Back to You - Dan Heng IL, Blade

3. Hostile

"Collapsed lung, thirteen broken libs, liver injury, internal bleeding"

"We need to stop that bleeding right now"

"Accelerated heartbeat, he's about to enter in shock"

"We need to suture the vein, his organs are drowning in his own blood!"

"...We're losing him"

"Dan Heng, 24 years old man, time of death; 22.22..."

Dan Heng woke up, feeling awful. His head was burning and for a moment his sight was all blurry. Slowly he could recognize he was... still dressed up like that?

The place hadn't much light, but it wasn't surely a good one. It was humid, and he could notice he was closed in something like an ancient prison he saw in some historical korean dramas he used to watch during his teenage era.

"Oh my.. seriously.." He cursed to then try to move but his wrists were chained and he also felt something holding him from the back.... His eyes opened up in panic as he turned a little and noticed... a tail with also chains around it.

"It seems the Imbibitor is awaken" one of the shinobi, who was guarding him the whole night, called out one of the other guards "Inform his Highness..."

"AAAAAAH" Dan Heng moved nervously as he saw that tail moving "What the fuck is that?!" he shouted to then laugh insanely, as he noticed the tail literally being attached to his body, like he could feel it "Ah... ahaha... it's mine... it's mine... I do... I do have a ta..." he fainted.

The two shinobi looked at the scene and sighed "Nevermind, don't tell he's awake"

***

"Your Highness" one of the shinobi kneeled before the main room of his manor. On the other side of the room. A man with long black hair and red tips, wearing a white and red kimono, full of golden embrodiment was sittingin peace, enjoying some relax after those days of raids and war.

"So?" the man was reading reports of the last raids his men have done around the territories were the sanctuary was, trying to find and slain all the priests that ran away

"Well..." the shinobi cleared his throat "He was awake, but he fainted after a minute or two"

"What..? He's our prisoner, I have to make sure he's alive till his Majesty will give me freedom on his destiny, we can't kill him yet. He's more useful alive" he explained annoyed "Shall I order your execution?"

"But we haven't done anything, your Highness" the shinobi spoke to then clear his throat "Apparently he got shocked he had a tail"

The man sighed heavily and massaged his own temples "How is he in this state... I can't present him to his Majesty like this... He will think I am fooling him... Is the Imbibitor really out of his mind? Did they use a poison that would just make him lose his sanity or what?" he sounded concerned and annoyed "Call the royal doctor, I need answers to what kind of poison was used"

"Yes your Highness"

"Nobody has ever spoken of him as a good actor" he sighed annoyed, thinking about those two blue eyes looking at him with so much affection like he has seen a lover "... Actually, do me another favor. Check on every register of his Lands about a certain Yinxing, you can leave."

"Yes, your Highness" with that the shinobi disappeared from his sight and left him alone.

"If he thinks he did right at letting himself be poisoned..." he laughed a little "Such a fool." he stand up and met with the royal doctor who did bow