# Chapter 26: 26
—Kegh!
Huber, que recibió un golpe directo en la cara, cayó al suelo con un breve grito.
When he heard Huber's head make a loud noise as it hit the marble floor, Radis gasped sharply.
—...d-did he break his skull?
Radis miró a su alrededor mientras Huber se desmayaba.
Afortunadamente, su cabeza parecía estar intacta, pero no se podía decir que estuviera en perfectas condiciones.
She hit him on the back of the head, but saw blood coming out of his nose.
—Did your nose fall to the ground? Ah, debería haberte dado en la nuca y hacer que se desmayara.
Se arrepintió tardíamente, pero ya se había derramado agua.
Since a nosebleed could block his airway, he could die if she left him like that.
Radis lifted Huber because, despite being the shameless man he was, he couldn't let him die.
As he stood with Huber's arm over his shoulder, he heard an ominous crack in his shoulder joint, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Aunque era delgado, Huber era más grande que ella, por lo que no podía cargarlo fácilmente.
Afortunadamente, había varias habitaciones sin usar a lo largo del oscuro pasillo.
Entró en una que tenía una vela perfumada encendida, su fragancia peculiar, y con la cama cubierta con sábanas lujosas.
Radis arrastró a Huber a la habitación y lo arrojó sobre la cama.
—Huh!
Huber was quite heavy, so Radis had to sit on the edge of the bed, trying to catch his breath.
Se secó el sudor de la frente con la suave manta de seda.
Then he looked away and looked at Huber.
And she gasped sharply once more.
She roughly threw him onto the bed, but when she saw Huber strangely buried in the pillows with his neck bent at an angle...
It looked like he was dead.
Radis, frustrada, agarró a Huber por el cuello y lo tumbó en el suelo. También le limpió la hemorragia nasal que había corrido hasta las sábanas de seda.
As he did that, he saw that Huber's face was a little swollen, but at least he didn't look dead anymore.
As she cleaned his neck, a familiar object came into Radis' view.
There was a blue gem the size of a grain of wheat, which glowed faintly as it hung freely on Huber's neck.
“A magic stone…”
Radis stared at the gem.
That gem contained a power that was beyond the logic of nature.
In his previous life, Radis had to go through a lot just to get one of those.
She fought fearsome monsters, unearthed their remains with her sword, and then found the gems within the dark flesh.
She would wash them and leave them clean…then return everything to the Tilrod family.
Radis lightly touched the cold surface of the blue gem.
And at that moment...
—…!
The blue energy flowing within the magic stone disappeared.
Radis almost screamed.
She quickly took out the gem.
Huber's magic stone had lost its light and quickly turned gray. It soon became hard as a stone.
Then… it turned into dust and… disappeared.
-That?
Radis looked at his hand.
It was the same.
Nothing seemed to have changed.
—No, not my hand...
Radis slowly calmed down and placed his hands on her thighs.
She straightened her posture.
And he focused on what was inside her.
That feeling.
-That? Because? How did this happen?
Radis couldn't believe it.
She couldn't even be sure of it.
It was too weak for her to be sure.
—I have to check it. A magic stone… I need another magic stone…
But I didn't have any. The same could be said of the Tilrod family. Radis looked back at Huber, who was still unconscious.
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Radis asked a passing servant to look for Huber's carriage and his coachman.
Maybe that happened often because the coachman didn't suspect Radis when he said he got drunk and fell unconscious.
And Radis pretended to support Huber, saying nothing more as he got into the carriage with the man.
The faithful coachman took Radis to the merchant guild of Cradium.
The guild was quite rich and Radis suddenly remembered a memory from his previous life that he had almost forgotten.
When Huber was scamming Zade and Margaret, Radis warned them because he could sense that Huber was lying.
It was a rare occurrence for Margaret and Zade to be on the same side, but it was only to unite against Radis.
—I know you're terribly naive, but wow, you sure have a lot of doubts. Mr. Cradium knows a lot about magic stones; No one around here knows more about the distribution of magic stones than him. Why do you suspect him?
Zade had also spoken.
—Your mother is right. Huber showed us his collection of magic stones hidden behind the bookshelf in his bedroom. It's incredible. Who else can we trust if not that person?
In the present, Radis looked around Huber's bedroom.
There was only one shelf there, so there was no need to look any further.
When he read the titles, they were all noble poetry and books on philosophy, and he wondered if Huber had ever tried to read one of them before.
Of all the books, almost all of them were new, except for one that was a little worn.
Radis pulled that one out.
With a heavy sound, the bookshelf moved.
As expected, there was a secret space behind the bookshelf.
And it was full of magic stones.
Red, blue, violet, yellow, green...
The smallest ones were as small as a grain of wheat, but others were as big as a fingernail.
The little gems that were emitting their own light were there, as if they were sleeping.
—Why are there so many?
Valiz