CHAPTER 112: ON DUTY AT THE ACADEMY HOSPITAL

I find myself in a shared office alone at a long table with many chairs and papers on the table.

There’s a small hill above the table on my left side, and in my right hand I’m playing with a magic ink pencil by tapping it against the table and twisting it between my fingers.

"Cute Vremya, who has you so pensive"

I heard a mature woman’s voice and the click of a door closing. When I turned to the voice I found the gaze of clear eyes smiling at me.

The woman is about 175 centimeters tall with light brown hair long to the lower back and a little wavy. Her eyes are a light color like the water of a river and her skin is white as snow.

She wears a knee-length white lab coat that covers her thin dress and carries folders on her left arm.

This woman in a white coat only lacks a stethoscope hanging from her neck to have all the appearance of a doctor.

"Professor Dhanvantari! How did the operation go?" I got up and greeted Dr. Dhanvantari Eri.

In this world there is no doctor’s title for doctors, at most they are called a healer, and someone who can cure any disease is already a legendary healer.

But maybe I can change this~

"With me here, as long as the injured persons is still breathing, they will not die...." Dhanvantari Eri said with her chin rising to the sky and placing her free hand on her waist, in a pose full of pride and arrogance.

The heroes who fight on the enemy’s front lines are the ones who suffer the most wounds from being in almost eternal combat.

All the combatant members of the allied races find themselves encircling the central continent, in a tug-of-war against the aliens, eliminating numbers and conquering areas, but occasionally the aliens launch a large wave and regain lost territory.

While there are no alien creatures of the natural disaster level anymore, there are also no Legendary-level warriors in the allied races.

Powerful individuals remain as guardians in each race’s main cities, protecting the kingdoms from alien attacks.

This has caused the war in the world to remain in a kind of equilibrium for almost two hundred years.

This has created a discussion that if the Hero Queen hadn’t sacrificed herself in sealing the space rift and instead dealt a blow to the heart of the hive, we would have already won the war.

But others say that, if the Hero Queen hadn’t sealed the space fissure, perhaps more powerful creatures would have had the time to cross into our world and now we would no longer exist, and nothing would be left alive.

But there is no such thing. After students graduate from the Royal Academy, they are sent to the front lines in a, so to speak, to do military service.

For noble sons, like me, it’s an honor to go to the battlefield for a few years and fight for your kingdom. All the students of the Academy study hard for it, go to the battlefield, and eliminate waves of aliens.

From Aunt Kaleria I know that she and Mom were on the front lines even though Mom was pregnant with Vasi.

After earning great merits and/or spending many years on the battlefield, you can retreat to the rear as a guardian in a kingdom settlement, such as a city, port, or town.

You have to spend another few years protecting the kingdom’s important lands and its citizens.

This is the present system of the Human Kingdom. The other race has a similar system adapted to their own priorities and needs.

The Wood Elves send emissaries to assist in the agriculture of the other races; the sea races protect the routes in the sea and oceans from being attacked by aliens and other sea beasts.

Dwarves contribute minerals and metal alloys to other races for weapons, armor, or artifacts. Beastmen are the best at cattle ranching and provide animals and meats.

Demons are the races with the best skill in Enchantment and Alchemy. Their artifacts are the simplest and best.

Aside from going to the battlefield, you still have to continue helping the Alliance to continue to hold the line of battle and prevent aliens from running freely over the world.

So, it is normal for a certain number of wounded to arrive in the Royal Capital to receive specialized treatment. And even if no special treatment is needed, it is normal for the wounded to come to the cities near the battlefield to receive medical treatment thanks to my family’s research in pharmacology and healing.

So when Dianeira escaped from me by not wanting to say anything more about Xifia, I had no choice but to come to the Academy hospital to continue with my classes in quotation marks and my Social Service/Internships.

So, when I finish reading the small medical books that Master Dhanvantari provided me with along with the books that are at home, now I only dedicate myself to helping with the paperwork of the patients, as well as reviewing the treatments and going around the rooms to help in the treatments of the other healers as an assistant.

When I arrived at the hospital, I learned that the Dean of the Hospital was attending to important people who were seriously injured and contaminated.

The best healers were running back and forth between patients for treatment. Since I don’t have the status to enter the medical operating room, I couldn’t do anything but make a round as a nurse between the patient beds and then come to the office to help with the paperwork.

"... But tell me~ what do you think you are so lost in the cloud~" Dr. Dhanvantari at one point approached me doing, crossed her arms over my shoulders and rested her chest on my neck.

Because of its height, it must be at an angle of ninety degrees leaning on me.

"Ah?~ I... I’m not thinking about anything..."

"hehehe~ you must be thinking of a girl right~

Normally I would tell you not to think about those things and focus on your studies, you are very smart, and I would not want you to deviate from becoming the best healer in the human kingdom, or much better, the best healer in the whole world!

But you know that births have been very low in recent years. The kingdom is concerned about the decline in the birth rate and the aging of the population. And the kingdom is incentivizing to increase the birth rate~"

"Ehh? EHHHH? NO! I can’t do that!!" Hearing Professor Dhanvantari’s mature and soft voice, my body shuddered.

My hands subconsciously went to my belly throwing the magic pencil to the ground.

"... I’m not saying that you, even if I wanted to, I couldn’t, but I could..."

"Ahem! Professor Dhanvantari Eri, the headmistress wants the report and please stop harassing Mair Vremya."

"Ahh~ what a shame. Well, then I see you Vremya~

If you are already done here, you can continue with your classes, see you tomorrow~"

Professor Dhanvantari got up from me and stopped hugging me. I turned my chair toward the door as I listened to the sound of the heel on the marble floor of the hospital.

Professor Dhanvantari turned to me and winked at me as she smiled, then opened the door and disappeared behind her.

"You shouldn’t give it too quickly Mair Vremya or they won’t respect you, women are like that, they only see a boy and want to devour him at the slightest opportunity..."

A white hand appeared in front of me with a pencil in its palm.

"No... I... Yes, I’m sorry, I understand Senior Prince." I took the pencil from the white hand and looked at the person handing it to me.

Prince is the best healer at the student level of the Academy, he is a boy who is already over 17 years old and already shows the maturity of a woman(?)

Prince has the long dark brown bath tied to a fluffy ponytail that he drops over his left shoulder. It has a height of 170 centimeters and is in its third grade of Preparatory level.

His name not only means prince, but he has been nicknamed after the Prince of the Royal Academy alongside student council vice president Sigrid.

Both are commoner boys who managed to enter the Royal Academy by entering under the protection of a noble family and have a guaranteed future.

I have had almost no contact with him, but he behaves like a loving and protective older sister. He also has permission to attend important operations like today’s.

"Well, I’m leaving. Take care of yourself"

"Yes, thank you... oh no, wait!" I almost forgot something.

"What’s wrong Mair Vremya?" Prince turned around.

"I wanted to hand this over to Professor Dhanvantari, but you scared her away hehehe~

Could you please hand it over to her?"

I handed a book in the form of a notebook to Prince.

"Mm, of course"

"Thank you Senior Prince"