Seirei Gensouki's
Chapter 200: Caring for Her Highness the Second Princess
After disappearing from Duran's sight, Rio went to the southwest direction without using the main route. It is currently an emergency situation as Flora's current condition is critical. Moreover, he did not know if he could move comfortably if he followed the main route where towns and villages were under enemy territory. Therefore, returning to the village where he met Duran and the others was also out of the question as it would make the situation even more complicated.
After thinking this far, he decided to stop for a while to provide medical treatment to Flora, instead of continuing to consider the never-ending pros and cons. Therefore, when he arrived at the stone-filled area, he stopped and agreed with himself.
This place seems fine
Rio stood still, and then poured his magic power onto the ground through his feet, preparing the ground for use.
""Remove""
Then he opened his stuffed box which was equipped in his left hand and took out a stone house.
「Yosh. 」
While still holding onto Flora, he skillfully opened the door and entered the stone house.
「Haa, haaa ..」
Meanwhile, Flora was panting, in excruciating pain as she tried her best to hold on to her life.
「First is medicine. Next is to prepare a comfortable room and clean his body .. 」
Rio muttered as he made a list of tasks that he had to do first. Suddenly he realized something.
While the Elven-made medicine should be curable here .. what should I do to cleanse her body? How do I do it neatly without causing a foul?
Although this was an emergency situation, washing the naked body of an unconscious princess still made her feel awkward. On the other hand, his body may not be in a hygienic condition after lying down for days without being cleaned.
Rio frowned, hesitating about what he should do in this situation. In the end, he concluded to himself.
「Let's give him some medicine for a while. 」
So, he gave her the medicine first, before doing anything else. Then, perhaps because he had found a good solution to the dilemma, he took her to the bathroom without taking anything out, spread the towel over the tile, and placed Flora on top of the towel.
「《Debit》 ............... Princess FLORa, you must take this medicine and water. So please wake up for now. 」
He took out a small bottle filled with water and another small bottle filled with fairy-made medicine, and called out to her in a slightly louder voice as he lifted her into a sitting position.
「Urgh …………………. . 」
Flora reacted with a groan, and when she saw that small reaction, she immediately acted.
「Princess Flora, this is your water and medicine. Open your mouth . 」
After making sure that he could breathe, he made him drink water first.
「…… !!」
Despite the small amount, Rio saw that he seemed to be able to swallow the water, therefore he decided to give him the medicine after that, lest he fall unconscious without taking the medicine.
"Great . Now you need to take the medicine, please swallow it properly. Slow it's fine, just take the medicine, okay. Here it is 」
Speaking until then, Rio opened the medicine bottle and placed it on Flora's lips so that she could drink it straight away.
「……」
「Good, now take a breath for a while .. Now, please continue taking the medicine. 」
Therefore, Rio spent quite a lot of time to make her take the necessary dosage of medicine. It took him a few minutes to drink because he could only drink little by little.
「Next I need to wash clothes, and his body. Flora, please don't feel surprised when you feel the water, okay? I'll wash you with hot water and soap. 」
This was the solution to Flora's hygiene problem, she would wash the woman's body directly. That way, he wouldn't offend a woman's virtue too much. In addition, the medicine will not immediately show its effect. It took some time to neutralize the poison raging in his body, although he was completely certain that Flora would be fine after taking the elf's medicine. Meanwhile, he had no other choice but to clean the body of his clothes, as he would not be able to do it himself. If this elf medicine could not cure him completely, then he would use the last path he had, the potion.
"AH……"
To calm himself down, he considered Flora's hanging head as approval for his actions.
「Then, let's start from hot water. 」
Rio said to himself, trying to alleviate the awkwardness he felt, and then conjured hot water to wrap around Flora's clothed body. Using the conjured hot water, he rinsed and washed his clothes and body, while ensuring that his body remained warm.
Fortunately, he was unconscious. This way, he would not realize that I was using spirit arts now.
Rio thought, distracting his attention from his current actions and situation.
「Do not worry, the water is warm, and only for a moment. 」
After saying that, Flora's unwashed head was wrapped in warm water for a minute, somewhat cleaning it.
One minute later, Rio released his control over the hot water, which allowed him to splash onto the floor. He juggles new hot water and mixes it with soap. Controlling the soap-laced water, she used it to wash the woman's body gently and carefully.
After washing her body, she moved into her hair, and then doused clean water on her face before wiping dry.
「Next is drying it .........」.
In order not to let him get cold, he immediately dried his body. To be exact, she touched her clothes, and from there she began to suck the moisture of her clothes with spirit arts. Honestly, this should not be used to light up clothes because it would damage the cloth, but it did not matter now because the clothes he was wearing were those loaned by the village chief.
Finished it, he created a warm wind to dry his hair. Thus, completing his task of cleaning it.
「... And that's the end. 」
Perhaps it was due to the complicated operation, but Rio took a deep breath once he finished the task, feeling relieved. Moreover, it might be because she had taken some medicine and cleaned her body, but she thought that Flora's skin had gotten a little better, increasing her relief.
「Now I just need to let him sleep .... Well, let's let him use the empty room. 」
Although he did not know how long he needed to rest, but according to his estimation, he needed to rest for a few days, at least. Therefore he decided to take her to an empty room and let her rest there alone. If his condition stabilized before he woke up, then he would bring him back to the city under his royal territory.
Even so, I had to find an indirect way to ascertain whether he saw my appearance or my quarrel with Lucius …
While taking her to the empty bedroom, Rio thought about how to do such things. When he got there, he put Flora's body on the bed and saw that she seemed to have fallen asleep.
Therefore, he covered her with a blanket, looking at her before his gaze turned to her nape.
「........ It would be better if there were no scars on his skin. 」
Rio muttered to the silent room.