Sss—
Under Lynn’s gaze, that tentacle slithered into her helmet.
The Black Moth Fairy immediately giggled with her eyes closed, hands and feet flailing.
"Yada! (*≧▽≦), don’t do that! That’s so weird! Wait, you can’t just tickle me like that, what the—! Yada! No! Doctor, you’re so mean~!"
[Ding! Black Moth Fairy’s favorability toward you +10]
Lynn’s whole face froze.
"Miss… I think you should open your eyes and take a look…"
The fairy named Yueyue (๑＞︶＜๑) opened her eyes, and in an instant saw Lynn standing two meters away with that stiff expression.
She was stunned.
"Huh?""Doctor, why are you standing so far away?"
Lynn replied stiffly, "I was standing that far away to begin with."
Yueyue blinked, then immediately felt a strange sensation at her neck.
She instinctively turned her gaze toward the side of her helmet.
"…"
Buzz—
Yueyue’s expression went blank in an instant.
[SAN -30!]
The next moment.
An explosive, high-decibel scream rang through Wandering Souls Alley.
……
Operating room.
Yueyue rolled wildly on the operating table, screaming (ΩДΩ):
"Why do I have weird hands growing on me!! Something’s wrong! Help!!"
"Don’t move! Uncle will help you!"
Seeing this, Lynn panicked and charged forward without hesitation.
"Help! It’s going inside!"
"!!!"
Lynn was shocked.
This was unacceptable!
Lynn quickly pinned her down, grabbed that appendage with all his strength, gritted his teeth, and with a painful ripping sound pulled the tentacle out from her helmet.
Ssslurp ssslurp—
The tentacle writhed in Lynn’s hand.
Slime splattered all over the surroundings.
The terrified fairy’s SAN plummeted; she hugged her helmet and screamed in horror:
"It’s growing out of me! It’s actually growing from my shoulder!"
"Hold still!"
Lynn (｀皿´)ﾉ snatched up the nearby Boning Knife and pressed the tentacle onto the operating table.
Then the blade came down.
Squit—
The tentacle flopped off the table in a flutter.
Yueyue: "(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)!!"
Lynn stamped on the tentacle a few times until it was mashed to bits.
Still trembling, Yueyue grabbed at Lynn’s chest, turned her head, and stared at the bits of still-crawling tentacle.
"What is going on?!"
Lynn pondered, "Seems like a minor side effect of the potion."
"Side… effect…" Yueyue repeated in shock.
Lynn closed his eye and said, "Exactly. You know the stronger the potion, the stranger the side effects. If this powerful regrowth potion can resurrect a lost limb, then of course it might produce some extra things! That’s totally normal."
"To… be normal?" Yueyue echoed blankly.
"What normal?!?"
She (ΩДΩ) grabbed her helmet, instantly drew the small sword at her waist, and began slicing the air at Lynn with trembling motions.
What kind of terrifying potion casually makes you sprout weird tentacles? This isn’t treatment—it’s mutation! If it’s already growing weird tentacles now, what if it grows even stranger things later…
"It’s mutating!" she wailed through tears, trembling as she pointed the sword at Lynn.
The tiny blade sliced threateningly through the air.
[Black Moth Fairy SAN -10]
Lynn extended two fingers, pinched the tip of her sword, and moved it aside.
He adjusted his monocle and said seriously, "Don’t be afraid. The rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation. Although you’re a wealthy fairy, an occasional mutation isn’t a big deal. And even though you mutated,…"
Lynn pointed at her arm.
"Didn’t your arm grow a lot too? Doesn’t that mean the potion is very effective?"
He looked thoroughly earnest.
"But… but!" Yueyue sobbed, "It’s really so scary!"
[Black Moth Fairy SAN -10]
Lynn reassured her solemnly, "Don’t be scared. The doctor is here, so rest assured. Listen to me: no matter what weird things grow this time, I can chop them off for you with one cut!"
"Trust me!"
Ding—
The boning knife in Lynn’s hand gleamed with a faint halo.
Yueyue hugged her helmet in a daze and said, "R… really?"
Lynn nodded seriously, "Really. Besides, don’t you want a healthy arm? For the sake of a healthy body, what’s a little mutation?"
Yueyue stood there dazed.
It… it made sense.
But why did she still feel like he had some other strange motive!
"One… last time!" Yueyue sobbed through tears.
Lynn gave her a loud thumbs-up with a ding.
He highly praised and affirmed her stubborn courage!
Then, trembling, the Black Moth Fairy watched as the new dose was smeared onto the amputated arm again.
Time passed slowly.
And then, in the next moment.
"A tail!! I’ve grown a terrifying tail! (ΩДΩ) Chop it off! Quick, chop it off!!"
Squit—
"I can feel something behind me in my clothes! Another sticky tentacle! Chop it off, chop it off!"
Squit—
"Ah!! Wings!! New wings are growing again! Hey? They’re kind of pretty—maybe I can keep these…"
Squit—
"Ah! (ΩДΩ) I said you could keep them, how did you chop them off!!"
……
Over ten minutes later.
[Ding! Task complete: Limb regrowth. You received 200 Skeleton Coins, 200 EXP]
Yueyue lay there trembling and dazed; her fully restored arm twitched slightly.
In the wooden bucket beside them were all the strange limbs that had just been chopped off.
"How do you feel?"
Lynn carefully helped her up.
Yueyue answered dazedly, "I feel… my whole body is covered with weird things…"
"Don’t be afraid, they were all hallucinations. I chopped off everything that shouldn’t have grown."
Yueyue struggled to raise her trembling hand and murmured, "The potion costs money… chopping off those weird things should be free, right…"
Lynn’s eyes teared up.
"New Year special: buy one, chop one free!"
……