I Secretly Healed the Illness of the Twin Princesses While Wearing a Mask, and Now the Entire Kingdom Is in an Uproar ~Please Stop Trying to Expose the Street Healer~ - Chapter 37

A few days passed after we somehow made it through the capture Faceless strategy.

I wanted to find something out, so I treated Garu to a doner kebab at the school cafeteria.

“…You want to know about the Forbidden Magic Research Club?”

“Yeah, yeah, I’m a little curious.”

“So that’s why you forced a kebab on me today?”

Garu chewed on the kebab and swallowed.

Then spoke in a strangely serious voice.

“Seriously, don’t. Nothing good will happen to you.”

“It’s rare for you to talk that badly about something.”

“…Look.”

“Hm? What”

Garu showed me his tail.

Even though he told me to stop, I had been brushing it every day, so it was super fluffy ―Huh!?

“Your tail fur got crazy long!!”

“Yesterday, Cainsetts-senpai dragged me along to interview the Forbidden Magic Research Club. I guess they got sick of her annoying questions, because they used some weird magic to fight back. And then that senpai used me as a shield.”

“Isn’t the senpai more of a problem than the club?”

“That’s right, but using magic to counterattack is still bad.”

“That’s true… Can I touch it?”

“You’re already touching it. Geez, the fur is so long it’s annoying.”

O-oh, wow.

Garu’s fluffy tail had turned all smooth and silky.

Honestly, it wasn’t bad at all.

“It’s kind of a shame, but if it bothers you, can’t you just cut it?”

“…I would’ve already if I could. Try cutting it.”

I took out my sickle and swung it toward his tail―

“Whoaaaaa!! What are you trying to do!?”

“Huh? You told me to try cutting it.”

“With scissors!? Why a sickle!? And why the hell do you even have a sickle!?”

“For self-defense.”

“No one carries a sickle for self-defense!!”

I’m sure someone out there does. Probably. Maybe.

After convincing him somehow, I trimmed his tail fur with the sickle.

“Huh? It’s tough. It won’t cut at all.”

“Each hair changed to something like metal. It’ll go back to normal after some time…”

“Soft but hard like metal, that’s amazing.”

My curiosity about the Forbidden Magic Research Club grew even more.

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And so, I came to the old school building where the Forbidden Magic Research Club has its clubroom.

Garu tried to stop me, but you know what they say. When you get an idea, act on it right away. Times like this are perfect for quick action.

When I stepped into the old building, dust rose into the air.

Back when the Magic Academy was taken over by that Middle-School Syndrome, the students hid here for a while, so there were lots of footprints left behind.

Among them, I found two fresh sets of footprints.

Garu didn’t know where exactly the clubroom was, so I decided to follow those prints.

“Do you need something from the Forbidden Magic Research Club?”

“Whoa, you scared me.”

A voice suddenly came from behind.

I turned around and saw a girl with glasses, a small beauty mark under her eye, and short black bobbed hair.

Maybe she was from the Forbidden Magic Research Club.

“I’m sorry to drop by out of nowhere. I’m Asuku Medix.”

“Asuku Medix… Ah, the student council one. Don’t tell me our president caused trouble again?”

“No, I just thought your club was interesting, so I came to―”

“You shouldn’t!!”

The glasses girl jumped right up to me.

“I hate to say this, but our president is a true-born madwoman!! Nothing good will come from getting involved…”

“And who exactly are you calling a madwoman?”

Behind the glasses girl, someone stood swaying like a ghost.

A girl with striking deep-blue hair.

Her face was pretty, but she wore a cardigan over her uniform and had a quiet, plain air about her.

“Ugh, President!?”

“Really? So… are you interested in the Forbidden Magic Research Club?”

“I am.”

“…I see. Then please come with me.”

According to the glasses girl, the club president was supposed to be a total disaster, but she didn’t look like that at all.

And also…

“Sniff, sniff… This smell…”

“…Ah, I’ve been busy with research and haven’t taken a bath in two or three days… I’m sorry if it bothers you.”

“No, you just smell like my grandmother.”

When I say grandmother, I don’t mean the one from this life. I mean my grandmother from my previous life.

She was the type of unreasonable person who would say, “Let’s bet on who can live longer,” even though I couldn’t leave my hospital bed. But she wasn’t a bad person.

When my parents looked at me in pain as I was tied to tubes and whispered, “Maybe he won’t make it,” my grandmother apparently snapped.

They said she sent both of them to the hospital from inside the hospital. I honestly didn’t know how to react when I heard that.

“Well, I’ll take that as a compliment. We’re here.”

We arrived at the old school building’s library.

I spent a lot of time in the Magic Academy’s main library, but I never expected there to be another place like this.

“First, let me introduce myself. I’m Eris Bauern, president of the Forbidden Magic Research Club.”

“I’m Asuku Medix.”

“So, what brings you here?”

I sat down on what must have been one of the library’s old chairs. Across the table, which was covered in books and scribbled notes, Eris looked at me.

“Please teach me about mental magic.”

“…Where did you hear about that… No, Her Highness the First Princess gave the student council permission to enter the Forbidden Archive, didn’t she? So that was you.”

“Yeah.”

“…Very well. I will give you the research materials on mental magic. Study them however you like.”

She stood up, took a book from the shelf, and handed it to me.

I reached out to take it―

“But I have one condition.”

“What is it?”

“If you know anything about immortality magic, undying magic, or resurrection magic, tell me.”

Immortality magic, undying magic, resurrection magic…

“What’s that?”

“…They are spells said to have been passed down through the Duke Lepius family, which died out about two hundred years ago.”

“Haa, I see.”

“The Medix Viscount family is originally a branch of the Lepius line. It wouldn’t be strange if you inherited one of those spells.”

“I don’t know about that. Even if those spells existed, I’m not the heir, so I wouldn’t be told anything about them.”

Judging by the names, they sound like magic that keeps someone young, keeps someone from dying, or brings dead people back to life.

…Resurrection magic might be interesting.

I don’t need immortality or eternal youth; that feels unhealthy. But if I could avoid dying from anything except old age, that wouldn’t be so bad.

“It seems you really don’t know anything. What a shame.”

With a sigh, Eris handed me the book.

Maybe she had already lost interest in me because she turned back toward the table.

“You’re kind of a normal person.”

“…Why say that all of a sudden?”

“Well, that glasses girl said you were a madwoman. And I also heard you tried to steal an artifact from the Disciplinary Committee.”

“Ah, I needed that artifact for my mental magic research. I failed in the end, though. Still, that’s a terrible thing to say, Vice President.”

The glasses girl flinched when Eris called out to her.

“B-but President, you do body experiments all the time!! And on yourself too!!”

“So you’re saying it’s fine if I experiment on someone else?”

“No!! That’s not what I mean!! The problem is the human experiments themselves!! Do you even realize you’re halfway done being a normal human!?”

“It’s efficient to experiment on my own body. Calling me a madwoman just for that is rude.”

“Then let’s hear an outside opinion!! Viscount Medix, experimenting on your own body is crazy, right!?”

“Eh, testing things on your own body lets you understand magic better.”

“Eh?”

The glasses girl stared at me in shock.

That’s how I strengthened my healing magic, too, after all.

“Oh my. So you’re on this side as well. It seems I’ve found an unexpected kindred spirit.”

“Eh? Eh? Am I the weird one here!?”

““Yeah.””

And just like that, I made a new friend.

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Afterword

One-Point Story

Author: “Isn’t it kind of sinful when a beautiful girl smells like your grandmother’s house?”

A: “I’m sorry, I don’t get it.”

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