The Princess of Frost's Gratitude
I could understand why she had fallen into depression, when I really thought about it.
Having the ability to read people's inner thoughts seemed, in my eyes, like an incredible power that could accomplish anything.
Especially for someone like Edelyn, born into a good family with plenty of opportunities to interact with the upper class. Without that ability, it wouldn't even qualify as a scam.
But for an ordinary girl, such a power could instead become poison.
If I had heard people's inner thoughts since I was young, I might have gone insane watching those who pretended to be friendly in front of me secretly cursing or mocking me behind my back.
On top of that, she had shut herself away in a gloomy room, spending her time only with corpses because they had no inner thoughts.
And because she was born with the ability to talk to corpses, most of her daily conversations were with the dead.
'No wonder she couldn't hold out without falling into depression.'
I confirmed that severe depression could deteriorate one's physical condition to this extent.
Since her condition seemed quite serious, I immediately delivered the medicine to the Princess of Frost.
The deal was that if I cured her, she would make Edelyn my incarnation in return.
Since Edelyn wasn't my incarnation yet, I had to send items through the Princess of Frost.
At the same time, I informed the Princess of Frost about the prescription.
When and how to take which medicine.
And to go outside, get some sunlight, talk with people.
I also asked her to pass on instructions like getting some exercise and eating proper meals.
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Her words made me think.
The reason she didn't want to eat was probably also due to depression, so taking the medicine might improve things.
However, having heard what the Princess of Frost said, I wondered if part of the reason she refused food was because the meals in that world simply didn't taste good.
Since their civilization was at a medieval level with only a bit of magic, even most nobles only used salt, sugar, or pepper in their food.
Only dukes, royalty, imperial family, or incarnations of high-ranking constellations could eat food heavily seasoned with spices.
Even then, the variety was far more limited compared to Earth.
Especially given that world’s characteristic of pouring most of its power into defending against monster invasions.
Any effort that could have gone into cultivating luxury crops or developing food culture was instead spent on killing monsters.
In short, it meant the food there was that tasteless.
I prepared a bunch of things to send to Edelyn.
They said that freely eating delicious food or things one likes could also help with depression.
I compressed everything as much as possible, somehow stuffed it into the message box, and sent it to the Princess of Frost.
But her reaction was somehow strange.
Well, she wasn't wrong.
Still, if Edelyn suddenly sprinkled MSG on cake, it would be a disaster, so I properly explained how to use it.
I wondered if it was okay to give something like that to someone who wasn't even eating properly.
But seeing her condition, getting her to eat anything at all seemed like the priority, so I included it.
Of course not. What I sent were the fruits of Earth's technological prowess, improved over generations by scientists.
I sent some famous ones like apples, grapes, and strawberries. These should be gentle enough for her weakened stomach.
Just how bad must the food be there for her to secretly eat what was supposed to go to her own incarnation?
It made me feel a little sorry for her, so I decided I should occasionally send her snacks.
After all, she had helped me a lot too.
Anyway, it took the Princess of Frost—who had been jumping for joy at my words—a while to calm down.
She then bestowed the items I sent upon Edelyn as an act of divine grace.
A bundle of medicine and various foods were delivered to her.
Edelyn slowly turned her head and stared blankly at them.
I wasn't sure if it was my imagination, but her eyes seemed to widen slightly.
She gestured to the undead holding the tray.
“Bring... those here...”
The undead brought a bunch of grapes I had sent and held them in front of her eyes.
'As expected, those caught her attention first.'
The jewel-like grapes looked tempting even to me.
However, for some reason, the bunch looked much thinner than when I first sent it.
Almost as if someone couldn't resist and had eaten some.
The undead plucked a single grape and placed it in Edelyn's mouth.
She chewed it cutely.
But her eyes still lacked focus, which was a bit creepy.
Her eyes grew a little larger than before.
“It's... not bad, I suppose...”
The undead continued feeding her grapes.
She ate about five grapes over roughly five minutes of chewing.
Then she gestured for the undead to step back. I wondered if she didn't like them after all, but then the Princess of Frost sent me a flurry of messages.
I had some doubts about how she was even staying alive, but anyway.
Next, Edelyn had the undead bring her the medicine.
She took it with water, then collapsed back into sleep as if fainting.
'I mixed depression medicine with schizophrenia medicine because I couldn't tell them apart, but it should be fine, right?'
Anyway, that was it for the day.
I continued observing Edelyn with the Princess of Frost for another day or two, but there wasn't much change.
Still, the good news was that she was eating more than before.
After that, I became busy managing the newly created Awakened group.
Even though Seol Yura and Shin Seojin were helping, as the president, I had a lot of work to do.
Since I planned to develop this group into an Awakened guild in the future, I couldn't neglect this if I wanted to secure the guild master position.
And so, after a few more days had passed.
A message arrived from the Princess of Frost.
Upon reading her message, I stood up from my seat and danced for a moment.
Dum-chit, dum-chit—
Now I was unmistakably the Exalted Seeker of Profound Knowledge.
I had successfully built an image among the constellations of the 72 Demons, including the Princess of Frost, as a sage who knew everything.
I had saved one pitiful child, and that child was now going to become my incarnation.
The worst necromancer in history—a girl who could read people's hearts and communicate with corpses.
I was about to make a necromancer with talent unprecedented even in the Princess of Frost's family my incarnation.
Especially her ability to read people's inner thoughts—I was already looking forward to how I could use it.