"Umm ahh my head," Crystal said waking up from fainting as he brought his hand to his forehead as a vain attempt to ease the pain.

"Crystal finally woke up! ... I was so worried," Yulio said excitedly.

"Ahh shut up Yulio, my head hurts," Crystal claimed after recognizing the annoying voice of her partner

"Oops sorry," Yulio apologized, putting his hand over his mouth for a few moments, beginning a moment of silence.

During this time Crystal analyzed holding her pain around her noting that she was lying where she had slept the previous night, and through the window, it was noticeable that it was almost twilight time, and with this, she deduced remembering her last memory that she had probably passed out, and then breaking the silence I ask for information.

"Tell me calmly and quietly that my head hurts, what happened after I passed out, I tell you that the last thing I remember is heading in here after the meeting with the soldiers"

"Well, your memory is good, after entering you vomited and passed out, I was very worried, as I couldn't leave you alone to seek help, I decided to leave you resting where you are, to then see what to do to help you, I was very worried deciding whether to go out and leave you or stay and take care of yourself, so since you didn't have a fever or anything, I decided to leave you resting supposing that you passed out due to mental fatigue from using magic and for lack of food since, if I remember correctly, at that time we still hadn't had lunch; I also thought maybe it's because ... well it doesn't matter it's just a crazy assumption"T Yulio explains more or less well what happened, being that his final sentence blushed a little.

"Julio, what is your crazy assumption, don't get stuck," the weakened Crystal instigated.

At this Yulio blushed suggested awkwardly.

"That maybe it could be ..., that maybe ..., you are ..., in ..., this ...

During these slow words, Crystal quickly intuited what she was going to say, and she turned pale first, then reasoned out her condition better by saying something embarrassed.

"No, not that, since on the trip I got the .... —Crystal stopped in her tracks turning red with embarrassment and then continued saying "Stupid, shameless, making me say vulgar things, shut up for a while."

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"Sorry," Yulio finished saying, thinking that he shouldn't have suggested the latter.

After the apology, they were both silent again, during which Crystal thinking about the first thing Yulio said and thinking about her condition, reasoned for the fainting and told Yulio.

"I suppose that I partially fainted due to mental fatigue along with the lack of food you said, with this, we finish the case, now tell me I hope you have something to eat since you said the symptom yourself."

"Oh yes, of course, I made soup, I'll bring it to you," Yulio said and then left the room

Meanwhile, Crystal's thoughts housed the true reasoning of her fainting which, in addition to what Yulio reasoned, we must add his current period, and the fatigue of the trip, but nevertheless, she did not think about the accumulated mental stress of all the negative events accumulated within it.

Time passed and Yulio brought soup for both of them to start a humble dinner on the floor, then they talked for a bit, and went to sleep on the uncomfortable floor thinking about the urgency of a bed.

The next day after having breakfast as Crystal had planned, she went to the barracks to train the surviving soldiers harshly, resulting in Yulio inside the dilapidated mansion without much to do.

"Guess the routine begins," Yulio said at the entrance after his partner was out of sight

[I think it's time to stop being useless and do something useful ... well, to the charge.]

Saying this, Yulio trotted to the opposite side of the mansion, towards the polluted river that passed a few kilometers behind the mansion's backyard, once he reached the riverbank with the mansion far behind him, He commented.

"Crystal told me that she would be in the barracks until the afternoon hours and that she would have lunch in the barracks, that in the meantime I saw what to do, I think it is time to develop my magical gift, I have never been good with the magic reason why I have always given up to practice my gift, besides that it was never very useful to me, but I think that with this gift it could be useful for this situation."

Next, Yulio just a few meters from the river made a small hole of a few centimeters, in which filled with river water, he then commented.

"Suppose Crystal was right, I'm stupid, next time I'll bring a container and take it home, well here I go."

After commenting on the air, Yulio bent down to the small hole and put his right hand in the puddle and from this a stream of mana began to emerge, which came out of his hand, and expanded over the water and then returned to the hand, doing a circle of expulsion and regression, this only lasted a few seconds when Yulio turned pale and coughed up blood.

"I suppose this is going to be more difficult than I thought, but I think my assumption was not wrong, I just have to expel the impurities in another way."

That said, he started doing the same thing for 2 hours, then ended up lying on the floor looking pale and sick, but with a smile on his face.

"Hehehe, I did it, but what a hell of a difficult thing this is like I will have to practice a long time, but something is something, hahahaha."

Meanwhile, Yulio was rejoicing, the hole in which it contained contaminated water, now contained now pure.