The Truth-Speaking Medicine
It was a meeting between Gloria and Victory that I thought would be fine.
But Gloria, perhaps wanting to test her opponent, started a fight with her.
In the end, they ended up brawling.
Luckily, before things escalated, the head of security arrived and successfully stopped the fight.
“Huuuuuuuueeeeng! Mueeeehhh!!”
Victor, who had done nothing wrong at all, was miserable beyond words.
A white rabbit, of course, clinging desperately to me while sobbing.
And pointing accusingly at Gloria while spilling the entire story.
“Th-that kid is so bad! Victory didn’t do anything at all, eeeek!”
“Shh, Victory…? It’s okay now.”
“Huuuuueeeeng!!!”
Thankfully, it looked like Victory hadn’t been injured at all.
And seeing Gloria sitting on the floor with no intention of fighting anymore, my expression grew utterly bewildered.
It seemed the situation had barely been settled.
“U-um… Security Director?”
“I’ll be right here, so don’t worry.”
Noticing that she had gone a bit too far, the head of security decided to stay in the laboratory with the special agents.
The problem, as always, was Gloria.
Luckily, the moment I received her glare, she made a gesture with her hand—annoyed and ordering me to go away.
“…Be quiet, so hurry and leave.”
“Then I’ll come right back.”
Now that permission had been granted, I carried the sobbing Victor to the containment room and kept soothing her the whole way.
I secretly checked her small hands.
But the head of security had only transferred pain to Victor?
Luckily, there were no wounds on her hands.
After letting out a sigh of relief, I arrived at Victor’s containment room.
By now she had mostly stopped crying, so the moment I set her down—
CRASH!
“E-Eh… Victor?”
“I-ineeeek! N-no, don’t leave!”
Victor clung tightly to my collar, refusing to let me go even an inch.
It seemed she really hated the idea of me going back to Gloria.
Her reason was so obvious that the situation only grew more complicated.
I had no choice but to use my last resort.
I asked her right away if she had something she wanted.
TWITCH!
“Y-yes…?”
“Since you suffered so much this time, if it’s within my power, I’ll definitely grant it.”
I didn’t know how tough things would get later, but I used the power to grant the wish no one should ever ask of a child.
So future me…
I’m really sorry—
“Th-then can we sleep together again this time?”
“Hm?”
Unexpectedly, Victor immediately used her wish-granting power.
And she made an incredibly easy request.
Given her intense expectant expression, it had to be sincere.
On second thought, it meant she couldn’t think of any other wish besides this.
I smiled bitterly and stroked the hair of Victor, who had stopped crying.
“Victor, I’ll try to make sure you can think of other wishes besides that one someday.”
Did my sincerity get through?
Victor, who had stopped crying completely, burst into laughter.
***
Anyway, Victor was the last test subject I would meet that day.
So tonight, I’d sleep in her containment room as usual.
Now that Victor was calmed down, I quickly returned to the meeting place.
She looked completely fine on the surface, which was a relief.
But inside, the special agents were gone.
Only the head of security and Gloria remained.
As soon as I entered the laboratory, the director welcomed me with a pat on the shoulder.
“Dealing with these jealous kids must be tough for Mr. Maxwell.”
“Hehe… Thanks for worrying about me.”
“I have children too, so I roughly understand. Especially that little brat—”
“Shut up.”
The moment the director started to say something, Gloria stood up from her seat.
And clenched her tiny fist.
Noticing the glint in her eye, the head of security just smirked and wished me good luck before leaving for another appointment.
“That big guy… doesn’t sit well with me.”
“It’s true that Gloria right now would be hard to beat, so that makes sense.”
To defeat the head of security without any power suppression, in the style of the protagonist, you’d have to kill him in one hit.
Otherwise the pain and injuries would transfer back, and you’d lose anyway.
But with future Gloria, that was definitely possible.
In any case, I wanted to check Gloria’s condition, which looked very displeased today.
Especially her hands.
“Stop it.”
Gloria hid one hand behind her back.
But looking at her clothes, unlike Victor, blood was smeared on them.
It was already suspicious that the head of security’s hands were fine, and the pain from the knife had been split between them, but the damage ended up all on Gloria.
And with her pride already massive, she probably didn’t want me to see that she was injured.
But the blood droplets dripping on the floor made it clear the wound was quite deep.
Fortunately, I had the ointment and medicine from when Liberty had clawed me badly before.
I quickly took Gloria to the containment room and grabbed the supplies from my office.
‘Just in case, I should grab this too.’
I also took the Rapid Healing Agent from the corridor in the danger zone.
Now I was fully prepared to treat her.
But as soon as I entered Gloria’s containment room again, I saw something strange.
“Gloria-nim, what are you doing on the floor?”
“…………”
Unlike before, the girl wasn’t on the bed.
Why? Because there were a few blood drops on the floor.
She must have thought the bedding would get dirty, so she lay on the floor.
Thinking she was completely unrepentant, I approached her.
When I shook the medicine, she scrunched up her face.
“Don’t worry about it.”
“Then Gloria-nim will have to sleep on the floor for a while?”
Instead of answering, Gloria turned her head away.
But eventually she couldn’t hold back and showed me her injured hand.
“It could be a deep wound, or it might not be. Do you have pain tolerance and regeneration?”
“I don’t know.”
The head of security had definitely stabbed his own hand a few times with a knife.
If that wound transferred directly to Gloria, her hand would be in shreds, and there should have been lots of bleeding.
But there were only a few blood drops, even now.
Plus the small wound from Liberty had already healed not long ago, and there was no scar.
It seemed she had regeneration too.
Still believing it was Gloria, I took out the medicines one by one.
Even with regeneration, I didn’t know when the hand would heal, so I decided to use the Rapid Healing Agent.
The side effect would be like getting a narcotic painkiller—brief mental fog.
Victor had held up fine, so Gloria should be okay.
But the moment I pulled out the syringe—
JERK!
Because she had been experimented on so much, the moment she saw the syringe, Gloria trembled.
Seeing that, I thought she was still just a kid and reassured her.
“I’m just going to spray it on the wound, so don’t worry.”
“Why did you suddenly say that?”
“I was just mumbling to myself.”
Her pride was hurt, so she looked like a duck, but ignoring her reaction, I sprayed the Rapid Healing Agent on her hand.
The cold liquid seeped in, and Gloria trembled again.
‘No way… no pain tolerance, she was just holding back?’
It was like watching Guan Yu endure surgery without anesthesia in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Soon the medicine took effect, and her hand healed quickly.
But the side effect made Gloria’s eyes a bit unfocused.
“It would be nice if I wrapped the ointment and bandage too, but first let’s change her clothes.”
“As… you… wish…”
Her mind was foggy, so she just said what I wanted.
Still, I brought her to the device in the middle of the containment room.
It wrapped around her like a capsule, washing off the blood and changing her into fresh clothes.
‘When I live with the kids someday, I’ll definitely have to ask for that device.’
Now Gloria was all clean.
I had cleaned up all the blood drops scattered around the containment room too.
After wrapping the ointment and bandage on her hand, I laid her on the bed.
A day when her pride was hurt was the kind of day she always wanted to be alone.
I tried to leave the containment room quickly, but—
“Deeper… sit.”
Suddenly Gloria gave an odd order.
I sat on the edge of the bed as instructed, but deeper.
The foggy Gloria gradually crawled closer—
THUD!
She rested her head on my thigh.
I hadn’t expected her to make me a knee pillow.
The Gloria who had become a bit more honest because of the medicine’s side effect.
***
Whether the medicine was too deep or she was just really tired, Gloria fell asleep right away.
She was still an unpredictable kid, but when she slept like this, she looked like an angel, just like the others.
I hoped this little angel would behave quietly even when facing the three of us and left the containment room carefully.
Later I thought about giving her a gift when I met Liberty.
But tonight I had to go with Victor, so I grabbed the bedding from the dormitory in Black Cell.
Now that most of today’s work was done, the moment I sat in the office chair to celebrate—
Min Chaerin, the secretary, was approaching from afar.
Of course I tried to run away immediately, but—
“Mr. Maxwell? Are you busy right now?”
“I was about to go to the bathroom.”
“…………”
Lies didn’t work on the secretary who could see through truth and lies.
I had no choice but to hear what she was coming for.
“Director Eileen Blackrock is looking for you, Mr. Maxwell.”
“Hmm… She found me later than I expected.”
“She must have been very busy.”
“Why not just call me? Why did the secretary come in person?”
“Because she was worried you’d run away making excuses like this.”
She was an extremely thorough director.