Chapter 48
There were three ways to find other cadets in the academy . One was to hope to meet them by coincidence, but it became much harder after the private training rooms had been opened . The second was to go to their room, but it wasn’t a good way since many of the students would be asleep . The last way was to find them at the cafeteria .
Chun Yeowun took the third way and found Bakgi eating alone . Before he got there, someone walked up to him first .
‘Chun Kungwun?’
It was Chun Kungwun, the Prince of the Sword Clan .
‘Nano, cut out all the noise except for the conversation between those two . ’
[Yes, Master . ]
Chun Yeowun then heard Kungwun and Bakgi’s conversation . What was interesting was that Kungwun wanted to recruit Bakgi who was powerful enough to be a group leader . It wasn’t surprising that Kungwun would want a powerful warrior like Bakgi, but there was no way Bakgi would join a group when he himself could be a leader .
Chun Yeowun then took a seat . It didn’t matter as he was here to let him know about the poison .
Yeowun then looked at Bakgi’s neck .
‘His neck…?’
His neck had regained color and the red dots were gone . Bakgi answered, “Not interested . Get lost . ”
“…Hm . ”
Chun Yeowun then began thinking about how should he explain everything . He didn’t know what to tell Bakgi when the red dots were gone . However, he couldn’t let Bakgi die from the poison .
“If we don’t talk now, you might die . ”
“What?”
It wasn’t his intention, but Bakgi interpreted this as a threat . He glared at Yeowun .
“You are more arrogant than the other princes . Do you think you can get group members like that?”
“…You misunderstood . ”
“What? You just threatened me . I understood you perfectly fine . ”
Bakgi was almost trying to fight him . Yeowun shook his head .
“I’m not saying that . Hear me out . You have been poisoned . ”
“Poison? What the hell do you mean?”
Bakgi became dumbfounded .
“I saw your fight and saw the red dots on your neck . Your face also became pale . You have been poisoned with a special kind of poison . ”
Bakgi frowned . There was no way he would not notice being poisoned when he was a master-level warrior .
‘Poison? That’s impossible . ’
He had never found any type of poison while meditating . Ever since he was appointed to the group, he had been wary of Chun Jongsum . He even avoided coming into contact with the prince .
‘And why is he warning me of this?’
Bakgi then became curious about Chun Yeowun’s intentions .
“…I’m sorry I misunderstood you, but there is no way that I would’ve missed detecting the poison . ”
Bakgi apologized for his mistake . It seemed like he was very truthful to his feelings .
“What?”
Chun Yeowun was also surprised . He and Lady Hwa had no internal energy, so he didn’t know that one could sense poison by meditating .
‘Meditating allows one to detect the poison? But… that symptom was surely because of the poison . ’
If what Bakgi said was right, then he wasn’t poisoned . As Chun Yeowun thought, he saw someone entering the cafeteria . It was Baek Jongmeng, the doctor of the academy .
‘Doctor Baek!’
Chun Yeowun then decided to ask the doctor .
“Then why don’t we check with the doctor? It’s better to be safe than sorry, right?”
“…Yeah . ”
It was reasonable, but it felt like Yeowun was doing what he wanted . Bakgi returned his dishes and went to Baek Jongmeng along with Yeowun .
“Dinner, dinner~”
Baek Jongmeng was getting the food while whistling .
“Doctor Baek . ”
“Huh?”
Baek Jongmeng turned and saw Chun Yeowun .
“Oh, long time no see! Uh, or is it? Anyway . Did you eat?”
“No, sir . ”
“Then let’s eat . I don’t want to eat together though . I want to tell you something too later . ”
Baek Jongmeng wanted to thank Yeowun . After he left, he had gotten many patients . They weren’t all because of Yeowun, but Jongmeng loved being busy . Yeowun shook his head .
“I’m sorry, but can you check up on him before that?”
“Huh?”
Jongmeng turned to Bakgi who was standing next to Yeowun .
“18th cadet, Bakgi . Sir . ”
“Oh, yeah . Nice to meet you . I’m Baek Jongmeng . Did you get hurt?”
Baek Jongmeng had never seen Bakgi . Although his foot was pierced by sword qi, he didn’t go see the doctor .
“…I think he’s been poisoned . ”
“What? Poison?”
Jongmeng’s expression turned serious . He didn’t think that he’d have a poisoned patient in the academy .
‘Oh… they are here I guess . ’
He then realized that Chun Jongsum and the other members were from the Poison Clan .
“I can’t do it here . Let’s go back to the medical room . ”
Jongmeng then returned the food he had gotten and went back to his medical room . When they reached the second floor, Chun Yeowun was confused by the number of guards . There weren’t that many before .
‘…All these guards were here and Teacher got past all of them?’
That didn’t seem likely . He then realized that none of the instructors including the Chief were curious about his Butterfly Blade Dance .
‘I see… so they must have known . ’
Chun Yeowun then followed Jongmeng into the room . Jongmeng let Bakgi have a seat and began checking his various blood points .
“Hm… this is strange . ”
“Is it dangerous?”
Bakgi was concerned so he carefully asked his question .
“No, your pulse is fine . ”
“Then am I okay?” Bakgi asked with relief but Jongmeng then said, “Did you try meditating?”
“Yes, always . I didn’t sense any poison . ”
“Hm… I can’t find anything from just feeling the pulse and blood points . ”
Yeowun then interrupted, “His eyes turned red and his face became pale . His neck also had red dots . ”
“What?”
Bakgi was shocked .
‘How did he see that?’
He was surprised that Yeowun had seen all those details at such a distance .
“I think it’s the poison that kills the target slowly . ”
Yeowun offered his conjecture and Jongmeng exclaimed, “…Right! How did you know that?”
Chun Yeowun was right about the poison’s symptoms . Yeowun answered, “…My mother was killed by that poison . ”
“Oh… I’m sorry . ” Jongmeng bowed . He then remembered seeing his teacher taking the medicine to use it as an antidote for that poison a long time ago .
‘…So, that’s why . ’
Bakgi also became apologetic . He was suspicious of Yeowun trying to help, but hearing this made him understand .
“Well, you can’t find that poison through meditating or just checking the pulse . ”
“What?”
“Hold on . ”
Jongmeng then went to his cabinet and brought something out . He then began mixing the medicines and fired it up . The smoke began to rise .
“Breath with your mouth to take the smoke in . ”
“Mouth?”
“Yeah, a big one . ”
“Okay . ”
Bakgi then took in the smoke and began coughing roughly . He began to turn pale and the red dots popped up around his neck .
“Ugh!”
He fell down on the ground and kept on coughing . Jongmeng put out the fire, and then Bakgi got up with a pale face .
“It is the poison . ”
“W-what… but how . . ”
He couldn’t understand how he had been poisoned .
“But I was fine when I meditated and I didn’t make any contact! I always ate alone too!”
This was why Bakgi ate alone . It was to defend himself from Chun Jongsum so he couldn’t do anything to him .
“Well… this one is a bit different . ”
“What?”
“This one shows the effect when it’s inside your lung or stomach . ”
“Lung?”
“You can consume it through food, but you can also be poisoned by breathing it in while you sleep . And the poison is so little that you won’t notice it when you’re asleep . Do you share a room with someone who might be using the poison?”
Bakgi then glared with reddened eyes and shuddered in anger .
‘Chun Jongsum, you bastard…!!!”
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