Just above Pegasus' left front leg is a bloody gash, it must be causing the creature a great deal of pain. You look at the horse a little closer and you frown. The bloody gash isn't the only injury on the horse. One of the horse's powerful wings seems to be... bent, if ever so slightly. The wound on the wing has clearly been treated by somebody with a great deal of care, but not a great deal of skill. It will never heal as it currently is, even for a beast as powerful as Pegasus, if the wound on its wings heals incorrectly, the once proud Phantasmal Beast would be grounded for life.

"If you let me and my Onii-chan help you, I'm sure that we'll be able to help you with it, my Onii-chan is... the best healer on the planet!" Sakura boasts about your skill to the horse, and she's... not exactly wrong. "In fact, he's... even better than the gods themselves!" Well, sure, so long as you don't need to retrieve a soul from wherever it is that they go after death, you can heal any wound, even those cursed to be completely unhealable at the highest possible level.

This comment gets the interest of the beast, and it begins to trot towards you and Sakura with speed, before it comes to a stop right in front of you. It's still eyeing you suspiciously, but it doesn't flinch away when you raise your hand to stroke it on the neck. The hair of the horse is exceptionally groomed, for as little as whoever treated his wounds knew about medicine and health in general, it's very obvious that they excelled at grooming the animal. You slowly bring your hand towards the wound of the horse, and bring about the miracle that is Truth Healing upon the wound. Watching as the blood disappears and the flesh of the horse knits itself back together, causing the wound to fully disappear without a trace that it was ever there to begin with. When the process of healing the gash is finished, you pat the neck of the horses once again, and unexpectedly, the horse nuzzles you, burying its snout into your shirt for a few seconds, before it stops and moves away, then it turns just a little to show you the injured wing. Despite not looking nearly as bad as the gash, this was easily the worse wound.

"Don't worry, Pegasus. I'll heal this as well." You reassure the horse with some kind words as you raise your hand up to the damaged joint, and once again begin to heal it, the entire wing shifts a little bit as it is set back into proper position, it doesn't take that much time to heal the wound that wouldn't have normally been possible for the Pegasus to have healed naturally.

When the horse is fully healed, you take a step away from it, and allow it to stretch its wings properly. It beats them experimentally, to see if it is truly healed, before it folds away its wings once again and starts to nuzzle you quite forcefully.

Part 24