Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou desu - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Love – Lv 1.5

Inside the castle, I glanced sideways at the surprised maids and ran to the separate building where the knights were stationed.

How long has it been since I’ve run this hard?

I feel like I’m running faster than when I was in my previous world.

I might be able to enter the Olympics now.

While thinking that, I desperately ran.

I also thought that I wasn’t in a situation where I could think about other things, but if I don’t think, I think I would be really frustrated.

I remembered what the mercenaries said before.

They’d said that the knights had received more damage, but how were their injuries?

I had participated in subjugation missions while at the Royal Capital and I have seen them injured before.

If the damage they’d received was the same as that time, then it was still alright.

The people from the Court Mage Division that accompanied us also healed perfectly.

However, if they received more damage than the mercenaries, then that meant that more people were injured than usual.

Usually, fewer knights were injured compared to the mercenaries from earlier.

Is he alright?

I suddenly thought and drew my lips together.

It didn’t matter what state he was in, as long as he’s alive.

Then I’ll do my best to heal him.

I renewed my determination and headed towards where the knights were stationed.

“Sei!!!”

I saw the knights coming back in groups at the same time I saw the building.

There really are a lot of injured people.

The number of people borrowing other people’s shoulders to walk were more than the mercenaries.

I instinctively frowned.

The entrance of their station was crowded with injured people.

When I approached them, someone among them noticed me and called out to me.

All the other knights also turned towards me when they heard that.

Everyone’s tired expressions changed to a relieved one.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, as you can see, no one died.”

I was also relieved at those words.

“We’re getting treatment inside but”

“I’ll help!”

“Sorry, that’ll be great.”

When I interrupted his words, he looked apologetic as he thanked me.

No, no.

Even though I came here because I was interested in the sacred ground for pharmacists, we still came here together for subjugation.

It was only natural that I also participate in curing them.

He didn’t ask for help, even though he was so apologetic.

So I smiled at the knight.

The entrance to the building was crowded, but when people noticed that I was coming through they opened up a road for me.

When I entered the hall, it was just as equally crowded inside as out.

The Court Mages were seated at the back of the hall and injured people were lined up before them.

It seemed that they were treating minor injuries.

Severely injured people were sitting or lying down along both sides of the walls.

Another mage was walking between those people and casting recovery magic on them in turns.

Now then, where’s Captain-san?

No matter what I do, I should first confirm the situation with him and ask him what I should do.

I thought and looked around but I didn’t see his familiar blonde hair.

Has he not returned yet?

Or

I couldn’t see him and the heavy feeling in my heart grew.

No, the knights said it before, didn’t they?

No one died.

I shook my head to get rid of the nasty thoughts.

I looked around restlessly for Captain-san and one of the knights, who I accidently met eyes with, beckoned at me.

When I looked towards there, I saw a crowd of people.

Captain-san might be there.

I walked quickly towards that spot and saw Captain-san sitting on a chair through a gap between the crowds of people.

What’s wrong with him?

He seemed to be completely exhausted but I couldn’t see his expression because he was facing the floor.

“Hawk-sa”

I tried to call out to him and froze.

Because someone that looked like a servant was wrapping a white cloth around Captain-san’s head.

I saw a little dull, red colour spread onto the white cloth.

Did he injure his head?

His head?!

My face quickly paled.

His head injury is bad.

I have to heal it quickly!

When I thought that, I felt a familiar feeling swell up around my chest.

“This is it!”

“Sei!”

Eh? What is it?

Although I couldn’t understand the reason and was panicking, the magic swelling up inside me didn’t stop.

Light gold and white magic started drifting in the air and gradually covered the whole hall.

The knights noticed the magic in the air and started getting noisy.

Ah, what should I do?

No, anyway

I broke off my thoughts that were becoming chaotic and remembered my original purpose.

Yes, the treatment.

I have to heal him.

The moment I thought that, the skill activated and the magic that filled the hall reacted.

The light was stronger than usual and my vision was dyed in white.

The people in the hall were healed just as I’d expected they would from the light.

Loud cheers could be heard when my vision returned to normal.

“Sei?”

“Ah Hawk-sama, are you alright?”

“Yeah, my injury wasn’t that bad.”

“Wasn’t that bad Even though you injured your head?”

“It’s fine. It only seemed like a big deal because of the blood.”

I was surprised at the skill activating, but Captain-san brought me back to my senses when he called out to me.

Of course, the skill also healed Captain-san’s injuries.

Blood wasn’t flowing out of his head even though the servant had released his hands.

I sighed in relief at that.

“Anyway, that skill just now was it”

“Yes”

Everyone knew what it was even if it wasn’t said aloud.

He probably just wanted to ask if that was the Sainttechnique or not.

I nodded in the middle of Captain-san’s sentence.

Even so, why did the Sainttechnique activate now?

Like with recovery magic, it wasn’t like the magic spread out of my body because of my intention, now is it?

I’m sure that something triggered it but

I thought about different things and then recalled what was written inPharmacist-sama’sdiary.

I’m sure when Pharmacist-samaactivated the Sainttechnique, she was frustrated that her brother’s illness had taken a turn for the worse.

Is that frustration the trigger?

It could be said that for this case that was the one thing in common.

I might have lost my head when I saw Captain-san’s injuries.

It wasn’t just this time, but I was like this when we were at the West Forest too.

But, the situation at the research institute had been a little different.

I was certainly frustrated at that time because I couldn’t find a way to increase the effects of the potions.

However, if the skill could be activated with just that much frustration, then I should have been able to use it at the Court Mage Division’s training grounds.

The pressure coming from Head Magician-sama, who was standing next to me at those times, wasn’t a joke.

I thought that I was pretty frustrated at those times.

But it still didn’t activate.

If it isn’t frustration, then what the earth could

” I. Sei?”

My consciousness raised to the surface at the voice calling out to me.

I seemed to have pondered too hard.

I met Captain-san’s eyes; he had called out to me many times but I didn’t respond.

“Sorry, I was just thinking a little.”

“I see. About the Sainttechnique?”

“Yes. About why I was able to activate it”

“Hmm”

Captain-san put his hands to his chin when he heard my words and pondered.

The knights around us who also heard us talk also pondered.

I was very thankful that they cooperated with me in this way.

Listening to other people might bring new ideas onto the table.

Everyone was piling in their ideas and it felt like we were comrades.

Comrades Comrades, are we?

Come to think of it, when I first activated the Sainttechnique at the research institute I was thinking of the researchers and knights from the 3rd Knight Order.

Could it be that thinking about my comrades is the trigger?

Mm, isn’t it a bit weak as a trigger?

But I feel like I’ll know what the trigger is some time in the near future.

When I was at the research institute, I surely

When I tried to recall as much as I could about the first time I activated the technique, I noticed something different.

Something in my chest finally started moving.

I was surprised for a second and stopped thinking about it; then that feeling also started calming down.

I unintentionally frowned.

“Sei, what’s wrong?”

“Ah No, it’s nothing.”

Captain-san called out to me when he saw my expression but I couldn’t answer him frankly.

Ugh

Even if you look at me with such eyes, I can’t talk about it.

Because, because

Captain-san, I was able to activate the technique because I was thinking about you; how could I say something like that!?!?

It’s so embarrassing, I can’t do it! I really can’t say it out loud!

Translator: Blushy
Editor: Sam