Time Healer Ceres - Chapter 106

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“I was just playing around and being a bit spiteful. Tsk.”
Watching the Lord enter the training grounds, she’d given her subordinates their orders—to throw the wooden sword with precision.
And as expected, seeing her collapse with grievous injuries, how she’d laughed inwardly at the sight.
She should have been more moderate.
An ignorant child becomes Lord, not knowing to fear anything in this world, running her mouth like that.
Crash!
“Commander!”
Moments later, the commander’s office door burst open and a subordinate rushed in urgently.
“What is it?”
“It’s—the Acting Lord, that person—”
“Acting Lord? What about her?”
“She’s just arrived at the training grounds, sir.”
“What?”
The knight commander’s face contorted in an instant.
Even if the Fire Spirit King had granted permission, the Elder Council hadn’t formally recognized her yet, and already she was poking around like this?
Thud!
Knight Commander Tailo rose from his seat and headed straight for the training grounds.
A slow sneer spread across his lips.
What would he need to do this time to ensure she never set foot here again?
‘Maybe I should throw a wooden sword at her like last time.’
Pondering how to suppress the new Acting Lord early on, the moment he stepped into the training grounds—
Whoosh!
“—!”
Seeing something hurtling toward him, Knight Commander Tailo instinctively bent his waist as far as it would go.
Crack!
‘What—what is this?’
Something whizzed dangerously past his bowed head.
The knight commander straightened his torso in shock, his eyes widening as he confirmed what had flown at him.
Behind him, buried deep in the earth, was a wooden sword.
“My apologies.”
At the unfamiliar voice, the knight commander turned his head to see a woman walking slowly toward him.
“I’m not yet accustomed to the wooden sword.”
Smiling brightly as she spoke was none other than Seres.
“I trust your generosity will allow you to understand.”
“….”
‘I plan to practice with the wooden sword going forward, but I seem to have made an error since I’m still unfamiliar with it. I ask for your generous understanding.’
“…Ha.”
Weren’t those the very words he had spoken to Lord Herion not long ago?
This wooden sword had surely been thrown intentionally?
Knight Commander Tailo, studying Seres’s face, found himself even more at a loss. She was barely out of her teens—far too young a woman.
They’d entrusted an Acting Lord’s position to someone like her?
“You’re the Acting Lord?”
“Apparently so.”
“This doesn’t even make—”
“I agree, it doesn’t.”
Seres cut off his protest first, nodding in agreement.
“However…”
Whoosh!
“That little bird makes a good case.”
Tap!
In an instant, the Fire Spirit King Juberios swooped down and dropped something onto Seres’s hand before circling the training grounds once and settling calmly on her shoulder.
All those present—not just the knight commander—couldn’t hide their surprise at the sudden appearance.
Flutter.
With the knight commander still blinking in shock, Seres unfolded what Juberios had just dropped, displaying it plainly before him.
It was a letter of consent, affirming Seres’s appointment as Acting Lord.
And it bore the personal signature of Oselt, head of the Elder Council, no less.
“If you wish to lodge a complaint, go there and do it.”
“How am I supposed to—”

[What do you mean “how”? I went and brought it back myself.]
Juberios shot back up into the air, circling around Seres as if to say, see how well I did?
“Stop that. You’re making me dizzy.”
At the sight of Seres waving her hand dismissively, shooing him away, Knight Captain Tailo stood motionless for a long moment, his mouth hanging open without a word.
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“Are you quite certain about this?”
“Certain about what?”
Oselt, head of the Elder Council of the Elrsia House, quietly set down the teacup he’d been holding.
“Even if it was the Fire Spirit King’s request, surely it can’t be wise to entrust the Acting Lord’s position to just anyone…….”
Just moments ago, the Fire Spirit King—the very symbol of the Elrsia House—had visited Oselt in person.
[Sign here.]
‘What is this?’
[You just sign. That’s all you need to do.]
‘…….’
No matter how powerful the Fire Spirit King was, Oselt had no intention of blindly obeying every command.
But…….
“Not just anyone, no.”
“Pardon?”
The moment Oselt saw the name of the person chosen as Acting Lord by both the Fire Spirit King and the current Lord Herion, he signed without hesitation.
Seres Drou.
Though they had met but once, she had left an impression on Oselt that was remarkably vivid.
The one who had found the Lord’s Ring?
‘That certainly played a part.’
But since then, he had heard her name spoken of often.
‘Grand Duke Persha.’
Wasn’t it true that in the last imperial council, it was Seres who had taken his place and led the proceedings?
He had also heard that the nobles hadn’t managed so much as a proper word to her that day.
Those verbose aristocrats who prided themselves so much.
‘And before that…….’
When he had broached the subject of the person who had found the Lord’s Ring—during that meeting where he sought to secure exclusive distribution rights to the mineral Ethel—he still could not forget the expression and the light in Grand Duke Persha’s eyes.
‘An ice statue had, for the first time, looked like a human being.’
The impression had been peculiar even when he first saw Seres in the council chamber.
She didn’t feel like a young noble lady of her age at all.
The image of her calmly stating everything she had to say before so many elders remained vivid in his memory.
“For now, it might be worth simply watching how things unfold.”
A woman chosen by both the Fire Spirit King and Grand Duke Persha.
Moreover, one whom the current Lord actively trusts.
Oselt, head of the Elder Council, smiled with intrigue as he quietly lifted the teacup once more.
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Bang!
“Acting Lord! Emergency patients are arriving from the Shloi region!”
A healer burst urgently into the study where Seres and Herion had been taking tea, throwing the door open wide.
“Twenty critical patients have already been transported via the Transfer Magic Circle, but we don’t yet know exactly how many more will arrive!”
Apparently, a Black Forest had manifested somewhere, and the wounded from that area were now being brought into the Elrsia House.
Not long ago, Lord Herion had put forward a proposal at the imperial council.
It was a measure meant to satisfy the nobles who kept protesting that healers were not being dispatched to their regions often enough.
It was to install Transfer Magic Circles in each region, connected directly to the Elrsia House.
This made it possible to immediately send emergency patients from those areas to the Elrsia House.
Word had come recently that all the work was complete, and today was apparently the first time one of the Transfer Magic Circles had been activated.
“Patients.”
Seres set down her teacup.
This was something she had already foreseen when she took on the role of Acting Lord—that after a long time, she would once again have to work as a healer in an official capacity.
“Let’s go.”
She had steeled herself, but her feelings were a touch complicated.
She had thought she would never work as a healer again in any official sense.
Certainly not as a healer of the Elrsia Countess Family.
“I’m coming with you!”
“Just rest, will you?”
Seres tried to stop Herion, who was hobbling along on her injured leg, but she shook her head firmly.
“I want to help, even if only a little!”
“Fine, suit yourself.”
Seres stopped trying to hold her back and hurried toward where the patients were.
“Argh!”
“Over here! This one’s worse!”
“Elsuri, here! This patient is bleeding heavily!”
“Where did Ganien go!”
“Ganien is treating another patient right now!”
“What do we do about this patient?”
“Twenty more patients have been brought in!”
“What?! Damn it. Tell them all to wait for now.”
This was absolute chaos.
Seres watched the situation unfold, at a loss for words.
Seeing the healers floundering without any sense of priority left her breathless with frustration.
She knew well enough that they’d been running the clinic at a leisurely pace, focused mainly on treating nobility, but to fall apart like this at the first real emergency? This was inexcusable.
Even accounting for the fact that today was the first time the Transfer Magic Circle had activated, this was unacceptable.
Bang!
“…!”
The sharp sound that cut through the air silenced the chaotic clinic at once.
Startled gazes turned toward the source.

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