Chapter CXXXVIII - Incident, Already (part 2)

FWOOSH!!!

I leaped from the railing and activated my wings. I landed right in front of the flaming room and studied the situation.

There were a few people outside the door, and they looked quite panicked. One of them is crying, while the other looks pretty angry. There are also others from the other clubs that came to see what is going on.

I pushed myself through the crowd and arrived in front of the door, where three students looked quite shocked. They all glanced at me and quickly recognized me.

"What happened?"

"It's Henry!! He turned insane!!"

One of the male quickly pointed inside. I listened to him and began entering the flames.

After reaching the Emperor tier, my stance against a normal fire makes it look like I have a skin that can withstand fire. Because, it is pretty much like that.

Of course I still feel the heat, but it doesn't burn my skin at all. But just in case, I casted some defensive layer on my clothes so that it won't burn. I did that while passing through the flames into the deeper part of the room.

Most of the furniture is burned, and the smoke is nearly covering the room. At the end of the room, I can see someone is crouching. I slowly approached him and called him out.

"Hey! Are you Henry!? Would you mind explaining-"

My words got cut off when the person known as Henry turned around.

His eyes are blood red, while the blood itself flows down his eyes. It was opened wide as it stared at me like a hungry demon beast.

His mouth is chewing on an item I am guessing to be food, but it doesn't look like that.

That was his own finger... He bit his own finger off and ate it.

"Avadamiaawala..."

He mumbled as he chewed on the finger. From his hand, it looks like it was his pinkie that got bit off.

There is only one answer to all of this. 

Insanity.

I quickly enchanted my whole body and dashed forward. He may be insane, but he isn't so weak to not be able to react. He reacted quickly and moved to tackle me, but I am simply faster than him.

BAAKKK!!!

A single strike on his neck, and he lost consciousness. 

His body fell to the floor and I quickly turned my attention to the flames around me.

I lifted my hand, and all the flames around me became warped. Suddenly they all flew towards my opened palms and formed a ball, as if being sucked by a black hole. Thanks to that, the whole room is now clear of flames.

It's a neat trick I learned while studying here, credits to Miss Malindey. Now I can grab the flames from around me without having to make my own. It's useful to save energy.

After dissipating the flames to air, I picked Henry's body and healed his finger. The finger doesn't grow back, but at least I stopped his bleeding.

I walk out of the room with him in my hands. And by the time I got out, the disciplinary committee members were already outside.

"P-President!"

I recognized her. Jennice from class B. She was originally a class A during our first year, but got thrown off by the class E and went to class B. She is one of the good ones on class A that doesn't bully on class E.

She joined the DC at the beginning of the second year. Even though she is in class B, her ability to study the situation is quite amazing, so I gave her the role of captain on the DC.

As the president of the student council, I have that power.

"Jennice. A student from the first year turned insane and abnormal. I need you to question these fellows here for information about him. After that, come see me at the healing magic club room."

"Yes, ma'am."

Jennice and her friend who is also a DC member then turned towards the other members of the club who seemed to be friends with Henry, while I left them and flew back to my club room with Henry in my hands.

The back side of the club room was originally the living room. It was a living room when I first joined the club, and now it has been replaced with something while the living room moved to the front.

An operation room.

There might be cases where the student was incredibly injured, an operation must be done. I have never done any operations before, but luckily there are doctors here in the kingdom. We called them here and let them do the operation on this room, because the infirmary doesn't have a room like that.

I placed Henry on a chair placed in the middle of the room. I brought the chair from the living room and then tied him up with my shadow magic to the chair. Just in case, I also tied the chair to the ground using a small sized shadow tail. Then I slapped his face and woke him up.

"W-What... What happened?"

He mumbles as he slowly regains consciousness. He studied the surroundings and finally arrived at me, where I stood a few meters in front of him, folding my arms, and studying him with a rather firm expression.

"Your name is Henry, correct?"

"Y-Yes, that's right..."

"Okay, Henry. Mind telling me what just happened?"

Henry processed my question and tried to remember what happened, but suddenly he frowned his face as a form of pain in his mind came to be.

"Aahh!!!"

He started screaming. The pain inside his brain must be unbearable.

I casted healing magic on his head to see if there's any problem and heal it, but I couldn't find anything. I tried searching his whole body, and I arrived on his hand. 

The same hand he bit his pinkie off.

From the healing magic's perspective, there's a dark purple cloud forming on his entire right hand. I tried to cast healing magic on it, and the dark cloud slowly disappeared. It was rather difficult, but I kept on doing it until the whole dark cloud disappeared. And when it did, Henry started to breathe normally again.

"... Are you okay?"

"I-I'm fine... The pain is gone... Luckily..."

"That was a curse wasn't it?"

"C-Curse?"

Curse magic.

The evil side of healing magic that can actually hurt and damage the target. At least from my point of view, it's simply a form of sickness and pain that has been merged with magic.

A curse can have many forms and causes. The kind that existed on Henry's hand was corroding his mind slowly. At first, it didn't make sense because the curse was placed on his hand. But if a virus is damaging someone's blood stream, then a curse is damaging someone's magic soul.

And a magic soul is connected to the whole body. Which means a curse can be placed simply anywhere, and it will be able to harm and attack a person's entire body. In this situation, Henry's curse only attacked his mind.

I let go of the shadow magic that is tying Henry's hand, and he quickly glared at his hands.

"It was in your hand. I just removed it."

"Y-You can remove curses?"

"King tier healing magic. Powerful, but very pricey."

It's partially true. After clearing that curse, I felt quite drained a little bit. 

King tier healing magic actually takes a ton of magic energy per second. I wonder how the Emperor tier would be. I will definitely get so tired easily after using it.

Henry studied his right hand and quickly formed a sad expression.

"It has actually been there for a long time... And I have been able to control it just fine. I couldn't find anyone that can break the curse for a cheap price, since breaking one will actually take so much money..."

"Are you a first year?"

"Y-Yes."

If he was a second year, he should have known about my King tier healing magic. But since he was a first year, he probably hasn't found out about things yet.

Before I could continue talking, the door to the healing magic club room was slammed open. I turned around waiting for the person to come into the operation room, and Jennice entered a few seconds later.

Jennice and his friend, along with Henry's club mates entered the room, looking quite worried. While Jennice herself looked quite on guard.

"President! Get away from him! He is cursed and couldn't control his-"

"Relax, I removed it already."

Jennice then suddenly turned blank faced, and so did everyone.

Did everyone just casually forget I have King tier healing magic? I'm pretty famous, y'know...