#poor cale

Cale in Central Plains be like:

But cale's party has the chance to contact the older cale to win without any losses

So they have two cales living in the same house.

A traumatized one, and another even more traumatized.

And after that they will try to help old cale to deal better with his traumas.

It could be a side thing of his healing ancient power-

He only uses it when he feels like one of his allies injuries was his fault/ could have been prevented or when they don't have enough healing potions/people

Literally anyone who Cale has used this power on is horrified when they find out how exactly it works

Like a scene where Cale was coughing up blood two seconds ago but notices a cut on Choi han's arm and instinctively heals it.

Choi han internally: 'goddamnit Cale-nim-'

Not sure if the injury should be healed by his ancient power or if he has to let it heal normally

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Ex:

"Here, let me heal you."

'If I hadn't distracted him, this wouldn't have happened'

Cale moved his hand towards Choi han's head injury with a sour face. Everyone was fighting with members from Arm around them, although the battle was mostly one-sided-

Choi han moved his eyes up, only seeing the faint, white glow coming from Cale's hands. The headache that he felt slowly went away leaving a pleasant, warm feeling in it's place.

Choi han felt his energy go back to 100% and moved to stand.

"Cale-nim, please rest for now! We'll take care of this!"

".. Alright, be careful."

The only reason why Cale actually agreed to this was because he was tired and was now taking care of a head wound. It wasn't too bad, though still annoying.

After Choi han left, Cale ran a hand through his hair, said hand coming back with more blood than originally on Choi han's head.

'... this is one thing I don't like about Vitality if the Heart-'

-Human! What happened to your hair!? Are you hurt? I'll kill whoever did this-

"Don't worry about it, It'll heal soon."

Cale quickly began patting Raon to calm the overprotective dragon down while walking towards the carriages.

"Ah- sorry. I got some blood on you."

-...

Raon wordlessly teleported them both inside their carriage.

They took a nap untill the battle was over.

Cale forgot about the head wound and blood on his hair.

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Now the thing above could go a few ways- when Cale wakes up and moves his head, there's a blood stain. And Choi han or whoever's in the carriage with him immediately notice, Choi han puts together the thing about his healing power and everyone bans him from using it again.

Or he wakes up in his bed with a bandage wrapped around his head and Ron tells him that he smelled the blood when he got in the carriage and scolds him for hiding an injury.

Or they make it back to the villa and when Ron is helping Cale shower, a crap ton of dried blood is coming out of his hair and Ron immediately takes him out and puts him to bed while calling several healers and again scolding him from hiding an injury.

Or they go to the Henituse mansion and Deruth hugs Cale in front of everyone, running his fingers through his hair and feels something wet. Spoiler alert: it's blood. Cale tries to tell everyone he's okay but fails because his head is literally bleeding.

Or Cale just faints as soon as he tries to step out of the carriage to see if anyone else is injured.

alberu: I wake up at 4:30 AM

cale:

Cale: [trying to discreetly open the sugar pocket hidden in his hand]

Sugar: [missed the cup]

Cale: [gulps]