When Tamie spent some fun time with Nick after their serious talk, she descended the stairs and then walked down into the basement, wanting to access her room, but suddenly she heard worried cries from the next door:

"Shiba, can you please take care of Astra's injuries?"

"Go, Rianna! It seems to work!"

"Ugh, will she be okay?"

"Hey, Tiggie won't get beat up so easily! She'll make it! She's our girl!"

The voices were so diverse... It seemed that all of those 'sisters' of Tiger were gathered in her room now, hoping she would recover from her wounds. Tamie remembered that she was completely unable to protect Tiger or assist her in any way in that incident.

The way she is now is partly my fault too... she clenched her fists, getting upset about her weakness again. She walked up to room Number 7 and knocked on the door. It creaked and opened, and a tall, long-blue-haired, hazel-eyed young girl glanced out.

"Who are you?"

"Um, sorry for disturbing... I was on that mission with Tiger. I wanted to check on her," Tamie answered with a polite smile, trying to sound as nice as possible - she was accustomed to talking to strangers courteously.

"Oh... Thanks for protecting her," the blue-haired girl uttered with clear irony. Tamie furrowed her brows - ugh! How come all of Tiger's friends were so rude?!

"May I come in?"

"Well..." the blue-haired girl rolled eyes, apparently wanting to give a negative reply when a manly voice called out from inside the room:

"Olivia, let her in! Have some tact with Lord Nick's sister! And after all, the more help we get, the better".

"Ugh, you're so annoying, Shiba..." Olivia opened the door wide, letting Tamie in.

In Tiger's chamber, all of the five girls - her friends - were gathered, worriedly looking down at her, still unconscious. One of them - a long-pink-haired, blue-eyed fair maiden, had touched Tiger's burn marks and was sending the water energy, Blue Zen, into them.

Woah, this girl can use Zen too?

The only boy in the room - that same one whom Nick told to carry Tiger - Shiba, was sending Brown Zen to Astra who was also put on the bed, next to Tiger. Tamie got totally astounded - just how many people could use Zen in this order?! Then she looked at unconscious Tiger - it was her fault... Only if she were stronger! Tiger might not have gotten in such trouble...

"Well, Rianna, how is it?" Riza asked impatiently.

"I'm doing all I can," Rianna, the pink-haired one, sighed. "Her injuries are healing, though. I think she'll be fine. It is not a great shot since the opponent was only one rank higher than her".

Wow, she can determine how high of rank the attacker was while healing the injured... Cool...

"What Class are you?" Shiba suddenly asked Tamie.

"Um, I'm a Writer Class, Libra..."

"Great. Summon some bandages and burn mark medicine, so we could bandage their wounds," he pointed on Astra and Tiger.

"Huh? Is it possible to do that? I mean, I'm still Rank Zero..."

"It doesn't matter. You can summon inanimate objects at Rank Zero too, especially small ones. But hurry up. They need immediate treatment".

Tamie got astonished - so it was possible? She instantly grabbed her scroll and brush out of her bag and wanted to write when Olivia complained:

"Duh, if you wanted those things why didn't you tell me? I would draw them in a blink!"

Tamie widened eyes - so if she could draw objects... She was a Painter Class?!

Awesome...

"I know you can do it, Olivia, but since Tamie has joined us, I wanted to get her help too, and there's one more problem - you draw objects, while she writes them. So unless you know how burn-mark medicine looks like, you cannot summon it, while Tamie can, just by writing down the words. Since I know you have no idea how the medicine looks, I asked Tamie for help".

Olivia flared up, but then just sneered and looked away, clearly displeased. Tamie chuckled innocently instead, fused some air in her brush, and wrote down on the scroll:

"Bandages. Burn mark medicine, but the best one: one should work for a cat, the other - for a human. Better if it is for Earth user humans - Virgo specifically".

After writing this (the letters were invisible just as Erisa predicted), she formed a two-finger hand sign that, as she had learned from Erisa, worked as a summoning sign, and concentrated her energy on the paper.

I hope it works... she thought, fusing her energy into the scroll, trying her hardest. I'm doing this for Tiger... for my friend! 

Olivia distrustfully watched her and an ironic smile had covered her face, but then, her eyes widened, while Shiba only beamed and called out to closed-eyed Tamie:

"Thanks for the help, you made it!"

Tamie opened her eyes, seeing bandages and two tiny glass bottles of medicine on her scroll.

"Hurrah! I made it!"

Shiba took the items from the scroll, opened one of the bottles and greased some medicine on Astra's wounds, while Rianna took the other bottle and used the medicine on Tiger's ones. Then they both bandaged their wounds. Tamie made her two-finger hand sign again, and cried the incantation, just like Erisa had taught her:

"Reverse!"

Instantly, all of the items vanished, and the scroll glowed once, apparently getting empty again. Then, Tamie's rose-and-cross ring, the symbol of her order, glowed and pronounced in an electric voice:

"Tamie Wingfield. Rank rise. Writer Class, Rank One - Scribbler. Level One. Congratulations!"

"I raised a rank!"

"Duh, Rank One, level one... big deal..." Olivia crossed arms.

"Congratulations, Tamie Wingfield," Shiba winked, apparently knowing she would raise a rank from the very start. Maybe that was the very reason he called exactly her for help?

"G... Guys..."

Everyone started and looked back at the bed - Tiger had awoken!

"Tiggie!" all of the five girls screamed with joy, dashed at her, and hugged her tightly. 

Once they heard their owner's voice, Blizzard barked and Christo meowed, and they both jumped up on the bed, licking Tiger happily. Blizzard was furiously wagging his tail, apparently unto seventh heaven with happiness. They heard Astra's meow too - with Shiba's treatment and the help of Tamie's medicine, she had also regained consciousness.

"A... Astra..." Tiger beamed and caressed Astra, who meowed lovingly to her owner. Then she turned to her friends with a broad smile: "G... Group hug..." she hugged all of them together. The girls were laughing.

"Group hug!" they cried out and hugged her tightly.

If only I had such friends... Tamie sighed, sadness flickering in her heart. Then she clenched her fist and discarded the thought: No, I don't need any friends... She was about to leave when she heard Tiger's joyful cry from behind:

"Tamie! You're alright!"

She stopped and looked back just to see Tiger's eyes shimmering with joy to see her alright.

And still, this girl is lovely... She walked back to Tiger's bed and joined the girls' and Shiba's warm-hearted company.