The Political Marriage of the Beastman Prince and Healer Princess

The treatment starts today.
“Your Highness, it’s finally time.”
“Yes, let’s do our best.”

30 minutes before going to the sanatorium, I went to the garden in the royal palace with Crane and absorbed natural energy.

From the lake in the center of the Kingdom of Howl, there is a sanatorium that houses insane patients in the western commercial district.
It was about five minutes in a horse-drawn carriage.

“There are about 140 patients, and more than 20 people are brought in every day.”
When Prince Corini said that, he opened the door of the big room.

“Patients are arranged in order of date they were transported. I also tagged their arms so that you can understand. The patients who is closest to this door were brought in yesterday, and the patients who is closest to the back door will be on the seventh day.”

Various kinds of canine animals are sleeping with arrows on a mat of about one tatami mat.
“Your Highness!?”

The condition of the patient, who was on the seventh day after being transported, was so bad that I forgot to speak to Crane and the others, and ran to him involuntarily.

There were more than ten marks of stabbing arrows on the buttocks, and he was very thin and dying.
Even if I touched his back, I couldn’t feel the power to heal, and my voice trembled in despair.

“When you get the insanity disease, do you lose so much weight?”
“No, they just haven’t eaten anything. If we stop using the arrows, they will be violent.”

The Healer ability has the effect of helping the body that has a malfunction and the power to return to a healthy state.

However, the disorder caused by starving without eating or drinking water, or being dehydrated, can only can only be helped by supplementing nutrition, I can’t use Healer, and if you don’t have physical strength, I won’t have the ability to heal in the first place.

If you have the power to heal, you must not only heal, but also prevent it from weakening due to hunger at the same time.

“Crane, is there any way to nourish it somehow?”
“Princess Lilith, you’re not a doctor, but you’re qualified to give your opinion to Lord Crane-”

Crane ignored Prince Corini’s attempt to indulge me and answered.

“Well, there is a way to force nutrition into the stomach. You can’t give a large amount at a time, but it should be better than giving nothing. However, we need manpower and preparation.”

“His Highness Corini, could you please secure the personnel and supplies to provide nutrition?”

When I asked, he frowned.

“Even if I are told by the assistant, it’s not convincing. If Lord Crane says he needs it, I’ll prepare it.”

“It’s necessary. If possible, the helpers are those who have the strength and doctors. I will write down the necessary supplies, so I would like to ask you to prepare while we are treating the patients. What do you think?”

“I understand. If I get a list, I’ll prepare it immediately.”
Thanks to the persuasion of the doctor, Crane, I was about to stop any further weakness.

Prince Corini returned to the royal palace to secure personnel and supplies, and the escort is waiting outside.

There’s only me and Crane in the room.
I don’t want to say it.
But I have to say it.

“There is no power left for the patient on the seventh day. And also the patients on the sixth and fifth days. I can’t help them anymore. . .”

Until now, I didn’t know unless I touched their back. But this time, for some reason, I realized it immediately.

“I guess so.”
Crane confirmed the pulse and breathing of the patient I showed.

“The last line that can sustain life without eating or drinking is considered to be five to seven days. Three days in a short time. They were already at their limit. We should let him die easily.”

While suffering from helplessness, Crane said even more.

“Patients will be brought in every day from now on. So, this time, let’s treat the first-day patients who are definitely still powerful, and if we can afford the number of patients who can be treated, let’s treat the patients after the second day.”

This time, the number of times I can use Healer in a day is 20.
If there are no more than 20 newly transported patients, it will be possible to treat patients transported on other days.

But if more than 20 people are transported, the patients who could not be treated will be postponed more and more.

“If that’s the case, the patients after the second day here will. . .”
“In the worst case, they will be abandoned.”
“No way!”

Until the fourth day, I still have the power to heal somehow.

“The reason why there are only patients here until the seventh day is because the sleep arrow becomes a lethal dose on the eighth day. Even if you use Healer, we have to keep stabbing arrows until they return to the human form. If it’s three days at the earliest and five days at the latest to return to the human form, only those on the second day at the latest can be treated in the worst case. After that, it depends on individual differences, but there is a possibility of reaching a lethal dose.”

I didn’t know there was a lethal dose of sleep arrows.
According to Crane’s explanation, even if the patient after the third day has Healer used on him, he will reach the lethal dose with an arrow by the time he returns to the human form.

“Hey, I thought the reason why they stabbed an arrow was because we couldn’t confirm whether it was healed with a Healer. But it would have been proven that Prince Harence is healed. If that’s the case, I guess we don’t need to use the arrows.”

When asked a question, Crane moved his ears and opened his eyes as if surprised.

“. . .Certainly. It’s worth a try. When the treated patients regain consciousness by pulling out the arrow, if they can keep their ego, there is no problem treating from the patient on the fourth day, and the number of patients who have to be forced to administer nutrition will also decrease.”

“That would be the best, but today I will try Healer from the patient on the fourth day, and if they pull out an arrow and they rampage, from tomorrow, I will heal the patient on the first day.”

If you pull out an arrow and they rampage, as Crane said, I have to be prepared to abandon the worst.

“I understand. I will make a suggestion to Prince Corini to pull out the arrow of the treated patients.”

After being transported, stroke the back of the patient from the fourth day who has little healing power and use Healer.
If I don’t do it today, they may lose the power to heal tomorrow.

“It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Because they’re weak, their strength is not growing well.
It consumes more natural energy than usual.

I continued until the moment when I could be sure that it was okay, and I managed to be sure.

I slowly release my hand from the patient’s back.
Both the next patient and the next patient are weak.

In the end, I could only use Healer on ten people in the morning.

 

Why doesn’t Lilith just learn from Crane and become a doctor so people will listen to her without questioning everything she says and does? That way it would make sense for her to go and help people with less misunderstandings and it would be easier for her to hide Healer.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!