fear (4)
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“Lee, Rei…?”
Rey’s face, exposed as the robe was removed, was so damaged that nearly half of it was hard to see.
The sight of Rey dripping down on her half-distorted face from the burn made Yohana’s heart sink.
His clothes were burned, and his upper body, exposed outside, was also full of burns.
In the case of his left arm, his condition was particularly serious because he was at the forefront when countering the high-ranking annihilation magic from the front.
He wondered if his left arm, which had been discolored black with its skin attached to it like a dry old tree, would move.
“Uh huh… uh, what should I do…”
Yohana could not even touch Rei’s body for fear that it would crumble if touched, so she panicked and started to shed tears.
Didier covered Johanna with her body and examined Rey’s wounds again.
Didier hardened his expression more seriously when he saw Ray’s burn marks that had spread to near his left eye.
“I’m not here to do this. We need to move now.”
The territory closer to the current location was the Count of Osiris.
Also, the count of Osiris had a greater number of priests and higher quality healers than the count of Phillips.
Even if there were any suspicions, Rey’s treatment was more important now.
“Get on the horse right now, Rey. We’re going to the Count of Osiris.”
“No, no. It’s fine. You won’t.”
“Ray, sensitive areas like the eyes are difficult to restore their function if they are not treated quickly.”
“I can see well in both eyes. The left eye has been treated.”
Templar and Albert prioritized Rey’s respiratory tract and left eye.
The major blood vessels and muscles of the left arm were also restored with great care by Albert, so it was at a level that would immediately avoid necrosis.
When Rey talked about the Templar, Didier sighed in frustration.
Even if they received first aid, the fact that it was an injury that urgently needed treatment did not change.
However, even when asked to go to the Count of Osiris, Rey did not seem to listen.
“Ray… how the hell did you get so hurt?”
“I was hit directly by the magic called flare. I tried to offset it somehow, but it didn’t work out the way I wanted it to.”
“Flare? Are you talking about the 8th circle annihilation magic?”
“Maybe that’s right.”
“Oh My God…”
When it comes to the 8th circle annihilation magic, Didi was at a level that he had only encountered in children’s books.
Among the 8 circle magic, it was evaluated as particularly difficult to implement, and the magic that could evaporate the entire area at the level of a small town was flare.
It was almost incomprehensible that he survived being hit head-on.
Didier, who had her eyes tightly closed, approached with her horse.
“There is no time for rest. We must leave now to reach the Count of Phillips.”
One o’clock was urgent.
Rey nodded and patted Yohana on the shoulder, who was not sure what to do.
“I’m sorry, Johanna.”
“Hey! Huh…?”
“Even if I got hurt a little more, I should have protected the sword of Yohana.”
Yohana’s face, which was frozen for a moment at Rei’s joke, was distorted like a piece of paper.
Johanna immediately picked up Zeppelin’s X Series and threw it to the floor.
The sound of iron reverberated through the air, and Yohana shouted in a voice full of weeping.
“If you’re hurt, tell them you’re hurt!! Then you wouldn’t have said that!! I, I don’t know anything…! Ugh!!”
The courageous Yohana faced Rey’s burnt wound and started to shed tears again.
As Rey frowned in embarrassment at Johana’s harsher reaction than expected, Didier smirked and put a robe over Rey’s body.
“Ray, did you ever get a chance to look in the mirror on the way home?”
“Uh… no?”
“Then keep your mouth shut. Don’t talk nonsense.”
Didier, who was like a fish fresh out of the fire pit, moved Clemens onto his horse.
Didier beckoned to Ray, seeing that Johana was leaning on the horse.
“Let’s go back quickly.”
*
Jenkinson returned to the estate with Alesia after falling apart with Ray, Didier, and Johanna.
Immediately after returning to the estate, Alessia had an interview with Earl Phillips, and in the interim, Jenkinson was summoned by Mohammed and chastised.
Since the pompom was set in the Count of Osiris, it was no wonder that he ate the scallops for several days.
Jenkinson, who had been broken after a long time, opened the door with his shoulders drooping.
At that time, the knights gathered in front of the door cheered as soon as they saw Jenkinson.
“Woah aa!!!”
The news that the knights of the noble family had been smashed could not be so exhilarating.
Jenkinson burst into laughter, and Mohammed shook his head as if in pain.
After that, Jenkinson, who went into the office and sat opposite the Count, began to report what had happened in the Countess of Osiris.
Hearing about the approximate situation, the Count expressed complex emotions.
The Earl has granted limited operatives during this time to allow Jenkinson and Didier to assist Ray.
However, when I heard the news that I had actually started working, I felt very uncomfortable.
Anxiety that the aftermath of Rey’s actions could harm the Earl of Phillips was mixed with guilt for failing to properly support the boy with the sword for the sake of the world.
As the Count of Phillips, the Earl of Phillips was obliged to protect the land.
Therefore, it was a reasonable decision as a lord to distance himself from Rei, but he often felt ashamed.
The Count opened his mouth, delaying his thoughts.
“So, is Rey moving to infiltrate the ship now?”
“Yeah, you said you got an insider to help.”
Ray’s mission is twofold.
Securing or destroying artifacts.
And through some kind of alienation, the family of a kingdom suspected of worshiping evil spirits cannot exercise influence over the empire.
The Count nodded and immediately gave the order.
He ordered the knights to strengthen their guard duty, and in case of an emergency, a support force was formed and placed on standby.
In addition, under the pretext of delivering a message of apology for Jenkinson’s disrespect, several employees were dispatched to the Count of Osiris so that they could accurately understand the situation and communicate it.
Fortunately, though, Ray, Didier and Johanna succeeded in making their comeback on schedule with Clemens.
Didier, who had secretly returned to the counties, urgently sought the count as soon as he entered the castle.
“Your Count, we need to get all the healers and priests right now.”
“Sir Didier?”
The Count asks in bewilderment, but Rei, who was standing next to him, waved his hand.
“It’s not urgent… Big!”
Rey did not speak, knelt down and began to vomit.
He rode his horse to the Count of Phillips with serious injuries, and his whole body was sending out danger signals.
Didier took off the coat and robe that had covered Rey instead of explaining.
The Earl, who saw Rey’s negligence, immediately shouted.
“I need a healer and a priest who can use divine power right now! Come on!”
The knight who was guarding the Count ran out, and Didier picked up Ray and carried him to the prepared hospital bed.
The healers and priests who were summoned out of nowhere saw Rey’s state of being fainted, and they all stuck together.
How the hell did you get so hurt?
To that question, the knights answered that Rey had an accident while fighting a wizard.
The healers and priests agreed in moderation.
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None of them could have imagined that Rey would have been hit directly by the 8th circle annihilation magic.
During the hours of treatment, Ray woke up briefly and exchanged a few questions.
When Rey, who had been repeatedly stunned and awakened, woke up again, the healers and priests were away to rest.
Ray picked up the hand mirror next to her and looked at her face.
I’ve seen him briefly before, but his face was completely smashed.
“Gosh…”
Johanna was terrified to see.
Rey was admiring himself as he looked at the scars covering his face when he heard the sound of a door opening.
Someone looked at it and it was Jimmy.
Rey raised the corner of her lips to Jimmy as pain pricked her body.
“What did you come here for?”
“I came to see you because you said you lived and died.”
Jimmy, who came grunting, sighed as soon as he saw Rey.
I’d heard of it in advance, but seeing it in person, it really felt like it was crawling from the dead.
“I ate the whole body on fire. Are there any intact places left?”
“You kept your hair. Look at this.”
Jimmy burst out laughing as Rey twisted his hair.
“Crazy. I wish I had a lot of hair.”
Jimmy, who slipped the chair and sat beside Rey, slowly examined Rey’s unsightly wounds.
I had never seen a mercenary who survived such injuries.
“…Is this recovery possible?”
“It won’t interfere with movement. Oh, and I decided to take this opportunity to erase facial scars as well.”
The burn covered the scar on the face, so I decided to cut off the old scar.
However, the burns that covered the left arm and part of the upper body were highly likely to remain as scars.
It was because there were so many places that needed treatment first, the scars on the skin except the face were pushed to the next priority.
Jimmy wiped his face down one after another and sighed, clutching the back of his nose.
“Ray, there are a lot of people waiting for you.”
“I’ll see you after the facial treatment is over. Looking in the mirror was terrible.”
“Yeah… that would be nice.”
Jimmy also didn’t want to show Rey what he is now to Bella, Leah, and the other kids.
Jimmy carefully grabbed Ray’s right arm, which looked okay, and said in a complicated voice.
“Ray… Please don’t get hurt. Don’t get hurt like this. People who love you hurt a lot.”
“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“I’m not joking.”
“…”
Rey, who was looking at Jimmy with half-open eyes, closed his eyes again.
I was sick, tired, and sleepy.
It will take a few days for the face to recover as if it were a human.
Until then, I thought I’d take a quiet break.
*
Earl Phillips asked the healers and priests to remain silent about Ray’s injury.
As it was a request made by the Count’s owner himself, the healers and priests did not intend to make fun of them.
Rumors will circulate in a few weeks, but that was when Rey’s wounds had healed to some extent.
However, Karen and Luna discovered Rey’s injury much earlier.
Because at night, Johana came back with swollen eyes.
Although Yohana was also banned from joining the group, she could not control the tears that flowed out when she saw the friends she had been with for a long time.
“Uh-uh-uh-huh!”
As Yohana approached with tears in her eyes, Karen and Luna were terrified.
Yohana was surrounded by the two of them and burst into tears.
“I didn’t even know Rey was hurt…! I just asked…! Whoa!”
Seeing Yohana squeezing out tears and runny nose without explaining the circumstances before and after, Luna’s eyes became cold .
