CH 211

Everything is white when I wake up, as my consciousness slowly comes back, and I notice I’m covered in something soft.

I move my neck, and see I’m in a bed.

“Where…”

“This is Leila’s home.”

Someone responds after I whisper.

I turn my head that way, and see Chris.

“Do you remember fainting in the dungeon?”

And as if guided by those words, my memory starts to come back.

We were headed to the twenty-seventh floor when we met Jake from Guardian Sword and other adventurers, and when I relaxed my mind and felt less tense, something felt wrong in my body… And then I felt pain and my consciousness drifted away.

“What about everyone else? Is everyone all right?”

“Yes. Everyone made it back.”

“…I see. What about Casey’s petrification?”

“That… Hasn’t healed yet.”

So petrification cures don’t work? I remember hearing in an item shop of the Holy Kingdom that powerful poisons need high quality antidotes, but does that mean they don’t have them here in town either?

I try to move, but then notice how heavy I feel.

“Sora, you have been sleeping for ten days. Hold on, I’m going to call Mia.”

Chris says before leaving the room. If it was Hikari she’d run out the door, but Chris knows better, and silently walks out.

I see, so it’s been ten days.

My status screen shows everything’s fully recovered, and those weird symbols added to my skill are gone too.

Did that disturbance in my magic energy cause me to spend a lot of it until I ran out of MP? Or was it just a consequence of using the Creation skill?

…I don’t think that’s it. I’ve spent a lot of MP using the Alchemy skill too. I think it really was that dungeon’s environment that did that to me. I was walking around normally before the trap was activated.

“S-Sora! Are you all right!?”

Mia yells as she rushes inside. What kind of education did Dan give her… The image of her being a saint is steadily collapsing. Then again, it was just an illusion to begin with…

Well, I’ll just think of this as proof of how much she was worried about me.

She casts Heal and Recovery as she gets close, and at that point I really wish she’d calm down.

“Are you all right, master?”

“Geez, I was worried you know?”

“How are you doing?”

I guess it’s not just Mia. Hikari, Rurika, and Sera are here too.

“Yes, I’m fine. More importantly, did anything happen?”

Everyone tilts their heads in confusion, but I think it’s only natural for me to ask that.

Now that I get a good look at the five of them, I feel like something isn’t right. Why are they dressed like that? Maid outfits?

When I ask them about it, they tell me they moved out of the house we were renting, and have been living here in Leila’s home.

But why are we here in the first place? Apparently we were visited by a lot of merchants, and people from the merchant and alchemist guilds. It’s all because of those full potions and petrification cures I made in the dungeon. Some of the people that were with us at the time couldn’t keep their mouths closed, which led to that information leaking, and creating a bit of an uproar.

And so, Leila suggested everyone move here. Although apparently no one was crazy enough to just barge into the feudal lord’s home… Except for one person.

“And we were bored here, just letting other people look after us, so we started working too. It’d be annoying if we went outside and people followed us here.”

Says Rurika, and Hikari and Sera nod. Hikari looks annoyed, because that means she hasn’t been able to go out and eat at the stalls.

“What about Elsa and Alto?”

“They’re working here. Leila said they’d hire them if things continued like this.”

“I see…”

That might be what’s best for them, considering we’re planning to leave this city.

Then I hear a knock on the door, and when it opens, I see Leila’s face.

“I heard you were awake, Sora.”

Our eyes meet, so I raise my hand to respond.

She looks relieved, and then apologetic.

“I’m sorry, I know you just woke up, but do you have a moment?”

I say yes, and she says it’s about Casey.

Apparently petrification cures are having no effect, and Mia has been casting Recovery on her, but today her condition took a turn for the worse.

And so, she asks if I have any more of the petrification cures I made.

“What happened to the potions I handed out?”

“We still have a few.”

“I will bring the ones I have as well.”

I take potions from Rurika and Leila, seven healing potions, four mana potions, and six stamina potions. We also have five more of each, but those are ready-made potions from item stores, and their quality is all over the place.

“Let’s see how Casey is doing first. I don’t think I’ll have a problem making potions, but…”

I get out of bed and touch the floor, and the moment I start walking, the languid feeling leaves my body like poison being flushed out.

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