Time Healer Ceres

“Ah...!”

The man flinched, but his eyes widened a moment later.

Until now, his body had felt heavy and feverish. His condition had been steadily deteriorating. Yet the moment the woman touched his head, all of those symptoms vanished.

“A-are you perhaps the Saintess?”

The man’s voice rose. He already figured out her identity. These days, the Saintess was all anyone talked about. Wasn’t she the one who healed people with her mysterious powers?

They said that the reason half the villagers had survived the epidemic was thanks to the Saintess. The man became certain his guess was right.

The Saintess had come to their village!

“I’m not the Saintess.”

“...Huh?”

N-not the Saintess?

The woman sighed before getting to her feet.

“Airien.”

[Pii.]

“Gasp!”

At her call, a small white rabbit appeared in a flash of light. The man was so startled that he nearly jumped.

“Do this here too.”

[Pop!]

Whoosh!

“W-Whoa!”

The man was shocked once again. Flowers suddenly bloomed across the wooden table that was empty moments ago.

“These flowers help stop the epidemic.”

“What?”

S-stop the epidemic? Such a thing existed?!

“So don’t pick them. Leave them here for a while. They have healing properties as well.”

“Ah...”

Only then did the man stare at the flowers covering the table in awe.

“If you’re not the Saintess, then...?”

How could someone who performed such a miracle not be the Saintess? Seeing the man’s bewildered expression, the woman sighed again.

“A Tamer Relic.”

She picked up the baby rabbit and held it in her arms.

“This is all thanks to the Tamer Relic’s power.”

The man’s eyes widened even more.

So she was the owner of the Tamer relic that had recently appeared!

***

“Haa... it really doesn’t end.”

Should I just barge in and accept being called crazy?

After checking on the last patient, Ceres stepped outside and ran a hand roughly through her hair.

While she was in the Principality of Persia, she received news that the epidemic was spreading rapidly throughout the Empire.

“The epidemic... has spread to the Empire?”

“Yes. High fever and vomiting blood. The symptoms are identical.”

As Del explained, Kainel lifted his head. The symptoms were exactly the same as the epidemic that had spread through the Principality of Persia.

Thud.

At that moment, Ceres finished reading the documents and placed them on the table.

“So it wasn’t over after all.”

Ceres clicked her tongue and stood up. She had suspected something when Saintess Yuness returned to the Empire with the temple officials, but she still hoped she was wrong.

But...

Could it really be a coincidence that this happened right after Saintess Yuness returned to the Empire?

“Looks like I should go back.”

If her prediction was correct, this epidemic could bring about countless deaths just like it did 300 years ago. Someone had to stop it before that happened.

“All right. I’ll prepare.”

“Prepare? For what? Are you coming too?”

Ceres tilted her head. From what she had seen, he seemed to have plenty of work waiting for him after returning to the Grand Duchy. The fact that his retainers had been coming to the Grand Duke’s residence almost every day was proof enough. There must be a lot of matters left unattended while he was in the Empire.

“Why would you come with me? Just finish your work here first.”

“I’ve already taken care of everything.”

“Really?”

It looked like there still had been so much to do. Ceres glanced at Del, who was standing beside Kainel.

“Yes... it’s all finished.”

Del sighed heavily as he recalled the sleepless nights he had endured over the past few days.

“You expect all of this to be done today?”

“Is there a problem?”

“I’ve already gone two days without sleep.”

“So have I.”

“But Your Excellency, you barely sleep in the first place...”

“This needs to be done by tomorrow too.”

“...Yes.”

Because Kainel had been rushing to clear all the piled-up work before Ceres returned to the Empire, Del ended up losing sleep for several days as well.

Still, he tried to console himself. When Lord Kainel was with Miss Ceres, communication was much smoother, and he even ate his meals properly.

And so, contrary to the original plan, they decided to return to the Empire together with Ceres.

Upon returning to the Empire, the first thing Ceres needed to do was—

“Oh my, Lady Ceres. We meet again.”

“......”

...move before that woman did.

Ceres, who had been heading toward the village entrance, cursed inwardly the moment she saw the group that had just arrived.

When everything happens exactly as I expected, it stops being suspicion. I can’t help but be certain.

Because standing there were none other than Saintess Yuness and the people from the Temple.

“What brings you here?”

“Just passing by.”

Ceres brushed off Yuness’s friendly greeting with a brief answer, then turned her gaze toward the disciple standing behind her.

“Stay close to her wherever she goes.”

“Me?”

“Yes. You.”

“...Alright.”

Seeing Ersi faithfully staying by Yuness’s side, just as Ceres had ordered him to, she nodded in satisfaction.

After coming to the Empire with the Temple members and undergoing several examinations, Yuness was personally appointed as a Saintess by the Pope.

“How did you end up here, Miss Yuness?”

“Oh, me? An epidemic broke out in a nearby village, so I stopped by there first. Then, just in case, I decided to come check this place as well.”

Since then, she had been traveling all over the Empire to stop the epidemic from spreading. The praise surrounding the Saintess was growing rapidly, and the Temple’s influence was rising along with it.

“This village is fine.”

“Pardon?”

“The treatment is already finished.”

“What do you mean...?”

Yuness’s expression hardened slightly at Ceres’s words.

The treatment was already finished? How? She hadn’t even used her powers yet.

“She did it.”

[Pii!]

The strange sound caught everyone’s attention. When they looked down, they saw a baby rabbit standing there with one paw raised.

“...No way.”

“My Tamer Relic has healing abilities.”

“Ah.”

“A Tamer Relic...”

Whispers of amazement spread among the crowd. By now, everyone knew that Ceres Drow had become the owner of a Tamer Relic.

However, no one knew exactly what abilities the relic possessed. There were rumors that it could prevent monster invasions, but no one expected it to have healing abilities as well.

Actually, it doesn’t have any healing abilities.

She was only using Airien to hide her own power. Since she wasn’t a Saintess, there was no way she could explain how she cured an epidemic that had no known cure.

Though not everything I said was a lie.

The flowers Airien had made bloom throughout the village didn’t have any healing effects, but...

They do block demonic energy.

Ceres had confirmed it back in the S-Class Black Forest. It was similar to how monsters couldn’t enter the areas where Airien created flower fields.

Demonic energy? What did that have to do with an epidemic?

Demonic energy was the cause of the epidemic that spread 300 years ago. If that was the case, then the epidemic should’ve been curable with holy water or the medicine she created.

But it wasn’t.

There was no demonic energy within the epidemic itself. Holy water and medicine had no effect at all.

There wasn’t any demonic energy in the patients’ bodies either.

But when the epidemic began spreading, a powerful trace of demonic energy was suddenly detected in the village. Grace only discovered it by chance.

It was caught by the demonic energy detection device Artia created.

That was when she realized this epidemic wasn’t an ordinary one and the Saintess was the culprit.

The problem was...

Grace never found out how she did it. The Saintess they captured took her own life before they could uncover anything. The case was closed without learning the truth.

Why she spread the epidemic, how she managed to do it, and why demonic energy appeared in the villages where it broke out...

Grace found out nothing.

“Lady Ceres... are you saying you cured the epidemic here?”

“.......”

Could she finally uncover the truth about the epidemic this time?

Why is she doing this?

Ceres kept a bright smile on her face as she looked at Yuness, who continued asking the same question as if she still couldn’t believe it.

“Did I do something unnecessary?”

“What? No, of course not!”

“I just felt like I took away something that should’ve been your responsibility as the Saintess. I wondered if that might have upset you...”

“Not at all!”

Yuness hurriedly waved her hands. She grabbed Ceres’s hands tightly, her eyes welling up with tears.

“Thank you so much. I was heartbroken seeing so many people lose their lives to the epidemic... I can’t tell you how relieved I am that you helped everyone like this.”

The priests standing behind her looked moved. As expected of the Saintess, they thought. Their faces were filled with admiration as they continued showing their reverence.

“Yes. I’ll continue to help you from now on.”

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