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Poisons and Antidotes

My routine training continued further, as for what the Aaro talked with the demons, I still don't know. Ryu told me not to mention it to the master and that I would rather not ask anymore. He is super suspicious. Sometimes I don't even know whether he is a friend or an enemy.

,,Lilith, it's time to test your knowledge"
,,But Mister, I don't think I am ready."
,, You are, follow me."
He took me to a greenhouse.
,, Mister, I, how am I able to use any of my knowledge there?"
,, Look at those plants, all the plants on the left side are poisonous, all the plants on the right side can heal or grant a boost. You need to memorize them, take notes and find a way to create a potion. I left you all the necessary books here. I want to see your report till the evening."
,, Till the evening? But it's already noon!
,, I see, so less talk and more work"
Then he left me there completely helpless.
I sight ,, Ahhh test my knowledge he said... I haven't read anything about these plants, it's just another way to make me learn more then I originally had to."
Well I had no other choice just to open a book take a sheet and search for those plants by their descriptions and photos.
,,I shall start with the poisonous ones."
Well I wrote down a lot of harmfull weeds, but what really caught me was a flower with my name, this flower is called the Moonlight Lili, it's super dangerous, just one sip from a Lili soup and you are dead, if you don't get the antidote of course. As for another ones, most of them are curable, just a few of them is lethal, for example this blue Pioneer, there is no antidote, it kills you right the moment you drink it, and kill you slowly if you smell it from close.
,,It's seven o clock, I have like two hours left for healing flowers.
I have speedruned it, hoping this is gonna be enough and memorized only two of them. They are Pink vein and Trethea, they have minor healing effect but they can be used as first aid antidotes.
Then he came :
,, Now, let me see your report please"
I gave him the papers and wait for his reaction, he made none at all.
,,Okay, come on, the diner is ready."
Finally, after so much learning and hard trying, finally a good food.
We really had a lot of food to chose from, but they all tasted bad, they were somehow bitter and sour.
,,Mister, why aren't you eating? And where is Tianji?"
,,Well you know girl, when I say I am going to test you, I really mean it."
That's it, suddenly, my head started to spin, my heart was about to explode, my hands kept shaking and he only told me this:
,, If you really made a good progress today, tell me which poisonous flower was in your food?"
By the symptoms I have, I think it was a black widow, this poison is killing you very slowly and the symptoms are getting worse every hour more and more."
,, It's a black Widow"
,, Correct, and how do you cure the effect of the black widow?"
That's the part I completely skipped, I have no idea what to do.
I could only think of a one possible solution, to lessen my symptoms with a mixture of pink vein and Trethea, but I don't know how to make the antidote, I don't have any.
,,I need to figure it out from the book, for now I need a mixture of Pink vein and Trethea, but I don't know how to do so."
,,I can give you one of mine for this time, but I hope you have learned your lesson."
I took the mixture and went straight back to the greenhouse and looked for an antidote. It was made from Trethea and a flower called Azusa, which can reduce harming poison from the blood.
But the mixing wasn't really easy in the state I ended up in. In the end I managed to heal myself, but who knows what's gonna happen next time. I would better finish the learning tomorrow right in the morning, but first I am gonna ask Ryu if he knew about all of this! And if he did, I am gonna kill him.

,,Ryu?! "
,, What the hell is up?"
,,Did you know that your master tried to kill me??"
,,He did what?"
,, He made me eat the Black widow!"
,,Weeellll, that was cruel, he never did that to me, but aren't you a little bit stupid? I mean, the taste must have been awful."
That's the point I couldn't really argue no more, it's true that I read about all the poisons and I should have known that the bitterness and sourness is not something that's normal in the food.
,,From now on, I don't think I will be able to eat anything someone else prepared to me."
And that's how I left his room to cook something for myself. And from this moment, I won't ever eat anyone's food.