Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
Jill 11
After moving to a neighbouring room, Jill asked him what had happened.
“Is that man just now your superior?”
“……That tanuki is this place’s old-timer, so he’s more or less my superior. Although he’s got the ability, I don’t know since when, but he’s degraded into this trash that refuses to treat unless there’s money.”
At Jill’s question, Lilius sighed while detailing the whole story.
However, it seemed his anger hadn’t settled, because he became unusually emotional.
Jill let out a troubled smile, then momentarily paused the conversation.
Making Lilius sit on a nearby chair, Jill patted his back until he calmed down.
“My bad…… It’s fine, I’m alright now.”
“Aren’t you over-exerting yourself?
“Aa. That guy is too much…… Because of him looking down on her, I ended up angry without thinking…… Sorry, I showed you something shameful. It must be annoying to keep seeing the ugly parts of me.”
While blushing due to shame, Lilius grumbled out as such in a small voice.
Usually he had a cold expression, but in fact, Jill was also fond of this side of him that was straightforward with a strong sense of justice.
However, it was true that it was easy to make enemies like this.
Actually, after seeing the dispute just now, more than ever, Jill became worried, feeling like he couldn’t take his eyes off of him.
“Anybody would become emotional, don’t mind it.”
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“Are you sleeping properly?”
“No problem. I’m fine.”
But now he was worried about Lilius.
Looking closely, there were shadows under Lilius’s eyes.
Just now he hadn’t noticed, but now that Lilius had calmed down, he could see that Lilius’s skin seemed to have a worse complexion than usual.
Looking at this dispirited figure, this matter didn’t seem to be the only cause.
“Around dusk, the woman rushed into the institute with her baby. It’s visible how she’s driven up the wall just by looking at her tattered state. Listening to her story, she had postpartum depression and fought alone until she asked for help here. She almost raised her hand against her precious baby. On the verge of that, she finally came to ask us for help. That was decisive of her. It’s nothing to be ashamed of.”
“And then did your superior do something to her?”
“Aa. He said that it wasn’t an illness and turned her away. ‘It happened because your heart is weak’. But in actuality, there’s no money to collect from her because her husband is now away on work. That was why that tanuki turned her away.”
“If you apply for it, there should be a system so that the empire bears the charge. The healer’s fee will be paid from the country’s tax, so the healer corps shouldn’t suffer a loss.”
By means of the healthcare system introduced fifty years ago, people became able to receive the healing magic that was expensive, without considering their class.
As for the healing method before then, commoners mainly used herbs as medical examination by a healer was treated as something only nobility could receive.
“That’s true, but even though this is in the empire, it’s the most rural part of it. From applying to acceptance, it’ll take time. If you look at the healer corps institution overall, to get back the applied amount from the capital would take several months, which is troublesome. That’s why that tanuki don’t want patients that can’t pay on the spot. They treat the nobles and the rich, and tell me to drive the rest away, calling me an idiot.”
But, I wish I could be a bit calmer.
Lilius spilled the last sentence with a small, almost disappearing voice.
“That isn’t just the problem of you and the healers, our side also has the fault for not being able to correspond promptly. Although my power may be limited, when I return to the capital, I will get in touch with the authorities.”
Listening to Lilius’s story, Jill felt that there was a problem with how it took so long in the current conditions.
Fifty years ago, to bring in the public healthcare system, new ministries were created, and the church people became the ministers.
This act of allowing the non-nobility church members to be inaugurated as ministers was made with the aim of preventing the balance from being tilted to one side.
The creation of the healer corps was also around this time. Before that, the healers were not attached to anybody, they were free in action, and they made a living by becoming exclusive healers of the nobility.
Sometimes healing was done at the church too, and the relationship between healers and church had always been strong.
Hence, listening to it, there had been many conflicts between the church people and the imperial court when this matter was first raised.
However this time, through the arrangement of a new system, the current situation now was getting better.
It was to the point where healers from neighbouring countries came here to seek stability.
It was probably mainly because it was an opportunity for those who up to then gave up on the healing path because of lack of magic power, and also people who had the will to learn.
By moving as an organisation rather than an individual, the range of action had expanded.
However, in fifty years, points of imperfections were still a lot, leading to the current situation.
“I don’t want you to fire that tanuki or something.”
Then, Lilius frowned and asked this of Jill.
“Certainly that guy is the worst and has changed. But before this, he was a much more reliable man. Although he was often hot-blooded, the one who supported the healers who worked in this institute was that idiot tanuki. So—”
“I understand, Lilius. I won’t intervene with him. I’ll let you and him face off and settle it. However, can you promise that you won’t do dangerous behaviour like today’s?”
“Fine, I’ll promise. I also said cruel things to that guy, so that’s why I thought that it’s my own fault if I got hit.”
“You’re fellow men. Occasionally there might be those things. But both of you are already well in your adult years, so you should restrain from being too violent.”
“……In the end, I still got a preaching after all.”
“I’m already restraining myself.”
“That’s terrible. Anyone who angers you would have to listen to your nagging preaching for who knows how long.”
Because Lilius said that without even an attitude of reflection, a vein bulged on Jill’s forehead.
Seeing that, Lilius quietly turned his gaze away.
“……I’ve gotten hungry. I’ve made you wait a long time, how about we go now?”
“You turned the topic again. You sure are a difficult one.”
“Hmph, if you are always angry like that, someday your blood vessel is going to burst you know?”
In the end, Jill was still moved by Lilius who apologised with upturned eyes, even if his apology had a sense of ridicule in it.
While sighing, Jill agreed to his suggestion.
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Thanks for the chapter! ^ ^)♡
Hehe. They’re close enough to scold each other like this, huh.
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Thank you for the chapter!!! I have a feeling that their relationship will bring major changes not just to them but to the entire empire. Good thing!!!
I love when they bicker lol
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thank you for the chapter ❤️! it’s like an old married couple bickering :’)
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thanks for the chapter!