NOVEL NEXT Book 15: Chapter 3: Part3
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Part 3
Around the time Yuuya met Shu.
Something unusual happened to the body of the woman who was in the coffin.
“…Ah…”
The woman groaned in agony with sweat on her forehead.
This voice was noticed by Lexia, who had come to check on the woman.
“Hmm? H-hey, Luna!”
“What’s wrong?”
“She looks like she’s in a lot of pain!”
“What?”
Luna checked her immediately and put her hand on the woman’s forehead.
“She has a terrible fever…”
The woman had a fever, and her temperature had risen considerably.
After hearing Luna’s words, Lexia involuntarily panicked.
“Oh, no! W-what shall we do?”
“Calm down. But healing magic doesn’t work on sick people…”
If this were an injury, it could be treated with healing magic.
However, the only way to treat an illness was with medicine.
However, the woman was currently unconscious and could not be given the medicine.
Still, they could not just leave her like that, and as they thought about what to do, Lexia had an idea.
“T-That’s right! Let’s ask Ouma-sama to take her somewhere cold!”
“Are you an idiot?”
“Why? She has such a fever she needs to be cooled down!”
“That’s true, but something’s wrong!”
“Then what do you want me to do?”
“That’s…”
In her haste, Lexia had said something outrageous, but she didn’t realize it.
Then Yuti came in.
She was holding a bucket of water and a towel.
“Bring. I brought wet towels.”
Lexia and Luna were stunned.
Lexia immediately opens her mouth in admiration.
“Well done, Yuti.”
“In fact, why can’t you think of something so simple…?”
“Hey! Even Luna didn’t think of this!”
The two started to argue again.
By the way, Lexia was not the type to catch a cold very often, and Luna had been doing her job regardless of her health, so both of them had almost no experience in taking care of sick people.
In response, Yuti placed a towel on the struggling woman’s forehead, even though the two of them were arguing.
Yuti herself had received care from Archer every time she fell ill, so she was able to take care of her in this way.
Ouma, who had come to see how the three of them were doing, muttered in dismay.
“Good grief, what are you going to do…?”
Then he gently poured cold air into the room with magic and left.
“…Mmm…”
“Huh? Oh, Lu-Luna! W-wasn’t there a voice just now!”
Lexia, who quickly sensed the presence of an awakening woman, called to Luna.
Then the next moment──.
“…Ah…!”
“L-look! She’s awake!”
“I know, so don’t make a fuss!”
The woman opened her eyes softly.
Lexia called the woman.
“Are you okay? Can you hear my voice?”
“…..”
But the woman still had a blank expression on her face and looked somewhat absent-minded.
As Lexia and the others looked at each other, they heard the sound of her stomach growling.
“Lexia?”
“I-it’s not me! Isn’t that from you, Luna?”
“Of course not, but…”
“Attention. I heard it from this woman.”
“”Ah…””
Yuti’s words calm them both.
Lexia looked at the woman again, and a worried look appeared on her face.
“Well… if you think about it, she was in that coffin the whole time… no wonder she’s hungry… okay, I’ve decided!”
“…What have you decided?”
Luna asked Lexia, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Then Lexia puffed out her chest as if to say, what are you asking me?
“Nothing to worry about, just cook for this girl!”
“By the way, who will cook for her?”
“Me, of course!”
“Rejected.”
“Why?”
When Lexia was quickly rejected, she immediately snapped back.
However, Luna continued to be undaunted by Lexia.
“You don’t know anything about your own cooking, do you?”
“Of course I do.”
“If you knew, you wouldn’t be talking about cooking!”
“What do you mean? I have the ability to cook! What’s the problem?”
“Your cooking is life-threatening!”
“Huh? What are you talking about? How can cooking be life-threatening?”
“That dish almost killed me, you know.”
Yes, Lexia was not only dangerous in her cooking, but the food she produced also had a terrible taste.
Normally, if you tasted the food, you would be able to tell whether it was good or not.
However, Lexia did not feel anything special when she tasted her own cooking, so it was meaningless for her to taste it.
For this reason, Luna wanted to prevent Lexia from cooking at all costs.
But…
“Jeez, you’re so annoying! If you’re so worried, why don’t you cook for her, Luna?”
“That’s…”
“I’ll cook no matter what you say!”
“H-hey!”
Lexia said, quickly walking into the kitchen.
The next moment, the woman’s stomach rumbled again.
But even under such circumstances, the woman’s consciousness showed no signs of awakening, and she still had a blank expression on her face.
Seeing such a woman, Luna let out a sigh.
“…Hah. It can’t be helped. Yuti, I’m sorry, but can you take care of this woman for me?”
“Roger.”
After asking Yuti to take care of the woman, Luna immediately went to the kitchen.
At that moment, a knife flew out as if it was waiting for Luna.
“!?”
“Geez, why did the knife slip… and you came too, Luna?”
“Yes. After what I just saw, I couldn’t leave you alone anymore.”
It was dangerous to cook near Lexia, but it was even scarier to leave her like this.
If something went wrong, the kitchen might explode… or something like that.
Most importantly, even without such a massive accident, Yuuya’s house would be damaged.
To prevent this, Luna had to stay close to Lexia as her supervisor.
Most importantly, she could not let the hungry woman eat Lexia’s food, which was a highly lethal substance.
So the dangerous cooking began, and immediately, a disturbing voice came from next to Luna.
“Hmm… I still don’t think it’s stimulating enough… let’s put all that bright red powder in there.”
“…..”
It was scary to look at her, but for now, Luna concentrated on cooking her own food.
Knives and pans flew at her as if she had forgotten them, but each time, Luna threw out her strings and saved the wall from further damage.
“Thank you, Luna! It’s disturbing to see frying pans flying through the air.”
“I know.”
Luna had no more time to complain to Lexia.
While Luna’s cooking went well, Lexia’s dish was ready one step ahead of hers.
“It’s done!”
Lexia’s dish, just like the previous one, looked very tasty.
But the actual taste could not be determined without tasting it.
Luna’s cooking was almost finished.
“It’s ready, too. But yours is──”
“Let’s feed her right away!”
“H-hey!”
And before Luna could stop her, Lexia grabbed her own food and went straight to the woman.
“I brought it!”
“…Worried. Is it okay?”
As Yuti looked at Lexia with an unusually worried expression on her face, Lexia proudly held out her chest.
“I’m fine, of course! If she eats my cooking, she will recover in no time!”
“Negative. I’m not worried about that…”
Although she worries about the women, Yuti’s biggest concern was how Lexia’s cooking would turn out.
But despite Yuti’s concerns, Lexia spooned up the finished stew-like dish and gently tried to feed it to the woman.
“Here you go!”
“…..”
The woman’s nose moved slightly, and the frail woman reflexively took a mouthful of Lexia’s dish.
Then──.
“!? Tremble, tremble…”
“H-hey, what’s wrong with her?”
“…Bull’s eye. I knew it…”
Then the woman started foaming at the mouth and… widened her eyes.
Just as Yuti had feared, Lexia’s cooking was terrible.
The woman was foaming at the mouth because she had tasted such a dish.
However, Lexia, who did not think her cooking was the cause in the least, held out a spoon to feed the woman more food.
“I knew you were hungry and sick! Then eat more!”
The woman still had a blank expression on her face, but her body was already rejecting the food, and she shivered slightly, breaking into a cold sweat.
Just then, Luna came over as well.
“Hey, you idiot, stop it!”
“Idiot, you say! What’s the matter?”
Luna quickly gave the woman a drink of water she had brought with her, ignoring Lexia’s anger at being called an idiot.
At that moment, even though the woman had not yet woken up, she swallowed the water as if she was going to devour it.
Seeing her like that, Luna took a deep breath.
“Thank goodness… she seems to have survived…”
“What do you mean?”
“…You don’t need to know. More importantly, try this.”
This time, Luna took a spoonful of the food she had prepared and held it out to the woman, who put her mouth to the spoon with a blank expression on her face.
Seeing this, Lexia was surprised.
“Huh? Has she recovered enough to eat by herself? I knew my cooking was──”
“That’s not true, don’t worry.”
“Why not?”
The woman continued to eat while the two of them exchanged their usual banter.
And… eventually, a light came into the woman’s eyes.
“Ugh… ah… I-I’m…”
──And so the woman finally regained consciousness.
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