Manhwa/Chapter 3

## Chapter Guide

The third chapter can be read for free online at Tapas in English and at Kakaopage in Korean.

## **Summary**

Roxana was asking Cassis again if he understood her words. She knew of course that he wouldn't believe her straight away, he had just been kidnapped by his families sworn enemy after all. Once again, he started struggling in his chains. To subdue him Roxana clenched her fist and punched him in the stomach. She needs him to take the antidote now, and figured that he can consume it easier while unconscious. It was the only way for now.

She visited him again the next day. He was definitely a Pedelian, most people wouldn't be awake the next day after the poison he had taken. Roxana did not want to underestimate him.

This time, Cassis actually spoke to her, looking straight at her, and asked her what she had given him before. She simply repeated that it was an antidote, and reminded him that he was drugged. If she had not given it to him, he would still be in extreme pain. She asked if he felt better after the effects, and added how he is able to speak properly now.

He still didn't believe her, and mockingly asked if that was true, what did she want from him, what does she gain. Roxana answered that she got nothing. She wanted to know if he was really Cassis Pedelian that's all. There was no way in Cassis eyes that that was the reason. He got angrier and angrier the more she talked. He was confused and screamed that they had dragged him down here knowing full well who he was. He asked her if she was one of the filthy Agrece's. Roxana confirmed that he knows where he is, realizing that her father had no intentions of hiding where they were.
Cassis demanded to know the answer.

At that moment, Roxana realized that Cassis didn't have his full eye sight back. He couldn't see a thing. She started mocking him a bit, with simple questions, that made him even more agitated. She had found it very odd that he had not realized who she was, when she walked in, but this explained it. He had even asked if she was one of the Agrece's. She found this amusing. She clearly remembered that they exchanged a glance yesterday, when he was captured. There was no way for him to not recognize her.

Roxana got curios and lifted Cassis's shirt up, this made him extremely embarrassed, and confirmed her suspicions, there was a sorcery crest on his chest, so it wasn't just poison. But she explained that the spell was temporary and it won't last long. In about two day's he will be able to see again. She once again told him that she actually doesn't want him to die and left saying she will visit tomorrow.

She kept her promise and visited him the next day, and the day after that, and then on another day she asked him if he still didn't believe her words. He kept telling her each day to go away but then she mentioned that she wanted to bring him something more appealing to eat and not to be so mean to her. HE hadn't eaten anything, and although he was skeptical of her she wanted him to eat. There was a meal replacement pill in her hand. He asked her if she really expected him to consume anything from the Agrece's little lap dogs. He still hadn't realized that Roxana was an Agrece.

She completely understood his worries but told him that this is the only way for him to survive. She punched him in the gut once again, this time he didn't fall unconscious and yelled at her for her action. Roxana explained that if he keeps refusing to eat she will just have to put him to sleep to make him eat it. He told her she's crazy.

This time Cassis called Roxana an Agrece. He still didn't understand what she gains from helping him. She told him to first eat the pill and showed it down his throat. He had calmed down but still wanted to know why, why was she helping him, what was her motive. He asked her for her name.

Roxana told him her name. He thought that that was a fitting name for someone with eyes that resemble rubies and that they were as crimson as the rising sun. The same color as the glow of dawn.

Roxana was back in her room, playing with some butterflies. Her maid Emily came in with a tray of glass and some folded paper. Roxana asked the maid to give her the report. The maid said that Roxana was at stage five netarium tolerance. That they will be increasing her dose by 0.2 peron starting today. That's a lethal dose of 4.7 peron. This can cause temporary paralysis, stomach pain, or even cough up blood.

All Agrece's develop immunity against poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. Roxana had already developed immunity to most poisons, but there was a reason why she consumed more and higher doses. Roxana poured the powder poison inside the folded paper into her glass and asked the maid how Jeremy was doing. The maid informed her that he was in his room. Roxana drank her glass. Jeremy will soon be in her room.

Just as she thought that Jeremy stormed into her room, calling her by her nickname "Xana". He was here to pick her up. He was the antagonist of the story "The Abysmal Flower" and her half-brother.

## **Character in Order of Appearance**

* Cassis Pedelian
* Emily