"Do you feel pain here, mother?" Damien asked as he pressed the lower half of Lady Cecil's stomach.
The woman on the bed smiled at him and nodded before saying, "It is a bit painful but not much. It's much more bearable than before."
"What about here then?" Damien pressed the side of her abdomen and Lady Cecil frowned lightly before replying, "A bit more painful than before but still the same."
'This isn't it,' Damien frowned as he removed his fingers. Though Lady Cecil's condition was related to stomach and liver, there was not a direct connection. The only good thing about this was that her vital organs were not as damaged as Damien thought.
But this subtle pain and her yellowing skin with sunken eyes—
This was not good.
He raised his fingers and then pressed them on the same spot as earlier, "This will hurt a bit, Mother. So please bear with it."
Lady Cecil nodded and gritted her teeth, but as soon as Damien pressed on the upper half of her stomach, she couldn't stop the scream, "Aaaargh!"
'It's really here!' Damien's eyes widened as he activated the Eye of Observation.
[Eyes of Observation activated.]
[Examination is starting.]
The blue screen in front of Damien's eyes covered Lady Cecil's stomach as it scanned her insides. The entire examination took two minutes before Lady Cecil's liver and gallbladder along with the large intestine came into view.
On the screen under the liver and in the middle of the gallbladder and large intestines, there was a bunch of thin tendrils-like substances with small pulsating bulbs.
It looked rather hideous.
[Examination completed.]
[Disease Detected: Pulsating Plasmatic Cells.]
"What is this?"
[Feathers of Deryn: A little bird, with the same plumage as phoenix. Its feathers can heal injuries and wounds but cannot remove pulsating bulbs.]
"All in all, this is the work of a quack," remarked Dan as he watched the potion. There was light curiosity in his eyes but he still had a touch of contempt for the healer and the potion. "It seems like these people who call themselves healers are handing out just about any medicine without deducing the correct illness."
"Or they just don't feel like wasting their time and energy on someone like Lady Cecil," Damien muttered in a way where only Dan could hear him. "For them, Lady Cecil is of no importance, the mother of a dethroned crown prince, why would they bother themselves with her? They just gave her an examination for the heck of it and patted their butts clean."
Damien did not know whether it was due to the emotions of his predecessor or his own but he felt really angry at the healer who gave this quack of a potion to his mother. How could he treat a person's life in such a light manner?
But then again, when had people in power cared for those who have nothing in their hands? Wasn't this the reason why he became a roasted human chicken?
"This potion is useless," Damien said to Priscilla and Henry as he handed it back to them.
"How could that be possible? It is so expensive and people are dying to buy it," Henry said to Damien with his eyes widening. He had been using all the valuables that he snuck in his Sportal (A portable space which could be used to store things, however, the size is limited.) to buy this potion and now his brother was saying that it was useless.
"It contains Bonehead powder of the blizzard bear. It is not helping at all instead it's causing her condition to get even worse," explained Damien causing Henry to frown and Priscilla's expression to become even more fearful. "I have finished examining mother, and the reason she is in pain is due to Pulsating Plasma Cells. You might know this disease as pulsating bulbs."
Gasp!
Priscilla's hands flew to her mouth as she looked at Lady Cecil with fear in her eyes. Even Henry looked as if he had been knocked on the back of his head with a club.
"You—You mean to say that mother has pulsating bulbs in her stomach?" Henry asked with a tremor in his voice. "And you found out that just by pressing her stomach?"
"Yes, I am sure of it," nodded Damien.
"That's impossible!" Henry refused to believe it as he knew that the potion to destroy the Pulsating bulbs was still being researched. This thing had killed many beastmen, so how could he accept that his mother was suffering from the same thing?
He swayed dangerously on the spot and continued repeating that it was impossible.
"Lord Henry," Xavier, who didn't leave and stayed in the room, caught Henry in time. He noticed the look that Damien gave him and sighed before saying, "I know that it is hard for you to believe the result of the examination but Lord Damien will not joke about the illness of Lady Cecil. You must believe him."
He paused and added, "Any way you have handed almost all the money that you had to the healers of the Iris Temple, I don't think you have enough money to buy the potion anymore, do you? More importantly, Lady Cecil had drank this potion for months with no change in her condition."
"So why not let your brother give it a try?"