I was taking my time that day in an Earthling-only inn.
I'm off today, so it's because I wanted to rest my body.
But my holiday ended in the morning.
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Emma came to me when I was thinking about grabbing lunch.
"Kiss, you and Rio... just the two of us went hunting!
"Oh my God!
Why she came to visit. It was to tell me that something unforeseen had happened to me - that Kiss and Rio had gone hunting alone.
"Where did those guys go! Talk to me, Emma!
"Yes... Kiss, you guys..."
I pulled information from Emma, and then I rushed to the hunting ground that the Kisses were on their way.
"Hey... what do you mean...!
And I discovered Kiss, surrounded by wolf-shaped monsters but squatting, and Rio, who was struggling to guide the attack.
I don't care what you think.
Bitter feelings stir inside my chest.
How did this happen?
"Ah... no to Sin..."
Kiss looks at me and gives me an awkward look.
It looks a lot weaker, but it doesn't seem like there's anything else to life.
But it's not good as it is.
"Out of the way! Out of the way!"
I get to Kiss.
Then, using his damage heel, he began to annihilate the monsters around him.
Monsters in this area can't stand my attacks.
Less than a few minutes later, I succeeded in sweeping away the monsters around me.
"... are you okay, Kiss"
I stood in front of Kiss, and I called out.
The truth is, I wanted to be the first to ask, "Why did you two go hunting alone?"
But since Kiss was holding her right hand and pretending to hurt, I decided to grasp her body for the first time.
"It's okay... it's okay... this much..."
"?... Let me see your right hand for a second"
I was uncomfortable with how Kiss was doing.
So I grab Kiss's right arm forcefully and keep an eye on her palm.
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From Kiss's right hand...... she had lost her thumb.
It was gone, rather than taken. Or it was right that I was lifting it.
Probably an injury caused by the battle just now.
Is that why you were squatting?
"Ki, you... that..."
I spoke to Kiss as Rio blued his face.
Maybe this guy's pretty shocked, too.
"So... it's okay because... that's about it... at all..."
"But... for a swordsman, thumbs..."
I really need a thumb to wield my sword vigorously.
I don't know if a swordsman without a thumb can even give less than half the strength.
Clarify it, it's deadly.
As it is, it will be a major obstacle to future adventurer operations.
"Oh yes... let's go to the healing home... there can also cure site defects..."
Rio suggested that to us, even as he scratched a lot of sweat on his face.
Indeed, some humans would be able to heal site defects by becoming healing hospitals in town.
"If you go... I don't think you'll heal me..."
But, of course, it doesn't heal me for free.
Depending on the extent of the injury, in case of site defect, a very unpaid amount should be charged by the New American Adventurer.
There's no way I can do debt or anything like that, so I can never pay Kiss.
"Oh... if it's money... I'll give it away..."
And that's where Rio said that.
"This time... you were injured... because of my impudence as a shield... so..."
... Well, I can't even look at it that way.
Because Rio alone couldn't attract all the monsters.
Too many enemies are the primary cause.
"... no... but I... owe you that... I don't want to make"
Kiss stuck to Rio's suggestion.
Perhaps Kiss wants to be on par with Rio.
You mean you don't want to do anything to rely on the financial strength of Rio's house here because you want to be reciprocal?
Once, I had a feeling that Liana would refuse to buy Kiss some new gear, maybe this time.
But that's why it's the worst way to leave it like this.
If you have site defects, you can resuscitate lost areas if you apply high healing magic or healing pills in a few days.
However, as the day passes since the injury, the difficulty of healing increases.
Is it because the body near the lost site determines that the lost condition is normal?
We can observe that in the form of decreased max HP.
Maximum HP shredding is tough.
If it does, it just scrapes, because it's getting closer to death.
So we should probably do our best here and now so that we don't.
... Well, apart from those circumstances, I don't like these kinds of air.
Whatever the history, if a party member gets hurt badly, this is what I was originally going to do.
"Kiss. Put this around your neck for a little while."
………… Take this...?
"Come on, let's go."
I wore the gear on my neck - the Necromancer collar on Kiss's neck.
"Don't worry about this extent - 'Xheel'"
And chanted the 'Xheel' of superior healing magic.
A black light hits Kiss's hand.
Kiss's thumb started playing.
"Huh...?
Seeing the sight, Kiss lowered her surprise voice.
I don't know if I can do it.
I can't believe I can use healing magic, because I haven't told these guys before.
It's just hard to regenerate a whole arm or something, but if it's about a missing finger, I can recover with "Xheel".
So, the truth is, this one wasn't even a matter of thinking that hard.
It would have been important to the Kisses, though.
With that in mind, I make sure Kiss's right hand is fully healed.
"Thumbs, can you move them?
"Oh, oh... yeah... I can move it... I can move it! No to Sin!
"Well, I'm glad."
The thumb that was lost until just now plays perfectly, and Kiss is happy.
"So, but... how did the teacher heal Kiss's fingers?
Kiss is happy, but Rio seems to win more by surprise.
After all, do I need to explain a little bit about this area?
It's a good opportunity, so let's talk about it.
"My job... not my vocation, I'm a monk in fact"
"............ yeah!? Oh, monk!?
"Seriously!
When I told him of my vocation, Rio and Kiss gave him the look of surprise and shouted.
"You don't have to be so surprised"
"No. No! You'll be surprised! 'Cause the teacher has always been thorough as a shield!
"Me too! I always thought Sin was a warrior!
Apparently, they both thought I was the right man for a shield (tank).
I can't help but think that the reason I made a mistake about it is because it is in my behavior.
"Well... I thought you were using weird provocation skills, but what was that? It looked like the same light you gave me earlier."
Looks like Kiss questioned my damage heel.
Until now, I have realized that the black light I emit is a Taunt (Town) skill (skill), but it turns out that I have the ability to come here and recover, so I don't know why, do I?
Damage heels were also commonly used during hunting.
For this reason, Liana and Rio sometimes asked me about the identity of the black light.
This time, my answer is the same.
"... I'll talk to you when I get the chance. Don't pry."
"Wow, all right."
I don't talk about damage heels.
Because when an unspecified number of people find out about it, there's a chance that some people will come out looking at my weaknesses.
Some weaknesses could be overcome, but I'm still vulnerable to dark magic and healing magic.
Only that weakness should be tried not to spread as widely as possible.
"Can we just talk about me being a monk?
"Huh? Yes. If that's what the teacher said."
"Okay. And Kiss, will you do that?
"Fine, I won't ask Sin!
You don't even have to hide that much anymore about me being a monk.
But I asked Kiss and I to keep it a secret, just in case.
"... there's too many bugs in there to say otherwise, but would you shut up about Emma saying I'm hurt?
"Well, I don't mind."
If we're going to talk about getting hurt enough to lose my thumb, I'm also going to have to mention how I cured that.
Even if they didn't stop me, I didn't want to talk.
It's our only secret.
"Our only secret…? Yeah, sounds pretty good."
Rio responded to Kiss's words.
Is this the kind of guy who would be happy with something like secret sharing?
I don't care, no.
Let's buy a topic.
"... than that, why did you two hunt alone? Say it."
"Ugh..."
"Oh, that's..."
I asked him to blame the kisses.
What do you care? This is something I can't see.
This time it was done with enough injuries to heal with healing magic, but if we did poorly, we could both have died.
"... you got tangled up by some weird guy in the Adventurer Alliance yesterday, didn't you? What he was saying was disillusioning... but I can't deny that we're not protected by Sin... on that spot. So I... wanted to prove that I was one more person."
"... I see"
Apparently, Kiss cared about yesterday.
That's a kind of cheap incitement you don't have to worry about.
"So... Rio told me yesterday that I was going hunting... and he followed me"
"What? Really, Rio"
"Yeah, yeah... yes"
"Oh...... but Rio was stopping me with everyone, huh?" It's good to practice autonomy, but it's dangerous to fight demons without your teacher's permission, "he said.
"... right"
I heard from Emma at the inn that yesterday, Kiss suggested 'voluntary training' to a party member other than me.
Looks like it was rejected at that time, but Kiss didn't give up and took the stand to go hunting alone?
Perhaps Rio, who saw Kiss who wouldn't give up even today, broke and became the flow for the two of us to try to hunt.
Whatever the currents, they're both guilty of the same crime more than they were out of town this way.
"Don't hunt without my permission in the future. If that doesn't protect me, I'm going down this job."
That's what I declared for Kiss and Rio.
This is not a lie or anything.
If the Kisses start hunting on their own, and in the unlikely event they die, I will regret it violently.
I don't know, I like these guys.
If he dies, he's very sad.
So even though I said something tough, I decided not to let these guys die.
"I can't see any trouble wanting to die. Whoever wants to die dies on his own. Don't bother me."
"And no to Sin..."
"Doctor..."
Kiss and Rio burst into tears when I glanced at them.
And the two of them have turned to me and lowered their heads deeply.
"Sorry... Me, let's keep going... I won't do this... it was only half a serving..."
"Me too... so... please continue to be our teacher..."
... Would you have said it a little too harshly?
Both of you, it's a terrible tear.
Drops of tears are pounding on the ground.
Hi, I think I made you both cry.
This is... yeah, I overstated it too.
"Wow, that's fine if you understand. I'm glad you have a good goddaughter."
"And no, no, no, no, no!
"Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah!
"Ugh!?
Pong and hands on Kiss and Rio's shoulders, they raised their squeaky faces with tears and runny noses and hugged me a little bit.
... I have a runny nose on my armor and it is very dirty.
But, well... let's just forgive him this time.
That's how I continued to comfort the two crying for a while.