Episode 26.7 (1/2)
”I believe it must be hard for you to move around. You should also find it difficult to bend your body. Have you ever feel a sense of languidness or in pain? Does your face feel stiff?”
”Fumu. It is as Norma-dono said, all of that is correct.”
”No. That can't be true! Guide Skalabel can't have been cursed with Petrifaction curse!”
”Kotojia. Apothecaries are obliged to listen carefully to what is told. Norma-dono never said anything about Petrifaction Curse.”
”My father also gathered documents pertaining Petrifaction Curse during his research on this matter. And he came to a conjecture that the Crystallization caused by Petrifaction curse, the way it manifests on and changes a patient's body is entirely different. However, he had no evidence to make a conclusive verdict on either.”
”Norma. Your father was truly an excellent researcher. He even guessed right what lies beyond what was visible presently.”
”Shira-san. Thank you.”
”A researcher that good must have left behind a hypothesis to deal with it, has he?”
”He has.”
”What.”
”Eh.”
”Norma-dono. Would you tell me. It matters not even if the hypothesis is inconclusive.”
”It's simple. You simply rinse it off with another
.”
”That's impossible! No one else in this world is better at
than Guide Skalabel!”
”No. The
itself doesn't have to be of a high level.”
”Hou.”
”However it has to be from someone with an abundant mana pool.”
”What?”
”
done with little mana won't have any effect. Since the Guide's body has memorized all the
it received. In order to erase that, a
cast with a plentiful of mana is required to rinse off the body's memory.”
The two people sitting next to Skalabel dropped their shoulders.
”My oh my. What's the matter, dropping your shoulders like that.”
”Shira-sama. Guide Skalabel's
was originally not at a high level when the guide first became known as the <Healing Hand of the King>.”
”Hee.”
”However, due to the Guide's natural abundance of mana, the Guide could afford to cast
on the king, the queen, and the prince anytime and even had spare mana left to heal the sickly on the streets. That led to the guide gaining the king's trust.”
”For some reason, most people who manifest
possess a low amount of mana pool. Guide Skalabel was an exception among exceptions.”
”Norma-dono. Exactly how much is plentiful here. Just how much mana does the caster must possess over the former caster?”
”Cawin-dono. Father had calculated that it would require around twice of the former caster's mana or more.”
”Twice...”
”Twice as much as the Guide's. Someone like that can't possibly exist.”
”My goodness. Twice, twice you said?”
”Don't you have another
user among your entourage?”
”Master. There is none. As it is rare for
to manifest in apothecaries.”
”Hmm. I see. Lecan.”
”Yea.”
”Are you sure?”
”I'm on board if you believe it's for the best.”
”Really. Eda.”