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Published at 14th of October 2022 05:22:53 AM


Chapter 9: life and healing magic

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The mornings are early at Liebling's farm, and the picking begins before dawn and continues until noon, with breakfast in between.

That's why the owner of the farm, Mr. Bruno, wakes up his hired hands before dawn.

'Mr Kent, Mr Kent, it's about time!

'Ummmmm ... phew! Ughhhh............................

The third morning after I started work, Reinhardt woke me up and I'm moaning in a bizarre way, but it's not that I'm doing anything yucky or engaging in any kind of abnormal activity.

He's simply moaning from the intense muscle pain all over his body.

Libre tastes like a combination of grapes and kewl, but it's shaped like a cherry tomato, and the harvesting process involves picking the fruit from the tree by hand.

They pick them in baskets slung over their shoulders until they are full, and when the baskets are full, they transfer them to the barrels and repeat the process.

To be honest, it's hard! It's extremely hard.

When I was in Japan, I had never done any physical labor at all, so the first day's work alone was enough to give me racy muscle aches and pains.

On the morning of the second day, for example, my muscles ached so badly that I couldn't even move, and I moaned and groaned and made strange movements, which made other people feel very uncomfortable.

However, I escaped from the muscle pain hell by stretching while being aware of the light attribute mage privilege and self-healing.

So this morning, I asked Reinhardt to wake me up a little earlier and decided to finish the self-healing stretch.

I try to suppress it, but I can't help but moan, but the others in my employ seem to be exhausted from working day after day and show no signs of waking up.

''Master Kent, wouldn't it have been better if you hadn't woken up with the others?

''Nope, that's not good enough, I don't work any worse than the others, so I have to at least make sure I don't fall behind from the start...''

Some of the people employed at the farm are my age, but they are more physically fit and used to physical labor than I am.

In fact, when they came to hire me, Bruno was hesitant to hire me because I was so poorly built.

So I brought up the example of the merchant corps setting from the west, and I didn't want to drag my feet on the job before they hired me out of sympathy.

Still, on the first day, I was less on point than the others, and there was quite a difference in my work.

Yesterday, I was much better, but I'm still behind the others.

Today, I want to work as hard as everyone else, preferably better than everyone else.

This early start to the day is to get me pumped up at the start of the day.

Now that my body is starting to unravel, I'm going to go out and wash my face at the well.

It's the middle of the ninth month and it's still hot enough to make sweat run down my spine during the daytime, but in the morning and evening a cool breeze is blowing and it's very pleasant.

As I was washing my face at the well, I saw Bruno coming from the main house to wake us all up.

It's still before sunrise and Bruno-san is using his light magic tool, but I don't need it. Thanks to the dark attribute magic, I don't need a light.

''Good morning, Bruno-san.

Oh, Kent, you're up already. You're up early.

'Yes, I'll do my best today, and today is the day I'll work as hard as everyone else.

Oh, that's a solid piece of work.

Yes!

When I was in Japan, I had a hard time getting up in the morning, and I was always late or falling asleep.

It wasn't that I was a night owl, but I just wanted to sleep, and I spent my days trying to sleep whenever I had a chance.

Naturally, my grades at school were poor and my parents and teachers lectured me a lot, but after I came here, the sleepiness stopped coming on like a lie.

This might be because of the dark attribute magic, too.

It's the third day of work, and it seems that the others are starting to accumulate fatigue, and everyone seems to be sleepy and their movements are not good.

With this, I may be able to work as well... or better than everyone else.

Besides, I've only been working for three days, but I feel like I'm gaining a little muscle.

Well, I guess that's a bit of a stretch, but unlike the others, my fatigue is gone, so I can still work.

And I was able to pluck the most of the time until breakfast, and Bruno reviewed it for me.

'Oh, so Kent was the best this morning, there you go again.

I even got a compliment from Bruno's father, Dino, who is now retired from the scene.

On the first day, he was very reluctant to give me a compliment, so we'll get our name back.

Yes, I'm sorry to have worried you, but I'm finally getting the hang of it, so I'll be fine.

Oh, oh, I see, that's very encouraging.........................

Oh, are you okay?

Oh, no, it's not all right, my dear, it's just my back.

Dino said he fell off a ladder the year before last while pruning and has been suffering from back pain ever since.

I don't want to get old," he said, "Kent was moaning and groaning with muscle pain yesterday morning, wasn't he? It's all a bit of a wreck, after all, you can't beat a young man...

No, in my case, I'm cheating a lot, but I can't look at it, it looks like it's too painful.

''Well Dino-san, I was an apprentice healer, so I was learning a bit of massage, if you'd like, can you let me do a bit of that after lunch?''

No, no, no, Kent's tired, you don't have to worry about that.

So how about if I can still afford a massage, just for a little while?

Well, okay, you're going to have to do it for me.

Honestly, if it's my body, that's exactly what I would do, I can come back from a visceral state of roreness, but I'm not sure I can heal other people's wounds and pain.

So I have to think about making Dino's back a little better without making it worse.

The plucking process can continue until noon, with breakfast in between.

After lunch, there is a long nap time, followed by the preparation of the fruit wine until the evening.

During this nap time, I massaged Dino's lower back.

I ask him to lie down on the couch where we all take our meals and gently place his hands on Dino's lower back.

I repeat the zinging pressure with the palm of my hand and repeat the pressure with the palm of my hand, as if I were relieving my own sore muscles.

Unlike my own body, I can't tell if it's healing or not, and I feel extremely uneasy and start to break out in a cold sweat.

'Oh, my waist is kind of warm and feels good, oh, this feels so good...'

Thank goodness we're going to keep going.

Oh, God, that feels so good, I think I'm going to fall asleep...

After twenty minutes of massage in time, Mr. Dino went straight to sleep.

'Kent, that's enough, you get some rest too, because you're going to be working this afternoon.

Yes, well....

At Bruno's suggestion, I decided to go back to the dormitory and take a nap.

The nap time is about two hours on Japanese time, so I can still get plenty of rest.

I heard that they take a nap in the months of seven, eight, and nine, as a way to avoid the heat.

Even if they go in for a nap later than everyone else, they don't have to worry about missing out on sleep because of the vicious skeleton alarm.

'Reinhardt, wake me up a little earlier in the afternoon, too.

Yes, sir. You have a good night's rest.

After my nap, Reinhardt woke me up and I was getting ready for my afternoon work when Dino-san, who had changed his expression of blood, came running.

Are you sure you're okay with that much running, Dino-san?

Kent, Kent, Kent! You're awesome, Kent!

Hey, hey, Mr. Dino, if you run so much...

It's all right, then. I had a lot of pain in my back. Come on, come on!

Dino-san, I started shaking my hips and dancing with a big smile on my face.

Oh, it looks like the first treatment went well.

It was good, I'm sure it worked well with Dino-san's body.

Oh, my God, I couldn't even get well in one of Volzard's clinics, and then I got so much better in one massage.

No, no... it's just a coincidence...

Oh dear.........is it too much, or do you think we'll be suspicious?

Kent, I'm sorry, but could you please massage your grandmother's knee before you go to work this afternoon?

'Oh ... yeah, yeah, that's fine, but I don't know if it will be as dramatically better as Dino's.'

Yeah, I know that, but we're still hoping for some good.

Okay, well, I'll give it a shot then.

Dino's wife, Mya, said she hurt her knee when she fell last year, and while she was defending her injured left knee, she also hurt her right knee.

He is now using a cane and can barely walk.

We visited the main house of Mr. Bruno's family and massaged Mya's knee in the living room.

The method is the same as Dino-san's, I wrapped my hands around her knee and repeated light pressure and release.

I continued the massage for 15 minutes on one leg and 30 minutes on both legs, but I still can't feel the effect by myself.

''Oh.......how about........''

When I asked after finishing the massage, Mya got up from her chair and lightly bent and stretched her knees on the spot before she started to cry raggedly.

'Yes I'm sorry, didn't it work?'

'No, no, it doesn't hurt at all, it doesn't hurt at all, I'm just so happy, so happy... look, I don't need a wand for this!

'Oh! Mya!

You!

Seeing Dino-san and Maiya-san hugging each other and dancing with joy, it makes me happy too.

The actuality of Kent-sama is that he has outstanding skills as a healer as well.

'No, it worked this time, but I don't feel it at all, and I don't know if it will work in the future.'

"Humble as ever, Master Kent, you could easily become the best healer in the land.

'Well even if I did, I still have a lot to worry about.

Well, after I get rid of the princess and your schoolmates.

I think it would be nice to be a healer if I could make you this happy, but not until I've made the s*xually evil princess cry properly.

I'll get back to work then.

'Kent! You don't have to work today, you just stay here and relax.

No, no, you can't, because if I'm out, it's too much for everyone else.

Well... but after all this time, you've been so nice to me...

How about we help you after all these years?

Oh, yeah, well, I'm feeling better.

Yes, my knee is better now... right?

Well, let's see what we have in store for the young man Kent, let's go.

Yes, nice to meet you.

Dino-san and Maiya-san joined us for the afternoon's preparations, and they continued their lively work.

Dino-san's hustle and bustle made Bruno-san look dubious at first, but then he was relieved when he realized that his back pain had really been cured.

The seeds are taken out of the leeberries while crushing them, and the juice is squeezed through a press, then transferred to a large barrel for initial fermentation with yeast.

After that, the cloudiness is removed and the wine is placed in barrels and allowed to age for about three years before it is ready to drink.

Crushing the leavels and removing the seeds takes a lot of grip strength, and the process of transferring the juice to the barrels can be hard on the legs and feet.

Dino-san stayed with me and taught me the ropes, and I feel like I was able to work much more efficiently than I did yesterday.

The others seemed to be watching and listening to me as I was being taught, so we finished today's work faster than usual.

After the work, we bathed and worked up a sweat, and then it was time for the long-awaited dinner.

We ate our meals at a large table in the corner of the warehouse.

It's part of the fun of eating with more than twenty people at a time, all hired by Mr. Bruno's family to help with the harvest.

Mr. Dino beckons me over to him and calls me over.

'Here, Kent, come here, sit over here,'

Here you go, Tan. Eat with me. I've got work tomorrow...

Yes, I'll take it!

Dinner is the standard menu of stewed vegetables and meat, bread, cheese, boiled potatoes and corn, but it's very tasty, probably because we all eat it together.

Tonight, on top of that, it was even better because Dino and Mya entertained us with a big smile on their faces.

After work, Mr. Bruno asked me to treat his frozen shoulder, Mr. Bruno's wife's sore shoulder, and I went around treating every single one of my workmates' back and muscle pains.

Everyone was extremely grateful to me, but for me it was like an experiment in healing, so I would like to thank them for their help.

When the day is over, I go back to sleep in my bed in the big room to prepare for tomorrow.

''Thank you for another day of hard work, Kent-sama,''

Thank you, Reinhardt, but are you no longer tired?

I don't feel as tired as I do now that I have this body.

'Is that a good thing? Or is it bad?

'It's good for the job, but if you say it's tasteless, then it's certainly a bit tasteless.'

''Well, ah.......I'm a little tired as expected today.......''

"Sleep well, sir.

"Yes, wake me up in the morning. Good night then.

"Good night.

Maybe it's not so bad to practice healing while working this way.

I feel like I'm getting more comfortable with the world over here, day by day.




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