Binkines walked toward the patient, observing him closely as he was heavily breathing. She touched his forehead, noticed the unusual symptoms. His tempareture was normal, which is unusual for a person with a fever.

  "As you noticed," Manma said. "This diseas is not physical. It's a magical diseas."

  "How he caught it?" Binkines asked.

  "He is already practicing magic," Manma said. "Beginners often get this diseas when they use magics without proper imagination training."

  "Is there a way I can differentiate between physical and magical diseas?" Binkines asked.

  "Don't rush things," Manma said. "Advanced healing abilities heavily rely on the simplest category of the five main light magic categories, which is the magic of enhancement. Now, I want you to imagine as if your hand and its fingers are the beach and there are waves on the edges of them. Once you feel your hand is getting heavier, it's the sign that you can sense magic."

  "Got it," Binkines said. She closed her eyes, extended her hands to her stomach's level, imagining the waves between her fingers and around her hands, and her hands started to move subconsciously. She got nervous after what she felt, but slowly her hands got heavier until she opened her eyes and saw a steam-like aura covering her hands. When she took a look at the patient after that, she saw an irritation of the aura around his chest was.

  "Can you see it now?" Manma asked.

  "Yes," Binkines said. "But how can I control my own magic?"

  "Imagination," Manma answered. "Just keep imagine a calm waves."

  As Binkines calming the imaginary waves around her hand and slowly extend this imagination around her body, she noticed a calming feeling washing over her. She said, "wow, this is amazing."

  "Congratulation! You can use basic spells now," Manma said. "Now, just around your right hand. Imagine the waved going in the opposite side. This will allow your aura to extend away from your body."

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  It was hardest thing Binkines could do. It was totally unrealistic to imagine the waves to move to the opposite direction from the beach, and now all of the tough imagening practice became fruitful. She almost took half an hour to be able to imagine it. Finally, a waves of aura started to blown from her right hand.

  "Touch his chest and imagine your waves overcoming the irritated aura around his chest," Manma said.

  Binkines touched his chest, and imagined her waves calming his aura down. The scene was imaginary, even Manma stood astonished after she saw Binkines' aura transmute into intense, calm waves that not only calmed down the irritated aura but also the aura around his whole body. Binkines showed a pure talent in the magic of enhancement category, to which most healers belongs.

  "Binkines," Manma said. Her jaw was dropped. "Your magic is exceptional."

  "Really?" Binkines said with a wide smile.

  The patient felt an immediate relief after Binkines touched him. He said, "Thank you, although i was forced to keep this fever so you can practice."

  "What are you talking about?" Manma said with an angry tone. "You voluntarily accepted the money for this job."

  Binkines trying to calm Manma down, "Calm down Grandma."

  "Humph," Manma said. "You can leave now, oh god, these young people are so ungrateful. I wonder where is Zoeske now?"

  Binkines clenched her fist after Manma mentioned Zoeske. She felt responsible for allowing him to leave under these dangerous circumstances. However, she kept what happened as a secret, which created chaos in the village after Zoeske's escape and while Binkines was learning magic.

  The next morning, Binkines walked quickly towards Manma, waking her up. Manma awoke quickly and walked towards the door to check who was outside. She said, "Binky?"

  "There is a problem," Binkines said. "This morning I saw an injured soldier..."

  "Don't tell me," Manma said. She noticed the fear in Binkines' eyes. "You moron, when have you learned about physical healing?"

  "It's not me," Binkines said.

  Manma grabbed Binkines arm and pulled her to enter the house. She said, "explain what happened."

  Binkines sat in the chair and a look of concern evident on her face. She said, "After I heard the soldier scream, I ran to the source of the scream and discovered that this soldier was in fact a young woman. She asked me if I know about Collaborative magic, and I answered with no. Then she asked me to extend my hand and use enhancement magic. At that time, I didn't realise how did she knew I can use magic. After I started enhancing her magic using mine, a new flesh in her injury looked like it was recreated. She didn't say anything, but after she gone I realised that I used magic in front of a soldier."

  "You are grounded Binkines," Manma said in a strict way.

  "Wha-?" Binkines said.

  "You will not practice magic again," Manma said. "Do you know what could happen if they notice even a marginal advantage over them? We are all dead."

  In the meantime, Zoeske was caught by two bandits on his way to the Malin village.