The woman was Quinn Ocean.


    Still, Frank was confused even as he felt relieved—he clearly remembered letting Quinn and her father


    Bocek go.


    Even without her vigor and meridian nexus, she still had her martial arts.


    So what could have left her half-dead? Sage Lake Sect?


    Frank kept making theories, but blind guessing proved pointless.


    Instead, he turned toward the busy healers around Quinn, frowning as he urged, "Make way. Leave her


    to me."


    J walked up and asked, "Do you know her, Frank?"


    "Yeah," Frank directed his vigor into his fingers, tapping Quinn''s various acupoints rapidly without


    stopping.


    Soon, she coughed out a mouthful of clotted blood.


    "Needle!" Frank snapped, holding out a hand to J.


    "Oh... Okay!" J promptly ran to get a box of disinfected needles.


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    Whoosh.


    Frank grabbed a handful and spread them like petals over Quinn''s acupoints before taking out an Ichor


    Pill and feeding it to her.


    As the Ichor Pill took effect, color returned to Quinn''s cheeks, her eyshes twitching just before she


    opened her eyes.


    It took her several seconds toe to her senses. "Frank."


    "Don''t move. I''ve only treated your internal injuries, not your external ones," Frank said, frowning.


    "Mmmph." Quinn groaned as shey on the surgical table, her gaze troubled and miserable.


    "Tell me, what on earth happened?" Frank asked, while waving at J for her to leave.


    J was hesitant but did as she was told.


    Quinn waited until J was gone before biting her lip as her tears rolled, hatred shing in her eyes


    along with misery now.


    "It was the Szars," she rasped after a brief silence. "Donald Szarpletely lost his mind. He


    killed my father and tried to kill me, saying he''d me it on you so that Sage Lake Sect woulde


    after you in full force."


    Frank, however, frowned in suspicion. "How did you make it out alive?"


    "Me?" Quinn chuckled bitterly. "The Szars chased me up a cliff, and I had no choice but to jump into


    the river. I only survived by chance, and I''ve been running from the Szars since. I''vee to you,


    knowing that the Szars would be waiting for me along the path to Sage Lake Sect. I want you to tell


    the chief the truth, so that he would wipe out the Szars and avenge my father!"


    Seeing the zing hate burning in Quinn''s eyes, Frank knew for sure that she was not lying.


    Still, he shook his head after some thought. "Even if what you told me was true, there''s something you


    have to know—the Szers seeded. Sage Lake Sect came for me this afternoon, kidnapping me


    and forcing me to go to Southdam tomorrow."


    Quinn''s eyes widened at his words, her expression bing agitated.


    "No, absolutely not..." She wheezed, coughing blood as she leveled him a pleading gaze. "M-Mr.


    Lawrence... I''lle with you to Sage Lake Sect tomorrow. and expose Donald Szar''s true nature to


    our chief, Dahok Ocean!"