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Go straight for the dragon king! (4)
“······ Maybe the northern people are a bit ferocious?”
Cain looked back at Confucius Shem and Teacher Tess and asked.
Tess, who was rolling up tobacco leaves, immediately shook her head.
“I have a strong tendency to be wary of outsiders, but unless it’s a bad person, I tend to show warmth to everyone. It’s a big deal if you pretend you didn’t see and your opponent freezes to death.”
“There is a saying in the North that neither grace nor enemies are forgotten. The weather is our biggest enemy, so we must unite like an icebreaker to survive.”
“Of course, I’m not that harsh on traitors, but…”
As the teacher looked at Alain lying down, the end of his speech was blurred.
Naturally, both of them said that they had never met her.
It was the first time he heard the name, and he said that it seemed like a common impression in any village.
I gently wiped the cheek of the patient who was sleeping soundly with two layers of sleeping bags on.
Maybe it was because she was having a nightmare, shedding tears.
A few hours ago, I had a fever.
I don’t know what the big joint is, but the more I look at it, the sadder and heartbreaking.
A scar on the forehead, old and torn clothes. Shoes with empty pockets and soles…
He doesn’t look like an ordinary thief. I don’t know why, but I feel it.
“It’s not just a thief, it’s not a town where mercenaries shoot arrows and run.”
no······. Maybe not even a thief.
“Yes. If you want to be pursued, you’ll be guilty of robbing the chamber vault, killing the captain of the mercenaries, or insulting the lord in front of you. But not a single penknife came out of Iza.”
Tess said sternly.
It didn’t seem like there was an accomplice, so chasing one person like this seemed harsh to her eyes.
There were dozens of arrows at the scene, and it was close to a miracle that Alain survived the attack.
Ga-in, who heard the answer, stretched out her legs and arms and glanced at the patient.
Tite, who was held by her, also tilted her head from time to time.
“By the way. Is there a law that requires name tags when entering a chamber?”
Suddenly, Djibril Dioff asked. I quickly nodded my head and asked the same question.
You asked one question well. I was just curious about that too.
“I heard that the Chamber is a place of commercial exchange where all guilds can freely move in and out. But do I have to get a name tag like that every time and wear it?”
“It was a car that I also thought was odd. However, since I came here once when I was young, I haven’t been to the chamber since… In today’s world, there may be new rules.”
‘The lord is not involved in the affairs of the Chamber.’ Confucius Shem answered, scratching his cheek.
After that sentence, there was a long silence between the party.
It was Grandfather, who had been stroking Gugu the whole time, who broke the silence.
“However, the spacing between the arrows that have fallen is strange.”
“Yes?”
I blinked my eyes. The old man straightened his beard and said lowly.
“You might think that it was just a short distance, but isn’t it awkward for all the arrows to be in one place? Usually the point where you fall is different.”
“ah······.”
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Oh my gosh, it really was.
I looked back at Alain, feeling goosebumps on my forearm.
At that time, he was carrying a fallen patient—even though Confucius Diop was ultimately responsible—but he was so crazy that he didn’t realize it, but looking back, it was a bizarre and strange scene.
He didn’t even have armor to protect himself, let alone a shield…
As if something had blocked it all at once, the arrows were rushing all over it. what?
“Uh, uh… Bran! Brandy…! no!”
“Mr. Alain?”
Then, the patient shook his head and started calling someone.
A painful moan flowed from his lips, and tears flowed again from his eyes.
Surprised, Mr. Ga-in came to me with a canteen of sediment.
I hurriedly wet a towel with cold water and wiped Alain’s face.
It seems that she hadn’t done this until a few minutes ago, but her cheeks and the nape of her neck were already stained red.
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On the other hand, his lips were blue and he was exhaling hard. It’s a big deal!
“My God, I have a fever.”
“I’ll find you a stronger antipyretic.”
“please.”
I blinked, and Ga-in skimmed through the bag.
In the meantime, Tite, wrapped in swaddling clothes, kept licking her lips as she looked at Alain.
In an instant, I had a strange feeling.
Why is the child like that?
“Tite, why are you doing this? Is Alain weird?”
-Ugh
The baby fluttered its fins and cried.
That was definitely a positive reaction, and it wasn’t just Shinsoo’s embarrassment when he witnessed a high fever patient.
I quickly turned my head to find the Crown Prince.
His hollow eyes became oily like a beast that had found its prey.
“······indeed. It’s annoying.”
“Yes? What?”
“ether.”
“Huh?”
Wait, for what?
François, who was putting Loffy to sleep, was also puzzled by the unexpected words.
I stopped moving my busy hands and looked down at Alain, then looked back at Prince Sedric with a blank expression on his face.
But he also seemed unsure.
I could tell just by looking at my smooth forehead as I unsatisfiedly used my cloth ruler.
The other party was watching us with anxious eyes.
The man quickly rolled his eyes and aimed at Ga-in.
“How are you?”
“I can feel it, too. But it’s so weak that I’m not sure if this is the ether of this person or not.”
“Alein is flowing ether?”
The dazed chin popped open.
The prince expressed it as ‘disgusting’, so what the two of them felt now was not pure ether, but special ether.
It was an unexpected trend, so I was perplexed as to how to take it.
I had no idea. Alain was a paladin?
“About the level of when we first met Lofi? Weak enough to know what kind of attribute it is.”
– oh oh oh
“Then, was it a deacon or a priest? Maybe he was being chased because of that…”
“No, it’s awakening fever.”
At that moment, a soft voice rang out from the entrance to the cave.
At the same time, everyone’s eyes moved.
Sir John, with a fresh gait as if he had just finished a walk, was approaching, unbuttoning his robe with one hand.
The features that were not visible due to the darkness of the night slowly revealed themselves in the light.
I looked carefully to see where he was hurt, and then I widened my eyes at a word I had read once.
Wait, ‘Awakening Fever’?
“The two of you must have either never suffered, or had been ill in a different way. It must be the first time I’ve actually seen a patient with Arousal Fever.”
The cardinal tilted his head and said.
With each step he drew closer to us, his snow-white side hair rolled down indifferently.
The prince glared at his master for a moment, then silently scattered his gaze towards the daring spirit that was flying in the air.
Meanwhile, I found the man’s fingertips stained with red water and flagged it alone.
Hey Father, again!
Where else did you get your blood from?
“Edelweiss, your hands are bleeding.”
“ah. It is not mine.”
Am I supposed to be happy?!
“There was nothing troublesome to worry about. Rather…. This one looks bad.”
jerk. Sir John, who walked up to Alain’s bedside, lowered his posture.
ah! I immediately poured out the sentence stuck on the tip of my tongue.
“I read it in a book. The symptoms of Awakening Fever of the paladin vary from person to person, and the duration of the illness is also different. It is said that lucky paladins awaken without awakening at all.”
“You know it well.”
His hand on the patient’s carotid artery was just dull.
“Then how do you see it? You said it looked bad, but how bad is it exactly? According to Stella-sama, there is no other trauma other than a scar on the forehead. What I can do to help-”
“I could die.”
drop. Those words pierced my ears like a dagger.
Mint-colored eyes without temperature looked like black and white.
Ga-in hurriedly covered Tite’s ears and kissed her white forehead.
I couldn’t make a sound and only licked my lips.
In the ‘textbook’, such an explanation was not written.
“To die…”
“Awakening fever is the ‘first hardship’ in which Ju-Jin tests the servant’s vessel. Most of the time it passes like a light cold, but a person who is unlucky like this needs a constant supply of the priest’s ether. A stable environment and thorough nursing are also required. The patient will suffer for as little as a day or as long as a week.”
“·················ogue.”
“But above all else, your will to survive is the most important thing. It is the will to overcome this pain and survive.”
“·················ogue.”
“It is not surprising that commoner paladins are rare. They are born less in the first place, and even if the symptoms are this severe, they do not receive proper treatment.”
‘I don’t usually think of it as arousal fever.’ The added comment was as insensitive as the commentary in a nature documentary.
Then he whispered to me like an adult.
“So it’s not the guild leader’s responsibility.”
“·················ogue.”
It was then that he seemed to have a vague understanding of what Sir John was talking about.
He was probably trying to lighten the weight of our morning tragedy.
This happens occasionally, so you don’t have to struggle or suffer too much.
Maybe you can take Alain for a week and throw away the thought of ‘buying it and having a hard time’.
We don’t have to worry about forgetting that we have more urgent business, and there’s no reason to sacrifice so much for someone who only knows our name.
to take your heart lightly.
“·················ogue.”
I cried and shut my mouth.
it’s all lies
“You don’t think so. Why are you hurting yourself?”
“·················ogue.”
“Edelweiss-sama must have suffered from arousal when he was young. There was no way he was like that at the time.”
Sir John’s eyes widened for a moment, then quickly closed.
The attitude of not being able to win broke my teeth. I really hate today!
“I am very grateful to you for giving us a choice, but from now on, please do not speak like that. This is scolding.”
“Yes, I will keep that in mind.”
“Swear.”
“I swear by the moon in the night sky.”
The cardinal gave an honest answer.
Ga-in stared at him coldly and said, ‘You need to be more scolded!’ did.
In the meantime, I quickly moved around and stood in front of the other party.
And he knelt down and said.
“I really want to save that person.”
“·················ogue.”
“I know our business is urgent. I also know that he has some suspicious corners. So, I will not ask for your unconditional understanding. If you just stay with me for a minute or two, I’ll take care of the cleanup and follow-“
“There are a lot of useless words.”
The father shot sharply. I was speechless for a moment.
“yes?”
“Weren’t you the guild leader?”
“ah······.”
The scarlet eyes of the imperial family were shining like his mother, penetrating the darkness.
“Then order.”