He cupped his head in his palm and gave Raina a gentle glance. He rubbed his chin with pride and replied, "So you did notice," while smirking cunningly. He then continued, "Well, I am so handsome with a charming face and nobody can resist this good look without noticing."
As she listened to his drivel, Raina was glaring at him idly with a grimace that said, 'What the heck my ear hearing?'
'My gut was right from the start. This guy is garbage. I can't help but get a sudden urge to beat him whenever I hear him talking.' Hearing his remarks, Raina thought to herself, frowning her face in contempt.
She was enraged, but she kept her rage in check because there was something more important at hand, and she asked, "If you are finished with your nonsense talk, can you resume the topic we were discussing?"
He felt the cursing glace from Raina and shiver a little. "Ahm," he arrogantly cleared his throat, and then continued explaining, "Your sister also has wizard's blood running through her veins."
He flips his hand in the air to show something to her. As he was circling in the air, a strange light with a unique pattern appeared near Minella's chest, which was glowing outside of her body. When Raina noticed the pattern, she was startled and inquired, "What are these?" with a puzzled expression.
He said, "This is the symbol you are seeing, is the symbol form because of the presence of heavy mana in the body, which is also proof of being wizards."
Raina asked, wrinkling her pace in confusion, "so she has magical power too, but why haven't I seen her talking about this?" Her hand was still rubbing through Minella's palm.
Rufus narrowed his eyes and said, "because she doesn't know about her power either."
Raina got confused with his explanation and asked again, "Why?"
But she stopped for a while and glared at Minella as she thought of something and said, "Is it because she has not awakened her power yet?"
"Not because of that", Rufus immediately responded.
"Then?" Once more, Raina enquired.
He walked over to Minella and pointed to a symbol in the pattern, saying, "Can you see this symbol in the pattern?" Raina's attention is called to the glowing sign by Rufus in the pattern.
"Yes," Raina noticed the pattern and said, "What is it?"
"These symbols appear when someone casts blocking magic on the person."
"Do you mean someone suppressed Minella's magic in her body, but why?" Raina inquired. The fact that Raina was getting to know so many secrets about Minella was really worrring her a lot and she experienced the peculiar terror that was seeping into her bones and permeating throughout her body.
Rufus grinned and shot a scowl at Raina with his arched eyebrow.
Raina suddenly reminded the law of the kingdom and said, "So someone wanted Minella to be safe, which is why they hid her potential from her."
A light smile glimmers on Rufus's face, and he becomes a little proud of her intellect and replies, "Which is why her power is locked within her."
Blinking her eyes, Raina asked, "But why did they not block her wolf transformation power." and continued, with a confused expression, "If someone is really worried about Minella, then shouldn't their priority be to do blocking for both, not just for one?"
"Your question is genuine." Rufus was really enjoying the conversation with her, and his face was filled with a continuous smile.
His eyes continuously observed Raina's lips whenever she raised a question. He now gets a little excited every time he hears her voice.
He explained with a gentle voice, "because magic and werewolf transformation are different things" and for a second shifted his gaze towards Minella. He cast a serious glance at her and said, "If I am guessing correctly, then the person who blocked her magical power was unaware of her werewolf transformation power."
When Raina heard his response, her eyes opened, and she snorted, "But why?"
"Because magic power manifests its symptoms from birth once a child is born, unlike the werewolf transition, which typically occurs after a person reaches adolescence. Because of this, whoever stops your sister's power believes that she only has one awakening in her body "Rufus answered thoughtfully.
"The person who blocked the power must have lived with Minella before she was given to the orphanage. Was that person her parent?" Raina murmured quietly as she glanced confusedly at Minella, who was unconscious on the bed.
'This is not something I should be worried about right now. Minella's power is hidden. That is a good thing for Minella. Right now, my concern should be about her body, which is reacting differently.'
She turned her gaze towards Rufus and asked, "You didn't explain yet about the patches on her body?"
"You are worried about patches on her body. In answer to your question, why doesn't medicine work on her body because there are several changes happening in her body? Those changes alter her internal physical structure. But this medicine interferes with those changes happening in her body."
So you are saying, normal medicine, instead of curing the injured portion in her body, started fighting within her body. Why?" Raina's face was totally twisted with tension as she asked.
Rufus retorted, "But these medicines actually stop the cells' transformation by curing the injury."
Raina, who was disoriented, questioned, "Isn't this what medicine does?"
"Yes, for normal people, but did you forget that your sister is unique? Every time the medication begins to work, the magical barrier near her heart—which I showed you—reacts and rejects it." Rufus answered calmly.
Greeting her teeth with a totally disturbing face, Raina asked, "But why is the magic within her body reacting that way?" Isn't that magic supposed to be helping her to get cured quickly? "
Attentively hearing her question, he rubbed his forehead with his finger as he answered her, "Because of the wolf blood in her body." "The wolf blood and the magic blood do not like each other ." Every time herbs get injected into her body, magic blood takes that as something which will help wolf blood, which is why to stop the monopoly of wolf blood, the magic blood reacts.
Perplexed with his answer, Raina raises the question again, "But didn't you say her magic power is blocked?"
Rufus replied, "I said it is blocked but not removed. Her magic power is still there in her body. So, because of these two demands on her body, two types of blood fight within her body and die in the process. The result is those dark patches on her body. Those patches are dead blood formed by accumulating in one place, resulting in dark patches."
Hearing his words, Raina became shocked and scrunched her face into a crying posture as she took a glance toward Minella. Now she was really sad for Minella's body and asked while swishing her saliva, "So she..."
But before she could say further, in order to make her stop speaking, Rufus said, "I know you want to ask about why she is unconscious. She is unconscious because of all of these fights of blood cells within her body. Her body has suddenly lost so much blood because of the internal killing of her blood cells."