Chapter 20

Baby Magic

I also have suffered from cold and fever, but for a baby like little boy, he will be in so much pain that I can’t even imagine.

“I’m sorry baby. I’m sorry.”

“It’s not your fault.”

Felix, who came next to me, rolled up his shirt sleeves and took the wet towel from my hand.

He wiped the child’s stomach and continued in a calm voice, unlike when he was angry with the Doctor.

However, unlike his voice, I could see that he was also very anxious, as his hand holding the wet towel trembled slightly

“Babies at this age often develop fever for no reason. So did Lindsey and Tony. If they take fever reducer, the fever will go down in no time.”

Felix’s words didn’t seem reliable when I thought of Felix pushing the Doctor asking why he didn’t know the cause earlier

I asked with anxiety.

“But what if it gets worse? You argued with the Doctor earlier.”

“Is the clinic the same as me? I don’t know exactly why, but they should know exactly. And don’t say anything ominous.”

“But…”

People are weaker than we think.

The emperor, who unified the Western continent, suddenly got bedridden and died because of a mosquito bite, and when an epidemic spreads, countless strong men have died.

Can such a delicate baby stand it?

“Don’t worry. I won’t let anything happen to the kid.”

Felix murmured as if he was determined, dipping the towel in the basin.

“I’ll do anything to make him get well, so you go and get some rest.”

“No, it’s all right. I’ll do it.”

“Go rest. I’ll take care of him.”

“I’m doing this because I want to. You go and rest.”

I thought I’d be more relieved if I was next to the little boy than to rest.

It was at that moment my hand touched Felix’s hand, squeezing the wet towel, trying to stop him.

I shouted in a startled voice.

“Felix…..What’s wrong with you?”

Felix was touching cold towel, but his hands were as hot as the little boy.

Felix quickly shook off my hand.

“It’s nothing.”

“What do you mean by it’s nothing.?”

I was too busy to notice until a while ago, but Felix’s face was strange.

Although Felix was a wizard, he often practiced swordsmanship in the sunlit gymnasium, so Felix’s skin color was slightly browner than that of other magic students.

His face, which the girls would be always talking about as healthy, was strangely pale.

I grabbed him by the arm as he kept trying to step back, and touched his forehead with my other hand.

“It’s not an imagination.”

Both arms and forehead touching were as hot as the little boy

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

My voice went up unconsciously.

Felix must have known about his physical condition, even if I had been distracted by the little boy.

It wasn’t a light fever, it was so hot, so there was no way he didn’t know.

“It’s really nothing,”

Felix said while shaking my hand off.

Then, he pushed my arm with a face that he didn’t want to talk about it anymore.

“If you can afford to pay attention to me, pay it to the kid. I’ll take care of my body.”

“It can’t be nothing. Both you and the little boy have a similar kind of fever”

Similar symptoms that appeared at the same time.

Can this be called a coincidence?

I don’t think so.

Perhaps Felix and the little boy have the same infectious disease that causes colds and fever.

If not, they could have eaten the same food and got sick.

I wanted to check Felix’s skin by rolling up Felix’s clothes as the Doctor did to the little boy.

If he has a red dot on his body, it’s definitely the same symptom as a kid.

However, no matter how close I was as his childhood friends, I couldn’t take off his clothes as I wanted.

I quickly snatched the wet towel from his hand.

“I’ll see the little boy, so you go to a clinic right away.”

But he kept sitting next to the bed without budging no matter how much I pushed him.

“Please…I can’t even care about the little boy while worrying about you, so go now!”

Felix didn’t heed to my words even this time.

At last, I took the towel out of his hand and wiped the sweaty little boy’s forehead.

I was worried about Felix’s physical condition as much as a little boy’s, but somehow, my anger soared for no reason at the carefree appearance of Felix.

“Felix!”

I screamed, and then turned my eyes towards him.

He hesitated for a while and then started talking.

“Spatial movement magic is not something that even I can easily do.”

Why is he bringing a story about magic ?

I’m sure he isn’t bragging that he’s accomplished a great magic in this situation.

After reading my questioning eyes, he dipped the towel into the basin and spoke again.

“If you use such kind of magic, no matter how talented you are, it will surely strain the body.”

He murmured in a natural tone, focusing again on wiping the little boy’s body.

I couldn’t understand what he was talking, so I frowned, and then lowered my head to look at the ring on my ring finger.

Artifact, a wizard’s essential and auxiliary tool.

People who don’t know much about magic think of artifacts as an all-around tool, thinking, if you have this, you can use magic.

But, in fact, it’s a “supplementary” tool.

The necessary conditions for magic are natural magic, magic affinity, and intelligence to understand magic formulas above a certain level.

In the case of simple magic, it can be implemented only with the Magic energy within the body.

In principle, when the level of magic is high and if the Magic in the body is not enough to handle it, Magic energy in the nature is drawn into the body and used in combination with the Magic energy in the body.

What is needed at this time is Magic affinity.

The higher the affinity, the more Magic in a natural state and the less physical strength it consumes.

Rebound phenomenon.’

However, as magic began to become more and more advanced, the required magic energy for casting a spell increased, and accordingly, the magic energy drawn from nature also increased.

Naturally, there was no choice but to put a lot of pressure on the wizard’s physical strength.

It was a natural result since the body drew magic energy from nature more than it could handle.

When you use more Magic energy than what your body can handle, you get abnormalities in your body, which is called a rebound phenomenon.

The rebound phenomenon slightly showed symptoms such as headache, fever, and vomiting, which could lead to death in severe cases.

In fact, as a series of wizards died while doing magic research began, voices grew calling for countermeasures.

Thus, artifact, a Magic stabilization tool, was born.

Made of gemstones that absorb Magic, this artifact is made in the form of accessories that can be worn on the body.

Felix’s is a necklace and mine is a ring.

This artifact absorbs the Magic energy from the nature rather than letting it to flow inside the body, drastically reducing the user’s physical consumption.

Since the appearance of this artifact, the number of wizards dying from the rebound phenomenon has significantly decreased.

Felix’s artifacts was quite expensive, unlike mine, who never dreamed of using high level magic.

If his body became like that even after using such a thing, unlike the other Magic spell he casts easily, the Spatial movement magic spell seems like a magic that most wizards could never dream of.

“Then it’s no use showing it to the Doctor.”

Now I understand Felix’s easy-going attitude.

As he said, if his fever was due to the rebound phenomenon, there was nothing he could do even if he showed it to Doctor.

In the first place, Doctors will not even be able to figure out the cause.

All he could do to cool off Felix’s fever was wait for the magic in his body to get replenished.

I don’t know how long it will take.

Felix probably doesn’t know either.

What’s clear is that time is the only medicine.

However, at least the symptoms caused by the rebound phenomenon did not worsen, so there was no need to worry.

I couldn’t rush Felix any further.

I sat next to the little boy and held his hand tightly.

The little boy squinted, perhaps feeling me holding his hand.

“Babuu”

“Are you all right, baby..?”

“Mauuuu.”

“Yes, it’s me.”

The kid, who could hardly open his eyes, looked at me.

“Mamamuuuu

Said the little boy, struggling with the corners of his mouth.

Compared to his usual smile, he was so inconspicuous that he hardly changed his expression, but he was clearly smiling

It somehow felt like he was whispering to me not to worry.

Is my head weird?

“Don’t laugh. Do you laugh in this situation little boy? If you have the energy to laugh, get well soon.”

I rubbed my eyes with my hands that didn’t hold the little boy’s. My sleeve got drenched with my tears.