The Great Demon System

"Oh, hello there Kane! It's nice to see you again!" She smiled brightly in his direction. "If you're asking why I'm here, I was recently transferred here this year to replace the last nurse who's really in need of a break. I am a graduate from here you know. Aren't you happy to see me?"

Moby stood there silent, taking in everything… He didn't even properly respond to her question. He still couldn't believe why or how the nurse of his old school was standing there in front of him. Yet, he didn't have much time to overthink things he had no knowledge of.

"So, what brought you here today? Do—" She stopped in the middle of her sentence when she noticed the injured, barely conscious man on his back. "Oh my! Quick! Put him on the bed right there!" Her expression immediately shifted from bright and cheery to that of something akin to a concerned mother.

"Yes ma'am," Moby quickly nodded and did as he was told.

Moby always found the nurse particularly quite odd compared to the normal person. She seemed pure as snow, but from what Moby had learned throughout the years, that could not be fully trusted and there was probably something else brewing underneath the bubbly facade.

"How did this happen exactly!?" The nurse asked, rushing over and examining Kai's body.

"Well, me and him got into a duel and this was kinda the result…"

"KANE! Has power taken over you!? This is the second time we meet but I've gotten so many visits due to you taking things too far! We first met when you were nearly bullied to death, now have you become the bully!?"

Moby was taken aback by the nurse's words as he quickly snapped to the first response that came to mind.

"Ummm… No, ma'am, it's all in the name of self-defence! You know how duels are right? In a pinch, things happen and people get lost in the mayhem you know?"

"I see… Sorry for coming to rash conclusions… I'm happy for your success but too many times have I seen the weak who always came to visit me in the office eventually turn into the people they hated most when power comes their way… You seem like a good kid, I just don't want that to happen to you too… Good people are hard to come by in this world…"

"Yeah… Sorry, I promise to be more careful next time. It was not my intention to go this far…" Moby bowed.

"You really are a nice kid," She smiled softly at him before looking back to her injured patient.

'This nurse… I've had my doubts about her from day 1… Does she genuinely care? I remember professor Leo saying the same thing before… How he had seen so many people be blinded by power once they get a whiff of it…'

"Nurse, if you don't mind me asking… Why aren't you simply using your healing ability on him? Wouldn't that be faster?"

"Indeed… It would be faster, but less effective… First, I need to make a diagnosis to pinpoint where all the pain and injury are. If not, then the healing might do more harm than good… In an intensive fight healing would be more than okay, but in this case, it's better for me to take my time… It's healer lingo, you don't need to worry about it…" She responded in a serious tone, not even batting an eye in his direction as she solely focused on inspecting.

She took her time, making sure to inspect every bloody area, raising her eyebrow in a few parts, especially at the sword wound which slightly concerned Moby.

When she finished, she took a deep breath and stood back up, a radiant cyan glow enveloping both of her hands that she aimed directly at Kai, quickly spreading around his entire body…

Everything seemed to be fine until it suddenly wasn't… For thirty seconds, no visible change was seen on Kai, despite the nurses' attempts at healing...

Moby was clearly able to see the sweat and distress on the nurse's face yet he decided to not let it bother him much. He simply concluded that it must have been a certain healing technique that he was not aware of and thought nothing of it…

That was until the glow faded away, and the nurse was left holding her knees and panting, the boy on the bed still struggling, no signs of healing at all to be seen on his bleeding body, which incited Moby's panic.

"What's wrong? Why didn't the healing work?"

The nurse did not immediately respond as she continued panting… That was when she finally looked up at him with a bewildered expression, staring straight into his soul with eyes of worry…

"What… what did you do to him… Whenever I try to heal him… It's like something is blocking and negating it… At this rate, I won't be able to fully heal him in weeks…"

'Wha- WHAT!?'

Saying Moby was shocked by the nurses' reaction would have been an understatement. Yet, it wouldn't have been obvious by simply looking at his face… The true battlefield lied beneath it… His heart sped up, and he felt an empty feeling in his stomach…

This had never happened to him before. What was he supposed to do? How in the world was he going to escape from such a predicament!? Was this an unknown side effect from his new blade!?

'I have to knock out the nurse and change her memories… NO! That would only alert the people in the nearby rooms and wouldn't change the fact that Kai is blocked from healing. Then, I just have to kill Kai… NO! That would only make it worse! I'll just have to do it and lie in the lie detector test… NOOO! But then they'll just analyze my body like a lab rat to see what was the cause!! I would never get away with it!!' Moby's mind was about to explode, when on the outside he stood silent and still, like a robot malfunctioning.

But, in order to not make it awkward and incriminating, he had to respond fast… So, he panicked and he spoke the only thing on his mind...