The knights who were guarding outside came in and asked the emperor if there was an attack. Adage hastily commanded the knights to bring the royal physician in and to not let anyone except the physician. The knights who saw the pallid expression of their emperor quickly saluted and ran to find the royal physician. Adage then swiftly rushed to Keira's side and asked.
"Keira! What's wrong!"
Keira could not hear Adage's voice properly due to the muddledness of her consciousness. She could only reply with painful moans. Adage quickly inspected Keira's condition. He could not see traces of blood on her lips, so the blood must not have been coughed or vomited out from her.
Adage inspected Keira's body. Her body did not show signs of poisoning, apart from her pale complexion. Accordingly, he surmised that she was not poisoned but was injured somewhere on her body.
Merely thinking of someone hurting Keira made his blood instantly boil. 'If someone dares—!' Adage would not know what he would do to that person but is sure he would not let them off easily.
Adage grabbed a hold of the quilt that Keira covered herself with, trying to remove it to inspect where the blood could come from. But as he was trying to remove the quilt, he was stopped by Keira.
"N—no! Let go!" Keira yelled.
Stunned, Adage stopped tugging the quilt but then his expression got serious, and once more tried peeling off the quilt from her body.
"I said no!" Keira was also not giving up.
"Don't worry, I'm just trying to see where you're hurt." Adage tried to placate her, but Keira was not giving in.
Adage was getting more worried because the scent of blood was only getting stronger. Left with no other choice he tugged the quilt more fiercely. Of course, Keira who had no strength left in her body from her condition got beaten by Adage in their tug of war.
The quilt was removed and revealed Keira's curled-up body. Her bruises were mostly gone, and only some of the bandages were left. Unlike before wherein she was almost wrapped up like a mummy from all the small cuts and bruises all over her body. Adage who finally saw Keira's body behind the large quilt saw that the sheets and quilt were stained with blood and his irises constricted.
There was blood everywhere on the bed. The blood was most prominent in Keira's lower body region. Her thighs were even soaked with blood. Adage felt his head spin, as countless possibilities of Keira's being intensely hurt ran through his brain. If Keira could read those thoughts she would have cried and shouted to the male lead that her aunt was simply visiting her.
Adage needed to see her 'injury' so he tried undressing Keira's pajamas. Keira, who felt something tugging her comfy shorts opened her eyes in horror. Keira struggled even further trying to stop Adage from seeing her bare figure. She was dying of embarrassment. She wanted to explain to Adage but was in too much pain and was busy putting all her energy into stopping Adage from undressing her.
Adage was however relentless. He managed to tear open her shorts instead of cleanly taking them off her. He saw that she was bleeding from her 'bottom part'. He was mortified. Adage did not have an understanding of women's bodies because even before, her mother kept her period a secret from her son since he was still young and the women in this world were extremely conservative about this topic. Hence, his mind could only create terrifying scenarios of Keira's condition who was bleeding from the spot he had no understanding of.
He was scared that Keira would continue to bleed out. Therefore, he wanted to inspect the 'wound' itself and try to stop it from bleeding out 'somehow'. Keira still had her last defense on—her underwear. She was tired from the tugging earlier so she could only hug her body and close her legs, stopping Adage from seeing more that shouldn't be seen.
However, now Adage was getting more ridiculous. Keira was feeling a tug on her last line of defense! All the remaining blood on her face fell. She struggled more fiercely like a fish caught in a net that was about to become the dinner of the fisherman that caught her. She started to violently kick her legs, not caring if she hit Adage's face.
He was getting desperate and scared as each tick of the clock went, "Keira, please."
Adage had already given up pulling her underwear off, so was trying to open her legs this time, trying to find the source of the blood that seemed to flow endlessly. He caught her kicking leg and was close to opening her bloodied thighs apart. Keira cried in alarm in her mind and hurriedly asked Elly for some strength potion.
Keira: [Elly! Quickly—Strength potion!]
System 999: [On it Host! (≧∇≦)7]
Having assessed the situation, System 999 knew its Host wanted to break free from the male lead and not actually heavily injure him, so it gave the weaker version of the strength potion that Keira previously used to act as ehem—superman.
Using the newly given buff, Keira kicked Adage with all her might. Adage who was caught off guard directly fell to the floor. Keira quickly used the opening to grab the fallen quilt and wrapped herself like a giant burrito. By the time Adage stood up, Keira had successfully managed to completely cover herself from top to bottom and only a small portion of her head, her flowing orange hair, and her little toes could be seen.
"Your Majesty, I'm here!"
The door busted open and the royal physician who was sweating after hurrying over after being summoned to the emperor's chamber was standing there with her medical bag. She was told that there was a great emergency and her presence was needed immediately. So the royal physician quickly gathered her tools and ran to the emperor's chambers, thinking that the emperor must be hurt.
The royal physician was dumbfounded by the scene in front of her. She looked at the person in bed that was neatly rolled in a quilt and the emperor staring daggers at the 'man burrito'.
Adage only just then noticed the royal physician. His eyes were cold but his voice was soft, like trying to not startle the person in bed.
He pointed at the man burrito, "Take a look at her."
"H—her?" The royal physician brought her eyes back to the man burrito in bed.
"Yes." Adage only nodded but his eyes were telling the royal physician to hurry up.
"A—are you not hurt Your Majesty?" The royal physician asked just in case since the emperor's life is the most important after all.
"No. Quickly inspect her condition right now." His commanding tone scared the royal physician so the royal physician could only do nothing but approach the man burrito.
"E—excuse me miss? Could you open up the blanket so I could take a look at you?"
The man burrito made no response.
The royal physician tried again, "Miss?"
Still no response.
Having no answer, the royal physician could only turn to Adage and ask what was wrong with the lady in the bed. Adage tried his best to explain the situation.
"So, you are saying that you saw this lady over here groan in pain, holding her lower abdomen, and was bleeding from her 'lower part'?"
Adage nodded in agreement.
After having an understanding of the situation, the royal physician tried her very best not to break out laughing in front of the serious expression of the emperor, whose hair and robe were all over the place after the 'light' tussle that he and Keira had earlier.
The physician then explained on Keira's behalf.
Adage who now understood everything and realized that he was completely wrong and had overreacted blushed so hard that his face to his neck was completely red.