“Saving someone.”
After performing one round of artificial respiration, Eileen wiped her mouth and placed both hands overlapping on Mia’s chest, pressing down repeatedly.
Lucen could barely stand to watch any longer.
How was this saving someone? This was clearly taking advantage of Mia!
“Miss Eileen, Lady Mia’s life is currently hanging in the balance. Why are you still committing such a filthy act!”
Eileen shot him a white-eyed glance. It seemed this world had zero awareness of first aid. How could saving a person count as taking advantage?
Besides, they were both girls. Where did taking advantage even come into it?
If anything, she was the one taking advantage of me!
“Miss Eileen, doing something like this really isn’t good…”
Atia was also getting anxious on the side.
If Eileen truly couldn’t hold back, she could have done it too. Why did she have to specifically choose Mia?
Was it just because she was an Upper-rank Mage?
Eileen couldn’t be bothered to explain to them. After repeating the previous steps several times, Mia first coughed violently, spat out all the water in her stomach, and then slowly opened her eyes.
“Where… am I…”
“Lady Mia, are you alright?!”
Lucen immediately crowded over, looking left and right as he tried to check whether Mia was injured.
Mia sat up and stretched out a hand to move it around a little.
The gentle breeze by the river, the clear birdsong, and that faint fragrance still lingering on her lips…
Everything was so real.
“I… didn’t die?”
“Lady Mia, you’re still alive! Don’t say such foolish things!”
Lucen was extremely excited.
If something had happened to Eileen, they would have been skewered into kebabs by Kate. If something had happened to Mia this time, they would have been beheaded in the street by the Duke as a public warning. Either way it was death.
Now that Mia was fine, it was equivalent to having their lives spared. How could he not be excited?
Mia lowered her head. She only felt a faint lingering pain in her chest.
Was this a normal reaction of the body after drowning?
“But I clearly remember I had already lost consciousness. I couldn’t even use teleportation magic…”
“It was Miss Eileen who saved you.”
Lucen explained.
Although he was indeed a little dissatisfied with this assignment, he had no choice but to admit that if Eileen hadn’t risked her life by jumping into the river to save Mia, the outcome wouldn’t have been as simple as just one mage dying.
As one of the backbone forces of the Navora Principality, if anything had happened to Mia, the Principality’s strength would have declined along with it. What if an enemy nation seized the opportunity to invade?
Mia, who specialized in teleportation magic, was an existence capable of deterring enemy nations. If any enemy nation made a move unfavorable to the Navora Principality, she could directly deliver the elite forces of the Knight Order to the enemy capital and strangle their schemes in the cradle.
Rather than saying Eileen had saved Mia, it would be more accurate to say Eileen had saved the peaceful development of the Principality for the next several decades.
“Eileen…”
Mia looked toward Eileen beside her, her eyes somewhat complicated.
Clearly her attitude toward Eileen along the entire journey had been so poor. Why had she still risked her life to save her?
She truly couldn’t understand it.
But what she understood even less was that she actually didn’t have the slightest problem.
“Lucen, do you know healing magic?”
Mia asked.
She was very certain she had severely drowned. If no one had used healing magic to treat her in time, even after waking up she would have suffered irreversible damage to her body.
Yet right now, aside from a bit of pain in her chest and a slight burning sensation on her lips, she felt no discomfort at all.
Lucen shook his head.
His main work in the Knight Order was researching various magical beasts. He was completely ignorant when it came to healing magic.
But if it wasn’t Lucen, then who else could it be?
It couldn’t be Declan, right?
He was just a warrior. Even less possible for him to use healing magic…
“Lady Mia, actually Miss Eileen she…”
Seeing the confused look on Mia’s face, Lucen still decided to tell her the truth.
After listening to Lucen’s words, Mia’s face flushed red in an instant, white smoke practically rising from the top of her head.
“Eileen, you you you… you actually took advantage of me while I was unconscious!”
Mia was both ashamed and furious.
No wonder she kept feeling pain in her chest and a burning sensation on her lips.
Eileen had risked her life to save her. She was very grateful.
But that was no reason for Eileen to take advantage of her while she was vulnerable!
Eileen looked completely speechless.
“I was saving you!”
“Saving me? Did you absolutely have to save me that way?!”
Mia questioned.
“Then how else was I supposed to save you?”
Eileen said, “After drowning, the lungs are completely full of water. Oxygen can’t get in at all. Aside from using this method to forcibly force air in, what other method is there? Come on, answer me. In a situation where no one knows healing magic, was this the only way to save your life?”
Mia was instantly left speechless.
It seemed…
She really was right.
“But… but why did you still have to touch my…”
“Touch you?”
Eileen’s gaze swept across that flat airport runway and nearly laughed out loud. “You don’t even have anything there. What exactly was I touching? That’s called cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Your heart had already stopped beating. Didn’t I need a bit of external force to pump the blood out? Otherwise how do you think you’re still able to stand here completely intact?”
Mia was thoroughly shut down by the retort.
What Eileen said was indeed correct, but why did she always feel as if Eileen was insulting her?
“Miss Mia, Miss Eileen is your life-saving benefactor. How can you speak to her with that kind of attitude?”
Atia had finally come to her senses as well.
Earlier she had still thought Eileen was taking advantage of the situation. Only now did she understand that everything Eileen had done was a measure she had been forced to take in order to save Mia.
After being scolded by Atia, Mia also realized her own attitude had indeed been improper and immediately apologized.
“I’m sorry, Miss Eileen. I was too agitated just now…”
“It’s fine. As long as you’re alright.”
Eileen didn’t mind much at all.
She didn’t care in the slightest about what kind of attitude Mia held toward her. The only thing she cared about was that if anything happened to Mia, she wouldn’t be able to explain it to Kate…
Yet it was precisely Eileen’s indifferent attitude that made Mia’s guilt deepen another degree.
Eileen had not only saved her, but hadn’t shown the slightest dissatisfaction toward all of her unreasonable behavior. Exactly what kind of powerful mindset did it take to be this free and easy?
“Since you’re fine now, go fetch some water and we’ll head back to the camp.”
Eileen stood up and said.
There was still half a day’s journey left. She didn’t want to delay too long.
“Miss Eileen!”
The moment Eileen took a step, Mia called her to a stop.
“What is it?”
Eileen didn’t understand.
What new trouble is this girl trying to stir up now?
Mia walked up to Eileen, stood on her tiptoes, and whispered softly by her ear, “That was my… first kiss. You have to take responsibility…”
[Side quest completed. Favorability limit for Mia Lees has been unlocked. Current favorability: 70 (Ordinary Friends)]
Ah this…
Eileen immediately froze.
Why is another capturable character appearing?
To be honest, if a white-haired, expressionless loli like Mia had appeared in the first playthrough, she would definitely have been listed as a highest-priority capture target.
But right now…
It was better not to add any more emotional debts.
The problems with her ex-girlfriends still hadn’t been resolved. If a few more current girlfriends appeared on top of that, was she afraid she wasn’t dying fast enough?
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