In the Blue Pike — Volume 03

Kuni sets out on a desperate pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, hoping the saint’s mercy will ease the strain of her empty pockets and a worsening cough. The journey proves brutal: cold nights on deck, endless crowds, and dwindling resources push her to the edge of exhaustion, forcing her to choose between becoming a beggar on the holy road or accepting a strange offer from the unsettling Cyriax and his wife.

She joins the itinerant couple, whose volatile leader feigns madness to swindle pilgrims, while their frail child, Juli, clings to life under the care of a devoted nurse. Kuni, despite her own suffering, takes the child’s place, mending clothes, cooking, and soothing feverish convulsions with a quiet, fierce devotion. The uneasy alliance reveals a world of harsh survival, unexpected tenderness, and the precarious balance between cruelty and compassion on the medieval road to salvation.