The support was in disarray.
“He definitely wanted something from Ruu too!”
“Stop it, Kuu. You shouldn’t talk based on assumptions”
Mel gently chided Kuu with a grace that was unlike that of a farmer woman.
“Aegir-san, right now to go on living like this I’m only being a burden to my daughters so I thought I’d rather end it. Which is why I’d like to impose upon your goodwill, but I also know very well that the medicine is a valuable item, and we have nothing suitable to compensate you with”
Carla was sleeping beside me. You’re really selfish aren’t you… how can you sleep in a situation like this.
“Maybe, if you want something in compensation for the medicine, will you accept just my own body alone? I’ll respond to whatever you want of me”
“Mother!”
Kuu let out a loud yell but Mel only smiled.
“Certainly, my aim had been you from the start, by the way, is your husband here?”
“He passed away nearly 10 years ago, why do you ask?”
“If you healed and returned to your former beauty, would you love me as my woman for just 10 days?”
The air in the room froze.
Ruu couldn’t understand and was like, “woman? love? tomato?”
Kuu flapped her mouth open and closed while Carla sprung awake and was about to make a threat so I ordered her to take care of Schwarz.
“You want to sleep with this mid-30 woman past her prime for that valuable medicine?”
“Not just sleeping with you, I want your love. But I’ll be working hard from now on to get that”
I had her completely undress and sure enough, her burns covered her entire body, I also saw her oozing blood slightly.
I plastered her with ointment and then looked at her hand that was rolled into a ball, No matter what kind of wonder drug it is, plastering it here will only heal the burns and won’t return it to it’s former state.
Therefore, I proposed to cut her stuck together fingers apart with a knife, then cover it with ointment.
Kuu strongly opposed, of course, and Ruu fainted, but Mel said she’ll leave it to me to do as I want.
So right now, I had Mel sit on a chair and turned the knife at her.
I asked Carla to take Kuu and Ruu on a ride on Schwarz, they should probably not see this.
I wrapped a wood scrap in cloth and stuffed it in her mouth.
“Here I go”
Countless faints and three incontinences later, all her fingers were finally separated.
A large amount of blood flowed out but the hemorrhaging stopped once I plastered the ointment on, the pain also seems to have subsided and she’s now sleeping soundly.
I cleaned up her wet parts and wrapped her whole body in clean cloth.
I wonder how much will she get better tomorrow.
I used a considerable amount of ointment, I hope it somehow lasts until she heals.
The next day and the day after I also stayed at Ruu’s house and kept applying ointment to Mel.
The effects of the medicine was tremendous, the burn marks that doesn’t heal naturally became fainter day by day.
Then on the morning of the 7th day, the day after the ointment finally ran out, I unwrapped her bandages, wondering how much she’s healed, and there she was, her beautiful skin restored without a single burn.
Her right hand could also move freely, and her right eye was no longer unusable, only her eyelids were inflamed but her clear green eyes shined.
If you look closely there were what looked like wound marks on her but they were of no consequence faced with her beautiful looks.
Perfect, she’s a wonderful beauty like I thought she was.
Kuu and Ruu were tearfully happy as well.
While Mel hugged the two of them, apologizing for being a burden to them, and having some mother-daughter time, I killed time by riding on Schwarz, who seemed unhappy about it.
That night, I heard lots of things from the three mother and children.
Mel used to be a servant in a local lord’s residence but she was raped and once she was pregnant she was thrown away and was helped by her husband who was then a farmer who lived here, she had another child with him.
About how her husband didn’t return in a later war, and even the lord was defeated and perished.