Even thuogh I have some amount of fear against her kind I cant just leave her as she is.
I walk up to her, and started lifting her hand lightly, and said, -"Let me see it."
Upon quick inspection of the wound, I can see that it's very severe, If I leave her like that the wound get's infected she might lose her leg completely. I let her hand go, and ask, -"Can you walk at all if I support you, I would really like to get you on my cart, just in case you pass out. I wouldnt be strong enough to carry you."
-"I can try." We just about manege get to my cart. Thankfully she was only 40-50 feet from the road, as she's notably larger than me, I'm barely up to her neck, and she's rather muscilar, I wouldnt be surprised at all if she would weight twice as much as I do.
I open the back flap to my cart, and help her get up there, then I quickly grab some herbs and two small bottles of strong alcohol, mortar, bandages, and small but very sharp knife. And , I cut a small branch of wood and wrap a little bit of bandage over it.
As I return to her I ask, what hapened, and threw some herbs on the mortar and started mashing them.
-"I was chased by couple order knights, they had me surrounded on that small cliff, so I had to try to climb down from the steep side, I was almost down but my hand slipped, and I lost my footing and then hit my leg in a sharp rock.
-"How long do you think it takes thet the knights get here?"
-"Couple hours at least."
-"Well I shuold have you patched by then, but I have to take you with me, cause you arent in a condition to run. Is there any safe places around here.
-"There is a relatively large cave, not far from the main road. If we get there we should be safe."
-"Give me instructions how I find that cave, as I think you might not be able to tell me much soon."
I throw the mashed herbs in to other bottle and mix it, as she is giving the instructions.
-Ok I think I got it, Now drink this, I know it tastes horrible, but it numbs, or at lest helps you to tolerate the pain, then turn on to your stomach, and bite on this. Cause what I will do will hurt a lot."
She drinks it and even thuogh I know how they like their alcohol, this thing is very foul tasting, and her expression proves that she agrees. then she turns around, and I sit next to her leg.
-"Okay, get ready, try to stay still, I try to be gentle"
then I take the other bottle of alcohol, and pour half of it in to the cut. I notice how she is twitching from the pain, and how she screams trough the makeshift gag. Unfortunately this was the less painful part.
I start inspecting the cut more, pulling it wider to see better, I see some small pieces of rock in there, this is very unfortunate, it will get very painful now. I sit on her leg so it wouldnt move and take the knife and carefully start digging the small rockpieces out.
When I'm almost done, she finally passes out. How I wish she would have passed out earlyer, but they are quite resilient, human would have died out from the coctail I gave to her, and that coctail was so strong that I almost feared that it would kill her, heck, Half of it would have been enough to kill a human.
I pour the rest of the alcohol in the would, then stitch it up, place some herb leafs on top of it, and put a tight bandage over it.
Then I jump on the driver seat of the cart, and start heading to the cave.
The path to the cave is just large enough that the cart can go there, Althuogh it is so steep that I feel sorry for the horse pulling the cart.
As we get to the cave it's just large enough that I can get the cart in, and then I release the horse from the cart, and let ot graze on the small clearing in front of the cave. Then I go to try to cover any tracks we left near the road.
When I come back the Oni is half asleep on the cart, still so drugged up that she's mumbling incoherently, She's turned to her side, and I notice that she still has the gag on her, As I remove it i can only admire how powerful jaws she had, as it was literally stuck in her theets, As I got it out, I saw that she had almost bitten trough it. Biting trough a piece of birch, Even gorillas have hard time doing that.
She's half concious but it's better for her to rest, so I make another, notably milder coctail which should keep her sleeping for a while, and carefully make her drink it, soon she passes out again.
Meanwhile I go gather food, and make a small coocking place ready for the morning. and as she is practicly sleeping in my bed, I set up next to her, and fall asleep.
I wake up early in the morning, She's still sleeping which is good. I make us some brakefast and as the smell of my cookings fill the cave she wakes up.
As she is trying to get up, I just tell her to take it easy, and stay there, I bring her food very soon. And when I finally bring the food to her she eats it quite swiftly, one could think the wouldnt have had any half decent meal in last week from that.
-"So, How am I?" she finally asks when she has finished eating.
-"I'm not quite sure yet. you were badly hurt. If you would be human I would say that there is a good chance that you would limp the rest of your life, but I know how resilient most mamono is, you will definitely walk, and most likely run after this, but you might end up limping a bit. But for now at least a week, do not get up unless you absolutely have to. And for next 2 weeks I to help you with all of your needs."
-"But how am I supposed to get food then?"
-"I'll stay here with you at least 3, maybe 4 weeks, by then you should be able to walk, although yuo might have to use a cane for a while. But to give you an idea how bad it was, well, When I saw it I thought I will have to cut your leg and make you a peg leg. I still might have to do that, but I'm trying to save it."
-"Was it that bad?" she asks shocked
-"I have only once seen something that bad, and then I didnt even hesitate, that man has peg leg now. Now, turn on to your stomach, I change the bandages, I might have to clean it again and that will hurt, but it's unlikely."
I change the bandages, and put new herbs in the wound, The wound doesnt seem bad, but I cant tell how it will end up going, after 2 weeks I can tell something, but as for now we can only hope.
-"By the way. Why did you help me?"
-"Well I was bit scared of you, there is many kind of rumors going around, But in the end I only saw a woman in distress. I had to help you, And soon as I heard that the reason this happened was the order, I decided to do everything in my power to help you."
-"You... are against the order?"
-"While the orignal idea when they were founded was good, That was to protect the humans. But it soon turned to exterminating all mamono, and that I cant accept. How ever I do not accept the way mamono quite often just rapes a man, and calls it marriage."
A sad smile comes to her face. "I can understand what you mean."
We discuss form many things, and during the next 4 weeks we can allready call ourselfs good friends.
Her leg healed pretty well, there is barely noticable limping, how ever I dont allow her to walk much, I still take care most of her needs. we sleep next to eachothers on the cart, and she has never tried anything funny.
On start of 5th week, I had decided that she is back in good enough condition, as long as she avoids running for couple more weeks she should be fine.
As I start to prepare to leave her. she just sadly looks at me. When I'm getting the horse ready she comes to me, almost tearing up.
-"Please, Dont leave me."
-"Huh? you are allready healed up, you dont really need me anymore."
-"But I do... Nobody has ever been so nice to me, I need you... and I want you... Please, stay with me."
She's beggin on her knees. Close enough that she could grab me if she would want to. hear nearly perfect red skin is slightly shining in the first sunrays of the morning, Her white messy hair has a nice blue'ish hue on it, and those yellow puppy dog eyes, how could I say no.
-"Well if you..."
-"Please I do anything, I stop drinking, I just want to be with you."
That coming from Red Oni? She's really in love.
I walk up to her, and take her in to my embrace
-"You dont need to promice such things. I have allready decided that I leave. But actually I was thinking about asking would you join me."
Suddenly she grabs me in a very tight hug.
-"I will join you."
-"There is only one thing left to be done then."
I take reach my hand over the side of the cart, open a small container, and reach inside. As i bring my hand back I'm holding a bottle of sake.
-"Would you like to get married?" I ask as I show her the bottle.
And very soon we found ourself on the back of the cart which had functioned as our bed for last month, We were exploring eachothers bodies, She didnt have any visible muscles to speak of, by looking, but after a soft layer of fat you could really feel that there was qyite well formed, large an powerful muscles, just under the surface.
Soon we couldnt hold back anymore, and she turned on top of me, we were hunglyly kissing eachothers, tongues fighting for dominance, and as she lowered herself we turned to husband and wife.