What's going on?

　Alexia, who was peeking out from behind me, wondering if I'd shut up, asks me.

'Yeah, there's a little something that shouldn't be there,'

Shouldn't it be?

　Alexia tilts her head and the woman looks at me anxiously. I grab Mrs. Dixon's right hand and lift it up so they can see it. Then I point to an area.

'Sister. This black bruise on Mrs. Dixon's right hand could be from when she was sick, right?

　When I say that to the woman, she gives me a surprised look. .........I knew it.

'Why, how did you know?　You're right, these black bruises started appearing around the time your mother got sick the year before last. They were quite small at first...

　It's noticeably bigger now. I knew it.

What the hell is that?

　Then Alexia asks me. How can I not talk about it? I look at the woman and say.

"...this is a type of dark magic. It's what's known as cursed magic.

　Alexia gasps in surprise when I say this, and the woman looks at me with wide eyes. It's one of those simple dark magic things that doesn't make you die immediately after being cursed, but it's magic that makes you sizzle and suffer over a long period of time. This lady says that she was weak to begin with. And this curse on top of that. She must be in a lot of pain.

"There's only one person who would do this, right?

　I say, scratching my head. Alexia nods at what I just said. I don't know if she poured this on, or had it poured on her, but it's probably the baron who did it. If he died of illness, it would be better than a divorce, externally. It seems that he also has a mistress. The wife must have been a hindrance to the baron.

'Oh, will your mother be saved?'

　The woman looks more worried when she realizes that the cause of her illness is a curse. She still doesn't seem to know who did it, but there's no need to tell her now.

'I'll be fine for this. 'Light,'

Yes, here.

　People around me are surprised by the lights that appear behind me as I call out. I've been asking him to run a few errands, and he's just returned.

'The one who cuts off...'

　I hold my hand over the bruise as I say this. The light sucks the magic out of me as it does so. It didn't take much this time. And

"Activate.

　A light comes out of the palm of my hand. I shone that light on the bruise and the bruise disappeared in a flash. I was kind of stunned.

'You'll be fine now. All you have to do is rest.

　When I said this, the woman burst into tears and held her mother in her arms. I'm sure she was worried to see her mother getting weaker and weaker by the day. If I had shown it to the Sister of the Temple who could use light magic, she would have broken the curse, but the woman didn't know that this was a curse.

　It seems that she had a doctor look at it, but it seems that the baron brought her here, so either the baron's breath told her to hide it, or the doctor didn't know about the curse either. Or maybe he wasn't a doctor to begin with. Well, it doesn't matter now.

'Come on, boys. We're going to rebuild the town instead of doing all that nonsense we just did!

　When Alexia saw that her ladyship had recovered, she patted her hand and called out to the lords. She said that they would now begin securing a place for the lords to live and cleaning up the goblin's corpse.

　The men who had surrounded the ladies earlier had been selected to clean up the goblin's corpse under Alexia's supervision. Alexia had said that this would be their punishment.

　Normally, if they messed with even a nobleman's wife, they would be punished, but this time, there was a part of them that had no choice. That's how badly the Baron has done it.

　A baron is a baron, and he is doing things against the king's order, such as failing to report the goblins. This is also supposed to be a revocation of the title and the entire family would be punished, but the culprit, the baron, is missing and the lady is also a victim. There may be extenuating circumstances. And it's up to the king whether his son can inherit this land or not. Well, the baron will be put to death when he's found.

　After that, we all worked together to clean up the estate. Everyone took the bodies out and piled them up. Aeris and I then burned them one by one in a streamlined process.

　Of course, we separated the goblins from the soldiers. As for the soldiers, we'd say a silent prayer as we drove them to heaven. When I see some of them cry when they see their comrades and family members burned, I wonder if there could have been a better way. Maybe it's too late to regret it now, though.

　To a certain extent, when we finished clearing away the corpses in the territory, the sun had already set and it was night.

　After that, I served everyone the food that was in the mansion. It wasn't much, but it seemed to have managed to get to everyone. After that, everyone must have been exhausted. Some of us went home to sleep, while those who didn't have a home gathered together to sleep outside.

　They built a few temporary huts during the daytime, but it seems that they didn't have enough. It was just a simple matter of earth magic to build them.

　Alexia and the others also went to the mansion and rested. They must have been mentally exhausted in many ways. In the safe room of the mansion, the ladies and Alexia and the others. Others have rested the sick and injured. This has been approved by the lords.

　In the midst of all this, I came to a place where I did not sleep.

'Is this where they have fled?'

Yes, I'm sure.

　I came to a mountain about twenty kilometers from the barony, where there was a cave at the base of the mountain.

　I had Light follow the goblins as they fled. I wanted to hit their dwellings. Then, having found their dwelling place, Light led me to it.

'Inside?'

'There's nothing but goblins. It seems that the goblins ate the women as well as the men after they finished giving birth. And there are so many of them. They must have run out of food, so they came.

　There was a village near here, and there were goblins there too. Those guys were wiped out, but there was no one inside. All the villagers must have been killed or brought to this stronghold to be humiliated. On top of that, they would be eaten in the end.

　Huh, it's times like these that you need to take a deep breath. There's no point in lashing out in anger. Let's calm down. I want to try that thing too.

Let's do it, Light.

Yes, sir.

　I say, and proceed to the cave. Goblins. I'm sorry for you guys, but you're going to be my eighteenth person and my test subject.