"It hurts!"
Medical Sister Alia was currently in the infirmary, treating Li Feng's facial wounds... His nose was stuffed with two pieces of paper, and blood had already seeped through them.
Li Feng was shirtless at the moment, and his right ribs were completely bruised, though thankfully not broken.
Sister Alia was wiping the wound on Li Feng's cheek with a fiber swab dipped in iodine. Alia sighed, Fides had still held back when she punched Li Feng's face. She had personally seen Fides punch a traitor's face into a pulp in a Hive City.
"Brother Li Feng, Xiao Fei... her initial anger had a reason, I hope you won't be angry."
Saying this, Alia began to tell the story of Sister Fides... Alia and Fides were among the same batch of novices who entered the convent to study. The Sisters of Battle typically recruited from the children of nobles across the myriad worlds of the Imperium. Those noble families would even scramble to send their daughters to the convent, and Alia was the eldest daughter of a noble family from a Hive City World, joining the Order in place of her younger sister.
Alia paused in her narrative here... then continued,
She still remembered that day, when she boarded the Ecclesiarchy's transport ship, leaving her home and family, to come to the distant Order for training. And on the day she arrived at the convent, she met Fides... On the first night, the girls, still full of childlike innocence, gathered together, complaining about sleeping on hard stone floors, discussing their families, what their previous worlds were like, what kind of toys they had... Only Fides, wrapped in that blanket, huddled in a corner.
During training, Fides was always the most diligent. She didn't like to talk, nor did she like to socialize. The only thing she did during her breaks was sit alone on the windowsill, praying devoutly to the Emperor.
Alia, due to her physical condition not meeting the standards, could not become a Sister of Battle, but because of her medical talent, she was transferred to the Medical Sisters by the Grand Nun.
On the day she arrived at the Medical Sisters, she followed a senior Nun, learning various medical knowledge, and of course... combat skills were not neglected either. Until one day, Fides was sent there due to an injury during training, and her senior bandaged her. From her senior's tone, it seemed she had known Fides before.
Driven by curiosity, Alia asked her senior about Fides, and her senior then told her this story:
At that time, her senior, as a field Nun, followed the Sisters of Battle to a Garden World to suppress a rebellion, where traces of Chaos had appeared.
Because this Garden World was currently a vacation spot for countless nobles from various planets, the combat mission was very heavy. The Sisters of Battle were responsible for suppressing the rebellion, and the Medical Sisters were responsible for treating the nobles.
The senior's medical team followed a squad of Sisters of Battle to a resort, which was now in ruins. Cruel and blasphemous rituals were everywhere, human skins were made into banners and hung on lampposts, and traitors drew blasphemous runes on the ground with severed limbs.
When they landed and engaged in combat, a group of Chaos traitors, wearing a man's face, were defiling a woman who had already been tortured to death... They quickly killed these abominable traitors, and when they began searching for survivors, the Nuns dug out a girl from the nearby ruins.
The girl was already terrified, having witnessed the tragedy outside. The Nuns spoke to her, but she couldn't speak either. Only the necklace around her neck, identical to the resort's emblem, indicated the girl's identity... A Sister of Battle held the girl in her arms and handed her to the senior. As the senior carried the girl towards the aircraft, the girl finally spoke:
"Mommy... Daddy..."
That woman was her mother.
And the owner of that face was her father... The girl was brought back to the warship by the senior, but none of the Sisters of Battle squad who went with them returned alive.
At that time, a High Sister saw this child and, after the war, entrusted people from the Departmento Munitorum to contact her still-living relatives, hoping to find her a good home.
The girl refused, staying alone in the prayer room by the berth, praying to the Emperor day after day... Until one day, she ran to her senior and the High Sister, saying she had heard the Emperor's revelation, that the Emperor said her mommy and daddy had gone to a very distant place and would one day return to pick her up.
And on that day, the girl used the silver knife from the ritual altar to carve on her body:
"semper in fide (Latin: always faithful)"
...At this point, Alia put away her medical instruments, stood up from her chair, turned to the medical cabinet, and began to tidy and clean the equipment.
Li Feng, having heard the story, was unable to calm down for a long time... He already knew who the girl his senior spoke of was.
"I can tell that child, Xiao Fei, has a little something for you~"
Sister Alia said this, turning around with that same gentle, spring-like smile on her face... "Thinking about it, I feel a little lonely... Among our batch of girls, only Xiao Fei and I are left, one a Medical Sisters Captain, one a Sisters of Battle Captain..."
Saying this, Alia gradually approached Li Feng... At this moment, Li Feng looked at the kind expression on the angel in white's face and felt a chill. He couldn't help but step back, quickly opening his panel to modify his attributes.
"Sister Alia... you seem to be breaking down..."
Li Feng said, grabbing the pillow from the medical bed to shield himself,
"If you ever do something like today again, harming our Xiao Fei..."
The retractable bone saw on the Medical Sister's wrist directly popped out, and accompanied by the whirring sound of the saw, Alia uttered words that sent shivers down Li Feng's spine,
"I wouldn't mind turning you into my 'Sisters of Battle' either~~ Understand?"
Li Feng nodded, watching the bone saw gradually stop rotating and retract... Alia took off her Medical Sisters hat, revealing her long pink hair... (Sister Alia's appearance can be imagined as a Nun version of Chika Fujiwara! There's a picture in the paragraph comments!)
"Go on, I need to rest too. I wish you sweet dreams tonight~"
...Li Feng walked out of the infirmary, down the warship's corridor... Sure enough... pink hair, black heart...