The Butterfly Trap

Part 3

Claude sat down on the sofa near Red lying, his face looking anxious and disoriented, he occasionally looked at Red's face and then sighed. There was sadness and a feeling of betrayal reflected from the look on his face.

" If your assumption is correct, it means that someone is planning something evil secretly" he told me after a long silence.

" Did this expedition take two years to complete?, if so then I think the perpetrator had planned Red's murder carefully, judging by the way it worked I'm sure he's not an ordinary person, moreover, he knew how to use the poison of garaga Q to the maximum, it seemed like he had already first learned how the q garaga works"

" Why is that?"

" Because the use of a Q garage that is not in accordance with its dose can kill victims quickly, let alone two years even the victim can die in a matter of hours, plus this is not an easy poison to get, he said, and there's only one book that talks about this poison".

" Even though I racked my brain, there was no one suspicious that came into my head, moreover we always ate together and the food was the same, wait!", he stopped talking, his face turned pale, and his face turned pale, he closed his mouth and his eyes opened.

" This is not possible, if the poison is inserted into the food, then this poison has entered the body of everyone? this isn't just Red's assassination plot, but all the crew on the expedition?" he added.

I nodded slowly.

" That's why I said that my question had something negative, because if he had only given Red the poison, it would have been difficult to find out, but what if he had also eaten the poison?"

" Isn't that crazy? Or did he already know that Linus leaves and the Wrought Flower can bid for the poison garaga q?"

" That's impossible?!", I replied quickly.

" why? if he knows how to concoct the poison, it's possible that he also has an antidote, right?"

I shook my head, "It's not that easy".

" What?! so you mean, after drinking the linus leaves and the wrought flowers, the poison hasn't disappeared from the body?"

I'm nodding.

" So the potion is only temporary? didn't you say that if we had two herbal ingredients Red could be saved? meaning how?"

I kept quiet, reluctant to tell her the next stage of treatment, it was the same as exposing who I was to the world.

" Yes, of course Red can be saved just that the treatment of garaga Q poison takes a long time and it takes the strength of the purifier to stabilize the remnants of the poison in his body" I replied.

Claude nodded his head as he walked towards the window, he looked far out, not a word coming from his mouth.

" Em, Sir Claude", I called out to him who was behind me in a rather loud voice, he turned his head towards me.

" As you know, I was forced to come here, this is tantamount to kidnapping, the people closest to me will lose if I don't contact them, can I contact them first?"

" I'm sorry for the actions of my friends, Miss Gold Butterfly" she replied with a slight bow.

I chuckled to hear him call me by that designation, "Call me Sicilian Agatha only Sir".

" Well Miss Agatha" she said with a small laugh and then led me to a room that looked like a workroom, I wonder where he'll take me because since I've been here I haven't had a chance to see the outside world.

" If you may know where we are now, sir?", ask again after entering the room.

" In the headquarters of the Aquarius faction or rather in the castle of Duke Abelard", he replied with a smile that made me gape with his answer, he laughed at my expression then handed the communication crystal ball to me.

" Please enjoy your time, Miss" he said, then disappeared behind the door.

I set the coordinates, and then the crystal ball started to emit light, and there was a phone call that was connected.

" Madam" called me before the other side spoke.

" Sicily is that you?" ask the voice I called Madam, "Where have you been? I've been looking for you for two days" there was anxiety in his voice.

" That's a little madam problem" I replied.

" I have contacted the Prophet and Stella, no one knows where you are going, where are you now? why are you calling me now?"

" I.." I was silent for a moment, "I'm at the headquarters of the Aquarius faction".

" WHAT?!" strangler from across, "Are you caught?"

" No, it seems like the people here need my help" I replied calmly answering her question.

" ARE YOU CRAZY?!" she screeched again from across, "Are you tired of living? how could you enter the noble territory? what if your identity is discovered?" His voice still sounded loudly squealing, obviously already he was very angry at me.

" Miranda" I said as I calmed her down, "No one knows about my identity, they just need my skills because one of their members is seriously injured".

" What Duke doesn't have a healer? there's no way a Duke like him doesn't have it, right?"

"Yes, but the problem is that this patient was exposed to a rare poison, the healer didn't have sufficient knowledge of this poison".

" then?"

" Yes, they asked me to treat him" I replied calmly, sounding a long sigh from across.

" Hear Sisi, hanging out with nobles like the Prophet and Stella is fine because they are the ones who already consider you like their own brother, but entering the territory of the Aquarius faction which is adjacent to the monster territory, the, normal people wouldn't do that, how could you dare to enter a tiger's nest like that?"

" Be calm, Miranda, I'm only here until the antidote is done, I won't be here until I'm healthy?"

" Are you sure?" he said in a disbelieving tone, "Just don't let you use the power of your purifier, and if the antidote is done ask them to send you back here" .

" Yes yes, both Madam "I replied with a chuckle, "Oh yes, can madam tell the Prophet to continue our registration? and please tell me I'll call them right away when my business is done".

" Yes, I'll close the call Madam" I said, then turned off the call after hearing the word alright from across the street.

I opened the door, outside I saw Claude talking to the guy I met two days ago, the guy came up to me.

" I'm Nick, I'm so sorry to have brought you with such disrespect" he said, bowing.

Instead of answering his apology I replied sarcastically, "Can you still apologize anyway? kirain can only beat people to unconsciousness".

Hearing my reply, Claude joined Nick to apologize to me.

" It's "my answer in the end and ask them to raise their heads, "I hope you can treat me politely after all this", I added leaving them back to Red's room to check on her condition.

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Three days later Z returned with some plants and an adorable white rabbit, when I asked if the rabbit was going to be a pet, he replied in a flat tone that it would be used as a food reserve. At that moment I sat down and left.

I busy myself to root and boil the medicinal plants that Z has given me, it took a long time for me so that my dose fits with the poison in Red's body.

" How much more time do you need?", Z suddenly said at the kitchen door.

" It's still in the process, I can't carelessly give the antidote because the side effects of linus leaves are quite dangerous" I replied.

He approached me, watching my work closely.

" Can you come out, I get nervous if anyone notices me while I'm at work" I said cautiously.

He looked at me then left me without saying a word, I looked at his back, I looked up, there was something strange about the way of the road and there was also something black that was almost invisible to spread near his lehaer because it was covered in clothes.

'Is he using too much power? it was like the signs of strength in his body could not be controlled anymore' I thought I was still watching the man's back.

' Ah, she must have had a purifier, otherwise how could she have survived to this point, considering that she looked so great, the proof was that she could carry this linus leaf within three days, he said, a normal person would definitely not be able to do it', I thought again.

After a long time struggling in the kitchen, I finally found the right dose to bid for the poison in Red's body, I immediately brought the medicinal decoction water to Red's room, there Claude, there, Z and a guy named Nick are waiting.

" Can someone help support Red's body, because this medicine will be better minimized when he sits down" I said standing by the bed.

Nick immediately took action, with the help of which I was able to get the antidote to Red more efficiently, "The results will be visible in an hour, so I will stay here to monitor the situation".

After monitoring Red for an hour, Z and Claude asked me to follow him into his study, allowing me to sit down.

" I heard from Claude that Garaga Q's poison can be put into food, should we check the food supply first?" z said after sitting in front of me.

" I think it would be best if I checked the blood of all the teams who took part in the expedition" I replied.

" Should I ask Nick to collect the blood cover of all the members?" ask Claude.

" We still don't know who the culprit is, so it's better to check our blood samples first, so it's clear whether the perpetrator did put the poison in our food or not" Z replied.

" Before that, could you ask the waiter to get me the bottle in the room I was staying in?"

Claude nodded and asked the waiter who was delivering the drink to get the bottle I meant. Moments later the waiter appeared with a bottle measuring five hundred milliliters.

I poured the liquid inside the bottle into the small face and then asked Z to drip his blood into the face, a while later the liquid and blood mixed with the color of the blood.

" There's no indication that Q's got into your body" I explained to them, "we should also check Claude's blood ".

I did the same to Claude and the result was the same as Z, there was no indication of poison in their bodies. This explains that the perpetrator did not put poison into the food to carry out the action.

" Weirdly", Claude muttered out of his chair, "if not from food, then how did the perpetrator poison Red?"

" Did Red have a habit of consuming sweets?"

" As far as I know him, he doesn't like sweet food" Z said as he stood up, his hand touching his chin.

" Doesn't the Pisces fraction have adequate knowledge of this Q garaga? although they still can't develop a cure and I assume before the poison was given to Red, the perpetrators have already tested it on some of the lower classes"

Z and Claude looked at each other in response to my opinion.

" You mean there has been no research that can find a cure for garaga Q? even the Pisces fraction of the twelve zodiacs?".

I'm nagging.

" I have several times handled cases of patients with garaga Q poisoning, on average they have no family anymore and also when I met them, he said, they can no longer be cured because the poison has spread throughout the body".

" One more thing, only one book on the poison garaga Q is the encyclopedia of poison plants now in Emperor Felix's private library" he added.

I did not realize that my words could harm my life, I casually lifted and drank the tea that had been served but then I felt a sharp object touch my neck, I held my breath, " What the fuck?", I shouted.

Sword Z unsheathed right on my neck, Claude who saw the scene was surprised but Z asked him to remain silent.

" Moving a little bit of this thing will cut your head off, so answer my question honestly!", he approached me while staring parallel to my eyes.

" Who are you really? how did you know that the Encyclopedia of poison plants only had one and it was in the palace library? how do you know about Garaga Q? you're not even a awakener, you also know that the Pisces Faction has not been able to make an antidote to the poison garaga Q, isn't it strange that a small merchant knows that? you can even do illegal medical practice, how can you who are not of noble descent not even have entered the academy know all that?", He showered me with questions.

" I......., first of all can you get rid of this sharp object on my neck first?" I said in a trembling voice but I tried not to be seen clearly when I was scared.

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