Chapter 133 – In the Rain.
“I don’t think the rain will stop.”
Donnar looked up at the dark sky, listening to the rain pounding on his helmet. It’s been several days already. It rained like this last year too, but I don’t think it felt like every day was this long. He was watching the pouring rain, waiting for Sif and the children to come out.
“Hey, are you really okay?”
“Isn’t it too sudden to suddenly be granted a territory?”
“Isn’t good good? It’s about getting ahead. It’s the place I’ve been wanting since I first came here.”
Donard knew what the friends who had come up to him were saying, but he smiled and said good things.
“Yes, but no matter how you think about it, this is.”
Yeah I knew After working for decades, it would be a land to be given as a retirement feeling, but how absurd it was for a knight from another country to work under him for only about a year and have a land under his command. That doesn’t mean he can escape from Aiolus’s command, but considering the time he’s still on active duty and working, his rise has been too fast.
“…Hey, I don’t know why you’re doing this.”
Shalvi came right up to him and stood in front of him, as if he couldn’t hide his frustration after watching Donar from the side of Git and Odur.
“I know you’re a good guy. I get it. Do you really need to do this?”
“Hey, Shalby! Talk to me!”
Odur tried to stop him, but Donar stopped him with a raised hand. It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand Shalby’s words. They were comrades who shared all kinds of sorrow and pain from their hometown and went on a journey in search of hope. However, there was no way they didn’t know why he was suddenly ordered to leave. The reason was not because of his blood relatives, but because of the children he met on the way to this place and stayed together for a while.
“Did I say something wrong?! Why would you go so far? They were just kids I met on the road!”
Seeing Shalby say that, Donnar saw his comrades watching him from a distance. I don’t say it, but the other guys must have had similar thoughts. Perhaps Shalby was just like them, so he was speaking as a representative. No matter how ignorant she was, there was no way she wouldn’t know if I told her this much. So he had to give them an acceptable answer.
“Yes, if I get rid of the children, I’ll be able to continue working in this castle. I don’t have to bother to visit the estate, and it’s comfortable to work while receiving a green salary. I can keep my family safe.”
Seniors have a lot of responsibilities. They knew because the responsibility they had to take instead was so heavy that they were dying. So I had to say
“But if I stay in this castle, who will see me favorably?”
“That…”
Shalby would know. She was a smart friend who helped Donard stop and give him advice when he couldn’t control himself. There are three important things for a knight. Killing the enemy, gaining victory, protecting people. Some of them are just a good look or something, but this is a virtue created because it is necessary. But what is the difference between abandoning the virtues of a knight by yourself if you throw them away just because they are not your own children? He is a knight
“It’s good if you don’t get fingered.”
We are knights There are so many things to keep.
“So you have to go.”
Shalby said nothing more. The knights who were watching them also bowed their heads to her. I don’t see any more disgruntled guys, so this must be it. He saw that Usher, who had just been on a stretcher, was put into the carriage, and climbed into his Hilldis beanie, which he had tucked to her carriage. The chariot was not the chariot they used for their travels, but a single Hildisbini was enough to pull it. As for the horses in the stable, Git decided to take them to the wagon, and there was nothing he had forgotten.
“Git.”
“Wait, Odur, can you pull the wagon for me?”
“It doesn’t matter. Why?”
“I have some business to see.”
It was strange that Git suddenly changed his words, but Donard and Odur didn’t take their word for it.
“Then, please only go to the territory. Odur.”
“Okay.”
Odur got on, replacing the Hildisbini that had been tied to the wagon. It was time to go.
“Give my regards to Ur.”
“OK.”
Donnar made eye contact with his teammates. Then, Gerardus and Josif, who met, simply bowed their heads and said goodbye to him. They were friends who came here. Even though he is saddened that he has to part with them too, Donnar has his heart set on him.
“Here!”
They watched the Donnars leave like that.
“So what’s the reason you switched to Odur?”
“I want to tell you instead of that uncharacteristically shy guy.”
Git shrugged her shoulders at Shalby’s sharp words.
“You know, too. The reason Donar said that.”
“…”
Git continued, watching as Shalby kept her mouth shut.
“If that’s the case, don’t tell Donar that he doesn’t care.
Git knew why Shalby was doing this. Even though it hasn’t been that long since Donnar and his children met, it must be that he doesn’t understand how he wants to take responsibility until the end. Leave your friends who have been with you for a long time. Human relationships are amazing no matter how many times you experience them. It seems like we can only become close friends if we stay together for a long time, but as soon as we run into each other, we become close like lies and become our enemies.
“Isn’t it too painful for you to abandon your family to protect it?”
It was like an unsolvable homework.
“Hey, Mea, what if Usher dies?”
“It’s fine. It’ll be fine. Helena is a famous alchemist who makes good medicine.”
Medea had soothed Lyudmilla, who couldn’t stop crying after visiting Usher’s hospital. It was just an ordinary cold, she knew. She couldn’t help being sensitive about the disease, but she was going to catch a cold anyway, so she was able to pass it on. But from the moment she discovered that it wasn’t just a cold, things started to run out of control for them. First, those who had contact with Usher, such as Lyudmila and Schiff, were quarantined by Helena and only allowed to come out after being tested and deemed safe.
But that wasn’t the end of it. It was announced that Donard had suddenly been assigned to his fief with his family. Considering what it means for a knight to receive a manor, it was a very rapid promotion. Enough to make others jealous. However, even though he was quiet, there were no people in the castle who didn’t know why he was given a territory. That his child, Usher, had an unknown disease. That’s why Medea and Lyudmila were in a state where they couldn’t even see off until the day they left today.
“…I think he’s about to leave.”
“Sniff, yes.”
They came out of the room and through the window looking out the front door, they saw the carriage carrying Usher and Belka. Even this was barely allowed by their fathers, and they were able to confirm it even from a distance. They clung to the window to get a glimpse of them, but they couldn’t see each other.
“…”
Helena sat beside Usher and watched Belka as she gazed further and further away from the castle. I couldn’t take my eyes off her because the sadness on her face that resembled her in her memories seemed to run down her golden light. If I held that red hair in my hand, it felt like it would wither away like a fragile flower. Even though she knew they were just resemblances, Helena, unable to even look at her heartbroken, turned her attention to her struggling Usher. Helena was aware of the illness he was suffering from.
But the problem was that he only knew. This disease has only been reported once in Lantua so far. Black dots covering the body were the most prominent feature of the disease. Having seen a patient with this disease, she was astounded. It has a high fatality rate, but it’s not very contagious, so I thought it disappeared from Lantua, but it happened to someone completely unrelated. But the two had something in common. It has to do with Ludmilla.
She doesn’t seem to remember Helena, but she does remember Helena. Although it was a little different from what she remembered. Just in case, she drew Lyudmila’s own blood and tested it, but she got no response from her. If she wasn’t her then she was likely left. She had once heard a patient with this disease speak.
“Doctor, have you seen Catsy? I think I’ve seen it. I’m not sure since I only saw it briefly, but it looks like it’s being hit by someone…”
She knew she shouldn’t take the patient’s word for it, but it was nonsense, so Helena couldn’t believe her. It was impossible for Kathy to be sold as a slave to escape the eyes of the prisoners of Parz, who had strong attachments to her own people. She thought it was a hallucination or illusion. She saw her catsy, squatting in the corner of her wagon, watching her. Helena recalls the words of her previous patient and she becomes suspicious that Katsy is by Usher’s side.
What if the patient is not mistaken? What if she was accidentally infected there? She drew Cattsy’s blood just in case, and soon she was able to confirm that Cattsy had the same disease. The patient was not mistaken. This bottle was transferred from Catsy. She reported the news to Aeolus, and so Donar and others were half-expelled under the pretext of being assigned to the territory as a group.
But if you ask why she was going with them, it was because of research on her illness. Even before she saw Caitsy, she had expected that it was from outside because it was the kind of illness she had never seen before. But there are still many unanswered questions left. As her alchemist, not her doctor, she had no obligation to answer the question.
“Alvis! Alvis is there?!”
A blond young man who was sorting out things that were piled up in what appeared to be a storage room heard a loud voice from outside, so he put down the things he had sorted out and went outside. There was a dwarf with a shaggy brown beard.
“Mister? Did you sprain your back again?”
“Ghmm, are you kidding me? Didn’t you say your back hurts every time it rains after you sprained your back before?”
“Yeah, it was.”
He smiled as if he was embarrassed by the dwarf’s scolding.
“Then, can I give you the herbs you’ve always used?”
“Okay! Don’t make mistakes like last time! Why don’t you learn something from the doctor who came before?”
“Ahaha, I’ll think about it.”
Hearing the bruises mixed with his scolding, the young man smiled and gave him a handful of medicinal herbs he had collected by type.
“Well, that’s for sure.”
At the same time, he gave out 5 fairy tales.
“By the way, the atmosphere in the village is a bit chaotic these days. What’s going on?”
The young man who received the fairy tale from him asked him as if he remembered it while going back to the warehouse.
“Eh, what is it? Haven’t you heard the news properly yet? Even a field mouse passing by will pick it up on its own.”
The dwarf sat down on a nearby chair, looking at him in a pitiful way, as if he had any intention of telling him.
“What are you doing! If you want to hear the story, bring a drink!”
“Ah, yes, yes!”
He hurriedly took a small glass bottle from the display case and held it out to him. The dwarf looked at the herbs in the bottle full of wine with satisfaction, but also frowned.
“Don’t you have a drink?”
“That’s right! I’ll bring it!”
“Tskz, it’s not basic, it’s basic.”
The dwarf sipped from the lid of the glass bottle, looking at the clumsy young man disapprovingly.
“I brought it!”
“Now I’m going to have a little bit of a taste to talk about.”
Then, after drinking half of the glass bottle, he opened his mouth with a red face as if drunk.
“It deserves to be cluttered. Since the new lord has decided to come to this territory.”
“Hey, are you the lord?”
He asked back in embarrassment, but the dwarf frowned.
“Lord! You should call me Lord!”
“Ha, but.”
The young man had a spirited expression on his face, but fortunately or unfortunately, the dwarf was too drunk to see him.
“But, whatever, watch your mouth. If you don’t want your hair blown off.”
Then, seeing the dwarf busy drinking, he walked toward the door. He clicked his tongue as he spotted two wagons coming up in the rain.
