Chapter 232: |
Chapter 232
Finally, Raymond nodded.
‘I would have begged for Christine to be spared.’
But Christine wasn’t like the cowardly, timid Raymond. She was confident, courageous, and had a face-to-face side.
Even if she were to die, she wouldn’t allow him to join hands with Kairn, the culprit, for this incident.
Because it was Christine.
If so, she had to do her bidding.
‘I Won’t Let You Die!’
It just so happened that the quest came to mind.
(Personal Quest)
Difficulty: High
Quest Description: The demon cubs have been cornered and have committed a horrific crime! Heal the victims and punish the demon cubs!
Clear Condition: Patient Care, Justice
Reward: Bonus Level Up ×2, 90 Skill Points
Perk: Death Sentence
Raymond took note of the perks.
Death sentence.
If he succeeded in this task, he could hang Kairn.
The only thing that caught him was the difficulty.
This will be an incredibly difficult quest due to the time.
“But I’m going to do it.” Raymond said to Kairn.
“I’ve decided. Go back.”
“What?”
Kairn’s eyebrows twitched.
“…… Are you serious?”
There’s a chill in his voice.
Raymond finally understood.
Kairn’s attitude right now is not relaxed.
Kairn was afraid.
He is afraid Raymond will solve everything and finish him.
Raymond suddenly felt unbearably pleasant.
Kairn was the biggest cause of his mental trauma.
But now, because of him, he was so overwhelmed.
Raymond felt one of the deep wounds in his heart fade.
Of course, it wasn’t completely gone.
The wound will heal the moment Kairn disappears into nothingness.
However, at this moment, he wanted to say a word.
The system also supported him.
[We confirm that your opponent is a horrible person, a ‘demon bastard!’]
[Truth Special Move, ‘Dagger’ is revealed!]
Thanks to the help of skill, words that would normally not dare to be uttered came out.
“Why? Are you going to get caught?”
“……!”
“Wait for a while. I’m going to settle this matter and make sure you get your own punishment.”
Kairn’s complexion hardened.
Raymond’s heart skipped a beat as he uttered the harsh words.
But Raymond didn’t look away.
He was nervous being the timid person that he is, but when he spit it out, he didn’t feel sick to his stomach.
Soon, Kairn’s face contorted like a hideous one.
“How dare ……!”
Then, an unexpected accident happened.
The cat meowed and pounced on Kairn, slicing his face with its fingernails.
Boo!
“Ah! What’s with this cat again?!”
It was Mien!
He hid in his room and watched the conversation between the two, and when he saw an opportunity, he threw a punch.
Raymond was startled for a moment, then couldn’t stopped laughing.
“Well? What about cats? I don’t know a cat. Yes? You’re ready to run away, right? Well, you should have been careful. Why don’t you go back and get some treatment?”
“Aa Bloody hell!”
Kairn disappeared with his face covered, and Mien returned to his room, rubbing his face against Raymond’s feet.
“You can’t do that again.”
[Listening to him makes me angry, did I do something wrong?]
Raymond pondered before answering.
“No, good job.”
* * *
The Duchy of Raven was located east of the capital.
Luckily, it wasn’t far off.
It was a distance that he could get to in less than half a day on his Shuttleffin.
Raymond and his men arrived near the Smot Mountains, a small mountain range in the Duchy of Raven where Christine had taken cover.
They couldn’t get into the mountains on Shuttleffin. The flying griffin will be so conspicuous that it will be discovered immediately.
“There are a lot of soldiers. I’m sure they’ll disturb us, sir.”
It was the Count Doton, vice-captain of the Royal Knights.
Elmud alone could not guarantee an escort, so he was supported by the Royal Knights. In addition to Count Doton, he was accompanied by other Royal Knights of the Sword Expert rank.
Elmud stepped forward.
“Don’t worry. I will defend you with my life, my lord!”
“…You lower your voice. What are you going to do when the soldiers come in?” Raymond sighed at Elmud’s continued sweet potato.
‘Is the disciple hiding here?’
Raymond looked at the mountains.
It wasn’t a big mountain range.
More like a large mountain than a mountain range, to be exact.
‘It’s even worse. The smaller it is, the more likely it is that Alfred will find you.’
He had to find Christine sooner than Alfred.
“The problem is that it’s not easy.”
The approximate location of the secret place was told.
The problem is that Alfred is scouring the mountains with a huge army of soldiers.
It wasn’t easy to find Christine’s secret location away from their eyes.
‘What can I do? If we climb the mountain blindly, we will be discovered by the soldiers.”
Luckily for Raymond, he soon came up with a solution.
‘Browse the Market!’
Rumble, the list of skills came to mind.
Among them, he chose the skills that are just right for the current situation.
[Skill, permanently raises the proficiency of the Emergency Rescue Team to C grade!]
[400 Skill Points are consumed!]
[Emergency Rescue Team]
Type: Secondary Skill
Rating: Rare
Proficiency : C grade
-You will have the ability to rescue patients stranded in remote areas!
-When rescuing patients, you will unleash your Pathfinder-level abilities!
Pathfinder!
It means guide.
As someone who led a group when exploring the backcountry, it was a perfect fit for the current situation.
Raymond unfolded a map of the mountain range.
He just looked at the map, but the ability of the guide came into play, and he began to grasp the mountain range as if he were watching a video.
“There are a total of three secret places that Lero told me about. Of these, the most likely place for the disciple to hide is in a cave behind a valley halfway up the Black Tree Mountain.”
“Lero also breaks up with her in the middle of the path, so we don’t know exactly where Christine is hiding.”
“We need to search every possible cave from this cave, where the soldiers can’t locate us…”
Raymond drew a route on the map that would avoid the soldiers’ gaze as much as possible.
Finally, he finished his judgment and said:
“We are leaving. Follow me.”
Thus began the exploration operation.
* * *
At that time, Christine was treating her father with a desperate face.
‘Damn, his vitals are so bad.’
Christine gritted her teeth.
The Duke Raven’s face was a fly in disgust.
But that wasn’t all.
Christine examined the Duke Raven’s limbs. There were a lot of bruises.
She guessed the identity of the poison from the medical knowledge she had learned from Raymond.
‘It’s bleeding poison for sure.’
Bleeding poison!
It was a poison that interfered with platelets and clotting factors, causing bleeding.
Christine examined the Duke Raven’s belly.
It felt like something was being filled with hard stones.
There’s a lot of blood bubbling up in his stomach.
‘There must be internal bleeding from the back of the abdominal cavity. That’s why he had hypovolemic shock.’
She gritted her teeth and struck out.
The good news is that she brought a portable first aid bag.
But it was just a time delay.
“If this continues, my father will die.”
The fluids she brought with her were almost gone, and her epinephrine was limited in raising his blood pressure.
He tried to use heal, but to no avail.
To be honest, there was no hope in sight.
Christine lamented.
‘After all, I wasn’t appreciated by my own father.’
It was unexpected.
That she was not recognized by the Duke of Raven.
But it was true.
‘Because he only loved his son. No matter how hard I try, he doesn’t even look at me.’
There is no finger that doesn’t hurt to bite.
However, there are fingers that are less painful to bite.
To the Duke of Raven, Christine was such a presence.
Somehow, his fingers are less sore and less affectionate.
The Duke Raven, on the other hand, showed extreme favoritism to Alfred.
Despite her great exploits during the war and her position as his successor, the Duke Raven could not let go of his regrets about Alfred.
‘Hah.’
Christine chuckled.
What’s even funnier is that Alfred didn’t know his father’s intentions and did this accident.
When she saw her father dying, she didn’t know what to say.
“There’s nothing we can do about it right now.”
Christine was frustrated.
She wanted to save him so that he would truly regret it and apologize for his poor favoritism over a daughter who was as good as her, but there was nothing she could do.
‘Hah.’
It was a moment of despair when a miracle happened.
“Disciple!”
Christine’s eyes widened.
It was Raymond!
He had arrived unexpectedly and with tremendous speed.
A bright light descended from the dark cave.
* * *
Christine asked, surprised.
“Uh, how did you do it so fast?”
Raymond thought to himself.
‘I was lucky.’
He used the Pathfinder’s ability to find their way, and luckily he was able to find a shortcut.
It was a secret route where soldiers did not appear, so it was much easier and faster than expected.
“What about your Excellency, the Duke?”
“It’s bleeding poison. I think he is bleeding from a blood vessel in the abdominal cavity.”
Raymond quickly grasped the situation.
‘Surgery in a state of severe clotting disorder due to bleeding poison.’
Raymond said to Christine.
“It’s not going to be an easy operation. Can you do it?”
Needless to say, he couldn’t do the surgery alone.
In particular, the role of the assist was important in these emergency surgeries.
“In such an urgent hemostatic operation, the success or failure of the operation can be made or broken depending on how the assist assists you.”
Raymond, in particular, was troubled by the fact that the patient was her father.
“If you make a mistake during surgery, you may be traumatized that you caused your father’s death through your own mistakes.”
Christine pondered for a moment.
Even if she did, it wasn’t an ordinary decision to operate on her father herself.
“Don’t worry. I’m going to heal him and give him a shot.”
Raymond looked at her for a moment.
Her face was rigid.
‘I’m a little nervous.’
But there was no way.
“I see. First, blood transfusions and VIT. I’m going to administer it.”
He couldn’t just open the boat in a hurry.
He had to take measures to increase his chances of success as much as possible.
They took the necessary medications and cleaned up their surroundings as much as possible to prevent infection during surgery.
Afterwards, he picked up a scalpel.
“Let’s get started.”
Raymond and Christine took a breath.
It would not be an easy operation.
But it had to be done.
After making such a resolution, he moved the scalpel.
The sharp blade sliced through the thin skin and fat.
Even with the blood transfusion of platelets, blood flowed out like water.
But that was just the beginning.
The moment when the peritoneum opens.
Paaat!
Blood-dripping and bouncing! It was the blood that had been pooling in the boat!
“Wipe it all down! We need to have a line of sight!”
“Yes!”
Since they could not use the inhalers (suction) of modern earth, they had to remove the blood by hand.
But Raymond frowned.
Unusually, Christine’s hands were not smooth.
‘She is also operating on his father, so she is much more nervous than usual.”
It was a trouble.
The patient was in a bad condition, and if she didn’t do her job, the operation could fail.
Raymond had to make a move.