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Chapter 196.2: Rewrite and Kinako
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Thus, the goma raised a despairing wail as it fell to the ground.
「YAAY, VICTORY!」
No, it was different, we did win the battle, but Kinako got stabbed by that spear!
「Oi, Kinako, are you all right!?」
「Relight, I’m, all right.」
「Nononono, like hell this is all right! Dammit, look, the spear is stuck in your abdomen! Blood! You shed too much blood!?」
Oh craap, the spear had pierced into the area around Kinako’s abdomen. The blade was clearly stuck in his body. The white fur around his stomach was already dyed red by his own blood.
「Le-Let’s treat it immediately!」
「It’s okay, don’t worry.」
「It’s not all right at all! Look, your wound is bleeding badly, it’s definitely serious!」
Though Kinako acted like he was unperturbed in order to not make me worry about him, like hell anyone would be fine with a spear stabbed from their side. I mean, if I was in his position, I would cry and wail, and leave something akin to last words.
「Relight, calm down.」
「Yeah, right, let’s start with first a— F*ck, I have nothing like that with me!」
First aid aside, I didn’t even have a band-aid!
Seriously now, what should I do? The first thing you had to do when you’re suffering from a bleeding wound was―― Dammit, I had no idea what to do!
「Kuh, Dam-Dammit all… Sorry, Kinako… I really am useless…」
「My wound, will heal, don’t worry.」
Kinako said kindly upon seeing me cry due to my sense of helplessness. Dammit, even though you’re the one suffering from the pain, you’re the one who is comforting me instead.
「Dammit… I don’t want this kind of sympathy…」
Even though Kinako bet on his own life to take down the goma boss and ended up getting injured in the process, I, the modern person from a more advanced civilization, could only swing my bag wildly like an idiot, and couldn’t even treat his wound.
Partner, my ass! I was just parasitizing on Kinako… I’m just a useless parasite… Think carefully, what can I do in this situation!
「Wound.」
「Blood.」
Suddenly, I heard a mysterious voice.
I felt so miserable for being a man who could only cry when facing this kind of situation.
「Wound, heal?」
「Blood, stop?」
「… HAH?」
I looked down and saw a lot of dandelion-like plants growing under my feet.
However, I knew that voice came from those dandelion-like plants.
「Wound, heal?」
「Blood, stop?」
「What is this guy… Some sort of insect?」
When I squatted down and looked at the plants, I saw a tiny, human-shaped pale green light… It wasn’t an insect.
The tiny human-shaped light was around 5cms tall. Though it looked really small, upon a closer look, I realized that it had a pair of legs, making it more human-like.
But thanks to all those shiny green lights on its whole body, it looked like a stickman instead.
Those two tiny, shining, stickmen were calling out to me from on top of a marijuana-like leaf.
「Wound, heal?」
「Blood, stop?」
「… Are you telling me that I can use that leaf to stop bleeding and heal wounds?」
Somehow, I knew that the plant was a medicinal plant.
「Wound, heal!」
「Blood, stop!」
The green stickman combi suddenly cheered up as if they were really delighted upon knowing that I understood them.
「Sure, let me try it!」
I plucked the marijuana-like leaf beneath my foot.
The stickmen were clinging to the leaves as if they didn’t want to let it go. Rather, it was almost like they got sucked in when they touched my finger… Must be just my imagination, right?
Oh well, let’s forget about that for now. Let’s try this medicinal plant for now.
「Oi Kinako, show me your wound.」
「Okay.」
Kinako’s wound was bleeding profusely when I pulled the spear from his abdomen, uwah, that looks really serious.
「I mean, will this medicinal plant-look-alike work on his wound?,,, Oh well, let’s try it out first.」
The moment I was about to simply push those leaves to the open wound…
「UOOOO!?」
「PUGYA!?」
The leaves suddenly released a brilliant light. Within that bright light, I felt like I saw the figure of a stickman jump into Kinako’s wound.
Learned skill:
『Spirit Medicine』: You will get assistance from the spirit of the herbs you know.
Those words appeared in my mind for a moment. Before I could think about what just happened, the shining leaves started showing their effect.
「Relight, amazing… Wound, healed.」
「Eh, seriously?」
Upon a closer look, it turned out Kinako’s wound had already closed up, and he had stopped bleeding.
「Seriously, it really healed with that…」
I mean, I thought Kinako was spouting nonsense a while ago due to excessive bleeding but, it turned out the wound had healed for real.
「Maybe this is the power of the 『Spiritualist』.」
「Relight, spirit?」
「What’s the matter, Kinako? Do you know about the spirit?」
「Spirit is everywhere. They exist everywhere although we can’t see them.」
「They did look vague.」
「I feel, the power of green light. The wound healed.」.
「Ah, are you referring to that stickman?」
The meaning that I somehow heard from the voice of the spirit of the medicinal plant… Which explains those ambiguous poems.
Surely, the phenomenon that happened just now was the spirits lending their power to me.
「Uooo, we did it, Kinako! Thanks a lot, Spirit!」
「UsiNg, SpIrit. ReLiGhT, AwESomE.」
「Hahaha, we got another comrade, right?」
I felt relieved, now I could at least have the minimum amount of power to assist Kinako in battle.
I offered my gratitude to that spirit of medicinal plant with the power of 『Spiritualist』 as I wrapped my arm around Kinako’s shoulders.
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