The Crown Prince That Sells Medicine

The Crown Prince That Sells Medicine Chapter 56

Episode 56. Nerve disruption procedure (1)

Tail.

A tail that all werewolves have. Therefore, it is a label that cannot be escaped or removed throughout life. When he was sad, he drooped, and when he was happy or excited, he moved too loudly. It was like the tail of a dog that was told to go for a walk or to be given a snack.

So I couldn’t hide my emotions. It was a great weakness in human society. They often became easy prey for cunning fraudsters.

Such losses have been accumulating from generation to generation. Stereotypes toward clans also emerged. Werewolves are easy to fool. Because werewolves can’t hide their true feelings. Is there any other race that is as easy to handle as that one?

‘ha.’

Anise sighed.

Even myself was no exception. Thanks to his tail, which clearly shows his emotions, he has made good friends. However, there were dozens of times more people trying to take advantage of that weakness.

There was a time when I almost died when I was a mercenary. No, among the clan, it was not uncommon for people to be deceived, exploited and killed or harmed by humans.

‘But can this tail be stopped?’

Damn tail. A tail that feels like a curse. Is it possible to stop this? Will the rumored prince be able to do it?

‘It would be nice if it did.’

To be honest, I didn’t have high expectations. It had to be that way. I tried tying it too. I saw it even though it was cut. But I couldn’t stop the tail by any means.

No matter how tightly it was tied, the tail moved on its own and untied the knot. I tried cutting it down to the base, but it regenerated in less than a month. The terrible experience of not being able to walk due to lack of strength in my legs while I was without a tail was an added bonus.

‘But the crown prince said he would find a way.’

It certainly was. Stay here and wait. So I waited. But even after less than a day, I found a way. Come to the treatment room right now.

“….”

Anise walked down the hallway in silence. However, a middle-aged man who was walking side by side while guiding us here made a strange noise.

“You seem very nervous.”

“….”

“Ah, because that’s what your expression looks like.”

“You didn’t look at the tail?”

“Oh, that’s…”

“As expected.”

“I’m sorry.”

“are you okay. Because I’m used to it. Now that I think about it, I don’t think we’ve ever made a formal statement.”

“This is Gardin Piero Gardin. “I am His Highness the Crown Prince’s personal physician.”

“It’s Anis. As Lobo’s successor and Jacinto’s daughter, she is in charge of the Dalwinter clan.”

“okay. But Miss Anise? “I’m sorry, but may I dare to give you just one piece of advice?”

“yes?”

Anise tilted her head. Advice. What do you want to say?

“do.”

I wanted to come in and see.

Sir Gardin smiled kindly.

“thank you. “Then, if I were to give you some advice, I would like to ask you not to be too surprised from now on no matter what treatment His Highness the Crown Prince suggests.”

“Don’t be surprised… why?”

I frowned. Does this mean we should just cover it up and believe it? However, a man named Sir Gardin gave an unexpected answer.

“I think the moment Miss Anise hears about the treatment, there is a very high probability that she will think His Highness the Crown Prince is crazy.”

“….”

Isn’t that statement dangerous? But Sir Gardin seemed to have no problem.

“It’s been like that before. I was like that at first too. “The maids and servants of our villa, and even the guards and special forces, thought that way at first.”

“You treated His Highness the Crown Prince like he was crazy?”

“yes.”

“….”

“To be honest, I really did.”

“Then what now?”

“As you can see, I am guiding Miss Anise. To His Majesty the Crown Prince. “So that I can get treatment.”

“….”

Anise closed her mouth. I wondered what kind of bizarre treatment a person called the crown prince would use, so that a person called the attending physician would say something like this.

Of course, such doubts did not last long. She soon arrived at the crown prince’s medical office. As soon as I arrived, I was able to hear the crown prince’s treatment.

“I’m going to stab it around its tail a lot with this needle. And they will inject poison through a needle.”

“….”

“Isn’t it cool?”

…It’s so cool.

‘Aren’t you crazy?’

That thought suddenly occurred to me. I couldn’t help but listen.

‘You paralyze the tail by poking the butt with a needle? And that too by injecting poison?’

It’s a treatment I’ve never heard of. It wasn’t trustworthy at all. There was no confidence whatsoever. For a moment, I even thought that all the trouble I had gone through to come here to the imperial capital was in vain.

So it was. I moved my eyes without realizing it. He glanced at Sir Gardin, who had guided him to the treatment room.

Nod.

Sir Gardin nodded silently.

“….”

That’s why I gave you that advice earlier. Anise thought for a moment. But the answer was already decided.

‘I don’t have much faith, but let’s give it a try.’

I don’t have high expectations of success. However, I thought that even if the odds were slim, it would be meaningful to try it.

‘If by chance we really succeed, our clan won’t have to live at a loss because of the tail. In order to do that, even if it is a slightly absurd attempt… it would be better for me to experience the danger first.’

If it’s for the sake of the clan. For those who believe in themselves. She was ready to endure any sacrifice and pain.

“All right. “Let’s do it.”

Anise nodded. He moved as the crown prince instructed. Sir Gardin went out, and three maids came rushing in instead.

While the crown prince was looking at the wall and turning around, he took off his outer clothes. I fell down on the bed. The maids brought white cloth. It was a large piece of cloth with a tail hole. Only the tail was exposed and the rest was covered with cloth. The crown prince finally turned this way.

“Now then, let’s begin.”

“….”

Am I really anxious about getting the procedure? Anise’s whole body visibly stiffened. But Rachiel didn’t care. The more nervous the patient is, the more calm you have to be.

‘If I stay calm, the patient will stay calm too.’

Rakiel took a deep breath and activated the Assassin’s Mind Technique.

Kiiiiing-!

The mana circle surrounding the heart rotated powerfully. The mana in the body was amplified. At the same time, it began to sensitively sense the mana around it. Rachiel focused most of her sensing power on her fingertips. I touched Anise’s waist as if checking for a pulse.

It was a vaguely precise diagnostic method.

Then I finally felt it.

‘see.’

Concentric circles of mana spread out around the waist where the hand was touched. I felt the movement of mana flowing through Anise’s body along the expanding range of concentric circles. It seemed. It was detected. It felt like scanning.

‘Acupuncture points in the human body actually exist. It was clearly functional.’

He looked at Anise’s body acupuncture points with fresh eyes. The more I looked at it, the more fascinating it became. It was mysterious.

Acupuncture points that I learned from Oriental Medicine University. The arrangement and harmony of acupuncture points learned through memorizing and practicing. However, it was an acupuncture point that could not be seen with the actual eye. It was also impossible to observe it with equipment such as X-rays or CT MRI. It was just assumed to ‘exist’ based on empirical knowledge that has been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years.

‘Honestly… that was the most disappointing thing.’

He believed that he had acupuncture points. So I studied. But I couldn’t see it. It could not be observed experimentally.

It was disappointing that it was defined and established only through thousands of years of empirical accumulation. Therefore, it was very disappointing that the principles and mechanisms by which acupuncture affects the human body have not yet been clearly identified.

I was always curious. It was the same both when I was studying and when I was treating patients.

‘It was definitely effective. However, the principle or reason was not clearly revealed. The concept was that the results were good and the good results had been proven in numerous cases over thousands of years, so the procedure was performed with faith in the accumulated case evidence.’

There are definitely good results, but the mechanism is not clearly known. The situation was similar to modern medicine’s vagus nerve stimulation treatment for epilepsy.

So sometimes I felt skeptical. Is the existence of acupuncture points real? I was frustrated because I wasn’t sure.

But now?

It has changed.

‘I can see it. ‘I can feel it.’

A precise diagnosis method using the Asurahan technique. Thanks to this, it became possible to detect acupuncture points in the human body through the movement of mana. I was able to have even a little confidence.

‘I guess what I studied wasn’t wrong.’

That knowledge was correct. The time spent working hard for that was not in vain. Furthermore, it is now possible to perform procedures while monitoring the response of acupuncture points in real time. Like right now.

Sigh.

It picked up a white thorny needle. I aimed at the first acupuncture point. An acupuncture point that is the central pillar of the poison vein. An acupuncture point located in the depression below the spinous process of the first lumbar vertebra (L1) in the lumbar region.

It was a Hyeonchuhyeol (懸樞穴).

Tot!

I caught the exact moment Anis took a breath. I lightly inserted it to a depth of 5 pennies. At the same time, circle slots were used.

Kiiiiing-!

[Activate the emission function of slot 1.]

[Set the emission amount.]

‘0.01 milliliter.’

[Releases 0.01 milliliter of muscle paralyzing poison stored in the circle slot.]

Sting!

Along with the message, Kussman-type paralyzing poison was released as much as an ant’s eyelid. It came out through the circle slot. It moved to the blood vessels in the chest, shoulders and forearms. I moved on to the thorn needle held in my finger. It penetrated into the aniseed sage blood through the thorn needle.

“Uhm…”

Anise flinched reflexively. It seems that the muscles are reacting on their own. Rakiel tensed and examined the Hyeonchu acupoint and the surrounding acupuncture points.

Then it appeared. The poison injected in an appropriate amount affected the flow of mana passing through the Hyeonchuhyeol. Originally, it was a straight, one-way street where Mana passed by. But the poison was placed like a barrier. The flow of mana was blocked.

Then Mana began to struggle to find a detour on her own. Rachiel decided to open the waterway.

‘Next is Myeongmunhyeol (命門穴) and Yoyanggwanhyeol (腰陽關穴).’

I aimed at the two acupuncture points below the Hyeonchu acupoint along the spine. stabbed

Tot! Thodot!

7 penny deep in Myeongmunhyeol.

To a depth of 8 penny in the nursing tube.

The hour hand was applied according to the correct Bosa method that matches the breathing. At the same time, circle slots were used. A very small amount of appropriate venom was injected. Then, the flow of acupoints was seen changing again.

Tsusreureut…!

A waterway was opened for Mana, which was trying to bypass Hyeonchuhyeol. Mana came down along the erector muscles on both sides of the spine. In the process, some spinal nerves were disabled. It was the nerve involved in tail movement.

That moment.

Chuuk….

A change occurred in Anise’s tail. I was tense and held it upright, but then my strength gave out. It slowly sank down. There was no movement after that. It was a successful local paralysis.

‘good. It’s working as intended.’

Before I knew it, sweat was forming on my forehead. Rakiel wiped away his sweat and concentrated his mind. First, they succeeded in paralyzing the tail with poison.

But this is not the end.

‘No, now is the real beginning.’

In fact, the key to this procedure was not just paralyzing the tail. To ensure that paralysis is ‘maintained’ for the rest of your life. That was the real key.

‘So it’s important from now on.’

An artificially manipulated flow of mana. If you leave it like this, the effect of the treatment will gradually disappear.

‘The body will sense the abnormality and try to repair the manipulated neural network. As the body’s natural recovery response. ‘Because that’s what the human body is.’

So you have to trick your body. To believe that paralysis did not occur. Thus, deception must be used to prevent the natural recovery response from starting.

how?

‘like this.’

Rakiel picked up the last thorn needle. But it was that moment.

Brr…!

Suddenly, Anise’s tail, which had been successfully paralyzed, began to twitch. Rachiel’s eyebrows also twitched.

‘Response to recovery? already?’

It was unexpected. The reaction was much faster than expected.

‘As expected, a werewolf. ‘You’re different from ordinary people.’

Resilience is no joke. My body has already sensed changes in my nervous system. It was activating its own self-recovery process. The flow of mana was clearly visible through detailed diagnosis.

But Rachiel did not waver. This was already expected. He calmly and quickly lifted the thorn needle. stabbed

Tot!

The needle pierced the lower back 1.5 inches on either side of the fifth lumbar process. It was a lumbar acupoint on the left side surrounding the spine. His hands kept moving.

Tot!

The last thorn was stuck in the back of Anise’s head as a headshot. A cerebral cavity on the right side of the center of the back of the head. The moment the needle is inserted three pennies deep.

“Oh?”

Anise’s left leg twitched significantly. At the same time, the tail that had begun to wag twitched. The nerves in my tail that were beginning to recover quieted down. A new path was opened in the nerve that was originally supposed to run to the tail.

It passed through the waist, through the buttocks, over the left thigh muscle, and down further. It flowed along the calf, passed through the calf bone and the side edge of the left foot, and reached the little toe.

And so finally.

…More and more.

Instead of the stopped tail, the left little toe began to respond. My toes were wiggling like a tail. The moment you confirm that.

‘done!’

Rakiel clenched his fists.

Trickling the spinal nerves. Thus, the little toe was recognized as a tail. This was the moment when the clever nerve disruption fake procedure was magically successful.