Chapter 42 - Cursed

Kira could feel the pain of his so called brother. He thought that Shin was also being hasty because he hadn't even tried yet.

If he failed after trying, then it would be understandable, but how he could he just say that just by looking?

Kira wondered about it too and then looked towards Shin after raising his head and shifting his gazes from Aaron to Shin.

"Sh-"

"Master Shin, can't you at least try?", Kira asked.

Shin turned his gaze swiftly towards Kira and then said, "I'm absolutely positive that my healing magic will have no effect on the poison..."

However even after hearing that, Kira seemed unconvinced.

"Sigh, listen, my healing magic is only capable of healing the damaged body parts..."

Even before Shin had finished saying, Kira said, "Isn't that perfect? You can heal the parts that were damaged by poison!"

Aaron had stopped crying and felt relieved all of a sudden when he heard this.

"Sheesh, that's what I'm saying..."

"I can do only that much, I won't be able to remove the poison from their bodies so no matter how many times I heal them, they would still remain poisoned!"

"In the end, their suffering would only increase after decreasing for only a moment!"

"That would be worse than death, don't you think?", Shin asked Kira and Aaron simultaneously.

Both of them were lost in deep thoughts after they heard him say that. According to whatever he said, he was completely right.

Instead of hurting them for the rest of their lives, it would be best to kill them and relieve them. But who would say that to Aaron?

He would definitely not accept that, at least that's what Kira thought.

"And anyway, they aren't poisoned in the first place..."

"Huh?", Kira's eyes widened when he heard that.

Even Aaron was shocked when Shin said that.

Both of them were completely sure that they were poisoned but according to Shin that was not the case.

"How can that be? I checked them with my Complete Perception..."

"They are definitely poisoned!", Kira proclaimed.

"..."

Shin, who was looking at the members intensely, now looked at Kira when he said that.

He just asked a simple question, "Do you trust me more or your Complete Perception?"

Of course, the answer was obvious, one would trust his own skill more with which they would have been familiar since long. It was the same for Kira too, he trusted his own skills more than Shin, but he couldn't bring himself to say that.

If he were to say that, it would be quite disrespecting to Shin and right now Aaron needed help which only Shin could have provided.

Kira wasn't aware of Shin's background but he had indeed heard him say that he had met the Elf Celestial so right now he had to do his best to side with Shin.

"Of course, it's...", however he fumbled.

He was not great at lying anyway so Shin knew it right away.

"Stop, no need to tell anything..."

Shin realized that he had no achievements at all. Of course, if his skills were shown to all, no one would hesitate to choose Shin, but right now all he did was hide his skills.

In reality, he never got an opportunity to display them. Kira and everyone else just assumed by themselves that he was a healer. Regardless, he never revealed either.

Kira was mum for a while after which Aaron slowly tapped on Kira's upper paw as if he was asking him to lift his heavy forelimb and release him.

"Then please tell me, master Shin, what has happened to them?", Aaron inquired.

"Sigh, they have been cursed...", Shin sighed when he said that.

"C-cursed!?", both, Kira and Aaron, were shocked when they heard this.

"Yes, and it is no ordinary curse."

"It's a powerful one!", one could see Shin's serious expression while saying that.

*gulp*

Kira was confused though, through his perception, he saw some thread like structures flowing in their entire body. He assumed them to be poison.

Of course, that was not a baseless assumption, he had seen this earlier too when he had used to skill one a beast attacked by a snake.

That was why he was sure that the threads were none other than poison, but it seemed like those were threads of curses!

It was only now that he understood that. Even Aaron seemed convinced with what Shin said.

"Now it all makes sense...", Aaron said with a surprised expression as if he had figured out something.

"Hmm?", Shin paid attention to him and listened to what he had to say.

"All those magical herbs failed to work because the problem wasn't physical..."

"It was a curse that made them suffer!", Aaron was now deeply thinking of a way to break the curses or at least lift them somehow.

However, he couldn't think of any solution because his knowledge was limited. Out of all the wolf brothers, he was the only one who never went to far places so he didn't have any idea about methods regarding curses.

So all he could do was leave the rest up to Shin but he wondered as to how Shin was able to find out that they were inflicted by a curse.

He was about to inquire that right before which Kira ended up asking, "But how did you end up knowing that they were affected by a curse?"

Shin smiled when he heard the question.

"That's right..."

"How did I come to know...?"

He probably repeated the same thing that they asked but oh well, he was sarcastic because he knew how he found out that they were inflicted with a curse.

'Maybe, because of this warning?'

[ Warning ]

[ Heavy Curse Field found 50 metres ahead ]

[ Advice: Step back or stay at the same place without advancing any further ]

"..."

"Master Shin?", Kira called out to him in order to know the answer.

'I can't tell them this, can I now?'

To be continued...