Shad is ill.
This disease is not without symptoms. After sending Dr. Schneider to the Randall Valley train station on Wednesday and returning home, Shade felt that something was wrong with his body. The initial symptoms were a little weakness and a slight dizziness in the head, but he just thought it was because he had been overworked recently and suddenly relaxed, and his body was not yet adapted.
Therefore, after he was busy writing the "Report on Miss Fiona Drago and the Establishment of the College" for Miss Danister, he also spent a very good night with Luvia, who had not stayed overnight at No. 6 St. Teresa's Square for a long time.
Just as Miss Carina said, the purple-eyed girl knew about what happened between them in advance. Therefore, when the two of them cuddled together at midnight and Shade expressed his apologies and plans for the future, Luvia did not get angry, but instead pointed her finger at his lips:
"We agreed at the beginning, rogue knight. If it is for our cause, I will not object to your actions."
At this moment, Xia De already felt the dizziness in his head getting worse, but the gentle girl in his arms prevented him from thinking more.
"You are very reserved in love and have not taken advantage of my trust in you. You have a good eye for choosing your targets. Even I have to admit that Carina Cavendish is really beautiful. I have talked to her and she will help us with all her strength. The power of the Witch Council will eventually fall into our hands."
She gently kissed Xia De's cheek, and a reserved yet charming expression appeared on her face at the same time:
"On a night like this, let's not talk about spoiling the fun. Please tell me, knight, how does it feel to be a witch?"
Even though Shad didn't say anything was wrong with him, after being woken up by Mia's meowing on Thursday morning, Luvia still found that his voice was a little hoarse, and he even coughed a few times when he got up.
It is extremely rare for a ring mage to fall ill, let alone a ring mage like Shade who has a very strong physique.
Although Xia De still thought that this might be related to his being too tired these days, Luvia immediately blushed and loudly stated that it had absolutely nothing to do with her.
She was quite worried about this and sent a letter to the Carina Manor, hoping that a maid would take care of Shade personally in the next few days.
Shade stayed at home all Thursday because he was not feeling well. That night, after dinner, he was sore all over that he even gave up his original plan to write a report and went back to his room to rest. Half an hour later, the three young maids who were attracted by Mia's cry touched his forehead and found that his body temperature had risen to a dangerous level.
Anxious Luvia, Miss Carina and Dorothy soon gathered at number 6, Saint Teresa's Square that night. After confirming that Shad had an inexplicable high fever, they used the ring magician's method to confirm that this was definitely not a normal illness.
Mystical methods, including the Plague Doctor Ring, could not affect his condition. Only the most primitive physical cooling method could barely lower his body temperature, but the continued high fever showed no signs of subsiding.
Shad, who was tortured by illness, was not completely unconscious. He knew the ladies had arrived and that Mia was lying worriedly on the side of his head, but he could only groan and feel uncomfortable all over, struggling in a half-asleep and half-wakeful state.
For a long time afterwards, he was in this delicate state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness. The high fever caused severe headaches and trouble distinguishing dreams from reality. The rhythm of the drum beats he heard at the Wilde Opera House in his coma continued to play, making the headaches and nausea even more severe.
There was a time when he even dreamed that he was stabbed to death by Luvia with a sharp knife, so much so that when he was woken up by Luvia in reality to drink medicine, he was so frightened that he could not move.
When he closed his eyes, it was darkness; when he opened his eyes, he saw the monotonous scenery of the bedroom. He knew that he had always been at home, that Mia rarely left him, that the maids had always taken care of him, that many people came to visit him, and that he had been fed a lot of strange potions, but he himself could not think coherently.
Severe headaches, nausea, and the body's instinctive sleepiness caused him to lose his sensitivity to time for nearly two weeks, from Thursday, the thirteenth day of the Windy Month, to Saturday, the twenty-second day of the Windy Month.
He lay in bed every day, and someone would bring him three meals on time. Occasionally, when he woke up, he could see Mia staring at Luvia's new flowers on the windowsill, and the flowers in the pots bloomed more and more conspicuously as he opened his eyes again and again.
After all, spring is really here.
The girls' clothes seemed to have changed from winter to spring in just over a week. The maids who took care of him at home every day also told him about the increasing spring scenery in Tobysk outside the window.
In his drowsiness, he knew that Luvia would stay here most nights, and when he woke up with a headache late at night, she would hold him in bed and tell him all kinds of stories;
Miss Carina would arrange a maid at home every morning and leave Tifa at No. 6 Saint Teresa's Square to take care of his daily life. When the Duchess left, Shade would always get a wet kiss on the forehead;
Dorothy and Resia, who came with Ajelina, came to visit him every other day. The sad girls often sat by his bed, holding his hands and saying all kinds of sweet words.
It seemed that with Xia De's serious illness, his home became more lively than usual.
Yin Luna, Sister Diefflin, Helen and Grace, Father Augustus, and Dr. Schneider, who returned to Tobesk a little later, all came here to visit him. Ordinary friends Baron Lavender, Baron Rwanda, Director Anlos, and neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Smith also expressed their concerns.
At some point, all kinds of gifts, including but not limited to carnations, chocolates, greeting cards, fruits, and handicrafts, piled up at the foot of the bed and in the kitchen. Every day when Shad woke up, he could hear someone visiting him in his headache. Even Queen Diana sent a doctor to check on him and sent a brand new tea set as a gift.
Four great witches from afar, including Grandma Cassandra, also appeared in Shad's home through projection on a night that Shad could not remember. The projection ritual they used was obviously very advanced. After checking his condition in the bedroom, they discussed Shad's strange condition together.
Although the high fever continued, the good news was that apart from the high fever, pain, vomiting and severe nasal congestion, Shade had no other symptoms, and these symptoms would not be transmitted to anyone else. This was not a simple disease, nor a curse, nor was there any trace of the influence of the relic. This seemed to be a natural reaction of Shade's body, so on the second day after Shade had a high fever, the witches were completely sure that this was directly related to the "twisted origin of the earth" that was swallowed.
Worried Luvia, on the one hand, asked Yin Luna to go through the basement of Shade's house to the Randall Valley to discuss the situation with the "Guardian of the Earth", and on the other hand, she used one of the three "devil gold coins" for divination without hesitation.
Combining the divination results with the advice given by the chosen ones from far away on earth, the ladies who were worried about Shad's health realized that Shad only needed to rest in bed and he would recover naturally over time.
Thus, the drowsy stranger received the best care he could not have imagined. During this period, Miss Carina even thought about moving Shade to her own estate, but was rejected by Luvia and Dorothy:
"Shad can only recover at home. This is the result of divination. Besides, he will feel uncomfortable if he is not at home!"
No one can refute this reason.
He was indeed recovering day by day. In the first few days of the illness, Shad was awake for no more than six hours a day and ate very little. But from the fourth day, although the high fever still persisted, his sleepiness was significantly relieved. He was even able to listen to the maids reading newspapers in bed and have short conversations with visiting guests.
By the seventh day of his illness, although his throat was hoarse and he couldn't speak, Shad could try to drag his weak body out of bed to wash his face and brush his teeth. But as soon as he left the bedroom, he was gently carried back by the maids, and then he was lectured by Luvia, Dorothy, Miss Carina and Leicia in turn:
"Isn't it the same for the maids to wipe your face and brush your teeth as for you to do it yourself? Oh, Shad, you are in this state, can't you enjoy your life?"
Xia De himself knew what was wrong with him. After all, after swallowing the power that twisted the earth, "she" also said that the side effects would appear later. And the high fever did not subside, and it was indeed as "she" said, not a very dangerous thing.
Although Shade's body could recover naturally, the girls still prepared various strange "tonics" for Shade to try to speed up his recovery. But those strange potions and tonics that Shade had never heard of mostly tasted weird and had no effect.
Of course, not all methods are useless. The only ones that can work are the magic potions sent by Sister Defulin and the Red Butterfly Twins.
The nun's magic potion was a potion that she made in the sacrificial field after taking some "moonlight water" from the attic and using the secret method of the spiritual order to repair the soul. The potion that Helen and Grace sent was a strange red potion.
The potion was in a thumb-sized test tube, and the liquid in the tube was crystal clear. Although it tasted like "blood brew", it was more of a sour and sweet taste like a green apple.
Xia De originally thought that he would not recover until the end of the month of the Windy Month, but with the help of the nuns and the Red Butterfly Girls, he felt that he was not far from recovery.