The next day, Nic wakes up.
Sam had already woken up and had taken a bath.
Sam says “good morning” to Nic and they walk out of the room when they close the door, it slams a bit causing Ken to wake up.
Ken looks at the clock; it’s already 8:30 am.
He washes his face and quickly goes down.
Ken greets Sam good morning.
Sam says, “Good morning.”
The Maidservant serves them breakfast and they eat it.
Nic looks at Ken, he seems not the same, but Nic still is unable to say what’s wrong with Ken.
Sam looked at Nic, staring at Ken but Sam didn’t say anything.
Ken didn’t realize Nic was looking at him.
Ken is still eating his breakfast.
After Ken finish breakfast, he says he will go and bathe now, he left the table.
Nic looks at Ken, thinking usually Ken finished food, but now; Ken never finished and goes to the bathroom immediately.
Nic, tells Sam that his brother is weird, not the usual behaviour.
Sam says, “But what’s the reason that Ken’s behaviour suddenly changes?”
Nic also doesn’t understand and is puzzled, “I don’t know why Ken is behaving weirdly.”
Nic says, “It seems like Ken doesn’t speak anything regarding Zen at all.”
Sam thinks maybe Nic is too sensitive, but he didn’t say out.
Ken in the bath room also feels weird; he can’t understand what’s wrong with him, but he feels tired physically.
Ken after bathe he wears his clothes and walks out of his room to the living hall.
Nic and Sam see him walking like a zombie.
Nic quickly grabs Ken and puts his hand on Ken’s forehead, but there wasn’t any fever.
Sam says, “Let’s lay him on the sofa first.”
Ken says, “I am not feeling well.”
Nic quickly calls out loud for the maidservant and Nic writes a letter to Joe asking for help.
The maidservant quickly sends the letter to Joe’s room.
When Joe read the letter written by Nic saying that Ken is not feeling well and behaving differently.
Joe is alert and quickly rushes down to the living hall, leaving his work behind.
When Nic sees Joe, “Joe please help, Ken is not well and there’s no fever but I don’t know what’s wrong with him.”
Joe says this is bad, Zen isn’t recovered yet, and Joe can only help externally.
Joe says to Nic, “Hold on to your brother, let me take the book out.”
Joe runs upstairs to the special room; he unlocks the door, and it opens.
Joe immediately searches for the A3 size book.
Joe says, “Yes, I found it. But where’s the page that mentions these symptoms. Let me look…” Flip flip…
Joe finally found it, but the final situation still needs Zen.
Joe took the items needed from the special room and locked the room.
Joe runs down to where Ken is; Joe tells Nic & Sam to step back.
Joe casts the spell and it seems Ken is struggling.
Nic wanted to go near Ken but Sam dragged him.
Joe says to Nic this is only temporary, the final situation is still up to Zen; it needed his power to solve this issue here.
Joe forbids the maidservants to go near or touch Ken and let him be where he is.
Joe also forbids Nic and Sam to touch Ken’s body as it will cause Ken to be in danger.
Nic cries bitterly, Nic says, “How now?”
Sam comfort Nic by putting Nic’s head on his shoulder.
Joe says, “We have to wait for Zen to recover and solve this problem, but it is also another problem as Zen will need a longer time to recover before the seal of the Mansion will be broken.”
Nic and Sam sighs mean even after Ken is healed they are still trapped in the Mansion.
Nic says, “It is better than now, my brother is in danger, even although we trap in the Mansion we can still be together, eating, play and sleep.”
Joe says, “This is what I can do for now. I need to go back to work,” Joe left them.
Joe, while walking back to his room, shakes his head and says in his heart Zen, when will you wake up and recover?
Nic sits in the living hall and looks at Ken in deep sleep, not moving like a corpse.
Sam shakes his head, “Let us not stare at Ken even if we stare he won’t wake up, and even if he does wake up what will happen next no one knows.”
Nic agrees and walks to the kitchen looking at the maidservant who prepares the lunch for them.
Nic says, “I need orange juice to clear my mind.” (Note that usually, Nic is a polite person, but now he just needs to calm down)
Maidservant pours the orange juice for Nic.
Nic says “thank you” and takes the orange juice, goes to the living hall, and sits at the table.
Sam looks at Nic; Nic sips the orange juice closes his eyes and starts brainstorming what had happened.
Sam was looking at Nic’s behaviour and he didn’t say anything.
Zen is in his room, still sleeping, not yet recovering but he senses that Ken is in sudden danger and notices Joe had cast 2 spells; thus he just lay still on his bed, not waking up.
Joe is worried about Zen, later the maidservant sends the food to his room, and he quickly eats it.
Joe goes to the special room again and unlocks the door, but this time he locks the door from inside and intends to stay in the special room to find more information so that he can help Ken.
Joe flips, opens the other books that are related to the symptoms Ken is facing.
He recalls Zen asks him to take the portion to neutralize the poison and it should have been a cure, but why is it Ken has these symptoms after the next day?
Joe finds it weird, but he needs to search for more information.
Joe stayed in the special room searching for situations.
Nic and Sam eat lunch.
Sam notices Nic keeps silent.
After lunch, Nic says, “I will go to my room and rest.”
Sam says, “Okay” and he will continue his study for the test.
Joe looked for the book that has the symptoms; finally, he found a page that indicates that the caster (Zac) had put 2 spells on Ken and the first spell was successfully removed by Zen and the portion but the second wasn’t clear, and it will only surface after some time.
Joe read further, it says if the person suddenly awakes, he/she will attack people.
Joe says, “This is bad; Zen is still not recovered. If I supposed to stop Ken, it might end up hurting him.”
Joe closes the book.
He locked the special room door and left.
Joe didn’t look for Zen since Zen mentioned not to enter his room.
Joe goes back to his room and works since Zen was injured, Joe’s workload has doubled.
Joe shakes his head and says in his mind, “No choice, let’s take a day at a time.”
Joe enters his room and sees his desk messed with papers, and he turns on his laptop, where he left halfway.
Joe sighs…
Nic while in his room, starts to wonder if there’s any other way to save his brother but in the first place he doesn’t know what type of poison his brother has gotten and why in this stead.
He turns on the laptop and starts to go online and find the source, but to no avail, he starts to fall asleep.
Sam is hard working on his studies and he studies for the test. Find the original chapter at g.com.
Sam can do online tests even if he doesn’t attend school.
After 3 hours, his eyes get tired and he wonders, “How’s Nic?” Sam goes to Nic’s room, he knocks on the door.
Nic opens the door in a daze.
Sam says, “Sorry, are you sleeping?”
Nic replies, “It’s okay, what time is it now?”
Sam says, “7 pm let’s have dinner together.”
They go down for dinner as prepared by the maidservant.
Nic turns his face to look at Ken, but he didn’t move.
When Nic and Sam are having their dinner, suddenly Ken seems to move and awaken.
Nic looks and says, “Ah! My brother is awake?”
Sam quickly alerts the maidservant, and the maidservant rushes to Joe’s room and knocks at the door.
Joe asks, “Why do you knock at the door so loudly, I am working don’t you know?”
The Maidservant says, “The guy in the living hall is awakened.”
Joe rushes out of his room.
Oh no, Joe tells the maidservants all to retreat to their rooms.
When Joe sees Nic and Sam, he shouts loud “don’t go near to Ken, it’s dangerous!”
Sam quickly grabs Nic’s arm and drags him to one corner.
Joe says, “Please take Nic to your room and don’t come out until I knock on your door, and only if you hear my voice then you open your door or else “Don’t come out”, quickly take Nic to your room now.”
Joe is worrying as Ken might go out of the Mansion, then he will die to turn to ashes.
Joe with no choice, grabs a bottle speaks some unknown language, and Ken goes into the bottle; Joe quickly seals the bottle.
Joe says, “Sorry, you have to stay inside for a while until Zen awake, I will release you then.” Joe quickly takes the bottle and goes up to the special room, unlocks the door, and place the bottle on the centre of the bookshelves, which has a hole inside.
Joe speaks unknown language again, the bookshelves disappear.
Joe quickly locks the special room door.
Joe immediately goes to Sam’s room knocks on his door, and says, “Sam, it’s me, Joe, you and Nic can come out now it’s safe.”
Sam and Nic come out of the room.
Nic asks, “Where’s my brother? How is he?”
Joe says, “I have sealed your brother, because it requires Zen power to help him; thus this is not within my means. Sorry I can only do this, for now, we are all safe here in this Mansion. I have to go back to work,” and he left.
Joe goes back to his room.
Nic shakes his head, “Why is this happening?”
Sam says, “At least, we are not in danger, and since Joe has seal Ken, he shouldn’t be in danger too.” Sam advises Nic not to worry.
Since Nic and Sam have their dinner halfway, they continue to eat.
Sam sees that Nic is not in the mood to eat says, “Nic why not later you come to my room.”
Nic looks at him and says, “Okay.”
Sam tells the maidservant to serve Nic a snack for supper (to Sam’s room) as Nic didn’t eat much for dinner.
After Sam finished eating, he grabs Nic’s hand and walks towards his room.
Sam opens the door and closes it.
Sam says to Nic, “You don’t have to worry and think too much, once Zen recovers he will help Ken and once we can go out of this Mansion I will took you to beautiful, fun places to play.”
Nic looks at Sam, “Thank you for being with me, although we just know each other, you help me a lot.”
Sam smiles at Nic and grabs Nic’s hands, “You know if you are happy, I am happy but if you are sad, I will be sad too. I want you to know that I am with you no matter what happens.”
Nic says, “But why you are so good to me, we only know each other only for 2 days. It seems you care for me so much?”
Sam thinks, should he confess now the truth?
But if Sam confesses the truth, he also must say that time he kidnaps Nic and that will expose Sam’s unreasonable behaviour of stalking Nic.
(This causes Sam to think hard before he speaks; Sam thinks about what he should say to avoid Nic having to hate him or not seeing him again.)
Sam comes up with an idea.
He replies to Nic, “Nic, I care for you, and yes, I like the moment I see you (love at first sight).”
Nic was stunned by the answer Sam gave.
Nic looked down, and his mind was blank!