Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 406: Good News
When Tauro and Zion returned to the inn that evening, they found Ankh in Tauro’s room, pleasantly cheerful after several drinks.
“Oh, Leader! And… Zion?”
Ankh blinked in surprise, then grinned.
“I had almost forgotten you were a girl. That dress suits you very well.”
Zion looked delighted by the compliment.
Tauro was mildly surprised that Ankh noticed such things so readily.
I’m terribly insensitive about matters like this. I should pay more attention from now on.
“Where’s Ragune?” Tauro asked.
“I only returned a little while ago myself, but she wasn’t here when I arrived,” Ankh replied.
“Then I’ll discuss the idea with you first.”
Tauro proposed moving their base to the Graunewald territorial capital.
“Finally!” Ankh said at once. “The territorial capital is magnificent. You can look forward to seeing it. I spent enough time there that I consider it a second home.”
Such enthusiastic praise was unusual for him.
“Then you agree. We only need to ask Ragune—hm?”
Tauro sensed someone appear in Ragune and Zion’s room next door.
Ragune had returned through [Dimensional Corridor]. A moment later, she entered Tauro’s room with an unusually radiant expression.
“Everyone is here. Excellent!”
She looked happier than if she had merely been drinking.
“Did something good happen?” Tauro asked.
“Hehehe… Aeris has completely recovered from her injury!”
“What?” Tauro and Ankh exclaimed together.
“I visited Aeris today,” Ragune explained. “That was when I learned the lingering damage in her leg had finally been cured.”
“We were told that the injury was too severe for even the dragonfolk healers to repair completely,” Tauro said.
That permanent damage had forced Aeris to retire from adventuring shortly before her sixteenth birthday.
“Do you remember the three senior dragonfolk I brought to the Van Dyne Marquisate?” Ragune asked. “One of them possesses [True Saint]. I asked her whether she could continue treating Aeris, so she remained there and worked on the injury.”
“Then the treatment truly succeeded?”
Tauro was afraid to celebrate before he understood clearly.
“Yes. At first, even the [True Saint] believed complete recovery would be extremely difficult. Then I remembered what you told me about the human body being made of tiny things called cells.”
“I passed that idea to her, and it gave her a new approach. According to the explanation, she eliminated the cells that had been abnormally altered by the earth magic from my spear, then stimulated Aeris’s healthy cells to multiply and replace the damaged or missing tissue.”
Ragune scratched her cheek.
“I don’t understand the details myself, but the important point is that Aeris’s leg has been completely restored.”
Even after Aeris forgave her, Ragune had never stopped feeling responsible for the accident. She had quietly asked the [True Saint] to continue searching for a cure.
A casual remark from Tauro about damage occurring at the cellular level had provided the crucial hint.
“I see…” Tauro breathed. “Aeris won’t have to live with the aftereffects anymore. Thank goodness.”
His relief was overwhelming.
Tauro had rarely spoken about the injury because he feared making Ragune feel blamed, but he had remained deeply worried about Aeris.
The original treatment had saved her life, yet not even a legendary healer had been able to restore the leg completely at the time.
Tauro’s amateur theory about magically altered cells had only been speculation. Somehow, it had pointed the [True Saint] toward a successful treatment.
“That’s wonderful,” Ankh said, his happiness made even more exuberant by the alcohol. “Aeris can now live as the daughter of a marquis without having to worry about her leg.”
“Congratulations,” Zion said. “I’m truly happy for all of you.”
She celebrated the news as sincerely as though Aeris were already her own friend.
“Still, you should’ve told us what you were planning when you brought those senior dragonfolk to the marquisate,” Ankh said.
“I’m sorry,” Ragune replied. “The [True Saint] warned me that the chance of complete recovery was small. I didn’t want to raise everyone’s hopes without reason.”
“I understand,” Tauro said. “This removes a weight all of us have carried. Thank you, Ragune.”
“Aeris must be overjoyed,” Ankh said. “How did she seem?”
“She was happy about the recovery,” Ragune replied slowly. “But she still looked troubled by something. I’m sure she’ll feel better after I visit again.”
The hesitation in her answer drew everyone’s attention.
“Is something else worrying Aeris?” Tauro asked.
“Perhaps. She refuses to explain and keeps insisting that it’s nothing serious.”
Ragune then looked around the crowded room.
“Why was everyone gathered here?”
“Right. I still need to ask your opinion.”
Tauro repeated his proposal to move to the territorial capital.
Ragune readily agreed.
Early the following morning, Black-Gold Wings checked out of the inn and departed Caxart for the Graunewald territorial capital.