h4Chapter 587: Most Unsual/h4

    Nnenna waited until the door clicked shut, then stepped further inside. Her eyes roamed every corner carefully. The riddle led me here. But I’ve searched this ce countless times already. What am I missing?

    She let out a slow breath, forcing herself to focus. Her gaze swept across the neat shelves, the bed, the cab, the walls... searching for anything that didn’t belong.

    Suddenly, her eyesnded on a box by the bedside.

    Isn’t that where Carl’s medicine is kept?

    Nnenna’s steps slowed as she approached, her thoughts racing. I’ve searched this room a hundred times... everywhere but that medicine box. I assumed it was safe since Carl and me are the only ones with the password.

    Her gaze flicked toward his unconscious face, her chest tightening. But what if we’re not the only one who has ess to it, Carl? What if we just don’t know?

    She grabbed the sleek box and pressed her index finger against the scanner. A soft click echoed in the quiet room, and the lid slid open with obedient ease.

    "What do we have here?" she murmured under her breath.

    Insidey several small vials neatly arranged, eachbeled in Carl’s careful handwriting. She picked one up, holding it against the light, her eyes narrowing.

    So this is the medicine you created for yourself... She uncapped it, brought it close, and inhaled.

    The sharp, alien scent made her brows knit. "As expected," she whispered. "None of these are medicines known to man. You really did create something unique to manage your condition."

    Her grip on the vial tightened. But if someone tampered with this, just one drop of something else slipped in, it could exin everything. Maybe this is where the poison hides.

    She set the vial back into the box, her mind whirring. I’ll have to test them. Maybe I’ll finally find something that shouldn’t be here. Maybe I can crack this mystery before time runs out.

    Her eyes hardened as she closed the box with a click. Whoever touched this without Carl’s knowledge... I’ll find you.

    She opened another drawer and pulled out a small testing kit. Trust Carl, she thought with the faintest smile, a man who loves his work would keep everything handy, even here in his bedroom.

    With practiced care, she drew small samples from each vial, her hands steady, her expression unreadable. The ss clinked softly as she arranged them back into the box in perfect order, hiding all traces of disturbance.

    "I have a good feeling about this one, Carl," she whispered, holding one particr vial between her fingers. She slipped it into her pocket before shutting the box and cing it back exactly as she had found it.

    Her next stop was clear.

    The south wing of the castle.

    It didn’t take long before she reached theboratory, its door sliding open under her presence. Her breath caught for a moment as she stepped inside.

    Rows of polished counters gleamed under hanging brassmps, each surface covered with ss beakers, test tubes, and carefullybeled instruments.

    Tall shelves stacked with rare herbs, minerals, and chemicals lined the walls, and in the center stood advanced equipment she had only seen in research centers.

    Nnenna’s eyes swept across the room in quiet awe. This isn’t just ab... this is a fortress of science. Whoever set this up made sure Carlcked nothing.

    Her lips curved faintly, but her eyes stayed sharp as she moved toward the main counter. "Perfect," she muttered. "Let’s see what secrets you’ve been hiding."

    Nnenna set the vial on the counter and carefully drew the liquid into thin ss tubes. Her motions were precise, practiced, no wasted movements.

    She ran the first basic separations, then heated tiny drops over me to watch the reactions. One by one, familiar results appeared, the same corepounds Carl had once exined to her.

    She remembered his voice as clearly as if he were standing beside her:

    "The symptoms align with poisoning... but it doesn’t match anything I’ve ever ssified. Cyanosis without pulmonary obstruction. Paralysis creeping faster than a neurotoxin, yet not as direct. The pain—" she could almost see his hand trembling as he had admitted, "—is localized, then migrates. Whatever this is, it mimics known toxins, but doesn’t behave like them."

    Her jaw tightened as she cross checked the readings against her notes of his form. Everything matched what Carl had said he designed: the stabilizingpound, the mild analgesic, the regtor for his unique condition. Nothing was off, until the third slide under her microscope.

    Her eyes narrowed.

    There it was.

    A trace element glowing faintly under the reagent, something that should never have been there.

    "Arsenide derivative..." she whispered. "But masked, altered. Someone spliced it in."

    Her pulse quickened, though her face remained calm. Based on Carl’s design, this additive was not just foreign, it was lethal.

    His form was meant to hold his condition steady, to slow the strange poison attacking him. But this hiddenpound was undoing all of it, twisting his own invention against him.

    "Smart," she muttered bitterly. "They didn’t introduce a new poison, they contaminated his cure. The one thing he trusted most."

    Her hands balled into fists at her sides. This wasn’t clumsy sabotage. Whoever did this understood Carl’s work well enough to corrupt it without him noticing.

    And that meant the enemy was closer than she had dared to imagine.

    Nnenna stood in the quietboratory, staring at the test results that confirmed her suspicion. "Arsenide derivative..." she muttered under her breath.

    Her stomach tightened. If this really is what’s in Carl’s system, then someone has been slipping it into his medicine or food. And only someone close could do that.

    Her gut dragged her back to the same person again and again, Nanny.

    She exhaled slowly, wiped her hands, and left theb. Her footsteps carried her straight across the castle courtyard until she reached the servants’ building.

    The air there was different, quieter, shadows hanging along the walls.

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