The Blind Saint Who Can See - Chapter 6
Only Noblemtl
#6. Black Death (1)
It’s already been a month since I was left on this damn ship.
At first, my body was tied up like a caterpillar, but soon it was freed.
“Would a blind kid ever escape? Feeding him is starting to become a bother, so just let him go.”
Thanks to that, the only restraint left is one wrist.
This is worth a try.
‘The bigger problem is the epidemic.’
When I heard those guys talking, there was an incident that definitely came to mind.
“My mother fell victim to the plague in Hocheon ten years ago. I will definitely end that son of a bitch with my own hands.”
Liliana, a member of the main character party in the comics and the princess of the branch country.
She says this during the Ho-Cheon Subjugation event, explaining how cruel and dangerous an enemy he is.
‘Now that I think about it, the timing is right.’
In the original, Cedric meets the protagonist when he is twenty-four years old.
He was exactly fourteen years old now, so it had been exactly ten years since Liliana had spoken.
“I’ve decided.”
We need to resolve the epidemic event.
Even if I can’t do it perfectly, I must at least save Liliana’s mother.
‘If you change the main character’s life, you will get a lot of points.’
Even solving the epidemic could dramatically increase the number of people ‘saved’ at once.
So-called high risk, high return.
Although it was somewhat risky, it was well worth a try.
No, you absolutely must.
‘Let’s escape first.’
I gained physical freedom thanks to stupid men misunderstanding that I was blind.
I looked around and saw a fly sticking out of a box.
“Okay, let’s do that first… … .”
After a few twists and turns, the rope snapped.
Phew, I’m finally free.
Next is the ambush.
‘Just come and see.’
It must have been about two hours since I hid myself between the boxes.
The small boat rocked gently as if it had settled into the harbor.
“Hey, get that girl out.”
A rough voice is heard immediately.
“What an unlucky kid. He acts like he’s his superior.”
He grumbled, opened the door in the ceiling, and climbed down the ladder.
“Huh? What, where did the kid go?”
“Over here!”
“What the- kekekeke!”
Having caught his eye, I threw the bricks in the box with all my might.
It seems that even a grown man could not have been hit by a rock and escaped unscathed. The man rolled his eyes and passed out.
There’s some blood coming from my head… I hope he’s not dead?
“what’s the matter?!”
Soon the man’s stupid colleague comes down the ladder. I quickly hide my body.
“You idiot! Did you roll around alone?”
Are you sure?
“100 million!”
The second one is handled in the same way.
While the men were unconscious, I quickly climbed up the ladder, wearing the money bag I had taken from the box on my waist.
There were no other sailors on the small ship. I ran across the deck like a squirrel.
A sailor on the other ship saw me and asked me.
“Hey kid. Did you come on a boat with your dad?”
“yes!”
When I answered with a smile, the sailor laughed heartily and waved his hand.
“Have a nice trip! Terra is such a great country to live in!”
Of course not.
The monarchy is shaken, illegal slave trade is taking place in secret, and soon an epidemic will spread, but it is a good country.
I muttered to myself and jumped down from the boat.
‘I’m fine with the clothes I’m wearing. I guess I’ll have to find a room nearby today.’
I guess I’ll have to take my time and think about what to do next.
***
“Please give me a room. And dinner too.”
“Oh my, you are a shy little guest. Did you come alone?”
An inn near the port.
When I spoke bluntly, deliberately avoiding eye contact, the landlady laughed, perhaps thinking I was being shy.
That’s not it.
I just wanted to hide the fact that it was out of focus. Judging from the men’s reactions, it seems like it’s obvious when you look closely.
“It was originally 3,000 pesos if you did it until dinner, but I’ll only charge 2,000 pesos. It’s a special service for children.”
“Go, thank you.”
But the service is always right.
I handed over the money, still avoiding eye contact.
“Here’s the key. Be careful not to lose it, and come down to the first floor right away, because it’s dinner time soon.”
“yes.”
After receiving the key, I just threw my luggage in the room as she said.
As I was about to go out again, a mirror in a corner of the room came into view.
‘Now that I think about it… .’
“This kid has no focus in his eyes.”
Suddenly the sailors’ words come to mind.
‘What the heck are your eyes?’
If you were blinded by sparks, you might have suffered a major burn inside your eye. If so, your eyes might be completely bloodshot or your pupils might be unsightly and cloudy.
… … It’s scary to look at.
Still, I can’t not see it.
I walked up to the mirror as if possessed. Then I stopped.
“…ah.”
The girl in the mirror looked embarrassed.
His hair was ashen, his face was covered in scars, and his clothes, which had been strewn about at the fire scene, were covered in ash.
It was still pretty though.
Rather than letting the dirt obscure her beauty, it actually makes her look even cuter once she’s washed off.
And the eyes were what I was most worried about.
‘… …It’s like glass.’
It is completely different from that of a typical blind person.
A completely still state where the body is completely fixed in a straight line, not moving at all, not rolling around because it cannot focus.
If we have to be specific, it’s a pretty glass bead.
Or the eyes of an elaborate doll.
I guess that’s what it feels like.
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t move my eyes. It didn’t seem like my optic nerve was simply damaged.
There was another strange thing.
‘You’re so fine.’
All this time I had assumed that the cause of my blindness was a spark in my eye.
If I had done that, I would have suffered serious eye burns. But I only lost my eyesight, and my eyes themselves were fine. Like someone born blind.
It’s really strange.
This was a phenomenon that I could not understand with my common sense.
‘…Let’s go down first.’
I can’t just sit here blankly forever.
I shook off my ash-stained clothes and went down to the first floor. I could hear the chatter of people, as if it was a fairly popular inn.
“Here, soup! If you feel like it’s not enough, you can have more.”
“Thank you.”
“Oh my! You’re so cute. Hey, eat some of this too. You’re so skinny, it’s sad to see me like that.”
She even served me some pickled peaches as a side and then went back into the kitchen.
What about humanity?
‘It’s absolutely delicious!’
Even the soup is delicious!
As I was eating in a hurry, a very drunk mercenary at the next table slammed the table.
“What?! My daughter is sick?! Isn’t that a big deal?! What about the doctor?”
“Haa, the doctor said that this is a disease he’s never seen before. Both of my hands have turned completely black now.”
My spoon-feeding stopped when I heard that story. I quickly walked over to that table and asked.
“Can you tell me more about that story?”
“Arthur. This is something a child shouldn’t hear.”
… I was rejected as soon as I asked.
There is no one like Danhobak who makes a gesture by waving his hand to tell it to go away.
Is this difficult?
Isn’t the virtue of a mercenary the ability to drink and easily spill information?
Maybe it’s because he has a daughter, but he seems to be kind to children.
‘I can’t help it.’
It’s annoying, but I have no choice but to make excuses.
“I am a trainee doctor. While I was learning from my master, I heard of a patient with similar symptoms.”
“Really? You’re a trainee doctor?”
no.
But I know exactly what the disease is.
“At first, you had a fever and a headache, and then a day later, you suddenly felt pain in your chest or started vomiting blood? Then, starting from the extremities, the skin gradually turned black and started to die.”
“omg!”
The mercenary who heard my words suddenly stood up.
“Hey, do you even know how to fix it? You can fix it, right?!”
“Yes, I can fix it. But I’ll have to hurry.”
I said calmly.
“That disease has a very short lifespan. In severe cases, death can occur in as little as six hours.”
The man’s eyes wavered.
To be honest, if it was the words of a twelve-year-old child, it would have been easy to ignore, but seeing as he couldn’t shake them off, it seemed that they were desperate.
Well, the level of medical care in this era was truly miserable.
“I’ll give you anything, anything, as long as my daughter gets better. Tomorrow… no, even today, if it’s okay, come to my house.”
“Hey, Mars. Do you believe what a child says? Wouldn’t it be better to go to a proper doctor?”
“All the doctors are idiots! They tried to pour boiling water on Amy to stop the bleeding in her lungs!”
Wow. That was a bit much.
The opposing mercenary must have thought the same as me because he scratched the back of his head after hearing the man named Mars’s words.
Mars turned his head towards me, his fists clenched.
“Is there anything you need to treat it? I can get the medicine even if I have to go out and buy it. I’m the first person to know about the disease my daughter has.”
“I don’t need medicine… ah!”
As I was following him as he walked briskly, I tripped and fell.
“Kid, are you okay?”
Mars was concerned about me even in the midst of my urgency. I smiled at him out of habit.
“are you okay.”
“What’s wrong, your eyes… … .”
What the heck? Why are you looking like that?
‘Oh, right.’
I was so focused on the conversation that I forgot what my eyes were like.
I’m also quite a carefree person.