Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machinart, Medical Department...
When Frey woke from her slumber, opened her eyes, and let the outside light enter them, restoring her vision, what appeared before her was a ceiling utterly unfamiliar to her.
Staring blankly at that unfamiliar ceiling, Frey took nearly a minute before her mind began working again. She tried to sort out her thoughts and determine her current situation.
However, after thinking for nearly another minute, Frey could only murmur blankly.
"Was I kidnapped...?"
"If you want to act stupid, wait until after you're discharged!"
The moment Frey's voice fell, an utterly impolite reprimand rang out from beside her.
Frey jumped and sprang upright. Then, a figure wearing a white lab coat over an office-lady-style professor's uniform, glasses on her face and an icy expression, entered her view. Frey froze and cried out in surprise.
"Professor Kimberly...?"
"You're awake?" Kimberly neither asked after her well-being nor showed the slightest concern for Frey's condition, at least not on the surface. "Can you remember what happened before you fell unconscious?"
Frey tilted her head, her face full of confusion. Furrowing her lovely brows, she strained every nerve as she desperately tried to think.
This time, Frey's mind began working properly. She did not space out.
And so, Frey remembered.
Before she had fallen unconscious, Wu Yan and Loki had been dueling!
Then something strange had happened to her body, causing her blood to flow backward and turn into magic power, sending Rabi berserk!
The moment she recalled everything that had happened before she lost consciousness, Frey panicked.
"Rabi! How is Rabi?!"
"Calm down!" Kimberly spoke in a terrifyingly calm voice and stepped aside.
"Your dog is right here!"
Only then did Frey clearly see her surroundings.
This was a place much like a hospital ward.