After arriving in the unfamiliar city of Linyang, she became thoroughly ordinary.
With her skills, she could have served many organizations, like becoming a mercenary, living a life of getting paid to take lives, with no worries for food and clothing.
But she didn't want to.
She wanted to completely leave her past self behind and become a brand new Heather.
Even if she had to worry about her own living expenses, struggle to make enough money for rent and utilities, she preferred to be this utterly ordinary person, experiencing the life of an ordinary person.
In the remaining years of her life, she wanted to cast aside all the hustle and bustle of strife, to live simply once more.
"Really not getting an anesthetic?"
"No need."
This pain, she could bear it.
When the nurse left, she whispered to the colleague who came in, "Can you believe there are still people who choose not to take anesthetics just to save money? Won't she be in agony?"