Chapter 507 – Visits and Treatment

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Next day.

Cleon, who had returned to the inn, came to the brothel to meet Tamamo once again with Quon.

Of course. Since I was going in during the day, I had to take the form of a ‘woman’.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen that figure. The clothes aren’t the usual armor, but the plain clothes of the East… It’s fresh.”

“Ugh… I appreciate the compliment, but it’s a bit complicated after all…”

At Quon’s remark, Cleon dropped his shoulder while she was saying that.

Another colleague is relaxing at home today.

Sasha, Layla, and Amelia all worked hard enough yesterday, and it was necessary to maintain their stamina so that they could participate in the dream tower capture operation at any time.

Besides, if no one is left in the house, there is no one to look after Emma and the Griffon.

Kuondo, because she had to take a break from training today because she had work with the high priestess, Tokoyo, so she was able to follow Cleon without any worries.

Like that, walking around the brothel under the morning sun, like yesterday, there are courtesans sleeping here and there under the sunlight, but-

I could see that the eyes of the women who could not fall asleep yet and were walking on the streets naturally focused on them.

“…Are we noticing?”

As if Quon wasn’t used to that kind of gaze, she spoke with a somewhat nervous expression, but Cleon could tell that the women’s gaze was precisely directed at Quon.

Toward the ‘two lumps’ larger than her face her, which shakes every time she walks, wearing a miko’s costume.

Courtesans, of course, are women who are attractive to men because of their appearance and body, so there were more people with curvy bodies than ordinary women outside the brothels.

Even so, there was no woman with the ‘destructive power’ that could defeat Quon.

When everyone saw her cuon her, they would ‘keep’ her, turn her head her, and look down at her own chest her, chewing on the fact that she had been ‘defeated’.

But Cleon found out about it, and she couldn’t tell it to Quon.

This is because the moment it was said, it was a statement no different from sexual harassment.

“…Isn’t it because she’s wearing a shrine maiden’s outfit? The shrine maidens are said to be free to come and go here, but this is probably the first time a shrine maiden is not wearing a ‘mask’.”

“Aha. I see. Certainly, all the other shrine maidens wear masks outside the temple.”

Quon listened to Cleon’s words of her, and she nodded her head in agreement.

‘I’m glad you understood…’

When she thought she did n’t have to explain that to her mouth her-

“Hey, Miko!”

And, with a voice calling them from behind her, Quon’s wrist her was grabbed.

Standing there was a young Yoho who looked to be about 6 or 7 years old.

Judging from the clothes she was wearing, she looked like a child taking on an assistant role to help the gisaengs.

As her little child, her pale blonde hair, looked up at herself, her eyes twinkling, Quon looked at her with a smile on her face.

“Yeah. What’s going on?”

Looking at such a heartwarming scene, why does Cleon feel ‘anxiety’?

“Uh, how can her breasts grow so distractingly!? Maybe, her sister her is a cow beast!?”

“───”

The innocent cruelty of a child attacked Quon.

Cleon’s face goes pale, but Quon answers her girl with her forced smile.

“Ah, no… My sister is a ‘human’…”

“This, a human…? A lie…”

“It’s real. Look. He has human ears. There’s no such thing as a tail…”

As Quon’s laughter gradually turns to pain, the young Yoho says “Wow” And looks where Quon is pointing.

“Hey, after all… Can I drink a lot of milk?”

“Well, well…? I’ve never been like that… I’ve been living a normal life…”

Watching her care that her young yoho does n’t properly respond to her curiosity her, Cleon grabs her kuon’s empty wrist her.

“Quon. Let’s hurry.”

“Ah, that’s right. You might be waiting…”

At Cleon’s urging her, Quon shakes her hand at her girl as she nods and walks away.

“…Ha… I couldn’t answer properly.”

“Never mind… How can you explain ‘naturally growing’.”

At Cleon’s words her, Quon made her face blush for a moment, pulled her free arm her, and when he covered his chest her, the arm’s pressure her squeezed her to the point where some flesh came out of her clothes on her. It was losing

“It’s because it started to grow after meeting Cleon…”

“Did Elessia’s food suit your body…?”

“…”

At Cleon’s words, Quon pouted her mouth.

After that, she didn’t really talk like this and walked a little to the ‘tea house’.

“…Come on. This is Tamamo’s mansion.”

Cleon raised her finger while talking, and Quon tilted her head as if it were a bit strange to see such an old store.

I could hear some raucous voices coming from inside.

“…I guess it’s a little late. Let’s go inside.”

At Cleon’s hurried words, Kuondo nodded her head, and when she entered the interior of her mansion – the room where the other Yohos were.

“Calm down, Kuzunoha! If you run amok here, other recovering yohos will also get hurt…!”

“Keugh… Taking other children hostage…!”

“It’s not like that!”

I could see Tamamo and Kuzunoha arguing like that.

The other yohos gathered in the corner of the room and trembled as if they were weighed down by the spirit, although they woke up to the sound of the two fighting.

When the two of them, noticing Cleon and Quon who opened the door and came in, look back at them at the same time, Kuzunoha bites her lower lip.

“Miko…! No way, to purify and seal me!”

“Wait. It’s not like that. She’s my colleague.”

When Cleon says that and steps forward as if to protect Kuon, Kuzunoha takes a step behind her and calls out to Cleon.

“You… The older brother who caught me yesterday… I didn’t recognize him for a while because he was in the form of a woman… Heh. I didn’t believe him to bring a shrine maiden. “

Kuzunoha seems to be trying to use her magic her to get out of her mansion her, but Cleon takes a step closer to her and talks to her.

“… She just came to treat your finger to her. Calm down, please.”

“How can I trust you and tell you to calm down…?”

When Kuzunoha returned her natural reaction to Cleon’s words, Kuon opened her mouth this time.

“Really. I came after hearing that Mr. Kuzunoha was injured… Look, I have no intention of resisting you.”

“…”

Kuzunoha shut her mouth for a moment, seeing Kuon lift her arms her as if she were safe, pleading for her own harmlessness her.

“…I’m from the kingdom. Then, it seems that it’s true that I’m not a shaman from the eastern kingdom, but a colleague of that brother… And… He doesn’t look very strong either.”

After finishing her evaluation of her kuon like that, Kuzunoha nodded her head knowingly, and she talked while looking at Cleon and Tamamo.

“Then… Let that shrine maiden come closer to me. I’ll release her after I heal the wound on her finger her. The two of you leave the room.”

“That-“

Tamamo tries to tell her that there is no way Cleon and Quon will agree.

Quon and Cleon quickly met eyes and nodded.

“Okay. Instead, don’t hurt her.”

“Of course, I’m not as cowardly as your liars.”

While saying that, Kuzunoha looked at Tamamo.

Seeing that gaze, Tamamo said “Kuu…” And averted her gaze with resentment.

As if her Cleon her was soothing her, she wrapped her shoulders around her and went out of her room.

“…Arguing since morning. We get along well.”

As soon as they entered her room, they talked to Tamamo at such a level that their voices could not be heard. She let out a sigh and shrugged her shoulders.

“As soon as I saw her face her, she ran at me. If her body her was normal, she would have collapsed in her room and almost been overpowered.”

“Her hatred her is ‘sincere’.”

Saying so, Cleon sat across the table with Tamamo.

“…If I don’t properly apologize to her.”

“I know. But–because when she sees me, she’ll run right up…”

Cleon nodded her head as if there was some truth to Tamamo’s words in her.

“Probably, the inner god-Hakumen-sama is fueling her hatred her and fanning her behavior her to become radical.”

“She… What kind of a god is Hakumen? If she descends, will she be said to open the future of the spirits?”

Speaking of beast gods that Cleon knew, it was ‘Ruben’ and ‘Anansi’.

Among them, Ruben was influenced by her while staying with Sasha, and her personality her was gradually becoming kinder, and Anansi, due to her nature her as a spider god, was a being who did her best to protect her her followers from the beginning.

Ruben’s vessel, ‘Sasha’, and a complete god, ‘Anansi’, of course, had strong power, but they did not have enough power to be equal to the Empire or the Church alone.

“…Hakumen-sama is a god, but at the same time he is classified as a ‘youkai’.”

“…In other words, ‘evil god’.”

Tamamo nodded once again at Cleon’s words and acknowledged his words her.

“Like our fairies, she is a god who can use witchcraft to cause natural disasters and control the weather, as well as ‘genuine magic to deceive people’. She is also a god of witchcraft and a god of slander. He is a god created.”

“Is it similar to Ruben being the god of wolves and hunting…”

Perhaps, Hakumen is not a single god, but rather a merging of many deities who have lost their faith.

However, even so, the degeneration of faith could not be prevented, and it must have even become the existence of ‘Assin’.

“Yes. If she had a vessel with proper talent. She could transcend the limit of being a ‘god’ and wield power comparable to that of a single god-we thought.”

“We?”

“This is ‘Inari’ from yesterday’s story.”

Cleon was silent for a moment at her words.

“…She said- she died fighting the Exiled Church.”

“Yes. Thanks to the leak of our internal information by the traitor, the location of the ‘hidden mansion’ was exposed…”

Thinking of what happened back then, Tamamo squeezed her hand tightly as if she was still angry.

“… The Exiled Church has many enemies.”

“Well. That’s right. I know that you guys are also hostile to the Exiled Church. No, it has no choice but to be that way.”

“…”

Cleon quietly nods her head at her words her.

“—If you say that you have recovered the memory of Inari’s death, then Kuzunoha will surely know. That the true enemy is not you, but the church.”

“Because he’s a smart kid. But… He’ll need to cool his head.”

“…If that’s the case, don’t worry.”

Cleon looks over her door as he says that.

“She’s with her right now, because it’s none other than Quon.”

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“…Okay, then I’ll treat you.”

After the two of her go out, her kuzunoha quietly looks at her and talks as her kuon cautiously tries to get close to her.

“…To be a member of a kingdom of small beasts. It’s unusual.”

“T-That’s wrong. I’m human.”

She recalled talking to Yoho, a young child from earlier, and Quon shook her head and denied it with her mouth at the same time.

“…You have such a great thing?”

“Ugh…”

Why do all the Yohos look at their ‘here’?

“…Anyway. Seeing that you’re going to heal me, that means you can use healing magic, you.”

Shamans, including shrine maidens, basically do not use such magic.

While saying, she looks at the finger part of her hand that she cut off herself.

There, he could see her finger her, which Amelia had hung up the day before, and which she was no longer seriously injured.

“…Honestly. It’s good enough to heal wounds.”

Her finger her, which she cut off herself, was destroyed by Cleon’s friends her who were chasing her.

If that’s the case, she said as if she’d be satisfied even if this wound just rotted away.

It was because I had heard before that only a very few healers were able to restore lost parts, no matter how healing magic was.

Quon then approached her cautiously, placing her hand her over her wound her.

“…Don’t worry. Cleon asked me to heal you.”

As she said that, divine magic began to gather in her hands.

“…Will of the Light. Protector. Stop the bleeding, heal the lamb’s wounds.”

With a short chant, her dazzling light her burst out of Quon’s hand and enveloped her.

Then—as if time were turning—the bones, muscles, and nerves of her fingers grew.

“…!”

In a way, it can be a gruesome scene, but Kuzunoha has no choice but to look at it in amazement.

After a little time, her skin and nails returned, and that part came back neatly.

“Whew…”

Quon watches as her fingers her return to shape.

Kuzunoha moved her fingers there as always, curiously.

“…This is amazing. Is this the Kingdom’s healing magic?”

“Yes. Even so, it takes an enormous amount of mana to completely regenerate lost body tissue. So, even if one person uses all of one person’s mana, it is impossible to heal a person who has suffered massive organ damage or has a missing leg.”

While saying that, Quon adds one more thing.

“Oh, and there’s also the fact that it won’t work if too much time passes after the wound is formed. This is because the body is regenerated according to the ‘soul shape’. Because this happens.”

“It’s not omnipotence…Well, it’s all about magic…”

Kuzunoha nods her head knowingly, then she gets hot and looks at Kuon and backs away from her.

“Now, wait. Just because you healed your wounds, don’t get too attached. I have no intention of getting along with you guys. Rather, keep in mind that I can leave this mansion with you as a hostage.”

“You promised Cleon that you wouldn’t lay a hand on me, right?”

“… A promise like that. If I say I won’t keep it, it’s over. It seems that the hypocrite and his older brother, Cleon, have been tricked.”

Kuzunoha looks at the door where they disappeared while snoring.

At her words her, Quon spoke with her wry smile.

“That’s because…They both trust you.”

“Haa… Trust?”

When Kuzunoha tilted her head as if she did n’t understand her words of her, Kuon was still looking at her with a smile on her face.

“Yes. Not to mention that I absolutely do not trust Tamamo. I also met that older brother yesterday as an ‘enemy’. You can’t trust me.”

“Is that so? If you listen to the story, there is no doubt that Tamamo-sama felt sorry for you. Cleonion- He heard that you were running out of control through drugs, so he was ‘trying to save’. Rather, he had no intention of being hostile. You don’t think there is?”
“…”

Kuzunoha pouts at Kuon’s logical words of hers.

Seeing such a childlike expression, Quon asked her a question.

“Miss Kuzunoha… How old are you?”

“Why are you asking that…”

To her bewildered, Quon answered confidently.

“Oh, I’m 17.”

“Because I didn’t ask?! What… I’m 15 years old.”

“As expected! It looks a little mature, but there’s still a cute part somewhere, so I thought it was younger than me!”

“Thinking of boasting about being older? It’s a pity, but I’m not a gentle enough kid to listen to older people.”

Kuzunoha shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.

However, Quon speaks while looking at her like that.

“No! Not at all… I heard that your shaman skills are amazing.”

“…Well, that’s right. In order to be recognized as a yoho, I worked hard.”

“…Are you Mr. Tamamo?”

“Out of it!”

Kuzunoha raised her voice for a moment at the words of her kuon her, then she spoke as she touched the magatama of her hakumen hanging around her neck her.

“…Not Tamamo. ‘Inari-sama’. To me, she is no different than ‘mother’.”

Looking at her with her forlorn face her, her kuon asks once more.

“…Can I hear the story? I was a priest in the kingdom. Listening to people’s stories and giving them advice is my specialty.”

Quon said, “Leave it to me,” Knocking on his chest.

Then, Kuzunoha looked at such a Kuon, and even though she hesitated for a moment—

“…You’re a strange person. You’re on par with that older brother.”

“That way I can be with Cleon.”

“…Do you mean getting together…”

Kuzunoha says something rude to Cleon somewhere.

But, she heals herself and listens to her story of her. Looking at Quon, who says she understands.

Quon’s proposal of her came so comfortably to her, who had been trembling at her betrayal of her for a year.

That’s why she allowed her heart to her, and she obediently opened her mouth.

Quon was quiet and felt her true intentions her in her words.

A story about Kuzunoha’s past – already, although she knew it to some extent after hearing about it from Cleon.

She decides that in order to restore the relationship between Tamamo and Kuzunoha, she needs to hear the story from her point of view of her.

Quietly, she was listening to her story of her.

So she can open her ‘heart’ her.