Gather Divine Coins and Gacha! - Chapter 59

 Because my hands are blocking his view, the old man doesn’t seem to have noticed.

I wasn’t sure what to do, but I should at least tell him what I’m seeing.

“Your skin’s getting a little whiter. And the scars are fading too.”

“!?”

The moment I told him about the changes in his left hand, he made a surprised face—and then immediately yanked his left hand down toward himself.

Was there some kind of abnormality?

“Are you okay?”

“Mmm… but…”

Even as he answered, he kept staring hard at his left hand.

No, seriously—what happened?

“Do you recognize this scar?”

After a while, he held his left hand out toward me again and pointed at a scar.

It was a straight line running from his middle finger toward his thumb.

A blade or something, maybe? It doesn’t look like it was from a monster, but…。

“Yeah. Not from a monster, right?”

“Mmm. When I was still young, I was deployed to Luzel’s western border as a member of the alliance, and we fought the Empire several times. That’s a wound I took then.”

“Huh.”

He remembers it well.

“Look here as well.”

Saying that, he turned his back to me, tugged down the back of his collar, and showed me his neck.

When I looked, there was a scar running from his neck to his shoulder.

This one was irregular—probably from a monster.

Claws, maybe?

“This is a scar I took when I was developing the eastern region of Zelkis. A large monster ambushed us.”

“I see, I see.”

“And this one is……”

Because I kept nodding along a little too readily, it turned into something like a small lecture from the old man on the history of eastern development—maybe about twenty minutes’ worth.

This old man has way too many scars.

Still, I think I understand what he’s trying to say.

“Do you understand? To us soldiers, scars are our personal record. For them to disappear is……”

“Good thing you noticed before they vanished!”

Even I think it sounds like I’m talking as if it’s someone else’s problem, but this is part of testing, and he volunteered on his own, so it can’t be helped.

Even so, I do feel bad about it.

“…Mmm.”

He seems to understand that too, and he makes a face that’s hard to read.

“Not just soldiers—adventurers should probably avoid it too, right?”

Now that I think about it, when I was at the orphanage I used to help out at a tavern, and the adventurers who came in always had the same standard topics: where they got this scar, what they were fighting when it happened—right alongside stories about the brothel.

And it wasn’t just adventurers; even ordinary shopkeepers were like that.

It was always about how to turn it into a boast-worthy tale.

Honestly, I get it.

“That’s right. Getting injured itself isn’t exactly praiseworthy, but surviving it is something you can credit. And it adds prestige as well. Avoiding it would be wise.”

Hmmm.

It’s not quite “healing.”

It’s not like the scars are actually being cured.

His skin getting “whiter” feels more like it’s returning closer to its original color.

Even if I try it on myself, my hair changed, sure, but I don’t have any scars, and whether in the past or now my skin is already pale.

The only time I go outside is basically just the trip to and from the Guild—at most ten minutes or so.

Sometimes I exercise in the garden, but I do it in the shade.

I don’t have chances to get sunburned.

Thinking about it like that, it won’t work with Alec either, so do I really have no choice but to test it on the estate’s servants?

But their work is mostly indoors too, so they aren’t very sunburned.

And after all the 【Prayer】 testing, their skin condition should be pretty good.

They probably don’t get injured much either, so they likely don’t have scar marks…。

Even if I wanted to ask for cooperation outside, I don’t know what merchants are connected to whom.

Checking each shop one by one would be inefficient.

Hmmm…。

“Ah.”

It seems he came up with something while we were worrying together.

“There’s a farm the Müller family invests in. How about that?”

“!?”

A farm!

It’s work under the sun, so their hands and skin would be rough.

Not bad!

No—actually, that’s perfect!

“That sounds good. They deliver the harvest every morning, so I’ll let the farm know then.”

“Yeah. Thank you!”

Looks like I’ll have to wake up early!

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