chapter 3
3 – The hawk is the medicine.
After her teacher left, Lucia focused on taking care of herself.
Because of the mana management beyond the limit, if you make a mistake, the mana could run out of control and cause your body to explode and die.
Lucia, who managed to manage her exhausted body, asked Illya in a resentful voice.
“Why did you do that?”
“Why did you do that?”
“You could have stopped it.”
A stigma, an irreversible curse.
There was no one among the master’s disciples who was not cursed with the stigma.
Only Illya was not cursed with the stigma.
Only Illya, who was not cursed by the stigma, could stop the master.
But I missed the master.
Lucia thought that Illya let go of his teacher on purpose.
Illya understood the meaning of her words and spoke.
“I definitely blocked Master. Lucia, you saw it too.”
Illya defended herself by saying that she stood in her way against her master, but Lucia didn’t believe it.
“Lie, you could have knocked me out! But you didn’t.”
It was as Lucia said.
When the threat of slashing didn’t work, she didn’t, even though she could have stunned her master.
It was as if she had let her master run away.
“Tell me, why did you do that?”
“… ….”
“Tell me!”
Lucia, whose emotions were intensified, summoned a light source and shouted.
She gave full air of her hostility that she would attack if she did not speak.
However, the summoned light source was consumed by the sudden darkness and disappeared.
It was Grania’s magic.
Grania, unable to speak, took out her paper and wrote something of her own before she held it up for the two of them to see.
[Calm down.]
“Do not disturb.”
Despite Grania’s objection, Lucia summoned the light source again.
The light source was ready to fly towards Illya at any time.
Illya was the first to speak.
“Master, you have the right to be free too.”
“What?”
“We have no right to suppress Master’s freedom, Lucia.”
“… ….”
She knows too.
She knows she has no right to suppress her master’s freedom, but she doesn’t want to let go.
It was just her greed.
However, her greed was only greed, and it did not become the right to own the master.
“Yes, you are right, Illya.”
She
She didn’t want to admit it, but she did admit that she couldn’t have a mentor yet.
“I still have no right to suppress my master’s freedom, you are right.”
“So I’m going to get that right.”
If you do not have the right, you just have to step up to a position where you can have the right.
That was her idea.
“Hey sisters, where is my freedom?”
Fin said, but the girls didn’t answer.
Only Grania held out a piece of paper to Finn.
[Give up and go with me to get a seat, Pin.]
“Damn Master, come back and take me too!”
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Three days have passed since she ran away from her disciples.
It took some time because I left my wagon behind, but I was finally able to get out of the boring forest and arrive at Kalpas Manor, which is guarding the borders of the empire.
“Reveal your identity.”
There were strict guards befitting a territory protecting the borders.
Someone would cringe at least once if they saw a security guard with a grim face, but since I didn’t do anything wrong, I confidently revealed my identity.
“This is Derahn from the Polyusica estate.”
“You don’t need to know the name. Show your citizenship card.”
“Here you are.”
The guard quickly snatched my citizenship card.
The security guard placed the citizen card he had taken away on a steel disc.
When there was no response from the original board, the security guard returned my citizenship card to me and said.
“I don’t see any signs of forgery, what is the purpose of visiting Kalpas Manor?”
“I visited to go to the center of the continent.”
“Center? There is an academy there, so what are you going to do there?”
“I am on my way to work as a teacher at Arsene Academy.”
The moment I finished speaking, the guard’s demeanor suddenly changed.
“Oops, I didn’t know you were precious. Hurry past!”
Arsene Academy is the best educational academy on the continent created for the harmony of the Empire and the Five Kingdoms.
Only those with skills can become students, regardless of their status as commoners or nobles.
The teachers who teach such students were all first-rate in their fields.
If you are going to apply for a position as a teacher in such a place, you are definitely not an ordinary person.
The guard, realizing that fact, corrected his flustered attitude and greeted me politely.
“Then I will pass.”
“Please pass by comfortably!”
I came into the territory more smoothly than I thought and started looking for a stable.
I left everything except the things I really needed because I was running away in a hurry.
A horse was essential for comfortable movement.
‘Because of the disciples, I’m spending money I shouldn’t have.’
Since it was my first visit, I did not know the way, so I grabbed a passer-by and asked where the stable was.
“I’m sorry. Do you know where the stables are near here?”
A passer-by explained the way without difficulty to my question.
“If you walk straight ahead from here, you will come to a fork in the road. Turn right there and continue on. You will see a stable.”
“Thank you.”
“No big deal. Well then, I’d like to go see you.”
With the help of passers-by, I was able to find the stable without difficulty.
I entered the stable and found the owner.
“Are you the owner?”
Then a man with a protruding stomach who had been dozing off in the corner of the stable came out yawning as if he was annoyed.
“Which show?”
“Do you want to buy a horse and become a stable owner?”
“Yes, I am the owner. Pick the one you like.”
The owner of the stable showed the inside of the stable as if everything was bothersome, and asked you to choose a horse you like.
As the owner said, looking around the stable, I pointed to the biggest-looking guy in the stable and asked.
“How much is this guy?”
Said the master, showing all his fingers.
“10 Gold.”
“Pu-huh.”
10 Gold is enough money for a commoner’s family to live on for a year.
“Everyone, let’s see the other guy.”
I asked, pointing to the smallest-looking guy in the stable this time.
They all seemed to be dying.
“How much is this guy?”
“Huh? He’s going to be horse meat. He chooses someone else.”
“Then can I pay for the horse meat and take it?”
“You didn’t come to find a horse, did you? Even if I bought a guy like that, I wouldn’t last two days and die.”
“It’s okay. I’ll do it with this guy. What is the price?”
“What a strange man, he was going to be horse meat anyway, so give him 50 silver and take him away.”
The owner of the stable looked at me with an expression that he was looking at a strange guy, but I paid the price regardless.
“Here you are.”
“You are the first person to come and buy horse meat in my life.”
“Something like this happens in life.”
“We don’t accept refunds, so please don’t come back and ask for a refund.”
“It won’t happen, so you don’t have to worry.”
After the deal with the owner was over, I drove the dying horse out of the stable.
At the sight of the outside for the first time in a while, the horse cried and cried.
Hiiing
I calmed down and said that.
“You’re lucky, I saved what could have been horsemeat.”
I didn’t think the horse would understand what I was saying, but I just did it out of mood.
“It’s as if I saved you, so you should listen to me carefully.”
I didn’t buy this dying guy just because it was cheap.
I have a special power different from others.
I fell to this world at a young age, but thanks to that power, I have been able to survive without dying.
I clenched my fist and struck the horse’s muzzle with all my might.
Puck!
Hee-in, Hee-in
The horse, hit by a sudden fist, struggled in surprise, but it didn’t pose much of a threat to me.
“This is all done for you. Stay still. If you make a mistake, you will be beaten.”
The ability I acquired after coming over to this world was the ability to heal.
By the way, the activation conditions for this healing ability were a bit strange.
Heals when hit.
You may not believe it, but if you hit it for real, it heals.
“It’s such an absurd ability that you have to hit it to cure it, but what can I do? The effect is certain.”
While talking, I didn’t stop beating the horse for a moment.
It’s a really strange ability, but it’s strange that the ability doesn’t have a name, so I gave my ability a name.
Mae is medicine.
I thought it was a name suitable for the ability to heal by hitting.
The horse struggled in pain and resisted, but to no avail.
The absurd thing about this healing ability was that the stronger the opponent felt the pain, the stronger the healing ability.
“From now on, it will be very painful. You better bite your molars tight.”
I wrapped my fists in magic while saying that.
The horse was already on the verge of fainting with bare fists alone.
I threw a magically enchanted fist at the horse in such a state without hesitation.
How long has it been since the pain of thinking that death would be better for a horse who was waiting for the day to die?
I said, looking down at the horse that had collapsed with crab foam on it.
“After…… Treatment success.”
I successfully wiped away my sweat with a happy heart, having succeeded in obtaining a beautiful horse worth 5 gold with just 50 silver.