"Mm." Yōki answered when Mei called her name.
"How did you get your healing ability?"
"I'm not really sure. It seemed like I'd had it ever since I was old enough to remember. Hey—what are you doing...?"
After Yōki answered, she saw Mei take her own katana and slash her arm.
Blood immediately began to flow.
"Lord Mei, you..."
Yingcao was startled by Mei's actions as well. She hurriedly reached out to heal Mei, but Mei stopped her.
"Yōki..."
Mei had just been about to ask Yōki to heal her when, before she could finish speaking, Yōki stepped forward, gently took Mei's arm, and began using her ability to treat her.
Green light in Yōki's hand brushed over Mei's wound, and in the next moment... the cut on Mei's arm began to heal on its own.
In less than half a minute, it had recovered perfectly, without even the faintest trace of a scar.
"All right! It's fine now."
"How could you treat your body so carelessly? If a girl ends up with scars, that would be terrible. And... didn't it hurt?" Yōki withdrew her hand and looked at Mei's restored arm, her tone carrying a hint of reproach.
"Thank you..."
Mei looked at her arm. Yōki's healing ability was different from Yingcao's.
Yingcao's ability used the essence of life elements to heal others. It was a power that controlled vitality, so it was useful not only for treatment but also for healing wide areas.
In theory, she could even extract the life force of all plants and animals, turning her healing power into a terrifying ability that took lives.
When necessary, she could directly draw the life from plants and animals to heal and restore herself and her allies.
But it was not omnipotent... Against things like cancer cells,