After resting in an inn town coffee shop for about an hour, me and Lynne left.
Until the trading city ahead, it took a day to get there on normal foot.
... Though, given the distance, if we went with a light jog, it would have been enough to get there before night.
Depending on the timing, you can walk through the night sky, or you can arrive before then.
In that mood, we left.
- A dozen minutes after that,
"Is that it? Doctor, there's kind of a carriage stopping, isn't there? 」
"Oh, that's true"
At the end of our gaze walking down the street, there was a single carriage stopping sideways.
This road isn't that narrow, but it's kind of blocking about 70% of it.
I don't even look like I'm doing business, but I wonder what I'm doing, and I walk up to you.
"... even now, won't you move..."
And there was a young man sitting down, touching the horse that sat in front of the table of men.
If you look at the place with the Abacus on your hips, is it a merchant or something?
Whatever it is, it would be dangerous if you were sitting in the middle of a road like this. So,
"Hey. What's up? 」
I rang. Then he turns this way,
"Ah... and I'm sorry. You're blocking the road..."
And I came to utter words in a tone of powerlessness.
"No, I don't mind that. Carriage or horse malfunction? If you stay here, you're in danger. 」
"Yeah, I know that too...... you don't have a horse to move a bit. And I didn't even turn the wheel of the carriage. However, as a Merchant, I can't leave my loads behind, so I can't move on or pull... and I'm stuck here."
Hmm, the merchant youth exhales deeply.
"Hmm, horses and cars. That's tough."
"For once, I asked the people I was with to go ahead and get backup, so I just need to wait a day or so.... it's pathetic to leave here with a horse."
The horse has broken his leg.
My breath is rough.
"Sure, it looks painful"
"Yeah, hanging a healing potion on him doesn't make it any different at this rate, even if you ate some poison grass. So I just had to stroke it up like this..."
Young merchants say spicy.
Apparently, this young man has a gentle personality.
"Hmm...... let me see it for a second"
What are you pretending not to look at?
That's how I look at horses. And
"- [Let me hear the words]..."
Quietly exercised prophetic magic.
It's magic like that, depositing words from organisms and inorganic objects.
Then, immediately, the reaction came back from the horse.
- I can't move - I can't move - my right back leg is - paralyzed. Why - I can't move - I want to move for my husband, but I can't move.
Such a hurried voice.
"I see. Right back leg,"
I checked my right back leg just like the horse said.
Then, behind that joint, I found something slightly glowing.
Thin and short, needle.
"- Because of this."
I saw the needle and took a breather.
Then, that's it.
「――！」
The horse stood up completely.
"Hey, healed!? 」
"Oh, the needle was stabbing me. That's a poison needle to see the shape."
The shape of the needle looks familiar. The tip of the poison needle is cylindrical so that the poison can be injected and the end of the needle is subtly inflated. It contains poison in the bulging area.
"A poisonous halibut-based warcraft - a needle like this with a payne hedgehog or something shooting at it. The magic of constantly injecting a small amount of poison from this needle tip is hanging. So it doesn't make sense to potion with this stabbed."
"Such a small thing has such a function..."
"Because it's small, the amount of poison is a little bit, so if you pull it out, you can move it, and I think the rest will heal with anti-poison potion. You got it? 」
"Yes. It's in the portable. Oh, thank you! I was having trouble because you didn't really stand up for anything and you have sad eyes, but I didn't know this was happening..."
"Oh.... but the fact that you're taking this means you ran into a warcraft like a hare? 」
I don't think there's much around here. That's what I heard, and the young merchant shook his head to the side.
"No, I haven't come across such a warcraft since I just got out of that lodging town over there..."
"What if it's a prank? It's a long time ago..."
"Because I do business, I sometimes get tangled up with business enemies and bad galas, so I sometimes eat the sales disruption that I said.... you have no idea"
The young merchant says, hanging a detoxification potion on the horse.
"Ko, is this a good idea? 」
"Oh, now, you should be feeling better"
In fact, the fluttering horse makes its footing steady.
"Good...... Nevertheless, I can't believe I spotted it at first sight...... Besides, earlier it looked like... spiritual magic..."
"Oh, you know the spiritual magic? 」
Something called spiritual magic has a slightly different effect than prophetic magic, to be precise.
But as with prophetic magic, it can be used for the act of 'magic with words'.
...... or because of the number of current professions, I guess that call is more of a measure.
Prophets are like practically extinct, and it's inevitable that you think of them that way first. That idea apparently exists,
"Yes, company synchronization is the user."
"Oh, did you? I see."
"But I've never seen such a use. Anyway, if the organism is to be slightly enhanced with the spirit, I have never seen a spiritual user who hears specific symptoms from animals and discerns the condition..."
"Really? I think it's normal to use spiritual magic..."
"No, because the spiritual users I know often manipulate words by depositing them in flames and ice, or give orders by the Spirit to animals.... He also said that it is difficult to communicate through conversation, even if you can force behavior because there are many parts that you don't understand, even if you hear words from a heterogeneous race. If you're not familiar with that race, you don't even know what words mean."
"Uh... well, yeah. That's part of it."
No matter how many words you say you can keep, words are different from animals and humans, and they are not communicated in the same way. Although it was easy to understand because it was only necessary to confirm simple symptoms this time.
Also, in prophetic magic and spiritual magic, the accuracy of being able to hear the other person's words is different. I guess there are some around there. Nevertheless, there is no point in explaining it here.
"To see how you use it against horses, could you possibly do a doctor with a psychic? 」
"No, it's not like that either. It's just that I've seen a lot of animals, so I kind of figured this would happen."
Talking to an injured and unspeakable opponent in this way went many times during the war. It's a big part of the experience that came alive this time.
"That's awesome...... You have the rule of thumb to do whatever you can without a real job."
"Well, it's been a long time. I've seen a lot of horses and animals."
I looked at the horse as I said, he was already back on his feet.
On the contrary, he approached us with a firm foothold and rubbed his nose.
Apparently, the detoxification potion worked well too.
"Oops. Yeah, you're feeling better. Good luck with that."
"Ooh... I couldn't have done anything, but I'm so well...! Oh, thank you............!! 」