Dancing Circles on the Horizon of Events

After being contacted that the wise man had lost his mind, Catalina, who had completed her visit in the Wang capital, picked him up at the library and came back to the infirmary.

After finishing the treatment, and against a wise man who was simply asleep, Catalina asked Yuki, who was leaving a message, after sighing like a shudder.

"Has anyone come today?

Then Yuki, who looked deliciously cheeky with the spicy pancakes she had received as a souvenir from Catalina, drank everything in her mouth and then opened its mouth.

"Er, bravery (...) came in the morning, and I was putting electrical decorations on Leah."

"... strangely because of the brightness in the room..."

and Catalina, whose ceiling lights give a convincing look, seeing an unnaturally increasing number of

"Yes, and then Lady Waltz and Lucia came and applied the electrical decorations removed from Leah to the ceiling. So, then... Eve's here."

"Eve did? Did you get hurt?

"No, that's not it... the story says you accidentally swallowed the red balls that were in Dragon's room, right? So I came to see if you wanted me to test it, but even if I took a Lentgen, it didn't stay in my stomach..."

"... will you be all right?

"... me and sister null have no problem eating red balls... maybe"

…………

No problem, the subject was two demon kings, so as for Catalina, I seem to be worried the other way around...

"... When something happens, I think someone will notice and bring you... let's say it's a good thing about Eve"

Since there is nothing wrong with Eve's body at this time, it seems that she has decided not to think any deeper.

"How was the rest?

"None of you have come after that. Sometimes the door opens on its own."

"Really? It could be that the automatic door is malfunctioning."

"I'll ask Lady Atlas to fix it later"

and Katarina and Yuki, who gently flush stories about ghosts and other scary or irrelevant things, about automatic doors opening on their own.

Then Yuki asked Catalina.

"So... how was your visit?

At that moment,

…………

Catalina's expression gets cloudy.

"... is there a problem?

Yuki, who sensed something had happened from her expression, asked again...... Catalina lay down her eyes and beast ears and began to talk unfortunately.

"... people are bound to die one day more than they were given life by this world. And that's... that's something I can't do either."

"............... right"

and snorted Yuki, over 250.

Note that she, too, has been reincarnated several times into the body of Homunculus, so technically, she may be able to say that she is already dead.

"If you have a little injury or a slightly heavy cold, it's easy for me to heal you, too. But there's only one thing in a person's body that can't be cured."

"Something that can't be cured?

"... it's in a person's head, it's the brain"

"Brain......"

At that moment...... somehow Yuki looks at the wise man sleeping in bed.

Katarina seems to have figured out what the hell she's thinking,

"... we're not talking about the spirit, are we?

I uttered those words additionally.

Then the story of Catalina continues.

"Brain diseases...... especially strokes, etc., may be a good example. For example, in a disease called 'cerebral infarction', where clogged blood vessels in the head prevent oxygen from reaching brain cells, if the blood vessels remain clogged, the cells that make up the brain will be unable to breathe and eventually will die. And so the networks of neurons that store memories and experiences, and the glia cells that manage them, are lost at the same time, and even if we restore brain cells with cultured cells later, we can't restore them to their pre-morbid state."

Listen to that.

"Hmm... it was a bit too difficult for me, could you explain it a little more simply?

and with a difficult look on his face, against Catalina, Yuki, who opens up honestly.

Even as she studied medicine under Catalina, she did not seem to understand the story of modern medicine or biology, for whom she was still poorly informed.

To Yuki's words like that, Catalina didn't look disgusted... on the contrary, when she smiled small, she changed her way of saying it and mouthed a brief explanation.

"In short, the contents of a person's head are so complicated that words can't describe them that they can never be fixed."

"Oh yeah...... It's easy for you to say... even Catalina says it's difficult, so it must be unimaginably difficult..."

"Yes."

To Yuki's words, Catalina never gets lost.

To her like that, Yuki asked again.

"So what happened that was the king's capital..."

"... the blood vessels in the brain have caused the death of several older people... It's just that."

…………

I know what that word in Catalina means... but Yuki how I couldn't find a word to hang on her.

How does Catalina feel about being cured of any illness or injury by the patient's family… and how does she get treated when the family finds out they can't help the patient….

That, to Yuki, seems to have been clearly imagined.

Catalina, by contrast, also made Yuki find out what she had in mind and shut her mouth.

"... don't look so scared. Mr. Yuki, that's what Mr. Waltz advised me to do when I decided to go down this road. Let's save those who are supposed to die in nature's cooking, out of that rule… a genuine curse to accompany my self-satisfying behavior…. I knew it, and I decided I was ready to push my ego on people."

"That's in ego..."

"For the people to be saved, it certainly may not be ego. But for the families of people who can't save them, it's nothing unexpected. If you can't save me, don't do a doctor or anything from the start... But it's natural to be told. Because the inability to save people means nothing more than taking hope away from someone...... Even though I knew it would happen, I decided to take this path. 'Cause isn't that natural? He decided not to see it without saving someone he could save... because it's not what people do."

"Something... I can describe you as strong in heart... that's not the level of talking..."

"Yes. Talking about being strong or weak has nothing to do with a person's life or death. Because I only act solemnly in accordance with the basic rules for living as me."

That's what I say and make you laugh, Catalina.

Yuki couldn't gaze at her face like that... probably because only Yuki could tell, there was a special reason.

Then Catalina opened her mouth as she walked towards the large glass window that was in the infirmary, pointing her narrow gaze at Leah, who slept on the other side of it.

"The brave man seems to have been snagging into this windowsill again today...... Also, there is dirt on the glass…"

"I come here every day..."

"... Almost there"

"What?"

"No, it's nothing. Well, let's do some research today."

And, as usual, Catalina pins her red-haired beast ears before reaching her desk seat, which is likely to be buried in a pile of materials.

Yuki with pancakes, too, as if chasing him, sat on the seat beside Catalina… Today the two of them had begun to fight with massive amounts of data in order to establish a gene therapy to save Leah.