Chapter 16 Kuroba Kaito: It's so hard for me...

The castle, second floor room.

Chi Fei Chi was examining Kaito Kuroba's body.

"Do you feel palpitations?"

"No."

"No muscle tremors, no shortness of breath, right?"

"Yes."

"It's about time, give me the thermometer."

"Okay."

"Skin color is normal, body temperature is normal, jaw rigidity, drooping eyelids, do you feel muscle weakness, pain?"

"Yes."

Seeing Chi Fei Chi's examination was quick and professional, Manjimatsu simply waited to see what was going on. If he were to go to a doctor, it would be better to explain the situation and bring the necessary medicine with him.

"No heart abnormalities." Chi Fei Chi removed the stethoscope and wrote it down in a notebook.

Seeing Chi Fei Chi's serious expression, Kaito Kuroba couldn't help but be curious. "Are you a medical student?"

"I studied veterinary medicine." Chi Fei Chi said without looking up.

Kaito Kuroba froze. "Vet...veterinary medicine?"

After Chi Fei Chi finished his notes, he closed the notebook, "But I have a rough idea of what's wrong with you."

Kaito Kuroba's eyes lit up. "What's wrong with me?"

Chi Fei Chi put away his notebook and pen, "Trace amounts of cytotoxin."

Kaito Kuroba froze again.

Cytotoxin, that's usually found in snake venom, right?

He didn't know about other snake venoms that were cytotoxins, but most sea snake venoms were cytotoxins. He knew a little about the symptoms of being bitten by a sea snake:

There may be no obvious symptoms of poisoning for 30 minutes or even 3 hours after being bitten by a sea snake, which can make people complacent.

In reality, sea snake venom is absorbed very quickly by the human body, and the first symptom of poisoning is muscle weakness, pain, drooping eyelids, jaw rigidity, a bit like tetanus.

At the same time, the heart and kidneys will also be severely damaged. The person who is bitten may die within a few hours to a few days.

Snake venom, snake venom.

"Looks like you know what cytotoxin is." Chi Fei Chi saw Kaito Kuroba's changing expression and comforted him, "But don't worry, it's just a little, currently it doesn't seem to have caused any damage to the heart and kidneys, you'll be fine after resting for a while."

Kaito Kuroba immediately jumped out of bed excitedly.

"Get out, all of you, get out!"

Bang.

The room door slammed shut.

Manjimatsu and the gardener, Tadayoshi Uemura, stood at the door, at a loss.

"Sorry." Chi Fei Chi apologized for Kaito Kuroba.

Manjimatsu looked at Chi Fei Chi's indifferent expression and felt a headache coming on. He had a feeling that the peaceful days at the castle were gone forever. "It's...it's okay, I understand, is he a friend you met at the hospital?"

"No," Chi Fei Chi still kindly explained for Kaito Kuroba, "He's normal, it's just that he's a bit too excited after surviving a near-death experience."

Manjimatsu twitched at the corner of his mouth. He felt like the high schooler was angry, but he still nodded, "But should I still call a doctor to take a look?"

Chi Fei Chi walked toward the first floor. He had confirmed with Fei Chi that the toxin was very slight, he wouldn't die, "No need, he'll be uncomfortable for a while, he won't die."

Manjimatsu broke out in a cold sweat, "No death but serious injury", was that the meaning?

"So should we bring him some medicine?"

"You probably don't have the right medicine here, he'll be fine after a while of fussing."

"That's good. Your room is next door, I'll have Tadayoshi help you bring your luggage up."

In the room, Kaito Kuroba listened to the sound of the conversation drifting away, leaned against the door and sat on the floor. He wanted to cry his eyes out.

So this is what the lack of life-threatening danger that Koizumi Akiko mentioned?

He wanted to run, but he wasn't sure if there were any other strange toxins in the snake venom. What if he ran and couldn't be cured? What if he found a solution but it was too late?

It was definitely better to stay with Chi Fei Chi, who raised snakes.

But as soon as he thought about having to stay with Chi Fei Chi for a while, he doubted whether he could survive until he left.

He was so miserable.

By dinner time, Kaito Kuroba's body had recovered, but he didn't seem to be in good spirits.

At the dinner table, Manjimatsu also introduced the other members of the family to the two of them.

Takahito Manjimatsu, Manjimatsu's wife and ex-husband's son.

Masayo Manjimatsu, Manjimatsu's mother-in-law, the Matriarch of the family, sat in a wheelchair with a face full of age spots.

"My wife and her previous husband, Sadakazu, were both adopted into the family. Sadakazu passed away six years ago. After that, I met and fell in love with her, and we quickly got married," Manjimatsu explained calmly. "Unfortunately, my wife came back to help the Matriarch celebrate her birthday four years ago and died in the fire."

"There was a fire?" Kaito Kuroba couldn't help but be curious. "Since she came back to celebrate the Matriarch's birthday, weren't you together?"

"The fire was in the tower outside the castle. I arrived earlier that day. It was my first visit to this place, so I wanted to come early. My wife didn't arrive until midnight. When she arrived, I was already resting in the annex," Manjimatsu said. "At that time, the Matriarch had caught a cold and was also staying in the annex. Takahito also came back early that day for the first time. He had been studying abroad and had come back early that day, right?"

Suddenly mentioned, Takahito Manjimatsu responded, "Yes, that was my first time back. That time, not only my mother, but also the guests who came with her, and more than ten maids and servants also perished in that fire. The remaining servants are those who were hired later."

Chi Fei Chi glanced at Takahito Manjimatsu, silent.

From this perspective, Takahito Manjimatsu's situation was probably similar to this body, the kind who had a cold relationship with his parents from a young age and was left to fend for himself.

"By the way," Masayo Manjimatsu suddenly spoke, "Has my daughter arrived yet? Didn't she say she could come back tonight?"

The maid beside her sweated, "Matriarch, Madam, she..."

"She's so unfilial, she actually made her mother wait for her so long." Masayo Manjimatsu showed her displeasure and pushed her wheelchair around, "I'll go eat in my room, tell her to come to my room when she gets here."

The maid hurriedly followed to take care of her.

Kaito Kuroba looked at the departing Matriarch, then looked at Takahito Manjimatsu, who was silent just like Chi Fei Chi, and finally turned to look at Manjimatsu. Was this the only normal person around him right now?

Unfortunately, Manjimatsu had already classified Kaito Kuroba as the same kind as Chi Fei Chi. He just politely smiled at Kaito Kuroba's gaze.

After dinner, Kaito Kuroba went back to his room with Chi Fei Chi.

Kaito Kuroba went back to his room, grabbed his backpack, and knocked on Chi Fei Chi's door. As soon as Chi Fei Chi opened the door, he slipped in, and at the same time, his right hand, which was holding a gun in his bag, quickly raised.

Almost at the same time as Kaito Kuroba moved, Chi Fei Chi subconsciously moved to the side, reaching out to grab Kaito Kuroba's wrist.

Kaito Kuroba looked at the wall where the gun was pointed, then looked down at his captured wrist, turned to look at Chi Fei Chi, who had moved to his side, and smiled with feigned composure, "Do you believe me when I say I was just kidding?"

Chi Fei Chi nodded and then released his hand.

"No way, you believe me just like that?" Kaito Kuroba was inexplicably depressed. This guy believed him so easily, he was too embarrassed to force Chi Fei Chi to help him detoxify.

"It's a fake gun, of course it's a joke." Chi Fei Chi said matter-of-factly.

Kaito Kuroba sighed helplessly, closed the door, put the gun back in his backpack, walked into the room, and took out a thick notebook and put it on the table, "This is a notebook left by my father, it records some tricks of disguise, you look at it first, I'll teach you tomorrow."

Chi Fei Chi took the notebook and flipped through it. "There are also two magic tricks in it."

"Yeah, but don't get your hopes up," Kaito Kuroba pulled out a chair and sat down beside it, "Many magic tricks have high requirements for eyesight, hand speed, and a flexible mind and reaction ability to deal with all kinds of emergencies. Even if you have all these, you need to practice for a long time to master the tricks, you can't learn it in a short time."

"I'm not very interested in magic." Chi Fei Chi didn't look at the two magic tricks much, flipping through the rough contents of the disguise.

As night fell, Fei Chi also woke up from his lazy snake state, curiously popping out of the collar of Chi Fei Chi's clothes, supporting himself to look at the book with Chi Fei Chi, and couldn't help but complain, "There's no way to disguise a snake? Bad review."

Chi Fei Chi was speechless. You're a snake, what do you disguise yourself as? "There is a way, everyone can think of it, and the effect is quite good."

Fei Chi tilted his head to look at Chi Fei Chi's face, somewhat expectant, "What method?"

Chi Fei Chi said, "Face paint, oil paint, pigment, you want any color, I'll paint you any color."

Fei Chi was stunned for a moment, looking down at his gray and black patterns, "You...you're right."

On the side, Kaito Kuroba watched Chi Fei Chi talking to himself about a snake, his mouth twitching.

Sure enough, this guy is not normal. If he asks to detoxify now, will this guy kill him, or have a snake bite him?

While Kaito Kuroba was imagining all kinds of scenes of Chi Fei Chi losing control and killing, Chi Fei Chi looked up at Kaito Kuroba.

Fei Chi was puzzled and followed suit, staring.

Two pairs of emotionless eyes fixed on him, Kaito Kuroba felt a chill run down his spine, "Cough, I don't know anything."

"You know what?" Chi Fei Chi was confused for a moment, then didn't dwell on it. "I just wanted to tell you that Fei Chi should be considered a mildly venomous snake, the toxin in your body should be gone now."

Kaito Kuroba excitedly jumped out of his chair, took a deep breath, calm down, hold back the urge to scream.

No, can't hold it anymore.

"Since it's a mildly venomous snake, why did you say it was so exaggerated and scary? Do you know you made me worry for a long time?"

Fei Chi stuck out his tongue and incited from the side, "I can give him a couple more bites, the effect might be better."

Chi Fei Chi ignored Fei Chi, observing Kaito Kuroba's expression, "You seem disappointed."

"You..." Kaito Kuroba choked, a sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart, "Forget it, I can't communicate with you, just leave me alone."