Chapter 51 – What Magic Is.
Truth couldn’t understand the situation. The fact that the one who took the form of himself was Pan, and that it was using magic, and that he was using that magic to do these things. He didn’t want to believe it, but the burning pain in his side was telling him it was real.
“Uh, how magic!”
“Isn’t that obvious? Because I was chosen by magic.”
Pan said it as if he was talking about something insignificant. While he knew what it meant to use magic, he was aloof and weak. But that wasn’t the problem. As a friend, it was understandable that he hid the fact that he knew how to use magic, even if he was a bit disappointed. In their hometown, wizards were not treated very well. What angered him was that not only was he misusing a drug he should have used prudently, but he was also abusing the magic he longed for, devastating the patient he was meant to protect.
“Yeah, do you even know what you’re doing?!”
Even at this time, Truth was annoyed by his stuttering voice. I don’t know what the hell happened when he hurt his head, or what his supposed colleagues were doing during treatment, but it’s just painful to talk about.
“So you think you didn’t know?”
Despite his reprimanding words, Pan spoke confidently. While looking at him pathetically he would rather say such a thing. He held up the woman he was violating to him, and he made her face visible to Truce.
“Can I tell you something interesting?”
“Stop it!”
At Pan’s actions that followed, Truss shouted as if screaming. He tried to get himself up to stop by knocking him out, but the pain in his back gripped his ankle. As I grabbed his waist, I could feel the hot blood dripping from his clothes. Although he couldn’t tell what magic Pan used, it was certain that the dagger that had stabbed him with all his might had stabbed himself.
“Ouch!”
Pan did not wait for the thruth to hold back his painful moans, and thrust himself back into her woman’s crotch. Her woman’s body accepted the object of her plate without any resistance, and her body drooped, frowning like a drool, but not even moving. Once again she was sure she was drugged, she glared at him.
“You seem to have treated me without knowing anything. If you knew what this woman was talking about you behind her back, she’d disappear.”
I wanted to ask what that meant, but the pain in my lower back was too great. Pan laughed at such a truth and continued.
“So many gossips about you. Whether she’s short of hair or whether she’s qualified as a doctor. Most of the bad rumors about you that have spread around her top are attributed to this woman.”
At his words, Truss frowned. Truce may look stupid, but he wasn’t. He knew at least that malicious rumors had spread about him within the guild. Fortunately, with the help of Donar and Mr. Ermis, the malicious rumors were able to be revealed as untrue, but he was resentful that the woman was the cause of the rumors.
“So you should do it while this bitch is asleep. It feels great.”
He slipped his things away from her woman. No matter how many times it had already been done, the thickly wet object and the woman’s vagina came into view at a glance. The look of her woman was enough to arouse her male libido. Even if Pan’s words were true, there would be little hesitation. Thinking he was hesitating, Pan pushed her woman’s vulva open with his hand and impulsed him.
“Hey, look at this. You said you’ve never done anything like this before?”
It was as he said. Truth has never had a relationship with a woman before. So maybe that seduction is more effective. He stood up, clutching his bloody side. When he finally stands in front of the woman. It was seen that Pan laughed mischievously. But his laughter didn’t last long. Because what Truth did in front of the woman was punch him.
“Ugh, hey, is it like this?”
It was only because of Pan’s unknown magic that Truth was damaged.
“Hey, can I ask what this means now?”
There was no damage to him, but Pan’s voice was low, perhaps because he was angry that Ruth had punched him.
“Blood, it means you don’t need it.”
No matter how much the woman spread malicious rumors about herself, she was a patient and Truth was a doctor. She wasn’t without resentment, but at least she thought it was something that shouldn’t be released that way. Were his words a catalyst? Pan showed his anger.
“You stupid bastard!”
“Ugh!”
He tossed her woman on her bed and grabbed Truce by the collar.
“I think you considered me a friend because you were moderately friendly! From the beginning, I never considered a trivial person like you as a friend!”
Pan’s words left a scar in his heart. It felt miserable to see how many times I had been betrayed by those I thought were friends, and to be in this situation again with those I considered friends.
“But I’m glad you’re an idiot who still carries around magic books.
“Cool! Turn it off.”
As Pan grabbed his collar, the tight clothes irritated the wound on his side, making it even more painful.
“Thanks to that, I can use more magic. I won’t kill you, so be thankful?”
Since then, he has continued to come to Truss’ carriage, pretending to be him, abusing his drugs, and playing with patients like toys. He resisted him and tried to hold on to him or ask for help from Donar, but each time he tried to control his body with magic. In the end, he couldn’t move and had to watch the patients being trampled by him. The more that happened, the more Truss was pushed to its limit. For nearly a year, the fear of magic and the trauma of his friends, deeply ingrained in his bones, turned him into a real coward.
And even though his back was cured, he always wore a bandage as he suffered phantom pain. Even if his back was not long, the head and legs, which had been injured earlier, continued to torment him as if they had just been injured unless they were carefully bandaged, and he suffered from insomnia. His self-respect as a doctor was also thoroughly destroyed during that time and he thought that he could no longer regain it, and he was living a life like hell for every minute and every second. The first thing the children came to see.
Among them, Pan showed great interest in a girl named Belka. Certainly, even from Truss’ point of view, she was an attractive girl for a young girl. It was odd that Pan wasn’t interested. Eventually, on the first day the children came, the girl also fell victim to Pan. Then Pan ordered him to overwrite his sins. Of course, if it was him in the past, he might have strongly objected. However, Truss was already too tired for that.
Most of his patients, the slightly prettier women, had to simply watch him become his playthings, and he thought that they would rather die than live like this. For the first time, he obediently obeyed Pan’s words.
“It’s the last time, so why don’t we try one game? Isn’t it unfair to do nothing and take the blame?”
Did that make you feel better? Pan acted as if he was being lenient. Yes, I thought that it would be less unfair to die with a girl who would have been guilty anyway. But why? His pride as a doctor, which he thought had been shattered a long time ago, caught up with him again. After all, he didn’t do anything to the girl. There was nothing to say even if he just covered up Pan’s sins, so he laid his bare body on top of his naked girl and went to sleep.
He must have slept on top of a girl who was smaller than himself, but he felt as cozy as being held in his mother’s arms. Was it because of the sweet scent of an unknown flower that tickled his nostrils? He was able to get away from insomnia for a while and fall asleep comfortably. Those who heard all of Truth’s story could not open their mouths easily. Some of the women freaked out, thinking they had been unknowingly, while others couldn’t believe that Pan was using magic to do it.
“Ha! Is there any guarantee that his story is true?! You don’t even think about the possibility that he made it up and framed me?”
Then the board that was tied up shouted. The gag he had been biting on had been carefully chewed to loosen it. The problem was that it wasn’t necessarily the wrong words to hear from others to shut his mouth again.
“But it is true that you tried to rape the girl last night.”
“Aren’t you framing me because you don’t want to make Truth a criminal?”
Despite the old man’s words, Pan insisted far and wide that he was trying to make him the criminal. Then Pan smiled at what he had discovered. When people who saw that laugh feel bad. He had someone who shuddered by himself, as if they had made direct eye contact with him.
“So what do you think? Sif.”
It was Sif, the blonde woman. The eyes of her people flocked to her.
“What do you mean by that?”
The old man frowned at Pan’s behavior in attracting Sif, who had been standing still. Pan burst out laughing at how people muttered, not knowing what she had to do with this incident.
“Puhahaha! What, did you not even tell me?”
Usher, who was watching the trial, was now deafened by his laughter. What was so funny about him was that he didn’t take it seriously the whole time. Even though he was at the center of the trial, he felt even worse because he didn’t seem to accept the situation as a joke or he didn’t accept the people here as people like him. So it was when he thought he could have done that.
“You’ve been raped by Truth all along, haven’t you?”
Pan’s words that followed pushed people into confusion. Usher looked at Sif with a surprised face.
“Is that true? Sif.”
“…Yes.”
When the old man asked, she hesitated for a moment to answer, but when Sif answered, the people’s murmur grew louder.
“I won’t ask why you didn’t tell me.”
“Thank you.”
Sif bowed her head to the old man and thanked her.
“You’re funny and self-absorbed. You’re saying you’re going to judge me without listening to me? You just say you want to call me the criminal, right? Old man.”
The old man was about to say something at Pan’s sarcasm, but Sif first glared at him with a ferocious expression.
“Shut up! If what Truth says is true, then it means you’ve done that to me.”
“Oh, that’s scary. Is there any way to prove that?”
No matter what Sif said, Pan was sarcastic. Again, the evidence was a problem. Truth was also a problem because of unclear evidence. There was no way that there would be any evidence that wasn’t there now. But Sif’s words continued.
“You told me? Why didn’t you tell me what happened to me?”
“Yeah! Anyway, what are women so afraid of? All the same…”
“As you said, I didn’t tell anyone about it. But how do you know?”
Pan’s words were cut off by Sif’s words, and he was the first to shut up. She didn’t want people to know that she had been subjected to it because she knew that Ruth would be severely punished if she didn’t. The trial has been going on with only the conversation between the two, but the old man who needs to mediate seems to be watching.
“Because I saw it myself. Remember? When I was injured and stayed in Truth’s hospital room.”
At his excuse, Sif laughed at him. Just like Pan, who had acted like he was laughing at other people until now.
“Even though you witnessed such a thing, you didn’t tell the sorcerer?”
“That.”
“If you’re going to say something that doesn’t even sound like Truth threatened you, fuck it!”
Sif shouted in a furious voice. Truth threatened you with an uncomfortable body? Are you as good as Donard when it comes to skills? Or are you thinking of calling him a wizard? Think of what you’ve done to Truss so far. Is that the attitude of being afraid of people? She shot at it with a rapid-fire cannon, as if to vomit out the stale emotions that had accumulated until now. Even Pan could not easily open his mouth to her momentum.
“Even if you didn’t tell me because you were threatened, where on earth did you witness it?”
“It’s dimly when you’re sleeping.”
“Why did I realize now that it’s strange? Every time I’ve been through something like that, the bed you’ve been lying on is always empty.”
Or are you going to tell me that I got up every time I was in the middle and went to the bathroom without being caught? If you want to say that you’re mistaken, stop.
“I’ve taken care of patients many times. Do you think you won’t remember where you are? First of all, the ring you wore, as far as I know, was wearing Truth. But how can you alternate it with Truth every time?” ?”
“Donar, examine the hands of Truss and Pan!”
At the old man’s words, Donard turned the board over for everyone to see and made Truce raise his hand. Everyone looked at Truth’s fingers, but he was not wearing any accessories like rings. If it had been worn for a long time, there would be traces of it, but there is no such trace. On the other hand, in the case of Pan, he was definitely wearing a ring, and even the traces of wearing it were clear.
“It’s that ring, too. Every time I see it, Truth has been wearing it.”
“Truth never wore a ring because it interfered with his treatment…”
Sif and Donnar’s words were decisive. It was a well-known fact among those who had dreamed of becoming a wizard at least once that there was a magic that steals the person they want. Truth was found innocent and Phan was given the punishment Truth almost deserved. Thus, the trial came to an end only when the wagon had to start at the last minute. That didn’t make everyone comfortable. After the trial, Sif was weeping as if the image of him pushing the plate was a lie.
“Sif, are you okay?”
“I’m sorry. I want to be alone for a little while.”
Usher came over to ask, but Sif couldn’t stop crying and walked off somewhere. When he was just looking at her back. Donnar walked over.
“What about Sif?”
“That’s it, over there.”
When Donnar told her where her Sif was headed, it seemed that he was going to find her right away, but what stopped him was her Shalby, who followed her.
“Leave me alone for now.”
“But.”
“Because of that bastard’s magic, you’d think the culprit was Truss all along. He’ll need some time to sort it out.”
Shalvi persuaded her Donnar to meet Sif at least in the evening, and Donnar eventually failed to follow her and was soon forced to return to lead the lead of her departing carriage. The trial ended safely, but the aftertaste was bitter. Even if the culprit was revealed, the victims did not disappear, and many were shocked when it became known that the victims were not only Belka and Sif.
“I’m really leaving it like that.”
In the carriage, Usher stood on the empty bed and watched the small plate through the window. He was now left chained in the center of the wagons set in a circle for all to see. He can be seen struggling faintly, but his struggles seem insignificant as he is tied up even tighter than during the trial. He was so annoyed at talking so much that he even left behind a thicker gag. With Usher, Belka, and Truss not enough, Shalby, who rode in the carriage with us, said in a sad voice.
“It’s the end of seeing him.”
“But why did you ride with him?”
He smiled bitterly at Usher’s question, remembering that he had never driven the wagon, but had never ridden with it. He took off his helmet after getting into the carriage, and he didn’t have a face that could be said to be really handsome, but he was a tall black-haired man.
“Well, it’s an adult situation.”
He squinted at Truss. Are people still suspicious of Truth even after the real culprit is revealed? Even though the adults present realized that Pan was the culprit, they asked if, on the contrary, he was deceiving them with magic. They doubted that Truth was not a wizard by asking him to move his hands as he would use magic, and he even tried magic to prove that he was not.
Of course, the magic didn’t work, but then I started to wonder if Truth really didn’t actively participate in such an act. In Usher’s eyes, it was as if the grown-ups were seeing him as if he couldn’t possibly not do something like that, as if he shouldn’t. Even after the real culprit was already revealed, the suspicious eyes looking at Truth were still accusing him of being the culprit.
“Are you suspicious too?”
The adults even looked pathetic as Usher watched the various actions Truth had to do to prove that he was not a wizard and that he did not participate in Pan’s actions. If it wasn’t the culprit, then why are you making such a fuss?
“It’s not like that, but it’s because other people don’t know, and it’s a torch.”
Shalby said she only rode with her in the name of monitoring her, and she had no intention of suspecting Truss. As she is talking with him, she finally sees the coachmen signaling with flags as if they are leaving. As the strange creatures resembling horses took steps, dust rose little by little and began to cover the plate, and as the wagon began to move in earnest, the figure of the plate was soon buried in the dust.
