Supporting the unconscious Shade and holding him in her arms, the brown-haired girl carefully guided the water from the bottle into his mouth. Shade still retained his basic instincts and carefully swallowed the liquid, but even after the entire bottle was empty, he did not wake up.
"Meow~"
The orange cat circled Shade once, meowed anxiously twice, then jumped up and tried to paw at his pocket.
Miss Bayes froze.
"You..."
She immediately understood and took Shade's pocket watch from his pocket. Opening the cover, she found the last Youthful Immortality Leaf inside.
Though he could still swallow liquids, making Shade chew up the leaf himself in his current state would be far too difficult. And the relic's properties meant the leaf could not easily be squeezed for its juice by other means.
The young girl looked at Shade with a blush, then at the cat watching anxiously nearby. She reached out and stroked its head.
"Don't worry. I'll save him."
Her trembling hand covered her intact left eye. Then, blushing, she brought the leaf toward her mouth.
Hurried footsteps sounded downstairs again, and only then did Iluna realize she had forgotten to close the door.
Holding Shade, the Diviner with Purple Eyes turned around. Panting heavily, she appeared at the stairway entrance. She looked rushed, and when she saw Iluna kneeling in the room with the unconscious Shade in her arms and the cat squatting beside them, she too froze.
"Just now... that evil god was terrifying... My Divination Moon, and then I guessed it might be him... How is Shade?"
"You were actually able to look at the night sky just now?"
Miss Bayes had originally thought she was the only one who had witnessed that scene.
"My eyes are special. Don't talk about that now. How is