Chapter 3 - 1st Mission
I woke up to the worst pain I had ever felt in my life.
’Holy shit,’ I thought, trying to figure out what was wrong with me. ’Everything hurts.’
My ribs felt like someone had kicked them repeatedly. My left arm was wrapped up in some kind of cast, and there was this throbbing pain in my head that made me want to throw up. I tried to move and immediately regretted it.
’Guess the goddess didn’t bother fixing my body when she sent me back,’ I realized. ’She just shoved my soul back into this broken mess.’
I was lying there trying to figure out how badly I was hurt when I noticed something weird. There was someone sleeping in the chair next to my bed. Their head was resting on my mattress, using it like a pillow.
It was Nina.
I blinked a few times, thinking maybe I was hallucinating from the pain medication or something. But nope, she was definitely there. Blonde hair spread out across the white hospital sheets, still wearing her school uniform.
’What the hell is she doing here?’ I thought.
I looked at the clock on the wall. It was 2:15 in the afternoon. On a Wednesday. Shouldn’t she be in class right now?
’Did she skip school to sit here while I was unconscious?’
That seemed crazy. We had never even had a real conversation before. I knew her name, she apparently knew mine, but that was about it. Why would she care enough to miss school and sit in an uncomfortable hospital chair?