Sabaody Archipelago, Marine Base, Medical Ward.
On a white hospital bed, an orange-red haired girl, with her right arm bandaged and a piece of gauze on the right side of her face, was half-lying. She seemed to be pondering, staring blankly out the window, tears flowing from her eyes.
Sephiroth, wearing a justice cloak and a black suit, entered the medical ward. He brought a chair beside the white hospital bed, sat down, and looked at the girl on the bed. In a very gentle tone, he asked, "Little sister, have you had breakfast yet?"
When the young girl clearly saw the visitor's face, she immediately recognized the silver-haired youth. He was the one who had rushed into the fire yesterday and saved her.
"Big brother.... Thank you for saving me...." Isuka's voice was soft.
Thoughts of yesterday's events made the girl remember her mother again. After she woke up from her coma, she still had a glimmer of hope that her mother might still be alive and had been rescued by the Marines. However, when she saw her mother's half-burned body in the Marine morgue, the last bit of unrealistic hope in her heart was completely extinguished. Tears fell from the girl's eyes, and her tone couldn't help but be filled with deep sadness.
"Why are you crying? Is it uncomfortable?" Sephiroth took a tissue from the tissue box on the bedside table and handed it over.
Wiping away her tears with the tissue, the girl choked. "Mom.... She's dead..... Woo woo woo!"
"Alright.... Where are your other relatives?"
"Mother was my only relative...."
"..."
Hearing that, Sephiroth couldn't help but sigh, feeling a touch of melancholy in his heart. The girl's mother died in the sea of flames, and the pirates who caused the fire were inseparable from Vergo. The Donquixote family created this disaster just to pave the way for Vergo and help him rise quickly through the ranks. With the strength Vergo had previously shown in battle, Sephiroth realized that suppressing his promotion all the time was clearly unrealistic. This was the Sabaody Archipelago. In the lawless zone where pirates ran rampant, there were many men with high bounties. If Vergo dared to take the risk and use his vacation to catch pirates alone, he could still accumulate military merits! Why not?... find an opportunity to kill him? But doing so, it seemed there was no benefit to me. Forget it, leave him alone for now!
Seeing the girl who was still crying, Sephiroth thought for a while before speaking. "If you have nowhere else to go, can you follow your big brother from now on?...."
The girl sobbed and choked. "Really...?"
"Hmm! Really." Sephiroth raised his hand and touched the girl's orange-red hair.
In the Sabaody Archipelago, there were no orphanages, but there were many human trafficking places. If he didn't take the girl in, she might starve to death on the streets or be taken by human traffickers to become a slave. Since he had saved the girl from the fire and let her survive, he might as well give her a helping hand. Hmm! ..... It was impossible to bring her back to the villa. He didn't want Hancock to get angry. After all, Hancock had already said last time that if Sephiroth dared to bring home a girl with an unclear future, she would send them to Amazon Lily. Hancock could tolerate it once, or perhaps twice, but more often, there was no guarantee that she wouldn't cut him off from now on! Should that happen, Sephiroth would surely cry without tears.
"What's your name?"
"Isuka."
"Oh."
"What's wrong? Big brother, is my name strange?" Isuka looked at him with tear-reddened eyes, her tone even more tense and anxious. The teenage girl didn't want the youth to ask her to change her name, as it was given by her mother.
"No, no.... It's quite good," Sephiroth shook his head, uttering a casual sentence.
In the end, he reached into his upper pocket and took out a Life Boost Agent and a syringe, as well as a rubber band. "This is a medicine that can quickly treat injuries.... Big brother wants to give you an injection."
"Wait a moment, it might hurt a little, but you have to bear it, okay?"
"Hmm!" Isuka nodded gently. In fact, her right hand and right side of her face were still hurting at the moment. Although Sephiroth helped her stabilize her injuries yesterday by channeling life force and giving her anesthesia, when she woke up, she still had to suffer the pain before her injuries were completely healed.
Sephiroth opened the bottle cap, inserted the syringe into it, and immediately drew out the liquid. Then he took Isuka's left hand, tied the rubber band around her arm, and jabbed the tip of the syringe into the girl's snow-white skin. The light yellow liquid was slowly injected into her body.
"Okay!" Sephiroth pulled out the needle and untied the rubber band. There was no need for the girl to hold hemostasis at all, the injection port on her arm would heal automatically and stop bleeding!
Grrr-lu!
A moment later, Isuka's stomach rumbled. She covered her stomach with her hand, blushing with embarrassment. "That's strange. I'm so hungry! Even though I've already had breakfast."
"Hahaha! After this agent is injected into the body, it drastically consumes energy within the body," Sephiroth explained.
Not far from Sephiroth, a hospital nurse in a white uniform, who was checking her patient's temperature, signaled. "Miss Nurse, please go to the kitchen and bring her some bread and milk...."
"Okay, Brigadier General Sephiroth," the female nurse nodded and immediately walked quickly out of the medical clinic.
Sephiroth thought about it and added, "Oh! Get enough for five people first, then get more if you don't feel it's enough!"
"Serves five. I can't eat that much," Isuka blushed and lowered her head. She was afraid Sephiroth would think she was a "foodie" and dislike her.
Seeing this scene, Sephiroth suddenly smiled and said with relief, "It's okay, just eat! You need to 'eat' to recover quickly...."
Tada.
The sound of hurried footsteps echoed. A bearded youth, wearing a white Justice cloak, rushed into the medical ward. Sephiroth's adjutant, Lieutenant Junior Grade Frank, after saluting the silver-haired youth, hurriedly said:
"Report to Brigadier General Sephiroth, I just received an order from Admiral Sengoku that he requests you to immediately go to Marineford and report to him about your work."
Hearing that, Sephiroth's eyebrows raised slightly, his tone amused. "Oh!?.... Reporting work?"
"Yes!" Lieutenant Junior Grade Frank nodded affirmatively.
"I know!"
Sephiroth, after bidding farewell to Isuka, returned to his office. There, he created a Bat-Clone and let it replace him in taking a warship to Marineford, while his main body went to the underground laboratory on Island 50. Sengoku ordered him to report his work, most likely to prepare to deal with him. Although Sephiroth felt that this time the matter would be fabricated and trivial, he still had to be prepared in case of something unexpected. Nothing was certain in this regard, and he would not take risks.