Chapter 83
A long sigh escaped me as I looked down at the crying woman. I remembered Lapia telling me not to become paranoid. I jumped to conclusions while angry and panicking.
I’m not going into the justifying rabbit-hole, I though, looking at the Lupum. A chuckle escaped me.
"Did I injure you?" I asked the Elf sitting on the floor.
She shook her head, and hiccuped while wiping snot and tears.
"Can you stand up?" I asked next.
In all honesty, I didn’t really had the time to care for a potentially level 900 person. I was just poisoned, and could have died. My priorities were less on the social morality and more on the primal survival aspect of things. I took a deep breath and tried to calm down.
She nodded and slowly stood up.
"Okay," I sighed. "Let’s go over what just happened so we can see where things went to shit. I’m assuming we’re both adults here."
She nodded and leaned back on the bathroom stall. She was looking at me with a great deal of caution. Something completely understandable, and something I would have appreciated from the start.
"I’ll go first," I said, replacing my armor with the summer dress I was wearing. "First, I was poisoned, most likely. I can’t really think of anything that can actually make me feel like that other than poison. Then, a little girl comes and offers me acid to ’fix the pain’, claiming someone else pushed her to it. Then, you show up," I gestured at her. "Claiming that the... objectively weaker woman did it. I’m being ’hunted’ by some weird group of people that I know close to nothing about. You, an unknown woman that had been staring at me for quite a while, showed up with incredibly convenient timing."
She frowned and nodded. Then, I continued.