A late-night conversation

After a long-awaited peaceful sleep, Bai Mo heard a faint sound beside her ear.

"Lord, please hear my prayer..."

"I am the guilty one. If there is to be judgment, it should be on my soul. Please do not take it away, Lord, I beg you..."

Bai Mo opened his eyes and saw Caren, dressed in a nun's habit, kneeling and praying beside his bed. He got up and looked out the window. It was already dark. Caren's eyes were bloodshot, clearly indicating that she hadn't had a good rest in a long time.

"Caren, thank goodness it was you. How long have I been asleep?"

I brought you here yesterday at noon, and it's three in the morning now.

Bai Mo sat up, a sharp pain shooting through his wounds, which were tightly bandaged. Bai Mo asked, "You treated them? Very well." The wounds needed time to heal, and this treatment was indeed necessary.

While examining the wounds, Caren quietly pulled Bai Mo into her arms, hugging him tightly, and sobbed slightly, "You scared me to death! I thought... you'd been... done to you by that witch..."

Seemingly startled by Caren's behavior, Bai Mo stroked her long, silvery-white hair, comforting the child who should have been spending her youth at school. Caren not only inherited Kirei Kotomine's sadistic nature, but she also possessed the kindness from her mother. Perhaps in ordinary times, Caren didn't show much respect when speaking to Bai Mo.

However, these were mostly feelings she didn't know how to express. Caren regarded this complete stranger who had genuinely helped her as the only person she could rely on in the world. When she saw Bai Mo severely injured by the Giant Shark, she realized how terrible it was to lose the only person in the world who truly treated her well.

Bai Mo carried Caren to the bed. Her legs were numb. Ever since Bai Mo was brought to this room and bandaged, she hadn't eaten or drunk anything and had been kneeling and praying the whole time. That was the only thing she could do.

Bai Mo massaged her legs, and the muscles quickly returned to normal under the Magnetic Field Power.

"What a convenient ability! Is there anything you can't do?" Caren stretched her legs and asked.

"More than you think."

"And you still got all messed up like that? I was only gone for ten minutes, and you looked like you'd been eaten by a shark."

Bai Mo shook his head helplessly. Who knew this would happen? He sighed, "There are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding."

At the same time, he shattered the slight pride that had arisen in his heart since he obtained 250,000 units of power. He carefully felt the scars on his body. The power of the strongest was still beyond his reach. He must always be humble.

Bai Mo stood up, the door opened and closed, and he brought two bowls of porridge to the bedside, handing them to Caren. As Caren drank the porridge, Bai Mo asked, "Has anything happened outside?"

"Yes, the woman you were in charge of has woken up."

Bai Mo didn't want to know these things. He was wondering if the system would take some action while he was asleep. Fortunately, it seems there haven't been any major actions so far. The biggest news is that the patient has woken up.

Caren, while drinking porridge to replenish her strength, replied, "That woman, as soon as she woke up, started self-harming, causing chaos at the hospital. The doctors said she's connected to the serial murder case from a year ago; she tries to kill as soon as she wakes up."

"She didn't do this."

"Go tell those gossipy nurses that you went into her room, she woke up, and then I found you covered in injuries, and nobody was around. Guess what the police will think?"

Bai Mo sighed. It seemed he would have to explain things properly to the people at the hospital.

Caren finished her porridge and seemed a little sleepy. She lay down, still holding Bai Mo's hand, and murmured as she looked at the ceiling, "Why did you bring me out back then?"

Do you need a reason to help others? You just happened to be in front of me, and I just happened to have the ability to help you, that's all.

"I see..." Caren grasped Bai Mo's wrist, looking at the hospital ceiling. This life was something she could never have imagined when she was in Church. She turned her head and said to Bai Mo with some seriousness.

"I won't let you fall into Hell. Even if I'm the one who goes to Hell, I'll send you to heaven."

The young nun's eyes were filled with determination as she made her vow. Bai Mo turned off the light for her and said, "Forget it, otherwise I'd have to go to Hell and bring you out again."

Leaving Caren's room, Bai Mo walked down the dark corridor. For some reason, the corridor gave Bai Mo a chilling feeling, as if a zombie might crawl out from around the corner at any moment, just like the corner in front of Bai Mo right now.

A shadow appeared around the corner, accompanied by the sound of footsteps.

"Hi, it's Fran. Did Mr. Bai Mo miss me?"

To be honest, after seeing the Giant Shark, even Fran's thing looks somewhat more pleasing to the eye.

"Have you ever gone more than twenty-four hours without showing up in front of me?" Bai Mo remained expressionless, but Fran didn't seem to care. She turned and walked away, beckoning Bai Mo with her slender hand behind her and saying.

"Really? But I clearly felt your soul disappear for a while, about ten minutes. It really worried me. If you had just vanished like that, my unreasonable ancestor would have given me a hard time. But I'll give this world a hard time too."

She tilted her head back and looked at Bai Mo, saying, "I know quite a few things, you know. Come for a walk with me and I'll tell you. Oh, you can read minds if you want, but you don't like reading other people's minds, do you? After all, we have quite a few differences in our understanding of art."

"It's not just a difference of opinion on art, but walking a bit means you don't have to look at all that nauseating stuff in your head, it's a good deal." Bai Mo and Fran strolled down the hospital corridor, like friends going for a late-night walk.

Reaching the stairs, Fran sat on the escalator and said, "Actually, that Holy Grail in Fuyuki contains another Heroic Spirit."

"I can sense that disgusting Holy Grail is conscious, but what does it matter?"

"Impatient men will displease ladies. That Heroic Spirit was named Angra Mainyu, an Avenger, so weak he could be crushed with a flick of his wrist, yet he was the one who corrupted the Holy Grail. That's right, the Holy Grail was already corrupted, so Miss Fran is completely innocent!"

"I have no interest in hearing about your past evil plans. If you waste my time again, I'll choose a more efficient way," Bai Mo warned Fran, his brow furrowed.

"Alright, alright, that Angra Mainyu, I molded him like clay into the core of my Magecraft, so he can no longer be called Heroic Spirit. Then, when that red-haired gorilla dragged me to my Reality Marble, my connection with Angra Mainyu was severed. He wasn't destroyed, but... disappeared, just like he was originally an illusion."

Francesca jumped off the armrest, pointing to her head with both fingers, and said, "And another thing, it seems like someone read my mind before. How disgusting, reading a girl's secrets so brazenly. I only allow Bai Mo to treat me like that."

Bai Mo, lost in thought, asked, "That's all?"

Fran sat on the hospital windowsill, the evening breeze blowing through her silver hair, the moonlight reflecting off the ends, clear and beautiful, like a beauty stepping out of a painting.

"That's all. This is purely my personal opinion. After all, if I added my own thoughts, wouldn't that be misleading?"

Bai Mo sighed inwardly. He could sense that there wasn't a single lie in Fran's words, but that only made things worse, meaning that the waters might be so deep that even this madwoman hesitated to approach.

"Do you find my behavior a little unusual? It's normal, after all..." Fran tilted his head, his purple eyes gazing at Bai Mo with a captivating look.

"You're my prey, you know. There's a limit to how much you can anger people if someone else touches you. Therefore, before dealing with that unknown monster, I'll tempt you into corruption while simultaneously offering you assistance."

Fran spread his arms, his eyes gleaming with an eerie and alluring light in the night.

"Ah, instead of that, how about trying something here? The hospital at night has a unique kind of excitement. You're a doctor here now, right? Shall I change into a nurse's uniform?"

The next moment, Fran was kicked off the building through the window by Bai Mo, making a dull thud on the concrete road.