The Flash (Danmachi x OC)

Season 4 Chapter 63 Baptism at The Water's Edge

Rin: This isn't within the dimension of healing, is it?

Welf: It's like the monster is parasitizing them.

Lili: Exactly...a parasitic plant.

Ouka and the others turn pale at their words.

Haruhime: Chigusa...!

The teary-eyed Haruhime says, gripping the hand of her childhood best friend. Through all of this, Bell have been listening silently to the conversation. He look at Luvis. Like Chigusa, his face is wet with sweat. His right arm has been wrapped in cloth to heal it, but it's hopeless to think he'll be able to recover the forearm. On top of the fact that the monster crushed it beyond all recognition, it's already starting to rot. Reconnecting it is simply not an option.

Luvis: Oh, ahh...!

Trapped in a nightmare of pain even as he lays unconscious, Luvis squeezes his tightly shut eyes into a grimace. It's fair to say that this one- armed man's career as an adventurer has been cut short. He'll either have to retire or soldier on with a heavy handicap. To be honest, Bell had talked with Luvis only a handful of times. He have no idea what kind of person Luvis is or even what his goal is in exploring the Dungeon. Still...it's more of a shock than Bell expected to witness someone he know fall into an irrecoverable situation like this.

The reality of the Dungeon and its dark labyrinth is that it yields brilliant success on the one hand and a constant stream of victims on the other. As this truth confronts Bell, a shiver passes through his body. If he had encountered a situation like this when he first arrived in Orario, Bell might well have been reduced to a pale, quaking mess.

Bell(mind): But now...

Bell quietly squeeze his hands into fists as he stand before his one-armed fellow adventurer. Bell look up. Next to him is Cassandra, her arms limp at her sides, overwhelmed with disappointment.

Cassandra: I've never seen anything like these symptoms...! There's just nothing I can do...!

Perhaps because she has lost hope in herself as a healer in the face of these mysterious symptoms, which are due to neither "irregular ailments" nor curses, Cassandra's calm, drooping eyes pool with tears.

Bell: What we need right now are ideas!

Bell say, forcibly breaking into her daze. His tone was so strong it shatters the fretful atmosphere hovering around the party and surprises even himself.

Cassandra: Huh...?

Bell: So please share your thoughts with us, Cassandra! Is there anything we can possibly do to save them?

Cassandra was kneeling, so Bell get down at eye level with her and grip her right hand with his left. Squeezing it to give her courage, Bell speak slowly to the teary healer.

Bell: No one is dead yet.

Cassandra:...!

Bell: And we have a full party! I know we can save them if we put our heads together!

Everybody's eyes looking into Bell widen. Bell stare resolutely back, and Cassandra's cheeks suddenly flush. When he release her hand, she looks a little bashful and presses her left hand to her heart as if to hold it in place. Bell can sense that Lili wants to say something, but for the time being, she'll have to wait. Cassandra shifts her gaze back and forth and answers timidly.

Cassandra: In order to save them, I think we should hurry back to the surface and find a more experienced healer... Like maybe Dea Saint from Dian Cecht Familia or Berserk Healer from Loki Familia could help them. Or alternatively, we could try destroying the source that implanted the seeds in them. That might wipe the plant out.