I have no regrets about my 2D world!

"Hmm?" Shion looked up and saw a blurry figure appear in the ward where she was alone, emitting a faint light.

"..."

"...Don't be afraid. I mean no harm to you," the figure said slowly. "I'm here to help you. Do you want your body to return to normal?"

Yoshino nodded.

"Hehe." A light laugh was heard, and a figure took out a light blue crystal and handed it to Yoshino.

"Take it, and your body will return to normal. However, from now on, you will no longer be human, but a being called an elf. You will have a long lifespan, human appearance, great strength, and a body far superior to that of an ordinary person. As long as you take it, you will have all of these."

No longer human? No, that's the only thing that's wrong!

"Thank you, I don't need it. Bai will help me recover." Shaking her head, Yoshino rejected the figure's proposal.

"Really, what about this?"

The figure waved a hand, and a screen appeared in front of Yoshino. A blue-haired woman was seen working. Suddenly, something fell and headed towards her.

"No!" Yoshino shouted.

She recognized that the person on the screen was her mother, Himegawa Nagisa, and now her mother on the screen was in imminent danger of her life.

The figure waved again, and the screen froze.

"This is what is going to happen. If you take it, I can help save your mother." The figure handed over the crystal again.

"Why, why me..." Shion lowered her head and a trembling voice came out.

"Hmm~ Let me think about it. Of course it's because I like you very much. So I came to help you because I saw you looked so pitiful." The figure's tone was full of joy, and he didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with such behavior.

"...I understand." After saying this in a low voice, Yoshino raised her head. There seemed to be some tear marks on her delicate face, and the figure looked at her in surprise.

Yoshino slowly reached out her hand and took the crystal from the figure's hand.

"Then what..."

"...Put it on your chest." The figure's voice seemed to have lost its previous cheerfulness.

Following the figure's instructions, Yoshino placed the crystal on her chest, and then watched it slowly merge into her body. A flash of light appeared, and the crystal vanished, but Yoshino's body remained unchanged.

"...I have done as you asked. Can you help save my mother now?"

"Of course." The figure snapped his fingers.

"Okay, your mother is fine now. I have already planned it. Someone will take action, and it's someone you know."

“...Is that so...?” Yoshino was silent, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Can I leave a letter?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" The figure was a little surprised.

"Aren't you going to take me away? At least let me leave a letter to say goodbye to my mother and friends." Shion looked at the figure with an inexplicable look in her eyes, but then it turned into determination.

"I can go with you, but I need to make sure my mother is safe, and... I also need to leave a letter."

"Forehead..."

"What? Any other requests?" Shiono's eyes seemed to flash with anger. Could the figure before her actually have other requests? But then it dimmed again. But she couldn't do anything about him.

"puff..."

"Hmm?" Yoshino looked up at the figure, somewhat puzzled by the voice.

The figure reached out and placed something like a hand at its mouth, its body trembling slightly. Was it... holding back laughter?

After a moment, the figure stopped and looked at the expressionless Yoshino. He said with a smile: "I never said I would take you away, little friend. Oh no, maybe I should call you elf now?"

"and you..."

"I said I liked you very much, so I gave you the spirit crystal, but I never said I wanted to take you away."

After hearing the figure's words, Shion finally realized that everything that had just happened was just her overthinking. A blush suddenly appeared on her face, extending to her ears, and she lowered her head again.

"Haha, alright, little elf. I should be leaving too. Someone will be arriving soon. You can study the abilities of the spirit crystals yourself, but be careful not to leave them alone."

The sound gradually faded away, and when Yoshino raised her head again, there was no trace of the figure in front of her.

Just as Yoshino was about to experiment to see if there were any changes in herself, the door suddenly opened and her mother, Himegawa Nagisa, walked in.

Seeing Yoshino sitting on the bed, Nagisa ran to Yoshino and hugged her tightly.

When Shion saw her mother's expression, she didn't say anything. She just sat there quietly, feeling her mother's embrace.

After a while, Nagisa slowly let go of Yoshino.

Seeing her mother's nervous expression, Shiono gently asked, "Mom, is something wrong? Why..."

Nagisa was silent for a moment, and just as she was about to say something, she suddenly smiled again, "No, Mommy is just missing Yoshino. Did Yoshino listen to Dr. Shiro and get some rest today?"

Shion nodded gently: "Yes, I listened carefully to what Shiro said."

"Shiono, I've told you many times that you can call me Doctor Shiro, or even Brother. It's fine considering Doctor Shiro's age."

Nagisa was a little helpless. When the mother and daughter were getting acquainted with Bai, Bai had mentioned that they didn't need to be so distant and could just call him by his name.

However, Nagisa still insisted on calling him Doctor Shiro, but asked Yoshino to call him brother directly, but Yoshino did choose to call him by Shiro's name directly. Nagisa persuaded her many times but she didn't change it back.

"It's okay, Mrs. Nagisa, I don't mind." A gentle voice came, and Bai appeared in the house, looking at them at the door.

Chapter 22: Yoshino is really cute

"Ah, Dr. Bai, why are you here?" Nagisa looked at Bai in surprise. Usually, Bai should have gone home after get off work at this time. When they met before, he just thought he was passing by for other things.

"Thank you so much today!" Nagisa said gratefully.

"It's okay. I think anyone who sees it will help."

"Mom, Bai, what happened today?" Although she had already guessed what happened, Shion still pretended to know nothing and asked curiously.

"This...ah..." Nagisa, who originally didn't want to explain the situation to Yoshino, thanked Shiro unconsciously when she saw him coming. Shiro didn't seem to want to hide anything, so Nagisa told it herself.

"Yoshino, Mom almost didn't get to see you today. It was only thanks to Doctor Bai that he pulled me back and saved my life."

"Yes, is that so." However, Yoshino was not as flustered as Nagisa had imagined. Instead, she seemed to be thinking about some instinctive response.

"Hmm? What happened, Yoshino?"

"Ah, no, I was just a little surprised. Luckily Shiro was there at the time." Seeing that Nagisa noticed that something was wrong with her, Yoshino quickly came to her senses.

"Yeah, luckily Dr. Bai was there at that time." Nagisa felt a little relieved, but then he showed doubts.

"Doctor Bai, was there something wrong at that time? I don't think I've seen you pass by there before." As soon as he finished speaking, Nagisa realized that his behavior seemed a bit inappropriate and quickly apologized.

"Ah, sorry, Doctor Bai, I'm just a little curious. I didn't mean to pry into your affairs. It's okay if you don't tell me."

"Nothing. I was busy with something nearby at the time, which delayed the time for conditioning Yoshino's body. And since it wasn't too far away, I just walked over there." Shaking his head, Bai said that there was nothing to hide about this matter, so he told Nagisa the reason.

"I just arrived at the hospital a while ago. I packed my things and came here. Is Yoshino okay now?"

Shiro looked at Shino and asked. He also wanted to check if Shino had any discomfort after the Spirit Crystal was incorporated into her. Although the Spirit Crystal had been transformed by Shino and was much gentler, Shino's health was not very good, so he was worried about any accidents.

"...It's okay, Shiro," Shiro said softly. Although she'd been transformed into some kind of spirit by some inexplicable person, she didn't feel anything other than feeling better. Furthermore, Shiro was only human, so she shouldn't have noticed any changes.

Then Shino stretched out her hand and placed it on Shiro's hand.

Stroking the delicate palm, Shiro began to examine Yoshino's body.

Spiritual energy flowed through Shino's body, exploring as usual. But unlike usual, Shino could feel the spiritual energy flowing from Shiro's hand, flowing through her body. Although Shino didn't know what it was, she knew that Shiro before her didn't seem to be purely human.

Feeling the changes within her body, Shino stared at Shiro in a daze. Was this how Shiro had been helping her this whole time? Wasn't Shiro human? Or perhaps a superhuman? Thinking about this, Shino even felt a surge of joy. If Shiro wasn't human either, then...

"Yoshino? Yoshino?"

She heard Bai's cry and noticed that Bai and Nagisa were looking at her with strange eyes. Bai's examination was finished, but she was still holding her hands tightly and didn't want to let go.

“Hmm!” Her face turned red all the way to her ears, and Shion suddenly withdrew her hand, covered her face and lowered her head.

"Oh, it seems that my Yoshino and Dr. Shiro have a very good relationship." The teasing from her mother Nagisa made Yoshino's cheeks start to get hot.

"Once Yoshino gets better, we can move closer to Dr. Shiro. That way, Yoshino can see Dr. Shiro every day. Dr. Shiro shouldn't mind, right?"

"Of course, I don't think anyone would refuse such a cute child like Yoshino." Bai Ye said with a smile following Nagisa.

"Mom!" Shion couldn't help but shout.

"Okay, I won't say anything." Nagisa nodded with a smile.

"Doctor Bai is still watching."

"Hmm!" However, Yoshino just moaned and buried her head even lower.

"Haha, then Mrs. Nagisa, please continue chatting with Yoshino. I have some things to do here and need to leave." After smiling lightly and confirming that Yoshino was fine, Bai also planned to go back.

"Doctor Bai, let me see you off." Nagisa stood up and hurried over.

"No need, you should just comfort Yoshino." Glancing at Yoshino who still had her head lowered, Bai opened the door and walked out.

......

Phew~ It shouldn't take more than a few days for Yoshino to fully recover. But Yoshino was so cute just now. If they decide to move nearby, it would be like finding a playmate for Nanashi, right?

Thinking about the relationship between Nanashi and Yoshino in the original work, Shiro became suspicious. Hmm, I really need to be careful.

Thinking about what was going to happen next, Bai was walking slowly down the corridor. Suddenly, he heard a loud noise coming from the front. Frowning, Bai walked over.

"Oh, this child is so pitiful. He was born less than a month ago and his parents are gone."

"Yeah, yeah, I don't know what the parents were thinking. They left such a young child like that."

"In my opinion, maybe they found out it wasn't theirs after birth, so they threw it away."

"That shouldn't be the case. The name has already been chosen. If it's not yours, you shouldn't care about the name, right?"

"What if it was just discovered?"

“That makes sense…that makes sense…”

Bai walked over and heard a group of nurses arguing about something.

"Hello, what were you talking about?"

"Ah, Dr. Bai, sorry, we'll get to work now."

When the nurses saw Bai coming, they quickly apologized. After all, they were already being lazy.

"It's okay. It's okay to relax occasionally during work." Bai waved his hand and didn't care about it. "I just heard you talking about children. What's going on?"

Seeing that Bai did not pursue them, the nurse breathed a sigh of relief and began to explain to Bai what happened.

"Just now, someone in the delivery room brought news that a child's parents had disappeared and left the child behind. We were just discussing what the child's parents had done."

"Is that so..." Bai frowned. Although he was a little uncomfortable with this, this kind of thing happened quite often and he didn't intend to care about it. Anyway, the child would be sent to an orphanage later.

"Okay then, you guys chat for a while and then get back to work. Just don't delay anything." Waving his hand, Bai was about to leave.

But after taking two steps, I heard a voice coming from behind me.

"Hey, you said the child already has a name. Do you know what it is?"

"It seems to be called... Rokuko..."

Bai stopped in an instant.

Chapter 23 There's Another Child

"Director, if her parents don't come back and no one is willing to adopt her, we'll have to send her to an orphanage soon." A nurse standing in an office said to the old man sitting there.

The old man's face was also a little embarrassed, he sighed and said:

"Well, let's wait a little longer. Maybe someone will be willing. If that doesn't work, we can just send it over. After all, the child is too young."

"But..." The nurse's face was also conflicted. If it was delayed, who would be responsible for the child's daily living expenses?

"Oh." The old man sighed again and thought of this matter.

"Ahem..." a voice came, and the two looked in the direction of the voice, only to see Bai push open the door and walk in. He said with a smile, "In that case, how about I adopt you?"