I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 152's

“His wounds often appeared and were also often healed by royal doctors, but this time when the servants cleaned his body they found a larger wound on his back, the wound blackened and deep. I was just about to ask Nicholas to immediately go to the kingdom to pick up the royal doctor again.” The Duchess of Nice told Duke Leonard that she had accidentally crossed paths with him while on her way to find Nicholas.

“Zeyden, can you use your teleportation magic to go to the kingdom and bring the royal physician here quickly,” Duke Leonard asked Zeyden.

Zeyden nodded in understanding, “Okay Mr. Duke, then I will leave immediately now,” he said then his magic aura began to cover his entire body and when his aura disappeared Zeyden also disappeared.

After Zeyden's departure to pick up the doctor who would treat Leathina, he, Duke Leonard and the others continue their journey back to Leathina's room as well as Duchess Nice who is now also returning to check on Leathina after the Duke asked Zeyden to pick up the royal physician in place of Nicholas.

“Dad!” when Nora saw her father enter Leathina's room, Nora had been by Leathina's side since she woke up in the morning and was about to leave Leathina when she would sleep at night.

Nora accompanies Leathina and always hopes that one day Leathina can be healthy again as before. So, that was why he was looking forward to the arrival of his father hoping that his father would bring good news back with him.

“When dad comes!” he cried again with a little run towards his father and opened his arms wide to welcome the arrival of his father and after until Nora hugged his father tightly.

“What's up?” duke Leonard asked as he looked at Nora's expression that didn't look so happy to see his arrival.

Nora let go of his embrace and took a few steps back to make distance from his father and watched closely the people he had seen for the first time.

“Dad said he would pick up someone who would heal Leathina's sister, but I didn't see someone who could potentially cure Leathina's sister from the people who had come with me back from the eastern forest.” Nora observes the new people her father brought with her, Nora continues to see Farkas and Damian trying to find superiority both but she sees only two ordinary people.

“You know father, the last few days the condition of sister Leathina's body began to deteriorate, if ... if we do not immediately cure her maybe her body can rot completely.” Nora muttered softly while looking down as she did not want to show her expression to people. Nora felt a little disappointed thinking her father had come home without bringing someone who could help Leathina. 

“True what you said Nora, I will try to return Leathina with us again,” Duke Leonard said as he rubbed Nora's head still down.

Duke Leonard spread his gaze throughout Leathina's room and saw that her daughter Leathina was still lying in the same spot she had seen before she went into the eastern forest, along with that a slight foul smell was smelled coming from Leathina's body. Anne who did not know if the Duke came and now still standing next to Leathina's bed slightly retreated to make room for duke Leonard and the others so that they could see Leathina's condition.

“I don't know Miss Leathina's condition turned out to be this bad.” Damian murmured softly and became very concerned after seeing Leathina's deteriorating body condition.

“Leathina?” Aelfric muttered that he had now stood by Leathina's bed side by side with Duke Leonard.

While Winter and Nicholas were just silent, and stood a little further away so that the newly arrived people could see Leathina well.

Edward frowned at the sight of Leathina who was still lying unconscious and looked more like a fast asleep person than a dying person. It made her feel sad as she desperately hoped that Leathina would actually fall asleep for a while and would wake up again in a few hours, the smell of Leathina's body due to injuries arising from lying down day and night also made her more poignant when she saw Leathina.

Edward also chose to turn his face in the other direction, he could not bear to see Leathina's condition like that. And because he could not stand it he finally chose to get out of the room to calm himself down.

“Master, please follow me. Someone wants to talk to you.” A female servant suddenly approached Edward who had just walked out of Leathina's room. Edward then immediately followed her without asking who called her.

He followed the maid who called him and led Edward to a balcony, Edward came inside and the maid shut the door and two men wearing maid clothes were waiting for Edward on the balcony.

“Greetings Mr. Edward.”

“For a long time no see, Mr. Edward.”

“Welcome back Mr.”

Troy, Adam and Nina said almost simultaneously after closing the balcony door from the inside and making sure no one would see them there.

“So, what have you got after following Winter to the eastern forest? And did you find that woman there? You better give me the good news, I am not having a good feeling today.” asked Winter after the three people dressed as servants lined up in front of him.

“Forcuse us Mr. Edward, unfortunately we really did not get a good thing after conducting an investigation even after infiltrating Winter's forces while they were in the black forest,” said Adam with a slight bow because he felt he was not doing his job well. Nina and Troy are the same they can only be silent and obey Adam.

“So you two didn't find anything either.” Edward murmured while turning his gaze down.

“Force us Mr. Duke Leonard.” Adam, Troy and Nina almost simultaneously.

“Now report anything you get and know as long as I am not in the kingdom.”

“I did not find any clue while in the East forest Mr. Edward. Yasmine, that woman seemed to have completely disappeared in the black forest she or even her body could not be found even with the help of the knight personnel brought by Winter into the black forest.” Said Troy who first gave Edward a report.

“True Mr. Edward we did not find the woman anywhere, besides that there are actually some areas that we have not searched to do the search because the inhabitants of the black forest suddenly raged, but there were actually several areas that we had not searched, wild animals even monsters suddenly came out of the nest and attacked the soldiers.” Nina gave her report after Troy.

“Do you guys know what causes the inhabitants of the black forest to suddenly become uncontrollable like that?” edward asked after hearing the report from Nina.

“We do not know Master, they only suddenly attacked but fortunately they did not cross the border into the kingdom but to another monk.”

“Adam aren't you going to report something to me?” edward asked Adam, who had been silent.

“No, it's not like that Mr. Edward I'll just report what I got to you, but I'm hesitant to convey it because it's not so sure what I think.”

“Say, I'll listen.” Edward asked Adam to tell him what Adam was thinking.

“Good Mr. Edward, so I think the forest seems to be chaotic because something triggered it to happen. Those who attacked the soldiers seemed to be only forest dwellers who were on the run and were about to come out of the black forest out of fear and accidentally met us they felt threatened and ended up attacking the soldier.”

“So like that, your opinion. Regarding the residents of the black forest who are in chaos now, in other words the arrival of Yasmine is the one who made all that happen.” Edward concluded the report Adam had told him.

“Yes, as you said if you have not seen his body directly and ascertain whether he is still alive or not then we cannot conclude anything. So, uh, I began to think why suddenly the inhabitants of the black forest are not controlled like that and what I suspect is the cause is the woman who seems to have disturbed something very dangerous in the black forest.”

“Your speculation is not Adam's fault, but it is also unjustified for not having strong evidence. You're just arguing.”

“Yes Sir, but from what I see it is like it is the situation.”

“Good.”

“There's something else Mr. Edward.” Nina wanted to tell Edward something.

“Say, Nina.”

“In these few days, it seems like the nobles are making a move secretly. Our informants say that they have even conducted a tacit investigation and the subject is people living in the residence of Yarnell.”

“What queen also do movement?” ask Edward.

“Yes sir, the Queen seems to be looking for something about Miss Leathina as well. Looks like she's trying to figure out the truth about Miss Leathina's deteriorating health. People who worked for the queen several times came to the residence of Duke leonard Yarnell.”

“Good Mr. Edward.” The three almost simultaneously answered Edward and then obeyed Edward. They one by one immediately came out of the balcony so that no one suspected the three of them, so they deliberately did not come out simultaneously so as not to attract the attention of people and ended up suspect.

After Adam, Troy and Nina come out and leave Edward alone on the balcony. Edward immediately let out a long sigh and rubbed his face violently.

“Zeyden?” edward murmured softly when Zeyden suddenly appeared in the Yarnell family mansion grounds with someone who was also with him.

“Aww”

The shriek of the person who was also with Zeyden when the magical aura of Zeyden enveloping his body suddenly vanished, leaving him unprepared when he would land his feet on the ground and end up falling.

“Why land suddenly anyway, I will fall.” His appeal demanded Zeyden who could stand safely on the ground.

“Whispering, should I just land your head so that your brain is more stupid.” Zeyden murmured and walked first leaving Andy still grumbling behind him.

“Why don't we just get inside the mansion? You're usually like that. Let's not walk again into it far.”

Zeyden did not respond to Andy's constant grumbling scolding behind him, he just focused on walking towards the mansion in a hurry.

“Have come yes.” muttered Edward then immediately out of the balcony intending to return to Leathina's room to rejoin with other people there.

“Edward!”  Call someone from behind him and make Edward then turn around to find out who the owner of the voice called him.

“How is Leathina doing?” tanyanya who then immediately speed up her footsteps in order to walk in tandem with Edward.

“Zeyden, you're very long.” Edward said when he saw Zeyden now walking towards him with wide steps and followed by Andy behind him.

“Iya, I'm sorry. I was busy looking for him first.” Said Zeyden while pointing towards Andy who was behind him. “He's having an appointment with an old lady, his taste is very strange, I'm so concerned with him.” Zeyden spoke with pain shudder then quickly caught up with Edward before Andy listened to what he had told Edward the arena no longer wanted to hear Andy's chatter that could make his ears hot.

“Then your subordinates are really dying.” Edward responds to Zeyden's jokes but has no expression.

“You should rest immediately, Zeyden.” Edward said to Zeyden on their way back to Leathina's room.

Zeyden only furrowed his brows in confusion as Edward suddenly paid attention to him then immediately looked at Edward's face seriously but all he saw was Edward's flat expression.

“You.” Edward interrupted and hugged himself. “ Do you like me after our long journey? I'm still normal well.” Zeyden shuddered then immediately walked faster in front of Edward because he no longer wanted to go hand in hand with Edward.

“You're exhausted, you can faint if you keep pushing yourself like that. You have used too much of your magic and now your own energy is being drained, that's why you can only teleport to the outside of the mansion instead of.”

“Oh, you're aware of it. But you don't have to worry about me, just worry about yourself you look just as bad as me.” Zeyden returned the words Edward had said to him, he saw Edward no better than he did, his face pale and grim.

“Don't get me wrong, I don't worry about your condition in the least. I'm just afraid if suddenly Leathina needs something, you're the only person who can be used as a teleportation tool here. So go get some rest and restore your strength as soon as possible.”

Zeyden was stunned to hear Edward's words, not expecting Edward to think so of him and to just think of him as a means of teleportation.

“I'm too valuable if used as your teleportation tool, even though I consider you as my friend.” Zeyden snorted in annoyance but then immediately let out a long sigh as he was now exhausted and his energy was drained a lot from overuse of teleportation magic which required a lot of energy.

“Zeyden, what took you so long?” welcome Duchess Nice when she sees Zeyden enter along with Edward and then followed by Andy who is a little late.

“I'm sorry madam duchess, Andy is with his old partner jad ..”

“I was called to the kingdom, madam.” Andy interrupted Zeyden, then looked at Zeyden with a frown because Zeyden was always annoyed with the incident when he was with Queen Juliette.

Zeyden giggled a little, but suddenly he held it because the susana in Leathina's room looked a little grim because of Leathina's deteriorating condition. Zeyden looked at everyone, seeing everyone, his eyes were then fixed on Leathina who was still lying on her bed and at the same time he faintly smelled a slight bad aroma from Leathina's direction.

“Do you guys not clean his body until it smells like that?!” Zeyden said as he walked towards Leathina and looked at her servant Anne.

“Ma-I'm sorry Mr. Zeyden, I have cleaned Ms. Leathina's body periodically but Miss lay too long to cause pressure sores in certain parts of Ms. Leathina's body.” Anne spoke stammeringly as Zeyden continued to stare at her coldly there was nothing she could do but look down. The sadness and guilt he felt at one time because he could not keep Leathina's body.

“Alright I will immediately treat Miss Leathina's wound now,” said Andy broke the situation to make Zeyden immediately step aside so Andy can treat Leathina.

“Then please others immediately out of the room Miss Leathina,” Andy asked politely the people who are not concerned out.

Farkas and Demian went straight out after hearing Andy's words while Aelfric, Edward, Zeyden, Winter, Nicholas, Nora, Duke Leonard and Duchess Nice still remained motionless inside the room.

Huff...

Andy exhaled deeply as none of them came out other than Damian and Farkas, all of them insisting on seeing Leathina treated.

“Gentlemen, I know you are very worried about Miss Leathina's condition but still Miss Leathina is a noblewoman especially she is still not married so it is not appropriate for many people to see her skin.” Andy reminded them all.

“Truely said, you guys come out. I'm his father so it's okay.” Duke Leonard supported Andy and asked the others to come out immediately but they remained motionless.

“You're out we have to treat Leathina first, I don't want my sister to be seen with your eyes.” Nicholas said as he pushed Edward, Zeyden and Winter out one by one.

“Of course you should also exit mr. elf.” Nora petrifies Nicholas and pushes Aelfric forcibly out of Leathina's room.

“No, no, I'll stay here. I'll heal him too.” Rejecting Aelfric and holding on to the door, Nicholas helps Nora after successfully removing Zeyden, Edward and Winter.

“We will call you again later after Andy treats Leathina.” Duke Leonard told Aelfric.

“The two of you also have to go out,” Andy also tells Nicholas and the new Nora will close the door from the inside and ask the two of them to come out like the others..

"But we're his brothers." Nicholas and Nora almost simultaneously.

"But you're both boys, right?" Andy spoke by imitating the tone of his second voice.

Hearing that both of them were stunned but suddenly Zeyden and Edward, even Aelfric and Winter suddenly re-entered and took out Nicholas and Nora forcibly and immediately closed the door from the outside.

Inside the room now only Andy, Anne, Duke Leonard and Duchess Nice are keeping an eye on Leathina.

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