Chapter 84 – Healing Practices
The princess who came back after defeating Rudy looked down at ‘Dances with Wolves’.
With a devastated look on her face, she sat down and groped for the buds that had grown to their fullest.
As the princess took a step closer to her, she turned her head.
“It’s really your fault.”
“Yes. I did.”
The princess replied as if it were natural.
“Can you handle poison?
Did you also use miasma to manipulate people?”
“Exactly.”
“Right.
…The land is now saved.
My fight ended in its own way.”
‘Dancing with the wolves’ muttered.
The princess, who calmly looked down at her, said.
“It’s calmer than I thought.
It’s going to end so easily, so what are the people who have died so far for?
I thought you were going to have a mental breakdown when you said something like this.
That’s the real bottom
I want to see you, but won’t you say that?”
“You’re the kind of person who really doesn’t know if you’re trash or not.
But strangely, I don’t hate you.
Maybe it’s because of the things you reminded me of yesterday.”
‘Dancing with wolves’ answers.
It was as the princess said.
Clearly, those words stabbed her in the corner of her chest.
But she no longer regrets what she did.
I could have imagined that they must have some meaning.
“Hmm…”
The princess snorts her.
He stared into the clear eyes of ‘Dancing with Wolves’ for a long time, then shrugged her shoulders as if that was fine.
“But…”
“But?”
“It is true that it is disappointing.
I never thought my fight would end so quickly.
What am I going to live for now?”
“What? You said that earlier, what are you talking about?”
At the words of ‘Dancing with Wolves’, the princess reacts as if she is dumbfounded.
He said, looking down at her as she stood crookedly.
“I like western movies too.
People often think of westerns as good white guys beating up leaderns, but that’s not true.
In a proper western, the real bad guys are the corrupt bureaucrats selling weapons to the leaderns, the speculators, and the vicious entrepreneurs.”
“…Yes, but what about that?”
“Your work isn’t over yet.
Will the exploitation of the Noel Company end when natural disasters disappear?
The backs of those guys are still there.
I’m going to visit Viscount Barrier from now on.
I don’t care what happens to this land, so I’ll just take care of my business.
I’m willing to help if the group wants anything.”
“…”
The princess said so and held out her hand to her.
“Are you asking me to be your teammate?
Follow you and fight Viscount Barrier?”
“No, it’s you who decides.
Find your own way.”
“Ah…”
‘Dances with Wolves’ catches your breath.
Memories of the past run through her mind.
Intense memories that you will never forget for the rest of your life.
It was the memory of the day he was brought to the slave city of Rome.
She was one of dozens of people who were literally carried away like luggage in a transport wagon.
I still vividly remember the eyes of the people there.
Even the eyes of a fish that has dried up in the scorching sun will be more lively than theirs.
Of course, so was she herself.
When the carriage stopped when they arrived in Rome, everyone wept in despair.
Just when I was waiting for the stamp to be stamped and the list drawn up as a slave, a loud sound rang out and the door of the carriage fell off.
Holding the broken door was a man wearing a black mask.
Behind him, the coachman and guards were wriggling, lying on the ground.
The man, who lost his words, pointed his thumb towards his back as if to tell them to run away.
‘Dances with Wolves’ will never forget the questions and answers they shared until the moment they die.
The words she asked the masked man and his answer while shedding her tears.
‘Are you saving me?’
‘No. You are the one who saves you
Run and save yourself with that leg.’
The voice echoed inside the mask, so it wasn’t the same voice.
But he couldn’t have forgotten that distinctive way of speaking.
The image of the masked man and the princess in my memory gradually merges into one.
The moment he realized it, ‘Dances with Wolves’ shocked him as if his head had been hit hard.
Involuntarily, a low, grunting sound erupted from the gaping mouth.
“Ahhh…
Ah ah ah ah ah…!”
The tears that suddenly flowed from the eyes of ‘Dance with Wolves’ wet the sandy floor.
I can’t control the tears that flow from the depths of my heart.
I never thought I would burst out crying like this not one day, but two days in a row.
No, the shedding of tears itself was similar to last night, but there was a crucial difference.
The tears she sheds now are not tears of sadness, but tears of overwhelming joy.
“Hey, why are you crying so much?”
“Ahhh…
Whew, huuuuu…!”
Despite the slightly embarrassed voice of the princess, the crying that burst out once did not stop.
Instead of stopping, it accelerates gradually.
Now, in front of her eyes is a man who has done twice what she thought was impossible.
While she is alive, she has her hero whom she has wished time and time again that she would never meet again.
He is the one who saved her from her slavery and the one who healed her broken heart.
She was the one who sustained her life and the one who gave her lost goals back.
As the feelings for the man in the black mask and the feelings for the princess are mixed together, the size grows out of control.
In her mind, various values are jumbled together.
Now I don’t know what
Listening to him makes me feel like everything will be fine.
I feel like I can do anything for the princess.
The certainty that even if he were told to shoot an innocent man, he would obey without hesitation if that was what he wanted.
Her motive that drives her is no longer honor.
The man in the black mask who had a great influence on her character formation.
The feelings for him, the pleasure from the suggestion planted by the princess, and the shock of what happened in the past few days, etc. Changed the inside of ‘Dances with Wolves’.
Her values have changed as if she was born a different person.
At one point, even her lost goals and direction can be heard ticking and adjusting to new values.
She kept her head down and let out her weeping for a long time.
…
‘Dancing with the wolves’, which shed tears continuously while riding on her horse after being picked up by the princess, finally stops her crying.
There was no more miasma left in the land of death, but the beasts summoned by the princess a moment ago would come to that place one by one.
They took Rudy, who had lost consciousness, and moved to a place quite far away from there to open a tent.
“I told you to find your own way.”
As she snorted, the princess who had lowered her Rudy from her horse turned her head.
“Did you all cry?”
“…I will follow you. That’s how I decided.”
She doesn’t respond to the princess’ teasing words.
Hearing her words, the princess raised one eyebrow.
“I will follow you until the moment I die.
I will fight for you and shoot at your will.
Your enemy is my enemy
Even if it were the emperor, he would pull the trigger without hesitation. “
“What?”
“My life, my soul. I give it all to you.
Even if you don’t like it, I will.”
“Hmm…”
Perhaps sensing her firm determination, the princess did not say much.
After a moment of fiddling with his chin, he says.
“I’m not as nice as you think.”
“I know that.”
“Then do whatever you want.”
The princess smiles.
‘Dances with wolves’ tells him that.
“And… I will definitely beat you someday.
I’ll make you see me again
You will be recognized.”
“Yeah, it’s worth winning if you come out like that.
Of course you’ll never win.”
‘Dances with Wolves’ showed Gongju-in a full smile.
Her determination fills her heart with an unknown sense of satisfaction.
She did not notice that the feeling was more like a kind of fanatical worship.
Her strong will, power of action, and good nature have not changed.
It’s just that the direction is biased toward the princess.
The Princess noticed that while her eyes proclaimed victory, she was glistening with her anticipation of her impending defeat.
After the story of ‘Dancing with the Wolves’, the princess puts Rudy’s distraught body on her floor.
Then, she calls Ji-ah Kang and Eun-seo Shin to gather beside her as she collapses.
It was to decide on Rudy’s treatment.
“Should I take care of it before I wake up?”
‘Dances with Wolves’ is the first to speak.
Attacking someone who has lost her mind and killing her before she wakes up is something her former self would never do.
But she was sincere.
If the princess gave her permission, she would, without hesitation, pull her trigger against Rudy’s head.
Kang Ji-ah and Shin-eun looked at her as if Seo was her surprise.
“No, even if you don’t do that, he will die soon.
I’m trying to save this guy.”
“Huh? Needless to say?
You seem like a complete loser, brother.
Why don’t you just leave it alone?”
“There is information to be heard, and there are also my personal feelings.
I will put her life on the line.”
At the point where the princess spoke firmly, her direction was decided.
At that moment, black blood flowed from Rudy’s mouth, who had lost consciousness.
Kang Ji-ah, who saw that, frowned at her.
“Looks like he’s already dead…
I wonder how she’s still alive.”
“It’s because of Rudy’s magic.
Look at those wings and tail
This guy’s unique magic is magic that reproduces the characteristics of dragons that people fear.
Making the words you say come true, flying in the sky, breathing your breath…
The durability of the body is also extremely high compared to ordinary people.”
“It’s a magic similar to my sister’s.”
“Yes, because of her rarity, she was trafficked, enslaved, and subjected to various experiments.
Aren’t you stupid?
Just like our doggie is a normal person, this guy is just a person who uses unusual magic.
They thought he was a real dragon.”
“Approximately…”
Rudy interrupts as they talk.
A peek revealed that she hadn’t regained her consciousness.
I just mumbled it like I was talking in my sleep.
She waited a while and then she continued.
“Give me the medicine… The medicine…”
“Master, I think you’re talking about this.”
Ji-Ah Kang, after rummaging in Rudy’s arms, takes out a bottle of medicine.
You can see dozens of pills in a transparent glass bottle.
“The dependence looks great.
If you look for it even though you’re unconscious.”
“Isn’t that dangerous?
Seeing you ask for medicine like that, isn’t that drug with strong dependence gone?”
‘Dancing with wolves’ points out.
It was as she said.
Soon, Rudy shudders all over her body, and black blood begins to ooze from her nose as well.
Then the princess came out.
“It seems like there is no time.
Let’s get rid of the poison first.”
“To pull out only the poison, is that possible?”
“I usually insist on killing and stealing wild beasts, but…
In fact, there is one more way.”
He said as he lifted Rudy’s body.
“You can eat it.”
