I’m the Only One With a Different Genre - I’m the Only One With a Different Genre chapter 103

103 – Lian, Don’t Keep Falling Down…

Startled, Lian met Noah’s gaze and at the same time found himself embraced in her arms.

“What…? Uh…?”

Lian began to stutter like a broken machine. Noah held him tightly, gasping for breath.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Noah’s heart pounded violently, as if it were about to burst. It felt like his blocked airway had finally opened.

“N-No-Noah…?”

In a drunken state, Lian called out to Noah, his eyes tightly shut. His hands reached out to embrace her but only found empty air. As his trembling fingertips slowly moved toward her back, Noah abruptly let go and stepped back.

Noah, once again gripping Lian’s shoulders, carefully examined his face.

The first thing that caught her eye was the reddened corners of his eyes and the blood trickling down his lips, as if he had been crying alone.

“You’re always like this…”

As she recalled Lian swallowing his pain unnoticed by anyone, a mixture of anger and sadness overwhelmed her, and her heart burst into tears.

“Stop! Please, just stop now! How long are you going to keep sacrificing yourself?”

“No… I… I…”

“What have I become, getting stronger just to protect you?”

In the face of Noah’s expression, which seemed like tears could burst out at any moment, Lian began to frantically turn her head to understand Noah’s words.

“What’s wrong? What did I do wrong?”

Just meeting Noah’s eyes made Lian’s mind spin. After racking her brain, Lian was able to figure out why Noah was angry.

“Oh! It’s because of the blood!”

For a moment, the reflexive thought of “Did he get mad because the floor got dirty?” came to mind, but Lian quickly erased it from her mind. It didn’t go along with words like “I’ll protect you” or “sacrifice.”

“Oh! I was worried because I was bleeding!”

Fortunately, this time she was able to arrive at the right answer. The problem was what to do next.

“It’s nothing even if it looks like this. It’s just on the edge…”

“After spilling blood like this, you say it’s nothing?”

Noah’s pupils flickered dangerously at Lian’s words. Her gaze turned to the floor, which was soaked with blood.

Lian thought, rolling her eyes.

“How do I explain this?”

To explain the situation in detail, Lian had to start by explaining that she came from the world of comedy.

Aside from the fact that there were too many things to explain, it was uncertain whether Noah would accept the fact that she wasn’t from this world.

Humans inherently reject what is different from themselves. Even if Noah and the other children accepted and didn’t reject Lian, it was natural for a sense of distance to arise at some point.

In the worst case scenario, they might feel discomfort and try to distance themselves.

Lian tightened her grip on her head and came up with a plausible explanation.

“Well… you might not remember, but a few years ago, you told me that my body easily heals wounds and that I feel much less pain than an ordinary person. This is the same thing.”

“….!”

Noah’s face began to change color with shock. Lian thought that her excuse seemed quite plausible and continued speaking.

“Whenever we try to eat, it’s like saliva comes out, kind of like… something similar? There’s no need to worry that much! I won’t suddenly die or anything… ah…”

Lian’s words became more vague as they went on. It was because he thought that if he were to face “that scene” again, he might die. To Noah, who had no way of knowing this, it seemed to imply, “I could actually die, but I want to keep it a secret.”

While Noah held his breath, trying to choose his words, Lian spoke first.

“Noah… there’s something I’m curious about.”

Unconsciously, Lian’s eyes began to shake violently as he forced himself to stop his gaze from going downwards. The fleeting glance at Noah’s chest was as flat as before.

“Um, are you… um… a girl?”

“Ah.”

Noah’s mind, already in a confused state due to various concerns about Lian, went blank when he realized that his secret had been revealed.

“Was it all just my imagination?”

“…”

Lian’s question flooded Noah’s mind with various thoughts. The way to brush it off as if he didn’t understand and the way to tell the truth.

Faced with these two paths, Noah couldn’t easily continue speaking.

“What’s important right now is not that.”

What was important right now was Lian’s health, not their gender. Since it was something that had to be revealed eventually, Noah slightly lowered his head and nodded.

And then…

“Um, um… achoo…”

“….! Lian!”

Lian, shocked by the fact that what he had seen was real(?), began to spew blood from his mouth and nose, and fainted on the spot.

If Lian had fainted just a little later, the blind, desire-driven mini-Lians would have escaped and made a notorious statement like, “How many children do you want?” But thanks to the escape device, they were able to prevent that notorious incident.

“No… this can’t be…”

Noah embraced Lian, who had collapsed onto his product, with a vacant expression. Her body trembled as if she were a shaking bamboo tree.

Snap!

Noah held Lian tightly and began running down the corridor.

His awakened body swiftly passed through the corridor. The place where her footsteps stopped was labeled “Duty Room”.

Muhan, who was waiting in the Duty Room, was ready to bring Lian to Mucan immediately if anyone searching for Lian found her.

Bang!

Noah, in a hurry, half-broke the door and entered. Muhan, who was sitting on a wooden chair, turned his gaze towards Noah while chewing on something like grass.

“Mu… Mucan! Lian!”

Noah had a face that seemed like it would burst into tears at any moment. Muhan immediately stood up and pointed towards the bed.

“Put her down there.”

At Muhan’s words, Noah hastily carried Lian to the bed. Muhan observed Noah carefully placing Lian on the bed, pressing down on his eye area where dark circles had formed, as if setting down a fragile object.

‘There was talk of a lover, but it seems to be true.’

Whether the boss had a lover or not was not important to Muhan, so he approached Lian lying on the bed with an expressionless face.

‘Judging by the dried blood around her mouth, it seems like there’s a problem with her organs. And… hmm?’

As Muhan lightly examined Lian up and down, he wrinkled his forehead upon discovering something. Unable to hold back, Noah, who had been standing beside him with an anxious expression, spoke up.

“How is she? Is it… serious?”

“Leaving aside whether it’s serious or not, haaah…”

Muhan looked down at Lian with a truly annoyed expression. With a pale face, Noah urged him.

“What is it? Is there some serious problem?”

“Here.”

At Boss’s urging, Mukan reluctantly covered Lian’s forehead, which was slightly swollen from being repeatedly banged against the wall. It was only then that Noah noticed the wound on her forehead.

Mukan chewed on a piece of grass that had become shorter than her finger, and spoke.

“This is a self-inflicted wound.”

“What…?”

“In simple terms, it means she harmed herself.”

Noah froze at Mukan’s casual words. It was a phrase he couldn’t even imagine, and his mind turned white with shock.

Ignoring Boss, who had fallen silent, Mukan began to examine Lian’s condition more closely. Before long, her expression changed strangely.

“What is this?”

Mukan had been able to live as a healer in the cruel land of the Cardisians thanks to her special eyes.

Even without sufficient medical knowledge, she could feel the “intuition” that she needed to closely observe the other person and determine how to treat them.

She couldn’t recall the exact treatment method. Even if the symptoms were the same, she had a feeling that some required surgery to be resolved, while others had a higher chance of being cured by taking a herbal remedy to reduce fever.

However, she couldn’t know exactly what kind of surgery was needed or how long the herbs should be taken.

Even brief information is still information.

In order to learn proper knowledge, her abilities were sufficient to risk her life in the Cardisian, where she had to call her abilities a scam.

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“I have no idea what this means.”

Whenever Mukan looked at Lian’s body, she couldn’t put into words the intuition she felt. It was similar to a state where a certain part of the body itches, but you can’t pinpoint exactly where.

It was inevitable because the strange movements of the buzzing organs and the mechanics of the uninterpretable wounds were being transmitted as information.

She couldn’t expect her to understand such bizarre information.

“I’ve only seen this once before.”

After groping through her memories, she remembered a presence that gave her a similar feeling to Lian. With an indifferent face, Mukan asked Noah.

“This person… Could it be a Chimera?”