Paddy lay in her hospital bed, flipping through a magazine with a gloomy expression.
Her physical weakness left her with no energy to seek out other amusements.
She was sick!
And it was a thoroughly undeserved sickness—a factor infection syndrome. The symptoms were somewhat like a normal person's high fever: her hands and feet felt freezing and she wanted to tuck them somewhere warm, while her brain alternated between bouts of clarity and fuzziness, and her body became exceptionally sensitive.
In this condition, let alone going out to make mischief, simply going out to bask in the sun was deeply uncomfortable.
Paddy puffed out her cheeks and looked out the window. This illness had come out of nowhere. She had originally planned to check out what interesting things there were in the local area to "detonate," but instead she had run right into a horde of Flesh Corruption monsters. Naturally, she had wiped them all out, because she had run into these monsters while carrying some contraband and up to no good in the forest.
A sensitive factor user like Melina could reconstruct a portion of the monsters' memories through their flesh and blood.
Paddy, who in Melina's eyes was practically pure and spotless, could not afford the risk of a leak, so she had no choice but to strike. Yet the retaliatory power inherent in the flesh-corrupted monsters' factors had struck back at her, landing her directly with this most troublesome illness.
If she cast all caution aside and used her …
Chapter 605