Chapter 640 – Side Effects and Physicians

000

While each of them scattered, making final preparations before the Five Elements Festival.

Based on someone’s old saying that those who don’t work shouldn’t eat, the one who pretends to work hard today is Schrödinger, a homunculus doll who was saved by Cleon and stayed in his lodgings in exchange for handing over information about the regressors. .

He flew around flapping his tiny wings, looking down at the ground from high in the sky, narrowing his eyes as if he was looking for something, and carefully examining the ground.

‘Obviously, it was a house that was all run down… But where the hell is it…’

Saying so, what he is looking for is the old house where he was kidnapped before.

Despite being a nobleman, a girl who did not lose her reason lived there, and he remembered that Darwin, one of the regressors, had visited the house.

Clearly – remembering that Darwin had her blood drawn, maybe she is a character with a deep connection to her regressors as well.

‘Recently, I haven’t been very helpful to Cleon… And when I’m at home, Gonzalez bites me…’

No matter how tactile it was, I hated being drenched in saliva or getting holes in my body from Gonzalez’s sharper teeth than I thought.

Not to mention being dipped in detergent-mixed water to make it clean.

In a way, you might be suspicious of whether that person was the real purpose behind running out of the dorm, but…

He was 100% serious, he only cared about the girl. Really.

‘…I don’t know who you’re making excuses for.’

Feeling like you have to rationalize yourself, while thinking that maybe it’s telling you which side your true intentions are closer to.

Stirring the meat, he sat down on a branch of the sacred tree to rest his weary wings.

“The view from here is amazing…”

The divine tree, in this Asteris- no, one of the highest places in this Orient.

Even if you turn your head slightly, you can clearly see everything in Asteris.

Perhaps, a human from the East would not dare to climb to such a high place or sit on the branch of a divine tree.

In this country, the divine tree is the god itself, and the branch is like the arm of the god. It was impiety to bend or sit on such a thing.

Schrödinger is somewhat flattered when he thinks that the only ones allowed to see this scenery are birds, insects, and himself.

‘Hey, I’m sure Cleon-san has never been up here before.’

While thinking so, he glanced down as if he were the king of Asteris-

“…Ok?”

There was something caught in the corner of the field of vision, so it was an old building with a gray color that seemed to have been built decades earlier, even compared to the buildings in the immediate vicinity.

“That’s it…! Why couldn’t I find it before…”

Looking around the building with that thought in mind, even compared to the other Asteris buildings, there are buildings that are a bit taller surrounding it, and the sunlight doesn’t come in properly.

It seems that the altitude was not enough when I flew to find it earlier, because I couldn’t see it because of the surrounding buildings.

“…I feel sorry for the guy who lives there. How poor are you?”

Tsutsu, kicking his tongue, Schrödinger lifts his heavy, fluffy butt, then flaps his wings again and descends to the ground.

The target is a dilapidated house that is on the verge of collapsing.

If the girl who should be living in it collects information on exactly what kind of relationship she has with the regressor, even Cleon or Lyla will acknowledge her usefulness.

“At least it should be recognized as more useful than Gonzalez…”

He was the kind of guy who kindled a competitive spirit against odd opponents, but it wasn’t particularly unusual for him to think that he might be abandoned if he was useless.

Of course, Cleon, who is not someone else, kicks out people because they are useless.

That couldn’t have happened to Cleon, but Schrödinger didn’t know about it.

He was just trying to be prepared for anything.

001

“Ha…”

Aisha placed the needle in her hand and the scraps of fabric she had brought in for the job into the basket, and leaned carefully against her old bed.

I can hear her legs squeaking, but the only thing that doesn’t break is because she made some repairs using the money she earned a while ago.

As a result of repeatedly picking up trash in the city as a semi-compulsory volunteer since I had to help people even if I was forced to because of the oath.

Little by little, even in this Asteris, people began to recognize the three.

Maybe that effort paid off, and like this, I was able to do it after receiving a job.

The two men who were subordinates were in charge of working in the fields, and themselves were in charge of sewing cloth, but it was much easier than attacking people, and it was less burdensome on the mind, so it might have been better to seek work innocently from the beginning. I thought I didn’t know.

…Of course, this kind of body – a nobleman with horns on his head, so there were many cases where he was stopped at the front door the moment he showed this.

Rather than changing that perception, Aisha recalls the past when she resented those around her, the man who made them make a promise-

It is to think of the dark horse clan and express gratitude from the heart.

Without him, he might really have had to earn his living like a thief, without being recognized by anyone in the city.

It is said that Aisha’s ancestors were noble families that were quite prosperous even in this Asteris.

While making witchcraft tools, it seemed that making masks was especially special, so they produced craftsmen who were recognized for their skills on the continent by making and selling masks with mysterious powers.

Although they were ancestors who led dozens of disciples and lived in a mansion large enough to provide a place for all of them to stay.

Now, that glory of the past is overshadowed. In this house, there is barely enough space for sewing, let alone a workshop for making masks.

As for why such a family fell like this—even though he himself hadn’t heard the story in detail.

Maybe it was because I was tricked by someone and damaged the precious things of a great person.

Only such ambiguous and ambiguous stories have been handed down, so it was not without a little unfairness.

Their ancestors were cursed in return, and even though they had reason, they became nobles with goblin horns rising above their heads, whose appearance was no different from other nobles.

The land of the mansion where they used to live was completely deprived of the spiritual veins and magical powers in the ground, and now it has turned into a desert.

Due to the sins committed and the changed appearance of the ancestors, they could not settle down in one place even within Asteris and wandered here and there.

The two people who are now together are the descendants of the servants who have supported their family since that time.

It would be nice to leave a ruined master like yourself.

They say that being with them is their mission, and that they follow them wherever they go.

And every time I moved, this old house was the place where I could barely settle down while disposing of the belongings I had.

Because the surroundings were all blocked by tall buildings, it was a place that was not noticed by people, so it was not easy to enter the house, so there was no need to worry about being kicked out.

That much, it was inconvenient to live there.

And- what torments them is the curse of this nobility that eats away at their bodies.

It’s not that I lose my reason, but as my body gets heavy and my head gets dizzy, the feeling of turning my stomach right before I vomit deeply weighs down my body.

According to the woman who introduced herself as a doctor, who came to the rumor that there is a nobleman like herself who does not lose her reason, the body is that of a nobleman, but the mind is that of a human, because of the gap between the body and the mind. It is said to occur

Even if treatment is impossible, the symptoms can be weakened with the medicinal materials sold in the temple, but the price of the medicine sold in the temple was not something they could afford with the money they had.

So, she started her deal with the doctor.

That is, to provide Aisha’s blood to the doctor so that she can use it as material for her research.

When she researched that blood, there was even a story that she might be able to make a cure for demonic fire, so she just drew the blood flowing from her body.

For one blood sale (the doctor didn’t like the term selling), the price was enough to support the three of them for a few months.

Of course, because of the money she was going to pay for the medicine, she could never live comfortably.

However, I felt that the symptoms that appeared recently were getting faster and faster.

Once this symptom starts to happen, you have to stop doing nothing for a while and your hands stop, and you have to somehow put your body into a state of rest.

If you take medicine at this time, it’s okay because you don’t have symptoms for at least a week.

Now, there was no money left to buy the drug.

‘The money you earn from working… Is mostly gone when you use it for living expenses. After all, I need the teacher’s help to buy medicine…’

As much as I got to work, I used my body more, so eating was important to maintain my stamina.

Especially the two people who started working in the field.

So, most of the money earned by working goes out that way.

Also, since I have to stand in front of people and work, I won’t be able to wear the rags I used to wear.

Even if it wasn’t a formal suit, he had already spent all the money he had received in return for the doctor’s visit a while ago, in order to get clothes that would be no problem as work clothes.

“…Uh…”

Aisha groans a little annoyed at the helplessness she feels in her fingertips and toes, but after a few minutes she starts to feel a little better, and her senses return to normal.

“Whew… Today was a bit short though. It would be nice if it was always this short, but…”

Aisha, who wiped her sweaty forehead with the back of her hand, decided to organize the work in front of her first.

‘How many more weeks until the next doctor’s visit…’

It’s not a person who comes that often, and there were times when he came with a little bit of a schedule like the last time, but it was unusual to the end.

“Huh. Let’s work hard. So, the cost of medicine and living expenses… I just need to make up for both.”

Having said that, the next moment I tried to resume sewing.

Knock knocking on the old door at the front door.

Then, Aisha thought it was a little too early for the two of them to return, so she stood up on her free leg and went out to the front door.

“Who are you?”

“—It’s me, Aisha.”

What came from the other side was the voice of a mature woman.

And, it was a familiar voice to Aisha.

“Teacher?”

Right away, she recognized that it was the doctor’s voice she had been thinking of before, and when she opened her door-

“… Stand, sir?”

Beyond that, there was a doctor wearing normal clothes over his whole body wrapped in bandages like a mummy.

“… I’m sorry for coming back so quickly.”

But when Darwin talked about her, as if she didn’t care about how she dressed herself, Aisha replied, ‘Oh, no’, much to her bewilderment, and tried to take her into her house.

“Teacher, what the hell is that look… Are you hurt somewhere?”

“Ah… Yes, a little… There was an accident during the experiment. Don’t worry, the bandages are meant to cover up some unsightly marks. The wound itself is not that serious.”

“…”

Her voice sounded like it was nothing, so Aisha nodded her head knowingly and looked back at her.

“Then, did you come today to get a sample-blood?”

“Exactly… I have a favor to ask.”

After the doctor said that, she took a moment to look around her and talk to her.

“…Now, can you accompany me to my lab?”

“…Yes?”

Aisha is taken aback by her sudden words.

“Ha, but-“

“As for the pay, don’t worry. I’ll give it to you in advance. And what I do in the lab is just the detailed physical examination and blood sampling that I do all the time.”

Her voice sounded a bit urgent, and Aisha just looked at her as if she didn’t understand her well.

Seeing Aisha’s expression like that, the doctor let go of her wrist that was holding her as if understanding her.

She then takes out a large number of coins from her bag she has brought with her and puts them on the desk near her.

With that amount, it was enough money to buy Aisha’s medicine and to pay for a few months’ living expenses.

“Eh, like this…?”

“Of course it should. You are following me from far away.”

She asked Aisha in disbelief, and the female doctor nodding her head, there must have been a smile underneath the bandage near her mouth.

… She has allowed blood to be drawn several times, but she has never been victimized or not paid.

There was a relationship of trust beyond a certain level between her and herself.

And, if she accepts this job herself, she will be free for at least a few months.

After thinking that far, she must have thought that there was no reason for her to refuse any more, so she nodded her head and left a note on her paper saying that she would be going somewhere for a few days.

“Okay then, let’s hurry up. The sooner the experiment is over, the sooner we can go back.”

As if to believe the doctor who said that, she turns around and sees the stitch she left off.

“Ah, sewing…”

“What’s going on?”

When the doctor asked again, she would alternate between her work and the doctor for a moment, then turn completely to her doctor.

“No. Are you okay.”

‘If I can come back soon… I just need to finish it before the Five Element Festival.’

So, Aisha followed the doctor while thinking a little softer.

002

“…If that…Is the same person as the woman from before… Then it must be Darwin…?”

Thinking so, Schrödinger, who quietly watched the scene outside the window, climbed up the roof while flapping.

Then, as the front door opens, they witness the scene where a full-body bandaged doctor takes Aisha out into the street.

‘…They said they were going to the laboratory… Then, are they going to the home of the regressors…’

Then, as it is, if she quietly follows her, she will be able to arrive at the base of her regressors too.

‘Maybe… A golden opportunity?’

Schrödinger, thinking that he had an opportunity to tell Cleon and Leila of his usefulness, flew up into the sky once again raising the corners of his mouth.

Then, quietly kill her presence and step on the heels of Aisha and the doctor who was dragging her away from the sky.