Chapter 84
Early in the morning, Ivona woke up to dim light seeping into the cave from the direction of the cave entrance. But the area where Ivona and Michelle were was way too deep for the light from the entrance to reach, so there was a high probability that a crack or another source of light was somewhere in the pathway leading from the entrance to the wider part where the two girls were.
Michelle was already long awake and she had noticed the strangeness in the light the moment it appeared, but she didn’t go investigate it. In the past, she used to do things on her own, but at the moment, she was with a friend, so she had to get used to doing things together. In the future, she couldn’t just ditch her teammates and go away on her own. That would be scummy.
"How are you feeling?" Michelle asked when she saw Ivona stretching her body.
It was clear that Ivona was aware that she must have been poisoned, as her body was a bit stiff and aching. "Did you save me?" she asked as she stared at Michelle. "I didn’t know you were skilled with poisons?"
Michelle just shrugged. "I didn’t save you. That poison wouldn’t have killed you even if you had more of it in your blood. You would just have been paralyzed for a while."
That made Ivona arch a brow. "So you are skilled with poisons!"
"You could say so..." Michelle nodded a bit. In the end, poison mastery and medicine were quite similar in the world she was in, so with her knowledge from her old world, she knew things others didn’t know, and thus could easily create both poisons and medicines based on the principles of the world she was in by combining them with the principles of her old world.
Ivona frowned when she heard that. "How come a Lady such as yourself can use poison like it’s nothing?" she asked. "How come you changed so much after ’losing’ your memories?" she added. She was curious about the things she had asked the day before that Michelle hadn’t answered.
Michelle didn’t feel like explaining herself, but she knew that Ivona had long suspected her, so she would demand some kind of explanation. If she didn’t get it, or at least a reason as to why she couldn’t get it, how could she trust Michelle as a friend in the future?