Episode 14.5 (1/2)
Norma's Medical Center began operation.
Norma would examine her patients without wrapping her wand in mana while teaching Lecan and Eda what's wrong with those patients and how to treat them along the way. She would also tell them the kind of medicinal plants and the dosage needed for each case.
Lecan and Eda would put the designated medicinal plants on small dishes and showed them to Norma every time.
”All good.”
After confirming them, Norma would process those plants, sometimes she would bundle them in raw Shinanja leaf, sometimes she would knead them with water, and sometimes she would boil them together.
Most were wrappings of certain amounts of dried herbs in Shinanja leaf.
Jinga manages the traffic of people coming and going out of the medical center. Meaning, he's in charge of picking people who will enter the treatment room, guiding those who go out, and informing them the treatment cost.
After finishing her examination, Norma would instruct Lecan and Eda to mix herbs, ask the patient to go to waiting room and begin examining the next patient.
She was impressively skilled at handling her patients, she finished treating all of them before dusk, even with the short lunch break period. Most patients were sick persons, those with injuries were few. None of the injured had fresh wounds either, all of them were either those suffering from rotting wounds, or those who couldn't move well due to old injuries.
Some of them also asked for <Recovery> but they gave up the moment they heard the cost.
Only one patient requested to have <Recovery> cast. A woodworker man. The second joint on his right arm is bent in a weird direction after getting injured in an accident. His wages have been reduced since he's unable to lift things and do precise work after the accident.
Norma explained in details the symptoms and cause. She must be aiming to finish the treatment in one cast of <Recovery>. Lecan cast <Recovery> slowly but surely and succeeded in correcting the man's joint, enabling him to move his fingers again.
The man kept thanking them over and over again on his way back, several patients in the waiting room peered in their wallets when they saw the dramatic results of the treatment.
After promising to come again tomorrow morning, Lecan and Eda left the medical center and headed for Shira's house.
”You did something at a noble house yesterday, didn't you.”
That was Shira's first word.
There's around 3000 steps between this house and Goncourt mansion. It must be <Flame Spears> she sensed, this old woman detected the invocation of that spell from such a faraway spot and even concluded that it was Lecan's doing.
Lecan explained to her the circumstances.
Eda who was sitting next to him was awfully surprised when he got to his duel against Jinga part.
”B-but, Jinga-san. Looked the same as always today, right? He even served Lecan tea like usual.”
”Yea.”
Lecan replied curtly since he couldn't be bothered to explain. Shira would do the honor instead.
”Eda-chan. That was a greeting from Jinga.”
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”Eh?”
”'I will treat you like I always did, I bear no grudge on you, so please treat me like you always do as well'. That's what Jinga wanted to tell Lecan. That he won't go back to the marquis house, he's going to stay by Norma's side from now on.”
”Ah, so that was it. I see~. So his usual behavior was a message.”
”And you, Lecan.”
”Hum?”