Chapter 243 – Pills

000

A child runs down the avenue.

Blonde hair that glistened in the sunlight, and a girl’s dress was worn on the body.

The sight of her running away with tears in her eyes and a terrified crime face reminds me of a girl who ran out of a child scene.

When she finds out that the identity of the contents inside is ‘Albein’, her level of perception her drops from a girl with a blue face whom she wants to protect to a desperate existence to the point of being a little obscene.

`What! What the hell is that just now!`

Could it be that her SAN value decreased because she saw ‘something’she could n’t understand in front of her eyes?

She was the one who vigorously sought Cleon and visited her mansion.

When she was still in Elesia, she was struck by a blade of wind that happened when Sasha, who was the lowest level in the party, swung her arm once.

Seeing that the ground was being cut away, leaving deep digging marks.

What happened to her, no, to them while she was absent from herself.

Even with all her shallow imagination her, Albein didn’t notice her.

If she struggles like that, staggering her steps her, but still trying to get away from where Sasha was-

Thud! Making her whimper and not looking right in front of her, she bumps into someone.

“Wow…!”

The child’s body of her, bumped into by her adult her, falls over, unable to support her lightly on her own.

Albain stomped on her buttocks and sat down on her wrinkled dress her.

“Huh…?`

And what she bumped into with her was-

“Oh, sorry. I was taking some notes in my notebook…”

Saying so, she reached out her hand to a woman with white hair and red eyes.

Iona Chevalier. She was a former knight, now unemployed.

“Damn it… Look straight ahead…!”

Albein spat out her curse words and struck Iona’s hand her, which had been extended to her.

“…Yes?”

Her receding hand her.

But Iona’s expression changed as if she felt something in his hand that she had touched for a moment.

“Just that feeling…”

“Iona!”

If Iona looked alternately between her own hand and her her albain her while her her albain stood up.

Behind her, there was a figure running hurriedly panting.

Wearing her body was a maid outfit.

Her hair was long, brass-colored, neatly tied in a ponytail, green-eyed, and she was ‘Eustes’.

“Ah, Eustes. I’m sorry.”

“Really… To leave so early while calculating…”

As Eustes says so, she gently puts the shopping cart she is holding on the ground.

I’ve been working at the mansion for about a week. Her cleaning, washing, and cooking her were still lacking in many ways, so most of her entrusted work her was shopping for cooking ingredients.

She was, of course, a noblewoman and she had never bought her own food by giving money herself, so even after wandering around the market, she was acting with Iona whom she met in front of the bookstore.

Iona, on the other hand, was the type to do all the basic household chores on her own instead of Talchek, who did n’t cook at all, so she was in a position to help Eustes.

Then, as Iona always did, she walked away writing down her thoughts in a notebook, and Eustes walked away while she was calculating.

“Did I count correctly? Change?”

“…I know how to calculate that much. No matter how much I say… My father was a merchant.”

Eustes narrowed her eyes as she looked at Iona, who seemed to be making a fool of herself.

Iona covered her mouth with one of her hands while she chuckled as she added a few more words as if making fun of Eustes.

“Whoops. It was. Are you practicing cooking with the ingredients you bought today? Then, someday, Cleon-“

“K-Kleon, proper food… I think it would be better to serve him at a restaurant…!”

While Eustes blushes, Alvain frowns at the name Cleon that has come up among them.

‘Could these women also be brainwashed by Cleon?’

I think the pattern hasn’t changed.

“Whew, but I think I bought almost everything worth living for… But, what about this kid?”

When Eustes glanced at Albain, Albain stood up and looked at Iona and Eustes with a twinkle.

“If you’re a blonde bystander, maybe you’re an aristocrat…”

Being able to infer one’s identity from one’s physical characteristics was a conjecture that was possible because it was the royal road, but did Alvein ever have the idea that he should avoid being deeply involved with people in order to hide his identity ?

After avoiding the two, she tried to move her feet to head to Lord Setos’ mansion.

At that time.

“For a moment”

Alvein’s wrist snapped.

Despite the fact that he was holding a fair-skinned hand with slender fingers and a hand that looked much weaker than in Albain’s original form.

The hand that held it held Alvein’s wrist stronger and more firmly than the grip of an orc he had ever experienced before.

“You… I felt dark magic in my body. Why?”

“…!?”

Do you feel black magic in your body?

Even her words were a shock to Alban.

Because, he didn’t even know that the medicine he drank was a ‘forbidden medicine created through the combination of the devil’s magic’, and he just drank it.

“You feel the dark magic?”

Eustes, as if surprised by Iona’s words, also looks at Albain with a suspicious expression in an instant.

Alvein grabs Iona’s hand her with her other hand her to free her her arm her, but-

“Hey, let go of this…!”

“I’m sorry, but no matter how you look at it, you don’t seem like an ordinary girl. However, the dark magic you feel is very weak… It seems that you came into contact with some kind of cursed item or something that you didn’t originally have.”

When Iona said that, Eusthes blinked her eyes and then, ah! And she was talking to Iona.

“Wait a minute. Perhaps, this child, like me, was cursed and turned into a woman.”

When Eustes says that, Iona pauses when she hears the words, then she looks at Eustes.

“I see… I’m sure you were running as if you were scared of something earlier. Did you, by any chance, run away from the back alley on your own?”

“Oh, no… I…”

Albein had no idea what the two were talking about, and he was rather embarrassed.

Are you cursed to become a woman?

No matter how you look at it, the person in front of you, who is a woman, was originally a man?

Why is a man wearing a maid’s uniform and casually walking around outside?

“… It’s okay. I won’t tell anyone that I’ve become a woman. Instead, she’ll have to wait at the monastery to find a way to get back to normal-“

Alban realizes that something is going wrong with her, and she tries to escape somehow.

Bang! In the distance, somewhere in the noble house, a bright flash of light shot through the air toward the sky.

When Iona and Eustes were started by the sound and shock, they turned to look there.

Iona, without even realizing it, pulled her strength from the wrist of Alvein she was holding.

‘Gee, now!’

Only then did Albain shake off her arms and start running in the direction of Lord Setos’ mansion.

The voices of Eustes and Iona came from behind her, but she had no time to pay attention to them.

Meeting a woman Cleon knew in this city was perhaps more dangerous than meeting Cleon defenseless.

Alvein, who left the house to trouble Cleon, rather, confirmed the ‘abnormality’ of the women around him and returned home in fear.

001

“Ugh…”

When Merka opened her eyes, the pang she felt in her limbs was not something she could accept without a moan.

The joints and bones in the legs used as pivots were screaming.

Along with the prosthetic arm of her, the fist that struck Evelyn, the assassin, was also bleeding under the glove of her.

Not only that, but the accumulated shock from the lightning rain.

Even the extra shock that the overloaded magic tool fed back in an instant while firing the plasma beam.

She lifted her upper body off the soft floor and looked around her, and at some point she realized that she had entered her adventurer’s guild’s cabin.

“Are you awake?”

Then, when I heard her voice of her, I turned to see a dark-skinned girl looking at Merca with a stethoscope hanging around her neck her.

“This is… The room of the adventurer’s guild. You? Where did Cleon and Ascaron go?”

“Cleon-nim is currently discussing with the adventurers’ guild below. In order to inform them that the matter is related to the thieves’ guild, and to come up with countermeasures.”

“…”

Merca tried to get up from her seat her, but when she saw that her prosthetic leg her had been removed, she narrowed her eyes.

“Where did you go?”

“I’ve been told that if you get up, you’ll start moving right away, so I put it aside. You’re in need of rest and treatment. Doctor stop.”

“I’m surprised there’s a doctor as young as you.”

“It’s a skill that Cleon-nim recognized.”

Any complaints about something? As the girl talked with a look like ‘, Merka shut her mouth for a moment and then shook her head.

“We don’t have long to rest. If the assassin tells the kidnappers about us, the hostage may be killed.”

At Merca’s words her, the girl-Perdia seemed to be troubled after shutting her mouth for a while.

“Aren’t you familiar with the word Doctor Stop?”

“No way. But even a doctor can’t stop me. Cleon asked me to help him save the child. As an investigator of the kingdom, it’s okay if I don’t take care of myself as long as it’s for the safety and justice of the citizens.”

“That’s your duty. And… It’s a reward for Cleon-sama’s trust.”

Upon hearing Perdia’s words of her, Merca replied to Perdia with a twinkle in her conviction-filled eyes.

Accepting that silent answer, Ferdia stood up from her seat.

Then, she handed over the red and blue pills she was holding in her hand to Merca.

“…It’s a drug that looks suspicious at first glance. Is it officially approved?”

“No. But, I’ll do anything for Cleon-sama. And… It’s just the right thing for you.”

Perdia smiled like that and pointed at the blue medicine first.

“This medicine is a magic recovery accelerator made by refining the silver thread spider. Originally, it is common to use it in the form of incense, but it is an item that has been refined and processed repeatedly to remove maximum toxicity.”

“Magical recovery… Then there shouldn’t be any problem in using prosthetic arms and legs.”

Merka nods her head and swallows her blue pill.

“…I haven’t talked about the side effects yet.”

“No matter what side effects there may be, it must have been prepared because it was judged to be necessary now, right?”

At Merca’s words her, Perdia shut her mouth for a moment, then she slowly nodded her head.

Pounding, pounding. Do. The magic organ inside her body her, the heart, receives the drug’s effect, and quickly spins a turbine to circulate magic throughout her body her.

Although it was a little bit, she felt that her head was going blank, but if the efficacy and toxicity of the silver thread spider grass that Merca knew were true, it would be fortunate that it ended in a daze.

“It has far fewer side effects than I expected.”

“Side effects have not yet appeared. They will appear after the drug wears off.”

“…Are you saying that getting blank in the head isn’t a side effect?”

Merka said she was unexpected, but Perdia shook her head and replied.

“That’s because, as your mana recovery speed increases, the naturally senses speed up your tangible time a bit. Side effects can certainly be called side effects, but they’re a bit different from what I’m worried about.”

“That’s scary.”

Merca answers, but Perdia is second. She pointed her finger at the ‘red pill’.

“This is not the dragon that Merca-sama eats.”

“…Then?”

“When the side effects of the blue side appear, please let Cleon eat it.”

“Aha…”

Upon hearing Perdia’s explanation of her, Merca put on a somewhat convinced expression.

Even if I didn’t hear what the side effects were or what the efficacy of the red medicine was, for some reason, it seemed that there was a part that was expected to some extent.

“To be honest. Your body is in a mess right now. If you’ve been overtaxing your body like that for nearly 10 years, it’s the right doctor’s opinion to hospitalize you right now and have you undergo rehabilitation treatment over the years. The accumulated fatigue, damage, and deformity in your body cannot be completely restored even by the priest’s healing magic.”

Merka, hearing Perdia’s words her, slowly folded her hand holding the red pill and put it in her pocket her.

“Especially, your severed arms and legs… Those amputated surfaces are a little unusual to say that they healed over time. Usually, they are cut as if being crushed with a blade such as a knife or axe, or torn off by the teeth of an animal. It’s normal to leave.”

After hearing Perdia’s explanation her, Merka nodded her head approvingly.

“But… Your arms and legs seemed a little different. As if. ‘Burned’… There were traces of oil on them and putting them in a furnace. However, if so, there are scars on the cut edges It doesn’t make much sense to do that. Maybe your injuries weren’t caused by an accident or incident-“

As her perdia pours out her own reasoning, Merca grins and stretches out her remaining arm her, placing her index finger over her lips her.

“The reasoning about the doctor’s wound is interesting. As I know the answer, I don’t feel the need to hear the story behind it.”

“…”

Even if she talked about it in front of herself, it meant nothing to her, so Merca’s gesture her as if to spare her words her made Perdia ponder for a moment, but she slowly nodded her head and moved her body her. Dropped the

“I’ll bring you a prosthetic arm and leg.”

Then, she took her limbs that she had hidden and put them on Merca’s body her.

Due to her increased magical power production ability her, her body her felt as if it was moving more lightly than usual.

“Actually, there was no problem with the magic potion because your ‘Cleon-sama’ was there.”

“I don’t think there will always be a situation where I can always kiss Cleon-sama.”

“…Is that too?”

Merca nods her head at Perdia’s refusal her.

“In the first place, Cleon-sama is not a magic potion. He is not worthy of being treated like that.”

“You’re quite a loyal doctor. What’s your name?”

“…This is Ferdia. Merca-sama.”

As she nods at Merca, she falls on her back with her head bobbing and following her gravity.

“If you fight by his side, I’m on your side, but-“

Perdia added, talking to Merca.

“There are many rivals who want that position.”

002

“Okay. Then, if we gather a little more information about the thieves’ guild’s temporary hideout-“

Cleon said that while talking with Aruru and Rampart with the map of the royal capital open.

Another angle, another angle. When I thought I heard the sound of lofty footsteps, there was Merca slowly descending the stairs.

“Miss!”

Then, Ascalon sat on the side of the stairs and rushed to express her concern for her master her.

“Ugh… It’s heavy. Ascalon. Cleon, Aruru. You made me worry.”

“No, it’s okay because it’s only been about an hour. Of course, I was just worried that the child who was kidnapped during that time would have suffered worse than that.”

Hearing Cleon’s answer, Merca smiled and said.

“The possibility of that is extremely low. If it is the thieves’ guild that kidnapped the child, then the child’s survival is their only trump card. Besides, the client may want to recruit the boy. They can’t easily take his life .It’s not something that exists.”

“…That’s right. Then we should quickly find out where they are hiding.”

Merca nods her head and comes all the way down her steps, examining her map her.

There was a section marked with 5 Xs, pointing to the area where the Thieves Guild’s temporary shelters were supposed to be located.

“Okay. I’ll pick one.”

“Is there some way?”

Merka said that, then closed her eyes and took her 1 gold from her pocket and bounced it over her sky.

The spinning coins fall onto the map as they are.

“Okay. This is the closest to the forecasting base, so let’s go from here.”

“…How is it more logical?”

As Cleon looked at him in amazement, Merca only shrugged her shoulders.

“Whoops. Is that logical enough?”

“Ha…”