"Yeah, I wouldn't bother with trying to heal that thing. It'll probably be more merciful to put it out of its misery. Those wounds are cursed. I can tell that from here." Lancer's voice as he makes his observation is calm but really he is only telling you something that you already knew. Well, about the fact the wounds are cursed, that is.

"Cursed, huh? Good. I've been looking forward to being able to test my abilities against a curse on the level of a Noble Phantasm, or well, at least a curse linked to a Noble Phantasm." Beaky seems to look at you curiously as you take one of the severed limbs in your hand and begin the process of healing it, the severed tendrils miraculously appear almost instantaneously after you remove the cursed wounds, and you yourself aren't really certain if it was the monsters work that regenerated the limbs, or your own. It simply happened too fast for you to catch. "Would you like me to heal you as well, Lancer?"

Part 9