Redo Of Healer Volume 2 Prologue – The Healer Is Resented
After saving the Ice Wolves’ village from an attack by Jioral Kingdom, we were invited to a banquet and spent the night enjoying plenty of food and drink.
We finished the preparations for the journey and left the room we had borrowed.
“Freia, do you have a hangover?”
“Uuu, the sake was stronger than I expected.”
A beautiful girl in her mid-teens, dressed in a functional traveling outfit, staggers over to me and leans her body on mine. She is Freia.
She used to be princess Flare, but she has lost her memories and became my servant, Freia.
She is dressed shabbily, but she’s still full of feminine charm. Her beautiful peach-colored hair was fluffy and it suited her well.
“Ice Wolf sake is sake for warriors. Too strong for women and children to drink.”
An indifferent voice echoes from the opposite side of Freia.
“But the woman and child Setsuna seems to be fine, even though you drank quite a lot right?”
“Un. Because Setsuna is warrior. And not child anymore.”
That girl’s pure white wolf ears twitched with some pride. She is Setsuna.
She’s a warrior of the Ice Wolf race, with white wolf ears and tail, as well as white skin. A beautiful girl in her early teens, white in every aspect.
She was kidnapped by humans and sold as a slave, so I bought her. And I also made a contract with her so that she’d reveal her True Name to be in exchange for saving the Ice Wolf race.
The True Name is the name engraved in the soul of all living creatures, except for humans. By using contract magic with that name, one can manipulate the target at will. For a demi-human, revealing their True Name is tantamount to giving your everything.
Right now, everything of Setsuna is mine.
“Keyaruga-sama, please don’t look so intently. Embarrassed.”
Setsuna was trying to hide her face, but her lips caught my attention.
This morning, to increase her level limit, with those lips…
“Oh, I’ll be careful.”
Even though she’s a young girl, Setsuna has a strange sexiness about her. I’m looking forward to tonight.
That aside though, I have to do something about Freia. She is my servant after all.
“Freia, come here.”
“Yes, Keyaruga-sama.”
While holding Freia near me, I put the contents of a bottled potion in my mouth and then kiss her. Once I made sure Freia had swallowed the potion, I cast Heal on her.
My giving her a mouthful of a potion instead of just healing her with magic was just for the show. I could have made a potion that actually made her sober up, but it would have been too much trouble.
I’m pretending to be an Alchemist who has mastered swordsmanship. I’m even hiding from Freia and Setsuna that I’m a Healer. The Appraisal I once showed to Setsuna had been forged and I didn’t show my class and skills related to being a Healer.
Eventually, the Healing Hero Keyaru that I left in the castle will be found out as an impostor, and then the Jioral Kingdom will investigate all Healers in order to find the real one. This chapter was taken from novelping(.)com without permission.
No one can know that I’m a Healer.
“Thank you very much, I feel much better now. As expected of Keyaruga-sama’s medicine.”
With red cheeks, Freia lets out a hot breath.
Freia is a useful tool for me, both as a fighting force and as a woman. It would be troubling if she couldn’t demonstrate her abilities when I need her to. That’s why I’ll take care of her like this.
“Freia, Setsuna, get on the raptor. We’re going back to Ranalitta.”
“Yes, let’s go back. It’s about time to negotiate with the merchant for the third time, isn’t it? I hope we can sell a lot of potions this time as well.”
“Un. Obey Keyaruga-sama’s orders.”
A little sad, Setsuna looked back at the Ice Wolf village, but then she shook her head and looked forward again. She had already made up her mind that she belongs to me and was ready to leave her friends behind.
But her hometown is also leaving and she might never see them again. She probably has her own thoughts on the matter.
“Let’s go back to the city and sell some potions and have a party after that. Look forward to it.”
Freia and Setsuna’s eyes sparkle.
I had teamed up with a certain merchant to make money selling potions to cure a mysterious disease that was spreading in town. I can still make money from that strange disease for a while.
In ten days, the effects of me removing the body of the poisonous monster that was causing that strange disease from the water source will be felt, and then the strange disease will subside. But in the meantime, I can make plenty of money.
It’s about time for business to reach its peak. For my own safety, I want to avoid a further outbreak of this strange disease.
Let’s stay in Ranalitta until we make enough money and then move on to another city.
With those thoughts in mind, I make the raptor start running.
~In Jioral Kingdom’s royal castle~
“I can’t believe this is real.”
“Then who the hell was the royal guard captain that left the castle?!”
A man was restrained in the underground dungeon. His body was covered in marks from the continuous abuse and beating he received while he was there.
That man was joined by faces that looked out of place in such a dungeon. Military officials, high-ranking nobles and also King Jioral. The truth revealed had such an impact that it required such a gathering.
The man in chains was the Healing Hero Keyaru. Drugged and used as a convenient tool, he escaped his prison after killing a guard.
He was quickly caught, but in the rush to capture him, the captain of Flare’s royal guard went insane, killed princess Flare and her maids, set fire to the princess’ room and fled.
The crime committed by the royal guard captain couldn’t be atoned even by killing him and his entire family. He was missing, but all his blood relatives have already been executed and beheaded.
And the Healing Hero who started it all has refused to use Heal since his capture. Keyaru became an outlet for the rage that the soldiers were feeling for their comrades’ death, as well as the death of princess Flare, who was loved by all. So he was not treated as a human being and instead was mistreated with hatred.
However, something happened that changed that situation.
No matter how much he was drugged or how much pain he was made to feel, the Healing Hero Keyaru stubbornly refused to use Heal.
Once, he was so injured he was on the verge of death. They hurriedly used an elixir to cure him and his crushed throat was healed. He cried out that he was actually the royal guard captain and had been transformed into the Healing Hero Keyaru.
At first, everyone thought it was nonsense.
However, he wouldn’t shut up no matter what was done to him. And seeing his demonic appearance, they let someone who knew the royal guard captain well talk to him and even used an Appraisal on him.
Without a doubt, the man who looked like the Healing Hero Keyaru was actually the royal guard captain himself.
Yes, the truth was finally revealed.
The Healing Hero Keyaru set up the royal guard captain as a fake, crushed his throat so he couldn’t speak the truth, and then escaped. After escaping, he’s probably still living somewhere with a face no one knows.
“Then, on the night of that tragedy, the true identity of the royal guard captain who left the castle was…”
King Jioral, who was heartbroken after the loss of his daughter, let out a groan.
And then, the Healing Hero Keyaru… no, the royal guard captain opened his mouth while his eyes burned with hatred.
“That was the true Healing Hero, Keyaru. Unforgivable, I won’t forgive him. I’m going to kill him. I’ll kill him for sure.”
The royal guard captain closed his fist tightly, so much so that the nails penetrated his skin.
The Healing Hero Keyaru had thrown him into hell, he was the reason all his blood relatives were dead, and above all he killed the beautiful princess Flare, whom the royal guard captain adored and fell in love with.
What on earth did he do? The royal guard captain was only following princess Flare’s wish and putting his power to use for the good of the country. And yet, he took everything from him. That was unforgivable!!
“I see. So it was the Healing Hero Keyaru who killed Flare. … Leonard, captain of the royal guard, I will not apologize to you. That’s only natural, don’t you agree? It was your blunder who created an opening for the Healing Hero to defeat you and replace you. All of this happened because of your incompetence. Even now knowing the truth, I still want to kill you. Your incompetence killed my cute Flare.”
The king’s words were harsh, but they were also a good argument. To be defeated by a Healer with low level, low status and low skills, which aren’t even suited for battle, even if he is a Hero, is a blunder that would brand even the most honorable knight as incompetent.
The royal guard captain was unable to speak back, he was silent. While silent, he was desperately thinking of a way to escape this situation. If he continued like this, all that awaited him was death. Even though he has just been cleared of the accusations against him, he would still be blamed and executed.
The king looked down at him and opened his mouth.
“You made a terrible mistake, but it is true that Flare trusted you and held you in high esteem. And above all, I hate the Healing Hero more than I hate you. I will give you the chance to redeem yourself and take revenge. Capture the Healing Hero Keyaru. Do not kill him, mere death isn’t enough. I will teach him with my own hands… what true hell is. I’ll give you the authority you’ll need to capture the Healing Hero Keyaru.”
The royal guard captain, still in chains, kneels on the spot and bows his head.
“Yes, your majesty. I’ll use all my strength to see it done.”
While his face was still down, he laughed.
Hate, hate, hate. He can get revenge, so he can’t help but hate. If he doesn’t, he’ll go crazy. He has to hurt him with his own hands, he can’t let anyone else take that from him.
Besides, there was a possibility that he didn’t dare mention.
He had a guess that princess Flare might still be alive. The fact that the room was set on fire was suspicious to him. That man did it to hide something.
The royal guard captain loved princess Flare. He was too afraid to say it out loud, but the feelings he had were of love and lust.
No matter how much he wanted to, he could never reach her. But what if the princess Flare who was found dead was also an impostor, just like him? And if the real princess Flare had become that man’s puppet, then he could take her.
It was something unlikely, but the idea charmed his mind. He wanted it, so much. Princess Flare’s smile, voice and body, all of her would become his.
Revenge and desire.
The man who had been dyed in both those colors would make his move.
The Healing Hero Keyaru… no, Keyaruga was not yet aware of that.