45 – Heat (5)

How long had it been since they happily threw mud at each other and rubbed it with mud?

As all the mud that was not made much fell, the mud fight between the two naturally stopped, and the two faced each other, who had turned into mud.

“What are we doing?”

“Iknow, right.”

The mud-covered body was heavy, and it was hot from moving for a long time.

“Let’s wash.”

“Yes. Are you going to the waterfall?”

“yes. That would be better.”

“It’s been a while since I went to the river!”

The two headed to the river after packing only simple equipment to protect themselves without a basket.

After reaching the river, my clothes were all covered in mud, so I went under the waterfall and washed myself with my clothes on.

“Wait, there’s a lot of mud in my hair here.”

“Wash me.”

“yes.”

Chester loosened the mud from Monia’s hair and washed it.

As the mud was loosened, Monia’s hair slipped through Chester’s fingers without any snag.

After Chester washed her hair, Monia came out of the waterfall and brushed her hair off for a while before putting it together.

“Whew.”

After tidying up her hair, Monia still watches Chester washing herself at the waterfall, only to notice that the middle of his back hasn’t been properly washed.

“Wait a minute, I’ll wash it for you.”

“yes? thanks.”

As Chester stretches out his back, Monia’s hands gently caress Chester’s broad back.

Monia moved her fingers delicately, savoring the firm back muscles that curled into Chester’s back.

‘Ugh… .’

Monia washed Chester’s back with a hand that she indulged without realizing it.

“Let me see your back too.”

“Yes.”

“Ah, I buried it here. Stay still.”

“Hick! Sigh!”

How long has it been since you washed the mud completely by washing the parts that are out of reach or difficult to wash alone?

The two came out of the waterfall and dried themselves over the campfire they had lit beforehand, holding a salt shaker in their hands.

Put a little salt on the tip of your wet finger, and when the salt dissolves in the water, brush your teeth.

At first, I just brushed it with salt, but then my gums got hurt, so I used to dissolve it.

After brushing their teeth several times with their fingers soaked in water and dissolving salt, the two of them gargled with river water and talked about grilling and eating any fish caught in the pot.

“Wow! fish! fish! I eat it twice a day!”

“Is it that good?”

“Of course it is! The fish here is 100 times better than the crappy dish!”

‘He’s saying that his cooking is poor.’

You used to brag about cooking like that.

No matter how excited she was, Monia walked with her hips twitching as if she wanted to dance.

After checking the trap, he took two fish caught there, put them on skewers on a branch, and put the two fish in the fire to wait for them to be grilled.

* * *

“… … .”

Jordi stared at the bonfire lit in front of him.

A rabbit his soldiers had caught was being roasted over a bonfire.

Jordi, who was watching the bonfire being roasted, slowly turned her eyes to look around.

The first place that caught my eye was a senior soldier tending to the wounds of a junior soldier.

“Oops, the muscles bit the arrow. I have to open the wound to get it out.”

“Keuuu, is that so?”

“yes. What will you do?”

“no. If you treat it here, it will only get worse. We will move like this.”

“Okay. First of all, I’ll cut the shaft to make it easier to move. It might hurt, so bite your teeth.”

“Yes. … … ! Big!”

The moment the shaft was cut, the arrow stuck in the wound moved, and the soldier twisted his whole body as if he would faint from the pain.

Turning his head a little further from there, a soldier who couldn’t move due to a broken leg was frightened at the sight of maggots infesting his wounds.

“Hey… !”

“hey! calm down!”

“My legs! Bugs in my legs! Bugs are eating them! my legs! my legs!”

“hey!”

“aaa! legs! legs! Somebody!”

“Damn it!”

Someone gave him a piece of grass to stabilize it, and he lightly burned it to make smoke and gave it to the crazed soldier.

The soldier, who had taken a lot of drug substances, stopped flashing and just laughed stupidly and wasted.

“What makes you listen so well?”

“He’s already been inhaled a few times.”

“Tsk! That’s why the medicine is so well received.”

The army commanded by Jordi was defeated by the duke’s forces.

The Royal Knights were sent out with the intention of defeating even the Sky Knights and somehow putting the war on hold and waiting for reinforcements, but even they could not stop the Sky Knights.

I don’t know how it was during the first collision, but after the first collision, the Sky Knights swept away the Royal Knights with their excellent turning power and instantaneous acceleration.

At the time of the first clash, a few of the Sky Knights fell off their horses and the number was reduced, and while dealing with the Royal Knights, they forced their horses to leave the battlefield for a while.

However, the horse was a reserve war horse waiting around, and the fallen dragon knight was quickly replenished with the reserve dragon knight waiting nearby and went on the battlefield again.

Rather, the speed that had been reduced by changing the tired horse from walking around the battlefield returned to its original state and became more threatening.

that was decisive.

The moment when the Royal Knights were defeated and the Sky Knights came out on the battlefield intact.

Morale plummeted, and the fortress faced defeat.

In the end, Jordi met with a crushing defeat and ordered a retreat from the fort.

His tactical instructor also did not punish Jordi because retreat was the right thing to do in this situation.

The duke, who even attacked the fortress command, did not bother to pursue the fleeing Jordi and stayed in the fortress to reorganize the army.

and come to now

“Your Highness the Prince, I will look at the body.”

“Ahh. Yes, let it be.”

Jordi had already been shocked by the revolutionary army’s raid, but now it seemed that he had completely lost his soul.

Because, back then, there was no reason to risk your life to fight.

But now it was different.

In order to escape and to live, Jordi took a sword and cut people down.

cut over

“Excuse me.”

The alchemist, who had followed the army as a righteous army, took out his knife and undid the bandage wrapped around the right arm of the prince.

“Keugh!”

As the bandages were torn and the pressure on the wound loosened, a silent sound flowed from the prince’s mouth.

Ignoring that, the alchemist quickly tore off all the bandages and carefully examined the wound on the right arm of the prince.

The broken right arm of the prince was dark purple and swollen.

The broken bone protruding from the right arm was somehow put inside, splinted, quickly treated, and bandaged, but this happened.

“… … Your Highness the Prince.”

“Why?”

“Probably bone fragments from the inside are touching blood vessels and causing bleeding.”

“… … what?”

“If we leave it like this, the arm will rot inside and we will have to cut it off, so we need to deal with it quickly.”

The alchemist said that and turned his head away, and the tactics instructor who caught the alchemist’s gaze nodded heavily.

“Okay. Take care of it right away.”

“What are you talking about! Wait, wait!”

“anesthesia!”

“Yes!”

He quickly collects drugs from the surroundings, burns them, and forces the prince to inhale the smoke.

“Kuh! Let go! Queue!”

“Your Highness the Prince! Patients undergoing surgery sometimes die in such terrible agony! Come on, inhale the smoke!”

The advice frightened Jordy, and he started to rampage even more.

“no! dare!”

‘Trying to do such a terrible thing to a prince, these reckless things!’

Jordi continued to shout even though he was surprised that he had this much power.

“Don’t touch my arm! Putting the bones back in was terrible! What else are you going to do here! hate! I hate it! I hate it!! aaa!!”

However, no matter how hard he tried, the fact that he was a prince who lived a good life did not change.

He could not overcome the strength of the soldiers around him, who had made their living by working hard.

“Turn it off… oops… … !”

Eventually, the prince went into a semi-insane state after taking in a heavy dose of drug fumes.

“Take care of it quickly!”

“All right!”

The alchemist poured a bottle of medicine into the prince’s wounds to sterilize them, then opened the sutured wounds and began stabbing them deeper.

“eww! ugh! ugh!!”

“this!”

“Hey, hold on tight!”

“Yes!”

Jordi ran amok with the terrible pain that was unbearable, even with the taste of the drug, and it continued for a long time so that the soldiers holding the prince were exhausted.

One day, when the season changed and the days passed, the full-fledged scent of summer began to emerge.

It was the beginning of the most difficult, intense, and hot summer in Jordi’s 20-year life.

* * *

“Kyaaa!”

When Monia suddenly jumped up in surprise, Chester looked at Monia as he blew the embers of the bonfire with his hand.

“what? what’s the matter?”

“Oh, no. it’s nothing. I was surprised to see an animal suddenly fall from the waterfall.”

“An animal fell from a waterfall?”

“Yes. Should I say I jumped instead of falling? It didn’t look like I was swept away by the waterfall.”

“Does an animal ever jump from a waterfall? … Shall we go see If it is an animal that has just died, you can get fresh meat.”

“Ugh.”

Putting down the fish they were eating, Chester and Monia approached the lake where the waterfall was pouring.

The water in the lake was clear, so I could see inside the lake even when I was still, and I could see the animals that Monia said had fallen from the waterfall.

“yes? What animal is that?”

Chester seemed to be a new animal, though it was difficult to discern properly on the surface of the lake, which was constantly stirred by the waterfall.

“Well, okay? Don’t you know Chester?”

“I don’t know either. … … Rather, what is that on my back?”

“Yes? What’s on your back?”

“… … fin? No, it’s not.”

Chester, who was watching the animal gradually sinking to the bottom of the lake, noticed what the object was embedded in the animal’s back, and immediately got up from his seat and threw off his clothes.

“uh? uh?! Why are you taking off your clothes all of a sudden!”

As if there was no time to explain, Chester, who had been hastily stripped, jumped into the lake.

“Kyaaa?! What are you doing!”

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