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Chapter 19 - CHAPTER 19

Upon entering the guy's house, he spoke to us.

"You can use that bed, I'm going to heat the house."

It is so that he began to light the firewood to make the atmosphere a little warmer.

Shiro simply put Nami on the bed while covering her with the blanket.

"I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself, my name is Dalton, I'm the captain of the island guard."

"Excuse our cold reception."

"Don't worry, but you could tell us about that witch, measure Nami's temperature, and it reached 42 degrees."

"What? 42 degrees!"

"The fever has not stopped rising for 3 days."

"If it keeps rising, it's going to die very soon."

"Yes, but we don't know the cause of his disease and therefore we don't know how to treat it."

-Where do you say that this witch is?

"The witch..., they see those mountains from the window."

Shiro turned around and looked at the window on the mountain side.

"The name of those mountains is, drom mountains, see the castle that is at the top in the center."

-That's how it is.

"That castle has no king."

"And what about that castle."

"People say that the only doctor in the country is a witch, Dr. Kureha, she is 139 years old."

"He lives there."

[139 years old, by God, how is he still alive unless he's some kind of other race or something like that].

"Wow what an old lady."

"What, why does it have to be so far away!"

"And if he lives there, what happens to the people who get sick here?"

"She comes down when she wants and when she heals someone, she takes something from that person's house as compensation."

"She's an old woman with a very bad attitude."

"B-but, a woman as old as she comes down the mountain?"

"There is a rumor, where quite a few people claimed to have seen her flying on a sled, during moonlit nights."

[.....Santa?].

"And that is why it is said that she is a witch, also some saw her with a strange and unknown creature."

"Even though she's our only doctor, she's an old lady I'd rather stay away from."

At that moment a lady knocked on the door to later pass

"Dalton, Dalton."

"These people are looking for Dr. Kureha, right?"

"Yes that's how it is".

"I was told that he is currently in the neighboring village of Cocoa White."

"That makes things a lot easier."

"We have to hurry before the witch leaves, I will guide the way."

"Yes, thank you very much".

Shiro gently lifted Nami onto her back and so we hurried to follow Dalton.

After a few minutes of running, we entered the town, Dalton asked for the whereabouts of Dr. Kureha and told us that she had entered a restaurant.

We headed there and from afar we saw an old woman in youthful purple clothing come out of the door and a reindeer carrying all things.

"Doctor Kureha, please wait!"

Dalton yelled, drawing the old woman's attention.

"What?, what do you want, don't make me waste my time, because unlike you, mine is valuable."

"My, that's an old lady."

Luffy's words were returned with a kick from Kureha.

"I'm not an old lady, I'm still 139 years old!"

[Oh, how young....].

Shiro had to act respectfully, totally, if they needed her help, since she was supposed to be the only doctor.

-Excuse me, young lady, forgive my captain, he is a bit silly with his words, not knowing how to talk to a woman.

"Finally, someone who does know respect."

"Well, what do they want?"

-We have a colleague who is sick, she has had a very strong fever that has not stopped rising as the days go by and we do not know what is causing it, I could treat her.

"MMM....".

Doctor Kureha approached Nami who was on Shiro's back, touched his forehead and felt how hot he was.

"Lay her down here."

Nami was put on the restaurant floor for the moment and Kureha began to check her, while inspecting her body she realized the cause, on her chest she had a bite which could be an indication of all her discomfort.

"You are lucky, in 2 days this girl would die."

"That!".

"Just in case, they weren't in places where prehistory exists in person."

"W-well yes."

"And they were with very uncovered clothes?".

We all remember how Nami had stayed in just her bra on top.

"Right, Nami was almost naked in our fight we had there."

"So thanks to being discovered, a poisonous tick that lives in hot jungles bit him."

"When a bacterium bites, it enters through the wound."

"This remains in the body for 5 days and causes a lot of suffering, causes fever over 40 degrees, co-infection, myocarditis, sarteritis and cerebritis."

"They call it the 5-day disease."

"Good thing we made it on time, then you can heal her."

"Yes I can, but the things required to do it are in the castle where I currently live."

"So I guess I'll take her there."

"Hey, wait, how do I know you won't do anything wrong and you can fool us."

Another kick from kureha to the head towards luffy was delivered.

"Don't insult my work as a doctor, I will always help those who need it the most."

-Then we can accompany you, we would like to see the process of how you heal, doctor kureha.

"Little boy, I like you, not everyone speaks to me with respect, you can get on my sleigh."

"Wow look at a sled, it looks great, I want to go too."

"When I told you you can get on my snotty sled!"

"AHH, THE WITCH GOT ANGRY!"

-Shut up Luffy!

A blow from Shiro completely put Luffy to sleep.

-Again apologies, but if this fool is going to want to go, trying to deny him will be worse, so I'll go with him to control my idiot captain.

"Well, what does it matter?"

"Chopper, let's go, we have to go back."

"That reindeer, his name is chopper, what a nice name."

Vivi said this while looking at chopper, and the reindeer only felt tickles on his body and then moved forward.

In the end Chopper was the one that moved the sled in front, Kureha was that he was the driver and Luffy, Nami and Shiro were in the back seat.

And while he lived he would stay to wait for us in the village.

The trip was long, it took us about 3 hours to get to his castle.

"Very well, come in."

Upon entering the castle, you could still feel the intense cold, it looked like an abandoned castle, but the freshness felt good, so there were no problems for him.

We went deeper into the castle and what if the snow didn't get in anymore, doctor Kureha took us to a room where Nami was put on the bed and the treatment would begin, Luffy was also in the room, but he was still knocked out.

Shiro was curious and asked Kureha if she could go all over the castle to get a good look at it.

She accepted, but if she saw that something was missing or something broken appeared, she would charge her the price of the object in days.

This brought out a small drop of sweat, but I also accept, totally, I wasn't thinking of doing any of that.

He kept abreast of the whole castle, I would say that it was the first time he had seen one inside and although it was not a high-class one like in his land, it looks like one from the medieval era.

He had spent half an hour looking at the place until in the distance, he saw Luffy running while saying "Meat" chasing a small reindeer with a cap.

"DON'T RUN AWAY MEAT, COME HERE!"

"LEAVE ME HUMAN!".

"I AM NOT FOOD!"

The small kingdom became a huge one, and he managed to hit Luffy on the head, knocking him to the ground, and then return to his small state and run as far as he could.

Shiro just hit her forehead, trying to forget what she saw.

-I guess I'll go see if Nami is awake.

-But I can't leave idiot Luffy or else he'll do stupid things.

That's how Shiro grabbed Luffy's leg and began to pull him until he reached the room.

When he arrived, he saw Nami already awake while doctor kureha was next to her.

-I see that it's better.

"Yes, that's right, I already feel better."

After saying that, he threw Luffy rolling on the ground and colliding with the wall, this made him wake up.

"Eh....NAMI, are you alright?!".

"Yes luffy, I am."

"But you still need to rest for at least 3 more days or else the treatment I gave you will not work and you will die."

"Wow!"

"Be our partner, please old lady!"

Luffy who saw the great medical skills of doctor kureha, he exclaimed to her.

"We need a doctor on our ship."

"Luffy... that's your name, right?"

"Yeah".

"Did you just call me old?"

"Yeah".

A direct kick to Luffy's face from Kureha, sending him flying towards the ceiling, causing Luffy to bounce around the room several times.

"BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT YOU SAY!".

"I already said, that I am not yet 140 years old."

"Besides, you ask me to become a pirate, don't talk nonsense, it would be wasting my time."

"Traveling by sea, does not interest me."

"EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED, IT WILL BE AN ELDERLY ADVENTURE!"

"I just told you, watch your words, right?"

While this was happening in the room, on the side of the door, Chopper could be seen watching Luffy while listening to the conversation and whispering these words: "So they are pirates".

Unfortunately, his whisper was not so effective, because Luffy heard it, he turned around and when I looked at him, he yelled again as before: "MEAT!!".

"AAAAAHHHH!!".

"WAIT MEAT DON'T RUN AWAY!"

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING BRAT!"

Kureha who saw how luffy was chasing chopper, also followed him to stop him.

And in the end, the chase began again.

Nami and Shiro just looked at this like it was the most normal thing in the world.

"Thank you for bringing me up so they can heal me."

-You're welcome, next time don't be an exhibitionist in a prehistoric tropical jungle.

"Oh yeah, sorry."

Shiro just sighed.

-I'm happy to hear you're well.

"......"

-That?.

Nami put her hand on my forehead.

"Are you okay, aren't you sick or something?"

-Of course I'm not.

"Well then, how curious, from when does Shiro worry about me."

-I'm sorry, it's just that seeing a dying woman dying for 3 days made me feel sorry for her.

Nami just pouted at that.

-Hahahahaha, just kidding, it would be better if you rest now, you have to rest so that the medicine takes effect faster.

Nami nodded slightly and settled on her bed.

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