How to Tame That Gentle Male Lead - Chapter 7.9
The two horses began to gallop vigorously on the pavement past the canal dock. It was pleasant to see the blue hydrangeas blooming in a row along the canal. Smelling the fresh breeze, Resena struck the reins.
‘Now… soon.’
It felt like her heart was pounding with anxiety. Listening to the ominous feeling disturbing her mind, Resena watched her mother’s horse ahead.
‘A wasp.’
As the riding course along the canal came to an end, her mother slowed down. Meanwhile, a wasp the size of a thumb landed on Fight Doom’s rear, flapping its wings.
And then it violently stabbed its poisonous sting into the horse’s rear.
Neeeigh!
“Kyaaak!”
No matter how well-trained Fight Doom was as a personal riding horse, it couldn’t remain calm under a wasp’s attack. Fight Doom began to rear up and kick its hind legs in that spot. Her mother tried to soothe Fight Doom by stroking its mane, but despite her mother’s touch, Fight Doom jumped up and down, throwing her mother to the ground.
“Mother!”
Resena quickly dismounted and immediately pulled her mother out from under the horse, avoiding Fight Doom’s kicks. Blood-soaked bone was protruding from her leg that had been kicked by the horse’s hoof, and her mother groaned in pain as her leg was bent in an unnatural shape.
“Mother. Please bear with it a little. I’ll call a carriage right away!”
Resena was certain that the famous doctor would have arrived at their home by now. With all the money she had paid, there was no way he wouldn’t come. And from the faint bell sounds in the distance, she could tell it was around four o’clock in the afternoon.
“Hnng. Resena…”
“It’s okay. It’s okay. I’ve already called for a doctor in advance, so you’ll be able to receive treatment right away.”
‘Lorona should also be at home. So if we go straight into surgery… Mother will be safe.’
Resena shouted loudly enough for the knight she had stationed at her merchant guild’s store nearby to hear.
“Duchess Arnasus is injured. As soon as you hear this voice, knights should bring a carriage to me, Resena Arnasus!”
“…Miss! Madam!”
Two knights who heard those words brought a carriage in surprise. She had kept a carriage on standby at a nearby store under the pretext of increasing merchandise, and it matched exactly as she had predicted. Resena watched as the knights lifted the Duchess and placed her in the carriage.
“The fracture is serious, so you must not move or try to set the bone hastily. We need to return to the Arnasus residence immediately for a doctor’s examination and emergency surgery.”
“Yes. That’s what we need to do. I’ll ride alongside on horseback, so make sure mother doesn’t move anymore.”
“Yes. Understood.”
Resena immediately jumped onto the saddle and rode beside the carriage toward the Arnasus residence.
Although the Duchess’s condition was critical, she wasn’t bleeding heavily, and the knights had immediately immobilized her leg and laid her down in the carriage, so Resena ordered them to drive the horses at an appropriate speed to prevent the carriage from shaking.
“Mother. It’s okay. It will be okay. You just need to endure the pain for now.”
“Urgh… Resena… I’m sorry. Because of me…”
“No. What do you have to be sorry for, Mother? You’re injured now, so don’t think about anything and just focus on enduring the pain.”
The Duchess groaned softly and shed tears. Resena’s heart ached wondering how much pain her mother must be in to react like that. She wanted to give her medicine, but since they would need to administer anesthesia during emergency surgery, she couldn’t give her any medication as it might combine with the anesthetic and produce adverse effects.
It took less than 20 minutes to return to the Arnasus residence. The course around the canal itself took quite some time, but after her mother was injured, they used the fastest shortcut to the mansion by carriage.
“This way, please!”
The doctor, who had been notified in advance by Resena, was waiting at the entrance. Thanks to this, an emergency room for the Duchess’s surgery was quickly prepared in a room that had been magically sterilized. Moreover, since Lorona was also there, she entered the operating room together.
“I’m counting on you.”
“Don’t worry. After the surgery, Lady Lorona the Saint will immediately restore the bone that was set during surgery and heal the wounded area.”
Resena desperately requested Lorona.
“Lorona. Please take good care of my mother. You must be tired from performing blessings, but this time, the Saint’s power is absolutely necessary. So.”
“Don’t worry, Resena.”
Lorona assured her firmly while patting Resena’s shoulder.
“As soon as the surgery is over, I will heal her and restore her leg to its original state. So don’t worry and wait outside. I need to sterilize myself as well.”
“Yes. Then I’ll be counting on you.”
The Duke, who had belatedly heard the news that Resena and the Duchess were injured, anxiously paced in front of the temporary operating room. Renard was at the Imperial Palace, but he too would rush over immediately once he heard the news.
“Resena. What happened?”
Resena bit her lip tightly, then explained the whole situation in detail to the Duke. When he heard that her mother had fallen from her horse because of a wasp, the Duke frowned.
“It was truly unlucky. How could such…”
“But fortunately, I had already called a doctor for my headache. They say he’s one of the best doctors in the entire continent, so mother’s surgery will go well.”
Her father nodded with a gloomy face.
The surgery took six hours. It wasn’t until almost eleven at night that the surgery ended, and the healing by holy power was completed an hour later at midnight.
“Mother…?”
Looking down at her mother, who was sleeping under anesthesia, Resena couldn’t stop her tears when she saw that her mother’s leg, which had been twisted in a strange shape, was now normal. The Duke patted her back as if to comfort his daughter, whose tears were falling, but Resena endlessly caressed her mother’s cheek.
“Fortunately, the surgery went well and the healing by holy power is also complete. She just needs to wake up from the anesthesia. But since it’s late at night, she might fall back asleep, so don’t worry about that.”
At Lorona’s kind words, Resena sobbed and expressed her gratitude.
“Thank you. Thank you, Saint.”
“Thank you, Saint. You’ve worked hard.”
When the Duke replied in a hoarse voice, unable to suppress his emotions, Lorona smiled brightly. Knowing from long experience that such cheerfulness gives strength to the patient’s family, Lorona stepped back and watched as Resena and Duke Arnasus held the Duchess’s hand and shed tears.
“Thank goodness. Thank goodness, Mother.”
“It’s fortunate that we could fix it quickly. My dear… Ah, this isn’t right.”
The Duke gestured for the servants to move the Duchess, who was lying on the hospital bed, to her room. After instructing them to move her without any shaking, he followed the Duchess to the room.
Resena, who remained in front of the operating room with Lorona, held both of Lorona’s hands and expressed her gratitude once more.
“Thank you. Thank you, Lorona. Thanks to you, my mother will be able to get back on her feet right away.”
Lorona just smiled brightly.
“It’s nothing. It’s fortunate that the Duchess had enough physical strength to accept the healing by holy power well. As you know, even with holy power healing, if the patient doesn’t have enough strength, the effect of holy power healing is reduced.”
Resena could only give a bitter smile at those words.
