Chapter: 125

‘I just guessed.’

If the silver plum blossoms wither and die, Innes fever is spreading a lot around this area.

Luckily, this village did not seem to have any patients thanks to the pharmacist who came in disguised as a maid, but the other villages around it did not seem so lucky.

There must be a village engulfed by a plague somewhere in this area.

Just a while ago, Kaizen’s reaction, who was particularly surprised by the word fever, brought conviction to Astelle’s guess.

If he hasn’t heard of Innes fever, there’s no way a careless person like Kaizen would be so overreacted.

Astelle explained step by step, why she came to guess that an Innes fever was spreading.

Of course, she only mentioned the silver plum blossoms, not about Kaizen’s overreaction.

Astelle again calmly explained why.

“In this situation, if rumors spread that the Emperor’s party also has a fever patient, the people who live around will panic.”

No matter how to explain that it is not a fatal Innes fever, but an ordinary eastern fever, farmers who lack knowledge about the disease will focus only on the part that says, ‘There is a fever patient in the emperor’s party.’

Rather, people might suspect that Astelle said she only had a common fever to hide Innes’ fever.

“If that happens, this village will be labeled as the place where the Innes fever patient stayed.”

The damage will remain entirely for this village.

Rural villages in such a forest area raise vegetables and livestock and live by relying on barter with other villages.

Isolation from the outside could make it difficult for farmers to make a living.

“So I want to recover quietly here. People will be suspicious when they see Your Majesty’s doctor coming and going here, so I’ll make up the medicine myself. I just need the ingredients.”

Fever is common in the East, so I learned it hard from Gretel.

It wasn’t even medicine that needed rare ingredients. Most of them were available in the forests.

‘And…… I also have to make a potion to change the eye color.’

In fact, the most important purpose was that.

Originally, I was thinking of going out for a while to see the village and the forest with Theor tomorrow morning.

However, the opportunity to come and go out so naturally disappeared because I got sick.

The potion is only left for 3 days.

If not now, I may not have a chance to get the ingredients.