It’s been 2 days, Zen running here and there, but there wasn’t any scent of Ken.
Zen finds it weird how he is unable to detect Ken?
He feels exhausted and because of the sudden Mansion seal broken, his powers have been 50% off normal circumstances (Means powers decreased).
Zen calls Joe, asking him to pick him up and he sits at a Café nearby where he can see there wasn’t much crowd.
Joe tells Nic and Sam that he is picking Zen up.
It seems not a piece of good news since Zen didn’t mention Ken, and when Zen talks to Joe he seems to pant…
Joe tells Nic not to go out looking for Ken, it is dangerous.
Joe took 45 minutes to pick Zen up.
It seems Zen is not in a good condition, and seems he didn’t sleep nor eaten nor drink blood for 2 days.
Looks like he has been running around non-stop for 2 days straight, his clothes are soaking wet.
When Zen reaches his Mansion and walks out of the car, he faints and Joe manages to grab him in his arms before Zen falls to the ground.
Joe sighs…
Joe has to work even harder than usual as he needs to keep up with office documents and even to search for Ken, and now Zen isn’t in good condition.
Nic and Sam see Zen fainted; they quickly come to help.
Joe says, “We have to bring Zen to another room and ask the maidservants to prepare the ice.” Zen seems to have a fever.
Joe, Nic, and Sam lay Zen on the bed.
Joe says, “This is not good, we have to get Zen back to health.”
Joe asks Nic to look after Zen for him since his office work piles up and he cannot leave his room.
Sam volunteered to accompany Nic.
Joe was happy as this has taken less of his stress away.
Joe also needs to find a solution for Ken as his condition might be dangerous.
Joe tells the maidservant to boil tonic chicken soup for him daily, served in the afternoon; for breakfast orange juice/apple juice, croissants with butter, and ham/ croissants with half-boiled eggs platters; for dinner, Japanese bento/ pasta salmon and lemon sauce, hot milk before sleep (This will be the daily routine for 7 days).
The next day before dawn, (which means the third day Ken is missing) Nic and Sam looked after Zen; his fever didn’t seem to go down as he was having nightmares running and looking for Ken.
This is bad Nic says to Sam, we need to alert Joe about this.
Sam asks Nic, “Do you know which room Joe stays in?”
Nic shook his head.
Sam sighs.
“We just have to wait till dawn then we can talk to the maidservant and ask for Joe.”
At 7 am, Nic realizes Zen is still running a fever and sweating a lot…
He changes the towels to ice water and a tepid sponge for Zen.
Sam helps Nic.
They are busy doing this the whole night.
Both Nic and Sam sigh.
Nic and Sam didn’t sleep the whole night.
Sam hears the sound coming from the kitchen; he walks out of the room to find the maidservant and asks for Joe as Zen is running a high fever.
The maidservant runs to Joe’s room, knocks on the door, and says that Sam is looking for him.
Joe runs to the Zen room and sees Nic and Sam.
Nic says, “Zen is running a high fever, and we tepid sponge whole night, but no improvement.”
Joe carries Zen and says, “We have to go to the hospital now, they go down to the car.”
4 of them heading towards the hospital; Joe’s speed driving caused Nic to vomit.
When they arrive at the hospital, Joe says, “I will register Zen admission” and tell Sam to go to the pharmacy to get vomiting medication for Nic.
Sam says, “Okay”, they exchange handphone numbers.
Joe said, “I will send you a message about ward in which Zen will be admitted”.
Joe rushes Zen to get admission, but the doctor says, “They need to review Zen first before admission.”
Meanwhile, as Joe wait for the doctor to see Zen, he gets some food and drink in the Café and he sent a message to Sam saying, “Sam this is Joe, I am still waiting for Zen to be reviewed by a doctor before he gets admitted and currently, I am at a Café near to A&E, you can bring Nic here we can have breakfast before we get Zen admitted.”
Sam replies, “Okay, we are coming soon.”
When Nic and Sam arrive at the Café, they quickly order food and drink.
Joe receives a call saying Zen is being reviewed by a doctor now at A&E.
Joe says that he is coming in 10 minutes.
Joe tells Nic and Sam that they need to finish eating by 8 minutes as the doctor is reviewing Zen now.
Its 2 minutes’ walk back to A&E.
(They are young guys; thus walking fast for 2 minutes is possible.)
The nurse sees Joe; she tells him that the doctor says, “Zen is not in a good condition and needs to be admitted immediately, and the doctor already sends Zen to the ward.”
Joe answers, “Which ward?”
Nurse replies, “Ward 2 Bed 25.”
Joe asks, “Is it the VIP ward as Zen will only stay in the VIP room.”
The nurse says, “Oh! We weren’t informed about VIP ward room this is a normal ward. If you need a VIP ward room, you need to register over that counter and they will divert the patient to the VIP wardroom.”
Joe says, “Okay.”
Joe quickly goes to the VIP ward counter and registers Zen and mentions now he is admitted in Ward 2 Bed 25 which is a normal ward.
The nurse at the VIP ward says, “No problem, you need to deposit payment first of $10,000 and the patient will be immediately changed to the VIP wardroom.”
Joe puts in the deposit payment and the nurse makes a call to the normal ward to mention Zen’s name and they immediately push Zen to the VIP ward room.
Nic and Sam are with Joe all this while.
When Joe gets the VIP room number, it’s 5.
They quickly rushed up to the VIP block and Room 5.
Nic and Sam are surprised when they enter the room.
Nic says, “Is this a hospital room? Wow, I never saw such a spacious room in the hospital. There is a 3-seat sofa, a dining table with 4 chairs and a wall-mounted TV.”
Joe sees Zen sleeping on the bed and Nic feeling unwell; thus Sam brings Nic to the sofa and Nic falls asleep on Sam’s shoulder, while Sam also falls asleep.
Joe sees Nic and Sam looking after Zen, whole night they never sleep; thus he didn’t disturb them.
The doctor comes into the room.
He tells Joe, “Zen is not in good condition as his temperature didn’t go down.” The doctor mentions that Zen needs a tepid sponge with ice water constantly and they will put him on dripped as he didn’t eat nor drink for days.
(Doctor seems to have found out that Zen didn’t eat for days?) The doctor says that he will come back at 3 pm to check on Zen again and he left.
(Currently it is 10 am.)
Joe didn’t ask much as his mind is very packed with stuff and Nic and Sam aren’t going to help him until they are awake.
Joe shakes his head and says in his mind, “My Lord, you left me with piles of documents to read and sign and I have to look for Ken and now Nic and Sam are also under my care. I am so packed with things and now you are in this condition. What should I do?”
Joe is so worried and he also falls asleep beside Zen’s bed.