Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

"-!? Alive! Hulka, heal me!

Toya pulled the hand she was stretching and looked back at Hulka and raised her voice.

But Hulka doesn't move right away and asks Toya.

"Toya, after treatment, what are you going to do with those kids?

"What?"

"From the circumstances, do you have any parents or have you been abandoned? I'm suspicious that I can live with only the wounds healing, and maybe if it's that bad a burn, it won't go back."

"Mmm..."

It's already been about a week since the Kerg commotion subsided.

If you had a guardian, you wouldn't have fallen in a place like this, and it would be hard to think of injuries staying that way.

"Well, there's no need to be responsible for anything else, and just healing your burns might make some sense (...)..."

While Hulka said, 'It makes sense,' he said, 'If you leave it, you'll die, won't you?' and make it smell out of the blue.

In fact, we have nothing to do with these kids, just heal the injuries. Goodbye. But there's nothing wrong with saying... hey, don't do it any more.

Turning his gaze toward Natsuki, he gives a slightly troubled look, but he doesn't have the appearance to say anything to Haruka, and Yuki looks at Toya with a little intrigue.

"Or will Toya take it and take care of it? For once, we're in the middle of a request, but you're taking those kids with you?

"Ugh..."

It was Toya, who was sagged by Hulka and was groping her eyes around, but she finally screamed whether she had given up thinking or blown everything off.

"Unravel it! Whatever you want, just fix it! I'll take the blame!

Hulka grins bitterly and shrugs her shoulders at such a toya, pompous and magical.

"Yes, sir. Cure, Cure Poison, Recover Strength, and more."

"Then I'll take" Sick Resistance, "Resist Dizzies," "Treatment," and finally, "Purificate."

Natsuki, who was watching, also does some magic.

It will be enough magic, but it will not cheer the kids up, and it will not move.

Toya hugs the child of the slightly larger body, but as Hulka said first, even though the burn itself healed, the marks still remained on the skin as a scar 'solder'.

I held the other one up, but this one doesn't look very good either.

Although the pulse can be felt, it is unconscious and unresponsive.

"In the meantime, shall we take you back to the inn? Toya."

"Oh, yeah. We need to recover for now. Nao, can you ask for that kid over there?

Copy that.

Looks like we've decided to put aside what we're going to do in the future and just take him home for the first time.

It is a perfect 'case' if it is Japan, such as bringing a child back on its own.

It's a problem if you're a child with parents in this world too, but it's pretty subtle if you're an orphan.

However, at least in this situation, it would be seen as helping people.

After Toya, who walked out early enough, we walk out too.

"But that's a little surprising. I thought I'd try to help Hulka and Natsuki soon."

"Is that it? You don't have my name?

When I questioned the fact that Haruka didn't move quickly even when Toya asked me to, there was an unexpected disagreement.

I rush to add words to Yuki, who complains.

"Oh, yeah. Yuki, too. But, look, Yuki doesn't have healing magic."

"Really? You don't think I'm being nice enough compared to the Hulkas?

"No. I've never even thought about it. Yeah."

"Then I hope so."

Yuki nods at me as I shake her head.

Halka opens her mouth while smiling a little bitterly at us like that.

"If this is Japan, I immediately helped - no, if it is Japan, I'll call an ambulance. It can be dangerous if you move it poorly, and you can't use healing magic..."

I almost said "I helped" and it was Hulka who twisted her neck and started worrying along the way, but she noticed my gaze and coughed one up a little shy.

"Cohon. Well, it depends on the circumstances, unlike Japan, there's usually an orphan here, right?

"Well, yeah"

I don't see street childrens in Lafan, and there are some pretty decent orphanages, but it's the temple that runs them.

As a national mechanism, child protection is not provided.

"Even if it's good to help these kids..."

"In the future, if you go to other towns, some may be insecure and overflowing with orphans. What do you do then, right? I can't help all the poor kids."

"No one or he can cure an injury or illness, even for us."

"You're going broke. Our money and magic are finite."

There are limits to time and magic, and orphans are not the only ones who get sick or injured.

The old man, the adult, the poor...

It would be groundless to help everything, and it would not be 'fair'.

If you mean 'fair', it is' fair 'that no one helps.

"As far as I'm concerned, I don't think that matters. That's why I saved her because she's cute, but one child can help her. I don't think you need to think about it."

"Life is a survival competition, man. It's the same thing to say that you have the power to make money and the ability to get help, right? 'Cause she's cute', 'Because she's loving well', 'Because she's competent'. 'Cause you're in luck' if you polarize. Sounds cynical though."

Like Yuki agrees with Hulka, yeah nodding.

"Pretty to cheat", "Lucky to cheat".

Indeed, there is no choice but to say so.

"An organism is inherently survival of the fittest. That's why it's evolving. Considering that, modern humans may be a little distorted."

If you are an animal, an individual with fast legs and healthy survives.

If it is a bacterium, an object that has gained drug resistance survives.

If you are an insect, pesticide resistant objects survive.

That's how surviving objects leave their offspring, gaining properties and resistance as a species.

But what about modern humans?

Diseases and disorders. Innate, hereditary traits. It socially and technically overcomes and survives individuals who would otherwise be eliminated.

Aside from that, it is modern society that is doing it.

It may also be one evolution, but from a simple biological point of view, it may be called degeneration, or the opposite can be said to leave diversity behind.

"I mean, if we lose our sociality, we're extinct," he said?

"Aren't you going to? Pretty light. They're coming out with multi-drug resistant bacteria, and germs, and don't they seem to evolve in the future? Human beings who fail to survive the fittest and stop evolving at the moment they become technologically unable to catch up or lose their sociability are extinct once and for all at the loss of germs. That's not an impossible story, is it?

"It's not funny. It does not gain resistance and also leaves genes unfavourable for survival. Even if it dies with it, is it human too? That's how it evolved, so that's the limit as a species? The end of evolution?

Maybe that's the difference between other animals and humans, but if you look at it super long term, you don't know if that's right.

I also feel like it might be solved by genetic manipulation or something, but while there is religion, it may be difficult.

"Shizuku, these children have gained a way to survive with the trait of the 'Beast Man'?

"No, even in humans, I think the injury has healed?

"Is that it?"

You said that to Toya?

"But do you want to take me to the jar later or leave me in the orphanage? I guess so. Because there's no reason to help."

"Well... you're right"

Regardless of the emergency response like treating an injury, helping the same child - in other words, if you're going to help make it independent, it would be humane to want to help a child you know in Raffan's orphanage rather than an orphan who happens to be caught in the eye.

Acquaintances and others. People like choosing someone else there are more humanly a little untrustworthy.

"If Toya wants to help, she's going to help."

"Right. There's no reason to dare disagree."

"As far as I'm concerned, it depends on what these kids look like. If I were a bad boy, would I kick you out?

Two people who show passivity but leave it to Toya vs. Yuki a somewhat cynical and realistic answer.

As far as I'm concerned... what do you think?

Even some problematic children may say it is the adult's responsibility, but if we just happen to pick it up, do we need to do that?

"That depends on Toya's decision, too"

Toya hurries to the inn without taking part in our chat.

I stared at that back.

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She told us that she was an aunt at the Inn who had initially had a surprising look on her face when she brought back two children, but when she went down on the side of the road, she gave us a painful look and immediately changed our two room to a four person room.

My aunt experienced the turmoil in this town on the scene, and I guess she soon understood the situation again.

Bring the children into the room quickly and put them to sleep on the bed, but there is no way to wake up yet.

Toya stared at those two for a while, but eventually opened her mouth as she had decided to.

"Hey, these two. Can I let you live in our house?

"By letting you live, you mean taking care of yourself until you can stand on your own?

"Ah. I might take care of you guys too..."

"Yeah, isn't that good? If Toya is responsible."

Toya gives a slightly clapped look to Hulka, who replied lightly.

"... is that good? I thought Halka hated being hypocritical."

"Huh? Why?

"Uh, look. You used to raise money to get a transplant overseas, and you were critical, right?

"Oh, that's, I just hate that one. For example, if you want to raise money for activities that make it easier to receive transplants domestically, you can make a donation. But getting transplanted overseas would deprive people of that country of their opportunities, and there are worse stories about being a country, right?

When I say Kuniku...

"That or using organs removed from death row?

"Yes. Besides, normally, it's a country where people who aren't criminals, rather than the death penalty, are going to die."

To be precise, it may be the death penalty 'by that country's standards', but from global common sense, it's just the guy who commits human rights violations and wrongs.

And even said, 'I died of illness in a camp. But I won't return the body' or whatever you think, it's black.

An overseas transplant that could support such an act or something is quite dangerous.

"Of course, my own kids would be the best from a parent, and I think it's nothing like paying a fortune to want to help, but relying on donations from others for that,"

"I understand that. For example, if you get cancer and you say, 'Give me a donation because I want to give you the latest medical care,' you say, 'I lost my parents to cancer, too?' Right?" If you're transplanting, why do you collect donations? 'and "

"Yes, yes. I think if you want to create a fund for research into cancer treatment, or if you want to fund drug development for the treatment of difficulty, you can also collect donations. But I wonder what 'I just want to help my own kids' is...... Of course, in my opinion, though."

"Hmm, but I think if I could help you, I'd like to help you."

Hulka nods at Yuki, who says so with a slightly troubled look.

"Yeah, isn't that good? Because there was parental technology that could do that kind of promotion, and there were connections that could promote it to a large extent. In a way, it can also be described as an asset that can be converted into money."

"Hulka is cynical. What do you think of Nao?

"Am I simpler? Insured. Don't complain after the accident. Sick, accidental, no burden, but help me, I don't think we're gonna make it through, okay?

I was still in high school, so my parents had jurisdiction over my illness, but I was insured against bicycle accidents. I was on it with caution, but there's no one who's going to crash.

If you want help in case you want it, you should bear the cost from normal times, and if you don't like to bear that cost, you should do something for yourself in case.

If it's a range of treatments that you can manage with your own funds even if you're sick, I don't think you need to be insured, and if you're going to die without the latest treatments, that's fate again.

If you don't like it, just ask me to keep it insured.

Insurance, in a way, is an unstable help, like donations.

I don't help myself, but help yourself, it's a little crazy.

"What about Toya?

"Me? I want to help my family and you, even if you throw up your savings. I wonder if it doesn't matter? - No, to be precise, if you're helped to the extent that it doesn't affect your life and you have someone you want to help, you help. Like these kids. If I had come to this world in the first place, I would have abandoned it. I think it's selfish."

"I see. After all, everyone thinks a little differently."

"I've known you for a long time, because you're a different person."

Still, we've been dating for quite some time, so I don't think there's that much difference in values between the five of us.

"But the Naos, you don't have a problem helping these two, do you?

"I agree with Hulka. Wouldn't it be nice if Toya was responsible?

"We can afford to take care of our kids until they grow up."

About 10 years, if not longer, until these children are adults.

Luckily, it's not a world where it costs tens of millions of yen to educate one child, like Japan.

The financial burden would not be so great.

It's a lot of work on education later, but, well, if it's about two people, can you handle it?

If you're in trouble, even Ishka, who runs the orphanage, should get some advice.

"You did it, Toya. Finally, Mr. Light Source, you're on!

Niccoli laughed, and Toya twisted her neck for a moment about what she was saying to Yuki, who stuck out her thumb, but understood the words and looked to her surprise.

"... ah? What, the girls?

"You didn't notice?

Halka says slightly shuddered, but Toya only compares the two sleeping on the bed as confused.

"No, 'cause this is how it is?

Surely the clothes are worn out, the burn marks are terrible, and the condition is gender.

"Nao, did you notice?

"... of course"

I didn't realize that.

I didn't even care exactly, though.

It feels like before there was a gender difference at my age, and my hair is short.

In my response, I was kind of like, "Are you sure? 'Toya, who had his gaze on him, turned to Hulka for what he thought was fine.

"But if you're a girl, you've healed these burn marks. Halka, Natsuki, can you handle this?

Toya's best hope, but Hulka has a difficult look on his face.

"It's not Little Cure Light Cure, but Cure Cure. It's in this state..."

"If it can be cured, is it 'Regenerate'? Or maybe we can work it out once we cut it down to the dermis and then heal it with Cure..."

"Ouch, ouch! It hurts just to ask!" Regenerate ", do something!

Toya lowered her head to Natsuki, who said something quite amazing.

I just imagined it, too, and it kind of stings.

If it's also anesthesia, I can do something about the pain, but I'm afraid to execute it, or at least I can't.

"I'll try my best. I don't know how to say it, but it's just right for practice."

"Right. Normally, it's magic that's hard to understand."

Because it doesn't do anything for healthy people.

That said, it is not Dada that is classified as a level 10 of light magic, but because of magic consumption, it is also difficult to practice using it over and over again.

Therefore, as a matter of policy, it was decided to take some time to treat them in the future, along with practice.