Chapter 497: The lucky person is you.
"Is this the note... it's so beautiful." The girl with short coffee-colored hair looked at Hewinia, who was lying naked on the bed, and couldn't help asking, "Can I touch it? Just a little touch."
Before Hewinia could answer, the mature woman who just entered the room immediately approached and gave the short-haired girl a knock on the head.
"Don't be mischievous, Ju." Ina said to Ju in an exasperated tone, and then looked at Hewinia, "How are you feeling, Miss Nia?"
Hewinia nodded. Although her tone was still very weak, it was indeed better than when she had just woken up yesterday.
If she was barely hanging by a thread now, then yesterday, it felt like she was only clinging to half a life.
"I'm really sorry, Miss Nia." Ina said, "I don't have any good methods for your injuries... or rather, all of Lyra doesn't. You should know, Lyra is not skilled in medical arts."
"Yes." Ju agreed on the side, "In the past, when we got sick, we'd just fill up on Source Oil directly."
Ina gave Ju a side glance, but didn't deny it.
"It's okay." Hewinia shook her head, "The issues with my body aren't something that simple healing magic can cure."
"Indeed, your injuries are very severe." Ina said, "When I first received you, I even thought the person sending the letter was playing a joke, because at that time you were simply just a mass of, um..."
Ina hesitated, and Hewinia helpfully added.
"Rotten flesh."
"It seems you're very aware of your condition." Ina laughed, "Yes, if it weren't for the fact that you still had a heartbeat, it would be hard for me to believe you were alive, but..."
Ina's gaze moved to Hewinia's bare back.
The notes made from the score were rapidly functioning, continually releasing magic power that was repairing this body.
But the body itself was still decaying.
However, the speed of the repair exceeded the speed of the decay, putting this body in a slow recovery state in a rather bizarre way.
An ordinary person would probably scream at the sight of this.
But Ina had once fought against the creations of the Evil God in the Pollution Zone, so her tolerance was much higher than ordinary people's.
Thus, she would only marvel, thinking it was indeed the power from the gods.
But what Ina didn't know was that the power keeping Hewinia alive was not just the Seven Notes.
When Hewinia just woke up, she could already feel there was a bone in her body that didn't belong to her.
That bone was continuously emitting power, greatly strengthening the Seven Notes on her, maintaining her life, just like Cesar once did.
Undoubtedly, that bone belonged to Bai Wei.
In order to keep her alive, Bai Wei placed the bone he took back from Cesar onto her.
And that wasn't all.
The notes and scores she had now were also given by Bai Wei, because her own had already been destroyed in the finale and could never be recovered.
In other words, Bai Wei left her everything except for her ears and the body without notes.
Given to her, who had no use for them.
Hewinia gently closed her eyes, her slightly trembling eyelashes revealing her current state of mind.
"Miss Ina, you really didn't see the person who sent the letter?" Hewinia asked.
"You've asked me this many times, haven't you?" Ina gently rubbed Hewinia's hair, "When I arrived after receiving the letter, you were the only one there. Honestly, I don't even know who the person who sent the letter is. I only know he was very close to my father and could talk about many things that only my father and I knew, and..."
Ina paused, then turned her head to look outside.
The Order Sword still stood tall above Lyra.
She had received a message from the Order Sword.
But there was no need to tell Hewinia about this.
"In any case, thank you, Miss Ina." Hewinia opened her eyes and earnestly said to Ina, "I will repay you all."
Ina smiled and said, "There's no need to say that for now. After all, we're the same kind of people."
"The same kind of people?"
"Yes." Ina said softly, "We're all lucky ones living under the protection of others."
From Ina's tone, Hewinia heard the unmistakable regret and sorrow, and wisely asked no more, simply thanking her once again.
Afterward, Ina sent Ju away, and when they were alone, she spoke again: "Do you have any plans afterward? If not, I suggest you don't leave Lyra. I've heard a bit about the situation on the Holy Sound side; many people are looking for you, right? Although Lyra is not what it used to be, it can still provide a place for you to live incognito."
"...I'm sorry, Miss Ina." Hewinia shook her head and softly said, "I can't do that."
"Are you afraid of burdening us?"
"Yes, but that's not all."
Hewinia nodded slightly, then looked out the window, where the sunlight, untouched by wind and snow, warmly shone on her face, reminding her of something Bai Wei had said to her long ago.
"Perhaps only when the warm breeze, without any trace of ice and snow, blows across your face will you truly understand what I'm saying."