(Hard enough getting past the Guardian Ape, and now I'm stuck on Father. As expected, suffering is the essence of this game.)
"Come to think of it, Bai Ye, what was that medicine you gave me in the ruins of Chernobog's Fourteenth District? Was it also some kind of frostbite medicine?"
FrostNova suddenly recalled what Bai Ye had given her to drink underground after the ground collapsed that day.
It had been the most delicious thing she had ever drunk. Though it was cloyingly sweet, it had been wonderfully warm. Since awakening her Originium Arts, it was the first time she had felt such warmth.
The warm current flowing into her stomach had seemed to course through her entire body, even suppressing the chill within her.
Even though Rhodes Island's treatment had greatly improved her condition and she no longer felt so cold, she still deeply missed that sensation.
Bai Ye was briefly stunned before realization dawned on him.
"You mean Holy Water... If you call it medicine... I suppose that works?"
As he spoke, a glass bottle appeared in Bai Ye's hand as if by magic.
"But it isn't frostbite medicine. You can think of it as a healing potion." Bai Ye handed the bottle to FrostNova as he spoke.
"It doesn't feel warm when I hold it, so why does it feel so warm when I drink it?" FrostNova asked in confusion.
"Because the raw material used to make this potion is light."
Bai Ye opened his palm, and a sphere of light appeared above it.
"It looks a lot like Nearl's Arts." Amiya smiled as she looked at the holy light in Bai Ye's palm.
"Oh, right, I made this bottle afterward, so it might taste a little different from the one you drank last time." Bai