I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

4. Island Lumentium – 13

The reason is unknown, but Ariel was refusing Lucian’s treatment. A clergyman who is supposed to give equal healing to all people because he has turned to God and laid down everything worldly, refuses to heal others. There is no grandiose reason, but simply a very personal reason of ‘I don’t want to do it’. Not anywhere else, but in a public place like a banquet hall where there are countless ears to hear.

“…..”

‘…completely crazy.’

Up until now, it was a little long, but now I can be sure. Today’s Ariel seems to have lost her taste somewhere. Or maybe it was the original taste.

Of course, it is not because I have a field of flowers blooming on my head that I am bringing up an old-fashioned story like ‘a priest should impart his divine power fairly to all people.’ Divine power is a power derived from the goddess, but the subject who actually exercises that power is a human being.

As long as priests are also human, and as long as they live their lives in harmony with other people, I am well aware that the exercise of divine power cannot be equally distributed to all.

To put it bluntly, being a priest doesn’t make money when you dig, and you can’t live on only dew like the elves? Well, being an elf doesn’t mean you really live only on dew.

Anyway, what I want to say is this. Just as the princess teased Ariel not to bend her back, the priests are also closely related to the power of the public, and they pay more attention to them than expected.

For example, if nobles and commoners visit a temple at the same time, the nobles are healed first, and if the nobles hold a consecration ceremony, the priests put everything aside and participate in the blessing. However, I have no intention of blaming it for that.

Because I, who are actually thinking this way, am the privileged class of that bastard. There is nothing more disgusting than a man who has always sucked up sweet and bitter water and muttering about his privilege.

Among them, Ariel is a woman who stands in the representative position of the priesthood. Although she has not received the title of ‘saint’ at this point, Ariel has become one of the representative figures of the church due to the immense divine power she possessed from birth and the authority bestowed by the goddess. In other words, it meant that there was a lot of concern that Ariel’s words could be misunderstood as the will of the entire church.

To sum it up in a word, it is clearly an insane statement to brag about refusing to heal others for personal reasons.

Unknowingly, my face turned white and I quickly looked around. Fortunately, no one seemed to have heard Ariel’s bombastic remarks from earlier.

I glanced at Lucian, who was sleeping spread out on the floor, unaware of the speed of others. What did this guy do wrong to make the words ‘I don’t want to heal you’ come out of Ariel’s mouth?

‘…Have you ever blasphemed in the past?’

As I remember, Saint Ariel was a frustrated woman who wanted to help even if it meant delaying the group’s steps if there were people in need even while they were hurrying to the north.

To incur the hatred of such a meek woman, is he an idiot who doesn’t even know that if a woman harbors resentment, there will be frost in May? I looked down at Lucian, who didn’t even know what a woman’s heart was, and clicked my tongue once.

“…I can’t help it.”

The best thing was that Ariel healed me, but if she refuses to heal, shouldn’t I wake her up too? It would be a nuisance to the attendants if they were to roll on the floor of the banquet hall like garbage.

“Kain-nim, have you ever learned anything like medicine in the past?”

“Over the shoulder. All right.”

Before returning, it was nothing more than a catch learned by following the tails of four women who were much stronger than me. To be more precise, should I say it was a desperate struggle to avoid causing trouble to those women?

It wasn’t even a matter of waking up an idiot lying on the floor, even if he didn’t know much else.

After being beaten by the princess every day, it was the ‘treatment’ she gave me.

After placing my hand neatly on the side of his heart, I focused the ‘flow’ on my fingertips.

pounding-

It was felt. The boy’s heartbeat. If you’ve come this far, what I’m going to do is very simple. If I could gather all the currents left in his body and stimulate it vigorously as if to pressurize his heart-

“Ke-Huh-!”

…It was said that a person who had lost his mind like this would come to his senses. I don’t know the detailed principle, but it was one of the remedies that the princess who taught me the flowing star told me that it was a first-aid method that could be used in an emergency.

Well, it was only a half first-aid method that could only be used for someone who had lost consciousness and collapsed like this.

“Ha, ha, ha, ha…”

Lucian, who had been breathing in for a long time with his complexion turned pale, as if his heart had been pressed quite hard, looked around and soon realized that I was staring at him in silence, and opened his mouth with a bewildered expression.

“…Cain von Estelle. Did you really wake me up?”

At Lucian’s words, I quietly nodded.

“Yeah. Lying on the floor and causing a nuisance, I woke him up to wake up.”

“…why did you wake me up?”

To Lucian, who looked at me with a bit of resentment and said things like that, I said something stupid.

“Why why? The high-ranking youngster is sleeping on the floor of the banquet hall like a drunk, so no one can touch him. I woke up not to bother others anymore.”

At my kind explanation, Lucian stroked his temple once and looked at me with a blank face.

“…That’s it. I am defeated by you.”

Saying that, Lucian muttered in a quiet voice, keeping his eyes on the banquet hall, which was already in a dilapidated mood.

“…Anyway, it seems like a lot of time has passed since we had a duel. Cain von Estel, you are right. If you’ve been lying in the banquet hall unconscious for such a long time, you must have caused quite a nuisance to others.”

Lucian slowly raises his body while making remarks that are quite conceptual. But when he said that with his right cheek swollen, it didn’t look cool at all.

“Then, I will go. Cain von Estel. I will always make sure to repay you for waking me up. Until then, stay safe.”

Leaving such a cool line, Lucian turned around.

“Hey, wait.”

“…why is that?”

Lucian expresses doubt about the sudden summoning of himself. Without saying a word, I took some gold coins out of my leather pouch and put them in his hand.

“…What is this?”

“Should I say courtesy to my co-workers? Or should I say critique? Or you can think of both, but you take it anyway.”

“…I don’t know what you mean, but are you insulting me?”

That’s an insult. What embarrassing things are you talking about? The fact that I gave him the gold coin was an act of pure goodwill. I was able to earn so much money thanks to Lucian, but I handed over the money thinking that it was not a good idea to send him away without giving anything in return.

To be honest, he looked a bit pitiful.

“…Ha, hostility due to sympathy is also a kind of insult. Please remember.”

Even as he said that, he put the gold coin in his pocket. Then he let out a sigh for no reason, then turned around and disappeared outside the banquet hall.

…As expected, an attitude full of sincerity was a law that could be used anywhere in the world. Look, even such an idiot disappears without saying anything else to me.

As I was breathing a sigh of relief at the thought that I had done something, someone tapped me on the shoulder next to me. When I turned my head slightly, Ariel was looking at me with a relaxed smile that didn’t change at all. It was an attitude that was really comparable to Arya, who for some reason had her eyes down.

“Then I guess I really should go. We’ll see you next time. Cain. Bye.”

Saying that, Ariel bowed to me and soon disappeared from the banquet hall.

“…..”

And as I stared at Ariel’s back, I suddenly came to have a doubt.

“aria.”

“Yes.”

“That woman, don’t you think she’s being a bit too outspoken about me?”

“…yes?”

Aria tilts her head as if she doesn’t understand what I’m saying.

However, watching Ariel’s back as she walked away, I came to have one doubt.

I hope that girl-