The night of Sigishoara's first successful hunt.
I woke up with a sore left knee.
- Ugh.
It hurts so much.
Femme, Morphy and Sigi sleep in the same bed. I put up with not screaming because I can't even wake you up.
"... when you say left knee, that's it"
Crush with a small voice to mislead the pain. I can't delude you at all.
Immortal Killer Arrow released at the death of the Demon King.
It's an attack that created the reason I became a guard in Murgh village.
Recently, I thought the effect of the hot springs and the pain had gotten a lot better, but it was sweet.
I touch my left knee with both hands. I was beating with heat.
"... what is this? Frightened."
Unprecedented symptoms. I guess I ate something weird. I thought about that.
Pain makes my thoughts a lot strange.
"What?"
Sigishoara woke up. He's staring at me worried.
Sigi is cute even at times like this. I gently stroke Sigi's head.
"You're gonna be okay!
"Ria."
You can't worry about Sigi, who is a baby. Don't. You have to be patient.
That is the admiration as an adult.
"What?
Sigi looks worried.
I took the meat out of the magic bag I had on the side of my bed and fed it to Sigi.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"
Sigi eats hard, looking worried. She's cute eating, too.
Watching it relieves me of the pain.
The full-blown sigi begins to gloat. I continued to be gentle until Sigi fell asleep again.
Sigi put me to sleep safely. But my knees still hurt.
That's when the door opened quietly. Cruz, who should have slept with Julina, comes in.
"Mr. Al, are you okay?
"Oh, hey, Cruz, what's up?
Cruz came running over worried.
"Whatever happened, I came because there were disturbing signs."
"Disturbing signs, I know."
"Yes!"
Cruz is a true face. Did you find out with brave strange powers?
With Cruz in the room, Fem and Morphy woke up, too.
Really, I'm looking at you.
"You should be asleep because you're okay."
Though I tried to say that once, Fem and Morphy are smelling me worried.
I'm sweating, so I'm a little embarrassed when I can smell it.
Fem and Morphy have a sharp sense of smell. Whatever the baby's shigi is, they're sweating, so there's no way they won't notice anything unusual.
Cruz strokes my left knee worried.
"Hmm. Does it hurt after all?
"Right, that's the biggest pain I've ever had"
"Is it more painful than when you ate an arrow?
"I was in battle then. There wasn't much pain."
"I see."
Cruz was nodding yeah. I guess Cruz also remembers.
Even major injuries don't hurt much during or immediately after a battle. I guess it's because I'm excited.
It hurts more the next day.
Cruz says as he strokes my left knee.
"Julina, shall I call you?
"No, I'm not hurt. I don't think I can do anything with healing magic."
"So, do you want to call Millet?
"Pain meds? That's a little too."
Pain medicine is a drama. They say it's addictive and can even become obsolete.
You think in one country, after the war, addicted patients increased dramatically and became a problem?
It should only be used to relieve pain during death or for painful procedures in the event of severe injury.
For example, when pulling the returned arrow? When removing fragments that have entered the wound?
My knee is a chronic pain. You may get used to relying on pain medication.
"Hmm. I don't know what to do"
"I'm sorry to bother you."
Cruz looked in trouble as he stroked my knee.
"Wow." "Nooo."
Fem and Morphy were also licking my face worryingly. Sweat and sweat. Who can be stuck?
I know you're worried, and I'm very grateful. But it's a little hard to be stubborn.
"When Cruz strokes me, I feel a little better"
"Really? I'll stroke you."
It's not my fault. Obviously the pain is coming off.
Strange. I don't know why. That's brave.
"... then, fushi fushi fushi fushi"
Sigi, on the other hand, slept comfortably. I think Sigi is fine with that.
Cruz is stroking me. The pain got a lot worse.
While I was listening to Sigi's sleep, I was asleep at some point.
◇ ◇ ◇
I woke up in the morning. Still left knee hurts 50% more than usual.
Compared to last night, however, it was considerable.
"Kuka."
Cruz was asleep dressed to hold me to my left knee.
He probably caressed me even after I fell asleep. Cruz is a very good boy.
That's when Julina came to the room.
"Ah, Cruz. You were over here. I can't help it anymore."
When I woke up, I guess there was no Cruz in the bed and I came looking for him. Yulina likes Cruz too much.
I tell Julina as I stroke Cruz's head.
"Yesterday, my knee suddenly hurt."
"Uh, are you okay?
Yulina puts Cruz's hand away and looks at me on my knees.
"Honestly, I didn't think so. It hurt a lot, but if Cruz caresses me, it's gonna hurt."
"Hmm."
Yulina gives me a magical diagnosis.
"I don't seem to be particularly traumatized or ill..."
"That's above all... is it?
"I just might have a rat on my joints. You should avoid strenuous exercise for a while."
"Rats?"
"It's called an intra-articular free body, to be exact. My articular cartilage is peeling off, and it's about to become so. Once it's completely peeled off, we'll have to cut it open and remove it."
"... that sounds painful"
"It would naturally hurt if I cut it open. But even if we don't remove it, it hurts a lot because the pieces of bone move around the joints."
Either way, it seems to hurt. It is a horrible story.
I've been an adventurer for years, so they tend to think I'm used to pain. But what hurts hurts.
I don't like pain. Of course. We'll have to rest for a while.
Turn to me frightened, says Yulina.
"Well, because it hasn't peeled off yet. I don't think it has anything to do with this pain. Don't worry."
"Really? Let's just be adults."
When Yulina nods, she starts talking quietly.
"This time the pain is due to the arrow of the Eighty-Nine Immortals"
"I guess..."
I can't think of anything else.
"I've been looking into the immortal arrow, too."
"Was it? Thanks."
Julina is sweet, too. I love Cruz, but he cares about me and Luca.
He's a good guy.
"I'm free of time and I just checked it out when I was free!
Yulina shows off her illumination. It is an understandable tundra.
Yulina is busy, so there should be very little free time.
"Thanks"
You don't have to worry about it.
Yulina is gentle with Cruz's tender hair.
If there's a gap, Julina adores Cruz. Even though Cruz and Yulina are the same age, Yulina is more like her sister.
"Even if we survived the immortal killer arrow, there was a lot of literature that said it would be better if the pain died intensely. Some warriors chose to die because they couldn't stand the pain."
"What's that scary?"
"So I didn't report it because I thought the literature was wrong."
You didn't report me, thank God. If I'd heard that, I'd be too scared to live my daily life.
"In the first place, I can't tell you anything because there are few examples of people who survived eating immortal killer arrows. I wish it had subsided to such an extent that it still hurts a little."
With a serious face, says Yulina.
Speaking of which, Sigi's parents, who ate the arrow of the immortal killer, also suffered at night.
I thought that was the pain of zombification, but it may also have the effect of an immortal killer arrow.
"How painful did it say in the literature?
"It hurts more than urinary stones."
"Hmm?"
I don't feel like it's a big deal when they say that.
In the first place, what is a urinary calculus? I never heard of it.
"You didn't think it was going to be a big deal now, did you?
"Yeah. I thought"
"Some people say that urinary stones are more painful than labor pains?
"... seriously"
I'm scared to hear that. Could it have even been yesterday's pain, it was still there?
"What?"
I felt anxious about the future of my knees as I stroked Sigi's head when I woke up.