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Chapter 63
‘Aagh, it’s painful.’
After persisting Tyra and eventually getting the medicine—or more precisely—the poison, I put it into my mouth, trusting in my own healing power. I then went up to my room and waited for a few minutes before my body started to respond.
Soon, my skin became red and red, and despite Tyra’s dissuasion, who couldn’t leave me because of anxiety, I deliberately scratched the itchy parts a little bit more.
The scratches made the condition worse, and blisters began to form.
“Oh, my! Madam…”
Even though I told Agwen that I took the medicine on purpose, she turned towards Tyra, modified, as if she didn’t know my skin condition would reach this level.
“Are you really going to be okay? Isn’t that too harsh? You would get better, right? Madam, stop scratching!”
Agwen couldn’t help but grab my arm to stop me, but I didn’t stop my hand. No, at first, I intentionally scratched it to spread it faster, but at some point, I really couldn’t stop it now.
“It’s so itchy!”
“There is nothing wrong, right? Miss Tyra, is the Madam okay?”
At the question, Tyra sighed with a pitiful face.
“Madam, do you really have to do this? It’s better to take the medicine as soon as possible now…”
“It’s okay, I can stand it. Do I look very sick?”
“Very much.”
Agwen stamped her foot as she replied.
“Does it just look like it’s painful? Does it really look tolerable?”
Tyra answered as if she couldn’t stand it.
“Of course, it hurts as much as it looks. The Madam must be in pain as if you were burned all over your body…”
“No, what should we do if you give the Madam such severe medicine!”
Agwen opened her mouth in amazement.
Just like Tyra said, my whole body was burning and sore. I was in so much pain that I broke into a cold sweat.
‘I’m going to go crazy.’
I couldn’t lie that I regretted the fact that I told Tyra that it was okay for me to be in pain, so the worse it was, the better.
However, when I looked in the mirror, it was exactly the way I wanted it to be. My entire face and all exposed skin were red as if they had been burned, and large blisters were coming up in places that were scary enough to look at.
It was indescribably painful.
As I subconsciously scratched my body, the blisters burst, leaving blood and ooze on my fingernails. The top of my head was also prickly and sore. Even though I felt the urge to pour my healing power from head to toe right now, I gritted my teeth and held it in.
In the meantime, I smiled with satisfaction.
If I could protect my cat, this was nothing.
‘We’ll see, Madam Elbas.’
“Now, go and gather people as if something big happened.”
“Yes, Madam.”
I lay down on the bed wearing a pajama dress with short sleeves and skirt to expose as much of my body as possible. Of course, I didn’t cover myself with a blanket, either.
Agwen soon spoke urgently, “Oh, what am I going to do?! I’m in trouble!” and left the room.
I smirked to myself.
‘Her acting has become quite skillful.’
The next moment, a loud voice was heard as she commanded the maids as they passed by to bring clean clothes, blankets and buckets. It was such an urgent and exasperated voice that anyone who heard it could tell that something serious had happened.
“Tyra, it hurts so much so could you wrap my hands?”
Persuaded by me, Tyra tied my hands tightly with a cloth so I couldn’t scratch myself.
“Madam, even if you take the antidote quickly now, it’ll subside tomorrow. You’d better eat it in advance.”
“I can’t do that.”
I flatly refused.
If I got better too quickly, it wouldn’t seem like a big deal.
‘I can bear it. I have to show Madam Elbas that I wasn’t being unreasonable.’
It wasn’t acting, it was really painful so I was about to lie down moaning, but soon, Agwen opened the door and came in.
Behind her, I could see the maids bringing clean clothes and buckets.
When I peered with my eyes around, I could see Madam Elbas’s maids snooping in front of my door, wondering what was going on.
Just in time, it seemed that grandmother Rosanne had also come up after hearing Agwen’s raucous noise.
I had deliberately instructed Agwen to make more noise in front of grandmother Rosanne so that she could come sooner than anyone else. It was because I had seen that when I quarreled with Madam Elbas, the moment grandmother appeared, she had kept her mouth shut.
‘Madam Elbas seemed to have difficulty with grandmother Rosanne. It’d be much easier for me to use grandmother Rosanne’s influence than to confront Madam Elbas directly.’
I used my brain in my own way.
Even if grandmother Rosanne wasn’t on my side, it didn’t seem to me that she was the kind of person who would lie and take the side of Madam Elbas.
Moreover, she thought it would be nice to have someone to explain the current situation in the future too. After all, Madam Elbas might be unreasonable, saying things like, “she could be forced to say things like, “I’ve been wronged,” or “Rowaine made a fuss when it was nothing.”
‘I have to make sure I have a witness.’
Grandmother Rosanne, who had entered my room almost supported by her servant, hurriedly stomped on her cane and approached my bed.
“What is it, Rowaine? I’m asking this because there was a lot of noise outside. What happened to you… Oh, no!”
Before I could answer, grandmother Rosanne looked at me and opened her mouth wide.
“What, what is all this? What’s all this about?!”
Agwen answered at once.
“Even though I told Madam Elbas that the Madam has a severe allergy to pollen, she took the flowers…”
Agwen, who had frowning eyebrows (八), slammed her chest with her fist and let out a lamentable sigh.
[ T/N: The raws even included an emote to show Agwen’s eyebrows haha ( ๑ ˃́ ꇴ ˂̀ ) ]
I cheered her hard on the inside. Actually, my body hurt so much that I couldn’t afford to order anything else because I had to endure this.
Meanwhile, grandmother Rosanne sat by my bed and yelled at Agwen.
“You should’ve told me earlier if her allergy was this bad!”
“I made it clear, but Madam Elbas said that it was ‘just an allergy’ and ordered the flowers.”
After glancing at grandmother Rosanne’s reaction to estimating how far she could go, Agwen began to sob as if she judged that it was okay to add to grandmother’s stunned face.
“As the Madam* saw earlier, even though my mistress told Madam Elbas, she was saying that the Duchess was trying to annoy her by making up her own wild rules…”
[ T/N: Agwen referred to grandmother Rosanne as ‘Madam’ since you don’t really say ‘dowager/former duchess.’ ]
It was like that for my madam, but what about maids like us?
After she added, Agwen knelt down at the foot of my bed as she went on.
“But even so, I should’ve stopped her somehow…! It’s all my fault. I should have stopped her…”
‘Good job. She’s so good at this.’
She truly had an outstanding acting talent.
Eventually, Grandmother Rosanne sighed as she thought Agwen’s words were reasonable.
“Never mind. Don’t make a fuss in front of someone who’s sick and get up.”
Recognizing Tyra with her doctor’s bag, grandmother then asked.
“Can you cure her?”
Tyra muffled her words.
“That… It’s difficult because the Madam is pregnant. Allergy medications are usually only strong ones, which could harm her unborn child… What should I do?”
On the contrary, when Tyra asked grandmother Rosanne what she should do, grandmother seemed to feel stressed and almost panicked.
Rosanne’s voice became sharper.
“You mean there is no way?”
“We’ve got no choice but to wait for the Duchess to overcome it with her immunity.”
“When is that?”
“It depends on the condition of the Madam, so I can’t give a definite answer.”
“No, but with those symptoms, can’t you at least predict when she’ll get better?”
“Her condition is so severe and allergies are an immune problem, so the relief of symptoms is very different…”
“What if she doesn’t get better?”
As if Tyra had been waiting for that question, her words came out like thunder from the blue sky.
“As you can see, it’ll be incredibly painful. The Duchess can’t even drink water right now though she wouldn’t be able to eat properly in the future, and her body isn’t hers alone.”
“…Does it affect the baby as well?”
“When a pregnant woman suffers, of course, it affects the fetus as well. What’s more, if she can’t eat, nutritional problems will arise… As you know, the early stages of pregnancy are the most dangerous.”
At those words, grandmother Rosanne touched her forehead.
“No… what kind of pollen allergy is so bad? I’d never heard of such a case.”
Tyra replied calmly.
“Allergies are an immune response, so there’s a big difference between individuals. Besides, the Duchess has a severe allergy to lily flowers, and a large amount of lilies came into the mansion like this.”
‘Goob job, good job.’
If my body hadn’t been in pain, I would’ve had a hard time holding back a laugh in exhilaration. But, fortunately or unfortunately, only a painful groan came out of my mouth.
“What should we do…”
Grandmother Rosanne, who had been breathing in and out her sighs, suddenly shouted in a voice filled with anger.
“Rowaine is lying down like this right now because of someone, but what’s Cayetana doing that she hasn’t even come yet? You, go and get Madam Elbas!”
The next moment, I could hear the footsteps of someone running in a rush.