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.

body in place of a heart, while another child worm is placed into

in the person without a heart will now be used as a

because the person with the child worm has to take the burden of two persons’ heartbeat, and is destined to lie in bed forever, suffering

 

stared

Was I

she said in a shaky voice, “Mr. Larson, e-everything you

Matthew pressed on

to him in a low voice, “Actually, I was hiding some details from you just now. My best friend didn’t pass away back then, but the young master tortured her

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

couldn’t help but lament at how great her best friend was—able to bear all sorts of suffering for the sake

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