meeting of the parents?!... What is going on?
I'm so nervous....
(End of this chapter)