Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki

Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities B

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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!

Second chapter.

Keywords for this chapter: GERMS and ANTIBIOTIC.

DISCLAIMER: There is noguarantee that my translation is 100% correct. Please correct me if I waswrong.

Author:

Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)

Translator:

Yukkuri Oniisan

Editor:

So-Chintzy

Enlightenment Arc

Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Cities B

「Huh?」(Liscia)

「What?」(Owen)

When we arrived at the former slums,Liscia and Owen tilted their heads in confusion at the same time. Seeing theboth of them acting like this, even Carla tilted her head too.

「Issomething wrong, Liscia?」(Carla)

Even after she had fallen intoslavery, Liscia and Carla were still talking normally like they always did. It’sa problem in a public setting, but there probably aren’t many people who wouldinterfere it was in private.

「Eh……Hmm. I never visited the slums before, but this is completely different fromthe image that I had and surprised me greatly……」 (Liscia)

「Theimage?」(Carla)

「Dark,gloomy, damp, musty, bad public order…… are all things that this one had heardbefore.」(Owen)

Owen also replied. Certainly theformer slum had that kind of impression. However,

「Hmm?……It might be a bit bland, but this place looks like it’s quite in order.」(Carla)

Just like what Carla had said,what we could currently see in front of us was only a scenery made up of rowsof square white tofu-like houses. To make it easier for modern a j.a.panese tounderstand, I want you to remember groups of temporary housings lined in rows atthe disaster area after an earthquake disaster.[1]It might be a bit bland, but since it was bright, as it received enough sunlightand had good ventilation, it was not damp or gloomy. We could see youngchildren playing or drawing on the ground, so it didn’t look like a place withbad public order.

「Isthis place really the slums?」(Liscia)

「Yup.Hasn’t it had become much better?」(Souma)

When Liscia asked me, I answeredwith my chest puffed up.

「Whenwe were dealing with the city’s sanitation issues, I did my best to improvethis place.」(Souma)

「Bysanitation issues, do you mean when you were talking about putting the prohibitionof horse wagons outside the main road and establishing the sewer systems? Was thisslum’s improvement also a part of those measures?」(Liscia)

「Youremembered that well. Yes, that’s right. A place that is dark, humid, and badlyventilated is a place where germs could easily propagate. In addition, thepeople who lived in the former slums had poor nutrition, so they were easilyable to be infected by the germs. If, for example, an epidemic broke out unexpectedly,then the slums will be a place where it could spread rapidly.」(Souma)

「Je-jeerm?」[2](Liscia)

「Are!? Haven’t I explained this before?」(Souma)

…… Ah, that’s right, although I wastalking about the cause of disease, it looks like I hadn’t explained about thedisease itself and how could it happen from the beginning.

「Umm……In this world, there are very small living things that couldn’t be seen by the nakedeye. They exist in countless numbers in the air, soil, inside the body, and inall kinds of places. The very small living things will decompose stuff andcause diseases. On the other hand, there are also very small living things thatstimulate food fermentation or have other beneficial effects.」(Souma)

While mustering my meagerscientific knowledge (after all, I studied in humanities)[3],I explained about bacteria and microbes to Liscia and the others. I felt thatit wasn’t conveyed nicely, but even s,o my knowledge of this was partial and thethree just nodded, 「If Souma says so, then it surely exists.」,since they noticed that this had surpa.s.s this world’s level of knowledge.

The medical science and hygienics[4]of this world were not that developed. This might be mostly because of theexistence of Light Attribute Magic. Light Attribute Magic could increase the body’shealing ability and even a heavy injury could be healed (if it was immediatelytreated, then even an amputated arm could be reattached). Because of this, medicalscience and hygienics didn’t develop. Hence why, in this world, the knowledgeof the existence of bacteria or microbes were only known by a very “smallnumber” of people.

Since Light Attribute Magicstimulated the body’s natural healing ability, it had a weakness ––– it couldn’t treat infectious diseases nor woundson people with weakened regenerative capabilities like the elderly. Therefore, tocure infectious diseases, it was a rampant practice to use truly unknown medicinesor questionable remedies until recently. When I was dealing with the sanitationissues, I thought that I needed to do something about this situation as soon aspossible. But for the first step, I needed to make them aware of the existenceof bacteria and microbes that couldn’t be seen by the naked eye.

「Buthow you will make people aware of something that couldn’t be seen by the nakedeye?」(Liscia)

「Evenin this world, there are people…… or rather, a race that knows about theexistence of bacteria and microbes. That race possesses the 『ThirdEye』 and it seems that they could see the germs that normallycouldn’t be seen. I have obtained their cooperation.」(Souma)

「ThirdEye? …… Is it perhaps the Three-Eyed Tribe?」[5](Liscia)

I nodded at Liscia’s question. TheThree-Eyed Tribe. Just like their name suggests, they are a race of people thatpossess three eyes. They lived in the temperate northern region of the Kingdomand, in addition to pair of normal eyes, they possessed a third eye in themiddle of their forehead as their racial feature. You may picture them to be likethe Tenshinhan or Sharaku Housuke,[6]but it was not actually a plain eyeball. Their Third Eye is red, small, andlooks exactly like a small gem embedded on the forehead. Liscia then sighed.

「Soyou even got their cooperation. Even though I heard that they are a race that dislikesinteracting[7]with the other races.」(Liscia)

「……It seems that the reason for them being that reclusive is because of theirThird Eye.」(Souma)

The Three-Eyed Tribe could seewhat the other races couldn’t see. This was the cause for their reclusiveness. Dueto their Third Eye, they quickly learned about medical science and hygienics. Hence,this was why they were naturally obsessed with cleanliness and tried to dotheir best to avoid contact with other races.

Furthermore, with their ThirdEye, the Three-Eyed tribe were even aware of the existence of germs. Even the factthat germs were the cause of diseases that couldn’t be healed with LightAttribute Magic. However, no matter how many times the Three-Eyed Tribe broughtthis up, the other races, who couldn’t see it, didn’t believe them. In a worldwhere superst.i.tion ran rampant, even saying the scientifically correct thingwould only end up being considered as a dubious remark that could disturb society.

Because of this, the Three-EyedTribe disliked interacting with other races and only developed their originalmedical science and hygienics amongst themselves. Their research aboutinfectious disease was several hundred years more advanced than this world’smedical science. In this world, for a human or a beastfolk to live up to 60years, this was already considered as to having a long life, but for theThree-Eyed Tribe, who should have had the same lifespan, they could easily pa.s.s80 years.

「So,I who was aware that what they said was the truth, established a conference withthem and requested their cooperation. In addition, to prove their ability, Imade an apparatus to make even the other races be able to see the bacteria andmicrobes.」(Souma)

In other words, an opticalmicroscope. After all, gla.s.s lens already existed in this world (remember thatgla.s.ses exists). The next thing was for me to draw the blueprint of themicroscope from my vague memory and order the scholars and craftsmen to produceit. Thanks to this optical microscope, we could prove that the Three-EyedTribe’s statement is correct.

「But thatThree-Eyed Tribe is really outrageous. Who could ever thought that theThree-Eyed Tribe had already produced antibiotics.」(Souma)

「Enteebiotiks?」[8](Liscia)

「It’sa substance to control the proliferation of the germs that I had explained justnow.」(Souma)

The most famous might be penicillin.Even if I am a student of the humanities, I also knew about it (manga knowledgethough). If I’m not mistaken, it is something extracted from the blue mold[9]?In the Three-Eyed Tribe’s case, the antibiotics are extracted from the special jelly-amoebicorganism that even could survive in an unsanitary habitat (it’s a subspecies ofZelring and has a shape like a Liquid Slime[10].Since it’s nameless, I christened it 『Zelmedic』). Just from hearing about its effects, I had no doubtthat these were antibiotics; however, it might be something similar topenicillin.

By the way, the Three-Eyed Tribejust referred to this medicine simply as 『Medicine』. Since it might be cause confusion in the future, withmy King’s authority, I conferred it with a name, 『Mitsumedine』[11]. Since it’s a medicine made by Three-Eyed Tribe, soit’s contracted into Mitsumedine (I can’t say that the name will not change). Itwill be better if the medicine is a pill…… but, I guess this might be anothertype of medicine.[12]

「That……Mitsumedine? What do you mean by, it could control the jerms’ proliferation?」(Liscia)

「It’sa wonder drug for infectious diseases…… Well it could cure epidemics and evenprevent the wound from festering, so I believe it’s a wonderful medicine.」(Souma)

「Cureepidemics!? Can it really do that!?」(Liscia)

It wasn’t strange for Liscia tobe that surprised. In some points, this Kingdom’s medical science level (likeregenerative medicine or the likes) had surpa.s.sed modern medical science, but ona whole, the knowledge was on par with j.a.pan in the Edo Period[13].For infectious diseases, they had no more methods than boiling medical plants anddrinking it to abate the symptoms.[14]However, if we have antibiotics, then we can cure the root cause of thedisease. Liscia made a dumbfounded face.

「DearG.o.ds…… for us to fail to notice that kind of amazing drug is……」(Liscia)

「Well,for the other races that aren’t aware of the existence of bacteria and microbes,it will be useless even if they have those antibiotics. On the contrary, sincethe Three-Eyed Tribe can see the germs, they could discover that it’s acountermeasure or the germs.」(Souma)

「Then,could that Mitsumedine be ma.s.s produced?」(Liscia)

Liscia asked as if she was hookedby this topic. Hmm, I understood her feelings. Since it was similar to myreaction when I heard about this in the negotiation with the Elder ofThree-Eyed Tribe. Carla and Owen, who were looking from the sides, seemed amazedthat Liscia acted like this. I nodded at Liscia’s question.

「There’sstill room to work on it, but the production has been increasing little bylittle. During th Amidonian War, it had already been supplied to the army, didyou not notice it?」(Souma)

「Sinceit fortunately ended less severely than…… Which reminds me, in that battle,compared to the number of injured people, I thought that the number of casualtieswas too low. Was that also thanks to the Mitsumedine?」(Liscia)

「Perhaps.Since if the germs enter a wound, then it will fester…… something like that.Mitsumedine prevents this to some extent.」(Souma)

「Amazing……」(Liscia)

「Anyway,it’s thanks to the cooperation of the entire Three-Eyed tribe and the fact thatthey didn’t hold anything back to lend their support to the Kingdom’s medicalscience field. The bottleneck of Mitsumedine extraction was the low number ofZelmedics as the source, but thanks to Tomoe-can, it was quickly remedied.」(Souma)

For a jelly-amoebic organismslike Zelring, they are cla.s.sified as plants, so they didn’t possess an animal’sintellect to hold conversation, but even so, from their thoughts, she couldunderstand the best habitat for them to live and the conditions for their breeding.At the present, we are in the middle of increasing their breeding sites.

「……Our imouto is really helpful.」(Liscia)

「You’reright.」(Souma)

Nowadays, Tomoe-chan is referred toby the public as 『Wise Wolf Princess』. RhinosaurusTrain, Van’s Pongo Troop, and Zelmedic…… It’s not wrong to say that she was worthyof that nickname.

「Hm,well that being the case, right now our country is in the midst of a medical scienceand hygienics reform, so as one part of it, this slum has been improved. Theold houses were demolished, a well lighted and ventilated area was created, incidentallyeradicating crime and illegal drugs, and with this, we also create a nice opens.p.a.ce. The residents moved into the newly constructed prefab houses. The shedis narrow and small, but it’s practically free. In addition, they are a.s.signedto clean the garbage in the city, so this is a support for them and also a partof the sanitation management problem.」(Souma)

「So youhave done so many things…… Aren’t you working too hard?」(Liscia)

Liscia looked at me with aworrying look. I then put my hand on Liscia’s head.

「Thereare troubles, but it’s fun nonetheless. Since it’s a city…… a country that Ican reconstructd freely according to my wishes. Also, as the result, the peopleare smiling, making me even happier.」(Souma)

「Isee…… Then, that’s good. But, if there is something that I can do, please leaveit to me.」(Liscia)

「Ofcourse. I will be relying on you.」(Souma)

After we had this conversation, welaughed together. Then, in that good mood,

*Pssst*

There was a sudden sound of gushingair. While thinking “what was it?”, I looked at the front and saw a person carryinga large cask on their back. There was a hose extending from the cask, whichended on a metal cylinder, where mist-like stuff sprayed out at the ground. Thatperson was a woman who had blonde hair and brown looking skin, although itwasn’t as tanned as a dark elf, giving an exotic-looking appearance. She lookedlike she was in her mid-twenties. Perhaps she might be a beauty withextraordinary looks, but the triangle mask covering her mouth and the caskbehind her completely diminished that impression. On her forehead, there was theThree-Eyed Tribe’s characteristic Third Eye glittering.

「Kukukuku……Fufufufu…… Ahahahahahaha![15]Filth will get sterilized~!」(Mysterious Lady)

While having a three-tieredlaugh, that woman was spraying that mist-like stuff on the ground and hutszealously. When they saw this scene, Liscia, Carla, and Owen, were all lost forwords. As for me, I felt a sudden pain a.s.sault my head.

「Whatare you doing……?」(Souma)

Her name is Hilde Nog[16].The Three-Eyed Tribe, as a token of support and to regain their honor, had lenther as a 『Physician』 to reform our medical science.

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New Character: A MAD DOCTOR! Every good novelneed a mad doctor.

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