I’m also learning the basics of physiology, but I’m not so confident. The human body varies slightly from person to person, and my experienced grandfather has the right knowledge.
“What’s bothering you?”
My grandfather receives the glasses from me as I tilt my head.
“I haven’t bothered to look at the flow of magical power of the human body before, but can you see something like a jam in some places? It’s subtle because it’s small. I feel like the flow is a little strange, around the joints of the shoulders and arms, and between the ribs.”
“Let’s see?”
Next to my grandfather who is wearing the glasses, I also look around the chest area while remembering the red streak from earlier. If you don’t wear glasses, he doesn’t seem to have a medical condition. It’s probably because the arms are sunburned, but the chest is firmly hidden with clothes and protective gear. It’s not burned much.
“Oh, that!!”
“Did something happen?”
Theo called out to me, so when I looked up, the area around his ears was bright red.
“No, that. If you look too much…”
“Ah. I’m sorry. Can I try touch-”
Span!
With his sharp handling of the paper bundle, my grandfather hit me on the head again. It’s starting to look a little different.
“Grandpa, my head is not a drum.”
“Then don’t try to touch at a young man’s body even though you’re not a doctor. Not at all. I understand that Amelia is purely trying to investigate demonization, but if a young and beautiful woman touches him, the man will be upset.”
“You used to let me treat their wounds.”
“I told you they were old. Besides, I I had you help me in an emergency. No matter how long it takes, you still don’t understand a man’s heart.”
He sighed and I puffed out my cheeks.
That’s right. I’m a woman who doesn’t understand a man’s heart anyway.
“No. I don’t mind if you touch me.”
“Is it okay?!”
“Is it for the study of the maga?”
“Of course. There is nothing bad about it.”
“Then… that. Go ahead.”
When Theo closed his eyes, he spread his hands to the side.
I’m really sorry because he’s embarrassed, but I don’t want to miss the chance to investigate. My grandfather is sighing next to me, but I ignore him.
First of all, touch the organ that makes magical power. …Is it a little hard and hot?
“Do you have any pain around here?”
“I don’t have it.”
“Well, what about this area?”
I slipped my finger and touched the place where I felt that the flow around his shoulder was strange. After all, it feels a little harder than other skin. I don’t know the difference in temperature.
In addition, when I slipped my finger toward the ribs, Theo trembled.
“Does it hurt?”
“No, no… it doesn’t hurt, but… it’s a little ticklish.”
“That’s right-”
Span!!
It’s educational guidance again.
What was wrong this time?
Even though I got Theo’s consent.
When I looked up, my grandfather looked tired.
“For the time being, I’ll look at the rest, so Amelia should go out for now.”
“Eh”
“That’s not it. I understand what Amelia was saying about the flow of magical power being strange, so I’ll look at the lower body.”
…Then it can’t be helped.
As far as I can see from Theo’s embarrassment, I can understand that I shouldn’t look at the lower body.
I reluctantly left the examination room.
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I was told by my grandfather that the examination was over, and I went back into the room again.
Theo, who is dressed again, seems to have regained his normal mind, and he is not as embarrassed as before.
“Thank you for your cooperation.”
“Ah, ah. It’s okay. So, did you find out anything?”
“What do you think, grandpa? For the time being, I think the magical power manufacturing organ is swollen, and the upper body seemed to have something like a block of magical power in some places. Then, I can’t see any change as I see it normally, but the part that seemed to be clogged when touched is a little hard. Also, I felt like there was a fever around the magic manufacturing organ.”
“I’m the same. As with the lower body, there is something like a clogging of magical power. However, the place where this clog seems to be seen seems to be the place called the Magic Node by some doctors. We don’t know the role of the magic node yet, but when there is a problem with magic, pain often occurs in that place.”
Magic Node is a word that doesn’t appear in school classes, it’s the first time I’ve heard of it, so it’s probably a temporary name that hasn’t been clearly proposed yet.
“It doesn’t seem to be painful, but since it’s getting hard, can I think that there is some problem with the magic node? It’s not usually hard, is it?”
I touch the base of my neck and shoulders, but it doesn’t feel like Theo’s.
“Normally, it’s not hard. It’s an organ that can’t be seen even after dissecting, so there’s little information. It is said that it may be related to the pulse and acupuncture points of the eastern country, but I still don’t understand it at all.”
It’s hard to prove if you can’t see it. If you have glasses that can see the flow of magical power, it may change again, but it will still take time to be proven.
“By the way, what do mushrooms look like when viewed through the glasses? Grandpa, please give me the glasses.”
I receive the glasses again and stare at Theo’s head.
The mushrooms glow red as a whole, and it seems to emit magical power from there. The spores are not flying, so they’re probably just discharging magical energy.
“Thank you. The entire mushroom looks red, and they release even more magical energy.”
Could this effect of releasing magical power perhaps be a hint to stop the progress of demonization?
Originally, this folk remedy was the idea of suppressing poison with poison. It is known to be able to stop people from turning into monsters by chance, and it is an emergency response method in this village. So there hasn’t been any research into the principle of how it can stop demonization, and as far as I can see from the state of Theo, it seems that few people know of this method in the royal capital.
“The abnormality of the magical power manufacturing organ seems to be related to demonization, but why does the magical power manufacturing organ cause an abnormality when it touches the maga?”
“The maga is a place where mana is elaborate, so there is more mana than usual, right? If so, isn’t there an abnormality because there is too much mana?”
“But I wonder if it will cause abnormality all the time after touching the high concentration once… Oh, is that it?”
“Honorific language is fine. I don’t use it either.”
Theo came into the maga discussion and I immediately forgot to use honorific language, but I got a quick approval, so I will talk as it is without worrying about it.
“Even if you touch it once and it’s swollen, I think it’s normal for it to go back to normal. Even if the skin is bitten by an insect and becomes swollen, it will eventually return to normal, right? But it is said that demonization can’t be cured unless it is purified. What is purification in the first place?”
The only thing you learn in the magic department is that it is magic that uses the light attribute.
Maybe the knights are like that too. It is the saint’s department that knows a lot about purification, but as far as I heard about the content of the lesson from the saint before, it was just a place to learn how to do it, and there seemed to be no class content that would dig deeper into purification.
“Isn’t it to normalize the complicated state?”
“Why is it complicated in the first place? I don’t understand the mechanism. …Hey, does the clogging in the magic node mean that the magic is stuck there?”
I don’t know how to prove it, but being stuck means that it’s hard for magic to flow all over the body.
“Oh, grandpa!! Perhaps, because there is a blockage in the magic node, it is difficult for magic to flow to the whole body, and it is possible that a large amount of magic is required to push it away, and it is possible that the magic manufacturing organs are bloated to create more magic than usual. Isn’t it?”
In this case, it will remain bloated no matter how long it takes. Unless the blockage is cleared, the body desperately tries to produce a large amount of magic to spread it throughout the body.
“And to create magic, you need mana. Mana is [the power to change], right? So by using a large amount of mana, the body changes into a body that can produce a large amount of magical power. What do you think about this hypothesis on demonization?”
I was excited by the theory that fit well, and I clenched my fist as I told him.
That hypothesis really does make a lot of sense.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter and thank you for reading!
