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There was even a priest whose jaw dislocated because he opened his mouth too wide in such surprise.
“Ee aaah.” (Mouth won’t close.)
“Heal! Great Heal!”
Amidst the entire ward sparkling as divine power was being used here and there, Fear quietly began preparing for discharge.
As she left the ward that had become noisy for a different reason than before, Asil thought.
‘The saint human is super kind. Later, Asil should make her a maid!’
Following such Asil’s back, Selena thought.
For the divine beast to follow so well like that, indeed the heroine of this world is amazing. Let’s just surrender.
* * *
While Asil briefly left her seat to call Selena.
Briden was shedding tears while tightly holding Liribet’s hand.
“Please open your eyes a bit……. Okay?”
On the day when heavy rain poured so much that he couldn’t see ahead, after burying his dead mother in the ground and returning, he had sworn.
No matter what hardships come, he would protect Lilibet himself.
But because he had bad intentions to dig up Duke Monlepe’s weakness, Lilibet ended up like this.
For Briden, who placed his will to live on Lilibet, it was indescribably despairing.
“From now on, I’ll listen to everything you say. I won’t have bad thoughts, and I won’t say anything to Lady Erzebet either. So please come to your senses a bit……”
Although Asil left saying she would bring the saint, Briden wasn’t holding great expectations.
That was understandable since it was none other than the saint.
Even if she was the daughter of the heresy inquisitor, the saint was a figure in an untouchable position.
The healing priest, who knew that well, sneered.
“It looks hopeless, so just give up. If it doesn’t work with my divine power, it won’t work no matter who comes.”
“…….”
“Eing, tsk. To use divine power on twins, what bad luck.”
He openly revealed his displeasure without caring that the other party was from a duke’s family.
Briden could only shed tears and couldn’t say anything.
Just then, someone intervened.
“Hey, from what I hear, you’re really too harsh on the kid.”
It was none other than Count Payrent.
He had come to find medicine for his wife and had just entered after hearing the sound leaking from the slightly open ward.
“That twins are ominous is an old-fashioned superstition from when, and you still believe it.”
“Wh-who are you?”
At the appearance that clearly looked like a high noble, the priest became submissive.
However, the count ignored him and spoke to Briden.
“Kid, what’s your name.”
He asked just in case because of the mention of twins.
While Briden kept his mouth shut, wary of the stranger, the healing priest answered
instead.
“It’s Prince Skya.”
“No, treating a duke’s son like this?”
Living in the borderlands, he didn’t know the capital’s circumstances well, and made a face as if it was absurd.
Does Duke Skya even know that his own children are receiving such treatment?
Anyway, if it’s the Skya ducal family, they aren’t the children he’s looking for.
Swallowing his disappointment, he patted Briden’s shoulder with his wrinkled hand.
“She’ll definitely wake up. Cheer up.”
Briden only drooped his head weakly and said nothing.
After Count Payrent left like that, it was around the time the healing priest was about to mutter grumpily.
“Wake up what, she should die quickly so I don’t have to do this……. Sa, Saint?!”
Suddenly, as he made a sound like he was about to pass out, Briden lifted his head.
And he saw the saint and priests coming in one after another following Asil’s back.
“May God’s blessing be with you.”
Selena, who lightly bowed, tilted her head upon seeing Liribet.
‘Skya Princess? She’s alive?’
In the original work, she was a character who died right around this time. Thanks to that, Skya’s divine beast had passed to Briden.
Briden was a character who darkened due to Liribet’s death.
‘And he caused all sorts of trouble without being reformed until the end of the original work…….’
She’s alive.
‘Well, as long as there’s Duke Skya trying to transfer the divine beast to his own child, it’s still not a stage to relax yet.’
Anyway, Selena infused divine power into Lilibet.
Lilibet, who didn’t budge at the healing priest’s divine power, reacted immediately.
“Ah…….”
The crimson eyes hidden by the eyelids opened.
Lilibet blinked a few times as if her vision was blurry, then first spotted Briden and let out a scream-like exclamation.
“Brother?”
“Lilibet!”
Astounded, Briden hugged Lilibet tightly.
Lilibet, who was dazed and stiff in his arms, suddenly pushed him away hard.
“I can’t live! Did you end up dying following me? Why did you do that, why did you do that!”
“You didn’t die.”
“What?”
“You didn’t die. Lady Erzebet saved you.”
“Lady Erzebet?”
Lilibet’s eyes widened greatly. Flustered, she spotted Asil standing behind Briden.
“Ah…….”
As if time had stopped, Lilibet froze still, and teardrops began to form in her eyes.
Instead of the speechless Lilibet, Briden conveyed thanks.
“Thank you for helping Lilibet.”
“Not there, here.”
“Ah, sorry.”
At Lilibet’s pointing out, Briden awkwardly corrected.
Because fatigue piled up and he couldn’t see ahead more than usual, the direction was slightly off.
For such him, Asil asked Selena.
“Saint. Can you treat the prince’s eyes too?”
In an instant, Briden experienced his mind freezing.
My eyes…… can be treated?
Can see cleanly and clearly ahead like before coming to the ducal family?
“Yes, of course.”
Selena, who answered politely to the point of being respectful, extended her hand.
Briden’s vision, which was only hazy, filled with brilliant light.
Then it soon changed to a clean and bright world.
The moment Selena’s hand fell, Briden could clearly see Lilibet’s face for the first time in a long while.
She had grown quite a bit more than he remembered.
“O…… Brother? Can you see me?”
Lilibet’s trembling pupils, the hand reaching towards him, the trembling lips calling brother, all were visible.
Soon his eyes grew hot. Briden burst into tears right there.
“Yes……. I can see you. I can see you clearly.”
“Ahh!”
With a sigh-mixed cry, Lilibet embraced Briden. Briden sobbed for a long time in his sister’s arms.
* * *
“That priest said to the princess there’s no hope.”
“Ah, no! I never said that!”
“I heard it too. He also said to Lilibet to die quickly.”
Under Asil’s thorough report and Briden’s support, the healing priest was chased out of the ward.
More precisely, thanks to Selena who jumped up and down saying he has no qualification to see patients, he lost his position as healing priest.
“Hohoho. Excuse me, Lady Erzebet, if there’s any inconvenience in the future, please tell me anytime.”
Selena, who flattered in all sorts of ways, mimicked ringing a bell with her hand.
Ding-a-ling, I am lady Asil’s bell! Please look upon me kindly!
Naturally, Asil didn’t know why Selena was doing that.
She just thought, ‘What a really kind human! Later, Asil must make her a maid!’
After that, Asil talked with Liribet for a while, then went out of the ward at Briden’s call.
“Brother! If you bully the lady, you’ll get scolded by me!”
“I won’t bully. Am I someone who bullies every day?”
Grumbling discontentedly, Briden, once left alone with Asil, scrutinized Asil up and down as if he would never forget.
And muttered in a small voice.
“So this is what you looked like.”
“Yeah. Asil looks like this.”
Seeing energy return to the eyes that were hazy, she felt good.
Good, it’s completely treated! Asil nodded vigorously.
“Besides the eyes, is there anywhere else that hurts? Asil will ask the saint to heal it.”
“No, there isn’t. You’re much younger than I thought.”
He felt unnecessarily sorry for being grumpy until now. Briden avoided Asil’s eyes with an awkward face.
“Thank you, really in many ways. I’ll definitely repay this favor.”
“It would be good if you repay three times.”
Like three baskets of strawberries, or three baskets of strawberries, or three baskets of strawberries.
With that intention, she spread three fingers, and Briden was flustered.
“Uh, can’t it be two times?”
“No. Three times.”
For Edenber, since he’s the husband, she gave a discount, but since Briden isn’t the husband, she wanted to receive three times for sure.
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By Anna 💓
