Chapter 111 – Chapter 4: Disappearance – 4
As night fell, Taildon’s doctor came up.
As soon as he saw my condition, he frowned.
“It must be difficult.”
First, I washed the wound with clean water. And simple treatment was completed using medicine and bandages.
Next, I lifted his arm, checked his pulse, and checked his eyelids.
“I don’t understand.”
“What do you mean?”
“That is… “It seems as if they are alive, but there is no reaction, like a dead person.”
In response to Uncle Marvin’s question, the doctor stroked his chin.
“I wouldn’t know if there was a royal doctor like last time, but this case is so special that I don’t know.”
“Isn’t it the same thing? Even when you were bitten by a bear and seriously injured, didn’t you treat it by putting it to sleep deeply?”
“Yes. It feels similar. However, that treatment was only used on people whose lives were still hanging on. Not only is it not clear whether he is alive now… “Because it is only handled at the royal medical center, ordinary doctors like me do not know how to do it.”
“Well, then, can you call the royal doctor?”
“Uhm…”
The doctor answered with an embarrassed face.
“I heard that the current situation in Deseo is quite chaotic, so I think it will be difficult for the letter to reach there. Moreover, I was in the middle of examining soldiers and came under orders from the lord…”
Chin.
Suddenly, Uncle Marvin got down on her knees.
And she held the doctor’s hand and prayed.
“How could you not, doctor! Please, please! Ritz is a child our village cannot live without! If it’s money, I’ll even raid the village treasury to give it to you, so please…”
“… Huh.”
I kept saying earlier that it was difficult because there was no way, but he showed no signs of letting me go if I didn’t do him a favor right now.
In the end, Taildon’s doctor had no choice but to make an appointment.
“All right. First, I have a book on medicine that the royal doctor left behind, so I will research and see if there is anything that can be helpful. But… The problem is that we need to buy time to do that.”
“We will do our best.”
“No, no. It’s not that simple.”
The doctor said while looking at my body.
“I need an assistant to make medicine and take care of nursing. “Is there anyone here who has done similar work or is literate?”
“Ritz took care of our entire village…”
As Uncle Marvin said that, something occurred to him.
“… There is. “There is one more child who knows how to read.”
“Great. “Can you please call me for a moment?”
“Please wait.”
After a while, Tia was captured.
It literally looked like he had been ‘caught’.
The facial expression was dark, and looking at the scratches on the shoulders and arms, it was clear that it had not been brought in nicely.
Uncle Marvin said, holding Tia’s arm tightly.
“Teacher. “This child knows how to read.”
“All right. Then she will talk to him for a moment.”
“Yes? “Can’t I be there?”
“It doesn’t matter… Why are you doing that?”
To the puzzled doctor, Uncle Marvin spoke in a cold voice.
“Because it causes a lot of problems. The reason Ritz ended up like this twice was because of this guy.”
“…”
Should she have said that to the doctor?
The person who was heartbroken more than anyone else would have been Tia.
But Tia had her head down, so I couldn’t see her face.
Her matted hair was falling down, and it looked terrible.
“Now, come closer.”
At the doctor’s gesture, Tia came closer.
As Uncle Marvin watched behind her, the doctor told Tia what she should do next.
“Do you know what an enbus is?”
“… Yes.”
“Then it will be easy to understand. “I also learned a little from the royal doctor over her shoulder, so I know the principles.”
Tia received a book.
“Here is the recipe for the medicine that slows down her body. Make the medicine as written here and keep giving it. Five times a day consistently. You have to keep warming your body, so it doesn’t cool down. I have to keep going without stopping until I find a way. “Understand, right?”
“Yes.”
And the doctor asked Uncle Marvin for a favor.
“Please help this child make medicine. Cooperation is needed.”
He had a shocked expression, but nodded his head, saying he understood.
Kkei Iik-.
Crash!
So Tia went back into her pharmacy.
Her expression was dark, but her motivation remained the same.
Just like when I left Brisden, vowing to save myself.
She opened the book without hesitation, read it thoroughly, and then pulled out the recipe.
Since she already had experience making her own medicine, her skills were flawless.
She familiarizes herself with selecting ingredients and setting up manufacturing facilities.
It was almost similar to who I am now.
She received the book from the doctor, and within a day she created the medicine.
There was always a watch on Tia’s back.
“…”
The villagers always stopped by the pharmacy one by one to watch Tia work.
It was Uncle Marvin’s instructions.
I was making medicine all day, and when I tried to catch my breath for a moment, I immediately heard a coughing sound like ‘ahem’.
Since she didn’t have enough ingredients for the medicine, she had to take the test several times even if she asked for them.
The villagers didn’t even really believe Tia’s words.
Even when Tia showed the writing in the book and explained, ‘It’s written like that here,’ people couldn’t understand it because they didn’t know the writing.
Despite such an unfair situation, Tia did not give in.
“It’s my fault… It’s because of me…”
She kept repeating this as if she had cast a spell on herself, and she worked frantically.
Tia gave me medicine and nursed me without leaving her side.
She never went to Po Sao’s general store, which she visited occasionally.
As much as I felt bad watching the illusion of her memory, Tia tried to take care of me with all her heart.
But that didn’t last long.
She must have been 2 days old.
Marvin came to her pharmacy.
“You. Are you organizing the warehouse?”
“… Yes?”
“‘Yes?’ “So you’ve let her go and left the warehouse alone?”
“I have to make medicine…”
“Then is it the end?”
Marvin asked again, looking down at Tia who gently raised her head.
“Then I asked if it was the end.”
“… No. Ha, but I… Then when do you make the medicine to give to Ritz?”
“I have to make medicine too.”
“But how can you make medicine and organize the warehouse…?” .”
“It’s up to you.”
Marvin warned in a hard voice.
“Keep in mind. Fulfilling responsibility for one’s work. That is your duty.”
“…”
From that day on, Tia was not allowed to sleep.
From morning to evening. I sit in the shed of the pharmacy and make medicine.
As soon as she finishes her quick meal, she goes into the warehouse without taking a break.
And I had to organize the items in the warehouse until late at night.
The villagers patrolled to make sure Tia was working properly.
Because she had no time to close her eyes, she had to show herself working, shivering in the cold of the winter night.
It looked like a slave.
I wonder what will happen if Tia is left alone in Brisden without me… It was fully predictable.
It was ‘I’ who was protecting her.
Even though everyone was dissatisfied with Tia, I didn’t know how I would react, so I didn’t touch her hastily.
However, once the reins were gone, people no longer had to be afraid.
Calling Tia the most terrible scourge of the village, she tried to slowly stop her and kill her.
Yes.
This… It was the same as ‘murder.’
Very quietly. An act of murder that slowly strangles one’s breath.
Like a pillar that is slowly rotting from the inside out, it looks fine on the outside, without even imagining that a major disaster will soon strike.
Brisden was falling apart little by little.
Clink!
Day 3.
Tia, who couldn’t sleep at all, dozed off and broke her glass bottle.
Marvin, who had been sitting in her medicine cabinet keeping watch, burst into the barn.
“What?!”
“Ah… I… Sorry…”
She quickly tried to pick up the scattered glass pieces on the floor, but he still couldn’t keep his balance and stumbled.
Marvin sighed at her.
“Are you tired?”
“…”
“I also make medicine. “I think I’m very tired from organizing the warehouse.”
Tia lifted her wide eyes. There was a bit of anticipation reflected in her red eyes.
To be honest, I thought Uncle Marvin would say ‘get some rest’ there.
That’s because Tia seemed like she was out of her mind.
But the words that came out of her mouth were completely different.
“Then make the medicine in the warehouse. “You can do two things at the same time, why are you being so stupid?”
“…”
She didn’t want to understand at all.
At the same time, this was proof of complete ignorance about what Tia and I had done.
Why is there a pharmacy?
It’s not simply because the medicinal ingredients were stored there.
The reason it was placed in the most secluded place in town is not because the people who make the medicine like weird, quiet spaces.
Handling medicine… Because it is the most dangerous.
Always have a fire going. Raise the heat until the cauldron boils and overflows. If you follow the wrong combination, not only can it become toxic enough to take a person’s life in an instant. In severe cases, the entire medicine cabinet may explode and fly away.
That’s why only skilled people guard this place.
You must know how to read a book to follow a safe combination method.
If an ignorant person enters and exits carelessly, it may lead to a serious accident, so entering the pharmacy should be strictly prohibited.
Because we have to be so careful, we only make medicine at ‘pharmacists’.
Making medicine in a warehouse.
Those comments were made because I had no idea what I was doing.
Tia seemed to know that it was dangerous, but she no longer had the courage to object.
“All right…”
I took out the heavy still from the pharmacy and started moving it to the warehouse.
Of course, Tia had to do that hard work alone.
We managed to find an empty space in a corner of a warehouse full of goods and installed a still.
The guy was shaking and worked hard to make the medicine.
I started a fire in a cramped space, and worked carefully, somehow, trimming and melting the medicinal ingredients.
But it was very cold inside the warehouse in the winter.
Tia, who was warming up the fire in front of the distiller, suddenly shook her head without realizing it.
“… Hot.”
It took a moment to come to my senses.
Unable to shake off the fatigue that had accumulated over the past two days, I ended up resting my head on the firewood pile.
I see.
It was something like that.
Bubbly-.
Even though the still is shaking like it might explode right in front of you.
Tia fell asleep and couldn’t wake up.
Sigh-!
Steam leaks out through the stopper, and the regurgitated liquid enters the fire.
Howling!
The fire burns wildly. When the fire spread to the pyre that Tia was leaning against.
Tia gently opened her eyes due to the sudden heat.
“… Huh?”
Haaaaah don’t I not?
The fire was already spreading in all directions.
A red fireball was quickly engulfing everything, even the ceiling of the warehouse.
“Ah…”
Just before being swallowed by fire.
Tia managed to run out of the warehouse.
“No…”
Bright red light erupts, as if it were a huge wood fire.
As thick smoke settled over Brisden, people came out screaming.
The flames were carried by the wind and burned down even the fields that had been plowed.
As Tia saw that, she couldn’t do anything.
