Going crazy.
It's something everyone does.
The difference is that some people go crazy when they're alone, while others don't care about their surroundings and go crazy anytime, anywhere.
Levi was obviously the latter.
In fact, he was far beyond that category.
Normally, he wouldn't go crazy when he was alone. Instead, he would go completely crazy in places crowded with people.
According to Qingque, he was probably missing a few things in his brain.
Or perhaps he'd gotten his head caught in a door when he was little.
"He really is sick."
Looking at Levi, Kiana silently thought to herself.
"Really?"
Hearing that Theresa seemed to believe it, everyone in the room couldn't help shifting their gazes from the crazed Levi to Theresa.
Levi maintained his smile without nodding or shaking his head.
Theresa's eyes shifted toward Kiana. Under her thoughtful gaze, Kiana instinctively took a step back.
"Auntie!"
She called out "Auntie," trying to awaken Theresa's love for her niece.
Success.
Theresa withdrew her gaze, and Kiana breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ahem, you should already know why I asked you to come here, right?"
Looking at Levi, who was fiddling with the internal mechanisms of Oath of Judah, Theresa cleared her throat twice to get his attention.
Her little face was full of seriousness.
Levi nodded and looked toward the girl on the hospital bed.
The hair on her head appeared to be an ordinary black, but underneath it was light green hair similar to Mobius's.
However, compared to Mobius's, the color was slightly lighter. It lacked that threatening aura and instead gave people a beautiful impression, like jade.
Looking at Wendy's hair, Levi found it hard to imagine that anyone in real life could naturally have this hair color.
But this was a world of two-dimensional characters.
Even if someone were naturally born with half black and half white hair, it wouldn't be a big deal.
His gaze moved down to the girl's exposed legs on the bed. Though, strictly speaking, they weren't actually exposed, as both legs were wrapped in thick bandages.
Through the bandages, Levi could sense that the Honkai energy in her legs was much higher than in the rest of her body.
In particular, there was a certain point on one of her calves where the Honkai energy reaction was dozens of times stronger than anywhere else.
That was probably where the Gem of Desire had been implanted.
After suffering Honkai corrosion for so many years, even if the Gem of Desire were removed from her body, the girl's legs would probably still be beyond repair.
And that was putting aside the Honkai energy.
Even an ordinary person who spent several years in a wheelchair would suffer muscle atrophy in their legs, causing their mobility to decline.
It might even disappear entirely.
And now, on top of that, there was the corrosion from Honkai energy...
Within Schicksal, unless that bastard Otto personally intervened, Levi couldn't think of anyone else who could help Wendy.
And Otto obviously wouldn't personally intervene for the sake of a mere chess piece.
Not unless that chess piece still had some use in the future and it wasn't time for it to die yet.
However, it was obvious that Wendy's value hadn't reached the point where Otto would personally intervene for her.
"I asked about the Abyss Flower."
While Levi was examining Wendy, Theresa spoke from the side. "To heal a human body, the Abyss Flower first needs to have that person's genetic data recorded in it."
The answer was self-evident.
Back then, Wendy clearly hadn't had access to the Abyss Flower, nor had she been qualified to come into contact with it. Naturally, she couldn't have had her genetic data recorded in it.
"The Abyss Flower won't work. We can just use another method.", Levi spoke calmly.
There might be no method in this world, but who said there weren't methods in other worlds?
If all else failed, they could find someone from the Path of Abundance. At the very least, that would allow her to live for another thousand years or so.
It was just that dealing with the subsequent mara-struck state would be a bit troublesome.
Hearing Levi's words, Theresa's eyes widened slightly.
"But the prerequisite for all of this is..."
Levi stared at Wendy's legs, noticing that the girl's eyes had remained fixed on his face the entire time. He smiled and met her gaze.
"First, we have to remove the Gem of Desire from her body."
As long as that thing remained inside the girl's body, even a one-hundred-percent successful treatment would be useless.
There was no point in curing her if the root of the problem hadn't been removed.
Unless they amputated her legs and replaced them with mechanical ones.
That way, they wouldn't need to remove the Gem of Desire from the girl's legs.
However, when a treatment method that could preserve the original flesh and blood was available, very few people would choose the route of mechanical modification.
Those who did would generally have no need for healing in the first place. They could simply replace the parts directly.
After hearing Levi's words, Theresa showed a trace of hesitation. "The Gem of Desire is currently in a stable state."
If they removed it without having a stable container ready, it could very well cause a Honkai outbreak at St. Freya.
Wendy's expression didn't change at all. She continued staring at Levi with her eyes wide open.
Levi, on the other hand, looked at Theresa with deep exasperation.
"Question: When is a Herrscher Core the most stable?"
"?"
Theresa's head was full of question marks.
Levi's gaze swept over everyone in the hospital room. Perhaps because everyone else had other things to do that morning, only Theresa, Kiana, and Fu Hua were in the room.
"Answer: When it's inside a Herrscher."
Just think about it. Could an external container make a Herrscher Core more stable than when the core was inside a Herrscher?
Levi spread his hands, a trace of disdain in his eyes.
Of course, he wasn't looking down on Theresa and the others. He was looking down on Schicksal's scholars.
Anyone with even a little common sense would know that a Herrscher Core shouldn't be placed inside a human body, using the human body as a container for the core.
Putting it inside a human body? Wasn't that simply creating an artificial Herrscher?
Hadn't they ever wondered why other people who had a Herrscher Core implanted in them either died or were left crippled and barely alive?
Yet Wendy alone had normal vital signs. The only damage was that her legs, where the core had been implanted, were ruined. The Herrscher Core known as the Gem of Desire was resting peacefully inside her body.
As if it had returned home.
So...
"Take it out already."
Anywhere would be much safer than inside a human body.
Just because it had been given the name "Gem of Desire" didn't mean they could stop treating it as a Herrscher Core.
Theresa's expression changed several times. She hesitated at first, but eventually her expression became resolute.
"I'll arrange for someone to prepare the surgery right away."
Compared to Schicksal's collective interests, she really did care more about the Valkyries under her command.
Although sacrifices were inevitable in the fight against Honkai, if she could make those sacrifices come a little later, that would still be much better than having people die right from the start.
With that, she turned around and prepared to leave the hospital room to contact the doctors and arrange the surgery.
Standing off to the side with virtually no presence, Fu Hua pushed her glasses up slightly.
Levi seemed to notice something as well and turned to look at Theresa's departing figure.
Only Kiana remained clueless, chatting with Wendy on the side.
She was also stuffing her face with the fresh fruit Fu Hua had brought.
When Theresa pushed the door open and was about to step outside, she suddenly felt the top of her head bump into something.
It was soft, as if she'd bumped into a cushion.
Theresa raised her head. After seeing who was standing there, her expression froze.
The woman standing outside the hospital room wore a perfectly practiced smile. She gracefully bowed slightly to Theresa.
"Good morning, Lady Theresa."
"..."
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