Chapter 41 – The One-Armed Leader (1)
“Uh…?”
Everyone knew something was wrong with Starchis’ bewildered lament.
Cold water is poured into the atmosphere of joy that he woke up.
“Why is this like this..?”
Stachis, who doesn’t despair easily in anything, puts on a rejected expression.
The medicine I had to take as soon as I woke up was so bitter.
Grinding his teeth and exerting himself several times, he gets frustrated and waves his arms.
But there was no change.
“… Starchis?”
Lily, who was waiting to be stroked, calls him.
She quietly took his hand.
Unlike before, the warm Starchis hand. It was originally his hand.
Starchis also felt Lily’s warmth.
The sensation was felt.
All of my senses are the same, but nothing seems to have changed, but my hands haven’t moved.
“Starchis, what’s wrong…?”
It was Starchis who was unusually flustered.
Lily herself is also intimidated, but she tries to calm him down as she wants to continue playing the older sister role.
“Sister… My hand… My hand doesn’t move…”
Starchis continued to put strength into the hand he could feel, but there was no change.
-Tadadak!
Panting, someone enters the room.
It was Stion.
“Starches!!”
He runs in and takes Stachis in his arms.
Naturally, Starchis let go of Lily’s hand and received his brother’s hug.
“You really…”
“Tongue.. Brother..”
“Don’t you know he was about to die?! I thought there would be plenty of time, but my heart stopped…! Ha, I’m glad… I’m glad…”
“Hyung, but I… “
“Where are you uncomfortable? Aren’t you dizzy?”
“I can’t move my hand.”
Stion’s arm, which had been holding Stachis tightly, stopped.
Stion’s face, which had slowly untied the embrace, had become serious.
“What are you talking about..?”
Stion asked.
However, Starchis was just as flustered as Stion was because he had just learned about it.
Stachis held his left arm between himself and Stion.
Even though I frown, clench my teeth, and give strength, I still don’t even flinch.
He looks at his left hand as if asking his brother for an answer.
Stion couldn’t say anything.
****
“It’s because of Margie.”
The doctor with a slightly guilty look said to me.
“Magiyo?”
“Yes. Margie.”
I was dumbfounded.
“Magi has been purified, right? If you don’t do it, the wound won’t close…”
“I have finished cleaning.”
I felt like I was going to die of boredom.
I couldn’t understand what the doctor was saying.
Also, it was more frustrating than I imagined that my body couldn’t move freely.
Without this arm, my combat power drops to less than half.
Class B, which we thought we had finally reached, as well as class C and D, may have to go with nervousness.
No, I probably won’t be able to work as a gatherer anymore.
Having left everything, I can no longer follow my brother.
No matter what miracle happens, if one hand doesn’t move, it’s impossible to get to Class A.
“What do you mean?”
“Mister Starchis, calm down. I will tell you everything.”
“Tell me quickly. My heart is so stuffy right now.”
The female doctor, who looked quite old, looked at my breasts carefully, understood that the situation was frustrating, and told me.
“You can just look at your arms now. I healed all the wounds, but there are big scars left, right?”
I looked at my arm at her words.
The same scar on the front and back.
The scar spread as if the skin had been burned around the pierced area.
It was pretty ugly.
“Magi too. I cleaned it up, but it left a scar on the inside of my arm. I haven’t been able to purify for too long, and demonic energy has entered too deep. To put it simply, you suffered internal injuries.”
“… I haven’t heard of other people who suffered from Magi having suffered the aftereffects like this?”
“It’s that rare, and most of them all died before suffering those aftereffects.”
The doctor looks straight at me and says.
“I’ve only heard of internal injuries by Magi, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it myself.”
Like what my brother said, and what this doctor said, I must have been in a pretty serious situation.
I thought it was okay because there were no symptoms of fatigue or dizziness except for the fact that my arms didn’t move, but it didn’t seem to be the case.
The doctor hangs her head over her speechless days.
“Sir Starches, I’m sorry.”
“…Why are you like this?”
Just when I was starting to ungrateful doubt that it was her fault that my arm stopped, she said.
“… Honestly, I thought it would be fate. So say goodbye, that’s what I said to my acquaintances.”
I think of Vienne, Russ, and Lily noona who must have heard that.
I probably cried a lot. It wasn’t my intention, but it seems like I did something wrong.
Suddenly, I remember the voices of the girls who kept talking to me.
Even after hearing that from the doctor, he must have kept talking to me without giving up on me.
Even the doctor’s offended words warmed my heart.
“… Did you?”
“Yes. It’s an excuse, but you have blood that is hard to find a recipient for. A very, very rare kind of blood.”
“… When I woke up, I was receiving someone’s blood. Whose blood was it?”
“It was vampire blood.”
“…Yes?”
“That’s what my older brother did. We tried our best, but we couldn’t find the same kind of blood until the end. In the end, my older brother saved vampire blood from somewhere, so I was able to transfuse it.”
“If I transfuse vampire blood, won’t I become a vampire too?”
I already knew from my physical condition that this would not be the case, but I was still worried and couldn’t help but ask.
“If it is purified, the vampire’s blood becomes blood that can be transfused to anyone. It’s a grade A collectible, so not many people know about it…”
“Is that so.”
I’m relieved that you’re okay
And thanks to his older brother, it made me feel better.
As expected, no matter what happens, you will save me.
It doesn’t seem to change since childhood.
I thought that if I finished the B-level request, I would be able to live with my shoulders lightened and repay my brother.
I still feel very immature.
But in this state, even my arms stopped, and I feel helpless, wondering how the hell I should pay off this debt to my brother.
The doctor continues.
“I bow my head and apologize. He knew that he could be saved by using vampire blood, but he gave up on vampire blood because he judged that it would be faster to find a recipient of the same type of blood than to obtain vampire blood. Giving up on a patient before my acquaintances… I’m disqualified as a doctor.”
She gets up from her seat and bows her head.
I got up too and grabbed her by the shoulders and lifted her up.
The left hand of her does n’t move, so only with the right hand of her.
“Brain your back.”
But.
It’s a grade A collectible.
I was about to die bringing a B-level request, but A-level collectibles entered my body.
Ordinary people cannot even look at grade A collectibles.
No matter how large the medical center is, there is no ability to store A-grade items.
Even if you use it to save someone, the patient won’t be able to repay you.
If it were a noble, it would be different, but a noble would already have all the A-grade collectibles in their house.
And since it happened when I was down, I wasn’t too angry.
“I would have been too. As a result, isn’t it because you’re alive like this?”
“No… But… I’m really, really sorry.”
I was scratching my head.
“… If that’s really the case, just do this one thing.”
Only then does the doctor raise his eyes and look at me.
“Bien, are you helping out here? You’re a member of my party, so please take better care of me.”
It is a tender Bien. If someone dies here, or if someone is cursed at, he’ll be sullen for a while.
The doctor blinks after looking at me for a while.
“..Is that enough?”
“Yes. Enough.”
She smiled and sat down in her seat.
“Been is so…”
“Yes?”
“No.”
It felt like the situation was coming to an end, but my discomfort was still there.
What bothered me the most was that there was nothing else besides the big point of not moving.
The sense of pain is still alive, and the strength that seems to be able to give strength is still felt in the left hand.
The temperature rises like a wild horse that can run again on command, but the arm is refusing the command.
I sighed deeply afterwards.
The doctor suddenly caught my attention and said.
“Mister Starches. Concentrate now. I tried to tell you from the beginning, but it’s not that I can’t fix that arm.”
“..Yes?”
My heart beats loudly.
The mind is cold and the heart is hot.
The whole body rides on the rope of hope.
She says as she takes a sip of her water.
“Mr. Stachis is not the only one who suffered the aftereffects. It’s the first time I’ve seen it, and it’s obviously a rare aftereffect, but there are quite a few people who have experienced it, considering all the people who have been hit by the demonic sword. And, there are people who have overcome the aftereffects.”
He grasped the stopped left hand with his right hand.
“Your left hand, does that mean you can move it again?”
“It is not entirely unlikely. But if it does, that’s pure luck. That person must have the talent of a wizard.”
At her words, I tilted my head.
“A wizard? What the hell does that have to do with it?”
“Magicians have mostly overcome the aftereffects. If you can control only the mana in your body, it seems that you can control the scars left by the demons, even if you cannot control the demons themselves.”
I blinked.
“I don’t understand what you are talking about now. So, you only need to know how to use the mana of your body?”
“I can’t be sure. As I said before, very few people have suffered the aftereffects, and those who have overcome them are even rarer. But what I can tell you is that everyone who overcame the aftereffects was a wizard. Do you know any wizards around you?”
Lily’s sister comes to mind right away.
“Yes. There is. His skills are also excellent.”
If it’s helpful, he also talks about her skills to her.
“You will need a lot of help from him. Ask him to check the mana in his body. You might even find out something I don’t know.”
Her ass her jumped right away when she said she could use her arms her, but the doctor didn’t stop talking.
“And learn from him how to control the mana in your body. This is something I cannot do alone.”
She said with a firm smile.
“Mr Starches. Again, just because she knows how to control mana she does n’t guarantee her hand her will move. However…”
“But there is no other way, right?”
She nods her head.
“With my shallow knowledge, I only know how to do that.”
“All right. May I wake up?”
It was hard to wait any longer with the hope that I had barely gained.
I wanted to go see my sister soon.
“Yes. We are done talking now.”
As soon as she finished speaking, I stormed out of the door.
Outside, three women and an older brother were waiting.
“What did you say..?”
Bien asks cautiously.
What I find out when I try to talk.
I don’t know if it’s possible, but assuming everything goes according to plan
The moment you control your body’s mana, your arms move,
Can you be a wizard too?
