“Sorry, Leo. But I need you to stay here with Phillip. Is that all right, Phillip?”
“Yes, it’s fine.”
“Wuff…”
“Ah…”
We wouldn’t make much progress here if Leo just scared everyone away.
And so I had her stay with Phillip for now.
But as he saw Leo moving away, Rai looked like he wanted to say something… Perhaps it really wouldn’t take long for him to get over his fear of Leo.
“Mr. Hannes. I would like to start by giving some of the Ramogi to this boy’s parents.”
“Very well. May we come in, Rai? Your parents will have to drink the medicine.”
“Yes, I understand. Thank you, Mr. Pharmacist!”
“Aye, they will be healed in no time.”
I couldn’t let any doubt show on my face in front of a hopeful child.
And so I answered with a firm nod as his eyes shone.
“Yes, this is indeed the same illness that I saw before. So the Ramogi should be very effective.”
“So my mother and father will get better?”
“Yes, right away.”
After entering the house, we were led to a bedroom where a man and woman were sleeping.
Rai’s parents showed the same symptoms as the children at the orphanage.
A fever and cough… Very much like a cold… And yet also different. That was what it seemed like to me.
I nodded in order to assure Rai, and then I took the Ramogi out of the bag that I was carrying.
“Now, make them drink this.”
“Yes. Rai, do you have any water?”
“I’ll go and get some!”
He soon returned with a wooden bowl of water, and so the parents were able to drink the Ramogi.
While it had been dried and powdered, the parents had been feverish for so long, and so they were barely conscious. And since they were also coughing, it was a little difficult to get them to drink it. Thankfully, I had watched the children at the orphanage drink it before.
And so we made them sit up in their beds and open their mouths as the water and Ramogi was poured down their throats.
They looked like they were going to start coughing again, but managed to hold it back and drink everything.
If they coughed, the powder would fly out of their mouths.
“Ahh…I feel better…”
“That’s amazing! It was so quick!”
Minutes after they had drunk the Ramogi, their fevers began to subside as we watched them.
It had been the same with the children. But I still couldn’t help but be a little awed at how quickly the medicine took effect.
In Japan, even if it was a common cold, you still needed to rest for a while after taking medicine.
But I suppose this Ramogi was just more effective… Just like how Loe could easily heal wounds in a way that would be impossible in Japan… The effects of medicine just seemed to be different here.
“Thank you. I don’t know how we can ever repay you.”
“Both me and my husband can hardly believe that we were in such pain a moment ago… Thank you so much, Mr. Takumi.”
“You don’t need to thank me. The person you really should be thanking is Mr. Hannes and Rosalie, who traveled so far in order to get help.”