[Side Story] Barren Lands of Winter Surgence (7)

"Ah, Sanke!" Lier cried out. "Help me out here, will you?! Nicole suddenly became like this and..."

"Please... Don't call... me a monster..." Nicole whimpered. "Papa... Mama..."

"Urk... This is...?" Sanke questioned as he scrutinized Nicole's shaky body. Soon after, he turned towards Lier. "What caused this?"

"I don't know..." Lier muttered out. "She started acting like this when... When I saw what's hidden below her bandages..."

"Her wounds? Did it get worse?" at the realization of Lier's words, Sanke hurriedly turned around and locked eyes onto the luggage area. In the next moment, he began to scurry over towards the area.

"Sanke, wait!" However, just before he did so, Lier tightly held onto Sanke's hand, preventing him from moving away. "It's not that her wounds worsened... It's that it disappeared entirely."