episode_0065

The Inquisitors are an incredibly elite group.

They carry out covert operations for the Holy Empire with their extraordinary abilities and work to protect the world.

‘But no one knows how good his skills really are.’

However, since I learned under a teacher who was a retired heretic inquisitor, I only had a shallow knowledge of what an inquisitor was.

‘The Master didn’t show me much, but….’

The abilities he occasionally displayed gave us a glimpse of what a special person he was.

And I knew very well that this person in front of me, although not as special as my teacher, was also a very special person.

“What’s going on?”

It was hard to see her face for a while after she told me that she would be entering the labyrinth in two weeks.

I was wondering how she was doing after her wonderful attempt at provoking the prince, but it seems that something happened as expected.

“It’s okay. It’s not as bad as you think.”

“You’re acting all shabby, don’t you think?”

Is this really what the prince did?

I couldn’t believe that just one word could bring about this in a person.

“Could it be that the prince did it?”

“No.”

It’s not important right now, but I asked that without realizing it.

“Now is not the time to be like this. Come here quickly. Can you walk?”

“Yes.”

His attitude was so calm that it made you wonder if he was really injured.

“Where does it hurt? If you’re bleeding this much, it’s hard to stand still… .”

It was difficult to identify the wound because there was no place that was free of blood.

“Not all of it is my blood.”

“Of course it should be. If you’ve shed this much, it’s normal for you to not be able to come to your senses. Can I cut off some of your clothes?”

“Yes, do as you wish.”

The first priority was to check the injured area.

First of all, there was a deep wound on the thigh, and there were small wounds on the forearms and shoulders.

And because there was a part of the hand bone that was sticking out, a fracture was also suspected.

At this point, I thought it would be better to just examine the entire body.

I drew out my divine power and checked the inside of Sister Melody’s body one by one.

“Oh my… The trauma is deep, and the inside of your body is also terrible.”

There is no place untouched, no matter how fierce the fighting was.

‘Would getting beaten up by a large monster cause wounds like this?’

We checked the condition of the body and treated any urgent issues.

Thanks to my improved healing skills, I can treat wounds like this on my own. If it were me before, I would have had to call in another healer to finish the treatment.

Even that wouldn’t have been able to lead to a complete recovery.

“You should not move immediately after receiving treatment.”

If you value your body, you will take care of yourself for a while when you get injured to this extent.

But I had no idea how this person would act.

Once the wounds have healed, you can consider it okay to go out and fight again.

So I told him to be careful and hit him in advance.

Then, as always, Sister Melody spoke.

“… I’ll figure it out as I please.”

“It seems like you can’t do it properly. Don’t go out right away, but be admitted. Can you see? The wound is so big that it hasn’t been completely treated yet. You’ll need to receive additional treatment several times.”

Divine power is good for the body, but it is not omnipotent.

Blood and energy already lost from injury do not return easily.

It means you need enough rest.

“I still have work to do, so I have to go.”

“Ah… I knew this would happen. I don’t know what’s going on, but whatever it is, it’s not right.”

“I have to go. You can’t stop me.”

“The patient needs to rest. You know you need to rest. You need to rest for at least two days.”

I don’t know if you know that telling someone you have to go back to work right after getting treatment is not something you should say to the person who treated you so diligently.

“If it’s something that absolutely must be done, ask someone else to do it.”

“There is no one to ask.”

Does that mean there are no other heresy inquisitors?

“Is this a big problem that will cause a big problem if we don’t do it right away?”

“Yes. You can’t just leave it like that. There might be some residue left.”

“… … .”

If you’re talking about the remnants, you’re definitely talking about heretics.

It wasn’t something the prince did, but rather a wound he got from fighting them.

“Then… .”

I was worried that I might be interfering with the complicated work again, but there seemed to be no way to stop that stubbornness.

“Is there really no one you can ask for help?”

“Not everyone can do it.”

“Then I’ll do it. How about that?”

“… Priest?”

Sister Melody shook her head as if she had heard something absurd.

“You are fearless. You don’t even know what you are going to do. This is not something that a priest like you can do.”

You’re not saying that because you’re ignoring me.

It’s probably because he’s entangled in things that only the Inquisitors do.

“I know roughly what Sister Melody does. Do you know who my teacher is?”

“Didn’t you tell him that you never learned this kind of work?”

“Of course, the teacher raised his disciple so easily. He didn’t teach him everything, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t tell him what he was curious about.”

Even if it’s something that heretics do, isn’t it something related to curses or evil spirits?

I learned about evil spirits during my school days, and I have a lot of knowledge about curses because God himself gave me the knowledge.

“What should I do? I don’t know what it is, but I can probably do it.”

Of course, if there is a battle to be fought, I can’t do anything about it.

I can’t do that because I never learned it.

But looking at the condition of this gentleman’s body, I was certain that the battle was already over.

‘If you hadn’t won, you wouldn’t have come this far alive.’

So if it was something I had to do to clean up what the heretics had done, rather than fight, I could do it.

“Get up once. You will feel why I said no.”

I said this to wake her up to reality, as she was still troubled by my words.

Sister Melody quickly stood up from her seat at my words.

thud!

“… … .”

As expected, she had no strength left in her body and fell down, unable to stand properly.

I took her arm and supported her and said.

“Look at that. Isn’t it impossible? My divine power wasn’t enough to heal the wound. It was impossible to even restore stamina.”

How many places were broken and how many places were bleeding?

If I had enough divine power to heal all of that and still restore her health, would I be the chief healer?

“I don’t understand. I was treated, so why am I so weak?”

“You’ll know if you study a little about healing, but I guess you don’t know much about this. The divine power of a lowly priest like me is not omnipotent.”

“… … .”

What can I do if my abilities are lacking and this is all I can do?

I heard that this is your first time out in society as an inquisitor.

So it’s understandable that you wouldn’t know.

“Of course, you may not know because you have never been hurt this badly.”

He seemed slightly offended by my words, and tried to say something, but soon held back.

I could have said as much as I wanted, but it seems I couldn’t open my heavy mouth to this extent.

As I waited, unable to contain my frustration, Sister Melody finally opened her mouth.

“… We found the den of heretics and took care of it. But as you can see, the resistance was so strong that we couldn’t properly deal with it. ”

A den where heretics reside.

It was obvious what would be there.

Wouldn’t there be too many problems to just leave it like this?

“It seems to have been a large-scale den. I thought there might be heretics near the labyrinth, but I didn’t know there really were.”

It seems that the matter involving the man who was brought to the temple treatment center at that time has already progressed to that point.

Moreover, I had no idea that it would be so large that it could be described as a den rather than just a group of heretics.

‘So, you’re saying Sister Melody did it all by herself?’

Indeed, the Inquisitor.

He doesn’t even flinch in front of the prince, so it seems he has a personality that is even more aggressive in front of heretics.

“I’ll clean it up. I can do it. So, just relax here.”

“You can’t go alone.”

“Is it dangerous?”

“I killed them all, but the road to get there is complicated. There might be some leftovers.”

It seems he said he couldn’t rest because he was worried about the remnants.

It was understandable that the path would be complicated, as it would not have been possible to build a den of heretics in an open place.

“Then… .”

“I will guide you. Can you help me with the training instead?”

That seems to be the best concession for Sister Melody.

You won’t be able to walk right now, but you’ll be able to once you regain some strength.

“Okay, then let’s do that.”

“… Thank you for your help. It must not have been easy.”

She was not just a blunt person, she was also not incapable of expressing gratitude.

“Oh my, how can we just sit back and let a patient who just got treatment go somewhere dangerous alone? If you don’t know, then don’t know, but now that you know, you can’t just leave it alone.”

“… You live a tiring life. I thought you were a strange person from the beginning, but I didn’t know it would be this bad.”

“It hurts when you hit the nail on the head like that.”

It would be a good idea to just treat the patient and leave it at that.

Anyway, isn’t it someone else’s business?

What I am responsible for is the treatment of patients.

But I couldn’t stay still and started to empathize with the patient’s situation.

And because of that, I got involved in Princess Canabi’s business and even entered the labyrinth with Princess Rasiel.

‘I was just trying to suck up some honey and come out, but how did this happen?’

This all happened because of my obsession with my patients.

Looking at the fact that he couldn’t fix it even though he kept saying that he had to fix it, it seemed like his nature was helpless.

“You will not be compensated for helping me.”

“I didn’t think of that in the first place when I offered to help you. You admit that you can’t move right now, right? At least until you can walk, you need to recover here. So just lie down.”

She obediently lay down on the bed.

“Oh, right! Have you eaten?”

Her answer was, of course, ‘no,’ and I had no choice but to ask the temple kitchen for special patient food for her who was unable to move.