The Grand Duke's Maid Writes a Consultation Log Today - Chapter 35

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

The Grand Ducal House Maid Writes a Consultation Journal Today – Chapter 035
“Ugh…!”
Yulias curled his body, letting out a groan as he failed to endure the pain.
Elysia, momentarily flustered by the situation unfolding before her eyes, abruptly snapped her head up.
In contrast, Hilmaiten maintained his calm demeanor, closely examining his face.
“I’ll go fetch a doctor right now. Please, let me at least inform the people—no, at least the Head Maid.”
Unable to just stand by and watch him suffer in agony any longer, Elysia spoke urgently.
Yet Hilmaiten didn’t even blink, his eyes still fixed on Yulias’s face.
Before long, he spoke toward Elysia, who was standing behind his back.
“There are two things you can do.”
Two things?
“One is to quietly walk out of here.”
Hilmaiten’s head turned slowly, following his gaze.
Elysia realized that the place his eyes landed on was the table.
“The other is to sign the paper and then help me.”
“Th… That is, I mean…”
It was the moment she hesitated.
Yulias, who had been curling up and trembling like an aspen leaf, dropped his head limply beneath the sofa.
“Cough, ack!”
He vomited a severe amount of blood with a harsh sound, and he did not look like he would easily calm down.
The man who, until just moments ago, had been making eye contact with her from an extremely close distance.
The man who said he would respect any choice she made and wait for her looked so precarious, as if he might die at any second.
Elysia gasped at the sight of the blood he poured out.
Recognizing that the condition was more serious than expected, Hilmaiten also reopened the medicine bottle and attempted to force it down his throat.
However, the more he did, the more Yulias threw fits and tossed about, eventually rolling completely onto the floor.
-Thud!
“Your Grace, you must not lose consciousness. Can you hear my voice? Grand Duke.”
“Gah, ugh… K-Kill me. No more…”
“Grand Duke Yulias. Get a hold of yourself!”
As if trying to grasp the consciousness of the man hovering between life and death, Hilmaiten coldly grabbed his arms, shaking them and shouting.
Elysia clenched her hands in terror, then shook her head violently to steady herself.
What I can do.
If there is something I can do right now in this very spot.
Without a shred of hesitation, she snatched up the Contract, ran to the desk, grabbed the first pen her hand touched, and signed it.
“I did it! I signed it, so please tell me how I can help!”
There was no way she could just leave this room while leaving the critically ill Yulias behind.
“I will hold His Grace down, so you just need to put what is inside that medicine bottle into his mouth.”
While Hilmaiten struggled to restrain Yulias by putting his full weight into it, Elysia moved her body in a hurry.
She opened the medicine bottle that was on the table and emptied it into her hand.
When she did, three stones about the size of pills poured out.
“I-Is one enough?”
“It doesn’t matter how many, just hurry!”
As if holding him back was no easy feat, Hilmaiten had also lost his usual calm composure.
Clutching the stones, Elysia approached Yulias’s face, and only by combining their strength were the two barely able to push the medicine inside.
She worried about what to do if he spat it out or failed to swallow, but fortunately, no such disaster occurred.
Yulias was still breathing raggedly, his face completely devoid of vitality.
Before they knew it, both of their hands were drenched in blood.
Yet, Hilmaiten tirelessly rolled up his sleeves to check his skin.
“…!”
Elysia momentarily caught her breath at the scene unfolding before her eyes.
The purplish skin, which had begun to creep and spread along the veins from the forearm down to the wrist, was a sight she had never seen before in her life.
“Is even this no longer effective…”
Hilmaiten muttered with a despairing face.
But soon after, he noticed that something was strange.
At the current speed, it definitely should have descended further below the wrist.
On the contrary, the purplish marks did not come down, as if blocked by something, and began to fade ever so slightly.
“The skin is clearly already being consumed…”
As if finding it bizarre, Hilmaiten looked back and forth between his complexion and his skin.
Then, the edge of his vision caught the fact that Elysia’s hand was still resting on Yulias’s face.
It was because she had cradled his face near his head during the process of opening his mouth, and because she had witnessed such a shocking sight, she hadn’t found the right moment to pull her hand away.
“Could it be…?”
“Assistant…”
Elysia’s hand was trembling violently.
“Wait, just a moment. Elysia, try holding His Grace’s hand.”
“His hand?”
“Quickly.”
Elysia carefully moved her trembling arm and overlapped her hand to hold Yulias’s hand.
When she did, that ominous purple hue began to fade noticeably.
Only then did Hilmaiten drop his head deeply, as if the tension had finally snapped.
“…For now, the immediate crisis has passed.”
“P-Please explain it to me now. Do I just need to keep holding his hand?”
“Yes. If possible, you must hold it until His Grace wakes up.”
“W-Where are you going?!”
“I am going to fetch the Head Maid.”
After repeatedly emphasizing that she must absolutely never let go, Hilmaiten ran out of the Office.
While examining Yulias’s complexion with anxious eyes, Elysia never once let go of his hand.
Fearing that she might lose her grip on his hand, she locked her fingers with his.
Could a person’s hand really be this cold?
It felt almost like touching a corpse.
Her gaze slowly shifted, heading toward the desk.
Just a few minutes ago, the Contract she had signed by her own choice was lying on the desk.
She knew that now, there was truly no turning back.
With a complicated mind, Elysia muttered.
“…Please open your eyes.”

* * *
While Greta was cleaning up the aftermath, Hilmaiten, who checked his body once more, let out a sigh of relief.
“It has faded a lot.”
“Is it because of the effect of the painkiller?”
At Elysia’s question, Greta glanced at Hilmaiten as if she had picked up on something.
Soon, Hilmaiten parted his lips.
“That is not a painkiller, but a Mana Stone.”
“A Mana Stone?”
Not a painkiller, but that mysterious medicine that looked just like a common stone on the outside was a Mana Stone?
Even while blinking his exhausted eyes, Hilmaiten wiped away the blood on the wet towel with familiar hand movements.
“…Since you have signed the Contract, I suppose I have an obligation to provide an explanation.”
Hilmaiten looked down at Yulias, whose breathing and complexion were much more comfortable than before.
“Do you know anything about the history of the Demint Family?”
“Only that it is a family that has existed to protect the Askilla Empire. That is all I know…”
Elysia’s voice grew smaller and smaller.
This was because Hilmaiten was brushing back his hair while wearing an expression that seemed to say, ‘Where on earth should I begin explaining.’
“Looking at the clauses of the Contract, that clearly isn’t all of it.”
When Elysia tactfully prompted him further, Hilmaiten nodded his head without denying it.
“Yes. …To put the most important thing bluntly.”
The light in Hilmaiten’s eyes sank.
Like a life that had barely been breathing on the surface of the water slowly sinking deep down into the abyss.
“Grand Duke’s condition is… if things continue like this, in the worst-case scenario, he will suffer a Short Life Span.”
“…Pardon?”
Yulias has a Short Life Span?
Her gaze fell slowly, heading toward the face of Yulias, who was lying across her lap.
However, Hilmaiten’s voice was gentle yet firm, just as it usually was.
“That is the most horrific end that those of the Demint Family Bloodline are destined to face.”

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————