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 4

A single carriage moved through the forest of the Xylica Kingdom.

Adventurers hired as guards surrounded the carriage, watching the area carefully.

But the adventurers were already worn out and exhausted.

“Damn it, getting attacked by monsters four times in one escort job, this is just bad luck!!”

“I’m sorry, I’ll pay you extra once we reach the town safely…”

“Ah, no, I’m not blaming you… I’m sorry about that.”

While a tense mood filled the air, a strange group suddenly appeared.

From the bushes on both sides of the road, people wearing masks shaped like crows jumped out.

“Hyahahahahaha!! You there, merchant caravan!! Stop right there!!”

“W-who are you!? Bandits!?”

“Any injured people here!? There are!? Of course there are!! Surround them!! Don’t let a single one escape!!”

“““Hyahhaaaaa!!”””

“U-uwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!”

The masked group charged toward the adventurers.

The adventurers tried to fight back, but between their exhaustion and being outnumbered, they were quickly overwhelmed―

“““Heal!!”””

“Eh?”

The masked group cast healing magic on the adventurers, treating their injuries quickly and efficiently.

“W-what? What’s going on?”

“Hey, you! You’re the leader of this party!? Your injuries are the worst! Faceless-sama!! Please handle it!!”

“F-faceless!? You mean the man who healed the ‘Golden Princess’ and ‘Silver Princess’ and then disappeared like a hero!?”

The masked group cleared a path. Standing behind them was a man who gave off an even stranger presence than the rest.

A pair of golden eyes shone from behind his mask.

“Hyahahaha!! Great job on your escort mission!!”

“Wait, this is not what I expected!?”

“Hyahahaha!! Don’t be nervous!! I won’t do anything painful!! Extra Heal!!”

“T-the pain in my body is gone!?”

“Be careful, as there have been more monsters around lately. Oh, there’s a town half a day from here that has an amazing milk pudding. You should try it.”

“Ah, yes.”

“Hyahahahaha!! That’s all the injured people healed!! We’re leaving!!”

As the masked group began to pack up and prepare to leave, one of the adventurers called out to them.

“W-wait!! Who are you people!?”

“We are the Nightingale: Healers With No Restraint!! If someone is injured, we heal them! Travelers, adventurers, even bandits!! If someone is sick, we heal them too!! And don’t worry, after we heal the bandits, we’ll hand them over to the city guards!!”

“N-Nightingale…?”

After the masked group left, the adventurers were completely healed.

Later, even when monsters attacked them again, the adventurers easily fought them off.

They received a large payment from the merchant, and that night, they sat in a tavern talking excitedly about the strange masked group they had met.

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“Asuku, it’s no wonder people call you the ‘Mysterious Healer Man’.”

“Eh?”

“That loud hyahhaaa you do!! I’d love to ask Princess Christina how any of that is supposed to be gentlemanly.”

“No, I can really act like a gentleman at first. But once I start healing people, my excitement just shoots up, and I end up like that. It’s weird.”

After treating the adventurers who were guarding the merchant, we returned to our base.

Deep in a forest somewhere inside the Medix Viscount, we had built a small village. That was our base.

The slaves we bought from slave traders lived there.

Today, my older sister came to inspect the place, and she also watched our group, the “Nightingale: Healers With No Restraint,” in action…

“But I really was surprised.”

“What?”

“The slaves you bought just a month ago… almost half of them can already use decent healing magic. Just what kind of training did you give them?”

Indeed, learning magic normally takes a long time.

You need knowledge and the skill to handle magic power. Nobles tend to have many mages because they’ve passed down that knowledge through generations.

So, how did former commoner slaves suddenly become able to use magic?

The answer was body modification.

While modifying my own body, I discovered something. People in this world have an organ similar to blood vessels called magic circuits.

Mages slowly expand these circuits through training so they can use magic.

But I can force these circuits open. After that, I just teach them the basics, and they can at least use healing magic.

Well, maybe because I forcefully opened their magic circuits…

“Hyahhaaa!!”

“Faceless-sama, who should we heal next!?”

“Helping people feels great!! Hyahhaaa!!”

The slaves’ minds turned into that…

The abnormalities in their magic circuits can’t be fixed with healing magic, so they’ll spend the rest of their lives helping people while yelling hyahhaaa!! All the time…

“It’s not that more ‘Faceless’ appeared… It’s that more ‘Mysterious Healer Man’ showed up.”

“There’s a ‘Mysterious Healer Woman’ too.”

“Let’s just say all the ‘Mysterious Healer Man’ are subordinates of the ‘Faceless.’ That way, it explains why the tracks of ‘Mysterious Healer Man’ and the ‘Faceless’ match up.”

“Hyahhaaa!! Having subordinates like that feels a little…”

“Just deal with it. I’ll casually guide the princess so she thinks the ‘Faceless’ is the leader of a mysterious healing mage group that operates mainly in the Medix Viscount.”

As expected of my sister.

With that, I can hide my face and act heroically, too. I just need to practice so I don’t get too excited and start yelling hyahhaaa!!.

“Haah, there’s so much to do. I also need to prepare to enter the academy.”

“Academy?”

“Huh? The academy is the academy. All noble children have to enroll in the magic academy in the royal capital at age fifteen to learn how to use magic, right?”

Oh, I see.

“But sister, you’re sixteen this year?”

“I’m the heir to the Medix Viscount. If our parents are away on trips, I have to manage the territory as acting Viscountess. So I got a one-year exemption from attending school.”

“That’s tough. Good luck with your studies.”

“It’s not really that hard. What they teach first-year students, I already learned by age ten… Wait, you’re acting like this is none of your business, but you’re going to attend too!?”

“Eh?”

Ah, right. I’m fifteen this year.

The academy.

I didn’t even get to go to elementary school in my past life because of illness, so this could be a little fun.

I wonder if I can make a hundred friends.

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Afterword

One-Point Story

Author: “By the way, the reason the healer with no restraint went a little off in the head isn’t because I forcibly expanded their magic circuits. They just copied Asuku, their savior. Asuku has no idea about it.”

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