The Priest of Complete Dispel ~ Every Time I Save a Cursed Beautiful Girl with My Status Abnormal Cure Skill, For Some Reason Her Dependence on Me Maxes Out ~

Chapter 51.1: Erina, Breaking the Curse ※

“—Sorry! Open up, please!”

A fierce knocking shattered the quiet of the night.

The clinic had already closed for the day, its door firmly shut, but now a frantic voice echoed through it.

“…What is it? We’re already closed for today.”

With a creak, the door opened just a crack. The person who peeked out was a bespectacled sister—Mariel.

She frowned, about to shoo the visitor away, when—

“Shu! Call Shu for me! Right now he’s the only one I can count on!”

“…An adventurer, huh. Shu has already finished work and is resting. Please leave.”

Standing there was a swordsman drenched in blood—Glen.

His tattered clothes and the urgency in his expression made Mariel involuntarily grimace.

“Please! Just let me talk to him—there’s no time!”

“…I didn’t know that person had adventurer friends.”

A faint murmur escaped Mariel’s lips, and a small ripple of unease stirred in her chest.

To her, Shu was someone special.

She had once scolded him for using recovery magic without permission in town and forcibly dragged him into the clinic—that was how they met.

But once she actually let him work, he kept surprising her.

His staggering amount of mana, recovery speed that surpassed the other priests, and a personality that couldn’t ignore someone in need.

His mouth was foul, but even though he’d only been working for two days, he was already becoming an indispensable part of the clinic.

That was exactly why, upon learning he had ties to adventurers, Mariel couldn’t help but frown.

Adventurers—rough, church-despising people.

They had been at odds for years.

“Good grief… so noisy. What’s wrong, Mariel? An emergency patient—?”

“Sh-Shu…”

The very man himself appeared from the back hallway.

Mariel let out a small, resigned sigh.

“Shu! You’re here! Please—help Erina! Heal Erina for me!”

The moment Glen spotted Shu through the gap in the door, he shouted.

His desperate cry instantly made the air in the room tense.

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“…I had no idea things had gotten that bad.”

After finishing Seira’s treatment, I returned to the clinic and went about my usual work—casting recovery magic, prescribing medicine, and so on.

But while I was unaware, something outrageous had happened outside.

The one who came to tell me was Glen.

I told Mariel “I’ll be stepping out for a bit,” then climbed into the carriage they had arrived in.

Inside were Glen and Risia. They gave me a brief summary of what had happened over the past few hours. Iris had told them where to find me.

“Are you two okay? Your wounds, I mean.”

“Yeah, Iris healed us. They look worse than they actually are.”

“…Honestly, if Iris and Medina hadn’t shown up, we’d all be dead.”

Both of them looked pale.

A battle against demons—one so fierce they had prepared themselves for death.

And in the middle of that fight, Erina had been cursed.

“Erina… she shielded me. So I have to save her, no matter what…!”

“There’s no one else we can rely on now. Please, Shu… save Erina.”

“—Yeah, of course.”

I gave them both a gentle nod in response to their pained voices.

Apparently, a curse can only be lifted by the caster themselves—or by killing the caster.

But thinking back, the caster of Seira’s curse should already be dead.

…Which means there might be different kinds of curses. Some passed down through bloodlines, others that linger—things normal curse magic can’t explain.

And the carriage was heading toward “Nagi no Kiritei.”

The inn where Iris and Medina were staying.

Since Glen and the others’ home might have been marked by the enemy, Erina had been brought there for safety.

“—Shu-sama!”

When the door opened, Iris, Medina, and Garo welcomed me in. They were watching over Erina, who lay asleep on the bed.

But her sleep was far from peaceful.

Erina’s arms and legs were bound; she had been tied down to the bed.

“…‘Lewd Curse,’ huh.”

“Yes. Unlike mine, it seems the second stage has activated. Her body can’t move freely, and she’s likely in a strong state of arousal.”

The ‘Lewd Curse’ has stages.

At the third stage, it spreads through mucous membranes to others, causing the victim to lose reason and attack the opposite sex—an absolutely worst-case effect.

According to Iris, Erina was at stage two. There was no risk of infection, but she was being dominated by uncontrollable sexual urges.

“Shu, are you really going to…?”

“I told you I have the skill <Perfect Clear>, didn’t I?”

“Yeah.”

“Then I should be able to cure her. But—there’s something I haven’t explained to everyone yet.”

I always explain things beforehand to conscious patients, but right now Erina was asleep.

So instead, I decided to explain to Glen and the others.

…Honestly, Erina is beautiful.

Anyone can see that.

And that’s exactly why I could already guess what kind of treatment this would involve.

I told Glen and the others everything, without hiding a thing.

“…Y-You’re… serious, right?”

“Yeah. Dead serious. It might sound awful, but… unfortunately, that’s how the skill works.”

“Lady Risia. My <Appraisal> shows the same result. Everything Shu-sama said is true.”

“I see…”

Risia and the others grimaced.

It was understandable. What was about to be done to their friend was not a normal treatment.

“Even so—if you really want to save Erina, then decide for her while she’s unconscious.”

“…………”

The three exchanged glances for a moment—then nodded in unison.

“Shu… please. Erina has been our comrade, shoulder to shoulder, for five years. Once the treatment is over, Risia will explain everything properly. So… please, save her.”

“—Got it.”

Determination shone clearly in Glen’s eyes.

“Then—I’m sorry, but can everyone leave the room? It’ll probably take about an hour… and it’s not something you should see.”

“Everyone, let’s go.”

At Iris’s urging, they all quietly left the room.

“—Iris.”

I called out to Iris just as she was about to leave.

“Yes?”

“Just in case. This is an inn, after all. Could you put up a soundproof barrier?”

“I see. If her voice leaked out… Erina-sama might faint from embarrassment when she wakes up. Understood. I’ll set it up.”

Her words carried the weight of her own experience.

—The treatment back at the Iasis church.