Chapter 40 - Helping Qis part 2 (1/2)
”What are you saying, that's impossi...” [Old follower leader]
”Yeah, yeah. It's impossible, you are a commoner/traveler, what would you know about treating an illness. Got anymore of that? If so, please tell me within the span of 5 seconds since I don't have enough time listening to your babbling. Thank you” [Ash]
”You, you should pay some resp...” [Follower A]
”Yeah, yeah. You should pay some respects, don't you know he is something something, do so or else you will get punished by god. Anything I miss?” [Ash]
”Why you!” [Follower B]
”Guess it's a no then, bye” [Ash]
”Wait, we are following you, there's no way we can let you treat someone important without our supervision!” [Old follower leader]
”Oh my, I thought you don't want to treat her just now? What happen? Or could it be that you're lusting to see her body? For a holy person, you sure are a pervert” [Ash]
”HEY!” [Old follower E]
”Looks, I would ”love” to talk to you about how great you are, and how it's impossible for me to treat her according to your who knew from where standard, but ALAS I'm too lazy right now, so either you give up or get lost!” [Ash]
”Wait, you two there, how about you come with us, Qis is a lady after all, that way, there are people from the old follower that can see the process” [Diana]
”Is that alright?” [Ash]
”Of course, they do insist on seeing it. If they don't, they can simply say that Qis heal by herself, or worse, proclaim it's their doing” [Diana]
”Well, they can still say it's theirs doing even after I cure her” [Ash]
”There's 80% chance that will happen, unless the high priest here remember that lying is a sin” [Diana]
”Tch!” [Old follower leader]
(She sure is savage) [Ash]
”Yefefiah, gather the other and ask them to come to the treatment room as soon as possible!” [Diana]
”Understood, Princess Diana!” [Yefefiah]
There she goes, running to call her other companions. According to Diana, Yefefiah is from the angel race, they can usually hide their wing inside their body, but most chose not to. Their wings colour usually follows their hair and eyes colour, and in Yefefiah case, it's white, similar to her hair.
Well then, guess the two of us will be stuck with followers B and D for a while. Both of them, they're glaring hard at me, almost felt like a laser beam can suddenly be shoot from their eyes. Well, just ignored them
”Hey you, why do you associate yourself with those non-human?” [Follower B]
”...” [Ash]
”Answer me!” [Follower B]
Guess I can't ignore her, sigh...
”Why shouldn't I?” [Ash]
”Huh, that doesn't even answer my question!” [Follower B]
”And you, why would you kill them?” [Ash]
”That's because...” [Follower B]
”Yeah, yeah, judging by your tone, I can already guess the answer, do me a favour and just keep quiet” [Ash]
”Haha, you really are funny Ash” [Diana]
”...” [Follower D]
(That girl seems to be thinking of something, wonder what is it?) [Ash, Diana]
And after a brief walk, we can see a group of young healer waiting for us In front of the treatment room. They're all excited to learn how to treat this disease. Good, when the students are enthusiastic to learn, so does the teacher that will teach them. Guess I can't betray everyone expectation
Yefefiah open up the room for us, and thank god, it doesn't reek like Borg and Lin's house (sorry both of you, but it's really reeks yesterday). Guess the castle hygiene standards really are good.
There's only Qis inside the room, lying on the bed. I asked Diana whether there are other beside Qis who have similar illness, but most of them are in mild stage according to her and the Queen forces them to works. Well, it wouldn't be long before the disease progresses, so better cure Qis and then the others
”Princess... and... you, what are you doing here?” [Qis]
(She's in much worse conditions than I thought) [Ash]
”Qis, It's fine, I call him here so that he can treat you” [Diana]
”Really?” [Qis]
”What's with that doubtful voice” [Ash]
”Ash!” [Diana]
”Joking” [Ash]
Well, should start the treatment now, according to mom, I should see her hydration status first. Well, in her case, it doesn't take a genius to figure it out, so I should give her the homemade ORS. Still, mom did say something about building a rapport first, so...
”Qis, you're severely dehydrated, so please drink this first, it's better as compared to plain water” [Ash]
”Alright?” [Qis]
”?” [Diana]
I'm trying my best here to imitate mom, so can you please not make that face Diana! Still, she sure is struggling to drink the water, guess it just show how weak she is right now. Well, since she's taking her time, I should teach them about the ORS properties, plus, all the young healers are whispering to each other, asking about those ORS but none knows what it is, so
”Well, inside our digestive tract, water are absorb along with salt, so that's why I put some table salt as to increase water absorption. Plus, during diarrhea, both water and salts are lost, so we have to replenish those two together, as for the sugar, it follows the same principle, getting absorb along with the salts” [Ash]