Chapter 72: Hero Meeting (V).

Avery's suggestion was rather bizarre that I didn't even think of other world sickness would be here.

Since medicinal study was something if rare as a dragon. No would would bother trifling their time on sickness that can't be healed on magic and simply calls it a curse.

"So what do you think- I mean it all would make sense if she has anything similar to that?" (Avery)

I shake my head, no we still can't forget the fact that this sickness is also eating or absorbing the mana.

"No it can't be that..." The possibility of it being anything like cancer would be high. I've been here all my life and I've never sort of seen it. "Can it?" I held my chin in question to her suggestion, looking over in disbelief.

Even if it's not I wouldn't want to regret not trying the medicine in my world- the modern world should be advanced enough to see but then the matter of payment would be in question.

"Haven't you lived here longer than me? I've seen people heal cuts and wounds so-"

"Well something like a persistent virus would be something not easy to just heal. Cuts and wounds the healer sees it and knows what to cast. Knowing what they need to focus on." (Rose) slightly bites her finger where blood was slowly dripping out of her skin.

"A healer will know where the problem lies." She places her hand over her finger and lets a small light magic circle hover it. Slowly the small wound she made was healing on its own. "And then they focus all their magic on it."

"But since in the first princess' case- well you don't know where it is? Haven't you guys considered surgery? And I have a question- what if you just focus your magic on all parts of the body?" (Avery) asks and Rose answers gently like a good teacher she is.

"My Father, the king doesn't believe in surgeries and even if we did it would be his stubborn head and pride at fault but... medicine with a mix of magic herbs help her get somewhat stable and Father supports that way."

So basically the king would take anything magically natural to him. He's not the type to trust on doctors and more on healers or mages.

"For your other suggestion. I'm afraid that's not the case, nothing will change. We still won't know what's causing the reason and such... sure we try to heal all parts of the body- but we still need to know what kind of sickness or wound we're dealing with."

Avery and I were just a little confused, but we're getting it. So if we heal all parts of the body- it would be a little useless unless we know what we're dealing with. "However your suggestion on healing every part to know where the virus lies has already been done, it's how my mother found out that something unknown was growing near her heart and thus needed to get it removed."

"Surgery-"

"The moment we found out her body would be too weak to handle such a thing so we stuck with medicine until her body... wasn't responding to the effects of the medicine. It seems that the curse has been immune." (Rose)

"We can't say early for sure. I'm not someone with medical expertise, I'm uncertain and we shouldn't make any rash decisions upon the matter." I acted upon telling the hero and made her listen in on the plan.

"The focus would be- getting the dragon's heart to help start making the cure."

The plan that was made with the Winshern Princess was short in detail and would even end her sentences at a really climax point to where I started getting irritated more by her presence.

"Basically we've heard there was a dragon living somewhere in [Sprivanto], we need to track it down and take its heart." I took on a map that we made where the last sights of the beast were seen.

Avery whips her head to look at the map. There a few circled landmarks, all caves, surrounded by mountains and rivers, possibly a good place for a dragon to live in peace and hibernate.

With one last look double checking if she was right she turned to me and said. "I'm afraid these parts are empty, these were all Avina's home until she was kicked out."

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Pardon?

Who the hell is Avina?

"Oh right- err... the face you're making right now says it all." She chuckles awkwardly and tells us a little bit more about who this girl was. "Avina is the newly appointed Demon Lord who was forced to take on the title because she got bored living in caves. She's a dragon preferring to be inside but because of all the attacks she left."

Rose looks at the map and it's circled caves, there were a few and it seems that humans attacked her so much she relocated into different homes. All in dense forest or at the top of the mountains.

"The new appointed Demon lord is a dragon..." (Rose) for some reason her eyes glittered with hope. All our goals are aligning. "If you can kill the demon lord, we may get the heart and the heroes can safely go to their homes-"

"That's the thing- I can't really do that at the moment." (Avery) scratches the back of her neck and proceeds to take a long sip of her drink trying not to look in our way. "M-Maybe we can find another dragon we can slay- you know? Some demon who's not like-"

"And why is it that you can't do that? You're a summoned hero, that's the only thing you have to do at this point." I crossed my arms together raising my eyebrow, I feel that Avery is hiding something about the demon lord. She can't even look straight at me with her eyes.

"Don't tell me you're scared?" I told her trying to get some reaction out of her but that only made her seem more angry.

"Scared?!" (Avery) yells putting the empty cup down on the table and points a finger at me.

"That demon is clearly the one who should be afraid of me! As if! Not in a million years! She can just buzz off! And you too! You can buzz off for even telling me that I'll be afraid of that pretty demon dragon lady!" she does a little 'hmph' and I stare at her like what in the hell?!

"Pardon me but... pretty demon dragon lady...?" (Rose) covers her mouth feeling and I didn't even notice that part of her words but-

"Hold on-" I shake my head laughing so ironically on this stupid quest of the hero to defeat and kill the demon lord. "You think the demon lord is pretty-"

"Pretty stupid." (Avery) takes the kettle and refills her cup.

"And so I'm not afraid, please we can even start going there right now and I'll show you how not afraid I am." She smiles cockily with her words, taking even more coffee and drinking it with a slow sip.

I could see her hands shaking a little and well-

Clearly she's not afraid of the demon lord, so does she like the demon lord?

"Kein... Are we thinking the same thing right now towards Miss Williams?" (Rose) leans over to me in a whisper and I nod, clearly she's in the terms of finding out if she likes the demon lord or not but the fool can't even admit it!

Ha!

Rose pulls my sleeves. "She's giving off the same vibes when you and big sister Gisela can't admit your feelings towards the person you like."

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Ouch... that was rather personal. I stared at Avery who was really looking irritated.

"Pah! Me?! Afraid of the demon lord, what a load of bullcrap. She's the one afraid of me- as if I'll ever be afraid of that. I could even beat her in my sleep!" (Avery) seemed to be going insane with all of her spouting.

"W-Were we that bad?" I point at Avery still spouting on how she hates the demon lord and how she can even take her on one on one combat in her underwear.

I question why underwear was involved.

"Compared to now- well before was another story." Many of our memories were fond ones. We were either messing around with one another and me visiting the orphanage when I can, volunteering and watching Rose teach for hours when I was allowed.

"You were actually quite adorable and would go on a little silent with the color of your face turning a little red when you couldn't admit it. I loved that side of you." (Rose) tells me and my ears were already turning a bit red.

"Um... Gisela on the other hand."historical

Okay memories with Gisela wasn't- that good and we even wonder how could big sister Valentina withstand all of that damage from her fists. She was even sent flying to a wall only to be healed later- this happened not once but more than I could even count!

When big sister Valentina would bring Gisela flowers...

"Y-You idiot bringing flowers in here what if someone could see?!"

Actually the memory was a bit foggy but big sister Gisela was planning to hug her and then she slipped so she accidentally punched her in the face earning a black eye, good times?