Castle, second-floor room.
Chi Feichi was examining Kuroba Kaito's body.
"Do you feel palpitations?"
"No."
"No muscle tremors, no difficulty breathing, right?"
"Right..."
"Time's about up, give me the thermometer..."
"Okay..."
"Skin color is normal, body temperature is normal, jaw stiffness, drooping eyelids... Do your muscles feel weak and sore?"
"Yes..."
Seeing Chi Feichi's quick and professional examination movements, Mamiya Mitsuru decided to wait and see the situation. If they needed to find a doctor, it would be better to explain the situation clearly and bring the necessary medicines along.
"No abnormalities in heartbeat..." Chi Feichi took off the stethoscope and made notes in a notebook.
Looking at Chi Feichi's serious appearance, Kuroba Kaito couldn't help being curious. "Are you studying medicine?"
"I studied veterinary medicine," Chi Feichi said without looking up.
Kuroba Kaito stiffened. "V-Veterinary medicine?"
After Chi Feichi finished recording, he closed the notebook. "However, I probably know what's going on with you."
Kuroba Kaito's eyes lit up. "What's wrong with me?"
Chi Feichi put away the notebook and pen. "A trace amount of cytotoxin..."
Kuroba Kaito stiffened again.
Cytotoxin... this thing is usually common in snake venom, right?
He wasn't clear about other snake venoms that were cytotoxins, but most sea snake venoms were cytotoxins. He knew a little about the symptoms of being bitten by a sea snake:
After being bitten by a sea snake, there might be no obvious poisoning symptoms within 30 minutes or even 3 hours, making people easily paralyzed and careless...
In fact, sea snake venom was absorbed by the human body very quickly. The first symptoms felt after poisoning were muscle weakness, soreness, drooping eyelids, and jaw stiffness, a bit like symptoms of tetanus...
At the same time, the heart and kidneys would also be severely damaged. People bitten might die within a few hours to a few days...
Snake venom! Snake venom!
"It seems you also know what a cytotoxin is," Chi Feichi comforted Kuroba Kaito, seeing his expression change uncertainly. "But rest assured, it's only a tiny bit. From the current perspective, it hasn't caused any damage to the heart and kidneys. Just rest for a while, and you'll be fine..."
Kuroba Kaito immediately jumped up from the hospital bed excitedly.
"Get out! All of you get out!"
Bang!
The room door was closed.
Mamiya Mitsuru and the gardener Tabata Katsuo stood at the door at a loss.
"Sorry." Chi Feichi apologized on behalf of Kuroba Kaito.
Mamiya Mitsuru looked at Chi Feichi's indifferent expression, feeling a faint headache, having a feeling that the peaceful time in the castle was gone forever. "It, it's okay, I understand. Is he a friend you met in the hospital?"
"No," Chi Feichi still honestly explained for Kuroba Kaito. "He is very normal; maybe he's just too excited after surviving a desperate situation."
Mamiya Mitsuru's mouth twitched. He felt like that high school student was angry, but he still nodded. "But do I still need to ask a doctor to come and take a look?"
Chi Feichi walked toward the first floor. He checked with Feichi; the toxin was very slight and wouldn't kill anyone. "No need, he'll feel uncomfortable for a while, but won't die."
Mamiya Mitsuru sweated. Apart from death, nothing is a big deal; is that what he means...?
"Then should we send him some medicine?"
"You probably don't have the corresponding medicine here. He'll recover after making a fuss for a while..."
"That's good then. Your room is next door. I'll let Tabata help you send your luggage up..."
In the room, Kuroba Kaito listened to the conversation fade away, sitting on the floor leaning against the door, wanting to cry into a ball out of grievance.
This is what Koizumi Akako called no life-threatening danger?
He wanted to slip away, but he wasn't sure if there were any other strange toxins in that snake venom. What if he ran away and couldn't be cured? What if he found a solution but it was too late?
It's better to stay by Chi Feichi who raises the snake.
But thinking about having to stay with Chi Feichi for a while, he was a little doubtful whether he could survive until the day he left.
My life is too hard...
At dinnertime, Kuroba Kaito's body had recovered, but his spirits weren't very good.
At the dining table, Mamiya Mitsuru introduced the other members of the family to the two of them.
Mamiya Mitsuru's wife's son with her ex-husband, Mamiya Takahito.
Mamiya Mitsuru's mother-in-law, who was also the Great Madam of this family, sitting in a wheelchair with age spots on her face, Mamiya Masuyo.
"Both I and my wife's ex-husband, Mr. Sadaaki, married into the family. Mr. Sadaaki died of illness six years ago. Afterward, I met and fell in love with my wife, and we got married quickly," Mamiya Mitsuru explained calmly. "It's a pity that when my wife came back to help celebrate the Great Madam's birthday four years ago, she lost her life in a sea of fire..."
"A fire?" Kuroba Kaito couldn't control his curiosity. "Since it was to celebrate the Great Madam's birthday, weren't you together?"
"The fire started in that tower outside the castle. I arrived a step earlier that day. It was my first time visiting, so I wanted to come earlier. My wife arrived in the middle of the night; when she arrived, I was already resting in the annex," Mamiya Mitsuru said. "At that time, the Great Madam caught a cold and also lived in the annex. Takahito also returned for the first time that day; he had been studying abroad before, and also came back specially a step earlier that day, right?"
Suddenly mentioned, Mamiya Takahito responded, "Yes, that was my first time back. That time, not only my mother but also the guests who came along and more than a dozen maids and servants died in that big fire. Those left now are servants who had been employed for a short time back then."
Chi Feichi looked at Mamiya Takahito and fell silent.
Looking at it this way, Mamiya Takahito's situation is probably similar to this body's, belonging to the type where the relationship with parents was cold from a young age and was left outside to develop freely...
"By the way," Mamiya Masuyo, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. "Hasn't my daughter arrived yet? Wasn't it agreed that she would be back tonight?"
The maid on the side sweated. "Great Madam, Madam she has already..."
"Really too unfilial, actually let me, her mother, wait for her for so long!" Mamiya Masuyo showed dissatisfaction on her face and pushed the wheelchair to turn around and leave. "I'm going to my room to eat; when she arrives, tell her to come to my room to find me..."
The maid busily followed to take care of her.
Kuroba Kaito looked at the leaving Great Madam, then looked at Mamiya Takahito who was silent just like Chi Feichi, and finally turned to look at Mamiya Mitsuru. This was the only normal person around him now, right...?
Unfortunately, Mamiya Mitsuru had long since categorized Kuroba Kaito into the same range as Chi Feichi. Facing Kuroba Kaito's gaze, he only smiled politely.
After dinner, Kuroba Kaito went up to the second floor with Chi Feichi.
Kuroba Kaito returned to his room, carried his backpack, knocked open Chi Feichi's door, and as soon as Chi Feichi opened the door, he slipped in, while simultaneously quickly raising a gun held in his right hand which was placed inside the bag.
Almost at the same time Kuroba Kaito moved his hand, Chi Feichi subconsciously moved a step to the side and reached out to grab Kuroba Kaito's wrist.
Kuroba Kaito looked at the wall the gun was aimed at, then looked down at his wrist that was grabbed, turned to look at Chi Feichi who had moved to his side, and smiled with pretended calm, "If I say I was joking, do you believe me?"
Chi Feichi nodded, then let go of his hand.
"No way, you believe it just like that?" Kuroba Kaito was inexplicably depressed. This guy believed it just like that; he was embarrassed to force Chi Feichi to help him detoxify...
"Taking a fake gun, of course it's a joke." Chi Feichi said it as a matter of course.
Kuroba Kaito sighed helplessly, closed the door, put the gun back into the backpack, walked into the room, took out a thick notebook, and placed it on the table. "This is the notebook left by my father, recording some tricks of disguise. Take a look first, and I'll teach you tomorrow..."
Chi Feichi picked up the notebook and flipped through it. "There are still two magic tricks inside?"
"Yeah, but don't think about it," Kuroba Kaito pulled out a chair and sat aside. "Many magic tricks have high requirements for eyesight and hand speed. To perform officially, you also need a flexible brain and reaction ability to cope with various sudden situations. Even if you have all of these, you still have to go through long-term practice to maximize the proficiency of the tricks; you won't learn it in a short while."
"I'm not very interested in magic." Chi Feichi didn't look much at those two magic tricks, and flipped through to briefly look at the content of disguise.
As night fell, Feichi also woke up from his lazy snake state, poking his head out from beside Chi Feichi's collar curiously, propping his body to look along with Chi Feichi, not forgetting to complain, "Unexpectedly, there is no method for snake disguise? Bad review!"
Chi Feichi was speechless; you are a snake, what disguise do you want? "There is a method; everyone can think of it, and the effect is quite good."
Feichi turned his head to look at Chi Feichi's face, somewhat expectant. "What method?"
Chi Feichi: "Oil paint, paint, pigments, whatever color you want, I'll paint it for you."
Feichi was stunned, looked down at the gray-black pattern on his body. "M-makes sense..."
Aside, Kuroba Kaito watched Chi Feichi talking to himself to a snake, the corner of his mouth twitching.
Sure enough, this guy is abnormal. If I open my mouth to ask for detoxification now, will I be beaten to death by this guy, or bitten to death by the snake...
When Kuroba Kaito was imagining various scenes of 'Chi Feichi losing control and committing murder', Chi Feichi looked up at Kuroba Kaito.
Feichi was puzzled and also looked up to stare.
Two pairs of eyes with no emotion stared at him, Kuroba Kaito's back chilled. "Ahem, I don't know anything~"
"What do you know?" Chi Feichi was puzzled for a moment, then didn't struggle with it. "I just want to tell you that Feichi should be considered a mildly venomous snake; the toxin in your body should be gone now."
Kuroba Kaito jumped up from the chair excitedly, took a deep breath, calmed down, held back from spraying.
No, can't hold it back...
"Since it's a mildly venomous snake, why did you exaggerate so much before? It's very scary, you bastard, do you know that? Made me struggle for a long time before!"
Feichi flicked his snake tongue, instigating at the side, "I can give him two more bites; the effect might be better..."
Chi Feichi didn't pay attention to Feichi, observed Kuroba Kaito's expression. "You seem very disappointed?"
"You..." Kuroba Kaito choked, a sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart. "Forget it, I can't communicate with you. Let me be alone for a while..."