I felt like I would have been chased away no matter how much he will plead to use it, so I looked at Raiden with guilty eyes.
Raiden smiled and pointed to a small carriage.
“It’s a food storage carriage, but it seems they’ve converted part of it into a shower facility. Looks like they solved the water supply problem with magic. They said Crown Prince was generous because I impressed him by making the wild Odeltio faint in an instant. They even said I could use it. They said talents should always be treated well.”
“As expected of the empire. They quickly discern the identity of the Hero.”
In my joke, Raiden laughed again and told me that when the shower facilities were ready, the bell would ring, so I should get ready to change clothes. I nodded happily and ran toward the carriage.
Indeed, should I call it a facility used by the nobility?
I had a slight prejudice because it was called a food storage carriage, but it was not at all like that.
There was a rich smell of money being spent everywhere inside.
Considering the location of the Imperial Academy, I thought I might have to sleep rough once or twice, but to bring such a fantastic shower facility carriage just for that rough sleep.
It was indeed the great empire.
I freely used the facility that would be hard to experience twice.
I couldn’t stay long, so washing was quickly done.
Anyway, using magical tools made it comfortable without any inconvenience.
As I drained the water from the bathtub and changed clothes, I suddenly patted my flat belly.
I couldn’t believe there would be a child.
I patted my belly a few times, then let out a deep sigh, put on a raincoat, and carried the wet clothes in a waterproof bag as I went out of the carriage.
The next morning, the rain stopped, and the sun was shining brightly.
Even if we found a place where water didn’t pool, it was still a forest, and there were still puddles everywhere at the base camp.
But with the sun shining like this, they would evaporate and disappear after a half day.
Maybe because it was dark and rainy the day before, discussions were postponed until after sunrise, and it seemed that the largest tent where the professors stayed was bustling with activity as we left the carriage for the meal.
Last night, I mistook it for the light emitted by several lamps.
The party from the Imperial Academy seemed to be our party’s prey.
Since I couldn’t see the dragon that Raiden had knocked out, it seemed like it had been taken to its nest at dawn.
While watching the well-cooked pork being carried out by the caretakers, I went to check on the patient. It happened to be when Dr. Ren was checking the wounds.
So I handed him the medicine to take after the meal.
“Did you hear? Crown Prince is accompanying us.”
“Oh, yes. I heard he’s participating in this tournament. I don’t know in which category, but it must be challenging.”
With my roughly tied-up hair and breakfast packed until morning, it seemed that the problem of compensation had been settled.
I didn’t hear the details, so I didn’t know, but it seemed that they were offering sufficient compensation and providing high-quality accommodation for the patient’s speedy recovery until the tournament.
Actually, the fight with the wild dragon was an unexpected accident, not intentional, so they wouldn’t compensate to this extent, but it was indeed the Empire.
The Crown Prince party was supposed to arrive in the next city a day earlier than us, without even meeting us.
The reason for the delay was because Odeltio had caught a cold.
A dragon’s cold is not a cold in the true sense; the correct term is fever.
Normally, when a dragon’s body temperature suddenly drops, it will try to return it to its original temperature by raising its fever.
But if this system malfunctions and becomes a high fever, it’s called a high fever cold, and if it becomes a low fever, it’s called a low fever cold.
Whether it’s a high or low fever, the condition gets worse than usual, and they suffer from headaches, of course.
Usually, with a high fever cold, even a dragon that was usually intelligent becomes very sharp.
In other words, they lose sight of what’s in front of them.
Since they lose sight of what’s in front of them, troubles arise among the dragons, and we had no choice but to mediate the fight, which delayed our schedule.
Even now, Odeltio, who caught a cold, was roaring and clawing at the tree he had left in a place where he wouldn’t stumble.
The caretakers nearby seemed to be almost giving up.
“Don’t think about going over there.”
“Why would I do such a thing? I am someone who values my life dearly.”
“That’s right. You should.”
Raiden offered me a blueberry that I didn’t even know existed, and I was even more surprised when he brought it back.
Can a hero make blueberries too?
Whether my foolish thoughts were written on my face, Raiden pointed towards the tent of Bellpepper.
“I asked because there happened to be blueberries on the way.”
“Wow, Sir Raiden. May you live long and healthy.”
“Anyway… living long is scheduled.”
The Hero Raiden smiled bitterly.
After finishing our meal, we left first. We arrived in the next city a little after noon.
Bellpepper’s envoys had already found a good inn for us.
The injured students were assigned to the second-best room.
Crown Prince thought they would stay at the lord’s castle, but since there was no lord’s castle here, they said they would use the best room in the inn.
After staying in the carriage for a long time, I stretched out my stiff body on the bed, and when I got up, Crown Prince’s party had arrived.
Crown Prince seemed to have a very mature personality for his age of seventeen.
He didn’t complain about the inn room, which was a little lacking compared to Crown Prince’s carriage, and he wasn’t picky about meals either.
It seemed that he quite liked dragons, as he occasionally asked about Odeltio, who had caught a cold, to Odeltio’s caretakers.
As expected, the caretaker turned out to be a professor at Bellpepper Imperial Academy, and Crown Prince seemed very polite, not even using honorifics, but his word selection was very courteous.
He had recognized Raiden’s skills from the moment he saw them.
I watched Raiden, who was chatting pleasantly with Roshe, and then walked away. Just as I was about to go out the door, Raiden, who was talking, turned to look at me.
I just indicated with my lips that I was just going out for some fresh air, and then opened the door.
Anyone else suspecting that the Female Lead will encounter trouble soon after leaving?