Chapter 1-12 : The Girl And The Cat Are Taking Care Of Themselves After Working Hard
As soon as Elle completed the antibiotic, she mixed it with honey and used a wooden spoon to carefully put it into the mouths of the elderly couple who were half-asleep.
After that, she drew small magic circles on their throats with honey. The magic would increase the effectiveness of the antibiotic.
Several minutes after taking the antibiotic, the elderly couple who were breathing heavily started to calm down a little, indicating that the antibiotic was working.
「Y, Yoyo, I think it’s working!」(Elle)
「Seems like it. Great job, Elle!」(Yoyo)
Elle held her chest and took a deep breath. She felt relieved knowing that the antibiotic she made was working.
「Now we just have to wait for them to get better. Yoyo, I’m going to take a bath. Can you please prepare some food for us?」(Elle)
「Roger that.」(Yoyo)
Elle had disposed of the chicken that the elderly woman had skinned yesterday by burning it with a fire magic stone to prevent the disease from spreading even more.
They didn’t have any meat to cook because of that, but they still had some vegetables. Yoyo planned to make some vegetable soup while Elle was taking a bath.
As a matter of course, the elderly couple’s house didn’t have a bathroom. Even in the royal capital, only rich people’s houses had bathrooms.
However, there was a large wooden container in the backyard that Yoyo used to wash the elderly couple’s clothes and other stuff earlier.
Elle thought of using it as a bathtub. First, she used a water magic stone to fill it with water and used a fire magic stone to boil it.
She then undressed, put her clothes into the hot water, and soaked herself in. The hot water would kill the black spot disease pathogens on her body and her clothes at the same time.
By the way, Moritz was kind of a clean freak, so he built a small bathroom in his house. He told Elle to take a bath regularly, especially after a day of working.
Taking a bath had become Elle’s habit since then. That’s why she was happy to be able to do it even in a wooden container that was barely enough to hold her entire body.
Back in the day about fifty years ago, there were rumors saying that you would get sick if you washed your body. Because of that people rarely took a bath.
However, several years later, a group of scholars denied those rumors. They said the opposite, that washing your body would help you maintain your health.
Since then, people started washing their bodies by simply wiping themselves with wet towels or taking a bath if they were rich people.
It seemed that the old couple regularly washed their bodies. Their house was relatively clean too.
That’s why it took them a while to become infected even though they lived near the village where almost all the residents were infected with black spot disease.
While immersing her body in the hot water, Elle took out some dried bay laurel leaves from her magic bag and put them into the hot water.
Those leaves worked as a strong disinfectant that could kill microorganisms to make sure none of the black spot pathogens survived. In addition, bay laurel leaves had the effect of relieving fatigue.
「Ahh~…」(Elle)
It was a tough day, but Elle could finally relax.
She couldn’t stretch her legs forward because of the small bathtub, but she felt comfortable enough.
While Elle was enjoying her bath, Yoyo cut vegetables into small pieces and used the huge pot in the fireplace to make soup.
He went to the backyard to check on Elle while waiting for the soup to cook.
「Elle, how are you feeling?」(Yoyo)
「It’s a bit cramped here, but I feel good. Have you finished cooking?」(Elle)
「It will be ready soon. I’m making vegetable soup.」(Yoyo)
「I see. Thank you, Yoyo. I will wash your body later.」(Elle)
「Eeehh… Do I have to take a bath too? You know that I’m immune to disease and bad microorganisms, right?」(Yoyo)
Yoyo was a fairy with strong positive mana that could kill bad bacteria that came into contact with him. Normal fleas might be able to survive, but the fleas that carry black disease pathogens would die in a second.
「I know, but we had been walking through the forest for a few days, so you still have to take a bath.」(Elle)
「Ugh, you sound like Moritz… Alright, alright. Anyway, I’ll go check the soup. I think it’ll be ready soon.」(Yoyo)
「Got it.」(Elle)
After Yoyo left, Elle got out of the bathtub and started cleaning her body from head to toe with the herbal soap she made herself.
After that, she used a wind magic stone and a fire magic stone to dry her body and her clothes at the same time.
It felt good when the warm blowing wind produced by the two magic stones passed through her body.
After she put on her clothes, her stomach growled, so she immediately got inside the house to eat the vegetable soup Yoyo made.
「Elle, the soup is ready.」(Yoyo)
「Thank you, Yoyo.」(Elle)
As Elle sat at the dining table, Yoyo prepared a wooden bowl filled with soup for her.
「How’s the taste?」(Yoyo)
「Mmm~ It tastes good! As expected from the best fairy chef in the world!」(Elle)
「Glad you like it.」(Yoyo)
「By the way, I got an idea while I was taking a bath. Yoyo, if a patient with black spot disease hugs you, will the pathogens in their body die?」(Elle)
「Hmm… I doubt it. The pathogens and bad mycobacteria probably won’t die unless they touch my fur. Besides, I don’t want to be hugged by someone other than you!」(Yoyo)
「Ahh… I see. Well, either way, I’m glad I could make the antibiotic. I’m really glad that I’m a magic stone enchanter. Without magic stones, I doubt I could make it in time.」(Elle)
「By the way, how long would it take to make the antibiotic without magic stones?」(Yoyo)
「Umm…Without the right temperature it would probably take two months.」(Elle)
「I see… Anyway, you’ve done a wonderful job. Elle, you should be proud of yourself. You saved these people’s lives.」(Yoyo)
「Un.」(Elle)
Elle nodded and smiled.
Thinking that she saved the lives of an elderly couple today, a warm feeling of accomplishment filled her heart.
After finishing her meal and feeding the elderly couple, Elle went to the backyard again to wash Yoyo’s body.
「Ahh~ Elle, you do know how to wash my delicate body, unlike that old man.」(Yoyo)
「Hehe. You can leave it to me.」(Elle)
「You know? The way Moritz washed my body back then was very rough. He washed my fur as if he washed a dirty carpet or something.」(Yoyo)
「Well, Master was a bit of a germaphobe, after all.」(Elle)
「”A bit”? He was a germaphobe to the core. He even became an activist because of it.」(Yoyo)
「Eh? I didn’t know that.」(Elle)
「Do you know about a group of scholars who denied the rumors saying that washing your body would get you sick that spread about fifty years ago?」(Yoyo)
「I remember I read an article about that.」(Elle)
「The person who led them was Moritz, you know?」(Yoyo)
「Eeehhh!? So Master was the person who changed the people’s mind back then!?」(Elle)
「Yeah, and the reason why he did that was just because he was a clean freak and didn’t want to live around stinky people.」(Yoyo)
「I see…」(Elle)
Elle didn’t expect she would learn something new about her deceased master.
Moritz was a clean freak, but thanks to that, many lives were saved because people started maintaining their health by simply washing their bodies.
You can gain access to [Early Access] page and read up to ten chapters ahead by supporting me on [Patreon]
Loving this series so far. Thanks!