Chapter 433 - Obtaining Funds (4)

"Oh, you're here," I found Luke and Alex walking into the infirmary.

"I look much better now, don't I?" I had the energy to walk on my own after drinking the smoothie.

"What did you take?" Luke narrowed his eyes, thinking I drank or poured some random medicine from the infirmary.

"Nothing, you can check the inventory," I sat on the bed.

When I first created the smoothies, I never knew there would be beneficial side effects from all the mana within the ingredients and the extra ones we added mixed together. It was almost like the drink that Sienna ordered for the neutral fraction during social week. I smiled, thinking that I had a talent for making these beverages. Someday, I could open my own café if I ever escaped from the Roselia family.

Finding that everything matched the records, they both looked at me more suspiciously. If I had touched a bottle in the infirmary, it would leave a history on the tablet that kept a record of these things. There was nothing they could do now since I really was sick enough back at the café to not attend the planned study session. I couldn't believe my excellent plan that had somehow worked out in the end.

"You definitely drank something," Luke knew from managing my health.

"I don't have anything with me," I had swiftly given the disposable cup to Delia before she left.

"Show me your inventory," he wanted to check my marble.

"Sure," I had nothing to hide.

I had everything inside two rooms now. One was the club room and the other was the room given by Charles' fraction that was rarely used. And I knew Luke thought nothing about the cage full of bugs, not willing to touch them. I calmly sat on the bed while he searched through all the items inside my marble. I yawned, thinking it would be better to sleep until Delia would come back to me to help me with Luke.

"Are you satisfied now?" I wanted him to give me back my marble.

"You took a mana supplement," Luke did a scan of my body, still feeling suspicious.

"Where's the evidence?" I had gotten rid of everything.

"You think I wouldn't know? All the supplements you've been taking for almost an entire week," He read the results from one of the medical equipment.

"If you didn't take one, your body would've already collapsed," he pressured me to tell him the truth with his intimidating stare.

"Let me see that," I reached my hands out to grab the machine.

"This is serious Rika," Luke passed the machine to Alex.

"I won't know unless you show me the results," I struggled to grab the machine from Alex.

"Rika!" He warned me to properly sit down on the bed.

"What have you been doing during your breaks? Do you think I haven't noticed how exhausted you looked every time you came back to class?" Luke was starting to lose some of his patience.

"Can we talk about this later?" I decided to use this time to sleep.

"I need some time to rest," I covered my ears with the pillow.

Luke gave up, knowing I needed more rest to recover. However, it was clear that both him and Alex weren't going to leave the infirmary to make sure I didn't teleport anywhere else. My role as the lookout would be easily fulfilled today. Maybe I would send a message to Delia after my nap that she wouldn't have to come. There was only one more day we would be selling the food anyways. It was much easier for them if I continued to remain as the lookout than covering for me.

My ears perked up in the middle of my sleep from the loud conversation inside the infirmary that almost resembled a fight. Knowing it would be better to not interfere, I continued to close my eyes to pretend I was asleep while listening in. I almost gasped when Luke raised his voice at Delia and Cillian. I never remembered him being like this to others excluding me.

"Since you won't tell me what you do during your breaks, can you at least tell me what you fed her?" He was beginning to snap at them.

"Just the usual strawberry milkshakes from the café," Delia chose to stay ignorant.

"There's no way she only drank those milkshakes. It doesn't explain the results here," Alex showed them.

"Milkshakes has a bit of mana in them," Cillian tried to calm everyone down.

"Honestly, you can't confine her inside the infirmary forever," Delia raised her voice from feeling like she was being attacked.

"Rika is going to help me with some of our fraction work once she leaves the infirmary," Luke already planned how he was going to look over me.

"We can help with some of the work from the neutral fraction," she wasn't willing to let Luke take me away from them.

"And we just practiced some heavy spells during our break," Cillian flawlessly lied.

"You know your story isn't making total sense," Alex pointed out.

��I regret leaving Rika in your care," Luke was telling them that he wasn't willing to change his decision.

"We already told you that we would take better care of her and apologized countless number of times," Cillian was starting to get tired of this conversation.

"You're being too much," Delia complained with him.

"You think I'm being too much?" Luke's patience snapped.