“──It hurts… Dad, Mom… it hurts…”
“Just a little longer, Kanna. We’re looking for a Dark Healer right now.”
Ah, how unfortunate it is.
Yakiba, a demon race man, encouraged his daughter Kanna on his back while lamenting deeply inside.
──This morning, his five-year-old daughter Kanna fell from the third-floor window of their home and broke her right arm.
It happened in the blink of an eye. Kanna had apparently been distracted by a butterfly and leaned out the window. Then she fell straight down… If she hadn’t been of the demon race, her life would have been in danger.
“You need to turn the corner ahead. There’s a clinic specializing in the demon race there!”
“Okay!”
He nodded at the words of his wife Anna, who was following him.
However, the clinic that should have been just around the corner had its heavy door locked.
There was a sign posted.
“Due to the conscription for war, we will be closed for a while.”
“No way, not this place too!!!”
The war is pressuring civilian medical services.
This is the third clinic they’ve found closed. In other words, it meant that all the Dark Healers specializing in the demon race that Yakiba and the others knew were not in the royal capital.
“It hurts… it hurts…!”
“What are we going to do…?! If this continues, Kanna will suffer…”
He gasped at the words from his daughter and wife.
He desperately wanted to do something, but without a specialized Dark Healer available, he couldn’t even bow his head and plead for help.
Should they try to appeal to other Dark Healers who specialize in orcs or succubi? But then, the anatomical structure is quite different from that of the demon race…!
“(What to do… what to do…?)”
As Yakiba lowered his gaze to the ground and turned his thoughts,
“Hey, hey, honey… was there ever a clinic in a place like this before?”
His wife Anna pointed at a building facing the opposite road, saying that, so Yakiba turned his face that way.
“Alaya General Hospital”
“Alaya… ‘General’ Hospital? General?”
“What could that mean… Since it’s a hospital, there must be a Dark Healer, but I wonder what race they specialize in?”
“Alaya, Alaya… Wait, isn’t that the name of the human from the rumors…!?”
At Yakiba’s words, Anna was taken aback.
“Isn’t that the Dark Healer who fled to the Demon Kingdom?”
“Ah. Could it be that he opened a hospital in this demon city…!? That’s insane!”
Yakiba, for the sake of his daughter, tried to suppress his disgust as he spoke.
…Humans are the enemies of the demon race in the Demon Kingdom. For such a person to do business in our homeland!
“It looks like today is the opening day… Wow, there are beautiful flowers for the opening celebration.”
In the direction of Anna’s gaze, there were several splendid bouquets placed outside the hospital.
They had the names of the senders and messages written on them.
“Congratulations on the opening. Thank you for saving my life. From the vampire race, Gigi Gandes.”
“Congratulations on the opening. My dear friend, I will never forget this favor. From the magical bird race, Forté.”
“Congratulations on the opening. I deeply appreciate you saving my life and my subordinates. From the demon race, Agito.”
“These names… They’re the names of the great magical heroes who saved many ordinary demons in Elden, including Lord Agito…!”
“Wha…!? So does that mean the rumor that the human Dark Healer saved our pride, Lord Agito, is true!?”
It’s hard to believe that a weak race of humans, who are nothing but cunning, could save someone counted among the strongest in the Demon Kingdom, like Agito.
But here, the messages are clearly present.
Given that it’s opened right next to the Demon King’s castle, it hardly seems like a lie.
Yet, it’s incredibly hard to believe.
“Ah, look, dear, someone is going into the hospital!”
“Is that… a group of succubi?!”
Beautiful women and girls were entering the hospital, chatting excitedly.
Yes, if the man named Alaya is inside, he would become prime prey for the succubi!
“Hey, hey, isn’t he going to get drained dry?!”
“Ah, look… they’re already coming out.”
Within less than a minute, the group of succubi came out with drooping shoulders.
Most of them looked exhausted, and some were even crying in regret.
“What on earth happened in there…?!”
“Did they repel the succubi’s temptations…? Could it be that he’s actually quite powerful…?”
As Yakiba and the others furrowed their brows,
“Move aside, move aside! Emergency patient coming through!”
A red-haired woman in a suit called out to the demons in the street, trying to clear a path. Behind her, a sturdy zombie man came rushing in. On his back was a demon man, bleeding heavily and looking utterly exhausted. Upon closer inspection, he had lost one leg up to his thigh, and the severed leg was being held by the zombie man.
“A zombie is carrying a patient…!? What speed!”
“But he won’t make it. The bleeding is severe. Even if they stop it, with such a large wound, it will rot…”
The suited woman and the zombie carrying the patient entered Alaya General Hospital.
Then, one minute later, the patient who had appeared to be exhausted came out looking spirited.
“No way, his leg is connected!?”
“I can’t believe it, he’s even skipping!”
The demon man skips down the street as if nothing were wrong.
In his place, a mummy zombie brings in another patient, and when that patient is cured and leaves, a female zombie clad in a revealing bikini armor brings in a new female patient.
“…Hey, you. Could it be that the ‘General’ in Alaya General Hospital means that they can perform dark healing for all races…?”
“…! No way, is there such an all-purpose dark healer among humans? If that’s the case, it explains the story of how Lord Agito and the others were saved…!”
Gigi Gandes , the vampire; Forte, the birdman; and Agito, the demon. Each race has vastly different physical characteristics, but if a human named Alaya is capable of healing all these races by himself, then it makes sense that the demon country would accept Alaya as a refugee.
…Maybe, if this is the case, my daughter Kanna might be safe here as well—
Just then, a shadow suddenly fell over Yakiba’s head.
“Oh, you up there!”
“…Huh!?”
With a flurry of large wings, a flying dragon, approximately six or seven meters long, landed right in the middle of the street, carrying a demon atop it.
This was one of the special security units of the Demon King’s castle, the Dragon Knight.
As soon as the flying dragon landed, the doors of Alaya General Hospital swung open, and a slender man in a white coat appeared.
…Could that be the refugee human—Kiwi Alaya?
Alaya rushed over to the flying dragon and exchanged words with the demon who had dismounted from it.
The demon didn’t appear to have any health issues. It seemed that the one in poor condition was the flying dragon, which was hunching over and lying down on the ground.
Alaya placed his hands on the flying dragon and appeared to ponder for a moment, but then abruptly took off his white coat and tossed it to the ground.
“W-What is he planning to do…?”
“U-Um…?”
While Anna and I watched, the flying dragon let out a huge yawn.
At that moment, Alaya sprang into action without hesitation.
—Gopoo!
“““Huh!?”””
All three of us—me, Anna, and the Dragon Knight demon—let out a loud shout.
Alaya timed his jump for the instant the flying dragon opened its mouth, seemingly about to vomit, and jumped right into its throat.
Naturally, the flying dragon recoiled and thrashed around. However, it seemed that Alaya’s entire body was already snugly lodged in the flying dragon’s stomach.
—Kah! A purple light burst from the area of the dragon’s stomach. Immediately after,
{Gurorororororo—!}
The flying dragon vomited.
What it had eaten, a few still-moving, half-dissolved zombies, were expelled along with Alaya.
“Orolo—”
Alaya, too, was covered in the flying dragon’s gastric juices and was vomiting.
The flying dragon appeared furious at Alaya, but instead of attacking him,
{Gyurou!}
The dragon simply crushed the zombies in the vomit, doing nothing to Alaya.
Its spine was now stiff and straight, showing no signs of the weakness it had exhibited earlier.
“The cause of the flying dragon’s distress was the zombies…?”
“Could it be that he went directly into its stomach and pulled out the zombie that was stuck?!”
“There’s a limit to how far you can go for a job…!”
A woman in a suit emerged from the hospital to collect the treatment fee on behalf of Alaya, and three zombies, armed with a large amount of water and cleaning tools, gathered around Alaya to begin cleaning the road.
As Yakiba and the others observed this scene,
“—Oh, is this a new patient?”
Alaya’s gaze turned toward them, covered in gastric juices.
Alaya approached with squishy, sticky footsteps and said,
“Hm, a demon race, how fortunate. Thanks to Lord Agito, we have plenty of know-how regarding the demon race. With injuries of that degree, I can heal you in a matter of seconds. However, please wait a moment inside the hospital. I would like to take a quick shower and change my clothes.”
As he spoke, Alaya began to strip off his clothes, stained with the flying dragon’s gastric juices, and walked leisurely back into the hospital.
“…Anna.”
“Yeah, you.”
After looking at Kanna, who was on my back, we nodded at each other.
“That human is a professional. I can trust him as a professional.”
“Right. Let’s go…!”
The demon parent and child decided to visit Alaya General Hospital.
