# 49
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How much time has passed?
“Wow… Miss Kay, you’ve been in awe.”
When I raised my head to hear a nearby sound, I found the therapist, Lucy, standing in front of my desk with a look of astonishment on her face.
“Ah, colleague! Am I doing my job well?”
"Yes...it's perfect! It's so touching. Have you been working as a therapist for a long time?"
It wasn't worth all that emotion, but she looked really happy.
“I worked as an intermediate therapist for two years in Zironia.”
“Then, you must have treated humans too!”
“Of course...?”
Does the therapist treat something other than humans?
When I glared at Lucy for her strange question, I panicked a little and muttered hesitantly:
“I...I'm sorry. In fact, there are some healers who come here without qualifications. These are usually those who... The Headquarters Head takes special care of them, so I thought you were one of them.”
Oh, so she thought I was a high-class “wasta.”
I felt bitter when I saw her shrunken shoulders.
"No, I'm not like that. I'm just a new trainee seeking the rank of advanced healer, and it's normal for you to think like that while I'm sitting in the room." A better place than yours. How about we exchange offices?”
She shook her head in horror at my suggestion:
“No, never. What will I say to the head of headquarters later? I refuse to do so. Please use it comfortably.”
"So, at least talk to me in a less formal way. I don't feel comfortable with you talking to me with such appreciation, and you're my colleague." “The biggest.”
Lucy hesitated a little, then said with difficulty:
“I'll...I'll do it, Kai.”
I smiled at her and greeted her again:
“I look forward to working with you.”
“A-ha-ha. Me too. Come, I’ll show you the headquarters facilities.”
I followed her out of the room while she was smiling brightly.
Lucy began explaining to me the locations of the main facilities and the details of the work in detail.
“Working hours are set at the headquarters. Six hours for treatment work, and two hours for paperwork. Sometimes there is work Isn’t it similar to your work in Zironia?”
“Ahahaha. There we had 24 hours of overtime every week. There was 16 hours of work every other day.” “Regularly.”
Now I see why everyone wants to work in the capital. It is the function of dreams. 8 hours of work only!
“Oh my God, you were in a really tough place.”
She looked at me with pity.
“Hmm, since you work here, some eccentric people might show up… but since you’re Kai, you’ll be… “Fine.”
“Weird people?”
“Ah, that...”
At the moment when Lucy was about to speak:
"Lucy! Lucy!"
There was a man who saw her from the end of the corridor and called her name.
“Ah, you're both here!”
He stopped in front of us and started panting tiredly.
“Lucy, the seniors have asked to summon that new miss... I was told to bring her to the VIP room immediately.”
The man who seemed to be Lucy's classmate was watching me and using a reverence formula on me as well.
My head started to hurt.
“Dignitary figures?”
“Ah, people of high status are receiving special treatment elsewhere.
Do you know a high-ranking noble in the capital?”
Lucy asked, seeing my reaction.
Nobles of high rank I know in the world.
Who else? They must be the Hilderius twins who turned my workplace into a mess.
I sighed deeply.
“Aha ha ha, I think I know who they are.”
She shook her head in understanding.
“Then, I will take you to the VIP room.”
I followed Lucy through a transit gate to reach a very luxurious place decorated with expensive furniture.
“Miss Kay!”
The headquarters chief ran towards me as soon as he saw me.
“Miss Kay, you have arrived! Ha ha ha ha. I was waiting for you.”
He was constantly smiling and bowing.
Lucy saw this and smiled at me with confusion.
“Please go into the first room over there.”
The head of the headquarters pointed to a huge, luxurious door.
Oh my God, these are the twins! How did they cause all this?
I was very angry, so I took a deep breath, took confident steps, and then opened the huge door.
Squeaky.
"Lloyd, Dabin! What in the name of God have you two done?"
I entered the room screaming their names, but...
“Ah, Miss Kay!”
The Hilderius twins were not there.
“We have met again.”
Bam!
The door closed loudly, and Iotias was lying lazily on a luxurious sofa in the spacious room, waving his hand at me.
To leave. I must leave immediately.
“Ah, I entered the wrong room. I'll get out now...”
I quickly turned and grabbed the handle.
The door to open.
But.
Knock, knock.
“Oh...what?”
Although there was a handle to lock it from the inside, the door did not move.
Then came the sound of Iotias's terrifying laugh from behind me:
“The entry was of your own free will, but the exit was not in your control.”
Don't be confused. Don't be confused!
Jotias will go further if he sees any weakness in you. So, never shake or get confused. You must be strong.
I remembered Dabin's emphatic words.
I calmed myself down, looked into the eyes of Iotias, who was laughing on the sofa, and said with a stern face:
“I have work to do. Open the door!”
“Ha ha ha ha.”
He did nothing but laugh madly on the sofa, as if my stern words were funny.
'This lunatic...'
How can anyone face it without getting confused?
I'm starting to really respect Dabin's emotional stability.
Ah, so that's why she's the heroine then?
After he laughed for a long time, I sighed deeply and he sat up straight.
"Here, therapist. Your job is here. I came for treatment because I have a bad headache. It's cruel to be fired." “Sick from the door.”
Iotias furrowed his eyebrows as he touched his head.
What a shame this is.
“For headaches, go to a nearby pharmacy to buy a cheaper and more effective dose.”
In other words, get out of my face.
I looked at him with a stern look.
“Since I have a lot of money and time, I don’t care if the treatment is expensive or ineffective.”
Iotias laughed evilly as he looked at me.
“Besides, you may not know this, but just me sitting here costs more than a hundred gold coins an hour. No. You should be wasting my precious money. Treat me immediately.”
One hundred gold coins per hour.
If I had the money, I would have thrown the hundred coins in his face and gone!
But I was completely broke, and I did not have the strength to break down the door as the heroine does, so I approached it. With a sigh.
“You'll open the door after I treat you, right?”
He answered while leaning back on the sofa:
“As long as the headache subsides.”
“Haaa.”
I sighed and focused my strength on my magic wand.
The magic that treats headaches only works to temporarily disable the feeling of pain.
This is magic that any magician in the Magic Tower can perform.
So why did he come here?
I approached Iotias, who was sitting quietly with his eyes closed.
His face is as pure as a child's, and his light violet hair hangs gently.
In terms of appearance, no one should admit that he is beautiful.
But what is the benefit? What is inside him is crazy.
I muttered a pain-neutralizing spell.
A bright light appeared from the staff, and magic was applied to Iotias' head.
The treatment is over, but...
I suddenly raised his bangs.
That was the place where I hit him with my book in the dream.
There was a gaping wound on his forehead where he had been hit directly.
It seems that he left it as it is, as the blood had congealed on it and it began to ulcerate.
If it stays like this, the wound will rot.
“Since you are the Tower Master, why haven’t you treated yourself yet?”
Iotias slowly opened one eye and answered with a smile:
“Ah, it would be embarrassing for the Tower Master to say that he was beaten. What would my subordinates think of me?”
While I was applying the healing magic to his forehead, I thought to myself:
'Actually, I doubt your subordinates will care whether you did or didn't.'
Because in the story I know, all his followers were afraid of the crazy psychopathic tower lord.
After I was sure that his forehead was completely treated, I put his hair back in place.
“Why did you treat this too?”
Iotias asked, tilting his head curiously.
“I called him in advance so that she wouldn’t use it as an excuse to come again.”
Iotias's eyes widened in horror.
“Oh, how did you know that? You're really smart.”
The matter was as clear as the sun.
“Then, see you!”
I quickly bowed to him and ran towards the door.
Knock, knock.
But the door did not open.
Cold sweat poured down my back and I felt a shiver running through my body.
“What are you doing? This is against our agreement.”
Iotias rose quietly.
“Ah, because I took advantage of your behavior so simply.”
At that moment, Kan's feet began to move on their own, as happened in the tower.
“Oh, oh, oh…”
Iotias laughed out loud as he watched my funny appearance.
May, who was moving strangely, stopped in front of the sofa where Iotias was, and then forced me to sit on it forcefully.
Although the sofa was very comfortable, my butt hurt from the force of pushing.
He looked at me, smiling broadly, and said:
“We have a lot of time, how about we have a cup of tea before we leave?”
Masa opened his magic pocket and took out a set of white tea and a plate full of biscuits.
“These are biscuits from a famous bakery in the world these days.”
He presented me with a cute bunny-shaped cookie decorated with dollops of red jam.
“Do you think I'll eat it?”
“Yes, of course.”
When he smiled sweetly, my arm moved against my will and took the biscuit.
“Are you there? Ha, ha, ha, ha.”
Damn you, Iotias!