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If you apply acupressure, you won’t be able to move
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“You’re up.”
“ah.”
I answered in short sentences. A woman holding a lantern was looking at me. She was a healer with impressive blue hair.
“I was worried because you lost consciousness for three days after that.”
“Sleep, what-, three days?”
“yes.”
I recalled my last memory of being slapped hard by Elfriede and losing consciousness. I thought it was an unusual slap, but I lost consciousness for three days.
As expected, she was a terrifying woman who transcended the realm of common sense.
He must have slapped me with the intention of killing me. Thinking about it, my chin and cheek still feel cold.
“Your nose is bleeding a lot. Please wait a moment.”
The blue-haired woman walked away and then handed me a set of top and bottom clothes that looked like pure white hot spring underwear.
“Please give me the clothes you took off. I need to wash them.”
She was a woman who was surprisingly kind, which was unusual for someone living in this world of barbarism and superstition. People who are called therapists are usually like this.
Well, unless you’re a good person, you probably wouldn’t think of healing and treating injured people.
Of course, I get paid a lot of money.
Anyway, to me, who had only suffered from contempt and violence, that kindness felt like a soft sensation, like water seeping into a sponge, and I was quite taken aback.
“Hey, over here.”
“Then get some rest. The night is long. Oh, and Miss Elfriede said she’d be here in about five days.”
“Geometry-!”
“Huh? What does that mean? Hahah?”
“Oh, no, nothing. Nothing. I’m so happy to see you again… It’s like the exclamation of the Samaritans.”
“ah….”
The name of the woman who almost killed me was now completely traumatic for me. Just hearing her name from someone else’s mouth made me shiver.
My body clearly remembers the murderous slap she gave me. If hearing her name from someone else’s mouth is enough, what would happen if I met her in person?
I might pee myself.
When I was gripped by such fear, the blue-haired healer spoke.
“Mr. Elfriede, you are a really good person. You have a lot of achievements as an adventurer. You also donate a lot to our clinic. You are a really kind person.”
What is this? Are you describing the Elfriede I know and another woman?
I wonder if words like ‘good’ or ‘good’ can be used in front of that woman. But whether I thought so or not, the blue-haired therapist continued speaking as if adding a few more words.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen someone bring a slave to a treatment center. It’s nice to have someone like that as a master.”
It was hard to tell if this woman was teasing me or if she was being serious.
The feeling of gratitude for the kindness suddenly disappears like melting snow and becomes sticky on the floor.
“Yeah, well, that’s right.”
“Oh, come to your senses. I’ve talked too long. It’s a time when everyone is asleep.”
Only then did the woman shrug her shoulders as if she had realized her mistake. As soon as she closed her mouth, only snoring and groaning sounds filled the air from all directions.
“If you suddenly feel sick or need anything, please let me know. I don’t get much sleep at night, so I patrol like this every night and early morning.”
As the blue-haired healer whispered, I finally took a closer look at her face illuminated by the lamplight.
It’s true that I don’t get enough sleep, as I can see small dark circles under my eyes.
I said to her.
“Well, there’s something I need….”
“Huh? What is it?”
“I’m looking for a job. Is there anything I can do here while Elfriede is here? If possible, I’d like to get paid a little bit…”
I was in a situation where I had to work hard again to save up for my freedom, so I was so anxious that I couldn’t sit still for even a moment.
“hmm-.”
The healer, who had been making sounds like “um,” “ah,” and “um,” as if thinking, soon clicked his tongue and said,
“We just happened to be short-handed. Are you okay with your injury?”
“it’s okay.”
I touched and spun around all over my body.
The splitting headache subsided along with the nosebleed, and the other throbbing and aching areas also completely disappeared.
It could be said that it was a condition that was the epitome of health. And in such a state, you need to work harder and earn money.
“It’s in good condition.”
“Actually, I have a lot of work to do. So, I’ll get some help.”
*
“Eww, wow!”
I screamed in agony as my head was torn off. The one who was holding my head so fiercely was an adventurer who was injured and complaining of extreme pain.
“It hurts! My, my body is breaking! You little shits, let go of it! Let go of it!”
“Mr. Hassan! Hold him tight so he doesn’t move!”
Finley, a blue-haired female healer, shouted at me.
I had to brace myself for a circle forming in my head and pin the adventurer to the bed by firmly pressing down on his body and shoulders.
“Okay, okay!”
“Hold on tight! Cure-!”
The adventurer let out a terrible scream as an urgent spell was uttered from the mouth of the blue-haired Finley.
“Ugh, ugh!”
The large scar that ran from his stomach to his chest began to heal quickly enough to be visible, enveloped in a strange halo of light.
Healing magic.
It is a very rare spell that is used by very few people. This was my first time seeing something like this.
This is a part that cannot be explained other than the word ‘magic’ that goes beyond common sense. No matter how you look at it, magic is so fraudulent that it makes your heart flutter.
However, the process of healing the wound must have been extremely painful, as the middle-aged adventurer, who was struggling under my pressure, fluttered and cried out in pain like a live fish being dragged out onto land.
“Eww, woof, it hurts so bad! I’m dying!”
“Don’t die, Mr. Bellos. I’m treating you! Be quiet, be quiet!”
“You’re trying to kill me! Let go of this! Let go of this! How is this supposed to heal you! You fucking idiots!”
Only after going through such a tumultuous process does this series of events come to an end. Indeed, it is understandable why I said that it was necessary to exert effort.
“Whew, that was hard.”
Finley, who had successfully completed the treatment of the same-rank adventurer, Bellos, spoke to me. Sweat was pouring down her face like rain, and her strange blue hair was wet and fluttering here and there.
But it was still nice to look at. She was pretty to begin with, and women who worked hard and sweated, in other words, women with strong vitality, were very much in line with my tastes in the opposite sex.
The white scrubs were soaked with sweat, and the way their chests rose and fell was so strange that I looked away, thinking that Juji might be acting strange.
“Hehe, my face is a mess. My makeup is even smudged-.”
“No, my face is worse.”
Of course, as I said, my facial condition was more serious.
I looked into the mirror in the corner of the treatment room and saw that I looked like a complete beggar, with my hair torn out here and there and my beard growing out unkempt.
In reality, he is a beggar who doesn’t have a single penny.
“Now that the morning is almost over, all I have to do is accept more guests in the afternoon and the day is over. I’m so busy that time will pass quickly.”
Finley was sighing. I asked her.
“Is it like this every day?”
“Huh? Is this how it is every day?”
“I wonder if it’s this busy every day.”
“There are relatively few customers today. When the underground ruins first opened, I was so busy that I couldn’t even open my eyes. It was killing me.”
Finley wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand. Then I saw a drop of blood running down her right wrist.
“Oh, it’s bleeding.”
“Huh? That’s true. I think I got scratched by my fingernail earlier. When you deal with struggling patients, it’s funny to see one or two wounds like this.”
Finley, a blue-haired healer, casually licks his tongue at his wounds.
It was ironic that he treated other people’s wounds with beatings, but was indifferent to his own wounds. There was something about it that made the man’s heart ache.
So I reached out my hand towards her wrist.
“Look at me here.”
“yes?”
“It might get worse. I’ll bandage it for you.”
“Oh, that’s not going to happen.”
Finley, looking terribly embarrassed, held out his wrist to me.
Since we had only treated about ten patients together in the morning, a strange sense of camaraderie was already welling up within us.
If only Elfriede had been half as pretty as Finley.
Swish.
A white wrist was extended in front of me. I narrowed my eyes at the scratch marks and placed my hand on it.
Deering-.
『Name: Finley Lv. 4
Condition: Insomnia》Ankle sprain》Stomatitis》
what’s this.
I furrowed my brows as I looked at the words that appeared before my eyes.
I didn’t scream because I had already seen the letters several times, so I had developed a certain amount of self-control.
The same goes for Elfriede and Finley.
Why on earth do these letters come to mind and appear to me?
Also, in Elfriede’s case, there seemed to be more letters and numbers, including stats such as physical strength and quirks.
In Finley’s case, it was a bit simpler, with just a name and a status.
“What’s the problem…?”
Finley asked cautiously, perhaps noticing that I was frowning.
“No, there’s no problem. Do you have any ankle pain or anything?”
“Oh, yes. My left ankle is a little….”
“Do you have any inflammation in your mouth?”
“That’s right. Wow, that’s amazing. Did I ever tell you? How did you figure that out?”
I wrapped a clean bandage around Finley’s curious wrist and fixed it with something like a Band-Aid. When I took my hand off her wrist, the letters floating before my eyes subsided.
what.
I don’t know what it is, but I think it’s a pretty strange ability to be able to find out information about other people.
As the morning passed, the afternoon came and patients began to pour into the treatment room like a flood.
There are so many injured people that even three healers, including Finley, are busy moving around and can’t handle them.
After all, it is a barbaric world where laws and manners are just a joke.
In a world where people stab each other in the stomach with knives just because their eyes don’t meet, it would be more surprising if there were fewer casualties.
Deering-.
『Name: Veneris Lv. 5
Condition: Habitual dislocation》Backache》Rhinitis》
However, that environment was also very good for me as I gained new abilities.
Because I discovered that when I put my hand on a person’s wrist, these strange letters appear.
I feel like I’m a royal physician in an old historical drama diagnosing a patient’s condition by feeling the pulse on the wrist.
“Ms. Benellis, lie down here straight. Wow, your pelvis is really twisted. Do you usually sit with your legs crossed?”
“Oh, how did you know?”
“Here, the length of the left and right legs are not the same. That means one side is turned. It will get better if you correct it.”
Woodduck-.
“Hey, what the hell! Argh!”
Crunch- crunch.
“Ttaaah, ugh-.”
Whether the man screamed or not, I pressed my palms hard on his pelvis, waist, and back.
Every time that happened, the man’s back would crack and a loud noise would echo throughout the treatment room, as if an earthquake had occurred.
This is a medical practice called chiropractic or chiropractic therapy, which can be called an alternative medicine.
Of course, I don’t have any relevant qualifications or anything, and my knowledge is limited to what I’ve seen over my father’s shoulder when he taught others.
“I cured ‘Veneris’s backache’.”
『Task value + 10』
It was a no-brainer for me, since the task level just went up.
I don’t know what good it would do if the task value went up, but it would be good if it went up.
“Okay, that’s enough. Get up.”
“Oh, shit. My back really doesn’t hurt! What the heck! This is fucking amazing!”
A middle-aged man who had been complaining of chronic back pain got up from his prone position and twisted his waist around.
“It was so painful that I could barely move it. What the heck, how did you do it? Even the healers’ magic didn’t work?”
“I just corrected the problem by pressing on it. However, if your posture is unstable, it can happen again, so you have to be careful.”
“Fuck, this is amazing. This is so fucking cool. My waist moves. I think the sound coming from my waist must have been painful, but now that I think about it, it felt really good.”
“But you shouldn’t follow it blindly. If you do it wrong, you could touch a nerve and become paralyzed.”
The man’s face darkened at the word “impotent.” However, what I am saying is not an exaggeration; in reality, there are quite a few people who have died or become disabled after undergoing the wrong procedure.
“You shouldn’t do it recklessly. Is this some kind of secret technique from the Samaritans?”
The man’s question made me think of black-haired savages, mad prophets who roam the vast wilderness, proclaiming the end of the world.
“Similar.”
Even in my hometown, things similar to oriental medicine or bone-setting were called alternative medicine, so if it’s a secret art, it can also be called a secret art.
“Anyway, thank you, thank you. I really, really appreciate it. Here, take it. It feels so good to have the pain that’s been bothering me for years gone.”
A middle-aged man with a thin appearance took a coin out of his pocket and handed it to me.
As I rolled my eyes, wondering if he had given me even a copper for a snack, I saw a silver coin shining white.
1 silver-!
I couldn’t help but open my eyes wide in amazement at the wonderful sparkle.
[Work Review] I think I can solve about 4 episodes a day up to 20 episodes!
