If it was anyone else who had heard that phrase, they would have been shocked beyond words. She was not alive? Could she be a dead person, then?

But when Leanna heard that, she was overjoyed instead of shocked. “Mr. Larson, y-you could really tell Gemma’s condition. Looks like you’re the only one who could save her, just as the old miracle doctor had told me!”

“What do you mean?” Matthew asked, surprised.

Suppressing her excitement, she asked him in a low voice, “What do you think of Gemma’s condition now, Mr. Larson?”

Matthew thought about it for a while before asking her instead, “Was Orleans the last hiding place of your friend?”

Again, he surprised her. “How did you know that?”

Matthew let out a small sigh and explained a shocking tale to her, “Gemma no longer has a heart and the only way to keep such a person alive in this world exists only in Orleans.

places a mother worm into a person’s body in place of a heart, while another child worm is placed

Remedy, where the beating mother worm residing in the

good as a regular heart, it could still keep a person alive! However, this method is akin to killing one’s life to save another, because the person with the child worm has to take the burden of two persons’ heartbeat,

 

Leanna stared wide-eyed at

wrong? Was I

said in a shaky voice, “Mr. Larson, e-everything you said is true. That’s indeed

pressed on

I was hiding some details from you just now. My best friend didn’t pass away back then, but the

her there to watch as Gemma’s heartbeat slowly died down. Fortunately, an old miracle doctor happened to meet them by chance and saved them. My best friend begged for him to save her daughter and he used this Heart-linking Remedy to save Gemma. But the price was, she has to remain in

lament at how great her best friend was—able to bear all sorts of suffering for

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