Queen of The Scalpel - Chapter 18
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At the administrative office of the Britia Empire.
“What? Elise?”
The high ranker official and youngest son of the chancellor, Chris, asked in surprise.
“She’s still in the hospital?”
“Yes.”
The librarian replied with an uncomfortable expression.
“She came in the morning and has been reading books without getting up once. She hasn’t even had a single meal….she doesn’t listen to us when we call for her….”
“But the time right now!”
Chris was surprised again after looking at the clock. It was almost midnight.
‘Not a single meal? That child?’
Elise always took care of each meal after she had changed since a while back. But she was studying without even a single meal until this time? He quickly got up and headed towards the building next door.
The large library was empty, but there was a familiar person in the corner. A doll-like face. A petite body that seemed like it would be crushed with one hug. It was Elise.
“Lissy!”
He called her, but she was focused entirely on the books she was wearing. So he grabbed her shoulders and said her name again.
“Elise!”
“AHHH!!”
She screamed in surprise.
“B-Brother? What’s wrong?”
She was surprised to the point of tears.
“What do you mean what’s wrong? Do you know what time it is?”
“Oh…it’s already…”
She was shocked after seeing the clock. Chris shook his head.
‘Just how…’
He looked at the books stacked up as high as a mountain next to Elise.
-Medicine and Pharmacy
-Physiology
-Gauton Anatomy
-General Disease of Graham
-….
‘She read those books? Really?’
They were books that looked hard to understand at even a glance. Elise, who didn’t even read romance novels, read those books?
“Lissy.”
“Yes?”
“Do you….understand these books?”
“Ah…”
She understood his intent asking the question and made an awkward expression. She avoided the question.
“They’re hard, but I just tried my best to read them.”
‘She just read it?’
Chris tilted his head and looked at her notes.
‘Those notes don’t seem like she just read them.’
He didn’t understand the details because he didn’t have any medical knowledge, but he saw that they were specific and neat notes.
‘Are they someone else’s notes?’
But that ugly and messy handwriting was definitely Elise’s.
Unlike her pretty face, her handwriting had always been ugly ever since
she was young. It was her trademark.
‘Did she secretly study medicine all by herself? No way. Is my little sister actually a genius?’
The Clarence family had superior genes. Her father was the chancellor, and his brother was the vice-leader of the Rifle Knightage, and an Aura Knight. Elise could also have a hidden talent….but wasn’t this too sudden?
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
“Gosh, Elise.”
Chris hid his shock and jokingly teased her.
“Your handwriting is still messy. If someone saw, they would think a horrible girl wrote it.”
“Brother!”
Elise’s face turned red. In her first life, second life, and even now. Her handwriting was always horrible.
‘“Anyways, Lissy, it’s late so let’s go back.”
“Ah….”
But she asked him an unexpected question.
“Um…brother. Could I go after studying for a bit more?”
“More? But it’s midnight.”
“That’s true….but the library is open for 24 hours…and there’s still some information I want to read.”
Elise muttered the words. It was like she was asking if she could play a bit more at a playdate.
“You can’t.”
“I can’t?”
“You can’t. It’s too late.”
“Hm? Hm? Can’t I? Hm? Brother.”
She hung onto his arm and acted adorably.
‘S-So cute!’
Seeing his sister acting cute for the first time in a while, he felt like his heart was gonna explode, but he shook his head.
“You really can’t. You haven’t even eaten a single meal. You’re gonna get sick.”
“I’m fine….”
Elise pouted puffing her cheeks out,
Even that was cute, so Chris messed up her hair.
“No means no. Let’s come back tomorrow.”
***
Elise put everything into her studies. She left her house early in the morning and read books until midnight, and studied from the books even after coming back to her house. Seeing her skip sleep to study surprised her entire family.
“Lissy, take it easy. You’re really gonna get sick.”
Her family worried, but she shook her head.
“I’m okay.”