Author: aji (あじ)
Translator: sleepingjay
31
A healer healed any ills.
That was how the saying went, but a healer could not heal mental illness.
Her case, which had been diagnosed as postpartum disorder, brought with it a new wind. Through a meeting, it was decided that they would seriously establish a facility specialising in treating mental illness.
As usual, Hank, the tanuki beastman that I didn’t get along with, rejected it on the basis that a business that didn’t make money was a useless endeavour. However, for mental illness, the mainstream treatments were drug therapy and counseling. If we could build up the field of mental healthcare, then even people who hadn’t been able to become healers could participate and flourish in this new field.
Those who couldn’t use magic, and those who practised herbal medicine — these people could be the ones spearheading the group.
Even in this town, there were many of these people that continued to live in obscurity. Faced with that argument, Hank kept his mouth shut. In fact, he himself said that he would go to the capital to report this. I didn’t think he would go that far, but to be fair, he was a caring guy before he started toadying up with the nobility.
For a future where experts in examining the mind—mental health carers—could flourish, everyone began to move together.
My work abruptly became busier. I probably wouldn’t be able to take a break until things calmed down to some extent.
Today, I was again going to town to sell medicine, forgoing my lunch.
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I was perfectly fine with being boring. Only a fool would want to talk about himself while knowing that rumours were running wild about him.
There were rumors about us all over the town.
People who used to be only strangers now turned their gazes on me, looking at me like a rare beast. Amongst them, there were even those who grumbled out of jealousy.
I didn’t like having attention on me, and I didn’t like to talk about pointless things.
I was also busy. Lately, I was always irritated due to stress and lack of sleep.
Even on the littlest things, blood would rise to my head, and sometimes I had even been mean towards Bel.
Each time, he would smile bravely, as if saying “It’s fine,” making me unable to stand it and want to run away.
I would like to have someone else take over the selling of medicine at the town until the rumours disappeared, but everyone was on the same boat and had no time to spare, so I wouldn’t ask.
While I was sighing in disgust, my ears caught the voices of some women speaking.
“Oh my, isn’t that him?”
“That unusual balck hair and the healer’s robe…… No doubt about it, he’s Hero-sama‘s sweetheart.”
“I’m so envious. If it was me, I would never refuse.”
“I’ve heard it before, but it seems he has a very arrogant and bad personality. He probably still looks down on us.”
“Is that so? He’s an insatiable person, huh.”
“…………Just because he has a slightly nicer face. Anyway, he’s just using his body to get what he wants. A disgusting man.
Those mouths chattered on and on, incessantly.
Because I knew it was the jealousy talking, I would have been able to brush it off. That was, if I was my usual self.
However, right now I got angry at everything and anything, and before I realised it, I was glaring at the women.
The women, knowing they were heard, looked down awkwardly.
Amongst them, a woman with green hair, who had been especially disparaging of me, looked me in the eye and spat out:
“I wish you would disappear immediately.”
Behind the woman with hatred harboured in her eyes, I thought I might have seen something swaying, something that looked like a black haze.
TN:
Sorry, I’m not sure what happened, but this didn’t get published last week (it’s still scheduled for Nov 11). And I was busy last week irl so I didn’t realise. Sorry guys.
How is it Lilius’ fault that Jill likes him? Why can’t they mind their own business? eye roll
Thanks for the chapter <3
Ugh, just because didn’t get picked don’t mean u have permission to be an asshole people 🙄. Poor MC don’t worry us readers are on ur side no matter what!
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter! ^^)❤
Jealous gossip-mongers, they should seriously mind their own business. And it looks like Lilius will be targeted again. Let’s hope he’ll be fine this time.
No worries!! Thank you for the chapter!!!
How hateful. He’s really kind working as a healer for those People and they talk trash about him? That’s awful. Poor Lily.
Thanks for the chapter!
why isn’t bel saying anything?? something like, ‘whoops, i’m sorry, but i think i might have told the Commander that you have a lover’ huh?? sAY SOMETHING-
i’m sorry aaaa i comment wrong thing!