"We were pregnant at the same time. Just a month apart… and then we both lost our children." The merchant's wife sobbed quietly as she spoke to Xion about the past.
"Then one day, when m-my husband was out doing some trading, he brought this girl home, saying h-he found her abandoned in the forest. Since then, it had been fourteen years."
Xion didn't respond immediately. He was carefully checking the girl's pulse.
He had already administered a fever-reducing medicine a few hours ago, but it hadn't worked. Her body was still burning up.
Thankfully, with Mycosera Tenberis, he had a lead. That tiny pinch of violet powder could be the key to solving the immediate issue.
He had already asked the system to run a fast scan on the minuscule sample he had left. Lady Norva had nearly used every last grain of it.
Now, with the new things he'd discovered in the past few hours, he wanted to test a revised medicine on the girl.
