"... Well, what are you gonna do now?"
"... I am free today from the office work so I think I will practice few new magic..."
"I see..."
". . ."
". . ."
๐๐ข๐ฏ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ธ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ! ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ... ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ๐ด, Allan thought.
๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ?! ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ?!!
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ธ๐ฌ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ! ๐ ๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ...
๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต... ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ข๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด!!! Lucia thought.
"Princess!?"
We heard someone calling out Lucia as we turned around only to find a knight, rushing towards us in panic.
"Hm?... Does something happened? Why in such hurry," Lucia asked.
"Princess Lucia, His Highness asked to inform you that Lady Reena is in serious condition!"
"Whatโ?! Reena, what happened to Reena?!"
The moment Lucia the name 'Reena', she started to lose her composer.
She then turned to me,
"Allan, please, to the castle. It's urgent!"
"Now you have said it, alright then hold on tight."
Well, it was the first order from the princess I was serving so I don't want to spoil my debut.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐บ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ค๐ช๐ข'๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ๐ฃ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ...
"Hold on tight,"
"Yes,"
I hold Lucia in my arms as I grabbed her waist and then, I flied in high speed.
The knight, who came to inform us, was so surprised as he fell back on the the ground on his butt.
Lucia, on the other hand, was wearing a worried and gloomy expression.
I flied to the castle and land on the roof. I released Lucia as she rushed towards where she was going.
"Let's go, hurry!"
"Yeah," I followed her as she take the lead to guide.
As we arrived our destination, I saw Red hairs, Leon and Nerisa, standing out side a room.
"Lucia... and Allan also,"
Nerisa noticed us, following her, so did Red hairs and Leon.
They were all having that same worried look as of Lucia.
"What's the situation? How is Reena?!"
Lucia asked Nerisa in panic.
๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฉ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ! ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ? ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข? ๐๐ช๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ...
"... You should go inside and watch it for yourself,"
"I'm going in,"
With that, Lucia entered the room in hurry.
I thought of going in with her for a moment but decide not to.
Since people like Leon and all are waiting outside, so why should a outsider like me bother to go.
Moreover, it's none of my business, my only job is to protect Lucia. But,
"Hey, what's going on? Who is Reena?" I still asked out of curiosity.
"Young Lady Reena, is the daughter of the Duke Ortwin, younger brother of his highness the king, uncle of Prince Laren and Princess Lucia." Leon explained.
Hmm, so that makes Lucia Reena's cousin sister...
"So that makes Lucia and Prince, Reena's cousins."
Nerisa said what I was just thinking.
"I see... So what's with Reena, did something happened to her?"
"Well, she lost consciousness early in the morning... now, she is in coma," Nerisa said in frustration.
"Huh? Is she suffering from some sort of disease or something?"
Nerisa nodded in response,
"We use to play together till we were 15 but one day, she suddenly caught an unknown disease. Doctors were unable to identify the disease or it's cause, they said they will not be able to cure it. His highness tried everything within his power and appealed each and every doctor those are well known, but result was same... No matter how many times doctors check her, they were always unable to identify the disease or it's cure. I... I wanted to help her but... In the end, I can't do anything..." Nerisa covered her mouth as she wiped her tears.
Leon patted on her shoulder,
"Don't she live with her family, I mean her parents?"
"Duke Ortvin, leave her in care of his highness, as you know that there are not as many facilities as there are in the castle, though Duke is still searching for the cure..." Leon said.
Lucia came out of the room, her expressions were much darker then before.
"How is it? What did they said, Is Reena fine?" Nerisa asked in worry.
"Her condition is getting worse and worse day after day and doctors are also losing hope, they said... she doesn't have much time left."
Hearing Lucia, Nerisa become even more panicked.
"They said that they have increased the dose of medicines but it will only help her to maintain her consciousness... They are currently treating her." Lucia said as she clenched her fist.
"Why is happening? Why she has to suffer like this?! I can't see her suffer like this! We have to do something. We have to!"
"Calm down Nerisa, there is nothing we can do..."
Red hairs tried to pacify Nerisa, but it only added fuel in fire.
"So you are telling me to sit here like an idiot and let her suffer... l-let... her die!"
"Thatโ..."
Red hairs was unable to talk back after hearing those words.
The atmosphere here was so heavy, everyone were so tensed, except me.
I was starring in the front, leaning my back on the wall.
๐๐ฏ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ต? ๐๐ฎ๐ฎ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฆ... ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ,
"Did you try to use healing magic?" I asked.
Everyone turned their attention to me as if saying, "Oh, you're also here, huh..."
"Yeah, we used all the type of healing magic but there was no sign of improvement... We even used holy healing of the church to cure her but, that was also useless..."
๐๐ฎ๐ฎ, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฉ... ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ข ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ญ...
"I see... not even church can cure this disease," I muttered.
"What do we do? At this rate, she will not survive!"
"Shut your mouth you idiot! Don't say such horrible things!" Nerisa scolded Red hairs for his words.
๐๐ฆ๐ฉ, ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต... ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ,
Red hairs backed off in fear.
You shouldn't abuse about a person in the front of their friends.
"Medicines are not working, healing magic is not working, neither the holy magic is... Argh, what should we do to save her!!!"
Lucia yelled in frustrations.
"Where are others?"
"My parents and brother are inside along with my uncle and aunt. Royal physician and priest from church are also there."
"Hmm... "
"Did you thought of something Allan?" Lucia asked me as if hoping that the answer is favourable.
"Well, I am not a doctor or physician, neither am I a priest. What can you expect from me?" I answered her with a question.
"Well... maybe you're right, what can you do... Waitโ"
As said those words she suddenly remembered something.
"Allan, can't you use healing magic too?!"
"...Well, yeah. Something that sort."
๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ค'๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ค๐ถ๐ป ๐ช๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐๐ด๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐จ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏ'๐ต, ๐ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ค ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ด...
Honestly speaking, I was just getting bore so I learned few tricks for time-pass and free myself from my boredom.
Though they were pretty easy, I learned them within few attempts... And since everyone know many spells and it is an untold rule, I gave it a try.
"Really?! So can you treat Reena, Right?! Right!"
She suddenly closed distance between us, looking in my eyes as if I am her only hope.
The distance between her face and mine was... just around 10cm.
Though I didn't react, but it was definitely uncomfortable.
"L-Lucia, you should calm yourself first!" Watching this, Nerisa tried to make realize Lucia it.
๐๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ? ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ?!
"Huh? Agh, m-my bad. Sorry,"
Realising what she was doing, Lucia drew backward.
I sighed watching her... She always get excited.
"Moreover, even if Allan know healing spell, it's not confirm that whether his magic will work or not."
"Youโ... You have a point but... We can at least try can't we!"
"Lucia, I think we should think about something else,"
"Butโ"
"How about I gave it a try?"
I interrupted Lucia in between,
"I can treat your friend, at least that's what I think. I can't confirm whether I can or cannot unless I try but I think I can treat her, so let me give I a try."
"Really?!" Lucia said in excitement.
"Allan, I know you're a capable man but I don't think even you can cure Reena."
. . . . .