"What am I even doing here?"
Harik asked as he looked at the bandages in his hands, while trying to save the random guy in the clinic. His eyes then looked at the rundown clinic that could barely hold 5-6 patients at a time.
Still, the line outside seemed endless, as the number of people only kept increasing.
"Hey! Work faster!"
A feminine voice rang through, waking Harik up from his stupor. He took a glance at Iris' glare before shrieking and then getting back to work.
While he could have healed the patient in an instant, he didn't. Instead, he used the bandage and herbs in his hands to heal the patients manually. Wasn't just him, but Iris too wasn't using her powers, and using the bandages and herbs to stop the wounds and treat the infection.
"Why are we not using mana again?" Lily, the girl who could somewhat use healing magic, grumbled as she ran, transferring bandages from the storeroom to the 'doctors'.
Using mana would be much more efficient than this.
"Ask Neptune," Harik complained too, making a not so pleasant expression. Was this really going to save his wife? It didn't seem like that.
"..." Hearing Neptune's name, Lily shut her mouth again and continued working as usual.
"Hey kids! Where is the rest of the anaesthesia?" Shouted Iris as she tried her best to save the old guy on the bed in front of her. Without powers, it was rather hard to do all this, but because his contractor had asked her to do so, she was going to do this with no question asked.
"Take the next patient," Lily looked at the line of patients outside before sighing," but still. What is even the purpose of this? The guards are just gonna come and stop this, anyway."
"Just be happy that we weren't killed," rebuked Jasmine, who looked at the tired expression of Lily.
It wasn't just Iris or Harik, but everyone else present here was refraining from using any form of mana at all. Nobody knows the reason, but none of them were against this.
Iris, who was hiding behind everyone, peeked at those guards.
Though what was going on in her mind differed totally from others. She wondered if this whole scenario was something that Neptune planned as well.
There was little purpose in this 'free clinic' and the fact that they weren't using any powers could be a fake show of their lack of power. This could attract some bugs... but why?
That was all she could figure out.
According to her, if Neptune wanted to wipe out anyone in the city, he has more than enough power to do so. So why choose this tiresome method? Was he afraid of someone... or was there something else going on all together?
"We will return within a few hours. By then, shut down the clinic. Or things will get messy for all of you," the guard gave a last warning before glaring at Harik and then walking away with a haughty smile on his face.
Harik simply returned with little emotion written on his face. Though as soon as he entered the clinic, he looked at Iris and asked,
"Is there any purpose to it at all?"
Iris looked at him, and then finally shook her head. Even she can't bullshit about it anymore.
"So, what do we do now?" Lily, who was watching from a distance, asked as she looked a bit worried about the whole thing that happened outside.
"Well. We haven't been given any other instructions. So we do what we were told to do without making any changes," Harik spoke with a sigh as he then looked around at everyone staring at him.
-Clap!
"Alright everyone. Let's get back to work. Hopefully, the owner of this shop has some purpose behind this," Iris spoke as she then too began moving to the next patient, who was just observing her with an enchanted look.
Not minding him, she began healing him the same as before, without using any powers. Same for Harik, who joined her immediately after.