"Ahhhh~
Finally I am full ~" the little girl with platinum golden hair and sapphire eyes exclaimed satisfied while her small white and thin hands patted her stomach that seems to be a little bulging.
"Now I think you have not eaten anything..." Wilson looked at his wallet with few bills and the hospital food card thinking that he had to add credit again.
"Mm. I only ate some donuts..." Renelle commented superficially.
"Donuts?
No wonder that is the only thing there is in House's house... Your father.
It is not good for your health to eat a lot of sugar, I will call House so he goes to buy healthy food... Eh..."
Wilson took out his cell phone but then noticed the movement of the little blonde girl in front of him looking at him with mocking eyes while waving a cell phone in her hand.
"Call him at his office ~" a sweet bell-like soft voice came out of the little girl's small mouth with a mocking tone.
"...He is never in his office when you call him..."
Wilson shrugged his shoulders. Knowing his best friend better he knows that House will be somewhere in the hospital watching television and eating junk food.
"Give him this yourself, I will go to digest ~"
"Wait!"
Before Wilson could speak, Renelle had already stood up and trotted quickly toward the exit of the hospital cafeteria. Then, suddenly Wilson looked at the juice bottle, the spoon and the fork that Renelle had used to eat.
With a feeling of shame Wilson looked left and right, as he saw that no one was paying attention he took out a white handkerchief from his pocket and wrapped the cutlery and the bottle.
Then, like a thief Wilson left the place without worrying about taking the cafeteria tray with the used plates to where they are placed.
They might fine him for not picking up the tray and plates. But Wilson now has an exam in mind.
'It is a joke, I do not want to spend the whole day with Wilson. I had not imagined that having this form would be very useful, I did not have to spend anything and I ate until full.
Come on, this food even if it is from the hospital was not cheap ~'
On the other hand, Renelle, without knowing that the cutlery she had just used and the bottle from which she had just drunk juice were stolen to do strange experiments, trotted randomly through the hospital looking here and there with a new novelty.
But suddenly, Renelle noticed something strange in the air.
'What is this?'
Renelle's body had absorbed a large part of the recently consumed food. And now the young girl's body overflowed with vital energy.
But neither in her previous life nor in this life had she seen such a strange phenomenon before her eyes.
From the people who came and went in the hospital, among nurses, doctors, varied staff, patients and family members Renelle noticed some colored threads.
'I never believed in string theory, but this?' Renelle thought while looking at the strange threads that appeared and disappeared from her sight.
Some threads shone in a -normal- state others seemed to become opaque.
After walking around a few times, Renelle saw the strangest thread. This thread seemed to become gray and seemed to cut off prematurely.
The thread came out of a young woman who was lying in a bed in a hospital room.
Renelle could see inside the room through the walls and crystal doors as clear as water that left little privacy.
Without thinking much Renelle slid the sliding door and entered the room. A feeling of knowing what was happening assaulted her heart.
"...Who are you?" a tired, almost worn out voice came out of the mouth of the woman lying in the bed.
"... It seems I have seen you before..." said the young woman.
The patient has a somewhat pale face, she has fair skin and dark hair now a little disheveled and Renelle felt the strange sensation of death.
Renelle is not unfamiliar with this sensation. Not only because she has faced death many times in her previous life. But because he himself has snatched death from other people.
And yes, it is snatching death, not life. Although she has done both at the same time.
Thanks to the black book, Renelle House managed to direct and store vital energy in her cells, not only her own but also that of others.
When someone eats it is obvious that they can transform food and nutrients into energy apart from biological materials.
But, death is also an energy, rather. It is the same as vitality but in another form. Well says the law of thermodynamics; vital energy does not disappear either it only changes.
So, when Renelle House in her previous life snatched the vital energy of others, she did not stop only when this one died, but also continued absorbing the energy but now death energy.
It can be said that this method is so malicious since it simply cuts the opportunity of rebirth of the creatures.
But House never touched his heart. The people who wanted to kill him deserve to die in his hands. Especially the people who had committed atrocious crimes. Eliminating them completely was something Renelle House did to prevent them from harming more people.
So, upon feeling the death energy in the gray-tinged part of the colored thread of this woman called her attention.
Renelle did not answer the woman's question, by instinct she only placed her left hand on the woman's forehead from where the colored thread sprang and somehow her vital energy explored the woman's head as if looking with her eyes.
"Interesting ~
Do you know you have parasites in your brain?"
Renelle spoke with an excited voice. Not so excited about knowing what happens to the patient who apparently has a destiny in death, but in these new abilities she has acquired in her eyes.
Being able to see a strange colored thread that seems to represent people's life and being able to use vital energy to explore as if it were a radar, only better.
"Parasites?
It seems my doctors said it could be a tumor"
"A tumor?
You will not be...." Renelle upon hearing the woman in the hospital bed thought of something.
Renelle walked to the foot of the bed and took the clipboard with the patient's medical record.
"... You are Rebecca Adler, but. Are you not Jewish?"
"Mm, yes, I am Rebecca Adler and I am also Jewish. But you have not told me who you are little one. Are you a relative of a hospital patient or of a doctor? Your clothes are strange..."
"Do not pay attention to trifles.
Then tell me why a Jewish woman would eat pork" Renelle left the clipboard hanging again at the foot of the bed and walked back until she was next to the bed and looked the patient in the eyes.
"I do not eat pork..."
"Everybody lies"
"No, I..."
"You have -Neurocysticercosis-. Let me explain what it is.
Neurocysticercosis is a serious parasitic infection of the central nervous system caused by the larvae of the tapeworm scientific name -Taenia solium- (cysticerci) when they lodge in the brain.
And the way to get infested with tapeworm is to eat contaminated pork and not very well cooked. Something that would not have happened if you followed the kosher diet.
Or at least you lie about not eating pork or lie about being Jewish. Do you also lie about having a cousin named James?"
"I do not have a cousin named James..."
"Uhnm~ Just I said it.
Everybody lies"
"I am not lying about. That, I do not have a cousin named James, and yes I am Jewish..."
"This time I was not talking about you"
"How do you know I have parasites in my brain? You only touched my forehead.
Are you some kind of fortune teller?" Rebecca Adler looked strangely at the young girl.
"Fortune tellers do not exist. Besides your symptoms match the diagnosis" Renelle crossed her arms. As an atheist of two lives she does not believe in anything paranormal and everything can be proven by science.
'My rebirth trip? It can also be proven by science, but not for now...'
Renelle hid her shame behind pride.
"Are you the daughter of some doctor?" the patient Rebecca Adler changed the conversation feeling very embarrassed in front of this little girl who knows where she came from.
"It could be said that yes." 'I said, everybody lies. Besides, it may not be a lie, in my previous life I never met my parents. So it could well be that one or both were doctors...'
"Then, little doctor, what should I do? What is the treatment?" Rebecca Adler, although exhausted, was having fun with the interaction with this little cutie with golden hair and blue eyes.
The girl seems very intelligent to her, perhaps as the daughter of a medical family she grew up among medical books and the pride and arrogance characteristic of doctors. Although in this little girl these characteristics make her look very cute and tender.
"The relationship between tapeworms and the immune system is a bit more complicated, it is known that tapeworms are usually asymptomatic, and this seems to be because, depending on the relationship between the parasite and its host, the immune system may not recognize the worm as if it possessed antigens to which it can bind.
However if the parasite dies this usually triggers a large immune reaction, since the dead parts of the parasite cause a reaction in any host. That is why steroids are normally administered along with the antiparasitic medication.
Possible side effects include abdominal pain, nausea, headache, dizziness, fever and hair loss. We will probably make you continue taking the pills even after finishing the treatment"
"That is very problematic young doctor. Is there no other safer and painless way to eliminate the parasites in my brain?" Rebecca Adler put on a sad and somewhat exaggerated fearful expression. Making an effort to make a pitiful expression in front of the young girl.
While inside, Rebecca Adler complained that the blonde young girl was actually presumptuous saying a bunch of medical nonsense.
"We can kill the tapeworms with needles! ~
Besides, it is no use killing only the ones you have in your brain, we have to eliminate all the ones in your whole body. So we would have to stab you with many needles ~"
"Ahem! I will stick with the medications!" Rebecca Adler felt fearful that this girl would suddenly start pricking her everywhere with needles!
Despite feeling exhausted, her body still drew energy to tremble with fear at just imagining herself transformed into a porcupine.
While Renelle and Rebecca talked, Renelle continued experimenting with her eyes and her new ability. If she concentrated she could not only detect that colored line of vitality from the woman in the bed, but also the colored threads of the parasites, of all the parasites in the patient's body and not just the tapeworms.
Renelle believes that she does not need to use medications and simply absorb the vitality of the parasites in Rebecca's body. With this she would cure her instantly. Besides, Renelle needs to devour energy!
Renelle cannot do what she did in her previous life when she survived day by day. Here she cannot simply steal energy from another person. Moreover, it has not even crossed her mind.
'But stealing energy from parasites is not bad, right? Only from harmful parasites...' Renelle thought internally. Until the noise of the door and a voice pulled her out of her daydream.
"Oh! I did not think she had a visitor...
She is one of her students, she is a very beautiful little girl ~"
A young doctor entered the room and for some instinctive reason placed the palm of her hand on Renelle's hair and caressed it.
Renelle froze.