ASDP Chapter 2

The red rescue signal seems to be near the maga.
As I run up the hill, I think about which way is the shortest way to go.

“Anyway, why is someone climbing to a place like this at this time of year?”
There was no talk of a saint coming to purify the maga, and normally materials would be collected much earlier. It seems that there are some strange people who enjoy mountain climbing as a hobby, but this mountain is famous for its various misfortunes, so there are no ordinary climbers.
If that’s the case, it’s for collection purposes after all, but there should be restrictions now…

As I approached the maga, I heard the unpleasant sound of wings.
“Gah!”

A buzzing sound. This happens to create a vortex of air by moving its wings back and forth at high speed, allowing it to stay in the air, which is different from the flapping of a bird’s wings.
I stopped halfway and took out the binoculars I had in my bag. When I looked, I saw a bee with yellow and black stripes, just as I had expected. ……Uhm. A bee.
Moreover, even though it is a bee, its size is strange. A bee with a body the size of a human baby is nothing more than a nightmare. There’s a swarm of them… I want to pretend I didn’t see it, but the people who sent out the distress signal are collapsed. Since it is far away, it is unknown if they are alive of dead, but the problem is that if a corpse is near the maga, it will become undead among monsters. Moreover, when it becomes an undead type that has inherited the occupational abilities of the original person, it becomes difficult to defeat.

“Undine, the spirit of water. Give me the power of purification. Here is the power of a clear stream that washes away evil things. Torrent!”
When I quickly say the words of the prayer, a torrent like a river sweeps away the big bee. By limiting it to what is evil, the target is only what is evil to me, that it, monsters, and it has no effect on anything else.
“Gyaa. I’m sorry!!”
They weren’t swept away, but when I saw the people lying on the ground were soaking wet, I hurriedly approached. Hot being swept away means that they have not become monsters.

…They’re alive, right?
The ones lying on the ground are a blond man wearing priest’s clothes and a black-haired man dressed as a knight. Both have blue faces and closed eyes. It is possible that they were soaked in the water and lost even more strength. What? Misjudgment?
No, but I heal them unless I get rid of those bees.
I can’t use fire attacks on the mountain, and if I hit each of them with water balls, I’d be in danger. If chop them up with the wind, these people would also be splattered, and above all else, I don’t want to walk among the chopped up insects.
After all, I have no choice but to push them away, right?

Although i graduated from school, I didn’t do much practical work and retired to the countryside, so I don’t have much experience. I don’t have any seniors here to talk to, so I’m anxious to see if I’ve taken the right approach.
However, I can’t do anything about what has already been done. First is detoxification.
Since they had already fallen down, they must have been stung by that giant bee. When I checked for wounds, both the priest and the knight had holes in their backs. …This is dangerous unless the bleeding is stopped.

Anyway, first of all, detox. Then stop the bleeding.
Fortunately, all the poison doesn’t enter the body because of the blood flowing through it. But if you run out of blood, you’ll die.
I hurriedly took out a medicine that could be used to treat bee venom and put it into their mouths. Bee damage occurs every year, so I was lucky that I had something that worked well from my grandfather. For now, the chances of dying from breathing difficulties have decreased.
Then, just when I thought the bleeding had stopped, the black-haired man opened his eyes. His calm amber eyes turned towards me and he looked startled.
“Oh, I’m not a suspicious person. Um, do you remember earlier when you were attacked by a giant bee called Killer Bee?”
A situation where a strange woman puts something in your mouth and your body doesn’t move as you want is nothing but suspicious. So I quickly explain the current situation.
If treatment is refused, they will die.

“This…”
The man, who seems to have trouble moving his mouth, frowned with his eyebrows.
“Um. I put the detox in your mouth, so it will work eventually. I’m going to use water magic to stop the bleeding now.”
I hurriedly focused on the spell in order to mobilize the magic in my entire body.
“Undine, the spirit of water. Please grant me the power of healing. Here is the power to guide the red water of life to its normal flow. Water Healing.”
It’s true that light magic is good for wounds. But since I don’t have the aptitude, I have to put in the conversion. Doing so would consume a lot of magic power, so I’ll use it just in case, but for now I’ll just stop the bleeding. There’s no guarantee that monsters won’t appear until we descend the mountain.
It’s probably because the blood has stopped coming out and the medicine is starting to work. I feel like the men’s faces have improved.

“For now, I just used first aid to stop the bleeding. You should get healed once we get to a safe clinic. Once you’re able to walk, or someone else comes to help, we’ll move.”
The red light can be seen even from the village at the foot of the mountain, so I think someone will come unless I give them the blue light to signal a solution.
It’s not impossible to use body strengthening magic, but I’m not as good at it as a knight, and it’s difficult to carry two people on my back due to my physique.

“No more. Kill me… please.”
“Huh?”
The man I had just rescued started making ridiculous requests intermittently, making me blink. I looked at him to see if I had heard wrong, and the man spoke again.
“I don’t want to be… corrupted… by the maga… I don’t want to be a monster. Please… kill me.”
“Ah. It’s close.”
It is the same for humans who are affected by maga and become monsters. Even if it’s not a corpse, they become a monster.
I was convinced and took action. Even if you don’t come into direct contact with the maga, if you touch a monster that has just touched it, or if you stay within the range of the influence of the maga for a long time, you will gradually become a monster.
I hear that turning into a monster is quite disgusting, as you feel like you are turning into a foreign body. If he transforms into a perfect monster, he won’t be able to reverse it, so he’ll probably be worried.

“Wait a minute. I harvested something good today.”
I gingerly pulled out a shiitake mushroom with legs.
Then, in front of the man, I hit it on the head with all my might. Then, spores flew around. The man looked at me with wide eyes, but he inhaled and covered his mouth in panic.
But it’s slow.
He wasn’t wearing a mask, and his movements were slow due to the poison. There’s no way you can escape from spores at a close range.

Pon. Ponponpon.

Shiitake mushrooms grew on the heads of the knight and the priest.
The picture is so funny that it almost makes me burst out laughing. It’s even more funny because the men have reasonably well-shaped faces. But the other party are patients. I can’t laugh.
“Eh?!”
“It’s okay. As long as you keep growing mushrooms, the effects of the maga will be on the mushrooms, so you won’t turn into monsters. Well, if you keep growing mushrooms, visual and auditory hallucinations will occur, and you will start spreading mushrooms. But it shouldn’t be a problem until you get down the mountain.”
To be honest, even if he stares at me head-on, I’m not scared because my eyes go straight to the mushroom on his head. In fact, I’m trying desperately not to burst out laughing. This method of controlling poison with poison is something that it done in an emergency, but it ruins the tense atmosphere.

“Huh?”
“That means you won’t turn into a monster. There is a skilled doctor in the village down the mountain, so don’t worry, the effects of the maga will be erased there.”
The man who repeats ‘huh? eh?’ with wide eyes seems to be quite confused.
Well, if you were about to commit suicide and mushrooms started to grow, you would be confused if you didn’t know how to deal with this.

“Well, wait. Um. Anyway, I understand that this mushroom can prevent you from turning into a monster, but doctors can’t cure it, right?”
“It can be cured. The treatment will take longer than at the temple. But I think it’s safer to treat it in the village rather than heading to the temple from this village, right? I won’t force you, though.”
If he were to travel to town, he would have to hide the mushrooms growing from his head with a hat, so it would be difficult. No matter how much poison is used to control the body, it still takes a toll on the body. Considering that, I think it would be easier to get treatment done in this village, even if it takes a little longer.

“What? Seriously?”
“What’s the point of lying about something like this?”
I tilted my head at the stunned man.

I don’t think I would be able to prevent myself from laughing if I saw a mushroom growing out of someone’s head like that.

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