Chapter 11 The Pre-Departure Agreement

"Aisha, are you really leaving?"

The next day, the day after Estes officially completed the quick healing practice of alchemy, Estes decided to officially leave the city of Ishbal, the place where he had worked and studied for several months, his stronghold in the city of Ishbal and his short-lived home, the Rockbell Clinic.

Go back to the troops outside the city and be with your fellow soldiers. Welcome to the final battle.

"Yes, Sister Sarah, I'm leaving~"

Looking at the concerned look of the kind, strong, and conscientious Mrs. Lockbell in front of her, Estes reciprocated Sarah's most sincere smile and gratitude.

"Thank you and Mr. Yuri for your care and careful teaching over the past few months, Aisha has learned a lot from you in these months~"

When he first arrived, Estes didn't even know the basic caregiver that the sick needed to drink water and the elderly needed to rest, after all, Estes had never taken care of people before. In her early years, she was an eldest lady, and then she became an officer after cultivating in the north, and she really had no experience in staying with the elderly and children to take care of them.

Even at Teacher Hawk Ai's house, Estes just looked at the sick and listened to the auscultation and left the medicine. Sister Lisa takes care of everything.

"Yes~Think about it~ Aisha was really cute and interesting when she first came~ I don't seem to have any common sense when I see a patient~"

Estes's attitude and common sense towards his patients are the same as the way he dealt with his previous injuries and the way he treated Black Pupil Red Pupil and Black Lily.

It is lighter to treat a weak patient in a very human way than to say that it is not common sense.

"Well, yes, I'm sorry for the lack of common sense......"

Thinking back to the past, it seemed that I didn't just treat patients like this, didn't I treat my father, Selim Kimbrie, and Mr. Armstrong like this at home? Why but don't you feel it? (Because they are not ordinary people)

"So, is Aisha going straight home or studying in a foreign country for a while?"

When they were together, Sarah once asked Estes about her plans and knew that she wanted to show that she wanted to work and study while she had time.

Although she didn't know exactly what the job Estes was talking about.

"I have to stay outside for a while, and although I can use what I have learned, I am not proficient yet, and I need to practice and test it."

'With the Ishbal rebels,' Estes added in his heart

"That'...... If you have time, can you ......?"

Speaking of this, Sarah was visibly hesitant, as if she was considering whether her request would embarrass Estes.

"Is there anything I need to do, Sister Sarah?"

After two years of observation, Estes had learned, and she naturally saw that Sarah had something to ask for herself, but she couldn't open her mouth.

"If there is something to do, please feel free to say, Sister Sarah, you are also my teacher, and the teacher's business is Aisha's business."

For those who sincerely call him, Estes has always wanted to repay him wholeheartedly. It doesn't matter if the person is strong or weak, wise or stupid.

People who treat Estes sincerely, and people who work seriously and responsibly, Estes are respected.

And Sarah is the one who fits both.

For the people he respects and his own teachers, Estes has always been very interesting.

"Well, if you have time after you leave, can you help me deliver this package to my home?"

Seeing that Estes was so sincere, Sarah was no longer hypocritical, and there were more and more patients waiting for treatment at the door, and she knew that she needed to hurry.

He took out a small box of words from under his bed, and attached a letter to it. It looks like a family letter.

"You know, Yuri and I have been away from home for a long time, Yuri's old mother, our mother, and my ten-year-old daughter, Wen Li, we haven't been to see it for a long time."

As he spoke, he placed the little box in Estes' hand.

"This package is some of the local souvenirs of Ishbal that Yuri and I bought with the rest of the money, please send it to our hometown of Lyphane Pur, okay?"

Sarah and Yuri's hometown is in Lichenpur, with an elderly mother and a 10-year-old daughter. Estes had heard Sarah talk about it for a long time. I've even seen their photos.

That picture, a group photo of the family, is now in Sarah's arms.

"There is no problem, Sister Sarah~Aisha will deliver the package as much as possible~"

Sister Sarah is her own person, and she has taught her own teacher, so Estes naturally has to help with this little favor

"Also, Sister Sarah......"

This time, halfway through, it was Estes' turn

"What's wrong? Is there anything going on with Aisha? ”

"This ...... In fact, there are ...... things."

Should I say it? Should I tell Sù what will happen to Sarah Ishubar?

"If you can, if you can, can Miss Sarah go home with Mr. Yuri for a while?"

After hesitating again and again, Estes held back such a sentence.

…………

"Estes, the matter of the Battle of Ishbal is a top state secret! Nothing is allowed to be revealed! Do you understand? ”

"Got it! Your Excellency, President! ”

…………

He once promised his father and the president that he would keep state secrets and not leak them.

Estes is a person who attaches great importance to discipline and order, and he is also a middle- and high-ranking officer of the state, so naturally he cannot leak state secrets.

After thinking about it for a long time, that's all I can say

"I'm afraid not, you also know that there are too few doctors in the city now, and we can't leave the clinic for a day."

Now this time is also thanks to the help of Estes, otherwise the clinic would have been full of people by now.

"But...... But ......"

If the battle breaks out in full force and the indiscriminate repression begins, the national contradictions between the Ishbals and the Amerstories will be unprecedentedly intensified, and it is difficult to say what kind of treatment the Lockbells and their husbands, who are Amestorius, will be treated at that time.

In Saibei, something like this happened in the kingdom of the Easterners before. After the Orientals who had been kind to the local natives and weak ethnic groups finally collapsed, the most diligent ones who cooperated with the vicious Draguma Imperial Army to kill the Orientals were the weak and small ethnic groups that had been cared for and sheltered by the Orientals.

In the eyes of those natives who don't understand the spirit of contract and etiquette, righteousness and honesty are just a shame, the kindness of the Oriental people is no different from **.

The Oriental people, who had been slaughtered for a hundred years by the natives who had sheltered them, had only come to their senses in recent decades, but it was too late, because the state had already perished.

"Sister Sarah, you and Mr. Yura's professionalism is admirable, but now the city is becoming more and more dangerous, if it continues like this......"

Eager to pay in exchange for reporting and trust, Estes appreciates this kind of behavior, but not everyone is like Estes. For those who are carried away by anger, Estes knows exactly what he can do.

In recent months, observing the instigation of revenge and agitation for the Ishbals in the city of Tongguò, Estes has come to understand how a rebellion could have arisen.

It is nothing more than to say how sacred and great one's own nation and collective are, to sketch out an alluring and unrealistic future, and then to let a mob of idiots take up tattered weapons and send the demagogues to death.

In the end, the peach pickers are all instigators, and those who send them to death are idiot mobs.

And people like Sister Sarah are the most vulnerable targets to be attacked by idiot mobs.

"Soon...... Soon something very dangerous and terrible will happen in this city, for the sake of Wen Li, are you ......"

After thinking for a long time, Estes took another step, and this time she was already standing on the border of selling state secrets.

"Thank you, Aisha, for your concern."

Although it is not clear what Estes knows, Sarah seems to understand that Estes knows something, and knows that terrible things that may happen in the future will threaten their safety, but sure enough......

"But we can't get out of here."

Gently, Sarah smiled. Look at the patients at the door who are waiting for treatment.

"The patients here can't live without us."

"Why are you so disobedient?!"

It was the first time that Estes had been so loud and rude to Sarah, but not that.

"Danger in the city! Very dangerous! Is it bad to be away for a while? It's not like you won't come back! ”

But Estes didn't want the couple to put their lives on the line, a city destined to be in ruins.

"Dangerous things happen every day in this country, and the more dangerous the place, the more brave and kind people need to work hard for happiness and stability, isn't it? Aisha~"

Poof

For the first time, Estes felt something in his heart be touched.

All along, Estes considered himself a hard-hearted man, who would not be impressed by others, and had always disdained and ignored the weak and stupid.

But now, the person in front of me is obviously very weak and a little stubborn, and a little stupid, but why? Why?

This feeling in my heart, this weak Dr. Sarah really felt strange for Estes.

Why do you feel this way?

A feeling of wanting to feel and understand her mind, wanting to see the kind of understanding she portrays.

I was very impressed

"Well, since Sister Sarah insists like this, Aisha won't say anything more~"

Hugged Sarah and smelled the beautiful strong mother and doctor smelling of disinfectant and alcohol

Estes was moved.

Perhaps, Sarah's idea can really come true, right?

"Then Aisha will go first~Take care~"

"Hmm~Take care~"

Left, the clinic, taking the package Sarah had asked Estes to take a deep breath.

What happened to me just now? Why would you be like that?

Look at the square just across the street from the clinic, where countless extremists and terrorist agitators still gather.

Estes didn't understand what she was feeling in Sarah's arms just now.

Why do you go back and believe in that naïve idea that has no strength as a basis?

"It's really incomprehensible~ Knowing that there are so many armed rebels outside the clinic, Sarah's thoughts are still too naïve."

Looking at the Ishbal religious elder in the square, who had been sitting for months and agitating propaganda, the fire in Estes' eyes burned again.

If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be like this in our country.

Putting the small box aside, Estes put on a big smile and walked out into the square.

She wanted to leave some gifts for the people of Ishbal before leaving.