I Reincarnated as the World's Worst Healer-Chapter 79: Another Kingdom, Same Problems (3)

After a night of rest, Ebony woke up in the middle of a messy bed, and Veronica was lying beside her.

The cat girl, despite her great height, didn’t take up much space on the bed, which made it easier for the blonde to sleep.

And after an hour of getting ready to leave that place, Ebony couldn’t help but feel closer to her friend. Veronica changed clothes in front of her without any shame, even starting to complain about the discomfort caused by her enormous breasts.

It was strange for Ebony to feel such direct trust, something she had only experienced among guys, at least in her previous life.

However, instead of enjoying her time alone with the cat girl by observing every inch of her skin, she tried to look away whenever she could. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

In her mind she couldn’t stop comparing her to her girlfriend. She couldn’t stop thinking about those days when that girl lived by her side; they were short, but full of emotion.

But rather than thinking too much about it, the blonde decided to ignore those memories that made even the cup of chocolate she was drinking during breakfast with her friends taste bitter.

"So, did you sleep well?" Lucian asked while looking at Ebony. Her face seemed lost in thought, something that worried the elf.

"Yeah, it was fine... I haven’t shared a bed in a long time, honestly..." Ebony replied while finishing her breakfast, which was scrambled eggs with two slices of bread in the inn’s dining room.

"That..." Lucian glanced for a moment at Veronica, who, upon hearing those words, immediately stopped eating, looking at the elf and then at the girl in disbelief.

Because to her, those two were a newly married couple. The thought that they hadn’t properly spent their wedding night made her blush slightly.

However, after the embarrassment of imagining her friend and her ex-boyfriend in the middle of their act of love, the cat girl began to suspect that something strange was behind their engagement.

But she chose not to ask or think about it any further. After all, those people had proven themselves trustworthy, and she preferred to keep it that way.

After breakfast, the group left the inn and began walking through the small village.

"It’s pretty peaceful. I guess this village only lives off the trade between the border and Sapphire Port," Ebony said while watching the few children in the place playing in a small plaza that only had a water fountain.

"(This place wasn’t here before... Things really changed since I played "Tower and Legends"... Hmm, now that I think about it...)"

The blonde thought as she kept walking with her friends, until suddenly a question appeared in her mind.

"(That rabbit earlier... the Lord of the Burrow... said no one had visited him in a thousand years. I know that tower used to be a frequent spot in the game for farming monsters and looting the lower vault... But if that was a thousand years ago...)"

At that moment the blonde remembered the date the elf had given her when she arrived in this world: it was roughly 700 years after the Great Disaster.

"(Hmm... Maybe someday I should learn some history to update myself, but even then there are like three hundred years completely in the dark... What the hell happened...?)"

Suddenly a strong wind swept through the place, and a woman shouted to the sky.

"A half-elf!" she screamed in terror while pointing at Lucian’s hair, because the wind had managed to pull off his hood.

"Damn..." The green-haired elf tried to cover his head again, but it was too late, since the villagers had already seen his identity.

"What’s a mongrel doing here?! GET OUT!" shouted a seventy-year-old man as he grabbed a stone from the ground and threw it angrily at Lucian.

Then, one after another, the nearby villagers began throwing stones or rotten vegetables at the half-elf.

Seeing the reaction and fearing for his life and his friends’, Lucian began to run to get out of the village.

The rest of the group had to do the same and follow behind him, until several meters away from the town the half-elf stopped, allowing his companions to catch up.

"What a mess... I really need to find a better solution than just a hood," Lucian said, more worried about his clothes than about all the hatred the villagers had shouted.

"Hey... are you okay? That came out of nowhere..." the blonde asked, worried, trying to read her friend’s expression.

For her it wasn’t easy to be rejected by a village. But this wasn’t just rejection.

"Don’t worry. I’m used to people trying to kill me when they discover my identity. For now we should hurry to the capital or we won’t make it in time."

Hearing the resignation in her friend’s voice, Ebony didn’t know how to react other than respecting his wish not to talk about the subject.

And so the group continued their journey. Hour after hour, step by step, they advanced through the vast hexagon until suddenly the smell of fish invaded their noses.

"That smells awful," Veronica said while her cat ears shrank from the unpleasant assault on her sense of smell.

"It smells really bad... What the hell? We haven’t even reached the city yet... Why does it smell so—" Ebony said, until reality struck her face with a brutal scene.

Outside Sapphire Port, one of the richest cities on the continent, tons of fish were piled up, from which crows and some dirty children were managing to take advantage.

The group had to walk past the scene, because the rotten and raw fish were being eaten with pleasure by children barely five to seven years old.

"Don’t worry... They won’t hurt you, just ignore them..." Veronica said in a cold, serious tone, because those children were the city’s trash.

"But still... what the hell is with all those fish? That’s way too much merchandise," Ebony asked while glancing at a couple of children fighting over a fish head.

"Didn’t you know? They say the fishermen haven’t been able to catch anything alive for weeks... Since the city doesn’t live off fishing, it can afford to endure the food shortage for a while... But sooner or later it could bring ruin to the city."

Veronica explained while trying to ignore the children fighting over scraps.

After leaving that place behind, the group entered the city. At last they had arrived at Sapphire Port.

A city on the edge of the continent that connected directly with one of the most important routes between several kingdoms.

However, instead of seeing a city full of life and commerce, they found the harsh reality of a place filled with unemployed people and thieves waiting for any distraction to steal someone’s belongings.

"When they said Sapphire Port... I assumed its beauty would be comparable to a sapphire... but this looks more like Coal Port," Ebony said uncomfortably because of the smell and the tired looks of the few people walking the streets.

"Anyway... we should hurry. We don’t want to get too involved with problems from other lands..." Lucian said while firmly adjusting his hood.

And so the group walked through the streets until they reached the branch of the Pink Unicorn Guild in that city.

However, on the door there was a paper posted that said "Closed", so the entire group looked at each other before suddenly shouting in unison.

"Did I travel all this way for that?!"