Chapter 124: A World Without Alice Is Peaceful, Too

"...I think this scenario should be enough. I don't know if they'll give me the same medicine I usually take... but I think they'll give me something similar."

First, I put together a scenario so that Shina, who was clearly mentally healthy, could safely get her medicine. It wasn't anything particularly elaborate... I just made it plausible. The longer the story, the more likely it was to fall apart.

Since we live in an age where Abyss-being attacks have become an everyday occurrence, they don't demand that patients tell them every last detail. If they pry too deeply and end up triggering a trauma, it can only make things harder for the patient.

In an earlier era, it might have been connected to a crime... but the number of possible circumstances had increased far too much since Abyss beings began appearing. Most of the time, they simply prescribed some medicine and sent the patient home.

I lived that way myself, after all.

"So there are things even you don't know, Miss Sejin."

"Of course. Did you think I was an encyclopedia?"

"Hmm..."

It was true that I possessed a lot of strange bits of knowledge, but even I had to be ignorant when it came to fields I had no experience in.

Honestly, she's got such rose-colored glasses on...