Novel Bin Chapter 18-25. Shooting star (2)
18-25. Shooting star (2)
* Needless to say, this work is fiction.
It has nothing to do with any real person, group or infectious disease.
The temporary hospital in the Kingdom of Norrowk looked like a battlefield.
"--Sensei! Mr. Gleb of Ishiya vomited blood."
"Damn, no medicine for miasma addiction"
Two remote villages have already been destroyed by a strange illness, and the city of Noromos has died of unprecedented illness.
"Influenza, forest fever, miasma poisoning, goblin disease, monkey fissure disease … a strange disease that is similar to any disease but different from any disease. What kind of medicine should be used to cure it!"
The doctor countered the feeling of helplessness and impatience that shook his heart by hitting the desk in the waiting room.
The initial symptom is like forest fever, which is common in the Kingdom of Norrowk. So at first, it was thought to be forest fever or a disease derived from forest fever because it resembled that.
"Yes, Mr. Cooper! Is Mr. Cooper okay? That patient should be at the limit."
"He is in a lull. His symptoms haven\'t improved, but they haven\'t worsened."
(… What do you mean? Even though the rare miasma drug didn\'t work, did the nurse mistakenly administer the anthelmintic drug to him?)
The report that the assistant gave deepened the wrinkles between the doctor\'s eyebrows.
(… No, there can\'t be such a stupid mistake. It\'s better to think that the improved version of the forest fever drug that was given before the parasite-removing drug worked.)
"Use the improved version of the forest fever drug should be given to young people who are likely to be physically fit."
"The medicine is only enough for five people …"
"I leave the selection to you"
"All right …"
The weak knee assistant stood up with a deep blue face.
(Do you want to take responsibility for weighing their life …)
"Change the instructions. Use the improved drug in order from those closest to adult age."
"OK, I\'ll start treatment right away."
"And increase the production of improved medicines!"
"Okay!"
The assistant jumps out of the waiting room.
"Is it okay, director?"
It was the priest of the Heralon Temple who came to cheer from the adjacent Saga empire to replace his assistant.
"Priest! So how was the sacred magic?"
"Calm down, director"
He controls the doctor who is just jumping with one hand.
"Let\'s start with the conclusion. Patients who used advanced healing magic were completely cured."
"Really!"
The good news after a long time is that a bright color appears on the face of the doctor who was exhasted due to hard work.
"But I can only do advanced healing magic three times a day."
"--Chu, and at the intermediate level?"
"Temporarily their symptoms got better, but that\'s it."
"That …"
Of course, there are many priests and priests in this city of Noromos.
However, no priest was virtuous enough to use advanced sacred magic.
To be exact, there was only one person, but when the strange disease was thought to be forest fever, he became ill and died without a chance.
"Three people a day its like a water on the burning stone, but it\'s better than doing nothing."
"Thank you, priest"
"No need for gratitude. Ask for a remedy as soon as possible."
"I understand."
"Collect as much magic recovery medicine as you can, and with it you can increase the survival to several people a day."
"But then, the priest\'s health--"
"I don\'t mind. Anyway, I\'m old and short. It\'s God\'s will to use it for young people in the future."
The doctor bowed deeply to the back of the priest leaving the waiting room.
It was common knowledge among doctors that overdose of magical drugs was not a little harmful to health.
It also shortens the life of an old priest.
A noisy assistant rushed into the quiet waiting room.
"Teacher! This is a report from the medical office of the royal capital!"
"—Give it to me!"
The doctor quickly reads the report.
"There are no new information"
"It\'s not a big deal for a great man who came from the kingdom of Shiga."
"Don\'t say that. According to a friend in the royal capital, the ministers and aristocrats will be locked in and will not go to the scene."
"Maybe there is a strange disease in the royal capital?"
The doctor nods to the question of the assistant.
Many people from this town of Noromos headed to the royal capital to escape the epidemic of strange diseases.
"The same is true for high-ranking priests, who can use the greater sacred magic in the royal capital. It would be helpful if at least the panacea provided by the Kingdom of Shiga could be sent here …"
The doctor slumps his shoulders and grumbles.
The heavy air was interrupted by the sound of something crushing.
"--Please stop! This is a treatment center!"
"What?"
"Now is the voice of Nurse Chulu!"
An unusual noise is heard from the hall of the temporary hospital.
"I\'ll go see anyway"
"Please wait"
The assistant stops the doctor who tried to jump out.
"Maybe a forest thermal fundamentalist."
"What is that?"
The doctor looks at the assistant with a mysterious face.
"There is no strange disease. Patients are affected by a group that says it\'s just forest fever."
"If you have a forest fever, there can be no patient who will die of hematosis!"
"I know. They believe that. Patients die because they\'re using old, expired remedies. We, the people in the clinic, are doing it to profit. That\'s what incites the people in the city. "
"It\'s an annoying group"
"Dangerous guys. Please stay here. I went to the guard station--"
In the middle of the assistant\'s words, the door of the waiting room was kicked and a thug in bloody clothes jumped in.
Before the bizarre illness, the same humans seem to stand in the way.
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"--Hippocrates?"
Upon arriving in the Kingdom of Norrow, we disguised ourselves and headed for the royal castle to contact the people involved.
Of course, I wore a specially made void clothes.
I don\'t think it\'s as eccentric as a plague mask, but a helmet that looks like an upside down fishbowl greeted those who looked.
You can cheat by wearing a robe or cloak on top, but you couldn\'t wear a helmet.
"Umu, I received a request from His Royal Highness Metia. This is a letter of request."
We were more likely to arrive earlier than the letter from Princess Metia, so we got it before we left.
"Pesticide expert? That dubious-is the strange clothes for that?"
"Well, it looks weird, but forgive me. In my school, I\'m supposed to wear this outfit for investigation."
The minister-like person replied, "Yes," as if he was under pressure, and ordered one of his chamberlains to guide me to the building where the plague patients were.
It was written on the minister\'s face that I was "untrustworthy" and "this is a scam artist", so I thought I would be treated roughly, but he seemed to give top priority to dealing with it because there was the most important thing in the country.
"Are you going out of the royal capital?"
"Well, I\'m going to the city of Noromos. Patients are gathered in the suburbs there."
"You\'re be isolated"
"I can\'t put any more plague into the royal capital."
As far as I searched the map, there are many people in the royal capital who are displayed as "strange disease" in the status column.
It\'s best to quarantine, but if I try to quarantine for no reason, I\'ll just be refused.
I wish I had made some kind of detector-like magic tool.
When I was thinking about that, I heard a strange voice from outside the carriage.
"The strange illness is a lie!"
"Don\'t be fooled by the conspiracy of a treatment center that pretends to be a strange disease!"
Looking out the window, people of various classes gather to do something like a demonstration.
It seems that some are older and some are younger adults.
"Please don\'t worry"
"--That is?"
"The strange illness conspiracy theories. Forest fever is common in this region. However, the initial symptoms are similar to strange diseases. "
They are so afraid of strange diseases that they say that it is not a strange disease but a mere forest fever, and claim that the death toll is due to the use of expired medicine by the treatment clinic that has put to it by aristocrats.
"Is it true?"
"It\'s a lie. Generally, those who took the medicine and those who didn\'t take it are dead alike. Their claim is full of holes."
"Hmm, there really are people who act like movies of panic and pandemic things."
Arisa makes a strange impression.
"--This is bad"
It seems that people other than the previous group are acting violently at the temporary hospital that we are going to visit.
"What\'s wrong?"
"It\'s a mob. Straight ahead--"
I left it at that and jumped out of the carriage.
The vanguard team follows me with Liza at the lead.
After leaving the carriage behind, we arrive at a place like a refugee camp and jump into what appears to be a temporary hospital on the outskirts of it.
It was surrounded by mob-like people.
"What? Glass head?"
A man with a weapon points his sword at me.
I\'m used “Magic hand” to throw the man away and knock down the idiot who was trying to set the hospital building on fire.
"Liza! I leave the mob outside to you!"
"Aknowledged! Tama, Pochi, follow me. Nana secures the entrance."
"Ai Ai sir ~"
"Rodja, nanodesu! Pochi is a professional villain extermination, nanodesu!"
"Liza-dono. No one will pass here, so I declare."
The beast girls attack the mob with overwhelming force, and Nana stops the mob trying to chase me with the defense of the iron wall.
I knocked down the mobs in the hospital and jumped into a room that looks like the drug vault and medical office.
Beyond the mob are doctors, priests, and some staff guarded by sacred magical barriers.
The doctor and priest are bloody, but they still seem to be alive.
"Help-a monster ?!"
I was called a monster by a rescuer, but I may have no choice but to wear this outfit.
The mobs also stop trying to break the barrier and watch out for me.
"What are you!"
"People who are not suitable for the hospital will be expelled."
I didn\'t want to ask the questions of the mob, so I order them to leave while coming from a window.
Of course, everyone attacked me, but they didn\'t have any particular skills, so it ended soon.
"I\'m Hippocrates. I\'m a doctor who is visiting at the request of King Norrowk."
I tell the dismayed doctor and priest.
"I was saved!"
"I thought I was going to die."
The staff are happy to hug each other.
"Thank you for your help"
"Help sensei! We need to treat his injuries"
"It looks like the wound is deep. Use this magic drug."
I give him some health recovery medicine and ask him how he was attacked by the mob.
Apparently, the radical faction of the demonstrators just attacked.
"Mast…-Hippocrates"
Liza came out from the window to report that the mob was routed.
"The mobs outside have been subdued. All have been captured and tied."
"Well done. Post a lookout until the carriage arrives."
After all, Liza and others are reliable.
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The mob was isolated into the large hole made by the magic "Pit" by the time the carriage carrying the chamberlains and Arisa finally arrived.
We asked the people who came to see the situation from the refugee camp outside the temporary hospital to call the guards to the city of Noromos.
According to doctors, refugee camps are filled by people who have fled the plague from remote villages and towns.
"Wow, it\'s look like the accident of Nightingale, but it\'s not." (TR: the fairy tale, may be.)
As soon as he got off the carriage, Arisa sighed loudly.
Is it an story of Nightingale, or an story of a battlefield hospital before she arrived?
Oops, that\'s not the point to worry about.
If you look at it calmly, the windows of the hospital room are closed, and the all dirt floor, bedding, and bodies are piled up outdoors and burned.
As expected, it is not hygienic here, and it is not very good for mental health.
I would like you to think about the feelings of the patient, who can be seen burning the body through the gap in the hospital room.
"It\'s not good as it is. ■ ……"
While imitating the chanting in a whisper, I used the earth magic " Earth wall Wall. I made a screen between the crematorium and the building.
Continue by providing ventilation.
"Mia summons Sylph and asks for ventilation inside the building."
"Hmm, leave it to me. ■ ……"
Next is cleanliness.
"Ask Liza and Nana to change clothes and bedding."
I remove a large amount of bedding and cloth from storage via the item box.
"I understand."
"Accept the order, so I declare."
"Help ~?"
"Rodger, nanodesu!"
I leave the patient to the beastkin girls and Nana.
The last is nutrition.
"Lulu, work with the people here to prepare ease to digest food."
"Yes, I understand"
"Do you also make an oral rehydration solution?"
"Do need to you ask?"
"Let me do it!"
I then handed Arisa a handmade mask and antiseptic solution to tell the local medical staff-or rather, the patient\'s family and the subordinates dispatched from the temple to teach the basics of epidemic prevention.
"Doctor, where are the seriously ill?"
"That is all. Only those who are on the verge of spitting blood come here."
"I\'ll see the patient, is that okay?"
"Maybe .-- this. I didn\'t write much, but it\'s a record of treatment here."
"It will help"
While reading the medical examination book I received from the doctor, I head to the boy with the least physical strength.
"Jaji! Open your eyes! You\'ll give your baby goat a name!"
A woman who seems to be a mother desperately calls the boy\'s name.
The boy seems to be already in a coma.
"I come to do treatment"
Since it was a situation of competing for time, " Magic hand" is used to pull the woman away from the boy and pours a lower elixir into the boy\'s mouth.
I assisted with "Magic Hand" so that it would not accidentally enter the airway.
A shining blue magic circle emerges from the boy\'s chest and heals his body rapidly.
While watching, the pale boy\'s complexion regained a healthy redness.
The boy slowly opens his eyes.
"--It\'s a miracle."
The doctor muttered stunned.
"Jaji, do you understand me?"
"… Mom?"
"Jaji! Merciful god! Thank you, sensei!"
"He haven\'t recovered yet. Let him lie down a little longer."
Elixir, an all-purpose elixir, seems to work for unidentified strange diseases, albeit at a lower level.
"Mr. Hippocrates! What kind of medicine is this? If you have this--"
"It\'s a low-ranking elixir"
"Elixir? The legend that the elf makes? Then the number …"
I shake my head to the doctor\'s question.
There aren\'t many lower elixirs left.
Someone pushed the doctor away and was cursed by the patient\'s family who were caring for the boy.
"Teacher, please give me my child too."
"My husband too!"
"My wife too!"
"I will decide the order. Don\'t get in the way and take care of your family."
Next, let\'s use a panacea.
"He is healed!"
"Thank you sensei!"
A person with appraisal skills shouts, and the patient\'s family also reveals joy.
The panacea healed both severely ill and those who had just been brought in without any problems.
"Mr. Hippocrates, the bottle was different, what is it now?"
"It\'s a panacea"
"Such a rare thing!"
"Although this does not mean that there is difference in number--"
The doctor\'s facial expression becomes dark in the middle of the words.
"Don\'t get me wrong. There is enough to reach the patients in this hospital."
The doctor smiled and the priest sat down with a relieved face in a nearby chair.
He must have worked devotedly in the absence of effective medicine. The priest is overdosed with magical medicine. It seems that he was overextending himself even though he was old. Thank you for your hard work. I want you to take a rest.
――However, at this rate, the panacea will soon run out.
The number of patients in this country is much higher.
"If you came one day earlier, my child would have been saved …"
"I am sorry"
While comforting the bereaved family who can\'t help but have a grudge, a dying patient who was competing kept barely alive thanks to the doctor\'s efforts was given the last of the panacea.
"This should give me time. Next is…"
Investigate the cause of the strange disease.