The Quack Lady - Chapter 10

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Episode 10

Even though I’m only twelve years old, inside my body there’s another self from my past life who remembers being thirty.

I looked up at him with an expression that said ‘what kind of bullshit is that?’

“What?”

“You’re chattering like some ugly bird. A very small and chubby bird, I mean.”

Soon after, a hand placed on top of my head began gently stroking my hair.

It was an attitude as if he were treating his own younger sibling.

It seemed to be because of the height difference with him, who had grown quite tall.

When I glared at him silently, he quickly changed his expression and asked.

“But really, what’s going on? Are the maids bothering you again?”

At his worried gaze, I suddenly remembered what he had said to me.

“No matter what happens, I’ll protect you. Because you’re the one who saved me.”

So perhaps that’s why I felt a little worried too.

Because if I said I’d be away for a while, he’d probably say it was dangerous and want to come along.

But anyway, Mr. Pairon’s guild isn’t that far from here…

‘Well, I can come back when it’s time to deliver the herbs.’

Having finished my thoughts, I smiled brightly and shook my head.

“No. I just wanted to come this time. Since you’re always the one who comes.”

“I’d like it if you came like this next time too?”

“Why?”

“Just because. It’s convenient since I don’t have to go. Besides, it’s been uncomfortable with so many nobles coming and going since your infirmary got a new director.”

“Ah.”

A short exclamation slipped out of my mouth.

He had always extremely disliked nobles, strangely enough.

‘He must have been beaten and chased away by nobles or something.’

When I nodded as if that could be the case, Eruten brought his face close to mine as if something was strange.

“Really nothing’s wrong, right?”

His long eyelashes came close enough to almost touch, right in front of my eyes. It was close enough to feel his breath.

After blinking a couple of times, I exhaled a short breath and gently pushed his chest.

“You can’t bring your face this close like that. Many diseases can be transmitted through respiratory… why are you looking at me like that?”

“Why aren’t you surprised?”

“What?”

It was the second time. Looking up at him with an expression that said ‘what kind of bullshit is that?’

His face, which had become quite serious, turned cold.

“Normally you would have been busy running away telling me not to do that.”

“Ah.”

This exclamation was also the second time.

Come to think of it, I seemed to have become a bit calmer since my past memories returned.

‘Do memories affect personality too?’

As I let out an “Oh?” exclamation while thinking of this quite reasonable hypothesis, Eruten’s even more suspicious gaze reached me.

“You’re strange in many ways today. Really nothing’s happening?”

His face twisted as if somewhat confused.

Perhaps because he was still young, everything he thought showed on his face.

Feeling like I had unnecessarily worried a child, I smiled awkwardly.

Then I patted Eruten’s shoulder a couple of times.

“What could be happening? I really came to deliver herbs, I tell you.”

“…”

“Then I’m going! Don’t get hurt anywhere. Got it?”

“…Wait.”

“What, again.”

“If anything happens, you must tell me. You remember the promise I made, right?”

The boy, who had become even more serious, grabbed my arm and asked.

Strangely, a smile spread across my face.

Because his restless appearance, like a dog trying to stop its departing owner, didn’t suit him at all.

I immediately lowered Eruten’s arm that was holding my wrist and patted it.

“I know. If it gets difficult?”

“I’ll come find you. Wherever that place may be.”

At those words I’d heard enough to be sick of them, I smiled along with Eruten who was smiling like a picture.

Not knowing what was happening in front of my room that I would return to later.

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There’s an old saying that goes like this.

Words without feet travel a thousand miles.

In other words, rumors spread at an incredibly fast speed…

‘What is all this?’

Arriving at Mr. Pairon’s estate and reaching the front of my room, I couldn’t help but tilt my head.

Because I discovered people gathered like clouds in front of my room door.

Their appearance of seemingly checking if there was someone inside…

It definitely looked like they were looking for me.

The moment I stepped back in surprise and hesitated, someone noticed me at that sound and asked.

“Oh? Miss Rtemeia?”

Miss?

The moment I blinked in surprise and confusion, the people who had been gathered in small groups began surrounding me.

And then.

“We heard the rumors! You healed the Shop Owner’s arm! Could you possibly do my arm too? When I pose like this here, it won’t move…”

“Hey! I was here before you, what are you talking about! Move aside! Rtemeia? I have a problem with my knee here that no doctor has been able to fix! So please look at me first…”

“No! You have to look at me first! I’m about to collapse right now!”

Although the overlapping voices weren’t clearly audible, I caught words like Liv, Shop Owner, and saint.

‘I should have told them then!’

It seemed that while I was away, that maid Liv had been spreading rumors.

And with rumors that I had even treated the Shop Owner…

It was my fault for not keeping their mouths shut properly.

Having made my decision, I shouted loudly toward them.

“Wait a moment! Let’s first decide the order based on severity…!”

Before I could even finish speaking, everyone began lamenting that they were the most sick, without exception.

After that, the agitated people began raising their voices and the sounds began overlapping so much that I couldn’t tell who was saying what.

‘Wow, what is this now?’

As I was stepping back in fear, I bumped into something solid.

“Hey, kid. What are you doing here?”

When I turned around, Mr. Hanel was looking down at me with an expressionless face.

“Oh! Vice Guild Leader! What brings you all the way here!”

“Did the Vice Guild Leader also come for treatment?”

The patients who had been rushing at me threateningly suddenly began greeting him.

However, Mr. Hanel didn’t even glance at them and asked me again.

“This. It fell in the carriage.”

What he held out was a withered wildflower that had been in my small, modest luggage.

Just an insignificant wildflower I had been keeping for decoration.

“Ah, th, thank you.”

As I reached out hesitantly, Mr. Hanel whispered in my ear as if he had been waiting.

“Hey, kid. I’ll handle things here, so you go straight into your room.”

* * *

Hanel stood crookedly with his arms crossed, looking at the people in front of Rtemeia’s room.

‘As expected, most of them are the ones who came because they were worried about Pairon back then.’

You could tell just by looking at their clothes.

It seemed they had come looking for the child after hearing what Pairon had said as if enchanted back then.

“You all, go back now. She doesn’t have the ability to do such things.”

“Eh? But it’s true that she treated the Shop Owner, isn’t it? Then perhaps my illness too…”

“Did she say she would treat you? It’s not like that. It’s just a minor technique performed by someone without even a proper license. So don’t put too much meaning into it.”

It was his usual cold tone.

He had many enemies due to this tone, and now was no exception.

“You seem close with the Vice Shop Owner, so aren’t you trying to get treatment from the Vice Shop Owner before us?”

“That’s right! The day before yesterday, Liv, the kitchen maid, also met that person and said her life was saved, so can’t we ask to receive treatment too?”

“So then, is it okay for people who came to receive treatment to suddenly surround a young girl and tell her their symptoms without any order?”

“That’s…!”

The herbalists shut their mouths tight. Even they recognized that it was wrong when they thought about it.

Toward them, Hanel let out a short breath.

“I’ll get her consent later and make it so you can receive treatment, so go back for now.”

“I refuse.”

“What?”

“I’m sick too. Honestly speaking, the Vice Shop Owner should be in a position to ask for our illnesses to be treated together, so why are you taking that kid’s side?”

“No, I’m not trying to pick sides right now…”

“You said our guild is like family! Then, if family members are sick, why are you telling us to go back for the sake of that complete stranger of a kid!”

Even if the pain was minor, once a patient became frightened, they wouldn’t easily admit that their illness was mild.

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