The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows: Volume 1 [Parts 1 to 3] by Sakaku Hishikawa

Author:Sakaku Hishikawa
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Hrmph.”

Morning had dawned on the clinic. Lily frowned as she sat quietly at the reception counter, her blond hair swaying gently in the breeze.

“Why the long face, Lily?” Zenos asked.

“I was just thinking about how Zophia, Lynga, and Loewe come over all the time now,” she muttered.

It didn’t take much thinking to realize the young elf was right. The three women, all of them the biggest big shots in the slums as leaders of their own factions, had indeed been coming to the clinic often as of late.

Zophia came on Mondays.

Lynga on Wednesdays.

Loewe on Fridays.

Given their respective factions’ conflict, they had an unspoken agreement to visit on different days so that they didn’t run into one another.

“Come to think of it,” Zenos said, “they’re not even injured, so I wonder what they’re coming here for?”

All three of them looked flashy and were hard to miss. It was, frankly, a major headache.

“You don’t know why they keep coming, Zenos?” Lily asked.

“They must have a lot of free time,” the healer mused.

“No way. They’re all important people, so they must have a lot of stuff to do.”

“Then I have even less of a clue.”

Were they pranking him, he wondered?

Lily mumbled to herself. “Maybe it’s—”

“Love, I would wager. Hee hee hee.”

“And when did you get here?” Zenos asked Carmilla, who out of nowhere was sitting on the clinic’s bed.

The wraith crossed her pale legs, a smile playing at the corner of her crimson lips. “Those lasses are all swooning over you, Zenos.”

“What? Don’t be ridiculous,” the healer snapped. “Why would they be? I’m just a plain ol’ shadow healer. I don’t even have a license!”

Carmilla chuckled. “My eyes cannot be deceived! I have secretly been watching them from the ceiling, and they have the gazes of maidens in love. I have not been alive for three centuries for nothing.”

Well, no, actually, you’re dead, Zenos thought. Also, what’s with the snooping?

“I’m a little worried,” Lily said.

“What about?” Zenos asked.

“I-I mean, they’re all beautiful.”

“Sure, they’re nice to look at, but frankly they’re all kind of problematic.”

Carmilla, still sitting on the bed, stifled a laugh. “Hee hee. At this rate, soon the day will come when these demi-humans wage all-out war for Zenos’s affections.”

“Uh. No?” Zenos retorted. “That’s ridiculous.”

The wraith fluttered into the air. “Kindly do your best to regale me with your efforts as well, Lily. I do so crave entertainment.”

“B-But I’m just a kid,” Lily stammered. “I’m not as charming as they are...”

Carmilla chuckled. “A lady’s love is a beautiful thing.”

“Th-Thank you, Carmilla,” the young elf said.

The wraith disappeared into the second floor, leaving the faint echoes of her snickers in her wake.

Why was she here? Zenos wondered. And all-out war, over me? It’s so ridiculous it’s not even funny.

***

“Hey, doc. I’m thinking of going to war with them.”

“What?”

Monday morning, Zophia, leader of the lizardmen, stopped by for her usual visit and dropped this bomb.

“I never liked Lynga and Loewe, anyway,” she explained. “I think it’s about time to show them who the real leader of the demi-humans is.

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