Aiwass was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to touch the red powder remaining on Yulia's forehead.
He felt a scorching hot touch on his fingertips - just like touching freshly poured hot water through a glass, which would make his fingers subconsciously feel the burning pain.
The sweat that Julia exuded has now turned into the fire essence that seeps out of the phantom demon "Rebellious Flame Butterfly" in her body!
Aiwass suddenly recalled that the day after the first warehouse explosion... that is, the day when Senior Haina came to his house, Yulia did not wake up until dusk in the afternoon and looked extremely weak.
And just now... it was just a warehouse explosion, but Edward gave up on taking Aiwass home, and immediately sent Sherlock away to deal with the matter alone. In the end, he came back earlier than Sherlock.
Aiwass immediately realized who was the culprit behind the two warehouse explosions.
From the very beginning, it was not a demonologist trying to summon a demon.
It was because the "Butterfly of Rebellious Flame" in Yulia's body went out of control!
The flames in her body leaked out uncontrollably, which eventually led to the two warehouse explosions... And the fire essences collected in the warehouse were not imitation fire essences synthesized by alchemists, but traces left after the "Butterfly of Rebellious Flame" activities!
“…Okay, glued back together.”
Edward breathed a sigh of relief, a little tired. "I'll leave the rest to you, Aiwass. I'll take a break and explain it to you later... You can help heal your sister first."
After he said that, the invisible chains on Yulia disappeared. She fell into Aiwas' arms, feeling the unconscious girl look a little heavy.
The cracks on Yulia's skin no longer shone red, nor spewed out terrible flames and heat, but they had not yet completely healed. It looked like fresh scars all over her body, as if she had been cut by a knife, and blood was slowly seeping out.
Edward's lips were already dry from being baked. After he sat aside, he immediately poured himself a full glass of water. After drinking it all, he poured himself a second glass.
After drinking the second glass of water, he immediately closed his eyes and lay on his back on the sofa. His whole body was stretched out, and he became visibly weak.
Aiwass also looked familiar. This was clearly a sign that his magic power had been almost drained.
He recognized clearly that the spell that sealed Yulia was not the spell that the law mage learned - because there was no mark of Avalon on it at all.
These transparent shackles are more like the soul shackles of the ancient Parthia Kingdom.
That was the restraint spell they used when capturing slaves or performing sacrifices, which could directly bind the soul and temporarily seal the opponent's magic pool. Edward used all his strength to release this spell and forced the Flame of Rebellion Butterfly back.
Was this a spell he had learned from Milton University... or was it taught to him by his adoptive father
Doubts arose in Aiwas' mind, but he had no time to ask.
Yulia only escaped the fatal fate of being ripped out of her belly by the phantom demon, but her high fever still needed to be treated.
"Give me a clean towel and wet it with water."
Aiwass slid the wheelchair to the bedside and said quickly to Oswald: "Warm water is best."
"Okay, I'll be right there."
Oswald nodded and did it, while Aiwass frowned.
He took off Yulia's burnt and tattered pajamas and stuffed her lower body into the quilt first. He held Yulia's upper body in his arms, let her head rest on his legs, and lay on the bed with her back facing up.
He stretched out his left hand and placed it steadily on Yulia's heart from above. He closed his eyes and visualized himself radiating light.
A brilliant light burst out from Aiwas' palm, quickly burning and expelling the pain in Yulia's body.
Yulia became visibly calmer. Her red cheeks quickly began to fade, and her whispering voice also became calmer. But Aiwass's frown deepened.
Feeling his palms soaked with sweat, his expression turned serious.
As he treated him, Aiwass clearly felt a restless and frenzied heat flowing into his body through his palms. It was like eating a very spicy dried chili pepper, and then choking and coughing, and the throat and the entire esophagus became hot. He could feel a tubular organ becoming more clearly present in his senses.
At this moment, this "burning" feeling appeared in the palm of Aiwas' left hand, and quickly flowed along the palm toward his heart, opening up a burning channel in the middle of his left arm.
Aiwass didn't know what was going on, but he instinctively sensed the danger.
He loosened his grip before the heat spread to his heart.
At this moment, Yulia's breathing had become smooth, the burning heat on her skin had almost dissipated, and the bloody wounds had healed again.
But the heat did not dissipate immediately, but remained in Aiwass's left arm.
It felt painful and swollen, like the swelling of gums. His left arm was even redder than his right arm, and the temperature of both arms was different.
He frowned and did not immediately take care of his left arm. Instead, he stuffed Yulia back into the quilt to preserve her body temperature and let her rest for a while.
Although this might make the quilt dirty with her sweat... but that is fire essence after all, and it can provide a good temperature after drying.
"Towels are coming."
At this moment - less than half a minute later, a clean towel soaked in warm water was brought over by Oswald.
He also handed over a basin of water and placed it on the shelf nearby.
Aiwas nodded and took it, carefully wiping the sweat off Yulia's body with the towel.
After just a few wipes, the originally pure white towel turned red, but the dark red color did not look like blood, but more like it was caused by wiping the strawberry jam that fell on the table.
He handed the towel back to Oswald and motioned for him to wash it.
After repeating this three times, he finally wiped away all the fire essence from her body. He even kept some of it and put it in his pocket.
Yulia's body temperature finally returned to normal, and she lay on the pillow with her head tilted and fell into a deep sleep.
Without waiting for Aiwas's order, Oswald had already brought a soft and warm quilt. He wrapped the quilt outside the old quilt, rolled the already asleep Yulia into the new quilt, and replaced the quilt and bed sheet that were contaminated by the fire essence.
"This quilt is obviously unusable - it's full of fire essence residue."
Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief, leaned slightly on the wheelchair, and explained softly: "It's the same as this basin. Even if it's dried up, it's still dangerous - as long as there is a little bit of fire essence left after drying up, it only takes a spark or a slightly higher temperature to burn them directly. Similarly, it's not safe to pour them into the sewer."
"I understand, Master Aiwass," Oswald nodded, obviously already very skilled in handling the current situation, "I'll find a place to burn them first."
After watching the old butler leave, Aiwas glanced at Julia who was soundly sleeping, and then looked at his eldest brother Edward.
He asked in a deep voice: "What is going on?"
"You should know that Yulia is the 'Phantom Demon Egg', right?"
Edward pressed his forehead hard, took a deep breath, and answered in a tired voice, "Even if you didn't know it before, you should have guessed it after reading so many occult books.
"Yulia is already fifteen years old this year. Generally speaking, it is difficult for a phantom egg to survive past the age of twelve... However, the Hypnos decoction my father bought can keep the phantom in her body in a dormant state, and the blood-purifying potion can gradually precipitate the body fluids contaminated by the power of the phantom.
"But as she gets older, the repressed power in her body becomes stronger. Now, a double dose of Hypnos Decoction is no longer enough to suppress the phantom demon, and increasing the dose may cause irreversible damage to her nerves. The slightest fluctuation in her emotions may trigger the leakage of power."
At this point, Edward stretched out his hand and pressed hard on his temple, then opened his eyes and looked at Aiwass: "Come to think of it, this matter has something to do with you."
"... and me?" Aiwass opened his eyes wide in surprise.
"Yes. She was very worried about you because you were attacked and fell into a coma last week. She didn't sleep well that night and came to see you several times. The next morning she had a high fever."
Edward said in a deep voice: "Yulia felt that she was about to lose control. But her father had not left at that time, so Yulia immediately told her father about it.
"My father sent Mr. Oswald to take Yulia to a nearby unmanned seafood warehouse, where he let her burn as much as she could and vent her overflowing energy. That warehouse was a subsidiary of our family, so there was no need to worry about the warehouse owner repeatedly asking the Inspectorate to investigate or hiring a private detective to investigate the matter because of property losses.
"As a result, maybe after the last outburst, my father forgot to re-strengthen her seal... Today, because you attended Princess Isabel's dinner, or because you have to go to school tomorrow, or for some other reason, Julia lost control again. It should have happened when Oswald sent you out.
"At that time, you and Mr. Oswald went to attend the princess's dinner, I was invited by Sherlock to investigate a Lloyd's District gang, and my father temporarily left Avalon. The other servants had never been in contact with the extraordinary. She didn't know who to ask for help and was afraid of causing trouble for us, so she decided to handle it herself.
"I guess she wanted to go to the warehouse by herself. After all, it's not far from home, and it only takes about 15 minutes to walk there... But she didn't know that the place is still under martial law.
“She couldn’t get to her destination, and she didn’t know how to get outside. But she followed the road and started looking for an unmanned warehouse… In the end, she was lucky enough to run to an abandoned stone warehouse before she lost consciousness.”
"Yulia doesn't even know the way, and she dares to go out alone..."
Hearing Edward's words, Aiwass shook his head in fear: "Fortunately, we didn't run too far. We are still in White Queen District. If we went to Lloyd's District, it might be dangerous."
"No, I think she actually has a pretty good memory of the way. Last time, she was only carried there by Mr. Oswald, and she was in a state of high fever and blurred consciousness. This time, she was able to find the warehouse by herself with her remaining memory.
"I think she acted too decisively. If not, the mansion would have been burned down by now. Many servants would have died, and her identity as the Phantom Egg would have been exposed. According to current laws, Phantom Eggs are usually euthanized.
"From this point of view, Yulia may have the adaptability to the path of balance or the path of wisdom. I think she should be praised rather than scolded."
Edward sighed, "But there's no point in saying that. Everything is fine now anyway. Looking at it from a positive perspective, this may be a good thing. Yulia has used the power of the phantom twice in a row, and has almost exhausted the power of the phantom. I have just used a secret method to reinforce the seal. As long as she takes the potion on time next time, even if her emotions fluctuate, she won't be so easily out of control."
it's all over.
The eldest brother of Aiwass said this while lying on the sofa tiredly.
Even though his clothes looked a little messy, half black and half torn, Edward's voice was still calm and steady, not impatient or anxious: "Don't worry, Aiwass. It's too late today, and it's been too long... That's why I need you to use the "illumination technique". If it were daytime, I could call Bishop Mathers to come and take a look.
"Although the fire this time was not as fierce as the last time, it was also because of this that I discovered the fire too late. I was not at home that day - fortunately, I happened to hear about this incident from Mr. Oswald this morning. So when I saw the fire, I immediately thought of Yulia and rushed over as soon as possible.
"But her burning lasted too long this time, causing her spiritual shell to crack and rot. If it can be suppressed in time next time, this won't happen again, and the seal will be much easier."
This square-faced, serious-looking, always frowning man spoke calmly and clearly in the voice of a reliable adult: "It's my fault this time. I forgot to remind my father to check the seal, and my father left in a hurry... This situation will not happen again.
"As for the remaining fire essence, you don't have to worry about it. Due to historical and political reasons, the Avalon royal family can only hire a few alchemists. The scholar responsible for inspecting the dangerous alchemical products brought back by the Glass Island Supervisory Bureau is only that one person."
"Who is it?" Aiwass asked.
"Dr. William Wayne Westcott. He is currently teaching alchemy in the sixth department of the Royal Law University, the Department of Esoteric Studies. He also teaches anatomy in other departments. You may run into him at school. He is a good friend of my father, and my father has already made arrangements... I will go to school with you tomorrow, and I will go to say hello to him."
Edward narrowed his eyes and said dangerously calmly, "I'm sure he will give another result after the test."
Then, he looked at Aiwass and comforted him, "Although my father is not here, I will come home every day to visit him. If the Inspectorate is fine, I will not go out.
"Just go to school and study hard. Leave the housework to your brother."