Vanessa froze, a trace of bewilderment appearing on her face.
Naturally, she knew what an appendix was. Although Dorothea had attended the Medical School while Vanessa had been in the History Department, she had still received that much general education.
What bewildered her was how her appendix had ended up in the other woman's hand.
Wasn't stealing supposed to involve Dorothea slipping her hand into Vanessa's abdomen while she wasn't paying attention, finding her appendix and pulling it off, then withdrawing her hand without anyone noticing?
But now-
Vanessa looked at Dorothea, then at herself. They were at least five or six meters apart, and they hadn't gone anywhere near each other since the sacrifice ended.
You call this stealing?
Refusing to believe it, Vanessa lifted the hem of her clothes and felt her belly. The skin was smooth, without a single opening.
"And you say this isn't conceptual theft? Even conceptual theft isn't this outrageous!" Vanessa marveled, rubbing her belly.
"So how exactly did you do it? How can you take my appendix from a distance?"
"Well-there wasn't anything special to it. I felt like I could take something from you, so I tried, and then
I didn't know what to take. After thinking about it, I took your appendix-"
Dorothea had, after all, attended the Medical School. Thanks to Elsa's ample supply of corpses, her knowledge of the human body was extremely sol-
id, and she easily located Vanessa's appendix and swiped it.
"Wait, doesn't this need something to stop the bleeding? And I don't seem to feel any pain?"
Vanessa exclaimed in amazement.
"It probably doesn't-let me try."
"Don't!"
Vanessa shouted a little too late. A fingernail appeared in Dorothea's hand.
An entire fingernail.
Vanessa instantly grimaced-she hadn't actually felt any pain, but at that moment, pain