"I don't recommend going. Or you should get treated first. I promise, I'll be quick."
Miao Mu watched Brucie put on her mechanical exoskeleton and tried to stop her, but... it seemed useless.
"Doctor, your treatment can wait. I really have something urgent to do."
Brucie braced herself against her wheelchair with both hands and used all her strength to stand. Her unsteady posture made Miao Mu worry.
"You're... forcing yourself?" Miao Mu hurried over and caught Brucie before she fell. "How far do you think you can walk?"
"None of your business." Brucie grabbed the assembled mechanical exoskeleton in front of her. Holding it as though she were pulling herself up on a horizontal bar, she hauled herself over and landed sprawled across the table.
After fastening the controller around her neck, the mechanical exoskeleton began to exert force and lifted Brucie to her feet. She laboriously secured her feet to the exoskeleton's braces, then paused.
"I'm grateful for your help, but... ah!!!"
Brucie suddenly felt a sharp pain in her waist. Her injured spine was forcibly squeezed back together, and the agony made her scream as she instinctively turned and kicked.
When Mrs. Alfred, who was in the kitchen, heard her mistress scream, she snatched up the cleaver from the counter and rushed out.
Miao Mu raised an arm and took Brucie's kick head-on. The mechanical exoskeleton slammed against his armored bracer, producing a metallic clang.
"See? Your attack is pretty weak." Miao Mu shook his arm and knocked Brucie's leg aside.
Though the mechanical exoskeleton enhanced her strength, she was probably not even using twenty percent of its potential.
"You..." Brucie was a little angry, though the pain in her waist was tormenting her nerves even more.
"To be honest, I don't want this world to be