The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

When my tenth birthday passed, the promised Knights' School entrance ceremony approached, and I didn't have an entrance exam, but this was the only place I could remember.

Besides, let's talk about Luke.

Satsuki said Luke's life wouldn't change, but in the end, Luke's life changed dramatically.

If you threw everything cheeky, it would certainly have been possible to continue running the ranch as it used to be, but the responsible Luke didn't seem to have either.

Now I leave most of my work to other people, and I work hard as the head of the house.

Seems to be meeting, talking, targeting the right posts and rebuilding the Knights under his command.

Still, he doesn't intend to stop running the ranch, and he continues to do so in a way that looks like a side job.

But when I go to the ranch, I commute by My King Eagle.

Luke didn't have an eagle of his own while he was a rancher.

When I needed to, I was on an eagle that wasn't for sale yet, and it would cost money to keep the eagle in the basket, which wasn't for sale either.

But now it's not going to be, so for the first time in my life, I'm finally going to have a king eagle of my own.

Suzuya is out of the picture, looks normally adapted.

I built a good relationship with the samurai and lived at my pace doing gardening and cooking.

Maybe I'm fortunate to have a my-paced personality from the beginning.

In the social world, Suzuya is too weak to participate in the event.

It is a sick and weak setting produced after distress.

Of course, it's a convenience for Satsuki to join instead of Suzuya.

This made it easier for me not to have to attend, apart from the important events that I really had to attend, and a lot less burdensome.

"Sorry, but I'm not going to the ranch tomorrow"

That's what Luke told me one day at dinner.

This is not so unusual.

Luke's plans are buried up to a month away, so there's not much of a sudden rescheduling, but he still can't predict until the time of his relatives' grandmother's death, so funerals and such mainly appear as sudden plans.

Nevertheless, it was a shame.

For me, simple labor and tri practice on the ranch were now turned into the most enjoyable entertainment.

"Is it someone's funeral again?

"No, it's not"

Apparently not.

"So what is it?

"The plague has become endemic. South town."

Plague.

It sounds sword-soaked.

"Sounds like buoyancy."

I see.

I've heard that, that.

"Isn't it better not to go?

And when I say,

"You can't do that. When the people are in trouble."

I was told.

"But if it gets infected, you'll have trouble."

"Yuri is worrying. It's not contagious that easily."

What do you think?

If you're saying it in the light of the rules of thumb, it's still fine, but which would be a scientifically unfounded decision.

"Well, I'll be there too."

"What, Yuri's going too"

"If it's not so easily contagious, fine."

"But..."

reluctant.

"I'd like to see once and for all what a buoyancy disease is like. Please."

"Okay. But do as I say."

That's my line!

And I want to scream, I bit him in the mouth.

The next morning, I went out on a king eagle from Yakuza.

Lately, during cruise flights, practice has made me grasp the reins.

The Howe family's territory is vast.

It seemed like we were going to be traveling about 100 km, but this is hard.

Of course there is no GPS in this world, and on the contrary, there are no decent maps or compasses that can be used in the air.

So you're going to fly by survey looking at terrain on the ground.

In other words, if you don't remember the terrain on the ground in detail, you don't get to your destination.

If you're flying bawdy, you're instantly lost.

Will it fly for about an hour?

I managed to get to the city I wanted.

Because cities can be good landmarks, terrain basically remembers based on cities.

If you remember the straight terrain that connects the major cities to the major cities, they generally have no problems.

Sounds like an airway.

I gave Luke the reins because I don't know the way out of the city.

Luke took a path west and flew for a while.

In time, I saw black smoke rising in the sky.

Wolf smoke.

Returning the reins to Luke, the eagle set out to descend there.

Floating pox disease, according to the book of things, is a disease that has been around for a long time and was brought from the land of the Krah when there was still the Great Empire of Chantilla.

Once there is no effective cure, well half a chance of dying.

It was to that extent when it came to the knowledge I possessed.

Before entering the village that buckthorn disease was endemic, I gave Luke about three long, hand-tuffed cloths.

"Go ahead."

And when I say,

"What?

And they said incredibly.

"Cover your mouth and nose"

I hid my mouth and nose by hand.

I can't breathe, but I can breathe.

"Why?

"It's decided to prevent illness."

I said it myself, and I thought it was gone.

That kind of common sense doesn't work in this world.

I don't know about the presence of germs and viruses, and I think it's because of the poison that blew the disease out of the ground.

At first, they seem to think of it as contagious, but to that extent as recognition.

How should I explain it?

"Anyway, this will make it much less likely that the disease will move."

"But hey, this is not cool."

I don't like it.

I guess I also have decency as a lord.

Hey lord, you're freaking out sick masking like that.

I knew you couldn't get out of the public.

Is this the kind of thing?

"If your father comes home sick, it could be contagious to his nursing mother, and it could be contagious to both Aunt Satsuki and me. Then the Howe family will be wiped out. I think it would be cooler to risk that."

When I say that seriously,

"Wow, okay... I'll put it on..."

and Luke wore an unacceptable pseudo mask.

Good. Good.

That's how we walked into the village.

"There are sick people in here who have no one to look after them"

The building the conductor explained was either a town banquet hall or a building like a rally hall.

It opens the door.

When I went inside, there was a slight odor.

I wanted to cover my eyes the moment I saw the sick people lying in a sleeping place with just a sack of hemp, which I couldn't even say a bed.

Their faces and arms were covered with blisters of liquid at their fingertips.

It's probably spreading to the body as well.

The extent of this was different depending on the patient, but when the patient was in a terrible condition, his arm was stunningly covered in blisters from his face, and it seemed harder to find healthy skin.

They seem to be uniformly high fever.

This is the bad one.

Patients with skin on them and blood all over their faces are also scattered.

"Father, never touch the sick,"

That's not good enough to sound like a sick person, so I say it in a whisper.

Speaking of greed, I wanted Luke out of this building right now.

"I know, I know."

Luke said it was out-of-heart.

Exactly, you know enough that if you touch a sick person, the disease will be contagious.

"But that's terrible..."

Luke looked around the room and came back, observing the shivers and the sick.

I'm watching. I don't feel this way.

I felt like watching the baby play innocently with a short knife that had just returned from sharpening.

I finished looking at it as one, and when I saw it coming back, I snapped it with Luke's hand.

"Oh, man. Wait a minute."

I pulled full force and led him to the exit.

"Please open the door"

When I said it, the conductor looked slightly suspicious.

If you're in such a hurry, you can open it yourself, but I told you.

There was no way I could do that.

The pus in the blister should stick to this door knob.

From me, it was like the poison was sticking.

"Please open it quickly"

Again, the conductor opened the door for me.

Hurry and get out of the cabin.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

"If you stay in that room, your father will get the same disease."

"Exaggerate."

Luke looked at me like he was looking at his troubled son.

"I'm not exaggerating or anything"

I had a feeling about that disease.

Too similar to smallpox.

Smallpox is a disease caused by the smallpox virus.

It develops after a latent period of about half a month from the infection, and, oh that way, blisters encapsulated with pus rise in the body.

It's not just about the body's surface, the same symptoms appear in the gut, and it starts to inflame from the inside out.

That's how we see it around a high fever of nearly forty degrees, and that lasts for a few days.

He dies from what he didn't have in the meantime.

Where antibodies can be formed in a few days and viruses can be driven out of the body, so the lethality rate fits into about 40%, but 40% is a high enough lethality rate.

Forty percent is the average value, so if you eat less, for example, in a murder, and if it's endemic in a community where the health of its inhabitants is diminishing, the mortality rate will increase more.

This is a human story, so it could be worse if you're a Shan.

Smallpox is troublesome because, in addition to being very infectious, it is in its symptoms.

You can have blisters encapsulated with pus in your body, so some of the pus and skin that comes out of it sticks to your surroundings.

Of course, they contain plenty of smallpox viruses and are infectious.

Even more troublesome, the smallpox virus is very sturdy and, unlike HIV, which is inactivated as soon as it comes out of the body, it survives in skin pieces and so on and does not inactivate for nearly a year.

As such, pus and parts of skin tissue adhere to people's hands, behind shoes, clothing fibers, etc., spreading the infection more and more.

Various characteristics combine to make it a very troublesome disease with high infection and lethality.

"Okay. Okay, I get it. What am I supposed to do?

"Let's go home to the Mansion now"

And when I say,

"I can't do that"

It was said.

Huh?

"I also have a duty as a lord. I have to save the residents here. You can't just run away and do nothing because you're scared of being sick."

Damn, it's the best thing.

I wanted to sigh.

"So what do you do"

"Well, gather people from around you, open up the stash and serve food..."

"It's good to serve food, but when you gather people, you just spread the disease. The Lord's job is not to help the hundreds here and make the thousand sick, but to keep the sick to the hundred."

"That may indeed be the case. But then, what are we gonna do? Do the people here wait until they die? It is, as a lord…"

He is a serious man in the middle of nowhere.

"Listen to me. You just have to make sure you don't get infected, even if you want to gather people here. There are ways to keep people out of this disease for a certain period of time."

"... what?

"Let's go to a farmer who has a female cow in this village. I like farmers who serve a lot of milk and divide it into villages."

"What, you didn't want to go home"

"I think it's best to do people and let them confirm when you get home, but you can go as soon as you're done"

Come to think of it, even if you're infected, you can still make it if you hit the vaccine right away.

Because antibodies form before the smallpox virus grows in the body and the symptoms do not manifest.

"Okay. Then let's go."

When I got to the farmer I asked the conductor, he showed that they were living a perfectly normal life.

The family members, though scared of infection, did not give out one smallpox patient either.

I resigned in gratitude.

"I knew you were fine"

"Isn't that a coincidence?

Skeptical.

"No, I'm not. All the people in this house are in uninfected shape. I guess we're all squeezing our milk."

"What do you mean?

"I don't know... there's something similar to floating pox disease because of the disease that cattle take. The cow has the same symptoms as the buoyancy disease. Even so, the symptoms are to the extent that you can have some blisters around the milk. A cow will not die. So, the disease transmits from cow to person, but even if it does, the symptoms are mild, you can have one or two blisters, and maybe to the point where your body gets a little weak, it doesn't hurt your everyday life. These people got sick while they were milking sick cows."

"... I don't know why, but why wouldn't that make me sick?

"That's... well, if you say so, does that mean you can't lose if you suffer from a fatal illness because your body has the experience of fighting similar enemies? Even if you fight spear masters, if you've had the experience of fighting the same genre of humans who are weaker in advance, you can go ahead in your favor, right? It's the same."

It's not really at all, but it would be easier for Luke to understand that analogy.

The disease that cattle take is called cowpox in Japan.

Varicella seed pox is an early established method to prevent smallpox.

Cockpox is a virus of the proximal species of smallpox, which also infects humans but does little harm.

Primitive vaccines against smallpox are called seed pox, but it is simply an infection and immunization against cowpox, a weakly toxic species of smallpox, that is, vaccination.

Smallpox is a vicious infectious disease, but unlike HIV and influenza, vaccination is a very effective disease.

If immunized with vaccination, you will never get smallpox until your immunization is out, and even if it does, vaccinating all the surrounding residents will stop the infection to a minimum.

"After all, I don't know why. I've never heard of that."

"Really? But that's what we need to talk about."

"I mean, what am I supposed to do?

"Find a cow that has blisters in its milk from somewhere and crush the cow's blisters with a needle or something. Then apply the contents to a person's arm or somewhere to scratch a little blood from it. If the disease shifts well, there will be some reaction. That's it."

"Right...... well, okay. If Yuri's that far, why don't you try it?"

Looks like you finally gave me a heavy hip.

Heavy hips, but how many adults would suddenly say that to a ten-year-old and want to do it?

Luke would have smiled too if he didn't trust me from day to day.

Even if I trusted you, if you weren't a good adult, you wouldn't have obeyed me.

Thanks to Luke.

"Well, let's go home for today"

When I rode back to the Mansion on the Wang Eagle, I turned people away and let them take off all their shoes and clothes and put them in their luggage, washing their faces and hands that were exposed with distilled liquor, taking a bath in the water and putting on new clothes.

Luke was laughing pretty hard too, but he dated me.

I kind of feel like I've lost a lot of stock on this one, but I can't help it.

The luggage went deep into the warehouse and was to be kept in quarantine for more than two years.

Two days later, cows infected with cow pox were discovered, seed pox vaccination was administered to all residents of that village who had not yet suffered from the disease, and the village was to be isolated until the infection settled.

I know it's ok, but it's too late since Luke and I developed, so I did seed pox vaccination.

It's about the fourth day, so it should be okay.

If it develops, the symptoms are considerably suppressed.

With regard to seed pox, there was anxiety about the effect, but the person who was inoculated said that he was mostly immune from infection, so I guess it still worked as expected.

People who have been infected in very small numbers have probably failed to inoculate themselves with seedpox.

I knew it was smallpox, and while I was relieved by the success of the seed pox project, which took a little too long, I felt the cold.