Location- Sun Blossom City, Card Creationist Association, Auction house, West Wing Hall
Hearing that the procedure advised by the quack doctor to treat Lucy's condition was a common practice in mortal medicine and was quite popular during the monster war, Eliza was surprised. And immediately understood how the medic cards had easily overshadowed the importance of the medic cards. Between having your fractured leg magically recovered in seconds or waiting for months to remove the cast after your fracture was healed, anybody would choose the former. There was no surprise why the mortal medicine was not given enough credit.
"No, I will wait here. I have seen my share of blood and gore" Eliza decided to not take Rami's advice, the idea of leaving her friend alone in a room with two men with the chance of her friend being sedated did not sit right with her.
"I will be here, watching over you, you have nothing to fear," Eliza muttered to Lucy, and then she stared at the quack doctor one last time and added, "I hope you will prove my gut wrong."
"Okay," I replied to Eliza and gloved on while using the array to sanitize the room and the four of us within it one last time. And then asked Lucy, "Get on the table and relax. Everything will be over before you know it."
"Yes," Lucy nodded and headed towards the operating table but then she turned back and rushed into Eliza's embrace giving her one big hug.
Eliza was surprised but she understood, despite how stubborn Lucy was about going through this procedure she too was afraid of it. Eliza wanted to say one or two words of support but ended up saying, "If you don't want to go through this, just say the word, and I will take you out of here."
"Thank you but no, I want to do this," Lucy resolved herself and headed back to the operating table and lay on it.
I signaled Rami to use his 'Deep Sleep' and 'No Pain' cards on Lucy, together they will act as a replacement for the Anesthesia medication to put Lucy under so that we can operate on her without worrying about her feeling pain or waking up when we would be drilling a hole in her skull. Rami followed my instructions and sent Lucy into a deep sleep state with her pain receptors dampened to feel no pain.
'It has been a while since I last witnessed the mortal medicine in practice. Was it the monster war? No the most recent was at the way beyond,' Agatha's voice sounded in my head. And then she asked, 'Wyatt, how do you know that there is an abnormal mass of tissue putting stress on the girl's brain causing the complications in her mental and emotional response?'
Eliza was too wrapped up in the idea of persuading Lucy not to undergo the procedure that she forgot to question one of the most important questions. But as the uninvolved third party in this situation, Agatha was easily able to spot the holes in the quack doctor's claims. And could not help but confront him about it.
'Well, that's a secret. Wasn't the bodyguard's job to keep guard and not to eavesdrop on their client?' I have no answer for Agatha so I had no choice but to act shady by getting defensive about it. It was better for me for Agatha to think that I was up to something rather than I was hiding some secrets. There was a lot of difference between these two streams of thought, Agatha assuming the prior worked for me better for now.
'Wyatt, I overestimate you too much to fall for this crap. Be real how did you know the source of the girl's condition?' It appears my flawless acting failed to work its charm in face of a skeptical audience like Agatha.
'I said it is a secret. What part of that don't you understand?' Some things have straightforward solutions, like in this case. Agatha had no right to ask me about my private life and she need to know her place.
'I ask because I won't stand by watching you cut the girl's scalp and drill a hole in her skull if you don't know what you are doing,' Agatha justified herself.
'You and I both know that you don't care if the girl lives or dies, so stop bull-shiting me with your righteous act,' If Agatha knew about me enough to look past my award-winning acting in the short time we have been together, I too had figure out Agatha enough to know that she gave zero fucks about the world and the people in it, all that mattered to her was Demigod Windsor, and as his daughter, Aba inherited Agatha's loyalty.
'Did I overplay my hand, I knew I would have had a better chance with intimidation instead of pulling the righteous crap,' said Agatha
'Yeah, now shut up. I have a delicate procedure to perform and your mental conversation is too disturbing,' I asked Agatha to shut up as I need to focus on performing the procedure.
Looking at Lucy who lay unconscious on the operating table, I adjusted its height and angle to my convince. Then I began by cleansing Lucy's hair with a cleaning array. After making sure that Lucy's head was clean and sanitized, I marked the affected area on her scalp and shaved Lucy's head in that area and the area surrounding it. The lack of hair would give me a better visual for scalping.
With that, all the preparation for the actual procedure was done. Now I had to cut the scalp following the markings I had made on Lucy's scalp and then drill a hole in her skull, which should give me enough access to remove the tumor that was putting stress on Lucy's brain. But this was easier said than done, one mistake and Instead of curing Lucy's pre-existing condition, I may end up creating new ones.