You kneel down to inspect the pieces of Arcueid's body "H-huh? What are you doing?" Shiki doesn't really know what he's supposed to do right now.

"What does it look like I'm doing, you royal pain in the ass?" You snap at Shiki as you move Arcueid's head in order to connect it to her neck again. "I'm healing her." You proceed to make use of what might be the greatest healing ability to exist on the entire planet, the healing ability only you can make use of. The ability to erase wounds with Truth. Even a wound brought about through the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, usually immutable and forever unchangeable even to the manipulation of time, cannot stand up to having the truth of the event reduced to nothing.

Shiki just stands there, watching you quite literally put Arcueid back together again like she's some sort of jigsaw puzzle. Of course this would be completely pointless if Arcueid had actually been killed, but you know that simply isn't the case. "But..."

"I don't care what your Sensei told you about your eyes. Her sister, my Shishou, told me otherwise." Of course, even the ability of Truth wouldn't do any good if Shiki had stabbed a death point, but you can reverse this much.

"W-what?" Shiki is totally confused by the whole situation. To be fair, you'd need to be a special kind of messed up not to at least be taken aback slightly by the strangeness he's currently experiencing. You feel like punching him for setting off a set of events that you really could've dealt without right now. Couldn't he have just taken a far-side route?

"Look, I'm a wizard." You say bluntly. "I'll explain everything to you in a second, but for now I'm going to need you to hold on." That seems to shut Shiki up for enough time for you to finish healing the damage he so carelessly caused to Arcueid. Though you didn't feel like wasting the magical energy on fixing her clothing, so she's still wearing a completely tattered outfit, it's not covered in her own blood anymore though. Seems like she's yet to regain consciousness.

Part 15