Chapter 220: One hundred and sixty-two: Recuperation (3)
"Mr. Mischael, your leg has improved significantly, but you have been injured four times in the past year, and I must warn you, even if you are a Transcendent, sustaining injuries to your leg so frequently is extremely irresponsible of you," said the esteemed Lady Myem, a doctor at the Benevolent Church Hospital, looking at Mischael.
The latter sat in a wheelchair, smiling like a child in the early summer morning sun, "Madam, I had no idea the horse would be so unruly."
Of course, that was merely the excuse for the public, the last three leg injuries were all from assassination attempts, staged in public to divert suspicion. The first of those injuries had particularly irritated Mischael... It was from a duel with Malin Gaiate, and the outcome had been rather unpleasant. But more importantly, according to recent intelligence, Mischael had come to realize that he no longer stood a certain chance of defeating that lad—having pulled his girl out of the cracks in multiple timelines, Malin had become the highest echelon of dream lover in the eyes of the girls in Carterburg, with even his own sister saying that Malin’s only shortcoming was not being as tall as Jason, whom she preferred for his height.
Ha-ha, the foolish girl, Malin had started growing already. Perhaps in a few years, you will think Jason looks short next to Malin.
That being said, Malin was truly strong. Pulling someone out of a crevice was something Mischael wasn’t even sure he could have managed. And upon seeing the two branches on the young man’s arm, his only thought was that the lad had not only solved his sister’s issue but seemed to have resolved even his own.
Otherwise, where would this World Tree Sapling have come from? It’s not like the Nameless of this world decided to grant him another one.
So the only explanation was that Malin had traveled through the crevice to another world, solved his sister’s issue, and then obtained the World Tree Sapling from his other self in that world.
Yes, obtained, because it couldn’t have been taken by force. Only the virtuous are qualified to possess the World Tree Sapling. It wasn’t possible for Malin to kill his other self and snatch it, as doing so would result in the loss of his own sapling as well.