Valkyria Squadron

Ch51: View Through The Glass

Family Home
Sumida City, Tokyo
February 15
2:00 AM

The noise of the TV downstairs woke me up, when I looked at the clock I could see that it was dawn, It seemed that Cesar had trouble sleeping again, poor man, I thought that now that he was back here his condition would improve. Tamamo was sleeping next to me, she seemed sound asleep, it seemed as if the noise didn't bother her in the least, It's funny because I thought that she would sneak into the room to sleep next to Cesar on the sofa, but it seems that was not the case. But I could take advantage of this situation, I can speak to him alone right now and apologize for having shown up here without notifying him beforehand. To try not to damage the floor with my glass feet because I did not know what the ceramic would be like, I bought some slippers before coming here to walk around the house, they would also help me go to the living room without waking up others.

I washed, I left the room and closed the door so that Tamamo wouldn't get up from the annoying noise, and walked towards the living room. Despite the distance from here, I could listen to TV, it was a television sales program, it was about some new kind of broom. It seemed strange to me that Cesar was seeing something like that because I always imagine him as someone who preferred to see a movie or animated comedy series, but it could also be that merely at this time there is nothing like that and he was looking at the only thing available. I went down the stairs, careful not to slide, and turned into the living room, which could be seen illuminated by the light from the television. Although he was behind the sofa, I could see the fox's ears sticking out on one side and his tail on the other of the sofa, he was lying down. I thought maybe the last thing he would like at the time would be to scare him, so I tried to walk around making a bit of noise so he would notice me, but it didn't work, so I resorted to talking a little.

"Sorry to bother" I said delicately.
"But could you lower the volume on the TV please"
"You're going to wake up everybody "

But there was no answer, he didn't even turn his fox ears in my direction, he probably must have been sound asleep. Surely he was so sleepy that he ended up falling asleep even with the television and the volume it was at. I thought of at least turning it off so he could sleep better now that he had finally made it. So I went to him to take the remote control out of his hands, but then I noticed something strange. His breathing was very agitated and he was sweating as if he had been running, was he having another panic attack while he was sleeping?. I quickly removed the blanket to make him cool a little, but when I touched it to remove it I could see a large red spot that was getting bigger and bigger. I took it away to see what was really happening and when I saw it I was so surprised that I screamed and fell back.

Cesar appeared to have a bullet hole in the side of his abdomen and was losing blood. I had no idea what caused such a wound but now was not the time to doubt. I immediately ran to the bedroom where among my luggage I had a first aid kit from Heaven. Because I had thought that sooner or later Cesar would get into trouble again, I just never imagined that he would do it so soon. I opened the door with force and went through my things, throwing away everything that was useless from the passage. Once I had the first aid kit in my hands, I shook Tamamo to help me. Because I'm sure she knows more about medicine than me and she could treat him better with healing magic. But no matter how hard I shook her, she was asleep with no sign of waking up. this was very strange. But tending to Cesar's wound was the top priority now, so I ran back to the living room as fast as I could.

I got close to him and used scissors to quickly undress her and put some cloth to clean the wound of blood, then I quickly checked his back and I noticed that he had an exit hole. Whatever was shot was of a high caliber because he went through with such ease, but that was good news because it means that there were no fragments that made the wound more serious. I quickly put alcohol gel on the area, hemostatic powder on both wounds, and then applied a bandage to both sides. I don't know how long the wounds are pressed hard to try to stop the bleeding. But when I finally noticed that I had stopped enough to start treating the wounds now, with the medical gel to accelerate the healing process, apply enough of that, much more than recommended, so that by the time you finish you will not have a scar. But although the process is much faster, it may take a while to start to take effect, so I have to make sure that he do not lose more blood and reduce the effectiveness of the medical gel.