Chapter 271 - The Aftermath (Part Two)

The hospital was crowded, really crowded. 

There were about a dozen or so nurses who could heal others but the number of injured were roughly close to four hundred or so.

And they only had like three actual doctors. Definitely not enough.

Medical supplies were low and most they could do was to apply first aid to anyone but the serious patients. 

I did manage to snatch a nurse and ask her politely to help mom though. it took a bit of threatening but that was a different matter. My threats were awfully polite.

"We have to first do an Xray or at least get someone who can-"

There were people everywhere; cries, yells, groans. This place was packed and we didn't even have space to let mom lie down a little. I had to snatch a chair from a nearby man who was kind enough to give it to me. Again, polite threats.

"She has fractures here- here- here," I went on. When I instilled the book on how to use radiation for healing, I also knew most of the names of the bones and sometimes even other types of medical terms. "Her left Humerus and this rib are broken." But it wasn't enough.

When I pointed them out and barely touched her skin- mom kind of grit her teeth in pain, not quite even gasping. How the hell was this woman even remotely able to stay conscious let alone not scream?

"Seven fractures and two broken?" The nurse was in deep thought. "There's a very good chance of internal bleeding and-" She looked back. "MARTH, COME HERE FOR A SECOND!"

One of the male nurses came this way. "What?"

More and more people were coming here. Some heavily injured, others-

"Check her and tell me exactly where I need patching."

"Right!"

The male nurse just hovered his hand over mom's body and used a lot of medical terms while the other nurse just kept her hands floating in the air. A bit of white light covered mom. I knew that light, it was healing light. 

This whole thing lasted for five minutes.

Once done, the male nurse left. 

"Alright, that's about all the first aid I can do now. The wounds are mostly stable. She should rest for now. Before more medical help comes, this is all we can do."

"Thanks." I was relieved- really.

There were about thirty beds here, so there wasn't any way we could get one. And we didn't have a home anymore where I could just-

Mom grabbed my hand. "I'm fine. Let's get back." I guess she wanted to be with everyone, rather than just sit here. 

I didn't want to move her right now but- I picked her up again and gently flew. It would have been really sad if we just stayed there anyway.

She was gritting a lot but she never complained of pain. Out of everyone, she was the most injured, and yet- She was the strongest. 

Just thinking about all this made me shake, but- I had to stay cool. For now, I had to stay cool.

***

Doctors had arrived from various nearby countries and even some from the military.

The minor injuries of most people were healed through healing arts. While the more not so minor ones were mostly treated through advanced medical means. As for the heavily injured people like mom and father, they were treated with a combination of both. 

The total number of the injured came to a staggering 527. This included the students, the teachers, and the people on the island. 18 people had died from this, and 6 of them were parents and other workers. 10 were students while the other two were teachers. 

I sighed and steam evaporated in front of me. 

'We should have seen this coming.'

"Well, that's all I have now. It could basically increase a bit more," Micheal said as he wrote down our information. "Anyway, it was good that you got in time. But I never would have thought someone would be dumb enough to attack this place." With a small sigh, he left for the house in the distance. The prefects were keeping track of what happened where.

'Yeah, me neither.' 

Most didn't know about the exact details of what happened here. The headmaster and the military were controlling and suppressing the information. Though I had a feeling, the news would eventually leak. Then what? Global chaos?

Yeah, anything could happen at this stage. 

"You'll catch a cold like that, why don't you come inside?" Elsa stood next to me. 

We were facing the distant houses. Elsa's wounds were minor, so she could walk around just fine. 

It was midnight but still pretty lit up. A lot of houses were destroyed and the whole island was in a shock of shorts. 

By inside, she meant inside a tent. The academy had provided three tents for us. 

It was midnight but I didn't really feel cold or sleepy.

Mom and father were okay. The rest were okay too. After the doctors had come, I'd gone and politely brought one doctor here and had him treat them. 

Politeness.

Yet- yet I felt restless. 

"I'm sorry." Just behind me, Aria bowed. "This happened because of me. They probably came for me and- I'm truly sorry!" She bowed fiercely. 

I hadn't seen her come. I wasn't paying attention. 

"It probably wasn't you," I said. "IF they were here for you, the purple one would have taken you back rather than go after the headmaster."

"Wait, you can understand her?" Elsa mumbled. 

Oh yeah, I forgot about that stuff about how I could now understand and speak Neilean- if that was a thing. 

"But still-" Her eyes watered. "I've let both mine and your family down."

I sighed. "Don't worry about it." That was all I could say. I knew it wasn't her fault- but I wanted to blame someone. I wanted to blame something.

This was totally avoidable- the attacks perhaps not but the destruction was avoidable. If this girl could come from a distant planet to our world- it was totally possible for those aliens to come through just like her. 

It was totally possible that if they came through, they'd cause mayhem like the headmaster had warned. And yet- and yet- we'd done nothing. 

I'd done nothing. 

I was too conceited. I thought nothing would happen to my family, I thought nothing bad could happen- I thought just because this place was safe, nothing would happen. 

But something did happen, and it happened regardless. 

Grinding my teeth wasn't getting me anywhere, but I couldn't help but grimace and shake with rage. 

"Maybe we should talk after filling our stomachs a little." Raea was behind Aria. She had two minor injuries. 

She was kind of right though. Just worrying on an empty stomach wasn't going to get us anywhere. 

But I didn't want to move, I didn't-

"Let's get in." Elsa dragged me forward.

There were three tents. I was going to have to share one with Elsa. Mom and father were going to use one while Raea, Aria, and the bunny girl would share the last. 

Technically Raea still had her dorm room but she decided to stay here regardless. 

All three girls were looking at me with expedient eyes. 

"Fine."

With a bit of a sigh, I followed everyone inside the middle tent- mom's tent. 

***

The pot boiled. 

Everyone was huddled in by the fire.

With the healing from the healers, we weren't in a bad shape but we still needed rest. Especially mom and father. 

But they were acting strong, very strong. Especially mom. She was smiling and acting like nothing was wrong.

"You know, times like this you should sing and forget about all the trouble," Raea said, raising her hand up a little. "It'll help." She winked. 

Yeah, I doubted that. 

Aria looked slightly intrigued. 

"Can you understand English now or something?" I could understand her but I was supposedly speaking another language- or so the people around me were saying. 

Aria nodded. She rarely talked. Even though she knew I'd be able to understand, she still didn't talk much. 

"LALA LARH ALA RHGH!" But then she opened her mouth and- 

And!

PAIN.

We had to cover our damn ears. 

Tone-deaf?

Tone-deaf, didn't even remotely begin to describe that!

Even screaming, and random screeching was better than that. Her voice was piercing through my ears- my soul. If this went on, we'd bleed to death.

"Make her stop, someone- make her stop!" Elsa held her ears and started yelling.

Meanwhile, I stared at Raea and she just looked sideways to avoid me. 

In the end, with a sigh, she held Aria's mouth in one hand and stopped this atrocious singing.

Sigh. We all breathed in relief. 

That singing didn't help but at least we now had something to be grateful about. 

I just found new respect for singers. 

The food was done: porridge.