Chapter 172

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In the wagon, I woke up while feeling cold. It seemed I had fallen asleep while leaning against Yurina-san’s bed. Yurina-san was still deep asleep along with Ash who looked comfortable sleeping in Yurina-san’s arms. 

The fire from the stove had already died so it was pretty cold here in the wagon. I threw the firewood I had piled before by the stove into the stove and ignited the fire with a fire dagger. 

“Fire, fire….”

I threw some firewood from a pile that I had stacked by the stove beforehand into the stove and ignited the fire with a fire dagger. The room temperature gradually became warmer and warmer. I held my hand out over the crackling firewood powered stove. Finally, I could catch my own breath. 

Apparently, I had fallen asleep without noticing it when I was nursing Yurina-san. 

“That’s right. I wonder how her fever is?”

I touched Yurina-san’s forehead to find out and it felt like her fever was considerably better than before. 

“Yes, great.”

Her breathing was more stable than a short while before too. She seemed to be getting better now. All that I needed to do was to keep the wagon warm and humid and made sure she continued having enough food and water. Then, she would surely be alright. 

“I’m glad…”

I had been wondering what I needed to do if she really contracted a strange disease. I’ve heard of people getting seriously ill just by being bitten by a flea. In an unknown place like this, there must be an unknown disease as well and when either of us got infected by that said unknown disease, I wouldn’t know what I should do. 

We couldn’t let our guards down yet though, it was a relief to know she was getting better. 

I changed the towel on Yurina-san’s forehead and filled the slightly distorted kettle that I had made myself with water and heated it on top of the stove. Of course this was done in order to raise the humidity in the wagon. 

After that, I somehow couldn’t fall asleep so I just stared blankly at the flickering, waving fire in the stove and the steam coming from the kettle.

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T/N: I can relate with MC here. My baby suddenly had red spots all over her legs and I panicked so bad. Fortunately it was just an allergy reaction from her cough medicine.