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Chapter 6 - Ch. 5: Examination and Hypothesis

In front of Alice's room, Eri tries to knock slowly hoping the person in the room opens the door for her.

Three minutes passed, no answer from the inside.

By being forced, Eri banged on the door harder hoping that this time there would be an answer from inside.

Instead of an answer, Eri's silence was the only thing that Eri had.

"It's weird. How come there's no answer at all?"

Confused and surprised, Eri, who was forced to open the door knowing that Alice's room door was unlocked, pushed her slowly.

"Excuse me."

Despite her disrespectful behavior, Eri still said that she would excuse herself as a form of courtesy so that the person inside would not be angry at her disrespectful actions.

Eri who doesn't see a little girl sitting on a chair at her study table with white crystals lighting up her room in the dark, confused where she is.

In fact, she was not even in bed, making Eri wonder where the little girl mentioned by her aunt from her mother's friend, Luna went.

"Hello, is there anyone?"

Once past the bed, Eri accidentally fell because she tripped by something onto the floor. He grimaced in pain shortly before finally his gaze led to something lying on the floor.

"Eh?"

Suddenly a pale face was seen on Eri's face, between shocked, confused and frightened, all seen through her shocked expression when she saw the little girl lying on the floor unconscious, remaining panting while her body was sweating.

"Oi, are you okay?"

Trying to shake the body of a little girl lying unconscious with her breath panting and sweat wetting her face, no answer from the little girl to Eri made Eri even more panicked and worried.

"I have to tell Mom."

Without lingering, she leaves Alice's room in an open condition due to her panic, opening Lisa's room door in a hurry with a panicked and frightened face.

"What's the matter, sweetheart?"

Lisa and Luna are both surprised, they stand up from sitting on the sofa while staring at Eri who immediately opens the door violently without slowly opening.

"Mom... She's... She's unconscious..."

"Her?! Who do you mean?"

Getting pressure from Luna, Eri's expression is getting scared and worried, she stammers to speak because she is so scared, she will be blamed for making her shed tears.

Knowing that her daughter could not resist Luna's pressure, Lisa was forced to pat her on the shoulder while approaching Luna smiling without saying anything to make her calm.

"Sorry."

"No problem."

After Luna calms down, Lisa looks at Eri who remains standing in the open door of Lisa's room while asking her daughter gently and affectionately.

"Sweetheart, may I know what you saw?"

"Yes."

Eri explained to them that she saw a little girl with long blond hair in a long, pink casual dress under her knees lying unconscious on the floor on the side of the bed with breathless breath.

Hearing Eri's explanation of her daughter, Luna unthinkingly rushing to Alice's room leaving Lisa's room makes Lisa follow Luna, while Eri stays in her mother's room which is still confused in silence, her body trembles in horror at the sight of something she has first seen.

When Luna arrives in Alice's room, she immediately approaches her daughter lying unconscious with a panting breath and a sweaty face, trying to find out what happened to her daughter.

Even though as far as Luna knows, Alice was fine before but it seems like she became like this because Luna was careless to watch her.

"Lisa!"

"Yes, I understand," nodded Lisa, who understood the meaning of Luna's words. "Take your daughter to my room, I'll check her condition."

"Yes."

The unconscious Alice is carried by Luna to Lisa's room.

When she enters Lisa's room, Luna puts Alice on the sofa by laying her there leaving this affair to Lisa.

"Sweetheart, you can play in your room."

Hearing her mother's words, Eri, who was still trembling in fear with a panicked face, immediately left her mother's room back to her room.

As soon as her daughter returns to her room, Lisa immediately checks Alice's condition. Starting from the pulse, everything is going normal but with breath panting as if something happened to her.

"Pulse, normal. Body temperature, normal. No sign of getting hurt or poisoned."

While examining Alice's condition, Lisa's focus is really on her while staying calm and examining her without making any quick decisions about what happened to Alicia.

"Could this girl...."

Lisa secretly observes Alice with an Appraisal in her left eye trying to find out whether or not her speculation is correct regarding the symptoms Alice is experiencing today.

"It's..."

"What's up, Lisa?"

Lisa's long breath made the confused Luna look panicked, fearing that her daughter Alice had a serious illness that could not be cured.

"No need to put on a face like that, your daughter's fine."

Surprised by Lisa's gentle words, Luna wonders what her friend sees so that she can find out that Lisa is smiling little at her.

"She's just short of nowhere, nothing more than that."

"Which disadvantage? That's it?"

"Well, that's a relief to you, isn't it?"

Luna nodded her head, agreeing to Lisa's words. Her previous fears and anxieties were swept away by calm and relief because her daughter Alice was not suffering from a severe illness but just a lack of where.

"But, how can my daughter lack where? Wasn't he okay before?"

In Lisa's eyes, taking something from the cupboard shelf below, pouring a teapot-like tube container from the glass into a small bottle to adjust the proportion Alice has, Luna wonders what happened to her daughter.

"I don't know, I don't know. If she has any suspicious action, let me know immediately."

"Yes."

Just nodding in agreement with Lisa's words, Luna's eyes look at her friend who is forcing Alice, Luna's daughter to sip a dark blue liquid from a small glass bottle in her mouth.

"Well, at least she'll wake up the next morning."

Breathing in relief because her daughter has been saved, Luna doesn't know what would happen to Alice if Lisa wasn't in this palace.

Worst case, her daughter will die without knowing what causes it because if this palace doesn't have a medical professional, the death toll will be high. At least that's what Luna thinks.

But lucky for Lisa's family, Christina, who are skilled in the medical field, they are good at treating patients both external and internal injuries, all of which can be cured through herbal medicine. Even if her condition has deteriorated, their families can perform medical - like operations to cure serious illnesses.

"Thank you very much, Lisa. I owe you one.

"No problem. Besides, we're friends, I don't need anything from you.

Smiling at Lisa's sincere words, Luna immediately carries Alice like a daughter in her arms to take her back to her daughter's room, leaving Lisa brooding in silence.

"This is really weird."

In Lisa's room, Lisa, who sits on the sofa, leans across her arms while thinking about what happens to Alice, Luna's daughter.

"As far as I know, that little girl wasn't hurt on the outside nor poisoned on the inside. But, why is it lacking?"

Lisa still doesn't understand that question, because as far as she knows, the creatures who can do that are none other than monster girls like succubus or incubus, they can reduce the life energy of their target.

Even if it doesn't reduce the energy of life from their target, at least Lisa believes it can reduce the essence of which one has to survive.

Once again, Lisa tries to remember the conversation she had with Luna before.

"I don't understand why my daughter, Alice, read a book about common knowledge."

"She also insisted when I persuaded her to read another book like a storybook."

"Ah...."

At first glance, Lisa already understood what had happened to Alice.

Although this is just a temporary hypothesis from Lisa, she believes that a common knowledge book covering which chapter of the book is about, may all have happened because of it.

Because it's impossible for anyone to harm someone unharmed and poisoned to make where the person is less likely, unless the person uses his or her to do something.

"But, what's she doing?"

This is what Lisa doesn't understand.

Even if Alice uses where it is in her body, it can only use magic that is much lower than basic magic or rather elementary elementary magic.

"If it uses which to use magic more like a basic element, what is its purpose?"

Another question arises in Lisa's mind as if it were endless. When she answers one question, another appears again in her mind as if trying to dig into the motive behind what happened to Alice.

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Lisa POV

Quiet, this is how I feel right now.

It's been a few days since the incident of Luna's daughter, Alice, passed out with a breath of gasp and her face sweating, I've been constantly doing my work in my room sipping tea in a cup while watching the books I read to find out what's less and more.

About my daughter, Eri, she's not here because she's doing her job as my beloved daughter to find out what a little girl her age is doing, Alice.

That way, I can get a definite answer to the question that comes to my mind constantly so that everything is clear, without any uncertain prejudice of right or wrong.

I'm the one who sighed so much standing up from my desk chair, walking up to the bookshelf and picking up books on the highest shelf I haven't read in a long time.

If Alice really has an adult mind, that means this book has a point.

My gaze goes to a book that's still closed in my hand with the title "The Reincarnation", a book that doesn't feature anyone who writes it, just explaining to the reader that reincarnation really exists in this world.

Although I doubt what this book says, but when I hear what Luna says, I suspect that Alice is someone's reincarnation, whether it's an adult or a teenager before, it's just a temporary assumption.

Even if it is, I just want to know how this world system works for those who are not from this world.

Do they have the same gifts and gifts as we, the people of this world? Or do they not have it because it is not recognized and considered to exist by gods in this world?

Whatever it is, I can't conclude anything right now.

It's better if I assume that Alice currently has adult thinking because if I consider her a reincarnator, it's just an empty assumption with no evidence at all.

"Well, forget about this."

Putting back the book I didn't open and read on the top shelf, I went back to sitting and leaning on the chair, my gaze re-focused on today's entry report.

"I'd rather mind my business than anyone else's."

Yeah, that's right.

Their business is their business, my business is my business.

Whatever it is, I don't want to interfere in a matter that's not my problem at all even though it's my friend Luna's problem.

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