Tensei Oujo wa Kyou mo Hata o Tatakioru

* There is a cruel expression. Please be careful if you are not good at it.

"... I'm over there, but it's Marie ... I haven't yet heard why Marie came to me."

Hearing the words of Bianca, Julius smiled bitterly.

A slightly twitching smile is clearly written as a bush snake. It doesn't always look elegant and affordable Julius, it's a bit fresh.

But now, I can't afford to enjoy the look that doesn't look like Julius. That's certainly important, and it's a postponement for Bianca to nod with a serious face.

"What does it mean if the ship doesn't come out?"

"e?"

Looking forward, Julius looked at me asking her a bit of a bite, and her eyes widened as puzzled.

I haven't talked about getting the ship on board yet, so it's no surprise. I think it should have been a step-by-step explanation before asking, but now it is.

Looking at me, I was confused, and Leonhard cut into the story.

"I'm sorry, can you tell us the story?"

"I'm okay, is your business OK?"

"I'll explain later."

"……I understand"

After thinking for a while, Julius nods.

What he told me was an ominous rumor that originated from a single ship.

A month ago, a boat from an island far southeast of the continent entered a small port town in Grund, a neighboring country east of Nebel.

It was a long journey because he came from afar, but the ship itself was less damaged. But for some reason, more than half of the sailors were dying.

Three people died at that time. Of the remaining 15 sick, six died without any treatment.

And looking at their logbooks, the rumor that began to spread to sailors was that "for those who stay in the sea for a long time, the ghost is possessed."

"Are you not sick?"

"How about. I don't even know that so far."

Julius did not say anything to Leonhardt's question.

"But it seems unlikely that people with illness will pass directly from person to person. Grund humans, including those who have buried or cared for their bodies, do not seem to have the same symptoms. Because

At least it is not a disease that causes droplet infection or contact infection.

But if more than half of the people on the same ship are affected, you're probably suspicious of another route of infection. Water and food are contaminated.

I listen to everyone's conversation silently and think about it.

At first, you were distracted by the ship, but if the disease was an infectious disease, that was your priority. Hypotheses made by inferring from the game are hypotheses.

Because it is not always the case that the season or country of the epidemic does not change.

"If it's a strange disease of unknown cause, it's not surprising that the sailor is scared ... but by the way, the story is too leap."

"Yes, why is 'dead spirit' a ridiculous story?"

Mr. Bianca agrees with Leonhardt's words with a look that just says she is stunned.

"What was written in the logbook?"

"At first, it was no different from a regular logbook. From the day of departure, the weather, sea conditions, stockpiling conditions, and the state of the seafarers were very ordinary. However, every month and two months The incident gradually took place. ''

Julius took out a piece of paper summarizing the contents of the diary and began reading it out.

"Is there an unwell sailor?"

"Yes. After a month, more and more people complained of laziness and pain in their joints. However, they seemed to have become mentally unstable without disappointing and seeing no improvement in their physical condition. ''

Fatigue and joint pain. Certainly a basic cold symptom.

If you are sleeping and have not improved at all, it is highly likely that you have a different disease. If you have a cold, most of the time you will recover if you are asleep unless you have a sedation such as pneumonia.

"Then, around the thigh, it was written that a big bruise had formed."

"A bruise? Isn't it something you hit somewhere?"

"It seems that the same symptoms appeared in multiple people. It is unlikely that everyone will hit the thighs at the same time."

Julius returned calmly to Bianca, who looked suspiciously.

"After a few more days, the bleeding began in the mouth and on the skin. The teeth fell out, the old wounds opened, and the seaman died of blood."

Shin, and silence fell on the spot.

Leonhardt's expression is severe, and Bianca's face is slightly faded.

I heard a symptom that I hadn't even imagined, and I was distracted.

"... I'm not sure, but I guess it would be nice to tell Mary that story."

Bianca overlooks Julius with cold eyes.

I shook my head in a hurry.

"No, no! Don't bother, because I was here with my will."

But she smiles to calm down Bianca, who seems unconvinced. Maybe he's twitching and his complexion is bad, but I'm glad he doesn't care about it.

It wasn't a pleasant story to listen to, but there was a need to listen.

I think so.

"Does that mean that from the end of that misery leads to the story of possession by the ghost?"

"And that's not all. Many sailors have experienced early-stage symptoms. The more sailing days a ship has, the larger the number of sailors. I'm afraid I'm going to be bloody and die next time. ''

Because the proportion of symptoms and the number of days of boarding are proportional, it has been rumored that those who stay in the sea for a long time will have a dead spirit.

"In the early days, is it laziness or pain in the joints? It's not unusual."

"I may just be suspicious, but it's hard to persuade unless I know why and what to do."

Julius exhaled a long sigh.

"That doesn't mean we can't leave the boat all the time. It will hinder business and the lives of sailors."

"That is, of course."

While listening to the conversation between Julian and Bianca, I was organizing the information in my head.

"……Hmm?"

Muttering, fishing.

"Mary?"

Leonhardt calls me in a small voice inaudible to others.

I can turn my gaze on my eyes, but I was so desperate to put together my thoughts that I couldn't get a decent reply.

In the beginning, fatigue and joint pain.

Mental instability ... Depressed state, then bruises on the thighs.

Bleeding from gingiva and skin after additional days

A sailor's disease in which teeth fall off, old wounds open, and eventually die.

"... I"

Why did you feel as though you were already looking?

So I asked myself myself and immediately found an answer in myself.

I have never seen a person with such symptoms.

But he certainly knows.

Not as a raw memory with real experience, but just as knowledge.

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