episode_0019

In fact, it is also very strange that among the group, only Princess Kanabi was cursed.

‘If the one who needs to be protected the most in the punitive force is cursed, there should be chaos, but Princess Kanabi is trying to hide the fact that she is cursed.’

At least if you were a noble member of the royal family, when you were cursed, you should have gone to a bishop-level priest instead of me.

However, Princess Canabi secretly called me and treated me without letting anyone around her know.

‘Are you really fighting over the succession with someone?’

It wasn’t my concern how the royal hierarchy of another country was being fought.

But as my patient became the party concerned, I couldn’t help but worry and was in an awkward position.

‘In fact, even if you were to worry, there’s nothing I can do for you. You’re a member of the royal family, so why should you worry?’

As the saying goes, don’t worry about celebrities, there’s nothing more useless than worrying about the royal family.

They are the power itself, with extraterritorial rights that allow them to kill people without going to jail.

‘I’m sure you’ll do well.’

Still, the feeling of sadness didn’t completely disappear.

It is not a feeling of pity for the ‘royal family’ but for ‘humans’.

Is it for nothing that he is so patient that he can endure hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, and pain for two hours at such a young age?

I wonder if he had experienced enough hardship to develop that kind of patience.

That pity led to interest and became the reason for frequent visits to Princess Kanabi’s hospital room as announced.

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“I’m here.”

I’ve become accustomed to going into Princess Canabi’s hospital room.

It’s like opening the door to my own house.

“Are you here again?”

Princess Kanabi, who welcomed me, also looked relaxed.

The unconcealed sense of wariness disappeared and I began to welcome people as they were.

It was a huge improvement compared to when I first met the princess.

“I told you in advance that I would be stopping by often.”

On the first day, I visited her hospital room frequently and treated her as promised.

I know from first-hand experience that it’s easy to let your guard down around someone who is treating you.

Princess Canabi was very satisfied and asked me to continue treating her in this way, and I have kept my promise and taken care of her as best I can.

“Ah! This is a gift.”

“Flower?”

It was spring, the season when flowers were in full bloom.

The neutral zone where the labyrinth is located has four distinct seasons, so many colorful flowers bloom.

I picked one of them and brought it with me when I visited her in her hospital room.

No one has ever forced anyone to stay in the hospital room.

‘Even if I told them not to go, if they don’t want to, it’s an issue I can’t force them to go.’

But she hasn’t gone out of her own volition since she was hospitalized.

I guess he doesn’t go outside because of security reasons, but I felt like I should give him something like this as a gift so that he could see the people watching him.

‘We need to make a proper VIP room.’

There was nothing strange about the VIP room in the temple, that is, the special hospital room.

Rather, the temple’s operating policy was to operate a special hospital ward for the nobles and collect a considerable amount of donations.

But ironically, our temple did not have a VIP room.

I was hastily using a single room as a substitute for a special hospital room, but when the VIP actually came in, I felt guilty because I saw many things that seemed lacking.

It was because she heard that her subordinate had donated a huge amount of money.

“The flowers are in full bloom, but it seems like the princess hasn’t been able to see them properly. I thought it would be nice to see them like this before they all fall.”

“Thank you. I didn’t know I would receive such an unexpected gift.”

There will be many inconveniences because the ward is small and the facilities are not properly prepared.

“We are preparing another hospital room, so we will be able to change you soon. Then you will be able to see the flowers blooming.”

“This isn’t bad either. Since you’re here, you can come here often, right?”

“That’s right.”

If you move to a VIP ward, you won’t be able to come and go as often as you do now.

Princess Cannabi, who received the flower, puts her nose close to it and smells its fragrance.

The sight was very beautiful.

“If you weren’t a priest, I would have thought you were talking to me.”

I thought it would be like that when I pick flowers.

‘It goes really well with flowers.’

But, more than I expected, the sight of smelling flowers suited him so well.

I was absentmindedly watching Princess Canabi without realizing it, and then I tried to ignore my pounding heart as I spoke.

“Because I plan to spend my whole life with the sun god.”

“Are you serious?”

“Couldn’t you be sincere?”

It’s still true.

Princess Canabi seemed unimpressed with my marriage and returned her focus to the flowers.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a pretty thing. All I’ve seen lately are hideous monster faces.”

Well, don’t you see it at least a few times a day?

‘If you just look in the mirror, there’s something pretty there.’

What can I do if you say that the flower is pretty?

He told me the place so that I could see lots of pretty things.

“If you go to the walking trail managed by the temple, you will see many beautiful flowers in bloom. Why not go there later when you have time?”

“… I guess I can go someday.”

Princess Canabi closed her eyes slightly, hoping to hear back later.

‘What’s really there?’

What if it’s not that you don’t go out, but that you can’t?

No matter what, this is a temple. What kind of big idiot would harm a hospitalized patient?

If you do something like that, the government won’t stay still.

The fact that she is so careful, even though she knows it, makes it clear that there is something targeting her.

‘It’s better not to pretend to know.’

There are times when ignorance is the best, and I think now is that time.

“Can you give me your arm?”

“The priest here is so diligent. He treats me so often that I don’t get sick at all.”

“Oh, did I come too soon? I thought you were sick because you were turning off the lights.”

I came a little early, since it was two hours ago last time.

“I thought I’d be able to sleep better if I turned off the lights.”

Princess Canabi barely managed to sleep after receiving my treatment, but woke up quickly and spent the whole night with her eyes wide open.

You can only fall asleep briefly while receiving treatment, and after that, you have to endure sleepless nights.

Maybe that’s why, even though she was hospitalized and receiving treatment, her face didn’t look very good.

It’s so scary not being able to sleep.

“If it’s hard to endure, I’ll ask around for some medicine. There might be a sleeping pill that works.”

“You’re going to get me medicine but not pray for me?”

Princess Cannabi jokes in an unresponsive way.

“Medicine cannot be the solution, so we must continue to pray. Today, I will pray harder than yesterday.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to pray for people who are having a harder time than me? I guess He doesn’t like me very much.”

“He loves everyone equally. And you can pray for the believers later. I pray without fail every morning and evening. I will always use my evening prayers for the princess’s good dreams.”

The atmosphere that had been brought up by the flowers quickly died down, but it was lifted with a joke.

I don’t know the details, but it seemed like what she needed right now was comfort rather than treatment.

In addition to talking about prayer, we also talked about various other things.

For example, Princess Canabi told me about her experiences in the labyrinth, and I told her about the absurd things that happened to me while seeing patients.

Treatment had long since taken a back seat.

“I thought I had quite a bit of experience, but you have no idea.”

“The story the princess told was also interesting. I thought I just had to deal with monsters, but I didn’t know that traps would be the biggest problem.”

“Sigh… .”

While they were talking for a long time, Princess Canabi tightly closed her eyes.

I realized that it was a symptom of a curse.

“I will treat you.”

Princess Canabi took her left arm out from under the blanket.

The left arm I saw at first was gradually getting worse despite my consistent treatment.

I sigh at the sight of my arm that has turned a bluish color.

“If the curse is given, I will do my best to remove these cleanly without any side effects.”

“… Yeah.”

Until then, I thought Princess Canabi’s hospital stay would not be long.

All you had to do was find the monster that had cast the curse and kill it.

It can’t be difficult to go back on a path you’ve already been on, right?

But I unintentionally found out that it might not be easy.

That’s how I found out.

“I don’t think I could have thought of this in a day or two.”

It was when I met Bishop Haman again.

Since they were members of the punitive force that had come to enter the labyrinth, it must have been true that they were busy, as it took quite some time for them to come see me again.

I had been preparing material to show him, and after Bishop Haman read it all, he could not hide his excitement and said:

“When did you start preparing this systematic method?”

For me, who had already seen the system of a ‘large hospital’ in my previous life, preparing the materials was not that difficult.

Because all I had to do was write down the knowledge I had in my head.

Rather, it was helpful because I was able to recall detailed information that I had not remembered before by making it into a reference.

“I will take this with me when I return to the church.”

“Yes.”

“If this is accepted, our country will develop tremendously. Arthur is the one who starts this development! It will be an achievement that will go down in history. Haha! Why haven’t you announced this yet?”

“I thought it was difficult to accept.”

Although I created the material, it was full of content that would make conservatives frown upon seeing it.

Their purpose is to follow and preserve the old.

But the material I created was talking about replacing all the old, inefficient and unsystematic rules with modern ones.