Hospital 444
Chapter 647 - 16 Mother and Daughter

Chapter 647: Chapter 16 Mother and Daughter

Melias raced down the street and then ran into a nearby gift shop.

She wanted to stay in places with more people and brighter lights as much as possible.

The moment the train suddenly stopped, she knew she wouldn’t make it to Washington this time.

But she knew that her mother would not give up.

She had understood her mother’s character since birth. Her mother was extremely paranoid, and once she set her mind to something, she would do whatever it took to achieve it, never giving up in the face of difficulties. Her mother could come up with all sorts of ways to achieve her goals.

For this reason, the only way to get along with her mother was to compromise.

Melias was no exception.

She had always hoped her mother would give up, ending these futile efforts. But she knew that was impossible.

The gift shop was around three or four hundred square meters, and there were still a lot of people gathered there at this time.

In this place, Melias finally felt some of her fear subside.

The gift shop was not far from the motel, and she knew that her mother, Melody, would soon come looking for her. When that happened, she would have no choice but to follow her mother and continue on to Washington.

As long as her mother did not abandon the idea...

"Why can’t she just give up?"

Melias paced back and forth inside the gift shop, drawing the attention of some customers around her.

"What is she doing?"

"Yeah, she’s been walking around that shelf for quite a few laps now."

After walking around the shelf for at least a dozen laps, Melias finally stopped.

She estimated that her mother would be here soon.

At that moment, she suddenly noticed a small mirror on the shelf.

The mirror was standing upright on the shelf.

But her expression changed.

She had walked around this shelf a dozen times and was sure that this small mirror had not been there before!

And no one had approached the shelf just now!

Melias looked at the little mirror in horror and then saw something in the mirror, behind her...

Suddenly, a figure came around from the other side of the shelf, grabbed Melias’s hand, and pulled her out of the gift shop!

Melias didn’t even have time to react before she was taken outside.

Only then did she look at the person who had taken her out.

It was a young Asian girl with white hair.

"Who... who are you?"

"I came to find you," Natsume Bandove told Melias, "Well, you might not understand if I put it this way. Do you know about 666 Hospital?"

Natsume Bandove knew that Melody and her daughter had never had a direct encounter with the doctors from 666 Hospital. Because of the Causal Law Curse, both mother and daughter could not enter the hospital, but they were aware of its existence.

At this point, Natsume Bandove also felt completely reassured.

In the past, Director Green personally accompanied Alex to meet with Melody. However, Director Green later discovered that whether he was with Alex or not, there was no way to meet with Melody. This curse also affected people associated with the hospital, which surprised Director Green greatly.

Natsume Bandove heard all of this from Azusa and frankly, found it unbelievable.

The Cursed Object that her father had dreamed of developing as a child, which she thought was mere fantasy, had—against all odds—actually materialized in this case!

"No one will be able to find me now," Bandove had not expected her plan to go so smoothly. "I never thought I would actually be able to come into contact with the rare disease that my father had wanted to study."

The reason why her father favored Bandove was that she shared his curiosity and determination for investigating the unknown. However, her father’s lack of reverence towards the Spiritual Domain was viewed as madness by most.

Yet isn’t there just a fine line between genius and madness?

"If it were me... could I fulfill my father’s dream?"

To develop such a truly stable Cursed Object of causality without needing twin experiments...

And not make actual sacrifices like her father in the end?

Ten minutes later, she had explained the situation to Melias.

"Now you can tell me, what exactly is the situation with you right now?"

Melias was about to reply to Natsume Bandove when suddenly, her mother, Melody, appeared in front of them.

"Melias! Where did you run off to?"

Seeing Melody, Melias froze, and then her mother embraced her.

"I told you, you can’t just run off anywhere. Why won’t you listen to me?"

Then she turned to look at Natsume Bandove.

"Who are you?"

"She is..."

Natsume Bandove immediately replied, "Hello, Mrs. Green, my name is Natsume Bandove. I am about to join the staff at 666 Hospital."

Of course, Bandove was not really a doctor, and that was precisely why she was able to make contact with them.

"I see..."

After that, Natsume Bandove continued, looking at the mother and daughter before her, "To put it simply, I’m here to help you and your husband reunite in Washington."

"Natsume..." Melias was just about to say she wanted to give up on going to Washington when her mother, Melody, interrupted.

"Great! Thank you, Dr. Natsume!" Melody clasped Natsume Bandove’s hand. "If you can let me see Alex, that would be wonderful!"

Natsume Bandove looked at Melody and Melias before her, starting to remember her own mother.

Her mother always educated her with the advice to not just listen to everything her father said. She was especially worried that, being closer to her father, Natsume would end up taking the exact same path as him after becoming a Paranormal Doctor.

"Don’t ever go into the Department of Cursed Objects," her mother would say to her, "Bandove, I don’t want you to work in Cursed Object development. Many people think the Department of Cursed Objects is safer than clinical departments, but I know better than anyone that it is the most dangerous. It’s the department that truly comes into contact with the Abyss Invasion, and no one can ensure that they won’t be assimilated into the Abyss one day."

"Mom, but I’m interested in Cursed Objects..."

"Why are you interested in such things? Do you think Cursed Objects are something good?" her mother would then become hysterical, "Why won’t you listen to me? Why would you rather listen to your dad instead of me?"

At that time, her relationship with her mother was just like the one between the mother and daughter in front of her.

Bandove actually really liked her mother.

But it pained her to see that her mother was growing more and more disdainful of her father. Their marriage was nearing an icy hiatus. Bandove realized that one day, her parents might separate.

To a child, the greatest pain of divorce often lies in having to choose one parent over the other as a guardian. In an era where divorce is as common as eating and drinking, few can truly understand a child’s pain during their parents’ divorce. If that day did come, it was inevitable that Azusa would stay with her mother, and she herself with her father.

But now...

Both her parents were dead. She no longer needed to choose.

She would never know whether her mother would have chosen to live with her if they had separated.

In truth, this tormented her quite a bit.

Even at this stage, the development of a Causality Curse Object still couldn’t revive the dead.

"So..."

Looking up at the night sky, Natsume Bandove made up her mind.

She would leave this place, to permanently stay away from 666 Hospital.

Of course, she knew that her sister, Azusa, would not leave with her.

Her parents were no more.

But eventually, she would completely part ways with Azusa...