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Chapter 54 - Empress's Disease

For the rest of the day this same scene was repeated throughout the city. Everyone in town talked about the fires and the two mysterious figures. In a moment the names of the two figures were revealed Itachi and Bakugou, and it was revealed that both were to blame. In addition it was revealed that the previous problems of the Shen family were caused by Itachi.

At that moment Shen Hua, Min Su, the Princess, and the Emperor then sat at a table in the palace. The Emperor is staring at Shen Hua, while the latter eats, the princess and Min Su are sitting between them without moving. The atmosphere in the room is very oppressive.

"Do you have something to tell me?", the Emperor asked Shen Hua in an authoritative, angry voice. In the middle of the day the Emperor was informed that Shen Wei's properties were being burned, and that two strange figures were found near the fires. When he asked what the guards were doing, he discovered that the princess had summoned them to a party, to thank them for their good work.

He linked this matter to Shen Hua immediately. When he asked the princess she refused to speak to him, making him even more annoyed with Shen Hua for turning his daughter against him. He doesn't care about Shen Wei's property, he was even pleased with the losses Shen Wei suffered, but it was an attack on his country's capital and he couldn't ignore it. When Shen Hua and Min Su arrived at his house he invited them to dinner and began staring Shen Hua.

Shen Hua stopped eating and started thinking for a moment, "No.", Shen Hua said and went back to eating. The Emperor became even angrier, a vein in his forehead began to throb.

"Are you sure?" the Emperor asked again.

"Hmmm. Ohh, I hear Shen Wei's properties have become barbecue.", Shen Hua said smiling.

"And you know who did it?", the Emperor said in a more irritated tone.

"Me and Min Ji.", Shen Hua said smiling, as if it were nothing.

The Emperor sighed, "Eat. Then you can go see the Empress.", He realized that getting angry with Shen Hua would lead to nothing. The Emperor began to eat as well. Seeing the Emperor eat, Min Su and the princess began to eat too.

When they had finished eating the Emperor took them to the Empress's room. She is lying in bed with her eyes closed, seems to be simply sleeping.

"The doctors managed to prevent the poison from developing, but could not find a cure.", the Emperor said sadly, he feels very guilty for not being able to protect the Empress.

Shen Hua approached the Empress and began to examine, "What are her symptoms?"

"It started with nausea, then a severe fever, after that, her mouth and nose began to bleed. The doctors managed to prevent the disease from progressing, after this she fell into a coma.", the Emperor spoke with anger directed at Shen Wei.

Shen Hua watched the Empress's body, he took her hand, formed a whip with blade at the tip, and cut into her palm and watched, the blood trickling slowly and uninterruptedly. Seeing this the Emperor was angry but did not interrupt. Then he opened her eyes, they are slightly red, then opened her mouth and saw small cracks. Finally he put his fingers on his jugular to feel the heartbeat, they are very slow, even for someone in a coma.

"This is snake venom. I've read about all the spiritual beasts in the country and there's no snake with a poison that causes these symptoms. This kind of poison is slow acting but will eventually kill. The only way to cure it is to find out which snake is the poison and pick it up.", Shen Hua went to the Emperor and spoke.

Hearing this the Emperor has lost hope, if it is not a spiritual beast of his country the chance to find out which snake is in the time they have is minimal. "So we have no way to cure her?", the Emperor asked gloomily, Shen Hua is his last hope.

"Not quite. Knowing which snake is just makes the process easier. I can cure her, but you may not like it very much my method.", Shen Hua sat on a chair in the bedroom.

"Is there a way? Which is?", the emperor felt as if he had been saved from death.

"To make a snake poison antidote it is necessary to extract the poison from them. If the poison is from the same snake species it works faster and more efficiently, but if you don't have the snake you can use the poison from another snake of the same family. Our problem is that we do not know to which family the snake in question belongs and if we use the antidote for the wrong family, besides not cure it will worsen its condition.", to study biology and chemistry were favorite activities Lu Fujin's, plus anime and sleeves.

"So you're talking to bet !?", the Emperor shouted. He is known for being calm and rarely exalting himself, but with the sick Empress he has become easily irritable.

"No. My idea is to inject diluted poison from all snake families into her, then inject all the antidotes. That plan may seem risky but it's very safe. It's not ideal but it's very safe.", Shen Hua spoke as a doctor indicating treatment to a family.

The Emperor was silent for a few minutes. After thinking for a while he said, "I agree."