Arc 2 - Chapter 37: End of Mission (2/3)

He woke up with an unbearable headache. As he put his hands to his head, tears were coming from his eyes and a single female voice echoed in his brain.

"I am sorry."

As he took deep breaths in and out he could feel it coming, he was going to vomit. He didn't even try to hold himself back, he pulled his head out of the left side of the bed and dropped the contents on the floor as a big-breasted girl dodged aside.

What he was lying on as a bed was actually just a blanket spread on the floor of the wagon, so the vomit spread all the way to where Yu was lying on it.

"I am sorry."

But Yu didn't care, he could only breathe for two seconds as tears invaded his eyes. Then the contents of his stomach came up again, burning his throat. He hadn't eaten, so most of the vomit was liquid.

Yu heard the same voice for the third time as he experienced the same thing for the third time.

"I am sorry."

It was difficult for him to see, even breathing was difficult for him, even with his mouth wide open.

"Are you okay, Yu?"

Yu was struggling to breathe, unable to respond. When he finally breathed a sigh of relief, he wanted to swallow, but when his own vomit burned his throat, he spat on the floor, ignoring the people next to him.

He didn't think they would mind him spitting after he had already vomited in front of them.

His head ached so badly that he would take his brain out and leave it in a corner if he could. As Yu moaned, he felt a soothing sensation on top of his head and then the pain subsided.

"Y-Yurine?" he whispered, almost begging for it to be her.

Yurine was the one who cast the healing spell that brought him relief in such situations. He lifted his head as he wiped the tears from his eyes with the back of his hand, but soon his vision was distorted as tears filled his eyes again.

But he could recognize what was in front of him, not a little girl with cat ears, but an old man.

"I'll have an explanation, but first you must come to your senses."

"What explanation? Where is Yurine?"

What Yu needed was not to regain consciousness, he wanted to know where Yurine was. Where was Yurine? Was she okay? Why was there an explanation? Had something happened to Yurine? The only thing he wanted to know was how she was.

"Your daughter is lying there."

He couldn't make out the old man's finger, but he could see a white figure lying where he was pointing. He wiped away his tears, there were four of them in the wagon. Yu was lying in the back, Lylphia and the old man were next to him and Yurine was lying in the front of the wagon.

"Don't worry, Yurine is just sleeping."

"You are a fast young man, I suppose. It is not common in Rolderhelm to have a daughter of this age when you are only in your early twenties. Well, I suppose it's different for a handsome boy like you."

He was trying to lighten the mood while guessing his age wrong. Yu moved forward on his knees, trying to avoid the vomit, and came to Yurine's side.

To check that she was okay, he took her hand and checked her pulse on her wrist, it was beating but that was not enough for Yu. He wanted to hear her heartbeat too, so he put his head on her chest and listened to her heartbeat, then her mouth and listened to her breathing. They had said she was fine, but he would not rest until he could confirm it for himself.

It was only when he realized that everything was normal with Yurine that he was able to put a smile of relief on his face. It looked like a forced smile, but Yu was about to cry with happiness that she was okay.

"She ran out of mana, I did a few times when I was little. I wasted all my mana on Sony too, but I'm recovering quickly." Lylphia smiled and looked at Yu and Yurine. "She's going to be okay."

Yu continued to hold Yurine's hand as he turned his eyes to where he had vomited.

"I apologize."

"There's nothing to apologize for," Lylphia said, and began to clean up the vomit with a rag from a trunk. He was embarrassed to have someone else clean up his mess for the second time. "The important thing is that you're in good health, and that's fine."

"Thank you, can I have some water?"

The old man took a flask and handed it to Yu, along with a small bucket. Yu first gargled the water in his mouth and then poured it into the bucket. After a few repetitions, he drank the remaining water.

"I have learned who you are, but I have not yet introduced myself, please forgive me." As the physician sat on the floor, he put his hand to his chest and bowed. "My name is George, I am a physician."

He was different from the physician he had met at night.

"Do you remember anything?" George asked.

"I brought Sivina to the field and gave her to the doctors, then I went to sleep next to Yurine?"

Had something happened that he didn't remember? If not, why would he have asked Yu about it?

"We need to go to the Wizarding Academy for Sivina's treatment. I woke you up this morning to ask what you were going to do, but as soon as you got up you started foaming at the mouth. I didn't know what to do, so I looked for Yurine, but I couldn't wake her up either, so I ran to get the Mr. George here."

After Lylphia had finished, George began.

"It's not reassuring, but I didn't know what to do either. It's the first time I've come across such a case. Your friend said your daughter cast the healing spell on your head."

Before going to bed at night, as part of their daily routine, Yurine had cast a healing spell. Lylphia was there and saw it, but didn't ask anything.

"I tried to do the same, but I don't know if it worked. I tried the method normally used to block the pain from being felt."

He was still nauseous because the wagon started to sway as it moved. He grimaced and started taking deep breaths to avoid vomiting.

"It worked, thank you."

George smiled that he could help.

"Is this a disease or a sudden event?"

"Epilepsy, we've been trying to overcome it with Yurine for a while. It's something that can happen to any living being with a brain."

"Hmm... I've never heard that before."

Yu sniffled. "Gosh, what do you know..."

Logically, Yu's illness, epilepsy, should have been seen here too. Of course, George might never have seen or heard of it, but even if he hadn't, Yu wouldn't have thought much about it.

"Anyway... I feel like there's something beyond epilepsy..."

Twice before he had heard a woman apologize to him before a seizure came. Somehow he could also understand that seizures were different from those in the world.

"I thought maybe I could find a cure at the academy."

"The Academy library has research on a wide range of topics, from medicine to farming, so I hope you find something you can use."

"I hope..."

Yu did not know what to do if he found nothing there. He did not know where he would end up, as his situation was not stable but worsening with each crisis.

"How's Sivina? Is she okay?"

"Her wounds have healed, but the poison is still lingering, so she still hasn't woken up. They are constantly trying to keep her alive with healing magic. That's why we took her to the academy, there are more mages there and they will keep the magic going."

He didn't want another loss. He didn't want to cause another death with his choices, even if he didn't really know her.

"I wanted to wake you up and ask you what you wanted to do, but when your condition worsened, I decided you should come to the academy too."

"I get it, it's good. I would have made this choice if I had woken up."

If they went to the Wizarding Academy, Yurine could be examined there, it would be much better. Yu would do everything he had to do for her health.

"Where are they now?"

"Sivina and Ana are in the front carriage. Sony is in the back carriage, we tied him up because he kept making suicide attempts after he woke up. Raul stayed in Redchapel... Actually, it would be more accurate to say I forgot about him."

"I forgot about Raul too... But this Ana, she doesn't say a word when Satoshi dies, but when something happens to Sivina she goes into a crying fit, she's in love or something..."

He was surprised that they let Ana stay with her. He hoped she wouldn't cry all the time and distract the mages.

"The first waifu I found dies instantly, the second waifu is one hundred and fifty years old and her sister is no better. Will the other two waifu I find have different orientations? Lylphia too..."

Lylphia didn't appeal to Yu. She wasn't an ugly girl, but Yu didn't find her attractive and couldn't get a vibe from her. There might have been a lot of breast freaks who liked her, but Yu couldn't find her attractive because of the disproportion between breasts and height.

"I have no luck... The trash isekaisers gets hit by five or ten girls at the same time, but when it comes to me, even the magazine I have is taken away from me? What's wrong with me? I'm better looking, smarter and more charismatic than all of them. Is that it? Are the gods of this world jealous of me and they're being bastards? It won't be like this Yu, you'll die alone..."

He was jealous of the characters in the anime shows he watched.

"And how are you? You were unconscious when I found you at night."

"Like I said, I fainted because I ran out of mana fighting Sony. I'm fine now."

"Will Yurine recover as quickly as you?"

"I don't think so, I remember being unconscious for two days when I was her age. They fed me honey."

When she said her age, which age was she talking about? Her real age or her appearance?