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[??? - ZHE headquarters]

Torahiko is taken into a part of the complex he's not been to before. It's full of people in white labcoats running about. He gets the feel it's some sort of a medical wing. Some of the rooms they go past have windows in them, and he can catch a glimpse of some humanoid figure wrapped in bandages being suspended in a chair with iron bands, with some doctors poking him with needles and electric prods. No sound can be heard, but based on jerking movements of the humanoid, it would be reasonable to presume the figure is in considerable pain and screaming bloody murder.

"Don't worry, you won't have to go through that", the Nachfolger assures him. "That procedure is only for special prisoners of war. We're just passing through to fetch another who will accompany you." They reach the end of the corridor, and the Nachfolger opens the door for Torahiko. Inside, there are two young medics, one maly and one female, and one really old dude with shaggy white hair who looks a bit like Albert Einstein with his eyes covered by black goggles. They all turn to look at the door in surprise.

"Is the patient ready?", the Nachfolger asks when he steps in. "We're going to need him for a presentation."

The old scientist lifts up his goggles and looks at the Nachfolger in bewilderment. Then, it hits him what it being talked about. "Ah, the patient. Yes, Herr Adler. The patient is ready. Do you need now or...?"

The Nachfolger nods. "Yes, now would be good." He beckons towards Torahiko. "Tachibana, please help the good doctor in moving the patient."

At this point, the two medics have brought a wheel chair to the room. It's covered by a white sheet, but it looks like there's someone sitting under it. The medics look expectingly at Torahiko. Apparently, he's meant to push the chair along while following the doctor and his savior, who is apparently called Adler. If and when he does as asked, he'll find the chair is pretty heavy - there must be someone on it.
Torahiko tries to stay quiet as he's taken to the medical wing. He also tries not to pay too much attention to the "prisoner", partly because that looks really painful, and partly because that's probably one of those things that just gets worse the more you think about it.

The fact that there were even more people here raised a lot of questions as to the exact the zeriben himmel's forces, the dialog between the doctors and his savior. Who is apparently named Adler? It's probably fortunate he's developed a certain sense of knowing when not to give voice to questions recently.

"Of course." He readies to push the wheelchair. He hasn't heard anything from whoever is under the sheet, or seen them move. That on it's own had certain implications that he didn't want to overthink while he was pushing them. But they were apparently also in line for this ritual for combining hollow derived energy with the heilig pfeil?

He still wasn't entirely clear on how his own ability worked, let alone how the upcoming ritual was going to let him use it alongside the heilig pfeil. He'd made some progress with it, but it seemed to be missing something. Shape, directionality, focus? Those sounded right. And took his mind off some of the more disconcerting things in the medical wing.

That train of thought will probably keep his occupied until they get wherever they're going next. Unless someone speaks to him, of course.