Watching as Fang Li handed over the pregnant woman, Yomokawa Ayame instinctively supported the woman in her arms.
Meanwhile, Konochi Kurusu and Araka Kibito looked at the unconscious pregnant woman with furrowed brows, their eyes filled with suspicion as they glanced at Fang Li.
There was no helping it. Fang Li’s position was already not particularly favorable among them, and now he brought a woman from Aragane Station who inexplicably fell into a stupor. Anyone would suspect that Fang Li had done something.
If there were other samurai or civilians present, this situation would have already escalated into a major disturbance.
Perhaps it was because Fang Li knew this, that he deliberately avoided others and brought the pregnant woman here to hand her over to Yomokawa Ayame and the others.
Then, Fang Li uttered these words before leaving:
“When she wakes up, tell her to have peace of mind and give birth to the child in her womb without worrying about anything else.”
Leaving behind this statement, Fang Li didn’t give Yomokawa Ayame and the entire group time to react. He turned around directly and walked back into the forest.
Yomokawa Ayame, Konochi Kurusu, and Araka Kibito looked at each other in confusion, unsure of how to respond.
…
On the other side, Fang Li walked into the forest and he immediately stopped in his tracks.
In front of him, a figure appeared silently, with a pair of amber-colored eyes staring straight at Fang Li, never looking away.
Seeing this, Fang Li raised an eyebrow and spoke, “You saw it all?”
Without answering Fang Li’s question, Mumei asked back, “That person is the Kabane I sensed on Hayajiro Train, right?”
“What?” Fang Li blinked and asked with an unfathomable expression on his face. “How could that person be a Kabane?”
“Don’t try to deceive me.” Mumei walked up to Fang Li, bringing her cute, charming face close to his as her amber eyes fixed on him as if trying to see through his heart.
She said, “That pregnant woman must have been bitten by a Kabane and is turning into one. That’s why I sometimes sense the aura of Kabane from her on Hayajiro Train and sometimes I don’t.”
“Is that so?” Fang Li couldn’t hide it any longer and couldn’t help but smile wryly, spreading his hands. “But you don’t have to worry now. That person won’t turn into a Kabane.”
Being bitten by a Kabane and not turning into one. If anyone else heard this statement, they would undoubtedly refute it vehemently, leaving anyone speechless.
In this world, when someone is bitten by a Kabane, even if they miraculously survive, they will gradually transform into a Kabane after the Hide period.
That has become common knowledge in this world.
No one can escape being bitten by a Kabane and remain safe and sound.
Not even Ikoma, who could prevent the virus from invading his brain, still ended up transforming into a Kabaneri and this hybrid transformation was by no means considered safe and sound.
Therefore, after uttering these words, Fang Li was still thinking about how to explain it to Mumei.
However, unexpectedly, Mumei didn’t pursue further questions. After a moment of silence, she suddenly spoke the following line.
“Does it have anything to do with what you did in the forest?”
Fang Li couldn’t say a word after hearing Mumei. Looking at Mumei’s eyes, Fang Li spoke with a helpless smile on his face, “You saw it all, didn’t you?”
Mumei didn’t answer, which can be considered as an acknowledgment.
In other words, from the beginning, Mumei had been following Fang Li.
Naturally, Mumei must have seen everything.
She saw that when they were in the forest, Fang Li ambushed the pregnant woman from behind and stabbed her.
“I don’t know how you did it, but your strike can penetrate even the heart’s skin membrane of a Kabane. So when I saw you stabbing that person, I thought she was as good as dead. Who would have known that she only fainted, and according to what you said, she won’t turn into a Kabane anymore.”
Mumei’s gaze toward Fang Li was no longer the same as before, and it was only filled with pure curiosity. Now, Mumei’s eyes held deep questions and doubts when she looked at Fang Li.
“What exactly did you do?”
This was a natural question.
Anyone who knew all of this would have the same question.
To this, Fang Li could only smile faintly and said, “Nothing much, I just killed the Kabane virus within her body.”
“Killed the Kabane virus within her body?” Mumei was completely dumbfounded when he heard Fang Li’s words but she realized that Fang Li doesn’t look like he was joking.
It was the truth.
When they were in the forest, Fang Li’s target was not the pregnant woman, but the Kabane virus within her body.
In the original work “Kara no Kyoukai,” Ryougi Shiki, who possessed the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, had done something similar.
Through the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which allowed her to perceive the “Death” of all things, Ryougi Shiki had killed a disease within someone’s body, saving a person who was seriously ill.
Now, Fang Li had done something similar.
“I can see the death of everything. I can cut the lines as long as I understand the death behind it.”
Fang Li said the famous quote that Ryougi Shiki, who possessed the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, became known for, to the completely stunned Mumei.
“This means that I can kill anything, even if that thing is God.”
His arrogant words made Mumei’s gaze change once again.
It became incredulous.
Mumei, who didn’t know the secret of Fang Li’s Mystic Eyes, had no idea where his confidence in saying those words came from.
However, there was one thing Mumei understood.
“In other words…” Mumei hesitated and said, “Did you save that pregnant woman?”
“Isn’t that strange?” Fang Li shrugged, whispering in a low voice as if talking to himself, “Indeed, it’s strange for someone like me, who is indifferent to ‘Death,’ to save someone who is near death.”
After all, if the outcome was death, Fang Li wouldn’t feel any sympathy.
“But wanting to save someone doesn’t necessarily mean having to have sympathy.”
Fang Li raised his gaze and looked at Mumei, extending his hand and placing a finger on her lips, slowly speaking.
“Just like how you and Ikoma saved each other, I did it to repay a favor.”
“And that pregnant woman, even if the outcome of her being is ‘Death,’ it doesn’t mean that her life itself has no value.”
“I may be indifferent to ‘Death,’ but that doesn’t mean that I have no feeling for the existence of ‘Life,’.”
With those words spoken, Fang Li turned around, leaving behind the still-dazed Mumei, and walked out of the forest.
