I Became a Supporting Character in a Martial Arts Novel (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 41

Although several physicians had come and gone without identifying a proper diagnosis, the fact remained that those who had been bedridden for a long time would already be severely weakened—this in itself was problematic. Once they regained consciousness later, special care would be needed to restore their health quickly.

Moreover, Sabaeck had trained in martial arts enough to gain some ability to inspect the internal flow of qi and blood within the body. Thus, there was a chance he might detect issues that ordinary physicians—who primarily treated commoners—had failed to notice.

The Clan Head had four children in total: two sons and two daughters.

Excluding the eldest son, the other three were in far more critical condition, barely conscious at all, so we attended to them first. Hajin and I stayed by Sabaeck’s side, running various errands or recording the patients’ conditions as Sabaeck examined them.

‘So I’m not an assistant to an assistant—I’m just an assistant.’

Though my earlier assumption had been wrong, I didn’t mind it at all.

‘This is better.’

The strangely heavy atmosphere, the gloomy expressions of people moving about the estate, and the Clan Head’s eyes—trying so hard to appear calm yet unable to fully conceal his hope and expectation.

In such an environment, standing around idly with nothing to do would have been far more difficult. Besides, assisting Sabaeck wasn’t particularly hard or taxing work anyway.

‘It’s just… my mood is a bit off….’

Having been cursed myself without understanding why, I felt an odd sense of kinship with them. They surely never expected to be suddenly ensnared by a curse either.

‘Just like Haheun, who was manipulated without knowing anything.’

I had been fortunate enough to break the curse, but if I hadn’t realized the curse in my mind back then… I didn’t even want to imagine what might have become of me at age eighteen now.

After consecutively checking on the three unconscious siblings, we finally went to see the Clan Head’s eldest son.

The eldest son, who was seventeen this year, reportedly fell ill last among his siblings, suggesting he had been affected less severely by the curse.

Read full content of this chapter on r e d c a t t y . c o m