Chapter 21 (2/2)

The soldiers greeted us as the dragon landed.

A soldier with a fine armor, probably the captain, came to the front.

「Prince, Jirou-dono, welcome to the front-line. And I had heard from telepathic communication, the Hero of the Blue Sea, Baronet Masaki-dono, Crimson Princess Knight, Adelhide-sama, and the second lady Yoko」

「Very well. Please tell us about the current situation immediately」

「Yes sir!」

The telepathic communication in this world can cover areas to some extent, but mages can fly to pa.s.s the message to a long distance.

Still, it’s impossible to fly so far away from the kingdom in one go, therefore some mages were deployed in villages and towns to help relay the message.

This kind of communication infrastructure seemed to be used in every country.

The garrison was filled with injured people, almost everyone had injuries in their arms, shoulders, or legs.

「There are so many injured people that couldn’t be treated in time… and our medicine is lacking」

The prince sighed when hearing the report. It turns out running out of medicine will make a big impact on future strategies.

I think it’s fine to use healing magic for this. I’ll offer as much potion as possible.

「How many injured people right now?」

「Including the severely injured people, there are about 80 people… But if it stays like this, more people would die from teta.n.u.s」

「Is that so… Please show me to the injured people. I will heal them」

「I understand. Please, this way」

The mana would be recovered so it’s fine to heal people.

The field hospital was filled with the smell of blood, sweat, and other various scents.

I felt sick for a moment but I managed to endure it. A man was bleeding with a cut on his body, more or less resistant to what he looked in front of him.

Everyone was focusing on me, some of them lost their limbs.

I move to the center of the field hospital and put all people in my casting range.

【All Heal】

This time I used a strong image, I tried to regenerate their limbs.

Almost everyone was gravely injured so I spare no expense on their recovery.

「O…oooh! My wounds!」「M-my arm… Oi! Your leg too!」

「I… It moves… I can walk!」

Everyone was surprised at their healing and raised cheers.

However, I used more MP than I predicted and fell on my knees. My consciousness isー

「Gu…」

「Masaki! Are you alright?」

「Adelle… MP potion…」

「Please wait a moment!」

Adelle pa.s.sed the MP potion and my mind starting to clear up.

That was dangerous. I never thought the mana cost would be so expensive.

This is certainly one of few things that must be used sparingly in this world. I must be more careful.

「Sorry… Thanks for saving me」

「Masaki can even use healing magic? bringing you here was worth it」

「It’s hard to use because the mana cost is too expensive. But this would be fine」

My legs were still weak and I need Adelle to support me to be able to stand.

Yoko looked worried about me.

Making 2 beautiful wives worry is a bad thing to do, but it certainly didn’t feel bad.

I don’t know why, but suddenly I found the situation strange.

「There are many injured people… There are less dead than I thought?」

「Yes. Perhaps… Perhaps the 『Sniper Princess』 did it intentionally…」

Intentionally?

There are several things that came into my mind, but probably she intended to exhaust our resources.

There’s limit on the number of recovery items.

If you keep doing it, the garrison will be overflowed with injured people and infectious diseases will spread.

That would be the end of the garrison. We would have no choice but to abandon it.

And the other thing… She probably doesn’t want to kill anyone.

It’s a mission, so she had to shoot. However, she doesn’t want to kill.

It’s probably because she was bound to an enslavement collar.

Even if she was bound by enslavement, she tried not to kill without going against the order.

Jirou said that the punishment of interfering with the order would end with severe pain, but not lethal.

If we can remove the collar… maybe…

「…ki」

But is it worth trying?

「Masaki, what’s wrong? You’re frozen there, are you thinking about something?」

Adelle was looking into my face. It seemed that I was too quiet.

「Yeah, A bit. I want to have a discussion. Prince, is there any place without people?」

「A discussion? Very well then. I think we can use the operations headquarters」

「Then let’s go there」

I’m busy so no game.

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