Surviving as the Heavenly Demon’s Concubine - Chapter 15

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Riser, who had been lost in thought, suddenly snapped to attention at Mujin’s voice.

“Will that be okay?”

-I don’t know. We’ll have to try.

Riser made a displeased expression at Mujin’s irresponsible words.

‘If it fails, I’ll just waste precious medicine.’

Worried, Riser only agreed to throw it after getting a promise from Mujin that even if he failed to catch the moss ball in one try, he wouldn’t ask for another one or attempt it again.

“I’m throwing it!”

-Good! One, two, three!

Riser threw the moss ball she had rolled into a round dumpling through the bars at Mujin’s signal.

-…!

She was concentrating all her nerves, worried that the sharply flying moss dumpling might hit the opposite wall and get crushed.

Just before the dumpling barely collided with the wall, it stopped in mid-air.

-How could you throw it so hard!

“S-sorry. I got nervous without realizing it.”

Mujin grumbled.

Actually, considering Mujin’s status, a clump of moss medicine picked from prison didn’t matter much.

But just like the disappointment of not catching a snack thrown in the air isn’t necessarily because the snack is precious, Mujin really wanted to catch the moss dumpling too.

-If I wasn’t a genius, I couldn’t have caught this.

“Wow. That’s really amazing.”

When Mujin acted arrogantly, Riser praised him halfheartedly.

Fortunately, since they couldn’t see each other’s faces from their angles, Mujin didn’t notice.

-Right? This is my first time catching a flying object with aerial manipulation. Don’t you think this is a pretty good training method? You can develop quick reflexes and concentration, plus learn delicate internal energy control while maintaining the shape of the fragile moss dumpling.

“Wow. That’s really amazing.”

-Haha! Exactly! I should definitely spread this training method widely. It’ll be useful for divisions that need efficient internal energy operation. Oh right. When that time comes, I won’t forget your contribution either.

“Wow. That’s really amazing.”

-…? Yeah. Right.

Hmm. Even so, using the same reaction three times in a row was too much.

Riser quickly changed the subject before Mujin could notice something was strange.

“By the way, aren’t you going to try eating it?”

-Hah. Earlier you said my opinion wasn’t needed. I guess you’ve changed your mind?

‘I never said “wasn’t needed.”‘

But Riser didn’t argue back.

Even though she didn’t express it outwardly, it was somewhat true that she had thought ‘I don’t need your opinion’ inside.

“Right. Hurry up and eat it, then tell me your opinion.”

-If you insist that much, I’ll eat it. …Ugh! What kind of taste is this!

“You ate it.”

Riser smiled contentedly at the fact that the number of people who shared the terrible texture of the moss had increased.

-This is the worst thing I’ve ever eaten in my life!

“Good medicine tastes bitter.”

-Damn it! You could have warned me!

Pop!

Glug glug glug….

‘What’s that sound?’

A refreshing sound that was hard to guess came from beyond the wall, and soon after Mujin shouted ‘Ahh! I feel alive!’

Riser was startled and stuck to the wall, pounding on it frantically.

“What? You just drank something!”

-Oh my, what a surprise. Yeah. I had a drink to cleanse my palate. Want some too?

“Alcohol?!! Alcohoool?!!”

Riser’s eyes rolled back as she rarely raised her voice.

“Are you crazy?! What kind of ignorant person drinks alcohol after taking medicine!”

-Is, is that so…?

As a future pharmacy owner, this was an absolutely unforgivable, rightfully punishable grave sin.

For the next several dozen minutes, Mujin had to endure intensive education on ‘why you shouldn’t drink alcohol after taking medicine.’

‘Damn it. I can’t even run away because I’m stuck in a cell.’

Mujin deeply regretted thoughtlessly gulping down alcohol.

No matter how terrible the moss dumpling tasted, he shouldn’t have done that.

“Hey! Are you listening to me?”

-I’m listening. I’m listening.

Mujin answered with a sighing voice.

But Riser didn’t let up and pressed Mujin.

“Tell me what I just said. What happens when you take medicine and alcohol together?”

-…There’s a risk of respiratory arrest due to central nervous system suppression

“And?”

-The liver can’t process medicine and alcohol simultaneously, so acute hepatotoxicity or liver failure can occur.

‘He answers well even though he doesn’t know what it means.’

Despite carelessly mixing in modern terms when she snapped at him, Mujin’s earnest listening attitude made Riser’s anger subside a little.

“Never take medicine and alcohol together again. Got it?”

-Got i… huh?

“Why is your answer in question form? Is there still something you don’t understand? Huh? Haven’t you come to your senses?”

-No, that’s not it… This is strange! My body feels strange!

“What!”

Riser jumped up from her seat in shock.

All the moss in her skirt fell to the floor, but she didn’t care.

“Tell me the symptoms! What kind of symptoms!”

-Ugh… uuugh….

“Is anyone there? Someone’s about to die here! Aaah! Help!”

She screamed as loudly as possible to call the guards, but she couldn’t just wait and rely on that.

The guards of this era were just another name for common soldiers.

There was no way they would know emergency first aid procedures needed for sudden critical situations.

‘There must be a problem from taking medicine and poison together. But respiratory arrest from central nervous system suppression wouldn’t show symptoms this rapidly, right? Not enough time has passed for liver problems to develop either. What is it? Hypotension? Arrhythmia?’

Riser thought of all kinds of possibilities in her head while frantically rolling up her skirt hem and tearing out the double-stitched underskirt.

Inside the torn fabric were several packets of powdered medicine wrapped in paper like folded notes, and Riser selected one and tore it open.

‘Please let this work.’

After carefully sprinkling the glittering black powder under the wall.

She quickly sat cross-legged and rapidly concentrated the internal energy flowing through her body to one point.

She infused pure internal force with fire energy to change its nature, then released it all at once!

Whoosh.

A tiny True Samadhi Fire like a lamp flame rose from Riser’s fingertips.

Such a weak flame that one might wonder what could be done with such a small fire.

But Riser wasn’t disappointed or worried at all.

Now was the time for the thousand-year secret pharmaceutical knowledge of the Sichuan Dang Family to show its power.

KABOOM!!

The wall collapsed with an ear-splitting explosion.

That’s right. No matter how small and insignificant the True Samadhi Fire was, when combined with the Dang Family’s mysterious black powder, it had enough power to demolish one wall of the Demon Sect’s Noeok.

‘Well, broadly speaking, gunpowder is also medicine.’

Riser demonstrated a broad interpretation of pharmaceuticals as she pushed away the debris of the collapsed wall.

“Hey! Are you conscious…!”

Riser, who had been looking around for Mujin, gasped in surprise when she discovered a young man in the corner of the cell.

Instead of being unconscious and collapsed as she had expected, wasn’t Mujin sitting in a neat cross-legged position, concentrating all his nerves on breathing exercises?

Actually, that wasn’t so surprising.

When something abnormal happens to a martial artist’s body, it was natural procedure to quickly stabilize through breathing exercises and energy circulation.

What surprised Riser was that blood-red sweat was beading up on Mujin’s forehead.

And an unknown blue-green radiance was flowing along Mujin’s skin like the luster of celadon porcelain.

“What kind of symptom is this?”

The moment she cautiously approached with a worried expression.

Flash!

“Oh my!”

Startled by the sudden explosion of light, Riser fell backward and landed hard on her bottom.

The blue-green radiance that had been enveloping Mujin’s skin instantly shattered and mixed into the jade-colored light explosion like sparks.

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