Sera was glad that she stopped Pablo from touching the mist. It was her who got hurt in Pablo’s place which was alright for her.
’She loves you so much.’ Cupid wiped her imaginary tears.
’I know. And it’s to the point of obsession. I hope it doesn’t become poison for me.’
Pablo moved Sera behind him and examined the mist some more.
It was widespread behind the castle and nothing was visible through it.
’The King must be tense. It is closer to the castle and soon, it will engulf it completely. His desperation I could use.’
Pablo looked some more.
’The mist here is more dangerous than the one I touched. Only my nails were harmed there. Whereas this one, it rotted Sera’s hand in just seconds. Why is that? Same mist but different power?’
’Maybe this is the City of Royals that’s why the mist is most dangerous here?’ Cupid guessed.
’Yeah. I think so too. But to figure it out, I really have to go inside this mist.’
’You will die if you do that.’
’I know. I will die if I go inside like this. That’s why I won’t go without preparation.’
Pablo looked at Sera.
"Do you have something like a bottle or anything like a container?" He asked.
"What for?" Sera questioned.
"To store the mist. Do you have it or not?"
"I have something but the mist will destroy it too."
"It won’t. Just give me that."
"Fine." Sera handed a small plastic bottle to Pablo. It was the same as the bottles used for keeping toothpicks back on Earth.
"Why do you have this bottle or whatever this is with you?" Pablo asked a normal question.
"I keep it for storing insects. If I find a nice insect, I store it." Sera shared.
"Good enough." Pablo didn’t want to waste time on Sera’s hobby so he went silent.
He brought the plastic bottle near the white mist.
"Let me do it." Sera offered.
"Not this time. I have to solve this case. Let me test the mist too."
Sera argued some more but Pablo wasn’t listening to her anymore.
He focused on the bottle and in a swift motion, he ran it through the mist.
It took him less than a second and he closed the bottle.
Sera dashed at him.
She saw his hand.
’This is annoying now.’ Pablo didn’t like the extra care.
"Nothing happened?" Sera exclaimed.
"Of course nothing happened. I did it very fast. And look, the bottle is safe as well."
Some mist was inside the plastic bottle and the bottle was completely fine just like Pablo’s hand.
"So the mist only attacks living things?" Sera guessed.
"Yes." Pablo nodded. "The mansions and the houses are safe. So I figured the bottle will be safe as well."
Sera, however, ignored the bottle and saw Pablo’s hand from all sides and it was really fine. No damage at all. Not even his nails were damaged like before.
"How is this possible? I also touched it for a very short amount of time but my hand was injured. Why did it do nothing to you?" Sera asked. Cupid and even Andrezj were curious about it.
"Maybe it sensed that you are rich like all these royals so it acted faster on you." Pablo said.
"You are also rich though." Sera said.
"Yeah. But you are rich from birth. I build money by killing and threatening."
"Then isn’t that worse?"
"For some, it might be. But for this mist, it isn’t. That’s all there is."
"It might be the case. I don’t know anymore."
"Forget it. Let’s go to the hospital and then back to the slums."
Pablo began walking with Sera again.
They walked normally as if the city was their home and they raised no suspicions because of that.
"Do you also know where the hospital is?" Sera asked.
"Yes. That pervert told that too. He was looking a little far from the castle when he mentioned the hospital."
"You see everything. That’s very cool."
"But tell me one thing, why are hospitals made when there are healers? I mean, people can go to them instead of going to the hospital."
"What are you talking about? Hospitals are the gathering place of healers. The healers who don’t want to work for the military or for the Count’s guards, chose to work in the hospitals. People visit the hospitals to get healed and the healers heal them. Though, only some cities have hospitals. It takes a lot of money to build one after all."
"Right. Stupid question."
Sera chuckled and said some more things. Pablo ignored her all the way.
They walked for a few more minutes and they were now far from the King’s castle but not very far.
After a while, they stopped in front of a big building.
A hand symbol was made and from the hand some kind of green light was coming.
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"That’s the symbol of all the hospitals. It’s a healer’s hand." Sera explained.
Pablo nodded and climbed the stairs.
The building had a wide entrance and it was open. People were coming and going out.
There were some guards there but they weren’t stopping anyone. Though, they watched everyone who was coming and going.
Pablo and Sera walked normally and like others, they entered the hospital with no problem.
They saw a reception desk just upon entering and Pablo went there.
He stood there and the woman greeted him.
"How can I help you, sir?" She asked.
"Where are the patients who suffered from the mist? I want to see them." Pablo said the main thing.
"This is the ground floor so if you go above the floors, all the patients there are the ones you are looking for." The woman answered quickly as well.
Pablo nodded and went to reach the next floor. He already expected the hospital to be full of mist’s patients.
Sera followed him and they both climbed the stairs.
Pablo was in a hurry so he reached the floor quickly and entered inside.
"This was expected."
The floor was full of big rooms and those big rooms were full of beds and all the beds had someone on it. No bed was empty and even two people were lying in some beds.
Pablo walked towards the nearest bed and stood next to the patient.
The patient was skinnier and his skin was red all over. He had his eyes closed and Pablo just looked at him from all sides.
’This…’ Pablo frowned. He didn’t know if what he was thinking was right but that was the only thing he could say..
’His body is full of tumors.’