" General Reis. " The royal physician greeted him.
Jin ; you're the physician that treated my wife that time right ?
" Yes. That would be me. "
Jin : how did her pulse read ?
" Erm as explained, she's got a very bad poison. One that no one knows how to cure yet. "
Jin : the poison is called Red Restriction .
" Yes. She can't use any martial arts or it will agitate and make the poison spread. "
Jin ; yes you've told me before the last time. We didn't finish our conversation. How far in was the poison ?
" General Reis didn't hire another physician to care for her ?"
Jin ; she refused.
" She has to take treatment !! "
Jin ; I know. So how far in ?
" She can recover to a stable condition. With medicine. No martial arts. No anger. She should be fine. "
Jin sighs " that's going to be hard. Thank you. I'll be leaving. "
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Jin pushes the door in while she was taking a bath.
Lianari: Jin !! I'm bathing !!
He squats down next to the bathtub and touches to the hole now turned a big scar in her chest. He could see the veins purple and spreaded from there
Lianari: nothing you haven't seen.
" Does it hurt ?" He looks up to her.
Lianari: huh ? No... Just... Ugly.
" It's not ugly to me. " He kissed the scar . Then wraps his arm around her neck and hugged her " don't die. I don't know what I'll do if I heard you died. "
He lets go and leaves closing the door behind him.
Lianari: what's that about...
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Lianari goes to find Jura, one of the officials assigned on the case, the next morning.
Jura ; Lady Reis. Or should I call you Miss Lio ? Or Colonel Lianari?
Lianari: either is fine.
Jura : I see. I assume you're here for your family's matter.
Lianari: can't forget it.
Jura : understandably.
Lianari: what have you found out ?
Jura ; I guess I could tell you about it since this has to do with you. But most importantly.
Lianari: most importantly?
Jura: I hear Colonel Lianari has a name for not only healing her own regiment for sudden illness plagues of poisons. Colonel Lianari mostly has a name for torturing intake prisoners.
Lianari: ara. You don't sound scared saying that.
Jura : I hope you understand, I'm not like my superior Allon. Although I'm thankful for a superior like him whom navigate and pleases the emperor and the court, I'm not like that. I will , get to the bottom of this.
Lianari: because you're assigned or you have another motive?
Jura laughed a little " an interview from the family ? That's rare. My first time. Well Colonel Lianari. You can rest easy. I take this very seriously. After all , it is a planned massacre. "
Lianari: that's what you think too ?
Jura : that, is what you - think.
Lianari: fair enough.
Jura ; the traitor you discovered in your midst. Abenon. Did you make him spill anything before you beheaded him ?
Lianari: such nice words. Beheaded. Eh. Yes. I made him spill.
Jura ; what did he exactly say ? To make you think your family was put in harm's way.
Lianari: he said he was sent by the royal family. I investigated his background. He worked under prince Elrin's house for 5 years. After a few turn arounds, he got recommended to work as a consultant advisor for the army. Honestly, we didn't someone like him. But he was strongly recommended by Prince Wilrin. We couldn't push . It was later on we found out he was feeding our strategies and tips to the enemy.
Jura : I see. So it could be both of them. Why did you target Prince Elrin then ?
Lianari shrugged " just threw a random name out there so the non obvious and the obvious will both panic. "
Jura smiled " as expected someone who has been at war. The tactic of deceit. "
Lianari: I've shared mine. Yours ?
Jura: I can't possibly summon the royalty for questioning. Could I ? But...
Lianari: but ?
Jura : I'm investigating on why your mails to ask for support could suddenly disappear.
Lianari: disappear? You mean not one could be found?
Jura shakes his head " not one. It's not like any were suppressed. They were just gone."
Lianari: what ?!
Jura : so I'm investigating in that direction. Do give some patience.
Lianari: ... Thank you.
Jura ; it's my job .
Lianari: you will update me ?
Jura ; I certainly will.
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The Military Couple
General FictionMy family died in that war. I came back alone with the remaining army. Someone harmed us. I need to know who. So I returned to the capital. That's when I met him again. Jin. Also known as General Reis now. I did not understand why he chose to do tha...
