The Voice On The Rival's Head

Chapter 27: Genius

They arrived at the orchard in the wild boar, as expected this place is a chaotic place, from the surrounding land scattered, as expected, damaged fences and collapsed huts make up at least fifty percent of the crop.

Fortunately winter was still a long way off otherwise they could die of hunger and cold if they did not have the food stock to last for the winter.

They began to inspect the place, finding traces of wild boar that were almost as large as Verite's head, seen on the plus side they seemed like they were only going to fight against one giant pig that could kill an adult human easily.

Regulus has also said that this giant beast is not too often the case but Verite feels he is better to be careful than sorry, as Mefras favorite proverb;

“What can be bad will be bad.’ and that's why Verite feels he has to be careful and that's what causes Verite to find something.

Verite found a fairly large bird feather sandwiched between the collapsed fence, he picked up a strand of the feather and saw it, it was a dark blue feather that was easily disguised at night, it worries him.

After Verite gets the feather he goes to unite with Helian and Regulus, they each discuss the results of their investigation.

“I didn't find anything other than a boar's footprints.” Regulus.

“Sama, I found nothing but wild boar rampage.” Say Helian, the result is the same as Regulus.

“I found this.” Verite showed him a dark blue feather he found.

“That's..a big strand of fur yes.” Regulus noticed the feather.

“You know what this fur is?” Verite asked.

“I don't know.” Regulus answered quickly.

“Did a monster join this boar to attack this garden?” Helian.

“maybe.” Regulus.

“It seems we may have an extra opponent for this mission, we must be careful.” Verite reminded.

“you're right we have to be careful.” Helia agrees.

“So what will we do now?” Regulus asked, staring at Helian. “ini is your mission.”

“We will wait until it gets dark, this garden still has food left and I'm sure the pig will come back to pick up easy-to-get food, we will eradicate it when he comes and also be careful if the owner of the feather that Verite found it joins the dinner party, do you agree?”

Regulus shook his head, “No, this is the safest option.” She's saying.

Verite also shook his head, though, it was getting dark and searching for a ferocious pig in the dark of the night was not something Verite wanted to do so he thought Helian's idea of waiting and attacking was an idea that going in would be.

And it did not count the owner of the feather that Verite found, Verite could feel the strong mana of this feather.

They decided to wait and just as night had come, their visibility was cut off to a great extent, the light source was only from the fire torches that the villagers had ignited and the moonlight.

Verite, regulus and Helian hid themselves in the darkness, facing the hole in the fence that led into the deep forest, they were still waiting for the arrival of the giant boar.

If they can eradicate the wild boar today they can go home quickly tomorrow but there is a chance this wild boar will not come and if that happens they may have to hunt in the forest because of them it was impossible to let the wild boar that could kill the citizens of this village roam around.

Verite began to miss which lamp Blooming Bud had, this flame torch did not have enough light to illuminate this place, he had a new sense of appreciation with Blooming Bud, Blooming Bud, Blooming Bud was not a magnificent place but it was still more comfortable than a place that became the curtain of darkness after night came.

‘Hey mefras?’ Verite called Mefras.

‘Iya Verite?’ Mefras answered.

‘I'm bored, how's your story about the painter who recorded a heartache earlier? I was curious after hearing you.” Verite recalled his story about the painter before Helian cut their conversation.

‘Ah it yes,’ Mefras speechless, ‘Let me remember it.” She's saying.

‘Ah yes, her name is Leonardo Davinci, in my world she is famous for her paintings which I do not why people praise me.’ 

‘Is the painting not good?’ Verite asked.

‘Ah no, she is a good painter, good even, but I think she is a genius covered by a painting of worth.’ say it, ‘Let me send you a picture of the painting.’ Mefras sent the picture to her.

‘Ah, yes I think this is a good painting but I understand why you feel this painting is ordinary, so what makes this Davinci genius in your eyes?’ Verite asked.

‘He was a man far from his time, he created the world's first robot, a machine that could draw by itself, he also made the concept of a helicopter in his notes long before flying tools could be done.’ Mefras explained.

Verite was amazed by this person, not like Verite who wanted to make technology because the image that Mefras gave this person was a natural genius that was far ahead of his time.

‘He was also a person who knew human anatomy well, you remember I told him how he discovered heart disease tig hundred years before heart disease was recorded? That's because to learn anatomy painting he came to his city hospital and dissected a dead body there.’

‘wait, wait a minute, what? dissecting bodies?’ Verite asked, is there anyone who can come to the hospital and dissect the corpse directly?

‘Yes, his mentor let him learn human anatomy by doing that and from what I know he was liked by the doctors there, he had very detailed records of the human body and studied anatomy that he did not publish, in his notes he found a large lump in the heart of the corpse of the person he was surgical on and decided that the person died of heart disease. This record was made three hundred years before heart disease became widespread knowledge.’ Mefras.

‘I don't know what to say to people who learn to draw by dissecting corpses but if seen from the achievements alone you are right he is a person who is more advanced than his time.’ Verite was intending to learn Thaumaturgy and might even prepare to dissect beasts and monsters, but he wasn't sure he would touch humans at all, but he wasn't too against this idea either.

“Oooooooohhhhhh.

The big sound disturbs Verite's mindset.

“Dia come.” Helian whispers.