May Every Wound Be Fatal - Chapter 45.2
As soon as he stepped into the room, his pace came to a sudden halt. A fishy, metallic scent of blood rushed toward him, stinging the tip of his nose.
Elizer could not bring himself to believe that the blood belonged to Reyna.
“Y-Your Majesty…”
Several people who recognized the entering monarch bowed their heads in unison.
However, the operating room was the epitome of chaos. Those surrounding the bed failed to notice the King’s arrival and continued to shout at one another.
“Reyna…”
Elizer had already lost his composure at the sound of Reyna’s screams echoing down the hallway. His blue eyes wavered helplessly as he faced the dizzying scene.
It was then that he caught sight of Reyna’s body, convulsing precariously amidst the frantically moving people.
“Why…”
His lips parted in a daze.
And finally, Reyna’s mangled leg came into his view.
“……”
Elizer froze in his tracks.
He had wanted Reyna to live.
But he had never intended for her to suffer like this.
Just then, Reyna regained consciousness once more and twisted her entire body.
“It hurts, it hurts. Please, save me. Ah, please…”
It was a scream that sounded as if she were being tortured.
Elizer turned deathly pale and his fingertips trembled uncontrollably. Reyna was crying out to be saved, yet there was nothing he could do.
“Let go, let me go…!”
When Reyna eventually thrashed her upper body violently as if trying to flee, Thales shouted urgently.
“Pin down her shoulders!”
However, among them, there was no one who dared to press down on the Queen’s shoulders with force.
It was at that moment that Elizer, who had been frozen as if time had stopped, reached out and pulled the convulsing Reyna into his embrace.
Locked within his strong arms, Reyna could no longer move.
“Let go, it hurts, let go, please, save…”
Soon after, she lost consciousness completely.
Thales did not miss the opportunity and hurried the surgery along.
“……”
Elizer held his breath as he felt the woman, who had been shivering in his arms, lose all strength and go limp.
***
Reyna remained unconscious for two days. Even during that time, her high fever persisted due to the aftermath of the surgery and the side effects of her injuries.
Elizer could not leave Reyna’s side for even a moment as she hovered between life and death.
After two days passed, Reyna regained consciousness very rarely. Seizures visited her at any time, without warning.
Instead of binding her wrists and ankles to the bedposts, Elizer held her with his entire body and continued to whisper to her.
“It is alright, it will be alright. Everything will be fine…”
It was unclear whether he was saying these words to her or to himself.
Whenever that happened, Reyna would repeat the same words like a person who had lost her mind.
“Save me, it hurts so much.”
And failing to recognize her husband who was holding her, she sought out only the dead.
“Karla, please save me.”
“……”
“Brother, Diegor, help me. Where are you?”
Thales explained that this was a side effect of the poppy juice. He said that because it clouded the mind while reducing pain, Reyna was seeing hallucinations.
“Once we stop the poppy juice, she will soon be fine.”
Elizer, who held her all day while she murmured nonsense, could not possibly be in his right mind either.
He was tormented by the fear that Reyna might die just like this. He could neither eat nor sleep properly.
Every moment was filled with regret.
He suddenly asked himself.
‘What should I have done?’
Looking back, it felt as though he had always taken the wrong path at every critical moment. If so, was it truly best to return to the time when they did not know each other?
But since time could not be turned back.
There was only one thing Elizer wished for.
“Reyna, please…”
I was wrong about everything. So please, just do not die and leave me alone in this world. Elizer prayed and prayed to her that if she did so, he would desire nothing else.
“It hurts so much…”
Reyna did not recognize whose embrace was holding her. No, she did not even seem to perceive that someone was holding her at all.
Nevertheless, as if she had grown accustomed to that embrace, even when she wept sorrowfully while complaining of pain, she would gradually regain stability when he held her tight.
It was exactly the tenth day since Reyna had thrown herself into the sea. Her boiling fever dropped as if by magic.
Perhaps because of that, she regained consciousness for a very brief moment.
“Who is it…”
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