(Chapter 45) A Theory

Astrid did roam the city for a little while. Unlike the other people around her age who were doing the same, she was doing personal investigations on some prime spots in the city.

After seeing what she wanted, she sent a message over to her father. As she went over to a cafe to get some food.

"How dare you cheat on me! You say all this business about marriage and whatnot then go out and kiss her!?" In this local cafe, Astrid was prone to listening to an argument.

It was a typical situation. Man says he loves his girlfriend so much he gave her a lot of love. But within a few months, he had gotten sick of her attitude. Something she was showing today.

The man didn't respond. He just stood up and left, this wasn't the first time she was trying to embarrass him in public. Just because he couldn't afford to buy her a ring a few months ago she had stormed out of the store. Of course, it was the man's fault in that situation, even though the woman knew that he had just paid their bills. And was living quite tight at that moment...

The manager 'invited' the woman out of the cafe, she didn't cause any more problems after seeing her boyfriend walkout. While Astrid was now digging into her food.

Sure, the soup and sandwich were nice, but she was still hungry. Not only was she growing, but she also was exercising quite bit now. So she was left quite unsatisfied.

She walked out the cafe and went to the place her father said he was waiting for her at. It was a supermarket, hence it was easy to spot the car in the car park.

"How were they?" Mr. Tuhs knew his daughter went to some interviews today. He hadn't heard anything from Stephan since he had some work to do...

"Pretty good, not many spies and for a startup, the talent is there." Astrid replied, she had purposefully targeted talented people but couldn't get into a higher position, also people who were quite talented but didn't have the credentials needed.

She had purposefully organized the people who she was interested in to be interviewed in one day. While the others would be cleaned up by Wu, or even her father.

Mr. Tuhs nodded. "Your mother wants you to go to the hospital after eating." Mr. Tuhs was still in a bad mood after yesterday. He got news that someone had poisoned his daughter! How dare they under his nose.

But he also heard that helped out Astrid a little. Helping her bodily functions. He didn't ask any questions in fear his wife would beat him...

"The maid isn't connected to our enemies. She's just someone who was used. Her brother was reported to be killed. But she was sent his photo and the poison a few months ago. Along with a note to try and poison someone from our household. My guess is that it is someone from low in the food chain, trying to get ransom but it didn't want it connecting it back to them." Astrid explained her thoughts. Of course she had found out that from the maid. After some... Questioning.

Mr. Tuhs grunted in response, whatever his daughter said he would believe immediately. He was going to hand everything to her after all...

.......

"I believe that your daughter has menorrhagia. Heavy menstrual cycles can be extremely painful, how long have you had this pain for?" The doctor spoke to both Mrs. Tuhs and Astrid.

Astrid thought back. "Around 4 months." She responded in a casual tone, she ignored the doctor's sudden serious look.

"4 months? Mmm, I'll give you something to stop the occurrence for now. But be sure to report back if it occurs again." The female doctor was extremely surprised. How could a teenage girl stand that type of intense pain for so long without saying anything?

After Mrs. Tuhs was given some packages to help Astrid they went home. Mrs. Tuhs wasn't very happy. 4 Months! Her daughter had been experiencing bad cramps for 4 months. When she was her age, she did struggle with cramp. But it slowly eased... But she remembered the pain.

But Mrs. Tuhs could tell that Astrid didn't feel the pain from it. Despite her being weak when poisoned, she showed no signs of being hurt in any way. So was it something else?

As Mrs. Tuhs brooded, Astrid took out a breakfast bar from her pocket and started to eat.

.......

Astrid had been using the gym quite often. Although she wouldn't need to teach herself any fight techniques, she still needed her body to be strong enough for it.

But as she exercised. She slowly realized something. Winoa had been doing exercises for longer than her. And Astrid's body was naturally weak.

So why was she able to effortlessly surpass her in terms of strength? What was the inhumane jump in strength? Although her body didn't change much, she could lift weights that even grown men would struggle with. It wasn't natural.

She then started to experiment, she worked her body to the bone in some days during the holiday. And then after a week of doing nothing but slacking, she tried to do the same workout.

Not only could she do it, but she was able to do more! She went from sleeping 12 hours after doing a marathon, a deadlift, and 30 reps of 100. To a 20% increase of that...

So here Astrid was now, searching up other experiences like hers. But it was unscientific. It just wasn't possible for her to do what she was doing.

Astrid then thought about her 'illness'. She would feel awful if she didn't have that 'soup'. Although she couldn't be entirely sure, she was certain that an ingredient in the soup was blood.

She was stuck in her thoughts for a while. She then decided to she would need to do more than theorize for now. She felt that her 'illness' was in the middle for a lot of things...