A moment of panic and fear spiked through Yuki at the sight of the blood and the grunts of pain. She became acutely aware the system didn’t care how things happened, only that they did. Jenny hit the floor with a loud thump resounding in the room.

On the bed, Bee stirred, mumbling. She rolled around, dragging the blanket over her head, and fell asleep again.

Yuki jumped off the table. Her first instinct was to cast [Regeneration], but glancing at the still-opened parchment by her side gave her pause. Picture-Jenny had blood coming out of her eyes and nose, just like Real-Jenny, but focusing on the image, the numbers the system gave her made no sense. Whatever caused the bleeding dealt minimal damage to the girl’s head. Jenny’s status marked her as unconscious. Yuki wasn’t sure it was worth using a magic point to cast the healing spell. How could she help?

Maybe Jenny failed some resistance check? It was still strange thinking about this, but last time, when Yuki also bled because of the burrower’s magic-eating attack, her bleeding only started after she failed a check. Endurance or Willpower, Yuki wasn’t sure which.

Something clicked in Yuki’s mind. The injury didn’t seem serious, and things she had never considered before came to the surface of her thoughts. She jumped until she was by Jenny’s head and, with one paw, opened one of the girl’s eyes.

Sclera looked typical, a faint pink hue she attributed to the bloody tears, not blood in the sclera. Iris remained a vibrant blue, and the pupils, while dilated, didn’t look out of place. Yuki was sure there was nothing to worry about at the moment. Jenny would wake up in a few hours, probably with a headache. Knowing these things was strange when she was never one to pay attention to biology classes, or even watch medical TV shows many people were obsessed with.

Yuki willed the system to display the logs in verbose mode again. It didn’t take much to find the explanation for the newfound knowledge.

[First Aid] check successful.

Yuki looked at her skills, and first aid was among those in the relevant system tab. Yuki closed Jenny’s eyes and settled down near the woman’s shoulder. She thought back on the previous moments. What had she thought at the time?

How could she help?

Did the system initiate a [First Aid] check in response to her desire to help Jenny? It seemed silly now, but apart from situations where a reactionary test somehow popped up on her logs, like a willpower check, Yuki had ignored all the other skills aside from the magic-related ones. Early in the day, she noticed the effects of Insight when she wanted to know what Bee was thinking about, and now the seriousness of Jenny’s injuries by wanting to learn how to help. Even now, Yuki knew she could do more: clean the blood, change Jenny’s position, and massage the muscles on the woman’s neck to help circulation. If she did that, somehow, it would help Jenny recover faster.

It cost nothing to try, she thought, getting up from her cuddle position and following the instructions from first aid.

The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.

----------------------------------------

A few minutes later, Yuki finished kneading — for lack of a better word — the woman’s neck and shoulders. Without hands, Yuki had to improvise, taking care not to scratch the caramel skin. A rabbit's nails weren’t as sharp as a cat’s claws, but given the situation, it would scratch and maybe even draw blood if she wasn't careful.

The parchment representing Jenny’s status showed that the minor head injury had healed up during the “treatment.” Yuki hadn’t smelled magic, and changing the body position and kneading muscles shouldn’t be enough to speed up healing to this degree. This all smelled of system chicanery. Right now, according to Jenny’s character sheet, she was just sleeping instead of unconscious.

That opened up a whole jar of pickled carrots.

Yuki already knew she was missing a lot from the system. Her current theory was that whatever explanation she had received, it had been done in her second life, the lost life, the one she had no memories of. She had a few theories about the whole situation:

Ferdinand was old. That was a fact she had ignored until now. The man she saw in the manor was not the same young adult she remembered from the before. The man looked rugged, past his thirties, not reaching his twenties.

Log messages. When Yuki first woke up after her death, she remembered the absurd number of log messages. She scrolled up, never reaching the beginning of the system log. She gave up on that task because she didn’t understand the language, which was mostly the same message repeatedly. She hadn’t given it too much thought, assuming it was the broken system trope. But what if the system wasn’t broken, and Yuki just didn’t know what it could and couldn’t do? What other hidden functions were there she didn’t know about?

Yuki’s eyes moved toward her own character sheet tabs. She had ignored most of the skills there, thinking they only represented things she knew how to do, a numerical representation that didn’t change anything about how she actually did things. But now, with [Insight] and [First Aid], she had proof the system had other functions and drip-fed her knowledge she wasn’t aware she had — when she succeeded in a check.

Once more, she willed the system log into view and read the entries she had mostly ignored until now. Yuki grouped a few more pressing logs, thinking about what they represented.

…

[Love Fluff: Rabbits] passion check failed.

[Evade] check successful.

[Evade] check failed.

…

That made no sense, even if it explained a lot of things. Yuki could point out the moments in question for each of those checks. It started with her failing the passion check. She all but panicked inside the bag when she heard Whisker. The following two were easy as well. She evaded grasping hands and failed that one kick. These weren’t the only evade checks on the list; there were many more.

…

[Love Fluff: Rabbits] passion check failed.

[Insight] check successful.

[Love Fluff: Rabbits] passion check failed.

[Willpower] check failed.

…

That would be her talk with Bee. She remembered the same unnatural feelings about things, mostly dismissing them at the time and then noticing Bee's body language, followed by panicking about the snakepard's arrival.

…

[Love Fluff Rabbits] passion check failed.

[Perception] check successful.

…

[First Aid] check successful.

This last group of messages was already back at the inn. Yuki had lost her composure when thinking about how Jenny had saved her and Whisker. Just a few minutes ago, she recognized the sounds of Jenny’s steps, even from afar, followed by the first aid after Jenny got hurt.

Yuki peeked at the skill’s tab. If the system somehow let her do things she couldn’t before, then it was worth checking the skills in detail and picking some useful ones. Then, she could grind them for perks. Was that the path to power in this scenario?