Volume 8 - Chapter 10 – Medical Treatment (2/2)
“It’s to the right of that corner. Ah, there, see.”
Sally’s healing clinic was a tree minutes’ walk away from the riverbank. On the small door ‘Milsson Healing Clinic’ was written.
“Yes yes, go over there and lay her down, mh-hm, that’ll do.”
They laid Mine down on the examination table and Sally immediately started her medical exam.
“Bones broken in the right wrist and arm, huh. The stomach wound is…Hey you, step out for a moment.”
She was about to take off Mine’s clothes when her hands stopped, and she advised Jin.
“Ah, yes.”
Jin escaped along with Reiko to the neighboring room that was similar to a preparation room. Then,
“Reiko, try contacting Laozi. See if he can detect Elsa’s whereabouts.”
“Yes, understood.”
For a while Reiko was silent, contacting Hourai Island with her internal ManaCom.
Then after about two minutes.
“Got it. There appears to be two similar responses. One is in Ikasanaato. The other is in a location 20 kilometers upstream of River Torres.”
After hearing that, Jin made a guess.
“Hm. The reaction in Ikasanaato is most likely the dagger that was left behind. So in that case, the other reaction would appear to be Elsa.”
At that moment he heard Sally call him from the other room. Jin quickly returned to the treatment room.
“What’s wrong?”
Sally was standing there with a grim look on her face.
“It’s critical. I removed the knife. Closed the wound. Expelled the water she breathed in. Healed the fractures too. However…”
Jin took a look at Mine’s face. It was a bloodless white. Jin guessed that most likely the knife wound reached her internal organs. He had heard that because the liver, the spleen, and such had high concentrations of blood vessels, stopping bleeding there was difficult.
Jin judged that to be the case from the lessons about on-site first-aid which he had once taken during his time as a factory worker. Probably in this world that didn’t have surgical techniques wounds in internal organs were fatal.
“At this rate…She’s in danger.”
Sally had an extremely sad expression on her. As expected, not being able to save a patient must bitter.
“If only there was… Restorative medicine…”
“Restorative medicine?”
“Yeah. But drink-type medicine is highly expensive. Alchemists in themselves are scarce, so it can’t be helped, but if only we could have her drink some of that there would be a chance.”
Jin had the experimental restorative medicine in his pocket. But it was still a trial product, and without making human experiments it would forever stay that way.
“What are her chances if recovery if she stays like this?”
Jin asked, just in case. After thinking about it for a little while, Sally replied,
“Not even one in ten. More precisely, at this rate if she doesn’t return to consciousness she’s as good as gone.”
Jin stopped worrying and took the restorative medicine out of his pocket.
“There’s something like a restorative medicine in here, but I don’t know how effective it is.”
He said honestly and,
“Let me see.”
He handed it to Sally, who then seemed to study it in various ways. Finally,
“[Analyse].”
She used analysis magic. Because this magic couldn’t analyze things one had no understanding of it would be pointless for Jin to use, but in the case of Sally,
“Y-you! Where did you get this!?”
She excitedly moved closer to press Jin for an answer. Jin assessed the situation and,
“Is it effective? If that’s the case then leave that talk for later, please use it!”
He said. Being told that, Sally blushed a little and nodded.
“R-right. It’s as you say. I’ll do it at once.”
She said, poured about a third of the contents into a feeding cup, and held it to Mine’s mouth.
“Please drink it…”
About half of the liquid in the cup was spilled, but somehow she was able to have her drink the other half.
Doing so, the result was dramatic.
A red tinge appeared in her once-white face, and her disordered breath turned back to normal.
Sally examined Mine’s pulse from her wrist too and,
“Mh-hm, it seems she’s no longer in danger.”
She said and breathed a sigh of relief.