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ENA wakes up to see Coral fast asleep. She sits and cracks her back, which was still sore from last night.
‘Damn it. She got me good.’
She then gets up and makes her way to the kitchen. She takes out a pod to put inside the coffee machine to start brewing.
Meanwhile, Coral wakes up and puts her glasses on. She dresses herself in her bathrobe before making her way to the kitchen. When she sees ENA, she admires the work of art she has done on her topless back and arms.
She grabs the saleswoman's waist behind her and puts her head on top of hers.
ENA looks up at her face. “What?”
“Mmm… morning.”
“If you have something to say then spit it out.”
“I need to treat your wounds again.” The businesswoman caresses them, making ENA stiff up from the soreness.
“Ugh… fine. Just let me get done with my coffee.”
After ENA finished her brew, she and Coral made their way to the living room. ENA sits down on the couch while Coral is applying the medicine. As she kept going, she noticed a scar behind her back.
‘That wasn’t there before.’
When she got done, she decided to ask ENA about it.
“Umm… where did you get this scar from?”
ENA looks behind her to where she’s pointing at.
“You’re just now noticing it?” Coral nods.
She turns around and sighs. “It’s a bullet scar. I got it from the war.”
“Oh… is that what's been hurting you?”
“Affirmative. It grew very sensitive due to the physical trauma my heart endured.”
“Umm… can I take a closer look?”
ENA becomes more irritated. “You're nosy, you know that?”
Coral blushed while looking away.
“Ugh… sure.” The saleswoman sits back to let the businesswoman observe it. As she continued, she felt something moving.
“Is that your… nerves? I can feel them inside.”
“My roots are trying to heal the wounds you gave me, which isn’t a pleasing process.”
Coral looks up at her. “What do you mean by that?”
“My roots… or nerves try to make the healing process faster, but it’s actually more painful and dangerous. Since my body’s trying to fix itself, it puts my roots at more risk of damage from being exposed.”
“Can you stop it?”
“The force’s out of my control, so I can’t really do anything about it.”
She suddenly gets up from the couch when Coral removes her hand from her chest. “I’m going to have a sterile operation. You coming or what?”
“I guess. I feel dirty anyways.”
The two women make their way to the bathroom. The businesswoman takes off her bathrobe before getting in. Coral lathers the towel with soap and begins to wash the saleswoman, who softly grunts when it makes contact with the scar.
“Sorry, but I need to clean you there.”
ENA tries to breathe through it. Once Coral got done, she handed her own towel to let ENA start washing her.
“So… when you got shot, you reincarnated?”
“Affirmative. However, my injury didn’t fully heal when I did.”
“Mmm…” Coral Glasses turns around to let ENA wash her back. She began to bite her fingers in a loss of thought.
‘She must be extremely durable since she isn’t exactly dead, or the species in general…’
“Hey! Stop it!”
Coral turns around before looking at her finger.
“Oh!” She chuckles nervously. “Sorry.”
She sighs. “I’ll bandage it when we get out.”
Coral softly nods. After rinsing off, she pulls the plug out of the tub.