The White Cat's Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King's Lap: Volume 7 [Complete] by Kureha

Author:Kureha
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 8: The First Patient

It had been three days since the first prince started taking Pearl’s cure. They always said that good medicine was bitter, but this medicine wasn’t that. It was, simply put, something unfit for any living organism to consume. Curiosity got the better of Ruri, and she licked a tiny dab she put on her fingertip, but that was enough to make her break down into tears.

The first prince went through a hellish loop of taking the devilish medicine, fainting, waking up, being forced to take it again, and fainting again. It was reported that this painful cycle helped him make a full recovery, but there was no doubt that it caused him considerable trauma. He even gave a terrifying account that while rendered unconscious, he could see his mother waving at him from the other side of an open field full of flowers.

As the prince was fighting the medicine and the hallucinations, an investigation was started under the direction of Corundum, and much to everyone’s surprise, a contract with the Reapers was found in the third prince’s room. The contract mentioned poisoning food in order to kill the emperor and the first prince. It was apparently found with documents about the tachyotoxian insects. The third prince naturally denied ever seeing the contract, but it was damning evidence.

Ruri and her group, on the other hand, knew that the Reapers had already been dissolved according to Gibeon, a living witness, and that the real Reapers had never killed a single person. Essentially, the contract was a fake. Ruri confirmed this with Gibeon again through the Spirit of Light in the Nation of the Dragon King, and he replied that the Reapers never bothered with troublesome things like contracts.

They weren’t able to discern whether the contract itself was a forgery or whether the job was real, and they couldn’t tell who the fake Reaper was who drew it up. The handwriting on the document was very similar to that of the third prince, but it could have been forged in any number of ways if someone had wanted to. It was also possible that someone had it made in order to frame the third prince.

Seeing as how no one knew who the true culprit was, the first prince was in danger of possibly being targeted again if people knew that he was cured. Therefore, the first prince pretended that he was still bedridden to keep his condition a secret. The only people who knew the truth were the ones present when he took the medicine.

Corundum decided to not inform his other sons. While it meant that he doubted them, it was a contingency plan nonetheless. It was also most likely a decision that tore Corundum up on the inside.

Pearl, Ruri, and the rest had to stay behind because there was a possibility of others falling to the tachyotoxian’s venom. However, if they just kept on waiting for something to happen, they would never leave the Imperial Nation.

Everyone brainstormed to

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