Chapter 5 (2/2)
“A young child e and also…” I pointed to the front “Even if she was hallucinating, she tried to kill me I don’t need to treat a would-be murderer so kindly, now do I?”
“H-however…”
“Hey, kid?”
The girl’s eyes shi+fted towards me
“Drink”
“…”
I walked closer to the girl and squatted down next to her “Let ht now isn’t in a normal condition You ate zoy and the poison frohout your body You’re also bleeding a lot too At this rate, you’re going to die and then become another zombie yourself”
She had been in a far-too-close proxi comes to a stop, she would become an undead for sure
I pointed at the holy water puddle “However, by drinking this, soht still be saved”
Honestly, this was a gamble that had to be taken
When divinity was forcibly inserted into a body that had absorbed dey, an adverse reaction would occur One mistake and the body itself would balloon up and explode
“But, at the very least, you won’t becoht be less than 10 Now, choose Either choose to suffer horrendous pain and becole so that you can somehow live”
I read descriptions of the potential reaction from the interaction of these two forces, divinity and dey, in an old book I found in the monastery I wasn’t sure whether it was due to the special perk ofa certain a books related to e found in the books and looked down at the girl
She was getting tearful as she tried to speak, “Mom… Mom is…”
“Not here”
“Dad… My… dad…”
“He’s not here too”
Teardrops fores of her eyes She showed no indication of drinking the holy water
Was she going to give up after everything she went through?
“You struggled until now to survive, didn’t you? Weren’t you fighting in order to live?”
“…”
“You want to live, right? It’s simple Drink this”
“…”
“Of course, your chances of survival are slim However, you won’t becoht? And also…” I quietly looked down at the girl and continued on, “At the very least… two people who’re no longer here would’ve wished for you to live on”
Those were the keywords that made her move
She finallyher head with some difficulty, she buried her face in the puddle of holy water She opened her lips and poked her treue out to lick it
The an convulsing
Wu-du-duk!!
Her bones broke, and the sounds of herskin Her horrifying screa that I ended up frowning deeply
At this rate, she’d go full-on insane even if sheon…?!”
I stopped the farirl would end up as one of the two–either a living and breathing survivor, or a corpse that got blown apart
Her skin continuously ripped apart as blood trickled down While she thrashed about in pain, the holy water on the ground healed her Her old flesh burned up as it was replaced by new flesh Her bones repeatedly shattered and realigned themselves
Wouldn’t the ‘metamorphosis’ described in the martial art novels be similar to this, I wonder?
Even as these sorts of useless thoughts circled around in es with round
Five minutes passed by Ten minutes, then thirty, and one hour later…
Her horrifying screaradually died down Her convulsion finally stopped and she coed in the puddle of holy water Although faint, she was still breathing
“Hiiiya! She survived it!”
You could say this was a bit of relief There was nothingsohed inwardly and addressed the two farmers, “Take her with you”
“Pardon us??”
The duo tilted their heads
“She’s your fellow villager, isn’t she?”
“Y-yes, that’s true However, a child struck by the plague is a bit…”
What the hell, seriously? Were they all putting up an act with their concerned expressions earlier? Or were they just being hypocrites?
My straightforward glare caused theazes lowered while they spoke their piece
“We’ll try our best to talk to the folks froe”
“Good Oh, and like I said, distribute the holy water too”
“You mean this?”
As the farmers looked at the puddle of holy water responsible for causing that bout of convulsion in the girl, their co her rather violent reaction just then
“That only happened because she sed up dee has people who eat zombies? Wowsers, talk about stohness That’s not it”
The farmers shook their heads side to side
“In that case, you don’t have to worry about it causing any side effects So, let’s prioritise in stopping the plague first,” said I before getting up while dusting round and perched it on ht! Install lots of rat traps too It looks to ue is the zoht not be an issue, but when there are hundreds of those things… just iht? Just i in at you No one would be able to deal with that sht
“You gotta decrease their numbers, even if it’s only by a little Also, send the word out to Ronia as that’s the nearest domain run by a lord The feudal lord there will send out a Priest to investigate the origin of the plague, at the very least I ue is spreading in an area around the Holy Ehness”
“Good!”
And with that, this saga should be over
The need to shovel away, lug around dead bodies, or to perform burial rites – the need to perforone soon Now that I created holy water, this year’s plague should be stopped pretty easily too My peaceful daily life should get going once ht
Until the following day when hundreds of villagers arrived in front of the monastery, that was
Did they want to express their gratitude regarding the distribution of holy water? Nope
WuxiaWorldS i t e Only
The villagers, all of the expressions of despair, cried out
“I-Imperial Prince-nie…!!”
…It seees had becoht
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