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Chapter 3-5. Recovery Class Skill
As soon as I finished eating the third Kokura fruit, Asure came into the room with Baltic.
I can see Baltic was so drowsy with a sleepy expression, did he just wake him up?
As soon as Baltic enters the room, he sits on a chair facing me.
Asure extinguishes the fires on the surrounding candlesticks one by one.
In the end, it was just the light of the candlestick on the desk that still remains.
The surroundings are dim and the candlesticks on the desk dimly illuminate our faces.
Balt brought his index and middle fingers close to the candle and sledged in a quiet voice.
“【Silence】”
I felt that the surrounding air suddenly became cold.
However, I think it wasn’t the unpleasant coldness, but the coldness of the air that protected the surroundings.
Baltic yawned sleepy and muffled his mouth.
“*Yaawn … who is it?”
“It’s Ouren”
“What a liar. Ouren is a snake.”
“… Asure, please explain properly …”
“He was sleeping a moment ago … I forced him to wake up …”
I sigh as if I was amazed.
It can’t be helped, so I showed him what I did before with Asure, I created the water with my skill and then emit a green light to it.
What’s Baltic reaction to it?
He’s tilting his head with such an expression.
『You  have developed a new skill』
Pardon? Oh … errr, 【Regenerative Water】”?
I wonder what that was. Well, Let’s ignore it for now. Ignore it.
“That’s the water that Ouren gave when he made the figure of Alena … Eh? You are really Ouren-kun?”
“That’s what I said.”
“Wow …! That’s amazing! You can turn into a human! Why did you stay like a snake until now!”
“I couldn’t turn into a human at that time.”
Baltic seems to be quite excited and his eyes are shining.
He was looking at me with a happy expression, as if his drowsiness was gone.
After that, Baltic nodded, as he was convinced.
“Surely this was a scene where we need 【Silence.】”
“Actually. Baltic-anisama. We didn’t call you to hide the fact that Ouren-dono was turned into a human figure.”
“Eh-huh?”
After a short silence, he kept laughing, saying that his expectations were wrong.
His  laughing figure was still childish, and I didn’t think it was suitable for his age.
Even if it is said that this is Asure’s older brother, it seems unbelievable at first.
Asure began to talk about recovery skills to the laughing Baltic with a serious look.
“Baltic-anisama. It seems that Ouren-dono can use recovery skills.”
“Haa-! Amazing ! Is it 【Heal】? Or maybe 【High Heal】? That would be great if you can use 【High Heal】”
“… It’s 【Great Heal】.”
“Eehhh!?”
The expression that had been fluttering changed completely and changed to an astonishing expression in an instant.
“Eh, Ouren-kun! How in the world do you have such a terrific skill !?”
“I didn’t think the time would come when people would say that recovery skills were a bad thing. Can you explain it quickly? It’s getting very late already”
“Ah yeah … this certainly requires my skills …”
“Hello. Are you listening?”
When he heard it as if he was thunderstruck, it seemed that Baltic finally guessed, and he coughed once with Gohon sounds and finally talked to me.
“The first thing I want you to know is about 【Heal】and 【High Heal】. There are only several healers who have these two, but they’re not something you can use during combat. Mostly they are deployed into facilities. I wonder if there are many people who heal slowly. But the situation is, there are not enough people who have both of these skills. That’s the case with us. But … people who have 【Heal】and 【Recovery 】are separated, those who have these two can give their allies a quick recovery even during battle. For adventurers, one person is absolutely wanted at the party, but most of the people who have such skills. No, let alone 【Area Heal】, it would be strange for those kinds of people not to be targeted from all over the world. “
“Ah, what a coincidence. I also have that kind of skill”
“What the heck?”
“I just acquired the skill 【Regenerative Water】”
“Do you want to turn the whole world into your enemy or what !? Do you have a death wish or something !?”
“Hee, so is this something that dangerous?”
“It’s far above dangerous !!!!”
Baltic is quite upset.
However, because his appearance is like a child, it looks like a child huffing.
Asure and Uchikage were also surprised, but not as much as Baltic.
Baltic explains that while standing up and slapping his hand on the desk before rolling it up.
“That’s right! Most of the recovery skills are sought after from any country! If they know that you have a great cure, you will definitely be targeted from all over the country! And adventurers will also target you! There is no way you can win against them all! In addition to that, 【Regenerative Water】 was it? Isn’t it such a waste if they only use you just to apply that for the rest of your life !? If you don’t like using it, then don’t tell anyone at all! Don’t use recovery skills unnecessarily like[I’ll use it just if I felt like doing it]!  Ah damn it now I’m envying you!”
“A- alright.”
So he normally gets angry like that.
I know he’s worried, but I think it’s kind of exaggerated.
Baltic and Athlete seemed happy with my reply, but I wasn’t very convinced.
By the way, I don’t have much understanding of recovery skills.
I’ve never heard of 【Heal】and 【High Heal】 and I don’t know what kind of skill it is.
If I know about this, I may understand why he is so desperate to lecture me like this
“Well … can you tell me the difference between 【Heal】and 【High Heal】? I’m ignorant of the human world and skills”
“Oh … that’s right. Then first from 【Heal】.”
Baltic sat down and took a deep breath to calm himself down.
Then a long explanation began.
“【Heal】is the most basic skill of every healer. It’s a skill that enhances healing power by sending magical power to the target. But it’s quite inconvenient … Only trauma injuries can be healed, and it takes time to heal. It takes a lot of time. I wonder if scratches alone will be tough. I think that if it is a big cut, it will take an hour. Although it consumes less magical power. “
【Heal】 seems to be the easiest skill to use and the most basic among recovery skills.
It seems that there are many people who want a healer in the adventurer’s party as well as any recovery skill user.
It seems that the non-combat recovery skill user works at a medical clinic, and the combatan recovery skill user allows him to accompany their party in order to keep the adventurer’s life.
However, 【Heal】requires magical power … It seems that the treatment time is extremely long at the cost of low MP consumption.
Certainly it can not be used in battle, and it seems that you can only heal once for every injury, so most adventurers aren’t aware of that  and the situation is always insufficient at the clinic or treatment center.
“【High Heal】 is a skill that greatly shortens that time. Instead, they consume a lot of magical power. If you don’t have enough magical power, they won’t even manifest, so you can say that 【High Heal】 alone is a rare skill. There are some countries that make them the exclusive healer squad of the country. And there are many cases of kidnapping … “
Perhaps humans are more likely to acquire skills through training.
But magical power … so they called it magical power rather than MP huh?
About the amount of how much MP is sometimes already decided or undecided at all.
This is the part that corresponds to what people call it.
However, just because I have【High Heal】I could be kidnapped … that’s scary…
I feel that I can see how useful the recovery skill is.
“Just having 【High Heal】 seems very constricted your life huh.”
“That’s true. Our recovery skill bearer was kidnapped a few years ago. The culprit was a group of adventurers … but it seems that there are many similar things in other countries.”
“Because the medical clinic was left to Asure. I think Asure is better at this kind of thing.”
“I’m not interested … So what’s the difference between skill 【Regeneration】 and 【Heal】?”
The three shook their heads at my words.
“Ouren-sama. If you have a 【Great Heal】, it doesn’t mean you also have 【Regeneration】, but … don’t you?”
“Hmm? Should I say I had it? I used it to make a 【Great Heal】.”
“… What? What does that mean?”
I just synthesized all the healing skills to make a 【Great Heal】.
Many of the skills that evolved from Daftworms had recovery skills, so I was able to make them right away …
When I told them that they were synthesized, they all looked confused and tilted their heads.
I wondered if only I could synthesize it, but I was able to synthesize it.
So humans can’t do that?
“Synthesis …? …”
“Oh. Most of my skills are synthetic and acquired. You guys were not?”
“Hmm, this may be limited to monster species. People acquire skills by training. If it is a sword technique, we keep swinging the sword. If it is magic, we feel the flow of magical power. Skills appear in a sudden beat. Baltic-anisama’s 【Silence】 also manifested when Baltic-anisama and I were playing a board game with a single candle when we were little. “
For the time being, synthesis seems to be something that can only be done with me.
I don’t know if anyone else can do it, but at least it seems that humans can’t.
Humans seem to develop their skills from a really strange thing.
I don’t know what the theory is, but it may be related to the person’s qualities.
“There was such a thing. After all, I was so angry with my mother when- …”
“Hey. You’re off topic, now  you already hear about synthesis and skill development, so please tell me about recovery.”
The two of them seemed nostalgic and started talking about the past, so I thought this was bad and forced the topic back.
“I’m sorry. 【Regeneration】is more like a technical skill that could be used for yourself. This is a skill that many adventurers have. It’s an excellent skill that consumes a lot of magic but helps in dangerous times. This skill’s upward compatibility is 【Super-Regen】. The skill to recover yourself is not so rare. It’s a great match because you heal yourself with your own magical power. “
“There’s compatibility for skill?”
“That’s right. That’s why most women are treated with a female healer, and men are usually treated with a male healer. But healing skills that ignore the compatibility thing are categorized as 【Heal】class. And there is【Heal】 and 【High Heal】. Unlike the previous skill, it closes the wound with a quick recovery. It’s a skill that can’t be used unless you have a considerable amount of magical power. And its upward compatibility is a 【Great Heal】. It consumes less magical power and can be fired in rapid succession. “
【Heal】is a skill that consumes magical power according to the wound of the target.
This is the same for 【Great Heal】.
However, 【Great Heal】 has the ability to work on deeper wounds.
I don’t know how much it is, but being able to deal with most serious injuries is an amazing skill.
It seems that it doesn’t take much time to heal.
Talking about 【Heal】recovery class, it seems that there are only a few people in history who have 【Great Heal】.
It seems the people who had this skill in the past were not treated really well, such as being chased by some baddies or being detained by the country.
But that’s just a rumor, and no one even knows what’s really going on.
It seems that it is now a lost skill that not many people really know, and there isn’t any information on how many people had the skill【Great Heal】.
Only after hearing the story, I could understand the danger of my skill.
I don’t like the feeling of being unfamiliar with the human world.
Let’s hide the 【Great Heal】 and 【Area High Heal】 as much as possible.
Certainly, I feel that I’m used to having 【Regeneration】 skills even though I have zero experience with it.
I don’t know how I’m able to go this far, but if I somehow acquire that kind of skill again, I’ll be careful to not stab my nail.
“… It’s a shame to keep being chased like a convicted criminal”
“Right? We were really glad that you talked to us first … Oh, and about 【Regenerative Water】.”
“Is there something wrong with it?”
【Regenerative Water】.
I don’t know what this is, so I’ll check my skills for the first time in a while.
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【Regenerative Water】
The ability to create water with a recovery effect. It has a great effect on injuries in the body
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Oh, this is like healing straight on the wounds.
Perhaps most of the wounds were treated by 【Heal】and 【High Heal】are only effective towards trauma wounds.
If it is a 【Great Heal】, it may cure the internal organs, but I have not tried this so I do not know.
Immediately after confirming my skills, Baltic explained about 【Regenerative Water】.
“It’s amazing that 【Regenerative Water】 can be made only with water, unlike recovery medicine. It also works well for internal organ wounds. When a bone breaks or an Achilles tendon breaks, muscles and fibers are damaged. In the worst case, the bones will pierce the lungs. Such wounds cannot be healed easily even with a 【High Heal】. It works rapidly too. “
It seems that unseen wounds cannot be healed even with 【High Heal】
I think it can cure visible fractures, but it can’t cure cracks in the bones.
However, it is 【Regenerative Water】 that makes it possible.
With just one skill, you can quickly generate water with a powerful healing effect.
The effect is also immediate.
“This can be cured with recovery medicines, but recovery medicines are formulated using herbs. It takes time to make them and to take time to work on the body. Procurement of herbs is expensive to make. It costs money to buy. 【Regenerative Water】 can easily make water that is more effective than recovery medicine just by consuming magical power. It is a skill that everyone wants, and for the person who has that skill must be careful too, they want to keep it at hand as soon as they have it. Unfortunately you can’t cure disease with it. “
“… Really unfortunate huh, though it is called recovery … Oh, what about 【Area Heal】?”
“I don’t think there is a unit that doesn’t want a person who can recover multiple allies in a certain range in an instant.”
“I’ll disclose it then”
It turned out that no matter which one I used, it wouldn’t be a good thing.
By the time I can use this skill without care in the world, I’ll have to be insanely strong.
This story was a secret only for us and the secret meeting was over.
However, instead of having me hide it, I was forced to use it if necessary, but he just shrugged his shoulders.
Asure told me to rely on them if anything happens, so when I come to the Kingdom of Garrot next time, I will try it when I’m at inn first.
Baltic took a breath and extinguished the candle.
Then the cold air suddenly began to heat up, which was a strange sensation, but it soon subsided.
We leave Asure’s room and return to our room.
They were in the opposite direction to Baltic’s room, so we said good night and dispersed.
There is a little distance to our room.
Uchikage is walking next to me, and he’s always vigilant, looking backwards from time to time. He always put his guard up like usual.
“Come to think of it……”
“What is it?”
“Why did Tenda and the princess have a light reaction to my skill?”
Recalling that I hadn’t asked Uchikage about this, I asked him implicitly.
Uchikage seemed to understand immediately. He explained immediately.
“Actually, the princess also has that too. That skill.”
“Hah?”
“You didn’t know it was a rare thing because it was familiar to you.”
That’s not what I wanted to know.
But the princess doesn’t know anything outside of her range of interest, so why doesn’t Tenda know about the 【Great Heal】?
Well, I can’t help thinking about it now …
“Is Tenda surprisingly naive?”
“Haha. That may be true. I was just thinking about when we were defending the village … we went to various places.”
“Oh, let’s talk about that story during a long trip. Good night.”
“Yes, good night.”
I split up with Uchikage and went to Satella’s room …
Uh? Isn’t it bad?
Satella is in another room.
Maybe she’s already sleeping, but I think it’s not good to go as it is.
“U, Uchikage”
“Yes?”
“Isn’t it kind of, inappropriate to go to Satella’s room as it is?”
“… Wouldn’t it be fine if you could return to your snake form? I think it would be better for Satella to see your snake form rather than your human form.”
“Oh, is that so?”
So I use 100 MP to return to my snake form.
And then I felt my body heat rising, but I don’t feel any pain at all.
Strangely, the clothes had disappeared.
I can’t find it anywhere.
Did I absorb it …?
Yeah, it’s probably that. Isn’t it?
Okay, now I’m worried!
“Then, Ouren-dono. Good night.”
Come on, wait a minute!
I don’t know why he’s trying to escape, it feels strange that my sight suddenly changed altitude!
Ah! He ran away …
Did he use his 【Herculean Feet】skill …?
Ah … damnnit. Let’s just go to bed today.
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―Midnight―
Baltic and I are planning to go to the underground dungeon at Garrot Castle’s basement area.
We were going down not just by ourselves, we were accompanied by three escorts.
What we were trying to do is interrogation.
No matter what the result is going to be, we must be prepared for anything.
We were aware that we can leave all of this to the soldiers, but we wanted to interrogate by ourselves here.
It seems that Baltic had the same opinion as me, and thus we finally arrived at the dungeon entrance.
There is no particularly noticeable conversation from us, and only the footsteps of a few people echoing in the dark underground hallway could be heard.
As we walked for a while, we arrived at a certain area.
This dungeon is considerably huge for an underground dungeon.
After all, this dungeon is also used as the castle’s hidden passage, no wonder the pathway is very complicated.
There is no need to worry if we were lost since the guards of this place know where’s the way.
The soldiers took us to the prison where Rheind and Rudd were without any hesitation.
The two prisoners are separated but they are next to each other.
As we approached, Rudd hatefully stared at us.
“You bastard …! You guys have the guts for trapping me in a place like this! You’ll pay for this!”
His voice is too loud in the dark and hard walled basement.
He’s too noisy but, let’s ignore him for now.
The one I want to hear the most is the former king, Rheind.
“Father”
“… Asure huh…”
Seeing that figure, Baltic and I tilted our heads.
The situation is completely different from when they were on the surface.
It seems that the dignity before he went astray … I mean, the remnants of my old father have returned for some reason.
“I … what the hell was I doing …”
“Eh?”
“Father. I want you to explain something to me first. Why did you collude with a slave trader to get Azbal, one of the lord of your territory, and launched an attack to Zenki-village or the demon village where Tenda was? ? “
Upon hearing that, Rheind finally turned to look at us.
However, when I saw that expression, me and my brother Baltic were very surprised.
The reason is … On the contrary, Rheind had a surprised face.
“Hold on a minute… wait … what do you mean! What the hell did I do!”
“I’m sorry Asure. Can I take over for a moment?”
“Sure……”
I think Baltic-anisama, who is more blunt than me, wasn’t the only one who wanted an answer from our father.
Baltic-anisama crouches down and looks at our father who was at the back of the prison’s room.
“So … you don’t remember anything?”
“I-I don’t know! Azbal … What happened to Azbal !?”
“He died”
“!!”
Certainly Azbal is dead in the report.
That’s no doubt, and his daughters has been enslaved.
One was saved, but the other is still trapped in the Kingdom of Salettana.
Baltic-anisama taught all this to father.
He told the detail from this war and the collusion of slave traders to the recent condition of the kingdom.
“T- there is no way … why … was it me! Was it all because of me !!?”
“There is no doubt about that.”
“Aaa- … AAAAAH! Azbal …! Azba- … Azbal … !!”
A painful voice could be heard as if coming from the bottom of his heart, and he holds the iron bars of the cell while trembling and loses his strength and slips down and he drops his body to the ground.
I don’t know what my father had to do with Azbal, but I guess he was a good friend of his. That’s why he was very upset about his friend’s death.
But, from all of his answers this far … My father doesn’t seem to remember anything about this at all.
What does this mean …?
“Baltic-anisama”
“Yeah. It seems our father isn’t lying.”
“… Is he being controlled?”
“I’m still not sure about that. Father. What is the last thing you remember?”
“The last thing……”
While shedding tears, father was trying to process Baltic-anisama’s words.
Then, he raises his face and clings to the iron bar.
“There is a woman! At night … I saw a woman with a tail come to my bedroom that night!”
“When did this happen?”
“… I don’t know … I don’t know how long I’ve lost my memory …”
So far, father sits down on the old bed behind him.
“I’m sorry … that’s all the thing I can remember”
“No, that’s fine.”
Baltic-anisama stands up and closes his eyes.
Maybe he’s thinking about something again.
However, there are many women with tails in this world.
It would be almost impossible to find one person from all of them.
Moreover, my father has regained his sanity.
That must mean he is free from something that controlled him.
She may come into contact with my father again, but that’s very unlikely going to happen.
“Hey… can I ask you something?”
“Yes you can.”
“Which is one of you who became the king”
“That’s me. Asure Courselet.”
“… Is that so … Asure. I want to officially grant you the throne..”
“!”
Words that I didn’t expect to hear from my father, the former king popped out.
But in the current situation, it would be like a verbal promise.
I’m happy, but it’s already very difficult to get my father out in public.
“Your blessing, I am honored to receive it.”
“No matter how much I was attached to something, you had to struggle because of me. I’m really sorry.”
“Father! These bastards must be killed! How dare they put us in this prison ──”
“SHUT IT !!!”
It was none other than our father who shouted.
The three of us were very surprised that our father, who had never expressed anger at Rudd, was this angry.
“Shut up, don’t say anything …”
“Wh….wha …”
Our father looks at my face again.
“It may sound rude to you but please. Please help Azbal’s territory … please help … reconstruct his territory … It’s my last promise with him …”
“……I understand”
“I’m sorry … I’m sorry …”
At the end, he crouched on the ground and he even prostrated while still crying.
Baltic-anisama, did you think about something again? He quietly watched over the promise without saying anything.
“Asure. Let’s go”
“Got it”
Prompted by Baltic-anisama, we leave the prison.
I could hear my father sobbing from behind, but it gradually disappeared.
“Asure”
“Yes?”
“This problem is unique to this country, so don’t ask for any assistance from Ouren-kun. We’ll solve it by ourselves.”
“I know.”
At the end of that word, the sound heard from the prison was gone.