“It’s not because of those filthy beasts!”
“Otherwise, how could so many people get sick overnight?”
As if they hadn’t washed properly for a while, the scruffy people gathered in a barn-like place and sat around a fire in the middle, raising their voices.
What made them so angry was that their eyes were young, and they were holding old scythes and pitchforks one by one, wriggling their arms as if they were about to wield them at once.
“It has already been three days since my husband has been ill. It really looks like I’m going to die!”
“What about my son and daughter! If you eat, it comes out as you eat, your body is a ball of fire! Daddy hurts those little ones… It hurts, but a spark has risen inside me and it still feels like it’s burning, so I can’t stand it any longer!”
Chavid’s border. Even though they grew up strong near that barren desert, their temper was not sharp. The proud villagers suddenly acted as if they had only evil and anger left.
‘It’s all because of those beasts.’
Tim, the oldest of the children in the village and the youngest of the adults, vomited inwardly.
It’s all because of Chavid’s beasts.
Instead of being born as a human with a broken soul, monsters were born as beasts by mixing the souls of animals.
Thanks to that, they are ferocious, ferocious, and strong, but they are faithful to their instincts and are extremely vicious.
They eventually reveal it to people.
Other than that, it didn’t make sense.
“The only thing I’ve learned is that it’s a little better if you boil water and wash it. But what good is that?”
“Even if you use animal excrement for firewood, gather moss, dry it, and burn it, you can still boil water every day. The kindling of the fire is enough for me.”
“You can’t just drink running water and you can’t even take a bath. What’s wrong with this? Apart from drinking water, if you want to boil all the washing water, even tearing down this barn won’t be enough!”
From prolonged contact with water from the desert or simply gulping it down, five or six out of 10 people were unlucky enough to contract an infectious disease.
There is a high probability that it will not get caught by just drinking water or washing once or twice, but it has been a long time since everyone has been afraid of deep water.
Besides, if you contracted this plague, you didn’t die instantly. First dizziness and fever, then vomiting or diarrhea, and later coughing up blood.
Even if it was watery soup, if you fed it consistently, you were somehow holding on to your lifeline.
In such a barren place where one person’s labor power is important, the time and labor consumed by a patient weighed heavily on his shoulders.
It was work, time, and money to wash and burn the laundry and dirty bedding that came out every day.
It is a disease in which the sick suck the living to save their lives, so family members fight and hate each other.
At first, I didn’t know where it started, so I walked for several days to see the next town and the next town, and then I realized that this was a major epidemic.
And I realized it only when I went to a little bigger town. Only the beastman slaves they co-worked with could survive without drinking boiled water.
“I came to look around. There is no village where no one is free from this disease, drinking water from a water source branching off from Chavid.”
“Does it make sense that people get sick if they only drink water from the habitats of animals, but the animals are fine! It’s not physical. A stalwart young man is also sick, but that petite and old rat prisoner is fine?”
So, I thought that if I immediately unite with the villages, gather those who have at least a little bit of energy, grab a scythe, pitchfork, and ax and go and intimidate the beastmen, something will come out.
No, in fact, even if there were no medicines or things like that, it would have been enough if there was a way to vent this resentment.
When you return home, you will find only a family that is like a living corpse dying from the musty smell.
It was gradually killing the body and mind of a person who was still fine.
“let’s go. I heard a rumor in a big village that the blood of young beastmen is medicine!”
“Even if that’s not the case, I have to go! I feel like bringing those animals and making my daughter and son fall on their knees and apologize. I can’t stand it!”
The team felt somewhat distant when they saw the villagers, who had worked together in the barren border area to reclaim land and decorate the village, were impatient to kill someone and not be able to vent their anger.
Even though it seems to be driven by the wildly swirling emotions of anger and hatred, it reminds me of the friendly and sullen appearance of the past, and the resignation and sadness that I can never go back to those days.
That moment when I stole the tip of my nose with my old, dirty sleeve.
“The Kruger Corps. Is there anyone?”
A voice outside turned everyone’s heads toward the barn door.
“Top?”
“I’m not a peddler who visits town regularly, who is?”
The air that seemed to burst with discontent and anger cooled down a little.
The team quickly stood up as they saw that doubt and wariness dwelled in their eyes instead of flesh and blood.
“I will go out first. seniors.”
Tim quickly opened the barn door. In order to get rid of the air that has accumulated anger and resentment here.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been in a dark barn for a long time. Standing in front of a large wagon in broad daylight, the man at the top of the Kruger was dazzling.
“Is there a problem… … . We have nothing to buy or sell. It is a place where there is no time to twist and sell a rope right now.”
Still, the children’s job was to weave and twist hay to make ropes instead of rough field work or cutting trees, but now that all the children who like to play by the water are lying down sick, there is not enough rope to hang around the animals, let alone to sell.
For some reason, the man in the upper ranks looked at the team with eyes that looked like they were dying without a face, and smiled awkwardly.
“Isn’t there an epidemic here too?”
For a moment, the team was stunned. There was nothing wrong with that man, but it was just that that smile, coupled with the situation they were in, was somehow too twisted.
“yes. By the way So, we can’t afford to buy anything, and we have nothing to sell, so get out!”
The man at the top scratched his head at the sight of the team trembling with their fingertips and shouting at them, then pulled out something from the luggage truck behind them and held it out.
“I know you are angry because you have no room in your heart. Everything will be fine now.”
A cloth bag full of something round and saggy, with a bumpy outside.
Tim looked at it and opened his mouth.
“Why are you holding this out? What is this?”
The man smiled slowly at Tim’s question.
“This time, it’s an infectious disease cure made by the Kruger family. Everything will be fine now.”
* * *
“So what are the rumors about?”
＜There are rumors that Princess Seria actually has a talent for magic.＞
I put a fork in the pickled soft slime that Zero had bought in abundance and popped it into my mouth.
It’s soft and chewy, and the scent is a bit different from the one I ate last time, probably because different regions use different fruit juices.
it’s good.
“Tell me specifically.”
＜A rumor going around these days says that during tea time, a young lady accidentally tripped on the stairs and almost fell, but stopped in the air without catching her with her hands. Then, with a surprised face, he said it was a secret.＞
Ah, isn’t it too boring, Seria?
“Well, everything from that to the spread of rumors is probably a script.”
Even if magic has bloomed, it can be used in many ways after studying for a long time.
So, if you go into mana in a little more detail, it seems that mana control and such general-purpose traits have blossomed.
‘With the saintess statue I gave you.’
I giggled and chewed the chewy pickled slime.
“What other rumors?”
＜There are a lot of things, but most of them are close to the good stories of Princess Seria or the bad words of other members of the royal family, Boss. Normally, information related to the imperial family doesn’t spread well even if it’s because the imperial family is afraid.＞
“It’s too obvious. Is it because you were young?”
＜Isn’t Princess Seria older than you? Boss?＞
Oh, did you? Well, even though Seria is younger than Kang Suho, there are probably more than Adelian.
I added casually.
“You’re too young to think.”
At my natural words, the sound of Piyan giggling echoed over the sirens.
＜Oh what. If the boss says so, you’re right. I see, Boss. The lady said something interesting.＞
“What.”
＜Did the boss seduce Princess Peia and Princess Seria with that face?＞
I took a sip of tea as if I was washing my sweet and sour mouth, and I was taken aback by Payyan’s words.
Guardia could never say that!
“Don’t talk nonsense. How is Verbut’s dynamic these days?”
Perhaps she heard me coughing, Leaf jumped out and gave me a handkerchief and disappeared, Luna filled the half-empty teacup more and disappeared, and then Rachel disappeared after one shot of me and the pickled slime that I was eating.
And Kane, who was watching all of that, shook his head once and disappeared into his room.
Why are you dumbfounded and angry, this?
＜The identity of an academy student who is only 11 years old. However, to borrow the words of the boss, the lady’s appeasement also failed. The doppelganger potion failed, and the boss seduced failed.＞
So these days, it’s quiet, said Fayan.
＜Thanks to you, my influence within the Awareness Academy is growing. It’s almost like a village, but of course there are more staff than students.＞
Verbut must have built his image around the academy’s students and teachers, who are also nobles.
With that personality, I must have properly mixed words with a commoner a few times.
Payyan was aiming for that gap. At first, it was a pie that did not overlap with Verbut, but now it seems that it is secretly expanding its base mainly for students.
＜So now it’s time to decide the route, Boss.＞
I stared at the bowl of pickled soup left in vain, then drank another sip of the bittersweet tea.
“What to do with Verbut?”
＜Exactly. This is the funniest moment, Boss!＞
In any case, Ruby’s days, when he was a rookie, were close to his true nature.
I smiled and spoke slowly.
“There are peaceful ways and very unpeaceful ways.”
It suppresses their influence, monitors them knowingly and unknowingly, and prevents them from doing anything bad until right before they graduate.
Then, naturally, Berbut would be weeded out within the church.
It’s only that achievement, but it’s quite safe and peaceful.
Or, there is also a way to actively pressure and provoke them to borrow and wield the power of the church more, and then reveal that they are members of the evil religion at the decisive moment.
Due to his personality, if he felt that he was being ignored or his pride was hurt, he would definitely do something big like trying to trap Guardia, one of the only three heirs to the grand ducal family in the empire.
The problem is that in this case, the probability of a victim is very high, and Payyan may be exposed to the Evil Gods.
＜Really? One is the way a good hero would do it, and the other is the way a bad villain would do it… … .＞
Payyan smiled languidly at my brief explanation and whispered.
＜Is the boss a hero or a villain?＞
I just grinned at that sweet voice.
me? I am always determined from the beginning.