## Chapter 179 – Heavy Secret (5)
As usual, the brothel began to fill with people as it opened for business.
But instead of the moans of lust and the cries of ecstasy that should have filled the air, the only sound was the anguished scream of a young girl.
“Aahh…!! No…!!
Mommy…!! Waaah…!!
It hurts…!! It hurts so much!!”
Two women stood frozen, watching Carla writhe on the floor and wail.
Hyeryeong was the first to snap out of it, calling Carla’s name as she rushed forward. Vivian also regained her senses and began to carefully brush the poison from her body.
Like water droplets rolling off a lotus leaf, Nemea allowed the poison to flow away with gravity. Soon, Vivian was able to shake off all the poison and quickly ran to Carla.
Hyeryeong grabbed Carla’s wrist to prevent her from touching anything else with her poisoned hands as she thrashed and screamed in pain.
She quickly tore the shoulder of Carla’s dress and threw it away, then lifted her up to examine the affected area.
The poison had already eaten deeply into her flesh, leaving a noticeable hollow. Vivian, who had followed, stared at it and began to press Hyeryeong.
“The antidote!! You carry poison, so you must have an antidote!!”
“This… this isn’t for that kind of thing…!!
The acid isn’t something you can call a toxic substance in a medical sense…
Ugh… anyway, there’s no antidote…!!
Miss…!! Stay focused…!! Hold on…!!
Don’t move!! Don’t thrash around!! It’ll only get worse…!!”
The situation was so dire that it seemed the acid would melt away her shoulder joint in moments. Perhaps it was the urgency of the moment.
The two, who had been desperately trying to kill each other just moments before, were now unintentionally in a state of truce, helpless in the face of a single patient.
Was it the smell of the acid, or the smell of burning flesh?
The nauseating stench made her head spin. Hyeryeong seemed at a loss, and Vivian snatched Carla away from her. Hyeryeong’s voice trembled as she spoke.
“What… what are you going to do…!!”
“Are you just going to stand there? This is the back alley…!!
Someone who knows about this kind of drug…
Someone who knows how to treat it…!! Ah…!!”
There was at least one person.
A woman who supposedly majored in medicine.
A thought flashed through Vivian’s mind, and she began to run, carrying Carla. Hyeryeong, still holding Carla’s wrist, followed close behind.
“If I just boil this, then it’s over for today…
Carla must have been so bored…
Then for the rest of the day…
I’ll go shopping with Carla in the general store…”
– Bang!
“Yui!!”
The one person who came to Vivian’s mind.
As Vivian ran down the hallway, thinking of her, she burst through a door. The person inside, who had been talking to herself out of boredom, turned around in surprise.
“Eek!! What is it this time…!! Carla!?
W-wait a minute… what happened…!?
Quickly!! Lay her down here!!”
Yui had just finished boiling various things for sterilization, but now she had to use them as they were. She began to examine Carla’s wound, which was emitting a pungent smell and burning away.
Yui desperately rubbed away the tears that had welled up in her eyes as she examined the wound. Soon, her face turned as white as a sheet.
As if she had realized something, she immediately turned her head and glared at Hyeryeong with an intensity that was rarely seen.
“It was an accident…!! I didn’t mean to…!!”
“An accident…!! If it was an accident, then Carla…
Hic…!! The Tang Clan’s poison… especially something this potent…
I can’t do it…!! It’s beyond my abilities…!!
If you can’t do anything about it… there’s nothing I can do…”
“Aahh… Waaah!! Yu… i…!!”
“Carla…!! Just a moment… please…!! Just hold on a little longer…!!
I’ll find a way… Waaah…”
But as she had just said herself, her abilities didn’t reach that far. Yui seemed helpless, with nothing to do but shed sad tears.
She held one of Carla’s good hands tightly in both of hers, burying her face in it as if praying. Vivian simply collapsed to the floor.
From Vivian’s perspective, she didn’t care whether Carla lived or died.
She wasn’t particularly close to her in the first place, and she thought that she needed to be taught a lesson so she wouldn’t get any closer. She was just one of the targets to be eliminated.
But…
‘Help Carla.’
Of all places, it had to be in the brothel she managed, during a fight she started.
And if Carla were to die in front of her eyes…
Even though it was Hyeryeong’s poison that killed her, what if she was misunderstood as having intended the situation…?
‘Would he believe me?’
Vivian’s heart sank, and she clutched at her chest. The viscous tendrils of Nemea twisted in her grasp.
He certainly had some kind of feelings for Carla.
Whatever those feelings were, she had a feeling that he wouldn’t react well to the news of Carla’s death.
If she was blamed for it…
Or at the very least, if he felt that she was responsible…
‘No… no…!!
I… I really…!!
I… everything is for you…!!’
If she, who had been abandoned even by her own family, was abandoned by him as well…
In that moment, when everyone was cowering in fear of a terrible future.
Vivian stood up because of that fear. She spotted a water basin that Yui seemed to have prepared for sterilization and picked it up.
She hoped that if poison was a liquid, diluting it would weaken its potency.
“No…!!
It’ll only make the poison spread faster…!!
And it’ll become dangerous for other places too!!”
But Hyeryeong, who had witnessed her actions, was startled and blocked her path. Vivian had no choice but to stop.
How potent was the poison that she had tried to use on her?
The poison that had been splashed on Carla had only been a small amount, but it had that much destructive power.
“Damn it…!! So there’s really no way to detoxify it!?”
“Well… first, you have to lower her blood pressure to reduce the oxygen in her blood…
And somehow suck out the poison itself…
But… if a person did that……!!”
The moment someone put their mouth on it and sucked, the person’s throat would melt and dissolve.
“Then what do we do…!!”
“There’s no way…!!
It’s not like we can get a Samae Clan’s giant leech here…!!”
Even as Vivian and Hyeryeong’s argument grew more heated, tears streamed down Yui’s face as she sobbed and looked down at Carla, who was writhing in pain.
“Carla…… Hic…”
‘If only I could suck out the poison……’
Wasn’t it realistically impossible to suck out this kind of poison?
Someone had to die in order to save someone else.
Yui blinked, and a stream of tears flowed down her cheeks like a river.
And finally, her eyes closed, and her trembling lips began to part slightly.
And just as those lips were about to reach Carla’s burning shoulder.
A hand urgently grabbed her chin and pulled her back.
Vivian, who had left Hyeryeong cowering on the floor, was looking down at her with a look that seemed to say, “What are you doing?” Yui glared at her with resentment.
But after glancing back at Hyeryeong and then looking down at her own lower abdomen, Vivian’s lips moved silently. Yui read the shape of her lips and instinctively covered her mouth.
‘Spider.’
Those creatures whose very purpose was to suck up liquid.
The ones that could strongly attach to the clitoris with such strong pressure that the woman would involuntarily scream.
And the strong storage sac that could drink and store all the love nectar that was spewed from the vagina.
Yui’s face brightened as she felt the possibility and nodded. Vivian, instead of Yui who was holding Carla, sat down and spread her legs.
Nemea gently opened only her crotch area, revealing Vivian’s vagina. A protein worm wriggled out from it.
Yui was looking down at her vulva with trembling eyes, but this was not the time to be picky.
She had to do whatever she could, so Vivian desperately endured as Yui gently pulled the spider out of her vagina.
And as Yui hid the spider behind her back, Vivian stood up and walked towards Hyeryeong, who was slumped on the floor with a blank expression. She grabbed her wrist and led her out of the room.
“No… that’s not what I was trying to do…
What are you doing…!? Let go!!”
“Yui will do something.
So get out of the way.”
“What can Kazunomiya do…!!
Rather… if we move Carla to a famous doctor in the royal capital even now…!!
I know where to go…!! I’m also acquainted with some excellent doctors from Chao Xing…!!”
But even to Hyeryeong’s words, who belatedly brought out another solution, Vivian’s steps did not stop.
She simply gripped Hyeryeong’s wrist tightly, as if she would break it, and her answer as she dragged her somewhere was…
“Don’t talk nonsense and get out.
If you interfere again this time…”
Like liquid nitrogen that freezes as soon as it touches the air, she only returned with a voice that was as cold as ice.
“I’ll kill you with all my heart then.”
With that one word from Vivian, Hyeryeong closed her mouth and was dragged by her, passing through the brothel lobby and being kicked out the door.
With a look that seemed like she would burst into tears at any moment, as if she knew her mistake.
While watching Hyeryeong, who couldn’t leave the front of the brothel,
Vivian, leaning against the counter desk inside the lobby like customers who were troubled, could only bow her head and pray that Yui would somehow pull it off.
