Chapter 286 – 280 Helumen, City of Heroes
“…….”
When I opened my eyes, it was an unfamiliar ceiling.
No wonder. Because we spent our first night at the hotel we arrived today.
“…… ?”
Hwanin frowned at the feeling that as the energy of sleep disappeared, a weight seemed to take its place.
It’s like having 10 liters of water in your head.
Not only that, but I also feel chills, and my body doesn’t work well.
Did you do too much with Anne last night?
It was quite exciting to see Anne, whose reactions like a young girl gradually matured as the number of her sexual acts increased.
Moreover, she showed off the cat dance that was popular in the city yesterday wearing only sex appeal underwear, and she was hooked and made love 1.5 times more than usual.
“Um…….”
The inside of her mouth was dry, and Hwan-in, who stood up to find her water, was impressed by the headache that seemed to pierce the back of her neck with her knife.
It hurts so much that the headache seems to radiate to the temples and between the eyebrows.
Her neck hurts and her body shudders. As she stood still with her forehead propped up, Anne, who was sleeping naked next to her, woke up rubbing her eyes.
= Eh…. What are you doing… ?=
“I’m not feeling well.”
=…… ?=
Are you feeling unwell? Anne, who had put her flesh on the back of her phantom, felt his higher-than-usual body temperature through her breasts and stomach touching his back, and her eyes widened.
Anne asked, raising her hand to her forehead, pulling back the blanket and showing concern on her face.
= I have a lot of heat on my forehead. How do you feel? No sore throat or runny nose?=
“I have a headache, sore throat and a little chills.”
= Hey, it’s a cold. Lie down, lie down once.=
She grabbed him by the shoulders, put him on her bed, and pulled the blanket up to her neck. Then Anne ran to her room naked and took the sign of her land god, concentrating her mind on a cure for disease. I memorized the law.
From the sign resembling Ankh, bright yellow light poured into Hwanin’s head like starlight, but it was not absorbed by his body as if it was blocked by something, but only flowed from side to side.
=Ah, Doryeong Doryeong. Reap some topological flow. The order didn’t work. Dolyeong?=
I grabbed Hwanin’s shoulder, who had his eyes closed, and shook him gently as he spoke.
“… I can’t control it.”
=Huh.=
“Anne, some water…….”
=Uh, wait.=
Anne, who put water in her cup and fed her phantom, she memorized the cure for the disease again, but her light really didn’t penetrate at all. In the meantime, Hwanin’s face turned red and his body started to have a fever.
Anne’s mind turned pure white at the sight of her shivering as if it was cold even when she was covered with the blanket.
= Uh, uh uh So, so…….=
What should I do when I am sick?
In this way, Anne, who had never been sick before, was momentarily confused and floundering.
When I’m tired, I eat a lot of meat, sleep warmly, and wake up feeling refreshed. Should I bring meat? Or should I memorize the spell a little more?
Nope. In the first place, disease healing magic is a special medicine for diseases with phase power added, but it is not very helpful for ordinary diseases.
It doesn’t help much, but it does help a little. However, because of the phase current of Doryeong, even this is not possible…….
= Ah, herbs! About, Yul’s older sister!=
After running out of her room, Anne opened the door to Kwadang and Yurpa and jumped in.
=Sister!!=
=Hey!?=
Startled by the loud noise, Yurpa woke up and shouted, covering her face with the blanket, frightened by Anne who was running at her naked.
= Ah, Miss Anne?! Why, why?! I, I have my own…… !=
=Doryeong is sick! I must have caught a cold!=
=… He?=
I was surprised by the unexpected news, but unless I’m a warrior or a fighter, I tend to treat small illnesses lightly.
The temperature is low here and I am a sorcerer type professional, so it is not strange if I catch a cold.
Yurrpa calmly got out of her bed and tried to grab her medicine bag, but Anne, half in panic, tried to drag Yurpa with her reluctance.
=Wait, wait, Miss Anne! Hang on! A bag, a medicine bag, you should take this!=
In the midst of the commotion, Isilite appeared in light pajamas and asked with a small eyebrow furrow.
=What’s the fuss about?=
= Dew! Dolyeong hurts! It’s like a cold!=
Isilite, who furrowed her eyebrows even more, spoke apart from Yurpa, who was being dragged by force, and Anne, who was trying to drag such Yurpa.
= Anne, don’t walk around naked, put on her clothes first. Sister, take your medicine bag. I’ll bring clean water and a towel.=
=Yup!=
Isilite, who went to Hwanin’s room with cold water and a towel in a silver bowl from the kitchen, saw Hwanin lying on the bed in a cold sweat, Yurpa examining him, and her next to him, not sure if she was wearing or not. I could see Anne rolling her feet.
Pushing away her restless Anne, bringing her chair and raising the silver basin, Isilite listened to the conversation between her phantom and Yurpa.
= Yes, her head is heavy, and she has a headache and a sore throat. Not her cough and her runny nose? =
“Yes….”
=Your body temperature is about 38 degrees. Do you know the average body temperature of your race? …… 36.5 degrees? It’s a bit high, but not dangerous.=
= Are you really okay? I can’t even control the phase flow and the phase flow, so I can’t use the recovery technique!=
=Originally, when the body is weak, everything is like that. And for herself, Lady Seul Lee prepares meals while carefully checking the nutrition. You don’t have to worry because she’s suffering lightly. =
=Yuri sister, do you have any medicine ingredients?=
=Are you okay?! Doryeong is from another world. Is it true that our medicine works?!=
Issilite, who frowned at Anne’s continued high-pitched voice, told her to be quiet and looked back at Yurpa. Yurpa explained to him.
=There is no special medicine for colds. If you just warm your body up and feed it enough nutritious food, it will get better on its own. It’s okay for her to take a little painkiller, but painkillers are enough for recovery potions, and since she said she’s tried recovery potions herself, you don’t have to worry about not fitting them. =
=Really? It’s really not a big deal, is it a cold?=
=Anne, if you’re restless like that, you’ll be more concerned about it, so go out or wet a towel and put it on the master’s forehead.=
= Huh? Uh, yeah.=
Anne placed her damp towel on Hwanin’s forehead, saw that Hwanin’s hardened expression straightened, and she let out a small sigh of relief.
Isilite turned her gaze away from Anne, who was watching her phantom without moving, and said to Yurpa.
=Sister, I will make something for the owner to eat.=
= Would you? Then I’ll make you a painkiller for yourself~.=
=Yes.=
Entering the kitchen, Isilite thought about what to make for a moment, then remembered her maid technician’s lesson that when she was sick, she would kill.
There is rice that was soaked in water last night. She was going to make fried rice with the high-quality rice from Heath Lond that she received as a gift from the Ear Crad, but it should be made into porridge for the master.
Put the soaked rice and water in a pot, boil it, and chop and pour vegetables known to be good for colds to make rice porridge.
=Miss Dew~, I made all the medicine, but what about the food? It is good to take medicine after eating.
=I’m done too.=
The sick person said he had no appetite, so he was worried about whether the owner would eat it, but Hwanin, without saying anything, emptied all the porridge, took a painkiller made by Yurpa, and went back to sleep, so he wiped his heart out a little.
=Sister, I made simple vegetable fried rice and chicken soup outside, so please come and eat. Anne also comes to eat.=
= Huh. I’ll be back after eating soon, so until then, dew will take care of the dolyeong.=
Anne literally finished her meal in 5 minutes and came back properly dressed, even in her half underwear.
Isilite, who had been changing her towels until then, also took turns with her, finished her meal, and finished cleaning her dishes.
=…….=
Isilite, who was standing in the quiet living room, sat on the sofa in her living room without going back to her room.
Click.
= Miss Dew? I’ll be doing some work in my room, so call me if you have any work.=
=Yes.=
Yurpa, who came out of Hwanin’s room, tells Isilite and goes back to her room.
Is Anne taking care of her master? Then I won’t have anything to do until lunch.
I want to stay by my master’s side too…….
Isilite thought as she stared at the vase on the sofa table.
‘It’s because of me that the master caught a cold.’
Isilite, who lived her life at the bottom of her life and led a band of mercenaries and bandits for many years, knew.
That she cares too much, and even when she’s tired and stressed, she’s more prone to catch a cold or something.
In fact, she often saw that her unemployed subordinates ate well and slept well, but her physical condition deteriorated due to the enormous mental stress before and after the battle.
In Issilite’s view, Master was the same.
Until Visa Lux, she was as usual, but after leaving Visa Lux, she could be seen engrossed in her thoughts from time to time. And that appearance continued until she reached Helumen.
‘Because of the dirty past I chose…… He must have been thinking over and over again trying to solve the problem with the 8th-level Baron…….’
There must be a problem with the suddenly cold weather.
As Isilite gazes at the yellow and red flowers in the vase, a scene, not a flower, is drawn on Issilite’s retina.
Hwanin is suffering from his own past.
=…….=
The morning sunlight coming through the window disappears. The sound of the ticking second hand of the grandfather clock. The faint sound of carriages and horses neighing through the windows.
Isilite, who had been sitting for a while, raised her head and looked at her Hwanin’s door.
=…….=
She quietly rose from her bed and returned to her room, Issilite, and began donning her plate-chain armor. The weapon… What do we do? Since it’s expensive, should I just wear a knight’s sword and go?
After a moment of thought, Isilite stuffed her Red Rick into her subspace pocket and wrapped it around a gray hooded cloak.
Other than that, she didn’t pack a single iron coin, let alone her luggage.
She pauses and looks down at the rug on her floor.
‘I was thinking wrong. The past has to be cut off with her own hands, no one else’s.’
She said that the master is in charge, but she wants to rely on that kindness, but she shouldn’t.
She seems like a perfect master, but today she realized that she could get sick, get hurt, or die just like normal.
He is a master with many important things to do. She at least has to do her own thing herself.
‘If I disappear without a word, everyone will be worried.’
Bring paper and pen and write. I’ll be out for a while, so don’t worry, order a meal from room service.
Isilite flinched as she left her room, placing the note in plain view on the bed.
= Huh? Dew, where are you going dressed like that?
= Uh, huh? No wait… I have something to do outside…….=
“Do you need armor to do business? Since you can’t see the knight’s sword on her waist, it means that she took Red Rick in her space bag, but she probably didn’t try to find Wirt Castle alone.”
Hwanin was sitting on the sofa in the living room with a shawl hanging over her shoulder, with a tired face on her face, and Anne was sitting next to him.
Embarrassed by Hwanin’s sharp intuition, which saw through her as soon as she saw her, Isilite hesitated without answering.
Anne, taken aback by the reaction, approaches Isilite and holds her hand.
= Really? Dew said you were going there alone?=
=…….=
= How are you? What’s up?=
She was going to go out quietly alone…… Isilite, who saw her come out of her room all the way to Yurpa, quietly resigned herself and answered honestly.
= Yes. You are right. I tried to go to Wirt Castle alone.=
=Why? You’re stupid? I don’t know what will happen if I go alone…… !=
=Because I thought that was what I had to do.=
Should she be unexpected or Isilite-like? When Anne’s two feelings stifled her speech, she said Isilite lowered her gaze and said,
=I don’t have the knowledge and wisdom like the master. I don’t know what to do, but at least I know what to do.=
=… Is that going to the Wirt family and revealing what you did?
=I confessed what I had done and asked the lord to forgive me.=
= Hey, you idiot. Do you think that the Baron will forgive you saying ‘Oh, you are kind’?=
Yu Lepa, who had come out wearing a mask to get something to drink, blinked his eyes, then sneaked up to Hwanin, clung to him, and shared his body heat while looking at Isilite and Anne.
=No.=
=But why!=
=My master said that the head of the Wirt family would have at least a sense of justice, so I was thinking of asking for a chance to pay for my sins based on warmth.=
Like this naive and blind girl.
Sensing her headache, Anne cupped her forehead and let out a wide sigh.
= There’s no way the barbarian clans can slip away like that. That’s why Doryeong also used his head to make a plan. In the worst case, it could lead to death without heart…….=
= I didn’t mean to die. Because I decided that the place I would die would be in front of my master, while protecting him. And since I’m the master’s soul knight, I can’t say I’ll be executed right away…… I didn’t think of it. =
Anne looked back at Hwanin, who was still in a frustrated and absurd mood.
= Now that I see it, Seul Lee has a more outgoing personality than I do. Don’t even look at the sword, but say something.=
“It’s okay.”
=… Huh?=
Hwanin said with a haggard face in a more understandable way to Anne and Yu Lepa, who looked at themselves dumbfounded.
“Isilite’s idea is not bad. After hearing it, she wondered if I had overcomplicated it.”
Was it because her mind was reset after she lay down sick for a while, or did her thoughts become simpler because her head was still heavy?
Isilite’s plan feels like the least flawed or damaging of her own plans.
She said, ‘Although they say that people feel different sensations depending on their condition and situation.’
It wasn’t something complicated to think about in the first place. It would have been over if he honestly went to the Wirt family and asked for mercy since this had happened.
Because. Because she herself is a higher spirit. His reputation was once soared to the limit that what happened to Bijalux spread throughout Helumen.
‘This is a high-level soul corps that has even organized a catastrophic confusion. The lord of Bijalux, a 2nd-class baron, showed a respectful attitude, so even a 8th-class baron should be polite.’
If you were an ordinary adventurer or a group of travelers, or if your opponent was a nobleman who skillfully walked a tightrope between legal and secret law, or a nobleman full of civic consciousness, he would have needed various safeguards and countermeasures to prevent the worst.
The head of the Wirt family was not a person with such a bad personality.
In addition, what Lutia = Aslid who came to visit last night said.
‘It must have been a story pointing to Isilite’s case.’
Hwanin stood up from his seat and opened his mouth with a cracked voice.
“Get ready to go out. We are going to Wirt Castle.”
= Uh, huh? Wait a minute. Doryeong Wait, now? Didn’t even make an appointment?=
= Baby? Didn’t you just wake up from your bed? I’m still not feeling well…….=
“There is no point in wasting time on this. And now I feel much better.”
As she is responsible for this side, it is better to wait 24 hours to meet her.
Moreover, having sexual misfortune the day before despite not feeling well, and requesting a meeting today will be a plus if the other person’s personality is good.
The most fortunate thing is that the status of a spirit master is a free pass pass that allows you to cross the gate of a nobleman’s mansion.
=… Ok.=
Realizing that Hwanin’s will was firm, Anne and Yurpa quickly went into their rooms and started to pack their equipment.
In the meantime, Isilite hesitated, feeling the feeling of sitting on a cushion of thorns at Hwanin’s silent gaze. For some reason, it felt like the owner was angry.
“Isilite. I want you to help me get dressed.”
= Yes? Yes.=
She wears a court uniform by forcing her weak body to work. Isilite also brings a warm winter coat (a gift from the top of the ear clad), puts it on Hwanin’s body, and puts a gray hooded cape on top of it.
=Hey, master…….=
“I have nothing to say.”
=…… Yes?=
“I told you to trust me and then I showed you a sick side like this, so you must have been anxious too.”
= Oh, no. It’s not because I don’t trust the Master…….=
Hwanin held Isilite in her arms as she tried to say something and stroked her hair. Although her armor is hard, I can’t feel her feelings, but Isilite’s face clearly shows feelings of sorry, gratitude, and stronger love, as if her feelings were conveyed.
“I know why you made that choice. And I understand how you feel.”
=…….=
“Still, I want you to say a word before you act.”
= Yes, sir…….=
“Branch.”
Hwanin, suppressing the cold energy that still remained in his body, headed for Wirt Castle with Anne and Yurpa, who had prepared and came out of the room.
