588 586 Identity of wind and earth disease (1/2)

Let's go talk to Robren. Well, I'll go back to Weena Lane first and report on the Lane stalls. I would have settled down already.

But before I could spare you, I remembered something I wanted to ask Grandma Jill.

”Hey, Scarlet Water Medicine, does it affect anything around you?

”What do you want?

”Yesterday -”

Explain that there was some discomfort with hydromagic when helping a ship attacked by Modoki, and explain whether the cause was scarlet water medicine or Modoki's body fluids.

Then Grandma Jill nodded to her satisfaction.

”Right...... Miss, if you're in your class, you might feel it. Maybe it's Scarlet Water.”

”Really?

”You did use space-time magic, didn't you?

”Mmm.”

”Then I also nod sensitive”

And Grandma Jill gave me an explanation.

”The water in this lake is slightly mixed with magic”

”Magic?”

”Oh, it's magic close to the space-time system.”

”Hmm. Why?

”Well, we don't know that either. All I'm saying is, it's been like that for hundreds of years.”

People around here seem to live to think that's what it is, and they don't really question it.

”Of course, it's just so little that you can't feel it at all, normally. You didn't get it, either.”

”Mmm.”

Sure, we wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for Scarlet Water. It seems to be a very small amount of magic.

It just didn't have any effect on the surroundings. That's the wind and earth disease that roots in this country.

It is not caused by germs or the like, but by the fact that they continue to consume the water from Lake Vivian, which is a source of water, from birth.

In fact, they say wind and earth diseases do not exist in areas that use water sources other than a few lakes in the country.

The mechanism is simple. Continuing to drink the water from the lake builds up space-time magic in your body.

As a result, only a little bit of that magic leads to a state of haste. The point is that the water in the lake acts as a very weak haste potion.

However, nobody notices because the effect is really negligible. I don't realize it, but my senses and body reactions continue to deviate, causing me to accumulate fatigue and become even more intoxicated. That was who the wind and earth disease was.

Adults rarely develop because once they do, their bodies get used to it and they have no problems. In the first place, many adapt without developing.