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Chapter 63: Restoring the Light

The next morning.

Reiner left early.

Anna was standing across the street and waved at him.

“Why have you come again?”

Yesterday that woman had made quite a move on Reiner, but in the end he had turned her away.

Although she had a great figure, her face was nothing like Nora’s, and most importantly, she wasn’t a beast-eared girl, so I didn’t feel anything for her.

If Martina had treated him like that, Reiner would have been hammered into a giant mallet by now.

Nora’s cat ears perked up.

A thought drifted out.

(This wild woman again, why does she keep pestering Master? I don’t like her.)

“I don’t live in the city, so it’s not easy to come here, I stayed at an inn last night and came to find you as soon as I woke up,” Anna said as she hurried over, boldly slinging her arm over Reiner’s shoulder and looking at him with those enchanting fox-like eyes.

“I begged you like this yesterday, yet you still wouldn’t let me stay overnight? You really are just like the rumors said,” Anna said with a light laugh.

“What rumors?” Reiner asked, pushing her hand aside in puzzlement.

“They say you like demi-humans, not just the tall ones, but also old widows, and if it weren’t for those gossip and rumors, your suitors would be lined up all the way to the city gate.”

“……”

Reiner was momentarily at a loss for words.

The tall and mighty one was Martina, and that old widow must refer to Daisy, but to be honest Daisy wasn’t really old, at least she looked no different from a girl in her twenties.

Damn it, who on earth started these false rumors about him?

“At first I didn’t believe it, but after trying it yesterday, it did seem to be true.”

“My family passed away early, and by my teens I was already scraping by in taverns, so I knew every way to please a man, and if there’s a man I can’t handle, then he must have something wrong with him.”

Reiner scoffed dismissively; only Nora knew just how formidable he was.

Beast-eared girls were the cutest creatures in this world, and they would never understand the charm of their own kind.

“Speak up… what will it take to get you to talk? What do you want from me?”

Reiner eyed Anna up and down, and her words hit the nail on the head for him.

He eagerly voiced his request: “Teach me wind magic.”

Once Reiner learned wind magic, he could also teach it to Martina, killing two birds with one stone.

Anna asked in confusion, “Aren’t you, like Junice, a mage with both water and fire elements? Why learn wind magic?”

“Don’t ask about that… just teach me. Do you have a grimoire?”

“I do, but can you read?” Anna asked, puzzled.

“Of course.” Reiner nodded.

Just then, Nora’s thoughts floated out again: (Why are they chatting? Master, no… There can’t be too many women!)

She was clearly overthinking; he just wanted to freeload the wind grimoire.

He wasn’t exactly rich at the moment, so he’d borrow it if he could.

“By the way, you said you knew about necromancers; since she was struck, one of her eyes mysteriously went blind… what’s going on?” Reiner said as he turned back, grabbing Nora and pointing at her left eye.

On the surface, her eyes looked almost no different from before, but inexplicably, they couldn’t see anything.

Over the past three days, Reiner had tried to find a reliable doctor for Nora, but alas, none of them had even the slightest effect.

Anna narrowed her eyes in surprise and asked, “Do you really treat her as a person?”

“Isn’t she a person?”

“I think slaves are just tools… various tools with different uses; they can be used for farm work, or sent to the battlefield to kill, or to vent emotions, but they are just tools.”

Reiner shrugged; without reproductive isolation, they were basically just another thing.

It’s just that most people subconsciously think demi-humans are bad things.

During this time, Reiner had asked Junice about a lot of the world’s history.

It was actually pretty tragic.

The demi-human species was a miserable race that had never done anything wrong, yet had been bullied mercilessly for hundreds of years.

Along the way, many capable demi-humans tried to establish their own nations to save themselves, but for various reasons they were all destroyed by the humans of this world.

In the end, the vast majority of demi-humans were scattered across the world in small tribal groups.

Reiner put his arm around Nora’s waist and said, “I don’t care what others think; to me she’s my woman: not spoiled, good-tempered, hardworking, and beautiful; you can’t find a woman like that in my homeland.”

Although Nora couldn’t understand their conversation, at the sight of Reiner holding her waist, her face still flushed slightly.

“Where is your homeland?”

Reiner replied in his native tongue, his tone tinged with pride: “China.”

“Never heard of it, but are there no demi-humans in your homeland?” Anna asked, even more puzzled.

Reiner’s mind blanked and he didn’t know how to explain it for a moment; after thinking for a while, he said, “No, but there are humans who pretend to be demi-humans.”

For example, cosplay.

At this, Anna fell silent; after a long while she said, “I can’t understand that, but I respect your thinking.”

“Back to the main topic: her eyes…”

Anna shook her head and said, “I’ve only gone up against a necromancer, so I don’t know exactly what happened, but I was quite surprised to see her standing next to you unharmed yesterday. Last time, those afflicted by spirit corruption could for the most part only lie in bed; it’s truly a miracle.”

Reiner was momentarily speechless.

They had wasted so much time chatting idly.

After walking for a while, the two finally reached the city gate.

This time, the militia heading to the ruins had decreased.

In their place were fifteen knights and thirty half-armored escorts.

Their armor was more or less inscribed with strange runes, and most had been blessed by the nuns.

Including Reiner’s party, the total number was only about fifty, which was much leaner.

From a distance, Reiner saw Junice looking around, and their eyes met.

She was draped in a white cloak, also covered in various runes.

“Reiner!”

“How is your leg injury?”

Her leg had been caught in a trap, but the bone wasn’t broken; after using Heal Water, it would fully heal in three days as long as her recovery was decent.

“There’s still a dull ache, but it doesn’t affect walking,” Junice said, waving her hand; she then suddenly noticed Anna following behind, and her smile vanished for an instant. “You two…”

Reiner said seriously, “Just common friends.”

“Oh…”

Anna shrugged indifferently and said, “I tried; I’m just not pretty enough to seduce Reiner.”

With that, she walked off to one side and chatted with another female adventurer, occasionally stealing glances at them like a thief.

Reiner, meanwhile, went over Nora’s condition with Junice once more.

She washed her hands, then pried open Nora’s eyelids and after a quick look shook her head. “You’ve used Heal Water?”

“Yes, but it didn’t work.”

“Then I don’t know either; I haven’t even seen a necromancer before,” Junice sighed, lightly shaking her head.

At that time, the moment she was struck, she had collapsed to the ground in fear.

Just then, Nora reached out and poked the hem of Reiner’s shirt and softly said, “Master, it seems like my eyes… can see again.”

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