Episode 202 Pilgrimage (1)
A day after the banquet, the pilgrimage began immediately.
Under his and Yriel’s proclamation, the pilgrimage was officially proclaimed.
After leaving the castle in a wagon, he headed towards the village with numerous priests and priests.
Fortunately, the kingdom of Celia is not wide.
It probably won’t take too long to go through all of them.
We arrived at a town that looked quite wealthy.
Because the kingdom is prosperous, do the people also prosper?
The material of the clothes they wear is expensive silk that ordinary people would not be able to buy.
Iriel looked around at the clothes of the people outside the carriage and said.
“Is this significant? I don’t have anything to do right now.”
Since the beginning of the pilgrimage, injured or sick people can be treated free of charge by priests or priests.
However, that statement is in line with the saying that adults do not have a turn to step forward.
The pilgrimage ends after chatting heartily in the carriage.
‘Because it’s the first town.’
The first place to start is close to the royal capital, so there are only wealthy people.
So, I thought it was not a big deal that I didn’t have a turn to step out.
Ray turned around to find the best position in the carriage.
I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
* * *
“Please! Please heal my child!”
“…get out of the way, I’ll try.”
“yes.”
By the time I passed the first village and arrived at the second village, I heard a commotion outside.
“It’s strange… Holy magic doesn’t work…”
“…isn’t it?”
“…It’s too bad, but this kid is giving up…”
The middle-aged man’s complexion turned white at their conversation.
“Wealth please, priests… I have lived my life waiting for the pilgrimage. Everything I’ve lived up to this point is just for this moment…!”
However, even if you try to talk like that, you can’t do it.
As the two priests shook their heads, the man holding the child made a desperate expression.
Ray, who was checking the situation in the carriage, opened the door and came out.
Even Iriel follows him.
“Saint.”
“Get out of the way. Let’s see the condition.”
As he approaches the middle-aged man, he hurriedly kneels down and hands over the child.
Although he hadn’t seen his condition, let alone treatment, he was relaxed at the thought of being entrusted to the saint, and he shed tears of joy.
“Thank you! Ugh…”
Ray looked at the child’s condition.
He looks like he is five or six years old, but his body has no strength.
He ran his finger across the back of his upper arm.
‘There is no subcutaneous fat.’
The limb muscles atrophied. So it is natural that there is no power.
Looking at the hair that has grown quite long, it is very frizzy.
Gently tug on the middle of the hair and it will come out easily.
Seeing that the skin swelling has progressed to some extent, it would be better to treat it as soon as possible.
“Did it happen all of a sudden?”
“Oh no…”
Then it’s not acute.
After examining him, he sighed.
“It’s a protein deficiency. You have to eat a lot of meat to be cured.”
“Meat… you mean?”
The middle-aged man’s expression darkened at Ray’s words.
They have no money to buy meat.
Knowing that fact, Ray is also in trouble.
It’s obviously not a big problem, but it’s hard to come up with a fundamental solution.
If they had a lot of money in the first place, they wouldn’t have gotten protein deficiency.
The Kingdom of Celia is prosperous, but the royal castle doesn’t do anything about the welfare of the people, so of course it happened.
Eventually he came up with a last resort.
Rey went to a pile of dirt around her and picked up something with her own hands.
It was a common ant.
The atmosphere around me was ‘What is he doing?’ seems to be asking.
“If I can’t afford meat, I feed my child this instead.”
“yes?”
“It may look small, but it’s pretty good meat. If you remove the head and feed it, it will be better.”
Ants contain 25 times more protein than beef.
It’s not an obvious or proper solution, but it’s pretty good for a stopgap.
If you look at the gaze around Hana, that’s not the case either.
The serious expression alone is excellent, but I can’t help but feel that the form doesn’t live when I try to say it while holding a wriggling ant in my hand.
Iriel caressed the swelling on the child’s skin.
Along with the flow of divine power, the skin swelling that could not be removed even if the two priests clung to each other completely disappeared down to the root.
It is a great divine power no matter how you look at it.
After stroking the child’s hair for a moment, she gave strength to Ray’s words.
“It’s okay, so be at ease and follow the saint’s opinion.”
“Song Lady Seo…”
I had no choice but to follow what the two adults said.
A middle-aged man accepted the cured child and bowed his head deeply.
“thank you! I will never forget the kindness you gave me!”
“Forget it. What a big deal you did.”
Saying that, Ray tapped the paladin’s shoulder next to him.
“Please tell me.”
“Feed the two of them with plenty of meat and send them off. Because the current situation is not a situation where you can survive by eating only ants.”
“…All right.”
After hearing the answer, get into the carriage.
After that, it was the same as the first village.
treat and receive treatment
There was little room for them to intervene in that series of processes.
Iriel’s blessing continues whenever the depletion of divine power of priests and priests occurs.
Once recovered by her infinite divine power, the pilgrimage continues.
Except for the time to sleep, you can say that you spend all your time in the carriage.
* * *
They rented an entire inn in the village and entered the room after eating.
Iriel personally got into the car and found Ray’s room.
As the scent of fragrant tea leaves spreads pleasantly, it seems to relax both the body and mind.
“Isn’t it harder than you thought?”
It is much more difficult because there is nothing to do.
It’s not about moving the body, it’s just killing time in the carriage.
“…”
“Whoops. take it.”
Without answering, he took the teacup and took a sip.
Then, a light but slightly bitter scent came up.
Strangely, it seems that fatigue is relieved with just one cup of tea.
‘It’s amazing.’
Since Iriel’s all abilities are abnormally high compared to ordinary people, I wonder if her talent for driving a car is also innate.
Did you notice the hint? she asked with a mischievous smile.
“Is it delicious? Aren’t you tired?”
“It sucks.”
A sigh of relief was enough to answer.
The subtle bitter aftertaste dissipates quite cleanly.
“I actually learned to ride a car from Peia.”
“…really?”
To be honest, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
I thought the only thing I knew how to do was to quarrel with Zeke or upset him, but to think I was able to ride a car of this level!
“When I go on a pilgrimage, I always come by car. This is Ray’s first time, so I gave him a special ride. Can I be a little more proud?”
He speaks and puts on his characteristic handsome face.
I don’t know why I’m so proud of myself.
After looking at Iriel with disapproving eyes, as he was about to take another sip of tea, a dull sound rang from the door.
Tick-tock-
Iriel, who had been still at him, smiled brightly.
“You may come in.”
“This is definitely my room…”
“It’s a shabby place, but please come in.”
“……?”
Despite the strange conversation, the other person opened the door without hesitation.
“Saintess… Oh, there was a saint too?”
It’s your own room, of course.
What do they think of the room the saint was assigned to?
When he looked at her with a disapproving look, Feia smiled briskly as she lifted the car she had been in.
“just joke. Ahaha. I was looking for the saintess, but I thought she might be in the saint’s room. Oh, of course, I’ve even burned the Holy Son’s share, so don’t worry!”
At those words, Iriel’s complexion turned yellow.
It is the color of a ripe mango.
She hurriedly got up from her seat.
“Well, it’s late at night, so I’ll try to go back.”
“Ah. Grab a drink before you go! It is very good for fatigue.”
“I’m full now…”
“Umm… I can’t help it then. I will ride again tomorrow, so you have to eat it?”
“……!”
Iriel quickly disappeared.
As she exited, Feia held out her glass to Rey.
“Sleep, saint.”
I never thought I would have to carry on the later stage.
It was black tea to the extent that Iriel reacted like that.
I sniffed the incense without panicking.
“….”
The scent of fragrant tea leaves rises just like the tea she had been in.
The incense is acceptable. It’s enough to say that Iriel learned from Peia.
Maybe if you followed the scent, the taste would be quite good too.
If so, what was Iriel’s disparate reaction?
He didn’t break a drop of sweat even when fighting the sword master, so he drank a sip of his tea in a cold sweat.
Huruk-
“Heh heh heh.”
Unknowingly, a laugh came out.
Would you understand if I told you that it’s a taste that makes you smile?
Who would call this black tea?
It is probably similar to this if you forcibly feed the excrement in front of your eyes as it is a herbal medicine.
He quickly gathered mana and cleaned his mouth.
“Clean.”
There was no way that a good sound would come out of the mouth of the saint who had eaten the poison.
He wiped his lips and said to Faia.
“get out.”
