Editing City Series:Volume3b Opening (section)

===Interlude 1===

Rin awoke in the night.

“…?”

Her body awoke before her mind.

Her eyes opened, but her vision was hollow and unclear.

She dug back into her memories based on her senses and found herself lying on her back when she should have been sitting on a motorcycle.

…''Where am I?

Only her body could answer her.

Something warm and solid was wrapped around her right arm from the elbow down.

And she felt nothing below the knee of her right leg.

She closed her eyes and listened to the Lives.

All across her body, she sensed the cold blue Lives of injury.

Her right arm was broken and held in a hard cast.

…''A cast? So is this a hospital?

She accepted that question as the answer and gave a sigh of relief.

She listened to her slightly rapid pulse and to her own body’s Live.

She could not sense her Live from below her right knee, but the rest of the leg was not emitting the blue Word Color of injury.

…''My Live has stabilized.

Her body had accepted the loss.

…''Well, not even Tuning can add on what was lost.

She spoke in her heart and slowly opened her eyes.

She vaguely saw a white room in the darkness.

As expected, it was a hospital room.

“…”

The glow-in-the-dark hands of the clock on the wall told her it was nearly two in the morning.

A glowing digital calendar was contained near the center of the clock face, so she knew it was June 17.

…''So only six hours have passed since Hong Kong was destroyed.

She realized that her body and mind both wanted sleep.

The waking effect of her panicked mind had gone, so the power of the anesthesia was returning.

She used her unfocused mind to think.

The dragons of the four elements had activated.

On the night of June 30, the Nein Engels would use the acceleration of the four elements to activate the Earth Serpent.

Fearing that fact, some would choose to flee and some would choose to fight.

She suddenly spoke.

“Why did I survive to see this through to the end?”

Her voice vanished unheard into the corner of the room.

She smiled bitterly and closed her eyes.

Sleep was quickly taking hold.

“I’m exhausted.”

Thinking she would take action once this exhaustion left her, she fell back to sleep.

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