50 – Nursing Care #2
What made Oznia’s condition strange?
This was a question I could not find an answer to even if I thought about it myself.
Above all, since it was already late, it was time to send Titania back to her room. If it was later than now, it was clear that tomorrow’s class would be hindered.
“Titania, it’s too late. You’d better take a break too.”
At those words, Titania looked at the sleeping Oznia and put on a worried expression.
“But what about Oz? I’m too worried to leave it like this….”
I shook my head and said.
“I will be here. Don’t worry, I’ll call you right away if anything happens.”
“Uhm, it would be fine if the instructor was here… But do you really need to call me right away if something happens? Even if there is no visible trauma, there may be an internal problem. Be sure to drink plenty of fluids, and as soon as you feel unwell or start to feel unwell-“
“I’ll do my best, go back to your room now.”
I firmly cut off Titania’s words.
I’m not an expert on magic, but I’ve dealt with countless wounded during the war. Wizards whose magic power was depleted or whose magic circuits were broken were no exception, and at least they knew what kind of symptoms they shouldn’t have.
“Do you always call me when something happens?”
She left her room with her face full of regret, unable to take her worried gaze from Oznia until the very end.
The room where Titania left was dark and quiet. The only sound that could be heard around was the small breathing of Oznia, who was asleep.
Pulling up a chair, I carefully watched her Ozunia’s condition.
Her Oznia Her breathing was easy and her complexion improved compared to when she first came out of the forest. Perhaps it’s thanks to Titania’s her vitality magic.
I didn’t think it would be a big problem if I left the room as it is, but anyway, even if I didn’t sleep for a day or two, my physical condition wouldn’t be affected much. So I decided to watch it until the end just in case.
“Hmm….”
As I looked at Osnia’s sleeping face, I thought of something else for a moment.
It was about the vision of Ella that the forest spirit showed me.
Until now, her thoughts about Ella had been buried in the back of her mind. Because I thought that if I buried it like that, one day I would be able to forget her memories with her.
Even after coming to the island, I had no intention of looking for Ella. To be honest, it was because I was not prepared to face the truth about her, whether she was doing well or not.
But recently, I heard a story that might be related to Ella, and as I came across her fantasy, my thoughts gradually changed.
As I experienced her fantasy, I realized again that it would be difficult to completely get Ella out of my mind, and finally made up my mind.
Let’s check Ella’s whereabouts.
In order to do that, there was a place to go. Because I knew one guy who was perfect for finding someone.
While I was lost in other thoughts for a while, the night had passed and the morning sun was slowly coming through the window.
Oznia woke up then.
She slowly opened her eyes and stared blankly at her ceiling.
Then, while looking around to see where he was, he blinked in surprise when he noticed that I was in the room.
“Instructor… ?”
“Yes. Did you sleep well?”
I said good-bye to Oznia, who still had blank eyes that didn’t seem to fully understand the situation.
Oznia confirmed that the morning sun was slowly coming in through her window, and she belatedly noticed that she was lying on her bed.
She asked an uncertain question in a low voice, almost in a whisper.
“Did the instructor bring me… ?”
I replied with a small nod.
“I did. Can’t you remember?”
“… My mind is hazy. As if in a dream.”
“Hmm… Right. Then how long do you remember?”
Oznia only remembered patrolling the forest road with me, and she couldn’t properly remember what happened after being led by the spirit. She had only a vague memory of seeing my face.
I briefly explained to her that her forest spirit had rescued her from her hallucinations, and that her titania had cast her spell upon her to restore her vitality.
Oznia held her silence for a moment, then her eyes softened and she nodded.
“Titania… ? I see.”
Then, with a sudden guilt over her face, Oznia said in a trembling voice.
“I’m sorry.”
I spoke in her calm tone as if to reassure her.
“It’s not your fault that you fell for the fantasy of the spirits.”
But Oznia didn’t seem to agree with that. She bit her lip in disbelief and looked her eyes down.
“Right before I hallucinated, I heard a strange voice.”
“Voice?”
Oznia nodded slowly and replied.
“It was the voice of my parents.”
Oznia continued her speech with a slight self-deprecating smile.
“That is nonsense. Both of them have long since passed away….”
She seemed mortified that she had foolishly fallen for such a simple trap. As if she wouldn’t have fallen into such a trap if she had been in her right mind.
That made me even more convinced that Osnia’s condition today was somehow strange.
I opened my mouth with a slightly cautious tone.
“… They didn’t sound like good parents. There was no sign of you in the house.”
Oznia nodded her head in agreement.
“I was… locked up in an attic in the basement. I lived there like no one.”
“… ….”
It was something I had already guessed, but when it turned out to be true, I swallowed a small sigh.
Oznia kept her mouth shut for a while and chewed her lower lip as if she was deeply hesitating about something, then she finally made up her mind and began talking quietly and slowly about her own past. Did.
“Ever since I was young, I have seen things other people cannot see and heard things others cannot hear.”
Oznia said in a shaky voice.
“Thanks to that, there were always strange beings around me. Sometimes they helped, but mostly they caused problems around me.”
“A strange being?”
“Spirits, evil spirits, monsters, fairies… Sometimes more than that.”
Titania guessed that Oznia was interested in beings other than spirits. Her account of Oznia supported her guess with facts.
“… The villagers considered me cursed, and the village priest took the lead.”
Oznia frowned as if it was difficult to talk about her own past, her words cut off with her trembling shoulders.
Eventually, her room fell into an uncomfortable silence. The fear and pain of the past were still visible in her Oznia eyes.
Instead of hurriing her, I thought it would be good for her to end this conversation here, and put her hand on her Oznia’s shoulder.
“Stop. There is no need to rush into talking.”
Oznia still needed stability. If she wasn’t prepared to tell her about her past, she had no reason to force it.
But Oznia shook her head slowly and continued her words.
“Instructor, you protected me.”
“If you’re talking about saving me from a spirit, I was by your side and couldn’t stop it, so I’m responsible too-“
“Not that.”
Oznia’s purple eyes stared at me.
“My past… You have experienced it yourself.”
“… ….”
In that cabin, from the terrible violence and curses of her parents and villagers.
As a child, Oznia, who closed her eyes and covered her ears, just cried and prayed pitifully.
It was a look that reminded me of the past when I was powerless.
Oznia said with a faint smile at my silence.
“Thank you.”
“… It wasn’t something I did to get thanks.”
“Yes… Still.”
A brief silence filled the room. But unlike a little while ago, this time it didn’t feel so uncomfortable.
Oznia pursed her lips and she spoke again.
“… Anyway, as you can see, I was treated like that in the village. The Plague, the Devil, the Witch… It has been called by all kinds of other names.”
“You managed to not get kicked out of the village.”
“Thanks to my parents and the village priest. They me….”
Oznia paused for a moment before speaking.
“… I was trying to repent. Even a devil’s child can be held in the arms of a goddess, something like that… Actually, I don’t even know.”
From Oznia’s reaction, I could guess that the repentance they were talking about wasn’t done in a good way. It must have been accompanied by torture and various types of violence that were too harsh for a child to go through.
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“After living like that, a war suddenly broke out….”
Oznia said after she said that with the most bitter expression she had ever seen.
“… The real demons have come to town.”
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