Uhee... Shia, don't let Myuu see it."
"I did that already~. Anh! Myuu-chan, was it painful? But please hold on for a while."
Hajime asked Shia to do so at the time the rockets were fired into the incoming sandworms because the stimulation might be too strong for Myuu. Like that, in synchronization with Hajime, Shia was already embracing Myuu closely to her chest so as she would not see it. However, maybe because she could not breath from her face being buried in Shia's breasts, Myuu tried to sip out and inadvertently touched a part of Shia's body. Inadvertently, Shia moaned. Hajime decided that he did not hear anything.
Currently, although Kaori was clinging onto Hajime's waist, Yue was finally able to fix her seatbelt. Indeed it was not a situation where he could be defeated by his own impulse, even though his ears were dyed in red with his face cramped.
"E-Excuse me, Hajime-kun. I am sorry. That, that I impulsively... there's no perverted meaning to it. That is, for a bit, I just wanted to hug..."
"... then if things go well, are you going to satisfy Hajime like that?"
"Un, that is so... wait, no! Yue, don't put such strange things into my mouth. I am not as lewd as Yue."
"...You said I am lewd... certainly, I can't refute that when I am alone with Hajime."
"...Girls, please shut it already. Also, Yue, please don't talk about night activities because it's embarrassing."
With the three sandworms crushed by the rockets installed in the four-wheeler, Hajime sharpened his gaze because the sandworms on the dune before could be seen moving due to perceiving the explosive sound and impact.
However, on his side, Kaori and Yue were conversing just as usual which reduced his tension. Inadvertently, he admonished them due to him being embarrassed.
To begin with, in his mind, the "night" Yue was certainly a lewd one and, when he was alone with her, he thought of her as pretty erotic. Kaori who seemed to have seen through him was teary eyed. Yue, with a bewitching smile, was looking at Hajime while licking her lip. Kaori, who saw that, raised a cute groan. Unconsciously, her fighting spirit blazed further.
From the back seat, Shia said, "I understand your feelings, Kaori-san. We are comrades here," while patting Kaori's shoulder with sympathetic eyes.
Hajime ignored them and the moved four-wheeler above another dune. He could see the group of sandworms on the lower side of the ground with their lower parts still underground. They didn't hide anything as they slightly raised the sand. They might have guessed that they had been noticed by Hajime's party, so they chose speed over another surprise attack.
Hajime put the rocket launcher away and activated another piece of weaponry in its stead. The center of the bonnet slid apart and a rectangular machine appeared from inside. Following that, the rectangular box extended its barrel with kashun! sound effect, and it became a rifle was similar to Schlagen.
Next, bright red sparks gushed out from the four-wheeler's Schlagen. With its arm adjusting the angle, DUuuoo!!, came a roaring, firing sound as a line flashing line tore through the brown world.
The bullet, which was fired at a high-velocity, advanced as it raised the sand on the ground upon impact and grandly raised a dust storm. On the sand column that was raised just like an eruption was, of course, a lot of sand colored meat and red blood.
The Schlagen installed on four-wheeler continued to fire bright red flashes, one after another. The sandworms that were hunting their prey exploded on the ground and became small bits of nourishment for the barren ground.
"Hajime-kun! Look at that!"
"...A white person?"
When four-wheeler's Schlagen, which was trailing white smoke, was stored back, Kaori let out a surprised voice and pointed her finger. In the place Kaori pointed at, just as Yue muttered, was a collapsed person who was wrapped in white clothing. It was probably the one the previous sandworms were looking at. However, from their distance, it was unknown as to why it wasn't eaten.
"Please, Hajime-kun. Let's go there... I am a "healer" after all."
Kaori looked at Hajime, petitioning. Even Hajime was interested as to why that person was not attacked by the demonic beasts of the desert in such a situation, so he accepted Kaori's request. It was possible that the person carried a method or item capable of keeping demonic beasts away. And in actuality, there was a mineral called the Faeadren crystal that carried such an effect in the sea of trees. The crystal only made it difficult for demonic beasts to approach, but there's a possibility that even stronger items exist.
As such, the four-wheeler came near the collapsed person. The person wore clothing that was similar to galabeya (egyptian clothing), and it wore a hood that was large enough to hide its' face. Its' face couldn't be seen. Falling prone, the hood hid it.
Getting off the four-wheeler, Kaori ran with short steps towards the fallen person.
"!... This is..."
When the hood was taken off, a man's face could be seen, a young one that was still in the middle of his 20s. However, what surprised Kaori was not that but the young man's state. With a pained expression, he was drenched in sweat, his breathing was rough, and his pulse was fast. He generated an intense heat from all over his body that could be felt even through his clothing. Moreover, blood vessels could be seen as if they were being pressed from the inside of his body, and he was bleeding from his eyes and nose. It was obviously an abnormal situation. It was neither a sun stroke nor cold.
Hajime became cautious towards the virus-carrier like young man, but he decided to keep quiet and watch as the healing specialist was examining him. Kaori activated "Infiltrate and Examine." Using magic power to infiltrate the other's body, she could examine one's state and the result could be seen on her status plate.
With one hand placed on the young man's chest, Kaori's other hand was holding her status plate where the result of the examination was displayed. The result was...
"...Rampaging magic power? Does it mean the magic power inside his body is out of control because of poison?"
"Kaori? Do you understood anything now?"
"Y-Yeah, but this is..."
Saying so, Kaori shown what was displayed on her status plate,
Condition
Excessive release of magic power, unable to release it outside.
Symptom
Fever, hazy consciousness, pain in whole body, rupturing of blood vessels and hemorrhage
Cause
Abnormality in bodily fluid.
"It is just my guess, but he must have drunk something which resulted in his magic power going out of control... moreover, because he can't release it outside, his magic power was pressuring from inside his body and his body couldn't endure it... if this keeps up, his internal organs and blood vessels will explode. It is also possible that he will be weakened to death due to a large amount of hemorrhaging... I am requesting a blessing unto this location, "Ten Thousand Heavens."
Concluding so, Kaori chanted her healing magic. "Ten Thousand Heavens" was what she activated. It was onne of the middle-ranked healing magics with the effect of curing abnormal conditions. It was the magic used to undo Suzu's petrification.
However...
"...There's almost no change... why? For it to be incapable of curing it... does it means too much time has passed?"
Apparently, "Ten Thousand Heavens" could not cure the man, it could only delay the progression. Next, maybe because of the pressure from inside his body, the young man groaned in pain. His bleeding didn't stop. At the moment, because she didn't have any clear treatment method, Kaori ground her teeth and decided to use her emergency measure.
"Here I declared the light of grace, here is my realm, my sanctuary, which crushes all evils just as I intended to, "Holy Ground.""
High-ranked light attributed healing magic, "Holy Ground." It was a magic that transfers peoples' magic power to the others within the area. Basically, by transferring one's magic power to one's companion, that person would temporarily escaped from magic power exhaustion. It was a magic that aimed to supplement another if s/he didn't have a sufficient amount of magic power to shoot a strong magic.
Moreover, it wasn't limited to the user's magic power, so it could forcefully transfer someone else's magic power to another within the area. It held the same principle as magic drain. However, it needed a lot more time to extract the magic power from another person and it was impossible to extract a lot of it at once. This was the reason it is only a "High-ranked magic.