American comics: May the Holy Light deceive you

Chapter 85 Psychotherapy

Vega and Professor X spent the entire night in the study. No one knows what they talked about, but everyone knows that the professor, who had been paralyzed for decades, stood up, and Vega became the school's therapist.

The school has hundreds of students with all sorts of unique abilities, many of whom possess great destructive power.

Students frequently get injured during daily life and training. Since the school has no mutants with healing abilities and relies solely on medical treatment, recovery is slow, and some serious injuries are difficult to heal. Therefore, the teachers mainly focus on cultural and ideological education and rarely allow students to practice and train using their abilities.

This educational approach can effectively reduce student injuries, but at the same time, it also makes students very slow in mastering their own abilities.

However, things changed after Vega became the healer, because no matter what the injury was, he could recover in a few seconds by waving his hand.

Therefore, after confirming that Vega would not be leaving the school for a while, the teachers increased the number of skills training courses.

There are two practice sessions every day, and every day injured students either walk in on their own or are carried into the school clinic.

However, this workload was easy for Vega, as he had plenty of time every day to learn about the world.

Most of the extraordinary beings in this world are mutants, and all the conflicts revolve around mutants and mutants versus ordinary people.

Mutants are divided into two major factions: the X-Men led by Professor X and the Brotherhood of Mutants led by Magneto.

Magneto is currently imprisoned, while the Brotherhood of Mutants lies in wait in the shadows.

The X-Men are active in various fields, cooperating with the government in investigating mutant crimes and independently investigating and combating crimes against mutants.

Overall, mutants are ostracized by most ordinary people, and even the X-Men are no exception.

Of course, this was fueled by the efforts of American politicians.

Vega was not at all surprised by the situation of mutants; it was perfectly normal.

That morning, Moonstar accompanied Wolfsbane to the school clinic, asking Vega to treat the W-shaped wound on Wolfsbane's shoulder that looked like it had been branded with a hot iron.

"Daniel has lost control again?" Vega examined the wound and found a trace of residual mental energy attached to it.

Yuexing looked guilty and scared: "Dr. Li, I, I didn't mean to, I just couldn't control my abilities."

Wolfsbane comforted her with the words her teacher had taught her: "It's alright, it's not your fault. It takes a long time to fully learn to control your abilities. Don't be impatient, afraid, or reject your abilities; the more you do that, the easier it is to lose control."

Vega chuckled: "Heh, you're quite good at comforting people."

One of Moonstar's abilities is to evoke and materialize their most feared memories. This ability is extremely dangerous, so the school wants to assign her a specially modified dormitory room.

As a result, Wolfsbane insisted on living with her. Anyone with eyes could see that the relationship between the two girls was unusual, and there were even rumors that someone had seen them hugging and kissing in the woods.

Vega: "Rain, can you tell me who burned you? I'm a bit of a therapist, maybe I can help you overcome your fear."

"This..." Wolfsbane hesitated. It was her most unbearable memory, and she was reluctant to tell others.

"Dr. Li saved us, he's a good person, I don't want you to get hurt again," Yuexing said earnestly, holding Langdu's hand.

Wolfsbane hesitated, but Vega didn't urge her. Instead, he treated her burns and told her to go back and think it over slowly, and come back to him when she had figured it out.

At 8 p.m., Wolfsbane arrived at the school clinic alone.

Seeing Vega, dressed in a suit and looking very neat, Wolfsbane realized he might be late: "Dr. Li, perhaps I should come again tomorrow?"

"It's alright, come sit down and let's talk." Vega, who was planning to go out for the night but was forced to work overtime, wasn't angry. It wasn't easy for Wolfsbane to muster up the courage to come over. If she missed today, who knew if she would still have the courage to come to him for treatment tomorrow?

With a thought, Vega transformed his Western-style coat into a white medical coat, then heated a cup of milk and placed it in front of Wolfsbane before sitting down opposite her and waiting for her to speak.

Wolfsbane remained silent for a long time. After the milk cooled down a bit, she slowly drank half a cup before telling her story.

She was born in the northern Highlands of England; her mother was a local prostitute who died in childbirth.

She didn't know who her father was; she was adopted by Craig Sinclair, a local Catholic elder priest.

Her adoptive father, Reverend Reg Sinclair, was very strict with her and instilled in her from a young age strict religious and traditional Catholic moral standards.

Although her adoptive father was strict, he treated her very well, and she respected him greatly.

But their relationship changed two years ago when she was 13.

Two years ago, her mutant abilities awakened; she could transform into a wolf or a half-wolf, half-human.

Her adoptive father believed she was possessed by a demon, so he locked her up and used every method he could think of to "exorcise" her.

At first she cooperated, but because it was not working, her adoptive father's methods became more and more terrifying, and his attitude towards her became more and more hostile.

Using a red-hot branding iron to burn letters onto her body is a method that causes her very little harm.

About a year later, one day, her adoptive father kept calling her a witch and a devil, and tormented her to the point of near death.

The physical and mental torment became unbearable for her, and she broke free of her chains, fleeing her hometown amidst her adoptive father's curses and the townspeople's screams of "Burn her to death!"

At the time, she was determined to get away from there, so she secretly boarded an ocean liner and drifted at sea for more than half a month before arriving in the United States.

She lived in the forest in wolf form for several months before being found and taken to that hospital.

Wolfsbane: "This is my story, Dr. Li. I am really not a demon, nor a witch."

I am a devout believer in the Lord. Although sometimes I can't help but do things against the doctrine under the covers, I have never hurt anyone, nor have I ever intended to hurt anyone.

Seeing Wolfsbane's tearful face, behaving like an abandoned puppy, Vega sighed inwardly, stood up, and with a thought, reverted to his four-winged seraph form.

Vega smiled kindly, walked up to her, and reached out his right hand to stroke her head: "Child, you are certainly not a demon, nor a witch."

You are a beloved child of the Lord; the ability to transform is not a curse, but a blessing bestowed upon you by the Lord.