14. The Cause of the Illness
Afterwards,
Once I was satisfied with the fluffiness of Ralph’s fur, I decided to return to Nigel and the King.
“Your Highness, do you have any idea for what ailed Ralph?”
I asked the King.
Then, the King turned stern, ‘Hmm…’
“—I don’t know. At first, I thought he had a mild cold. However, he gradually grew weaker—neither potion nor magic could heal him. I had almost given up—I have no idea what in the world happened…”
I couldn’t hide my confusion.
As a saint, I had healed many people and animals.
However, as for that muddy aura… I had one inkling—
—it was a curse.
A strong grudge against others made it possible to curse someone.
Depending on the curse, those who had been afflicted by it would show various symptoms. Ralph-chan had shown those exact symptoms.
If his illness was indeed caused by a curse, we’d be in trouble.
That was because curses couldn’t be cured by just any healing magic.
There were only two ways to break a curse.
The first was with the aid of someone from an uncommon profession called The Curser.
While the second was through the saint who is protected by the goddess… which was me.
Although it meant it wasn’t impossible to break a curse, there weren’t many Cursers or Saints available. As such, once someone was cursed, it became troublesome.
“Your Highness.”
“What is it?”
“It is but a guess, but…”
I told the King everything I had discovered healing Ralph.
“…I see, a curse, is it?”
Naturally, the King was aware of the troublesomeness of a curse. His face became distorted.
Because a curse would show varying symptoms, it’d be difficult to diagnose at the beginning.
That was why I said it was merely a guess.
“It isn’t the final conclusion. However, the possibility is undeniable.”
The King appeared astringent.
Even though it was a pet, it was the King’s pet.
It was probably the work of those who bore hostility to the King.
Even then, why would Ralph-chan be cursed instead of the King?
—was it an unfinished curse meant to latch upon someone?
…Alright, I must stop there.
It’d be better to leave the matter to the King.
“Well then, should we put an end to this gloomy conversation?”
The King clapped his hands several times to change the topic.
“Eliane, stay here for the night. Preparing a place for you to live in the city will take some time.”
“Would that be alright with you?”
“Of course, although it might be possible that the room prepared for you is too large, but…”
I was thinking of staying at an inn, but honestly, this worked, too.
The money I brought from my former kingdom was very small. I had to be frugal.
“Is Lord Nigel alright with this suggestion?”
“I welcome Eliane very much, too. You can stay overnight as you like.”
Nigel seemed to agree with the King’s proposal.
“If that’s the case, I graciously accept your offer.”
I bowed deeply.
***T/N: Lol so through theory of elimination, Eliane already had one foot in the grave regarding concealing her true identity, then.
However, rather than coming off as someone who’s careless and didn’t at all care about keeping the secret of her own identity through using those high-tier magic, Eliane came off to me as this too kind of a person, who has no bottom line in regards to helping people in need no matter what the risk.
For how much you keep talking about her being unsympathetic and psychopath, YOU are the one being more unfeeling toward people.
A human being was offer the choice of leaving or die, simple as that. And they choosing to leave to save themself is consider psychopath behavior to you. Or did you think that as the saint she is suppose to literally give up her live for the country until the end? If she stay and get execute the result is the same anyway.
The knight captain choosing to stay in the ruined country instead of following the semi-invulnable saint is a hypocrite according to you simply because he choose to stay and potentially die fighting instead of going on the happy tour with the saint. As if traveling with the saint is the harsher choice comparing to stay in a country that he know for sure will get attacked soon.
If anyone being an unfeeling psychopath here it is you.
Ummm … actually it’s been shown several times that she does care about people. But she’s not an 1d10t who’s going to let herself get executed like the Prince was happily talking about wanting to do to her.
She even spent 80% of Chapter 1 repeatedly telling the prince “If I leave the kingdom will suffer”, “Without a saintess the shields around the city will fail”, “Are you 100% positive you want to do this?”
And every time the Prince basically told her to go fuk herself and she was a useless existence that wasn’t needed, and was a giant parasite on the nations budget.
Third Chapter. She went out of her way to heal people who were dying. Even though she had no reason to do so, and wasn’t looking for monetary compensation.
Two chapters ago. She cured the Royal Pet, just because, then told the King about what caused fenrir’s ailment. Even though it could point to her being a Saintess.
So … yeah. You thinking’s super flawed.
“she doesn’t care about people” really? she cares enough, she was mistreated on that other kingdom, taken for granted (no one ever said tanks) and on top of that was offended by the crown prince… the only one that keeps pushing her as a kind of “psychopath” is you because it’s definitely not presented IN the text of the novel.
Alright, now they totally know she’s the saint. Kinda hope they don’t try to use her tho. They’ll probably say “You don’t mind making a barrier around our kingdom right? Thanks!” I know they’re not bad people so far but dang I hope they don’t use her. Shell help them anyway tho.
Hola
Better than the alternative, like in other stories where they don’t use all their ability the person in question then dies later anyway and when they get found out who she is its all: Hey then you COULD’VE fixed this BEFORE it became an issue! plus the needless Guilt!
I actually find it realistic that Eliane completely failed to hide her power level because quite frankly the old kingdom didn’t even let her socialize. She must have like zero capability in being cunning.
Just hope she can at least shed her general naivety later.
True! Also, if she had lived all her life helping & healing others, it would have been difficult to just suddenly stop doing it.
I felt like…. she knew she was revealing herself, but because she wanted to live in this kingdom, and someone was cursing the pet of the king, and she had already healed it… she might as well own up to it in such an obscure way. I mean, she’s already been thinking about putting barriers up around the kingdom!!! Since her identity is only a little sensitive, but not dangerous nor should it make her a target, it’s not entirely wrong to admit to the king.
Eliane: I’d better keep my identity as a saint secret!
Also Eliane: Ay yo Mr. King? Your pet Fenrir that nobody could cure is all better now! I think he had a curse or something. You’re pretty lucky because only a saint can cure curses! Not like I’m a saint or anything… ?
The King and other people: Damn suspicious but you’re a good girls so welcome to the palace~!
Thank you ? cannot wait for some more cite or fluff moments