Silva was standing motionless under everyone's gaze, a knife in her chest. Emely stared at her friend with empty eyes, unable to process what just happened.

"That's a shame, I thought she would see my attack coming and dodge."

Silv approached her other self with a disappointed look. Her hand reached for the knife in Silva's chest to retrieve it but was suddenly punched before she had the chance. Everything happened so abruptly, it took a few seconds before everyone realized what happened. The empty look on Emely's face transformed into a bright smile when she saw Silva fighting back.

"Silva! Are you alright?"

"As good as I can... It still hurts... Maybe I should have accepted Opal's help..." Silva took a deep breath and turned toward Emely with an apologetic smile "I'm sorry, Neige told me that a gentleman shouldn't worry a lady."

"Don't worry about me! As long as you're alright, so am I!"

A smile appeared on Silv's face, glad to see her enemy standing up.

"Ha! I knew you wouldn't be dead just from that!"

The girl with red hair quickly searched for her firearm but was interrupted by Silva, locking her arm. Emel ran toward Silva and pushed her away. She would usually be able to resist but the pain made it hard for her to focus and keep balance.

"Wait! Maybe we can find a peaceful solution!"

"Emel, you dumbass! You can see that she's not going to listen!" Silv yelled at Emel "I'll come back, Silva! I'll prove to you that I am the real main character!"

Silv took a ball from her pocket and threw it on the ground. A loud sound and a bright flash of lightning stunned everyone, taking a few minutes to get control back.

Silva noticed that they had run away and quickly hurried toward her friend tied to the tree. Emely was finally free and immediately took Silva in her arms with tears in her eyes.

"Silva... I'm so glad you're here..."

"Can we... Get emotional later?"

"Oh... Right..."

Silva's outburst made Emely forget about the blade stuck in her chest. She turned toward Remiel and ordered her robot as soon as she could.

"Remiel! Come help me!"

To her surprise, Remiel was standing still, her eyes closed. When she got closer, she realized that something was wrong with her. She took the robot and Silva's hand and hurried to return to the ship to get everyone into safety.

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Silva was immediately brought to the med bay to be taken care of by Gwyn. Neige and Sepide were standing next to her, watching her sleeping. They could only feel concern for their friend and hope she was alright. They waited for a while until Gwyn finally explained Silva's situation.

"She's not in danger. She should be alright soon."

Neige let out a sigh of relief at Gwyn's words.

"That's reassuring. I hope she'll stop ending up here."

"I can only hope the same..."

Neige looked at his friend next to him for a moment. She was holding Silva's hand and staring at her with concern. Silva finally opened her eyes in pain. She tried her best to stand up but had difficulties moving.

"Ouch... What happened?"

Neige hit her head, prompting Silva to put her hand on the part that her friend touched.

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"You were being reckless, that's what happened. We were all worried for you..."

"It's alright, I'm all-"

Silva stopped when she put her foot on the ground, grimacing in pain. Gwyn searched for something in her notebook and shared her results with her patient.

"You'll have some trouble walking for a while, some important parts were hit."

"You couldn't say that before I tried?"

"You couldn't stay on the bed until I warn you? Don't worry though, I'll give you crutches and you should be fine. In a week you should be able to walk normally again."

"A week? That's like a year at least!"

"But isn't a year composed of 52 weeks?" Sepide asked with confusion.

"I know... It was a joke."

The doctor continued writing in her notebook before putting her back in her pocket.

"Would you prefer a wheelchair instead?"

"And being disabled? No thanks. I don't even need crutches!" Silva tried to step out but was stopped once more by the pain "Okay... I'll take the crutches..."

"You should probably go see Emely, she was extremely worried. I had to get her out of here because she wouldn't stop crying..."

"Fine, I'll go comfort this crybaby!"

"Just one more thing, you're not going on missions, neither Silva nor Neige."

"Even me?" Neige asked with revolt in his eyes "I'm not the one that ended with a knife on my chest!"

"At least people are touching my chest~" Silva said with a grin. Gwyn cleared her throat and explained her reasoning while ignoring Silva.

"Your mental health has been heavily affected by what happened yesterday, you still need to recover.

Neige rolled up his eyes before standing up.

"Fine, I'll just catch up on the new language I'm learning. You want us to help you, Silva?"

The girl seemed tempted to refuse but ended up swallowing her pride and nodded her head.

"Yeah... Thanks..."

The three friends walked together at a very slow pace. Silva tried her best but was heavily slowed down by her recent wound.

"I feel like a grandma... I can't even understand where we are."

"Why not? Can't you use your blind superpower anymore?" Sepide asked with curiosity.

"My blind superpower? It's not that deep. You could probably learn how to feel your environment too if you trained. I mostly use the ground to feel where things are, along with other things like sound and wind. But I can barely hold my two feet on the ground now... I feel like I'm blind."

"I was starting to think that you pretended to be blind all this time." Neige chuckled slightly, making her friend pout.

"You literally saw me hit every wall of this ship in my first year here, how could you forget?"

"When I see you aim and do backflips, I'm truly impressed by how far you've come. It's easy to forget that you needed help with everything at the beginning."

"It's just how amazing I am!" Silva smiled proudly at Neige's praise.

Sepide was curious to know about Silva's past on the ship. It felt weird for her to know that her friend wasn't always the experienced member she is now.

"Did Silva go on missions right after she joined the ship?"

"It took her a year before she actually went on missions, and even then, it was mostly simple ones. We rarely had to fight or risk our lives... I'm really sorry it ended up like that Sepide, you deserved to at least have a few days to get used to your new life before being thrown on a mission."

"It's okay, it feels like it was so long ago. We made so many memories together since then..."

"We'll make plenty more!" Silva said with a cheerful smile "Maybe one of them will be visiting a maid cafe or something."

"I think we should think about more... Appropriate memories."

"Why's that? I never said we need to do anything dirty there. What are you thinking of doing there Neige~?"

Neige let out a sigh before smiling softly at his friend.

"How did you make Emely fall for you? She's the most innocent girl I know."

"Maybe it's because you don't know her enough."

"Don't act like you talk about these kinds of things together, you both acted like it was the end of the world when you talked about porn."

"Please... Don't remind me of that..." Silva looked away from Neige so he couldn't see her red face. Sepide looked at her with curiosity, trying to understand their relationship.

"Did you kiss yet?"

"W-Why are you asking that? I thought you were innocent!"

"I wonder who could have taught her that." Neige chuckled softly while Silva was trying to think of an answer to her friend's question.

"Me and Emely are... Taking our time. We're not even together! Just close friends."

"Close friends that watch porn together."

"We didn't! Get these thoughts out of your mind!"

Neige couldn't help but laugh at Silva's embarrassment. Even Sepide seemed amused at the situation.

"I think I understand why you're always trying to embarrass everyone, it's pretty fun."

"It's not! I'm just embarrassed because you're dragging Emely into it."

"Don't worry Silva. We'll support you in everything you do. Take all the time you need with her."

"Thanks, Sepide, you two are wonderful friends!" Silva smiled softly at her two friends, glad to be able to spend time with them after everything that happened.

The group arrived in front of Emely's lab. Silva didn't understand why they stopped, not realizing they already arrived.

"We're at your girlfriend's lab, you want us to help you enter?"

"She's not my girlfriend! I'll manage don't worry... I'll just call you to help me get back to my room if Emely's busy."

"You can call us anytime."

"Have fun Silva!"

Neige and Sepide left Silva in front of the lab. She stayed there for a moment, reminiscing the time she spent with them before preparing herself to enter the room and see Emely.