Chapter 57 \n<h1>I Don’t Want to be an Ojakgyo (57)</h1>\n
Swanhaden threw his worn, exhausted body onto the bed. When Swan collapsed onto the bed, the sheets turned dark red.
Shuraina worried, thinking about how they needed to stop the bleeding. She asked him.
“Where are the bandages?”“Don’t cross the line.”
Shuraina didn’t even pretend not to hear Swanhaden’s words. She was just about to rip off a piece of her shirt before remembering she carried extra bandages in her dimensional pocket. She put her hand in her pocket and took out the bandages, and also found some sanitizing medicine.
Shuraina held the bandages and the sanitizing medicine in each hand and approached Swanhaden.
“I told you not to!”
Swanhaden began to throw anything that he could grasp with his hands. From sharp pointy items to heavy bulky items, things just kept flying at Shuraina. She avoided a few of them, but she just received the blows as they came and frowned. There was a little blood, but she didn’t stop treatment. Shuraina internally cheered and clapped for herself as she swallowed down the curses that almost left her mouth.
“…….I’m definitely not close to you, but let’s get you treated, friendship aside. I don’t want to treat you either, but you can’t even move your hands properly, can you?”
She held onto her bloody head, hurt after being hit by an ornament, and began to speak. Shuraina’s eyes were focused on Swanhaden’s hand. Because of how serious the damage was, it was just barely shaped like a hand. And he was using that hand to throw things.
“These stupid things will be gone by morning. The blood of the Blanche family has healing abilities.”
Swan covered his injuries with his blanket and lowly muttered.
It really did look like Swanhaden’s injuries had improved from previously. But even though the injuries were fading at a rapid pace, the injuries that Swan had were too deep to be treated in an instant.
Shuraina sighed.
“Then let’s just wrap up your injuries. You don’t like your injuries either, right?”“…..”
Swanhaden stayed still, as if she had hit the mark. Shuraina carefully approached him while he was quiet. Swanhaden, who had been quietly chasing Shuraina with a cold glare, sat up.
Shuraina began to treat the rest of Swanhaden’s injuries. There were so many that her medicine ran out. Shuraina was shocked at how powerful his natural healing abilities were as she watches his bones place themselves back in position, but tried her best not to show it and wound the bandages across Swan’s arms and legs.
He was wounded from head to toe, so she had to wrap him from head to toe. She didn’t have enough bandages though, so she had to focus on the parts with exposed skin. Seeing how there wasn’t any blood on the new bandages, it seemed that new skin was already growing back.
Swan just stared at Shuraina as she treated him. A small, orange head looked back and forth to his injuries and moved accordingly. When it seemed that she was almost done with treatment, he shoved Shuraina away and wrapped up the rest of the bandages that Shuraina didn’t finish.
“Go home.”\nSwanhaden threw a magic stone that he had just created at Shuraina. A magic stone was a stone that a magic user created by solidifying their own magic. The stronger the creator, the thicker the consistency of the magic imbued within it.
The white magic stone that Swan gave to Shuraina was thick in magic. Shuraina had never in her life seen such a strong magic stone. She was shocked. With this, she would not only be able to go back home, but go back and forth two or three more times.
Swanhaden found the trace of the magic circle that Shuraina used and restored it. He stretched his hand and, after taking out most of the magic out of the stone, activated the magic circle. Shuraina’s body was swallowed by white tendrils of light before starting to disappear.
“If you come here again, I’m going to rip you apart for real.”
Swanhaden spoke harshly as he watched Shuraina disappear.
Once Shuraina returned home, she packed her bags on the night of the day after her return.
She took her protective sword, took a necklace that was enchanted to protect her from flying attacks, then took snacks like fruits and cookies. And she also took some medicine and bandages.
Shuraina frowned for a moment before checking to see if she missed anything. Oh, right. She had almost forgotten. Shuraina took an item that she had created as soon as she arrived back home. This item had a spell that erased any stains related to blood.
She had also spoken to Hestia about this. She had told a crying, worried Hestia that she had only fell into an unknown space, but that she had a fun time and that she had been safe.
Shuraina was attempting to use the magic circle to go to Swanhaden. But when she was about to leave, she remembered what he had told her.
“If you come here again, I’m going to rip you apart for real.”
“Try and kill me then.”
On Shuraina’s wrists, neck, and ankles were accessories all related to protective magic. Swanhaden was incredibly strong, so she needed to be at least this prepared to face him in his weak state. Shuraina was brave, but was also kind of a scaredy-cat.
Shuraina used magic to check how many people were in Swanhaden’s room and planned the time for her arrival.
From morning to afternoon, lots of people came and went with Swan, then from a specific time after, nobody entered his room. Swanhaden was always locked in his room at around the evening. Shuraina planned to go to his room at this time.
There was only one reason why Shuraina was trying to visit Swanhaden even at his vehement refusals. It was because of her younger siblings from her previous life. Shuraina was weak against hurt children, and couldn’t just walk away. She was scared of the aggressive Swanhaden, but she hated how she pretended not to see anything more. Shuraina thought of the injured Swanhaden staying by himself in that cold room.
“Haa. I’m such a busybody. So annoying. No, no, you’ll be blessed Shushu. You’ll be blessed.”
Shuraina held onto her wavering heart and, once again, headed to Swanhaden’s room.
Meanwhile, Swanhaden felt Shuraina coming into his room with the magic circle and grabbed his sword. He wasn’t lying when he told her that he would kill her. As soon as Swanhaden saw Shuraina arrive, he dashed towards her to stab a dagger through her neck, but thanks to Shuraina’s preparedness, the attack failed. Shuraina, who had avoided the attack, just briefly touched the small scratch on her face and began to tie Swanhaden up with magic.
Swanhaden could’ve resisted more, but he calmly allowed himself to be captured by Shuraina and glared at her.\nShuraina stared at Swanhaden’s furious eyes and scratched the back of her head.
“Mm, hi.”“……..”“Aren’t you hungry? I brought snacks.”“…….”
Shuraina put her hand in her bag and rummaged through it for a moment.
“First let’s change those bandages, then let’s play together.”
Swanhaden threw a fist at her once again, but he fell flat on his face after aggravating his injuries.
Even after that, Shuraina always visited Swanhaden when he was alone to change his bandages and give him healthy snacks to share. Swan first rejected all the food that Shuraina gave, but once he became comfortable enough, began to take Shuraina’s snacks to eat.
Shuraina and Swanhaden fought almost every single day. But Swanhaden’s body was always such a mess that he couldn’t fight Shuraina fair and square. So he always pretended to fight against her before letting her win.
“You tedious jerk. God I hope you die.”
Swanhaden said, looking at Shuraina who had once again come and was currently fixing his bandages. Thanks to the item that Shuraina brought that cleaned any blood stains, Swanhaden was no longer a bleeding mess.
“Give it. I’m going to do it. Don’t bother me.”
Once Swanhaden had recovered slightly, he had snatched the bandages that Shuraina brought and applied them himself. Also, when he had broken the magic item that removed blood stains that Shuraina gave, he had begun to clean the blood on his own.
Swanhaden slowly began to lower his guard against Shuraina, who had visited him almost every day. He was still aggressive towards Shuraina, but didn’t try to kill her like before. It might have been because Shuraina came every day to take care of his injuries and fed him good food, but Swan’s natural healing skills were improving by leaps and bounds. He always had severe injuries, but this was leagues better than how he was before Shuraina had come along.
For him, Shuraina had changed from a hated figure to a normal, annoying orange-haired child. Swanhaden still despised all humans. Even if they had no relation to him, Swan hated anybody that was human. But when Shuraina came day after day to stay with him, Shuraina became the lone exception to this rule.
One day, Swanhaden became curious and asked Shuraina.
“Why are you always coming back? Are you trying to pretend to be nice or something?”
When Swanhaden asked this question tauntingly, Shuraina just watched Swan treat himself before taking out a chessboard and snacks. She set up the snacks and warm tea and arranged the horses on the board, then began to speak with an expression burning for victory.
“I promise I’m going to beat you in chess. I was the best player before I met you.”
Swanhaden knew that Shuraina was just saying empty, kind words. He also knew that what she had said after seeing his injuries and thrown up was also a lie.
He didn’t understand why Shuraina didn’t want to hurt him. He was an existence born to be hurt. He was meant to bear not just his own hurts, but the ones of others’ as well. All everyone wanted was to give him pain.\n“It’s not really a secret, but you seemed to think that I’m a boy, so.”
Shuraina told Swanhaden a fact that he hadn’t known and just disappeared.