The misfortunes of a slacker

Chapter 5

From the corner of eruhaben he had arrived at the villa in the living room.

Those present were startled by the sudden light of teleportation.

"Hello Eruhaben-nim."

Rosalyn immediately greeted him, she was on her way back from her laboratory.

"Hello do you know where Ron is?"

"I seem to have seen him somewhere in the villa."

"Hello Eruhaben-nim, were you looking for me?" Like the assassin that he is, he appeared out of nowhere just at the call of his name.

"Do you know where everyone is? I'd like to get them together as soon as possible, it's urgent."

The dragon wore a worried expression.

"Of course most of them are here, it's possible to contact her majesty and the Henituse family with an orb, has something happened?"

"Yes, but I'll explain it when everyone's present, go and get those in the villa, I'll call the Henituses, Alberu already knows."

The expression on the dragon's face made him feel uneasy. He hurried off to find the people he had asked for.

In the meantime, the dragon managed to contact the Henituse family and got them to wait for the others. He also connected one to the dark castle where the children were with the other dragons.

A few minutes later Ron was back with Lock, Choi Han, Mary and the sun twins.

Everyone was confused by the gathering but no one asked any questions, Eruhaben must surely have had a good reason for doing it even if it made them anxious.

"Well now that everyone's here I'll explain, Cale collapsed at the meeting with the nobles at the palace and-"

"Is he all right?!" Choi Han interrupted, worried about Cale.

Ron gave him a dark look which he ignored.

"The doctor said it was due to fatigue, he was completely exhausted. He developed a high fever and difficulty breathing because of it."

He of course ignored the swordsman's question, he was going to answer it anyway.

"The doctor also said that he should recover with rest and medication. But his fever still hasn't gone down despite the various things the doctor has given him. And his condition could get worse if we don't get this fever down... the result is really not good at all..."

Now they understood why they had been summoned and it really was a catastrophic situation.

"How can we help you?" Choi han asked once again.

"As nothing seems to work, we thought it might be due to one of his abilities, we can't think of anything else and as these symptoms resemble the one he was using in the repertoire at the time but more severe we also noticed that he was having nightmares, moments of absence as if he was somewhere else and his fever was increasing all the time... it even started to affect his heart..."

"Heart...and...the dagger..." It was Rosalyn who whispered, she still couldn't process this.

"No, I don't think so."

"But you're not sure?"

"As I've already said, I examined him at the time and he was fine. I don't know any more about possible long-term effects or anything else...but there's a good chance it's this ability that I don't know...the most important thing is to find the cause of his fever quickly, that would solve everything, it's mainly what's attacking his heart and body."