Afterwards, Coralie carried Seraphina in a pyggy-back and brought her back to the church.
The gentle sway of Coralie's body coupled with the delicious scent of her sister's hazel hair, made for a delightful 7 Star experience.
Experiencing all this, Seraphina could not possibly feel more comfortable, her eyes got heavier and heavier until she could not keep them open anymore.
She quietly drifted off to the dream world with only the sound of her soft purrs left on stage.
*Zzz*
...
The journey from their secret hideout to Alequessa did not last very long and they quickly reached their destination.
There, Coralie laid Seraphina down on a soft bed so she could rest peacefully. During this time where Seraphina was asleep, Coralie watched over Seraphina and took great care of the sleeping silver-haired girl.
However, it was only after an entire week of Seraphina sleeping like a log that she finally woke up...
...
(Back to the present)
"But why should I thank her, mom? She didn't do anything." the boy asked, puzzled.
"Next!" Seraphina said as soon as she did not feel sick anymore.
After this incident, Seraphina had lived with 'doing her very best to improve others' lives' as her primary goal.
Though it was unpleasant at times, and some people did not appreciate her help, she still tried to provide help in any way she could.
That included healing others, even if it was at her own sake. Seraphina was a 4 Star being, naturally she possessed better resistance against injuries and illnesses than a Starless boy.
If she truly wanted to help, taking on his suffering, as the strongest person here, was the least she could do.
Seraphina motioned for the boy and his mother to get out of the line, and for the next person to step ahead.
The next person was a man with brown hair, his face was flushed and the rest of his body a sickly pale.
"I have a terrible headache—"
"Wait, please! Please let me go me first! M—My husband cannot wait any longer!" another woman cried out.
"Hm?" Seraphina frowned, tilting her head to meet the woman's.
She recognised her to be the same woman who had said her husband was dying.
"You need to heal him quickly or he will die!" she desperately pleaded.
"Can you bring your husband here?" Seraphina asked her.
"No! He is beddriden and too weak to get up! You need to go to him!" the woman argued with her.
Seraphina was annoyed by this woman, first she had cut in line and then she talked rudely to her saying 'she' 'needed' to heal him. As far as she knew, her husband was barely more than a stranger to her.
Also, if her husband was in such a bad state, why did she not bring him here to save time? Did she think her husband was the only one who needed help?
Still, if what the woman said was true—even if she was annoying, she needed to act quickly because nobody likes death— especially Seraphina.
"Lead the way." Seraphina told the woman as she instructed a priest and a priestess to look after the man with a headache.
The woman brought her to a small chamber with a single bed, where a man laid as if he was on his deathbed.
A bassin filled with gastric acid and half-digested food rested at the bed's foot, it was placed in a way the man would only need to tilt his head to the side in case he wanted to throw up.
The man had a pale complexion and his cheeks were sunken. He still had some questionable liquid around and flowing from his mouth which made him look quite repulsive, unlike Seraphina who looked attractive from every angle.
Seraphina did a quick check-up on him that did not last long because, she was very familiar with what he was going through.
He was in a state of poisoning! How he got poisoned, however, was not something she cared about.
Seraphina waved her long and golden khakkhara at the man. As the green energy seeped out of her khakkhara and gently embraced his weak body, the man instantly felt better like he had just passed away and all his suffering had just been a trial from the Supreme Being, testing if he was worthy of the Heavens.
When the green energy finally left his body, Seraphina gestured to the woman who did not see any of what happened, that she was done and her husband was fully healed.
"Carlos! Are you feeling well?" asked the women as she approached him slowly, with tears in her eyes.
"I am...alive?" Carlos asked himself
hesitantly, he brought both his hands to his eyes before clenching them tightly into fists. "I'm alive! Mairy do you see that!?"
"Yes, I see you clearly...*sob*...My Love." Mairy hugged her husband tightly before crying in his chest. "I thought you wouldn't make it..."
Mairy continued to cry for a few minutes before finally freeing her husband from her tight hug.
Freed from his wife's clutches, Carlos darted around the chamber excitedly, like a toddler who was told he could buy anything inside a bakery. He had been bedridden for two days afterall, he wanted to move and spend his energy.
It did not help that right now, he could not feel any better, as if his body had regained its youth. He wanted to see how fast he could run, how high he could jump or even how much he could lift.
So, as soon as his wife left him, he jumped out of the window!
"Haha..." Seraphina let out a nervous laugh muffled by her long sleeve.
"Isn't he a funny man?" Mairie asked her after she heard the silver-haired girl laugh at the way her husband behaved.
In truth, Seraphina did not laugh at Carlos but more because of the couple's reactions.
When the green light had returned to Seraphina, some foam had formed inside her mouth and that was all. Only after a few seconds, the effect of the poison had completely disappeared without needing the involvement of that blue energy, her body had handled the poison by itself.
'Are they overreacting or was the poison that weak...' thought Seraphina.
But seeing the state Carlos was in, she decided to not think anymore about such useless things.
*Crack!*
"AAHHH!!" a scream rang out from outside the shelter. The scream's voice was very similar, as it was Carlos's!
Seraphina face-palmed.
In his excitement, Carlos had jumped out of the window and seemed to have broken his leg...
'Ugh... This is going to be a long day. ' Seraphina groaned inside her mind.
Today was supposed to be her birthday, yet, it had gone so terribly and it was only noon! Just how much was going to happen to her today!?
Seraphina had a feeling inside her heart, one that said her thirteenth birthday would certainly not be a day she would remember as 'great'.