207. Touhou, Ishai (2)
Ishai.
Among the five countries in the East, it is located closest to the West and has frequent exchanges with the West.
In the past, large-scale tribes living in harmony with nature were said to have formed a federation, so perhaps this is why their capital, the city, took on a form that did not harm nature as much as possible.
Still, it can be said that it is better than the Elf in the sense that it has accepted the development of technology well.
Unlike before, people with black hair are common on the streets. It didn’t feel familiar, nor did it feel like coming home.
The good thing is that people don’t pay much attention to me.
“Is this…”
“Kerung.”
Shady, who was held in my arms in the darkness where nothingness spreads, answers my murmur instead.
What does that guy say he knows?
There is only one sign that can be felt in the room.
The presence itself was very light, but judging from the strong demonic energy, she must be the princess of Ishai who has fallen into a coma.
And there are two signs that can be felt outside.
They must be escort warriors protecting the princess.
After sorting out the information I got from my gut feeling, I sneaked my face into the room.
At a cursory glance, it was a spacious and nice room where the owner of the room was expected to be a person with great status.
A sweet scent that fills the room as it passes through the nose. It seems that he burned incense candles to calm his mind and body.
[ Disciple, is this…? ]
Sierra asked as I peered over the shadows and looked around the room.
“It is the Cheonhae Palace where the king of Ishai lives. It is actually the annex of the Cheonhae Palace. The Princess of Ishai, Kimei, currently lives in the annex.”
[ Princess…? Does that mean that the girl lying on the bed over there is the princess of Ishai? ]
“I guess so.”
[ Why did you break into the palace without permission…? ]
Sierra was startled as if she couldn’t understand my nonchalant voice.
“It’s not an invasion. I’m only here to treat a slender girl who has been eroded by demonic energy.”
Jet-black hair was crumbled on the red bed.
Kimei, who was lying soundly on the bed, hadn’t responded yet, as if she couldn’t hear my voice chatting with Sierra.
[ If you get caught… ]
Of course, trespassing into the palace by outsiders would be a great sin.
If you find yourself in Kimei’s room, which is still in poor condition, you’ll probably get your head cut off.
Even so, it was not the normal way to solve the quest, so this was the only way to get past the troublesome process.
Originally, this could be solved without meeting Kimei in person. Meets her escort warrior ‘Gamaru’, who will be outside her room, delivers her medicine that can cure her, and gets her rewarded by Kimei, who brings her back to her senses.
Of course, I didn’t have to, so I chose the easier and more intuitive way. I wish I had time to enjoy my vacation.
“Hmm… If you say you’re lost, wouldn’t it be possible to get over it?”
[ Unreasonable sound… ]
I somehow got lost and ended up at the annex where the Princess of Ishai was in a coma.
It seemed like a good excuse, though.
Anyway, there was only Kimei in the room.
It would be better to solve it quickly and leave before those who come to check on her condition come.
—-Surely…
I got out of the shadows completely and cautiously approached Kimei.
Heavy breathing.
Unstable pulse.
And the black veins protruding from all over the white skin.
I can’t say that I’m sleeping comfortably even if I look at it. As expected, it seems that the demonic erosion has progressed considerably.
If left as it is, sooner or later she will turn into something terrible, neither human nor demon. It feels similar to a ‘yokai’ completely engulfed by Yogi.
[ What the hell did this dark magi… What happened to her? Still, she must be a country’s princess, but isn’t it an environment where she can be easily exposed to Magi? ]
“Actually, that’s the problem.”
I answered Kimei’s pulse.
“Champ-champ…”
Shady jumped on the bed and was licking Kimei’s face.
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[ Shady, princesses don’t eat… ]
Sierra, who couldn’t handle this, lifted Shady right away, but perhaps she felt uncomfortable with the guy’s licking.
“Hmm…”
Shady is a spirit, and it was normal for her to not detect any aura in contact with him, but maybe she had a spirit affinity with Ki Mei.
“Gamaru… Gamaru…?”
Seeking her own escort warrior, Ki Mei hesitantly lifted her eyelids.
The pupils of the girl who soon found me widened.
“…Who are you…?”
“For now, it’s not Kamaru, Princess Kimei.”
“Blind man… Are you coming to the dark side of the blind… Are you here to take my life… Uh…?”
Kim Mei’s gaze naturally reached ‘Sierra’ on my waist, and immediately she opened her eyes and reflected her hostile attitude toward me.
It’s normal for a princess to be unfamiliar with meeting an assassin, but unfortunately, she’s been subjected to various assassination attempts since she was young, so when she sees someone she doesn’t know, she seems more accustomed to assuming that she’s an assassin.
Perhaps the demonic erosion she is experiencing now is also an assassination attempt.
“The fact that my neck is still stuck is probably because you want something from me… But I have nothing to answer or give to you, dark woman.”
She managed to raise her body, Kimei, she didn’t even try to get away from me, she didn’t even call her escort samurai outside. She just caressed her own neck and observed me.
She was close enough to kill her long ago if he wanted to kill her according to her thoughts.
“Amburaño, for those disappointing words… I am the princess…”
I couldn’t believe that she was breathing fast as if she was going to die soon. I whispered so softly at her eyes that became so bloody that I couldn’t believe that she was breathing.
“…I came here to heal.”
Kimei, who has not let go of her guard, eventually expresses her doubts about the items I have taken out.
“Spit…?”
“I would like to tell you in advance that I am not a homicidal maniac with a strange taste in killing people with spit over a sharpened sword.”
I spoke so quietly and smiled lightly.
As a result, Ki Mei, who was frowning on her, loosened her guard slightly.
“I have a little acquaintance with the saintess.”
I put the acupuncture needle I took out for a while and moved it carefully to put Kimei back on the bed.
“Saint… If you are a saint, do you mean the saintess of the Holy Kingdom? But…”
Ki Mei, who had left her body to me and lay down on the bed because of her messiness, her words slurred.
“Well, as the princess knows, the relationship between Ishai and Seongguk isn’t very good right now. So I had no choice but to come quietly like this.”
Although my existence was known to the continent through a resurrection known as the ‘Miracle of Heneris’ or ‘The Miracle of the Saint,’ she was lying in bed and would not have heard the news properly.
So, even if it was a little cumbersome, I had to show the badge of the Knights.
“Silver wing… It seems that the person of the saintess is right.”
Kimei was fortunate enough to know that the Knights of the Silver Wings were the Knights of the Saint.
I didn’t seem to know that the Saint’s Knights were all female, but it was convenient for me.
“Rather than that, how did we get here… By chance my warriors…”
“They guard the princess well outside the door. Don’t blame them for that. It’s not that they’re incompetent, it’s that I’m too competent.”
[ Self-praise in this situation… ]
“…So can I start treatment?”
I lightly passed Sierra’s tackle in the middle and asked Kimei a question.
“……”
Kim Mei closes her eyes tightly at my question as I pick up the spittle. She seemed to be trying to interpret this sudden situation in her own way.
Instantly, her dry lips, which hadn’t even felt the color of blood, opened.
“…I understand what you mean. But that won’t work.”
Since she is a princess of a country, she must have met countless famous acupuncturists and medical practitioners. Although she had a bad relationship with the Holy Kingdom, even if she wasn’t a saint, she must have brought in a priest somehow.
But all of them must have judged that it was incurable after seeing the magi that was deeply rooted in her body.
“I understand what you mean, but leave it to me for now. I don’t have much time, so I’ll explain during treatment.”
“…”
Kim Mei quietly turns her gaze away from me and looks at the ceiling. It seemed that it had been a long time since he had already given up on his previous normal life.
“Excuse me, but I need to take some clothes off for treatment…”
I immediately helped Ki Mei, who had no strength in her body, to undress. As Sierra’s clothes are similar in oriental design and gold-rimmed, her red garment is stripped away, revealing her pale skin.
“You are quite skilled.”
“Healing people is not something you experience once or twice.”
“It’s not like that, it’s the way you undress a woman.”
“…This is also part of the treatment.”
[ hehehe… I’m good at it… ]
Sierra glared at me at Kimei’s answer, and I replied in a somewhat confused voice.
Fortunately, I didn’t have to take off my underwear.
“Sobbing…”
Kim Mei followed my touch and let her moan flow.
When I checked with the naked eye, the place where magi was the thickest was the abdomen, so I raised my fingers and slowly ran my fingers through her body, then touched her abdomen.
Then he slowly placed acupuncture into the center of the black spot that stretched around her abdomen.
“Doesn’t it hurt?”
“You are very skilled.”
It’s been a while since I’ve had acupuncture, so I was worried that my skills might have rusted, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.
“Does Princess Kimei know what disease she suffers from?”
“I haven’t been able to get a clear answer. From the fact that Gamaru also keeps quiet about the disease, I know that it is a disease that is not good for people to know about it.”
“The princess is in a state of being eroded by demons.”
“Magi…?”
“Asmodians… That is to say, the ominous power that the ‘goblins’ deal with.”
It is said that there is a distance from the land of demons, but of course demons are active in the east, and demons are called goblins in the east.
“But I’ve never met a goblin in my entire life.”
“You’d think so. Anyway, from now on, I’m going to transfer all the demonic energy from the princess’s body into mine.”
“…Well, if you do that, your body will…”
“hahahaha, I’m fine. Even so, I have a special power…”
I took off the glove on my left hand.
“Prosthetic hand…?”
Then, not a normal human hand, but a prosthetic arm made of cold metal is revealed. At this, Kimei expressed her doubts.
Immediately, I picked up the acupuncture needle placed in her abdomen with my prosthetic hand.
It was not a needle placed in a specific acupoint.
This small spittle is just a kind of passage to gently receive demonic energy.
“…”
She shut her mouth and focused on the magic that lurked inside her body.
It was a fair amount of magic.
There seemed to be no problem with her absorption itself, but I had to focus on making sure that the mana she possessed did not come out along with the magic.
‘With the feeling of slowly raising the demon…’
Then, the sound of an engine or something running in the prosthetic hand is heard in a small way.
ㅡKeying…
According to the sound, the black spot on her abdomen gradually decreased in size.
“Aww…”
I tried to proceed as gently as possible so as not to strain Kim Mei’s body, but she had to deal with it quickly anyway, so she couldn’t help but feel the pain, so she moaned in pain.
“If it hurts a lot, tell me.”
“…It hurts.”
“It’s a little while. It’s not long.”
Actually, it was now half.
“……”
Writhing in her pain, Ki Mei lowered her head in a strange sensation and closed her mouth after seeing the change in her own body.
It seemed that he had decided to fully trust me and entrust himself to me.
A little more time passed like that, and after a lot of twists and turns, I was able to finish Kimei’s treatment.
It was the notification that popped up on her status window that signaled the end of her treatment.
[ Your progress will increase. ]
[ Significantly increases progress related to key characters! ]
Saint – 9%
The saint’s progress rose by a whopping 2% to 9%.
As expected, it seems that the way to increase the saint’s progress was through medical treatment.
Looking at the description, it seemed that the rise was greater for acts related to ‘named’, rather than ordinary people or unknown demons.
“Okay, it’s all over. It was simpler than I thought, right?”
The amount of magic contained in the horns of quite a few red-horned demons was unmatched. Rather, it was to the point of wondering how he had been able to hold on until now.
“……”
As the demon that was encroaching on her body disappeared, Ki Mei, who had regained her sanity, raised her body up and opened her eyes wide in amazement to examine her body.
The end of her treatment did not mean that she was rejuvenated. Right now, since all the demonic energy inside the body has been removed, he will have to go through a recovery period.
“…”
Soon, Kim Mei shifts her gaze and glances at me, who is smiling, then puts on Juseom Juseom clothes.
“I’m sorry for doubting you. I don’t think it’s really curable…”
She bowed her head to me and spat out a sincere apology, then spoke in a tearful voice.
‘I don’t really need to apologize.’
Isn’t it normal to not believe?
Because I was the one who didn’t take the normal route, my chest was stabbed for no reason.
“You were not a dark woman, but a lifesaver. Thank you, benefactor. This grace, I, Kimei, the princess of Ishai, will never forget. Tell my father right now…”
“Oh, please bear with that. Not everything is settled yet.”
She couldn’t even regain her strength, but she grabbed Kim Mei by the shoulders as she hurriedly tried to get out of her bed.
“What do you mean…”
“The princess said earlier that she had never met a goblin before. However, the princess was eroded by demonic energy, which means that she was around her. The goblin intentionally poured demonic energy into her body….”
Kimei’s face suddenly darkened at my meaningful words.
“It must have taken a very long time, so slowly that people around you wouldn’t notice.”
“How can a goblin beside me…”
“Actually, the demonic erosion that the princess was experiencing could have been solved very easily if the saintess had come. But just in time, the relationship between Ishai and the Holy Kingdom deteriorated.”
“No way…”
“You seem to know a person deeply involved in the matter. That person must be the goblin who spilled demonic energy on the princess’s body.”
“But my uncle… Can’t be a goblin…”
“It must be one of two cases. Either you are no longer human, or a goblin tricked you into stealing your body.”
“…The one who was so kind to me…”
Kim Mei couldn’t keep her mouth shut as if she was quite shocked.
“Is there anything suspicious?”
“Ummm… Sometimes there were times when I went and couldn’t remember a promise I had made before… Or had a strange feeling that I didn’t know something. It was like… I became a different person…”
“Then it’s probably the latter case.”
The sweet uncle she knew is no more.
It is a goblin in the form of an uncle.
“…”
Kim Mei lowered her head, as if the shocking fact was not well received.
But her answer was fixed, and as Kimei, who was slowly retracing her memories of her past, her doubts she had were resolved, and at the same time, she opened her mouth as if she felt that my argument had some validity. .
“Maybe it’s good…? Even if ‘it’ is a goblin… It doesn’t look like your uncle…”
“With Princess Kimei’s permission, I can ‘cure’ her as well.”
“…Really?”
“Of course, back then I didn’t use saliva like now…”
I replied holding the ‘Sierra’ on my waist.
“…You should use this.”
The princess’s uncle, the king.
So on the surface, he’s the king’s younger brother, so you can see him as a difficult opponent to touch.
But the process itself is really simple.
This was a kind of linked quest, and I now know everything about what is happening in Ishai.
There is only one reason why processing is simple.
The real king is still alive.
Unfortunately, I can’t tell this fact right away to Kimei, who is immersed in upset without a moment to rejoice at the recovery of her body, but he is alive anyway.
This quest ends with dealing with the demons pretending to be kings and rescuing the real kings who are locked in the dungeons of their lairs.
Since it is not a problem that can be revealed on the surface, it was good for me to be able to solve my work quietly and comfortably.
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