episode_0051

Truse could not understand this situation. The fact that the one who looked like him was Pan, and that he was using magic, and that he was doing this using that magic, all of it. He didn’t want to believe it, but the burning pain in his side was telling him it was reality.

“H, how can you use magic!”

“Well, isn’t it obvious? Because I was chosen by magic.”

Pan spoke as if he were telling an unimportant story. He knew what it meant to use magic, yet he was so calm. But that wasn’t the problem. Even if he was a little disappointed as a friend, he could understand that he had hidden the fact that he knew how to use magic. Because wizards weren’t treated very well in their hometown. What angered him was that, not only was he abusing drugs that should be used with caution, but he was even abusing the magic he admired to violate the patient he had to protect.

“D, do you even know what you’re doing right now?!”

Truse was annoyed that his voice still stuttered at times like this. He didn’t know what problem he had when he injured his head, or if it was because those he thought were his colleagues did something during treatment, but it was painful even to simply speak.

“Then you thought I was doing it without knowing?”

Even at his scolding words, Pan spoke confidently. Rather, he looked at him with pity for saying such things. He lifted the woman he was violating as if to show her off to Truse.

“Want me to tell you something fun?”

“S, stop it!”

Truse screamed at Pan’s following actions. He tried to get up to knock him down and stop him, but the pain in his waist grabbed his ankle. When he grabbed his waist, he felt hot blood soaking his clothes and dripping down. He didn’t know what magic Pan had used, but he was sure that the dagger that had stabbed him with all his might had stabbed himself.

“Kkeueuk!”

Pan didn’t wait for Truse, who was suppressing a painful groan, and put his thing back into the woman’s vagina. The woman’s place accepted Pan’s thing without any resistance, and her body was limp and didn’t even move, only frowning like she was having a nightmare. He was sure that he had used drugs again and glared at him.

“You seemed to have treated her without knowing anything. If you knew what this woman was saying about you behind your back, all those feelings would disappear.”

He wanted to ask what he meant, but the pain in his waist was too great. Pan laughed at such Truse and continued to speak.

“She gossiped about you so much. Saying you were mentally deficient or wondering if you even had a medical license. Most of the bad rumors about you that spread throughout the merchant group were caused by this woman.”

Truse frowned at his words. Truse might look like a fool, but he wasn’t a fool. He knew that malicious rumors about him were spreading within the merchant group. Fortunately, with the help of Donar and Mr. Ermis, he was able to reveal that the malicious rumors were not true, but he resented that the cause of the rumors was that woman.

“So, why don’t you do it to this bitch while she’s asleep? It feels amazing.”

He slowly pulled his thing out of the woman. Her soaked thing and the woman’s vagina were visible at a glance, as if it had already been done several times. The woman’s appearance was enough to stimulate a man’s lust. Moreover, if Pan’s words were true, there would be less hesitation. Thinking that he was hesitating, Pan opened the woman’s vulva with his hand and incited him.

“Come on, look at this. You’ve never done this before, have you?”

As he said, Truse had never had a relationship with a woman until now. Maybe that’s why this temptation is more effective. He grabbed his side, where blood was flowing, and stood up. Finally, when he stood in front of the woman. He saw Pan smiling unpleasantly. But his smile didn’t last long. Because what Truse did in front of the woman was to punch him.

“Ugh, y, you’re going to do this after all.”

Only Pan’s unknown magic had harmed Truse, though.

“Hey, can I ask what this means?”

Pan’s voice was low, as if he was angry that Truse had punched him, even though he hadn’t been harmed.

“I, it means I don’t need it.”

No matter how much the woman spread malicious rumors about him, she was a patient and Truse was a doctor. It wasn’t that he didn’t have resentful feelings, but he thought that at least he shouldn’t solve it that way. Was it his words that triggered it? Pan revealed his anger.

“You stupid bastard!”

“Ugh!”

He threw the woman on the bed and grabbed Truse by the collar.

“I treated you like a friend because I was being nice to you! I never thought of someone as insignificant as you as a friend in the first place!”

Pan’s words reminded him of the wounds in his heart. How many times had he been betrayed by those he thought were friends, and now he was in this state with someone he thought was a friend again, making him feel miserable.

“But it’s lucky that you’re still carrying around that magic book, you idiot. I was having a hard time using it because I didn’t remember many spells anyway.”

“Cough! Kkeueu.”

As Pan grabbed his collar, the tight clothes stimulated the wound on his side, making it even more painful.

“Thanks to you, I have more spells to use. I’m not going to kill you, so be grateful?”

After that, he kept coming to Truse’s wagon, pretending to be him, and abusing his medicine to play with patients like toys. He tried to resist him, cling to him, or ask Donar for help, but every time, Pan controlled his body with magic. In the end, he couldn’t do anything and had to watch the patients being violated by him. The more that happened, the more Truse was driven to his limit. The fear of magic and the trauma of a friend, which had been etched into his bones for nearly a year, turned him into a real coward.

And even though his waist was completely healed, he suffered from phantom pain, so he always wore bandages. Even if his waist wasn’t that bad, if he didn’t wrap the bandages tightly around his head and legs, which had been injured even earlier, he would continue to be tormented by the pain as if he had just been injured, and he suffered from insomnia. His pride as a doctor was also completely shattered during that time, and he thought that he would never be able to get it back, and he was living a life that was like hell every minute and every second. That’s when the children he had never seen before came to visit.

Pan showed great interest in a girl named Belka among those children. Certainly, even Truse could see that she was an attractive girl, not just a young girl. It would have been stranger if Pan hadn’t been interested. In the end, on the first day the children came, that girl also became Pan’s victim. Then Pan ordered him to take the blame for his crime. Of course, if it had been the old him, he might have strongly resisted. But Truse was already too tired to do that.

He just had to watch most of the women who were a little pretty among his patients become his toys, and he thought that it would be better to die than to live like this. He obeyed Pan’s words for the first time.

“Since it’s the last time anyway, why don’t we have a go? Isn’t it unfair to take the blame without doing anything like this?”

Was it because he felt better? Pan acted as if he was showing generosity on his own. Yeah, since he was going to take the blame and die anyway, he thought it would be less unfair to do it with this girl at least once before he died. But why? His pride as a doctor, which he thought had been shattered a long time ago, grabbed his actions this time as well. In the end, he didn’t do anything to the girl. He just laid naked on top of the naked girl and went to sleep, as if he had nothing to say even if he took the blame for Pan’s crime.

He must have been sleeping on top of a girl who was smaller than him, but he felt as comfortable as if he was being held in his mother’s arms. Was it because of the unknown sweet floral scent that tickled his nose? He was able to escape from insomnia for a while and sleep comfortably. Those who heard Truse’s story couldn’t easily open their mouths. Some of the women were horrified to think that they had been through such things without even knowing it, and others couldn’t believe that Pan had been doing such things using magic.

“Ha! Is there any guarantee that that guy’s story is true?! Aren’t you even considering the possibility that he made it up and framed me?”

Then Pan, who was tied up, shouted. He had chewed and loosened the gag he was holding in his mouth. The problem was that it wasn’t necessarily wrong to others, so it was difficult to gag his mouth again.

“But it’s true that you tried to rape the girl last night.”

“Aren’t you framing me because you don’t want to make Truse the culprit?”

Even at the old man’s words, Pan stubbornly insisted that he was trying to frame him. Then Pan smiled as if he had found something. When the people who saw that smile felt bad. There was someone who was trembling alone as if he had made direct eye contact with him.

“So, what do you think? Sif.”

It was a blonde woman, Sif. People’s eyes were on her.

“What does that mean?”

The old man frowned at Pan’s actions of dragging Sif, who had been quiet, into the situation. People didn’t know what she had to do with this case, so Pan burst into laughter.

“Puhahahaha! What, didn’t you even say it?”

Usher, who was watching the trial, was now sick of hearing him laugh. He wondered what was so funny and was annoyed that he wasn’t taking it seriously at all. He was at the center of the trial, but he thought of this situation as a joke or that he didn’t accept the people here as the same people as him. That’s how he was able to do such things.

“You’ve been getting raped by Truse all this time, haven’t you?”

Pan’s following words threw people into confusion. Usher also looked at Sif with a surprised face.

“Is that true? Sif.”

“…Yes.”

When Sif, who had hesitated to answer for a while, answered the old man’s question, the sound of people buzzing became louder.

“I won’t ask why you didn’t say it.”

“Thank you.”

Sif bowed her head to the old man and expressed her gratitude.

“That’s funny. Are you going to judge without even hearing the story? Why don’t you just openly say that you want to make me the culprit? Old man.”

Just as the old man was about to say something to Pan’s sarcasm, Sif glared at him with a venomous expression first.

“Shut your mouth! If Truse’s words are true, that means you’ve been doing that to me.”

“Oh, how scary. Do you have a way to prove that?”

Pan sneered at whatever Sif said. Again, the problem was evidence. The problem was because of the uncertain evidence even in Truse’s case. There was no way that there would be any evidence now. But Sif’s words continued.

“You said it, didn’t you? Why didn’t I say that I was going through that?”

“Yeah! Anyway, women are all the same because they’re so scared of something…”

“As you said, I didn’t tell anyone about it. But how do you know that fact?”

Pan’s words were cut off by Sif’s words, and he closed his mouth for the first time. The reason why she didn’t tell people that she had been through such a thing was because she didn’t want to let people know and she knew that Truse would be severely punished even if she didn’t do that. The trial was now being conducted only with the conversation between the two, but the old man, who had to mediate, was watching for now.

“Because I saw it myself. Do you remember? When I was injured and stayed in Truse’s hospital room.”

Sif sneered at his excuse. Just like Pan had been acting like he was sneering at others until now.

“You didn’t tell the Lord even though you witnessed such a thing?”

“That’s.”

“If you’re going to say something ridiculous like Truse threatened you, stop it!”

Sif shouted in an excited voice. Truse threatened you with his uncomfortable body? You, who are as good as Donar, at least in terms of skill? Or are you going to say that he’s a wizard? Think about your actions towards Truse until now. Is that the attitude of someone who is afraid of people? She fired like a machine gun as if she was spewing out the long-standing emotions that had been built up. Even Pan couldn’t easily open his mouth at her momentum.

“Even if you didn’t say it because you were threatened, where did you witness it anyway?”

“Well, vaguely when I was sleeping.”

“Why did I only realize now that it was strange? Every time I went through such a thing, the seat where you were lying was always empty.”

Or are you going to say that you got up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom every time I went through such a thing without getting caught? If you want to say that I mistook it, stop it.

“I’ve taken care of patients several times. Do you think I won’t remember your seat? Above all, that ring that you were wearing, I know that Truse was wearing it. But how can you wear it alternately with Truse every time?”

“Donar, check Truse and Pan’s hands!”

At the old man’s words, Donar soon made Pan turn around so that everyone could see and made Truse raise his hand. Everyone looked at Truse’s fingers, but he wasn’t wearing any accessories like rings at all. If he had been wearing it for a long time, there would be traces of it, but there were no traces of it. On the other hand, Pan was definitely wearing a ring, and the traces of wearing it were clear.

“That’s the ring after all. Every time I saw it, Truse was wearing that ring.”

“Truse has never worn a ring or anything like that because it interferes with treatment…”

Such words from Sif and Donar were decisive. The fact that there is magic that steals the appearance of the desired person is a fact that those who have dreamed of becoming a wizard at least once would know. Truse was found to be innocent and Pan was given the punishment that Truse would have received. That’s how the trial ended when it was almost time for the wagon to depart. That didn’t mean that everyone was relieved. After the trial, Sif was crying as if the appearance of driving Pan away was a lie.

“Sif, are you okay?”

“I’m sorry. I want to be alone for a while.”

Usher approached and asked because she was crying so sadly, but Sif couldn’t stop crying and walked somewhere. When he was just looking at her back. Donar walked over.

“Where’s Sif?”

“That’s, over there.”

When he told him where Sif had gone, Donar seemed to be going to find her right away, but it was Shalby who followed him who stopped him.

“Let her be alone for now.”

“But.”

“She must have thought that Truse was the culprit all this time because of that damn magic. She needs time to sort things out.”

Shalby persuaded Donar to meet Sif at least in the evening, and Donar couldn’t follow her after all and had to go back to lead the wagon that would be leaving soon. The trial ended safely, but the aftertaste was bitter. Even if the culprit was revealed, the people who were harmed didn’t disappear, and it was revealed that the victims were not only Belka and Sif, so many people were shocked.

“They’re really leaving him like that.”

Usher, who was on the wagon, climbed onto the empty bed and watched Pan, who was faintly visible through the window. He was now left tied up in the center of the wagons, which were built in a circle so that everyone could see him. He could faintly see him struggling, but his struggles, which had been tied up more tightly than during the trial, seemed insignificant. He had to put a thicker gag in his mouth because he was so annoying to talk to. Shalby, who was in the wagon with Usher and Belka, not to mention Truse, said in a refreshing and disappointing voice.

“That means this is the end of seeing that guy.”

“But why are you riding with us?”

Usher, who remembered that he had never ridden this wagon together, even though he had led it, asked him, and he smiled bitterly. He was a handsome man with black hair, although he wasn’t handsome with his helmet off after getting on the wagon.

“Well, it’s an adult’s situation.”

He glanced at Truse. Are people still suspecting Truse even though the real culprit has been revealed? The adults who were there had realized that Pan was the culprit, but they asked if he was deceiving them with magic in reverse. They asked Truse to move his hands as if he was using magic and suspected that he was a wizard, and he even tried to use magic to prove that he wasn’t a wizard.

Of course, the magic didn’t activate, but then they began to suspect that Truse hadn’t really actively participated in such actions. In Usher’s eyes, the adults seemed to think that Truse couldn’t have done such a thing, and that he had to do it. Even after the real culprit had been revealed, the suspicious eyes that looked at Truse were still driving him as the culprit.

“Are you suspecting him too?”

Usher watched all the actions that Truse had to do to prove that he wasn’t a wizard and that he didn’t participate in Pan’s actions, and he even looked pathetic to the adults. If he’s not the culprit, why are they making such a fuss?

“It’s not that, but other people are saying that you never know, so they’re urging me to.”

Shalby said that he was just riding together under the pretext of monitoring, and he had no intention of suspecting Truse. As he was talking to him, he could see the coachmen signaling with flags as if they were finally leaving. The feet of the heteromorphic creatures that resembled horses were gradually raising dust, starting to cover Pan’s appearance, and as the wagon began to move in earnest, Pan’s appearance was soon buried in the dust.