Fostering the Male Lead

Chapter 32

I shrugged at my brothers, who were shooting stinging gazes towards me, wanting to know how this had happened.

Even if you look at me like that, I don’t know.

Leonard sighed at my carefree attitude, which did not fit the serious matter. He asked,

“If you can heal His Highness’s wounds, is it possible to do the same for a human?”

“Actually, I’m curious about that too. I want to see if it works for humans too, so how about having one of you brothers become my test subject?”

I grabbed both of my brothers’ hands and smiled, but Lanoa frowned and pulled his hand back.

“Ew, I do not want to. How can I drink your blood? And just think about it. How can you have such a good ability?”

“Oh, so you want to do it? All right, why don’t we just cut one of your fingers slightly.”

“Hey, get away from me!”

When Lanoa and I quarreled, Leonard stopped us both.

“I’ll do it.”

Taking the dagger out of his arms, he slashed his palm without hesitating.

‘You didn’t have to cut it that big.’

I frowned at the wound that was deeper than I thought. Leonard held out the dagger that still had his blood with an unconcerned face.

As I took the dagger, I also slashed my palm long, and Lanoa, who was lying on the sofa, started making a fuss and nagged me.

“Hey! Cut it gently. We just need a little bit of your blood. Why are you cutting yourself so much? Gently! Do it gently!”

“Ugh, this nagging! We need a large amount of blood to pour enough into a glass.”

Leonard wasn’t Sihael, so I couldn’t tell my brother to lick my blood. I held out a glass of blood. After a moment of reluctance, Leonard made up his mind and took a sip of my blood.

However, contrary to our expectations, Leonard’s wounds did not heal. We waited to see if it would take some time, but no change occurred. It was truly an ability that could only be used by Sihael.

“It seems to be of no use to humans.”

“Yeah.”

Unlike Leonard, whose hand stopped bleeding after the experiment failed, I was still bleeding. So, I reached out my bleeding hand towards Sihael. Sihael, who had already tasted my blood, quickly lowered his head and licked my blood.  Then Lanoa, startled by the unfamiliar sight he had seen for the first time, jumped up and pointed his finger at us.

“You have to stop the bleeding. Why are you feeding it to him?!”

“It would be a waste to throw it away.”

Like Lanoa, Leonard too was looking at Sihael with indescribable eyes and then spoke softly.

“Nanabi will arrive soon. First, let’s see if we can cleanse the poison given by the Empress.”

Then Leonard asked us to explain how we met the crown prince. Lanoa claimed that he had saved Sihael with pure intent, but Leonard did not believe it.

“I’m telling you it’s true. Should I have left him to die?”

“Lanoa is right. Can’t you see that His Highness is doing well until now? He even gained weight.”

I eagerly responded, defending Lanoa.

But Leonard, who knew us too well, did not doubt that the two of us had made some trouble again. He was actually correct about us making trouble.

But it doesn’t matter how you go, as long as you go to Seoul*. As a result, we rescued Sihael, who was dying, and took care of him until now, which turned out to be a good thing for everyone.  We were only able to escape from Leonard’s piercing glare with the appearance of Nanabi.

[T/N*whatever the method is, as long as the result is good”.]

“Nice to meet you. My name is Nanabi Terran.”

Nanabi Terran.

She was one of the few people who knew about Sihael’s curse and the only wizard belonging to an elite unit set up by Sihael himself. However, even Nanabi, who was acknowledged by Sihael, could not cleanse the poison.

She said that the antidote could not be used recklessly because it was a poison created by combining the existing poisons.

‘No one can solve it unless they’re the heroine.’

In this way, I realized another rule of fiction.

Sihael did not show any sign of disappointment as if he wasn’t already expecting much. It was rather Leonard who was visibly very disappointed. It had been almost a month since he turned into a wolf, but he still couldn’t return back to his human form, so it was a problem in many ways.

The Emperor’s birthday was coming soon, and I could clearly see that he was worried about what would happen if he didn’t return to being human by then. In the meantime, Nanabi collected my blood. She said she would give us the results tomorrow, but I wasn’t really looking forward to it because I didn’t care what the results were since it would not be available to me.

I pressed the spot where the syringe needle had pricked with cotton. The three people’s faces darkened, perhaps recognizing the seriousness of the situation.

“You said that the reason why the curse placed on Your Highness cannot be lifted is because of the special poison used by the Empress. So, will the curse be completely lifted if the poison is removed?”

When Lanoa, who had been quietly listening to everything so far, asked, Sihael shook her head.

“No, once the poison is removed, I will return to my human form at once, but when the full moon rises, I will become a wolf again.”

“Is there no way to break the curse? It would be troublesome if the Empress knew about your situation.”

“She already knows. That’s why she sent those assassins.”

Lanoa could not hide his anger at the assassination, which he got to know about recently. He prowled around saying that the next time if they showed up again he will get their confession, even if he had to torture them himself.

Sihael’s eyes sank as he glanced at him.

The curse he had received was a curse passed down in the Imperial family from generation to generation, and when the full moon rises, he would turn into a wolf and lose his reason and move only as per his instinct.

Besides, he only had to spend a whole day as a wolf, so it was not an annoying curse.

There was only one way out of the curse.