Fractured God

“(If I remember correctly from my time with the Goddess…) Tibaut those things are friendly right?”

“Yeah. You're taking this a lot better than Ruby and Tina. Even Kevin wasn't as calm about this as you are.”

“I don't imagine you'd be calm if they were enemies. Now what is that gate there?”

Tibaut discussed what he heard from the voice and she scoffed when he reached the end of it.

“So they were looking for someone and mistook this portal to hell for them?”

“Yeah.” He responded, sounding as if he was the one responsible.

“What an utter load of bollocks.” She said.

“I'm not lying!” He said.

(“I know. I don't think you could have crafted such an infuriating lie.”)

The thought that her unnecessary injury and her damaged sword could have been prevented if that feckless little wanker in his head had even an ounce of patience, left her more tormented than any soul of hell.

“Also,”

“Tibaut, can we switch to other matters for now? I know this is a bit rude of me to say but if you continue talking about that thing, I don't know if I have the strength to stop myself from bludgeoning you.”

She said while strongly clutching the pillar.

Tibaut quickly changed the topic and began speaking of anything that came to mind, such as the pale women, Agnes and the travel down here.

“A survivor of Albus you say? Hmph, that man is truly vile.”

With vile things on the mind, her thoughts jumped to Saito and then, the little priest.

“Right, the priest!”

(“Huh, how'd we get here?”) Tibaut wondered.

“How'd you defeat him and what happened after? Why do I still have my limbs?”

“Oh, it was honestly pretty amazing to watch it in real-time. I-”

He gave a brief rundown of what happened after she fell unconscious and after the priest was defeated.

After they could confirm the priest was incapacitated, Kevin rushed into the room.

“Sweety, why the hell are those things with you!?” Ruby snarled at her. “And what the hell was thinking of choking out Tina huh!? Answer me you little bastard, want me to rip your dick off to get an answer?”

He'd never seen her so… spirited, so he was briefly taken aback.

“Listen we need to get Elizabeth some help fir-”

“I don't give a shit, give me an answer before I crawl over there and get it out myself!!” She shouted as she crawled towards him.

As he was pleading with her to calm down, he didn't realise Elizabeth had begun some crawling of her own and grabbed Ruby's hand, with glazed-over eyes.

Before either could pose a question, she healed her and promptly went limp.

Ruby got up, her face still soured and immediately started tending to Elizabeth.

“I'll deal with you later, let's focus on Elizabeth for the time being.” She reluctantly answered.

“R-right. (This was the right choice right?)”

As some walked over, with others already rushing out the room hoping to collect medical supplies, one Kevin was noticed walking around the room picking things up.

“What happened?” Lily asked as she rushed over.

“A lot,” Agatha responded.

The moment Nigel gained movement he fell unconscious. The wounds he took in addition to Elizabeth's healing sapping away stamina, left him sleeping like a baby on the cold stone floor.

The group tried to use pieces of their attire as tourniquets but it was a miracle she was still bleeding with the amount of blood she lost.

“Gods, is she gonna make it?” Ruby asked.

“Shit,” He clapped his hands to attract the attention of the pale women. Most of the group backed away except Ruby.

“What are you doing?” She coldly asked.

“There are some healing potions on the fifth floor, if they help me out we can get there in the next five minutes.”

“Then wait until we finish, there's no point if she bleeds out getting there.”

As they continued to stop bleeding where they could, Kevin came over with a hand and various fingers.

He showed no hesitation in attaching her hand back to her arm and grabbed Tibaut’s hand to hold it in place.

He walked to her other hand and placed her fingers back on. The cuts were relatively clean so they snuggly went back in place.

“Kevin.” Lily firmly stated.

“Dear, I don't think you're helping much,” Ruby added.

“Isn't this the shit who ran away?” Agatha snidely remarked.

“K-kevin what are you-” Tibaut asked before realising it wasn't as silly as it seemed.. (“Does he know!?”)

Based on the blush on Kevin's cheeks, Tibaut guessed not. He looked embarrassed holding her fingers on her hand but never stopped.

“Don't you think that's enough?” Agatha asked as she got behind him.

“Wait a minute,” Tibaut exclaimed. “(Shit, I know she said she has natural regeneration but how do I say that without giving away her secret?) You might not know this but Elizabeth… Can heal herself.”

The group looked on in annoyance.

“Boy, what the hell are you talking about?” Ruby asked.

“No, I'm being serious. It's just that… it's not very quick.”

“Tibaut, Kevin I think I'm going to ask the both of you to lea-”

(“Oh screw it, I'll just show her.”) He placed Elizabeth's hand in her hand and she looked disappointed.

“What are you-” As she tried to pull Elizabeth's hand away she noticed several new, albeit small, strands of flesh connecting the hand to the arm.

“....”

The others looked, shocked that what came out of Tibaut's mouth wasn't manure.

“I don't know how long she can keep this up but it's probably better than leaving them off,” Tibaut added.

Kevin sighed in relief, thankful his eyes didn't lead him astray.

“Did you add anything to that explanation?” Elizabeth asked.

“No, they thought it wasn't relevant since it looked true.”

(“I am going to need a whole notepad of explanations by the time we leave here…”)