NOVEL NEXT Chapter 15.2
What sins were behind these doctors? Jade has kindly added an additional explanation:
“These are the seven best doctors in the capital, and the day after you were wounded, we immediately invited them…”
‘Why does the word ‘invited’ sound like ‘kidnapped’?’
Is this a hallucination?
“…Does the royal family tolerate such a thing?”
Is this whole country in Duke’s pocket? What will happen to this country in the future? I had different thoughts.
“Uh.”
Finally, one of the doctors mustered up the courage to open his mouth. He was the oldest of the doctors.
“Can I examine the patient?”
“Oh, yes.”
Jade looked displeased. My body is mine, but why is Jade giving permission? I pursed my lips in silence.
The doctors looked at me and examined my eyes and mouth. The doctor who examined me breathed a sigh of relief.
“You will be fine now. Be careful with your shoulder. We will check your condition again this afternoon.”
“Really?”
“Yes. In fact, the lady was very seriously lucky. What would happen if something went wrong…”
And the doctors looked at Jade with burning eyes.
“Then we…”
Jade nodded to them.
“You are all lucky too. I already had plans for you, but this time let’s just go our separate ways.”
“Thank you! Many thanks!”
“You can go out for a walk. Stay here a little, and you can return home. If the father permits.”
With that, Jade and the doctors walked out at the same time.
“Please tell me what happened. What happened after I fell? And why am I so lucky.”
I tugged at Jade’s hem. Jade looked into my eyes.
“Do you remember the fortune teller’s house we entered?”
“Yes.”
“There were several traps in the house. For example, crossbows.”
I nodded.
“There were two crossbow traps. Crossbow near the door and on the side wall.”
“Ah…”
I understood everything.
Initially, the arrow that was supposed to hit Collen was from a trap near the door. If so, the arrow I caught was another…
“The mechanism was manipulated by the ring worn by that crazy fortune-teller. It worked as soon as her father strangled her. If you turned the ring to the right, an arrow would fly out of the doorway and you would die. There was a poisoned arrow there. But the ring turned the other way, and you were hit by an arrow other not a poisonous one.”
“Ah…”
I understood everything.
The arrow that was supposed to hit Collen originally, was poisonous. Then, the arrow that hit me…
“The crossbow on the side wall was loaded with an anesthetic arrow. It was a really shitty thing. The poison on this arrow has been called a drug for women’.”
The horror was growing. For women? Jade’s story continued.
“Dealing with heart attacks in red-haired women. The killer poisoned women who came to find out the future. It was a colorless, odorless poison.”
Oh, I hate it. My stomach feels weird.
“There was one arrow for the women that was supposed to kill her slowly. A man could have been instantly killed with another arrow, but giving a woman a quick death was ‘unnecessary pity’.”
“A poison that has no taste or smell?”
“Right. The poison was effective after a few days.”
“Why did he do this?”
Jade explained the culprit’s motive to me. It was like what I knew.
‘The common thing among the murdered women is red hair. It was the same hair color as the murderer’s mother.’
A killer obsessed with his mother. …It was a pervert.
He grew up with an intense attraction to his mother. He loved his mother, but at the same time he hated her.
In the midst of such mixed emotions, he suddenly thought that he wanted to become like his mother himself.
So he disguised himself as a woman and put on a red wig. Then he introduced himself as a fortune-teller and lured women.
This was the essence of the killer.
It was scary to know and listen to such things. What other criminals live in this world?
“Scary…”
“Now everything is okay. My father punished him enough.”
I didn’t want to know the details.
“Doesn’t it hurt?”
“Yes. But not that much. At first I thought I was going to die. But it looks like the wound is insignificant.”
Jade laughed.
“No, the flesh on your shoulder was badly torn. Bones were visible. And those were broken. You could have died from heavy bleeding.”
“Yes?”
I opened my eyes wide. How then… was I cured?
“The priests have been pouring magic into your body for a whole week.”
The priests were worth their weight in gold in this world?
“Are you saying they were sent here just for me?”
“Ah, I want to go take a nap. Don’t worry about them.”
“It’s too wasteful.”
“You can repay them with donations.”
Is this how problems are solved in the world of the rich?
I wanted to laugh.