19.

I was losing my mind, but the spirit that had been sleeping in my arms also woke up.

[It’s hot!]

[Warm!]

[If a human is hot, it hurts!]

[Then what should I do?]

[I know?]

While I was listening to the spirit’s voice chattering in my ear, I felt something strange right in the middle.

‘Is it too noisy?’

It didn’t seem like the three were talking. With a shocked expression on my face, I turned my head in the direction of the sound and saw a crowd of small birds.

‘One Two Three Four Five… … .’

I wondered if I was so heated right now that I could see one as two. But no matter how many times I count them, there are six.

‘There are three more.’

why? This time Richt wanted to say the words that the wind spirits lived on the tip of their beaks. Is it possible that spirits can kill babies?

The driver named Lewis in front of me closed his eyes from exhaustion and stretched out his hand. She didn’t seem to want to do anything harmful, so she stayed still and then a hand touched her forehead.

“You have a severe fever.”

Lewis asked with an embarrassed expression.

“Is it difficult for you to move by yourself?”

Richt nodded slowly.

“Then please excuse me for a moment.”

A large hand wrapped around Richt’s shoulder. Then he carefully hugged him and headed toward the cave entrance. There, Richt had no choice but to move. As I crawled out to the entrance, panting, I saw two strong legs right in front of me.

It’s Abel. He was looking down at Richt with an unknown expression. I thought he was going to laugh at me because he looks good.

“Cough.”

My chest heaved and I coughed. Once a cough broke out, it was not easy to stop. He was stuck at the entrance of the cave and was still cackling when Abel reached out and grabbed Richt’s body. Then he pulled it out easily, like a person pulling radish from a field.

Suddenly, he was caught by Abel and left hanging in the air.

“Abel!”

The green-haired young man who saw this was scared and shouted Abel’s name. Then, some of the spirits still attached to Richt looked at him.

‘Oh, that’s Lauren.’

Lauren also seemed to have seen a spirit. He pointed at the spirits with a puzzled expression and gaped. It seems that handling spirits is a secret to everyone except Abel. Otherwise, I would have shouted something a long time ago.

The spirits looked away from Lauren, who looked like a simple bride, and picked their fur.

“Why is this like this?”

Lewis, who followed Abel’s words, answered.

“You have a severe fever. “If you don’t want to kill me, I think we should go to a nearby village and call a doctor right away.”

“Are you saying it hurts?”

“yes.”

“why?”

“I don’t know.”

Lewis shrugged his shoulders.

“Then let’s go to the nearest village.”

“For your information, patients should not listen like that.”

“That’s tricky.”

There were always strong knights around Abel. Lauren, the weakest among them, was also strong by ordinary people’s standards. That’s why he didn’t understand Licht, who said he moved a little.

“Shall I lift it?”

“No, that’s enough.”

After correcting Richt, Abel got on his horse. Six spirits huddled together and sat on Richt’s chest in Poomg’s arms. Lauren’s heart sank when she saw him, but the spirits did not leave Richt even though they were watching her. That made Lauren even more sad.

‘But there are a lot of them?’

I realized it too late because I was so sad. While Lauren was worried as she looked at the spirit that had doubled in size, Abel’s horse started running.

Fortunately, the village was not as far away as I thought. Abel, who invaded the largest house in the village, calmly gave orders to the owner who ran out.

“Call the doctor.”

The village chief looked at the attire worn by Abel and the knights behind him and nodded quietly. The horses all looked large and strong. It was not a cheap pack horse, but a war horse. In this era, war horses were very expensive, so only knights from good families could drive them.

There was a group of such warhorses, and the people riding them all looked unusual.

‘It’s a knight!’

The village chief was a person who could humble himself whenever necessary. Because of his cleverness, he was in a leadership position in the village. He quickly vacated his bedroom and called the only doctor in town.

“It’s a cold.”

The doctor who treated Richt with sincerity under Abel’s gaze soon came up with a diagnosis of the disease.

“cold?”

“To be exact, it’s a cold.”

“sick?”

“You’re not in good health to begin with, but it seems like you’re moving harder than usual. If I had left it any longer, it could have turned into pneumonia. “If you eat well, rest well, and take medicine, I think you will be fine.”

Richt, who was lying on the bed, was exhaling hot breath and moaning.

“Then I’ll leave my assistant behind, because you’ll need someone to nurse you.”

It was burdensome to stay here. No matter how I looked at it, I didn’t want to be in the same space as someone who looked like a nobleman. So, I slowly pushed the role to the assistant, and suddenly the young man behind me came forward.

“I will nurse you. Just teach me how.”

It was Lauren.

“Why you?”

When Abel asked with a disapproving expression, Lauren answered quietly so that only Abel could hear.

“Because of the spirits.”

“Why them?”

Lauren looked at the congressman for a moment. The quick-witted congressman quickly moved out of the way just by looking at him.

“I’ll go out then. “Call me if you need anything.”

Only after the congressman left the room did Lauren comfortably open her mouth.

“I sent a spirit to find Richt, but he did not return.”

“They sometimes go down different paths.”

“… … “Very rarely.”

Lauren felt a little embarrassed about her spirit. That’s right, I’ll do as I’m told.

“so?”

“I wondered where they had gone, and they were all attached to Mr. Richt. It wasn’t even three. “There are three more spirits I don’t know anything about.”

Only then did Abel show interest in Lauren’s story.

“That means you have the talent of a spiritist.”

“It happens that way.”

“Even better than you?”

Lauren was upset, but immediately calmed down. He treasured his life very much.

“That’s right.”

“Then the spirits are still around?”

“Yes, they are huddled together by the bedside.”

“I know it’s there.”

Abel could not see the spirits, but he could feel them with his animal senses. She said earlier that she felt a familiar sensation from Licht, and it seemed like it was a spirit.

‘That’s interesting.’

I became more and more interested. Abel looked at Richt with a gaze that threatened to devour him.

“The other person is still a patient. Besides, he is the head of the Devine family.”

Lauren tried to calm Abel down, but it didn’t help.

“But he’s the one who did something rude.”

“You mean taking the crown prince hostage? “It’s something we haven’t confirmed directly yet, so we shouldn’t touch it.”

The spy said so, but the crown prince’s behavior was strange. She said she has been searching diligently since Licht disappeared. She could have been mad and looking for him to kill her, but that didn’t seem to be the case. If that were the case, they would have set out to stamp him as a traitor.

“know.”

“Do you really know?”

“I know.”

Abel responded as if he was annoyed and dragged a chair and placed it next to Richt’s bed. Then she sat there and looked at him sleeping. Even when she closed her eyes, her original sensitivity did not seem to disappear. It looks ugly. He stretched out his fingers and smoothed Richt’s wrinkled forehead. So it looks a little better.

Lauren looked at Abel and then quietly left the room. She planned to get her medicine from the doctor first. Fortunately, the congressman was waiting outside.

“This is the medicine. Just boil this and feed it three times a day.”

“What about meals?”

“The village chief was boiling soup. “You can just feed it.”

The village chief was also quick-witted. While he prepared food for the knights, he also prepared soup for the patients. Thanks to this, he had less work to do. Lauren took her medicine and soup and went back into the room.

Abel was still sitting next to the bed, looking down at Richt. Since he was also a human being, he sometimes showed interest in others.

A person who committed murder in the capital, was brought in, and was caught committing serial murders. A prisoner with a bulging liver who was once a successful mercenary. A male aristocrat who was set up to seduce him without even knowing the subject.

‘They’re all dead, though.’

Now that I think about it, I don’t think there was anyone in their right mind.

‘Now that I think about it, the head of the Devine family is also insane, isn’t he?’

The rumor was not particularly malicious. It was said that the lives of slaves were regarded as the lives of flies, and servants were treated like toys. They said that the leader of the Knights of Leviathan was a slave from the peninsula and that he was often whipped.

‘Then does that person die too?’

Just looking at what I’m suffering from right now, I think I’m normal. Lauren shook her head and put the soup and medicine down on the nightstand next to her bed.

“Are you having fun?”

“quite? “But you keep frowning.”

“It’s probably because it hurts.”

“Right. “But what is that?”

“It is a necessary item for patients. Just feed him soup and give him some medicine.”

Lauren quietly stood next to Abel and waited for him to get out of the way. He couldn’t imagine Abel nursing someone, so he thought of doing it himself.