Chapter 376 – 376. The Face of the Family (4)
Upon regaining her sight, Alice’s eyes are not the blue they were as a teenager twenty years ago.
Eyes that glow green, perhaps due to the energy created from the branches of the World Tree.
The corners of Alice’s mouth, which captures people’s images through those eyes, naturally went up.
“Mom. Your eyes are very pretty.”
“So?”
Alice, who was able to capture in her eyes a picture of her daughter she had never seen since giving birth, she smiled and hugged her daughter as she cradled her in her arms. .
Her first appearance of her own daughter is very small and doll-like.
She could touch and see her form, borrowing the power of her spirits to grasp her form, but she was completely different from seeing it with her own two eyes.
“Can you see me now?”
“Huh.”
While stroking her hair and strengthening her mother-daughter bond, Eun-hyeon saw the two of them and opened her mouth.
“Her surgery went well and her recovery is going well, but for at least three months, until the implanted prosthetic eye is properly settled in her body, refrain from overdoing it. Of course, you have to take your medicines regularly and, of course, take care of your meals. Derkin.”
“Yes.”
“I’ll make you three days’ worth of medicine. Feed every 3 full meals. And I’ll tell you the foods you need for recovery, so just feed them.”
“All right.”
Derkin nodded her head as she put all the names of the foods Eunhyeon had told her into her head.
“Isn’t Alice usually cooking?”
“… Yes.”
“For the time being, stay here. I’ll tell Lily to make her a nursing meal.”
“Thank you.”
“It would be unreasonable to run a nursery school in this state. For the time being, I’ll take care of it. Alvin.”
“Okay.”
“Officially, you are acting as the nursery school manager. How much do you know about basic report writing tips and operating methods?”
“Of course.”
Alvin, who had already taken care of other children, including Eris, with Lily, and helped run Alice’s daycare center, replied that she could without hesitation.
“Good.”
After talking about Alice’s physical condition and deciding on a course of action from now on, I got up right away.
“Nursing, I’ll help you too.”
“… Are you really not busy?”
When she suddenly announced her intention to stay in the house until Aies, Eun-hyeon put on an expression of absurdity.
“I told you. For me, Alice’s recovery comes first.”
“… Okay.”
Even though he has expressed his intention to do it so strongly, he didn’t even want to stop it.
“Have a good time with Derkin and Eris. We’ll just leave.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
“Thank you… Eunhyun.”
Following the image of the two couples bowing their heads with bright smiles, Eris also bowed her upper body to express her gratitude to Eunhyun.
“Uncle, thank you.”
“Okay.”
The appearance of a half-elf girl bowing with her hands folded neatly on her belly button and bowing her waist at 90 degrees is a cuteness that naturally makes you smile.
Eunhyun smiled and patted Eris’s head once, then left Alice’s room.
This place with many rooms is composed of 5 floors and is not inside the house where he and his wife live.
Next to the dungeon house, it was a newly built building, and its purpose was to prepare a space for the guests who came to this dungeon.
He immediately took Agnes and Alvin and led them to the room Agnes would use.
In the case of Alvin, she was not assigned a separate room because she had to live in the nursery and act as the manager’s deputy.
“Use this room.”
“Hmm.”
Agies, who was looking around the inside of the room he had been assigned according to Eunhyeon’s guidance, observed the inside with a strange expression on his face.
“You are great too. How do you build these buildings in such a short period of time?”
“You’re using some shortcut.”
Seeing Eun-hyeon shrug her shoulders and show a sly attitude, Agies soon put on a serious expression and lowered her head.
“Thank you.”
The meaning of that gratitude is none other than gratitude for restoring Alice’s eyesight.
“With this, I am a little… I can put my mind at ease.”
Even though she couldn’t restore Alice with her own power, the feeling of being fortunate even if there was a feeling of regret for it was more important.
“You also have a lot of responsibility.”
“I can do more than you.”
Agies observed Eunhyun’s face as she skillfully joked.
“Do you think it’s worth living now?”
“… Yes.”
Realizing what that meant, Eunhyeon smiled bitterly and affirmed.
Certainly, it is fun to live for myself recently.
It’s not that there hasn’t been a moment when I’ve lived close to 400 years, and I’ve enjoyed it.
However, she always lived on duty, and it was a life far from a life that aspired for something or pursued a desire on its own.
“Hmph, Illyana and Eleanor seem to have put in a lot of effort.”
In all of these, Illyana and Eleanor, who actively paid attention to taking care of their mentality, and Belldandy made the biggest contribution.
“…”
Eunhyeon recalled the advice Agies had given her before.
-You’re fucking crazy, if you don’t do something with that fucking mentality, not only Illiana, but also my successor Eleanor will suffer and suffer. Can never see After you, I don’t know why I have to.
-Because if you don’t make up your mind quickly, I’ll pull all the corn out of your mouth. So I know okay?
Thinking of Anies back then, who kicked her butt while giving advice that was close to a warning, Eunhyeon smiled involuntarily.
“How is it? Do you think my corn will be all right?”
“Joy. Passed. At least Illyana and my successor, Eleanor, seem happy.”
Agies, who snorted at Eunhyeon’s joke, confidently declared that he had passed.
It was very satisfying that at least two women who were concerned about his mental state didn’t bother him by complaining to him.
“Hey. Can I ask for one too?”
“What.”
“That medicine. Can you teach me too?”
“It’s damn hard.”
It wasn’t an absolutely impossible answer, but a very negative answer.
Without a second’s thought, Anies’ eyebrows narrowed at Eunhyeon’s answer, which was firmly denied.
“Why?”
“You’re not feeling well.”
The reason Eunhyeon explained was very simple, but it contained many things.
“…”
In fact, Agnes also frowned, not being able to properly refute.
As for his own inclinations, Anes himself knows very well.
The reason he was able to become the archbishop of the Temple of Vesta and become the symbol of the temple is the immense divine blessing bestowed upon him by the goddess Vesta.
The body never gets sick, and the growth of the body also stops and aging does not progress.
Moreover, because of that divine blessing, she has the strongest body that never hurts her body under any attack, and she is a typical body style who puts her body first before making rational thoughts and judgments.
Healing people through divine prayer and treating people using the science of medicine are completely different fields.
“I know what you are thinking.”
“…”
“Because of Alice, you felt the limits of your own work.”
A completely unfamiliar field that cannot be cured with divine power, impossible for oneself.
The reason Eun-hyeon was able to guess what Agnes was thinking was that it wasn’t the first time she had asked herself this kind of favor.
Twenty years ago, her new priestess refused to fight, protected by her teammates in the back row.
She wanted the power to protect others, not to be protected from behind. She had a strong body endowed with divine blessings at the right time, and a mentor who could teach her to fight existed.
So, the current Agnes is the priest who received Eunhyun’s training and developed his capabilities as an Infighter priest.
“Medicine is an endless science. I won’t say that this isn’t right for you, but it’s true that you’re slower to achieve than others.”
“Is it that hard?”
“There are not just one or two diseases that appear in the human body. There are dozens or hundreds of different diseases, and the amount of knowledge you need to know to treat them is beyond imagination.”
Knowledge of the disease includes the cause of onset, treatment process, management after complete cure, etc.
It takes a lot of sincerity, effort, and time just to study about one disease.
Medicine, which has to identify dozens or hundreds of such diseases, is a formidable discipline from the beginning.
Besides, as far as Earth is concerned, medicine did not develop separately because temples and priests were replacing medicine through divine prayers.
Of course, it is natural that there are no facilities or systems to study medicine.
“Because Alice’s case was a very special case in the first place.”
“… Okay.”
Agies understood Eunhyeon’s explanation and nodded neatly.
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“Hmm. Okay. The good fruit I provided must have been helpful.”
At the same time as delivering the news of Alice’s treatment, Eun-hyeon, who came to see Erin’s condition, nodded her head in affirmation.
“Yes. Thanks it helped a lot. Thank you.”
“Joy.”
Despite Eunhyun’s words of gratitude, bowing her head respectfully, the gumiho sneered and showed no reaction.
Because it was a story she was not particularly interested in.
“Hi-Hi.”
On the contrary, when she saw Erin sleeping on Eunhyun’s knee and seemed to be in a good mood, she made an expression that she didn’t like her very much.
Sweeping hair and tidying it up neatly is a perfect owner and pet.
“… Tsk. A pitiful thing.”
The expression of the gumiho looking at his descendant while clicking his tongue was very displeased.
“It must have been quite difficult.”
“Your guy is too accepting of his pampering.”
“Me?”
Eunhyun’s eyes widened as she had never thought of such a thing before.
In order to make her skinny and weak body healthy, I rolled Erin, who was still a minor, severely, but I did not think that I was being pampered by her.
‘Well, after the training was over, even if I acted like a kid, they accepted it.’
“To think that even when things got a little difficult, he immediately clung to you and showed such a pitiful appearance. It wasn’t like this in my time.”
“…”
‘When I was… I can’t come up with anything to refute.
Eunhyun answered with a bitter smile.
“Please don’t be too harsh.”
“Joy. It’s funny how she wraps herself up as her own lover now.”
“That, something like that…”
Seeing Eun-hyeon’s embarrassed attitude in such an ambiguous situation, Gumiho laughed at Eun-hyeon.
Soon, she changed the topic and asked Eunhyeon.
“Has the goddess not been angry yet?”
“… Yes.”
When the story about Belldandy became a topic, Eun-hyeon’s face darkened.
“Hmm.”
The nine-tailed fox, who provided the cause for her intention to bully Eun-hyeon, thought briefly and then opened her mouth.
“I have a good idea, would you like to try it?”
“… What is it?”
Seeing Eun-hyeon listening attentively, unable to hide her interest, despite showing her suspicious face, the nine-tailed fox immediately took action.
