Only if she gets a compelling offer.

Zero's not one to bargain, but fortunately Eliese currently lacks competition.

Indeed.

Though, speaking of Eliese's work... What can Zero do to help?

If she will consent to further examination (sittting still for 15-20 minutes at a go) and intermediate testing (painful), that will speed the process up some.

She's fine with both (and though the sitting still is a little annoying at times, it doesn't last too long).

Then, five days later, after waking up in the morning, Eliese announces that she believes she has something worth a serious try.

Then let's do it.

"You might want to sit down for this."

She will.

Then here we go. Eliese settled on a moderately long incantation during the development- she suspects she'll need the extra power as much as the focus and finesse.

She raises her hand and points at the flower growing out of Zero's eye. "Roots Unbound that Coil and Surge to Seek the Life from Life Within." A sickly green flare lashes out to attack the flower.

That gets a sound out of Zero - a strangled, teeth-clenched scream - the flower twists and writhes and then starts to shrivel like a dying rose - 

- And then Zero goes pale, and her skin withers like the flower's petals - 

- And she collapses, and the flower surges from her eye, grows until within a single heartbeat each of its petals is larger than Eliese - 

And Zero emerges, naked and bloody and whole, from its center as it withers and dies - 

And yet the flower is whole and undamaged in her eye.

She is, also, cursing up a storm.

"I surmise that did not entirely work as intended."

"Goddamned bitch flower fucking killed me! ARGH!" She kicks the pile of bloody ash her old body and the enormous flower are turning into, scattering them into nothingness. 

"And thereby rid itself of the curse, through your regeneration. Unfortunate. More intelligence than I was hoping for."

"At least the fucking asshole didn't give me more fake sisters this time."

"Small mercies."

"It seems we will have to deal with the ones you already have first after all."

"...The spell might still dislodge it from them non-fatally, at least."

"Depending how spiteful it is."

"It was panicking, I think - and it's never killed me before, even though normally me dying roots it in deeper. Think that cost it somehow... And - "

"I don't know. If they can survive it being removed - I don't know if it'll be able to kill them."

"One way to find out."

"Worse comes to worse - I was already planning to kill them."

"True."