NOVEL NEXT Chapter 127
It’s time to seriously think about this.
Is my body just the right size for hugging?
Or is it because it’s soft and squishy?
If that’s not it, is it my pleasant scent?
I don’t know.
Just having these thoughts is ridiculous.
Last night, just like with Stella, Yurasia slept soundly while tightly hugging my body.
While chatting about trivial stuff, Yurasia dozed off first, and I reflected on the day’s events to sort my thoughts.
During that time, Yurasia pulled me in even closer. Not just that, she wrapped one leg around me too.
Could I have escaped? I could have, but that would have required some violent movements.
Yurasia was overwhelmingly stronger than me, so without using Mana, I couldn’t quietly slip away.
But moving roughly… Well, Yurasia was sleeping so soundly, I felt a bit guilty waking her up.
So I just stayed there and slept.
Thanks to that, I’m really tired today.
In that state… I called Stella and Pina for some morning exercise.
After that, there were three girls chattering away… well, two girls, but for some reason, Pina felt noisy too.
Anyway, while listening to the three of them babble, I had breakfast, returned to my room, took a shower, and we gathered again.
The meeting place was my personal training grounds.
“Ready?”
At my question, Yurasia sent me an eager look, Stella let out a trembling sigh, and Pina hugged her tail.
I wonder why they’re reacting like this.
It’s because today is the day we take the potion.
With the warning that if they take too much, their bodies could explode and kill them, the two—excluding Yurasia—were shaking in fear.
Just how long do they want to live to be so cautious? Hehehe I chuckled, dropped my hands into my pockets, and pulled out two potions each for them to take.
“Today, we won’t take them all. Just two each. The rest you’ll need to take next month. If you’re greedy and take them all now, you might really burst and die.”
Stella and Pina gasped in surprise.
Yurasia, however, just sparkled her eyes without much reaction.
I looked around at the three of them.
“Okay, so who wants to go first?”
“Me!”
I didn’t even need to ask. Of course, Yurasia raised her hand first.
“I’ll set an example as the elder sister!”
“Example, my foot.”
“Ehehe.”
It seems Yurasia found her own words amusing, chuckling lightly as she sat cross-legged in front of me.
“Do you remember when you took the potion before? Just like then, after swallowing it, relax and accept my Mana.”
“Okay!”
The reason Yurasia isn’t trembling is simple. She’s had several high-grade potions during her time in the Eustetia Duchy’s Knight Order.
Every time, I assisted Yurasia in absorbing them.
“However, this time, you don’t need to chew it up like last time. Just chew once and it’ll burst and seep into your body.”
“Wow… Isn’t this what they call an elixir or something? Isn’t it supposed to seep in like that?”
“Well… sort of.”
It’s different. Elixirs don’t even require chewing.
It feels like they’re alive and moving.
Once you put it in your mouth, it finds its own way and seeps into your body? Anyway, it’s unpleasant.
“Alright, eat this first.”
I handed Yurasia a round pill.
“Ooh… What’s this called?”
“The name?”
… What was it again? Dragon Claw Pill? Dragon Blood Pill?
Given its ivory color, it could be the Dragon Claw Pill, perhaps.
My memory is hazy.
I just know it’s something related to dragons.
“…Why does the name matter? Just eat it and get stronger, that’s all you need to know.”
“B-but shouldn’t I know the name?”
“Do you not trust me?”
“That’s not it!”
“Then just eat it.”
“Fine…”
“Shut your mouth and put it in.”
“Okay.”
It’s not harmful to the body.
It’s not a potion that requires distinguishing between body types.
Anyone can take it.
Of course, it won’t help beings of a certain caliber. But it will be a huge help for Yurasia.
Yurasia, pouting, peeled off the potion’s shell. The shell isn’t just any ordinary shell. It’s made from thinly sliced dragon scales.
But that doesn’t mean it’s precious.
It must have exhausted its power protecting the potion, so now it’s no different from ordinary paper.
I didn’t bother to mention that.
There was no need to.
“Oh…?”
The shell that fell off the potion disintegrated into dust.
“Was that magically treated or something?”
“Nope… There was no magic at all.”
Stella answered Yurasia’s question.
I just shrugged and placed my hand over Yurasia’s heart area.
From behind, with my hand close to her heart, I couldn’t do it from the front… Well, Yurasia’s chest would get in the way and it’s kind of… awkward.
“You’re doing it from behind again?”
Yurasia asked with a strange smile.
“Can’t you do it from the front?”
“W-what?! The front?!”
“Just eat in silence.”
“Yesss.”
Yurasia, with a mischievous smile, quickly popped the potion into her mouth. With a pop, a strange Mana erupted from Yurasia’s body.
“Focus.”
Yurasia didn’t respond and began to absorb the Mana I was releasing.
*
“Ah… Young Lady…”
I looked at the half-unconscious Yurasia, drenched in sweat, trying to cool the back of her neck.
“Ugh… Yeah.”
“I feel like I’m going to die… My body feels weird…”
“Hehe… Yeah, that makes sense.”
Under normal circumstances, I would tell her not to over-exaggerate, but I couldn’t bring myself to say that. She really was close to dying.
For high-grade potions, it’s usually considered excellent if one absorbs 60%.
But Yurasia absorbed 90%.
Both of the potions she just took.
How on earth could that happen? I don’t know.
No matter how much I helped her, this isn’t something an ordinary human could achieve.
Me, Luna, Paulo, Arisa, Kaloso.
The five of us couldn’t even achieve that kind of efficiency.
Is real genius really that different…?
Can this really just be summed up with the word genius?
No matter how much I’ve seen and felt, it’s my first time experiencing something like this, so I’m a bit dazed.
“Still, it’s great you didn’t die.”
“…Huh? What do you mean?”
“You really almost died.”
Yurasia’s complexion went pale.
“…W-wait, what I experienced wasn’t just overreacting? It was real?”
“Yep. You held on well.”
I sincerely praised Yurasia.
Then, Stella and Pina’s shivering grew more pronounced. Moreover, Stella stood up abruptly.
“…I think I have to go. I have something urgent to attend to.”
“Hee… Hiiiii…”
Seeing Stella like this made me seriously think.
If Yurasia endured that, wouldn’t Stella be able to absorb something similar?
Even if Yurasia held on, Stella might not. What then?
“Stella, you might really burst.”
“…W-what? Why do you say that…?”
“I’m serious, not joking.”
With a plop, Stella seemed to lose all strength and sat down.
“Are you alright?”
“…Even if I’m not, I have to.”
“You just tried to run away.”
“I thought you would catch me…”
“Why would I catch someone leaving?”
“What…? You said if I ever got kidnapped, you would come looking for me.”
Yurasia’s eyes grew wide.
“The Young Lady said something like that?”
“Yep. She said she would go get the money I owe her.”
At my words, Stella pouted.
“…You make it sound like if I don’t have money, you’d toss me aside.”
“Shut up and sit in front of me.”
“…Hmph.”
In a sulky manner, Stella huffed and knelt down in front of me.
“I can’t concentrate like this with a lotus position like Yurasia did.”
“It’s fine. Just sit however you’re comfortable.”
“Okay… then I’ll sit like this.”
“Now, you eat this.”
“Isn’t mine supposed to be a potion rather than the pill like what the sister had? What’s this called?”
“Bi-cheon Jeong-su.”
Stella frowned.
“Isn’t that name hard?”
“You don’t need to know its meaning. Just know it’s good for purging impurities from your body.”
Bi-cheon Jeong-su means it restores clarity and purity as if you’re flying in the sky.
While the explanation sounds grand, the effect is simple.
It’s a potion that removes all impurities from the body.
Yurasia doesn’t need this.
She trained Mana from a young age, and upon checking, her body had surprisingly few impurities.
And Pina. Of course, she doesn’t need it either.
Being connected to spirits, Pina’s body wouldn’t have impurities.
Me? Of course not.
But Stella is different.
Even though she learned magic from the Behrhaigen Marquis’s family since childhood, her studies continued on independently afterward.
To make things worse, she hasn’t moved around much, living pretty much in Gebihenum, so she must have a lot of impurities.
“Still, you need to know the name so you can boast about it later.”
“If you brag about this to people, they’ll likely try to snatch it from you.”
“Huh… Is it really that valuable?”
“It really is.”
Now there’s probably only one bottle of this potion left in the world.
Well… it’s possible more could be found, but I doubt it.
As far as I know, the elves capable of making Bi-cheon Jeong-su are gone. So the chances are slim.
I turned my gaze away from the very frightened Stella.
“Yurasia… can’t move. Pina, go fill a bucket with water and bring me three large towels… no, five.”
As soon as Pina heard my words, she got up, and Stella tilted her head.
“Why do you need those?”
“Because obviously… um.”
I stopped when I was about to explain.
Why I need wet towels is simple.
Because all the impurities will flow out of her body… We need to wipe those away.
Is there really a need to share that? If I tell her, it might make her worry unnecessarily and then lead to mistakes.
“I just want to wipe some sweat.”
“Are you sure?”
“Shut your mouth and eat. Don’t drink it all at once. Drink it five times in small sips. And while drinking, don’t resist my Mana, just accept it.”
“Sounds suspicious… but alright.”
Giving her a reluctant nod, Stella opened the lid of Bi-cheon Jeong-su and slowly began taking small sips.
By the time it was the third sip, I sent my Mana into Stella’s body.
At first, there was instinctive resistance, but it didn’t last long. Impurities began flowing out of Stella’s body.
After an hour.
When the cleaning of impurities was completed.
“Ugh, ughhhh… I don’t know, I… I think I’m dying. I’m going to… ugh… die! I can’t live like this! Sniff What… What is all this… so humiliating… Waaah!”
Sobbing uncontrollably, Stella showed us the impurities that flowed out from her body.