In Another World I Become a Healer With Purple Hair

150 Always on her mind

The sun was almost at its peak when the other three finally met with Anne at the third gate. When they saw her wearing overalls and a straw hat and waved at them, the three of them were mesmerized immediately. Justice goes to her while trying to focus on her eyes, while Vale and Henry trying not to look in her direction.

“Alright, I’m ready now. Since we are going up on the cliff, I thought I borrowed some overall from my friend.” She said to Justice with a grin on her face. “So, how do I look? This is a good outfit to use, right?”

Clearing his throat, Justice gave his approval, “Yes, it was a good outfit… Come on, we need to go fast before the sun is setting down.”

They asked for the horses, and each one of them will ride into the nearest ravine area to climb the cliff. Of course, looking at Anne, there was no possibility she had any physical training. Anne also realized her lack of physical training. Thankfully, she found a way that could be worked for her.

“We are going to ride for two hours, so prepare your drinking water, we are not going to stop for anything,” Justice said to the three of them, and then he goes through the dense of forest while the rest followed him from behind.

They were riding together in a group. Anne and Justice were in the front, with Vale and Henry in their back. Although they were not on speaking terms right now, they knew their role was to protect the young woman and their best friend. Justice never saw himself as someone more than the other person around him, although he looks like arrogant royalty all the time. Everyone who truly knows him how kind and caring he is from the fa?ade that he always displays.

Anne looks around where her hand holding tight to the rein, enjoying the scenery while riding a horse. She missed this activity so much, having a horse is too expensive for her, and her journey before makes her never able to use a horse, public transportation in this world mainly by using a carriage, using a horse is too personal and looks as insufficient for commoners. Justice could see the smile and the excitement in her expression. Somehow, looking at Anne as being happy makes him happy as well.

Suddenly, Kirara and Chikara jump in front of Justice and Anne. Thankfully, all of them was a master at riding a horse, they stopped just in time before they collided with their familiar. Vale and Henry, who came from behind, look at the two familiars along with their master.

“What happened here? Why were the two of them going out from the shadows?” Henry looks into the two familiars who are now looking at their master.

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“Chikara, what happened?” Anne tried to ask Chikara, who was staring at her with his four feet on the ground.

‘Master, there’s a landslide happened in front of us, it was so sudden. Kirara and I need to warn the four of you.’

“What?! a landslide?!” Justice was surprised by the news, he took glanced at Vale and Henry, who gave him a slight nod.

They dismounted from their horses and walk into the area where Kirara and Chikara mentioned. It was the truth. There was a landslide, if only not for their familiars. They probably fall into the ground below. Vale cast his insight spell and look into the below. He was searching if there were any victims.

“How was it? Any victims?” Asked Justice to Vale.

Vale let out a sigh of relief. “Thankfully, there were no victims, probably because of the new variants. People were afraid to use this road.”

“Yeah, I guess the silver lining for everything.” Justice nodded his head while his hand brushed into his chin. “Come on, we need to use another road, and tell our healer that the journey will become twice as long.”

Anne was in the middle of giving a drink to their horses, she turn her head to the three of them and asked Justice regarding the newly found disaster. “How bad was the damage? Any victims?”

“Well, I have bad news and good news.” Said Justice to her.

“Oh, no… There were victims?” Anne was horrified by the possibility. She tried to pull Justice back to the landslide area, thinking that she might have a chance to help. “I may be able to help. Vale gave me back his elderwood bangle…”

Henry took a stance in front of Anne. “Hold up, Vale… Gave you back his elderwood bangle?” His eyebrows raised, and he was shooting daggers directly at Vale.

Anne was nervous. She never thought that Henry and even Justice will take poorly over the news, “Err… Yes, but no worries, it was because he was trying to help me gain some magica.” She force a smile and tried to go to the landslide area again, “So, any victims?”

Justice holds onto her overall collar, preventing her from going any further. “That was the good news, miss healer, no victims. Would you calm down already?”

“I… Oh, thank God! I thought…” She let out a sigh of relief, but still avoid Henry’s glaring at her and Vale, “Anyhow, what’s the bad news?”

“We need to use another road, the long road. It will take us three hours more to reach the cliff to the pure water cave.” Said Justice to her.

“Oh great, will take us longer to go back, ugh… such bad luck.” Anne was gruntling, but Vale couldn’t dismiss what Anne mentioned earlier.

While the others get ready to continue the journey, Vale asked them to wait for a moment, he walks carefully to the landslide and looks for something in particular. Henry huffing his breath, impatiently waiting for Vale to go back. Half an hour later, Vale was back with his robe disheveled and there were cuts and bruises everywhere on his arms. Anne gave him a first-aid spell. It heals the minor wound instantly.

Henry and Justice stared at the two of them and felt a slight pang of jealousy. Justice tried to hide the feeling and asked them to mount their horses at once, while Henry curses and rides his horses ahead of everyone. Anne saw everything, she feels everything, but there was nothing she can do besides hide her feelings and maintained the lies.

The witch from the mountain smile is always there, inside of her mind, reminding her about the gift that she wasn’t supposed to touch and the gift of four men’s feelings of love to her, the love that wasn’t supposed to be her in the first time. For in her mind, she thought of herself as the villain of this story.