Chapter 17: First Aid
The second layer of the Divine Thief's Manuscript was nothing lile the first. It literally was a cultivation art from the myths. The first layer was about setting up the state, and the second layer was about using the perfect state to absorb the energy of the earth.
Suddenly, the eyes disappeared and the glove turned to dust. Red returned to his room. He looked at the remains of the glove and wondered what its origins were. After looking it up, it turned out that it was a family heirloom of the Dutch colonizer.
"Was the dutch colonizer a descendant of this Divine Thief?" Red wondered. However, he stopped thinking about it and began absorbing the energy in the air using the second layer of the manuscript.
Red felt an extremely tiny stream of energy enter his body through seven points in his body, but it was almost invisible. The energy simply entered the body and then disappeared. Red wasn't exactly sure what was happening, it felt like the energy was probably absorbed by the cells in his body.
"The energy in the world is too thin!" Red lamented. It would take him a long time to be able to absorb energy. "I need to look for places where the mysterious energy is more resplendent."
However, he spent the entire night absorbing energy. He was shocked to find that he didn't need to sleep at all and simply absorbing energy was enough to energize him. However, the effect was very small.
The next day the entire city of Tokyo was buzzing. A huge heist happened at the Imperial Palace Museum, breaking major security protocols. Class 2 - C was even more shocked as many of the students had just yesterday visited the museum.
"We were just there yesterday!"
"They haven't mentioned what was stolen, but what were the odds!"
"Luckily nothing happened when we went to visit."
However, while the class was going rowdy, Rin was quiet. She seemed to be deep in thought. Yui looked at Rin.
"What happened to you?" Yui asked.
Rin shook her head with a dejected look. "No.. Nothing happened. I just feel lost."
Yui didn't know how to respond to that. Rin sneaked a glance at Aito and then sighed.
"Do you have feelings for Aito?" Yui asked.
"I don't know... it is too sudden. I need time to think." She said.
At that time Red entered the class and took his seat. Some guys came to Red. "Brother, you didn't reply in the chat yesterday. Did you hear what happened at the museum?"
"What happened?" Red asked in surprise.
"There was a great heist at the museum. It is said that there were at least two thieves. One has been caught, while a woman has disappeared with some items." The boys spoke up in a hurry.
"Huh? That's really crazy! Luckily nothing happened while we were there." Red replied.
"We were thinking the same thing."
After some time the boys dispersed and Red turned to find Rin looking depressed. He flicked her forehead.
Rin was stunned and held her forehead in pain. "Why are you sighing and moping so much?" Red asked with a smile.
"I..." Rin's voice trailed off.
"Well, you don't have to tell me. Whatever it is, you'll be fine. Don't be such a worry wort, enjoy your life!" Red said.
Meanwhile, the female thief Lupa was on the run. After her heist was ruined by the muscular bastard who tried to go off as a thief, she hastily retreated and tried to trade the item to her contractor only to be told that it was a fake! Since then, both the contractor and the cops were trying to kill her! She had survived three assassination attempts in a single night and was terribly exhausted already.
She was heavily wounded and had severe injuries and was near death. Somehow, she crawled into a school building at the open of dawn and hid inside the Art room's closet.
After the end of school, Red entered the Art room for the club, but discovered that today's club was cancelled, because many of the senior students had an exam. Red thought he would practice drawing anyway.
He closed the Art room door and walked towards the cabinet, opening it to find a beautiful woman nearly unconscious and heavily injured, on the brink of death.
The woman saw Red and was stunned, but she was too weak to react. Red simply shook his head. "You are heavily injured, let me get some first aid kits to clean up your wounds. You've bloodied the cabinet." He said with a frown.
Soon he came back with several first aid kits from the infirmary and locked the arts room door. "Can you move?" Red asked. The woman weakly shook her head.
Red sighed and lifted her out of the closet in a princess carry and then laid her on the floor. "Two deep knife wounds, one bullet hole. Are you a criminal?" Red asked, but without waiting for her to reply, he quickly began treating the wounds. He clasped her mouth shut as he took out the bullet carefully, and then stitched up her wounds while pouring alcohol on the wounds.
He then took off the medical robe he had stolen from the infirmary and wrapped the woman's wounds with tape. The woman had fallen unconscious from the pain of stitches, and Red let her rest. He cleaned up the entire room with formaldehyde, ensuring that no blood stains or remains were left behind.
When the woman woke up, the sky had turned dark. She saw that the art room was completely clean and not bloodied like before and the person who saved her, a young caucasian boy, was quietly sitting and drawing.
"Your awake? Here, I got some food for you." Red gave her a couple of ready made bentos he bought from the conbini. The woman nodded, and began eating.
She almost gagged from eating the Japanese food, but her hunger won over and she gorged on it all quickly.
She looked at the boy who had continued to ignore her and draw. "Who are you?" She asked intimidatingly.
Red rolled his eyes at her attempt at being stern. "I'm an exchange student. Anyway, you are fine now, you should be able to leave."
The woman suddenly sighed. "The entire city is in lockdown, I have no way to leave the city. Let me stay at your place." She suddenly said.
"You aren't polite at all." Red replied. "Very well. Go to this address. You should be able to sneak in without anyone noticing. I'll come later. I'll have to purchase some groceries." He sighed.
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