The bitterness akin to the broth you'd get by boiling red ginseng spread inside my mouth. I ended up unknowingly smacking my lips, prompting a familiar voice to enter my ears.
“Uh? Looks like he's coming around. Put this in, too.”
Someone forcibly pried my eyelids open and dropped a substance similar to eye drops on my eyeballs, causing a really cold sensation to spread out and help me regain my wits in an instant.
[Due to consuming new types of elixirs, your Incarnation Body's recovery has accelerated.]
My vision was restored, and I found myself lying against the belly of a horse. The White Dragon Horse – Chimera Dragon – of Tang Sanzang neighed unhappily and glared at me.
“Oh, he's awake!”
I saw Yi Gil-Yeong's and Shin Yu-Seung's worry-filled faces brighten up. Yi Ji-Hye forcing my eyelids open was grinning as well.
“Hey, what will we do with you when you're too frail to ride on a bus?”
“Hmm, hmm. You're supposed to serve your Master, so it's no good for you to be this feeble, you know?”
The boy put his hands on his waists and fake coughed. I grinned bitterly and tried to prop my upper body up, and Shin Yu-Seung lent me a hand.
“Are you really alright? You fainted all of a sudden….”
“I'm feeling better, thanks to all of you. By the way, these elixirs….”
I looked at all the remnants of various elixirs around me. A few of them were unfamiliar, but there was also one that I did recognise.
It was the eye drops contained in a reddish bottle, called 'Three Flowers and Nine Fruits Sap' (三花九子膏), and was one of the treasures found within the Journey to the West that could be earned by defeating the Yellow Wind Demon King.
I was somewhat flustered by this and asked the kids. “….Did you use that on me?”
For a moment there, I thought I could see Yu Sang-Ah's face in Shin Yu-Seung's bright smile.
The 'Three Flowers and Nine Fruits Sap'. Just by putting some in your eye, it restored energy in your body and expanded your eyesight.
[A portion of judges are satisfied by this attempt at reflecting the original work!]
[10 additional points have been awarded!]
Actually, it was Sun Wukong who ended up using the 'Three Flowers and Nine Fruits Sap' in the original storyline, too. However…. to think, they willingly spent an item on me that they could've used on themselves. For some reason, I felt guilty about it.
I felt my right wrist getting numb so I took a look, only to see something rather horrifying happening there.
“You're just as weak as that bastard. What's the matter with your Incarnation Body?”
Yu Jung-Hyeok was holding my right wrist with enough force to pop it like a balloon while feeling for my pulse. Now that I thought about it, this guy possessed the next best medical skills after Yi Seol-Hwa in our group.
He scowled deeply as he continued to observe my condition. “Not a single blood vessel in your internal organs is intact. It's a miracle that you even managed to participate in this scenario.”
“….Is that so.”
“It's rare to see a Constellation ending up in such a situation. Are you being chased by someone?”
I looked at him with a bit of surprise.
There was no way he'd ask me that out of concern, so…. Seeing how he was firmly grasping the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] with his free hand from a while ago, I could more or less figure out what he was planning to do here.
“No, it's not like that. I was just in an urgent need for this 'Great Fable' so I didn't have enough time to recover my Incarnation Body.”
“I shall end you right away if you prove to be a burden to this group even for a second.” Yu Jung-Hyeok discarded my wrist like trash and stood up from the spot. “….We've wasted precious elixirs.”
Yu Jung-Hyeok strode away and settled down on a nearby boulder to polish the [Dark Heavenly Demon Sword] again. It had been broken once before, so its durability must've fallen by a quite lot now.
“HYeong hyung!”
Chapter end
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