Chapter 57: Sharon Discovered the Truth
Inside an unfinished apartment building surrounded by green construction safety netting in the Third District of Beika Town.
The building was a project undertaken by Yukinoshita Construction, a well-known contractor from Chiba City, specifically to break into the Eastern Capital's construction industry. Its main structure and interior walls were already finished, bringing it to eighty percent completion.
However, due to some shady business maneuvering between construction companies, work on the apartment building had been temporarily suspended for reasons that could not be openly discussed.
Sharon Holly Grail had taken advantage of this lull to commandeer a room inside the building as her temporary base.
Leaning against a corner, Sharon unfastened the clothes she had stolen from someone's home. After treating her wounds with white gauze and medicine, she opened the medical case beside her, utterly exhausted in both body and mind.
Click.
The case opened, revealing a total of twenty test tubes filled with liquids of various colors.
She drank the differently colored potions one tube at a time. As they reached her stomach, her gunshot wounds began healing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Some of these potions healed injuries, some restored stamina, and others removed abnormal mental conditions. Varied and exceptionally potent, they were alchemical potions specially made by commander-class hunters of the Demon Hunters.
Soon, aside from her still somewhat pale complexion, the wounds wrapped in white gauze had healed, and even her stamina had recovered to eighty percent.
The price was half her stock of potions, while the special gauze wrapped around her body had turned from white to grayish white.
"Heh, with effects like these, those potion makers in the organization aren't half bad!"
Sharon moved her arms and assessed her condition, confirming that she had largely