At this moment, Sefina’s logic could no longer be maintained. She was almost unable to think, driven entirely by her body’s instincts.
Under the strange gazes of her three students, Sefina suddenly collapsed, slumped over the table, looking extremely uncomfortable.
Underneath the table, from an angle that Kefi — who was sitting opposite Sefina — could not see, Sefina…
“Teacher?!” Ellaria spoke softly.
She saw Teacher Sefina almost completely slumped on the table, her body motionless, especially that faint, dangerous aura…
Two thoughts struck her mind like lightning!
‘Is it that strange rune on Teacher Sefina’s lower abdomen acting up again?! That… that curse that would cause the teacher to lose control!’
‘But how could it be so sudden? It came so fast!’
‘The previous two times, there seemed to be a little bit of a buffer… Now Teacher Sefina looks like she has completely lost control!’
‘Never mind! There’s no time to think!’
Alarm bells rang wildly in Ellaria’s mind.
She had to get the teacher out of here immediately! If she waited a few more seconds and the two of them saw the teacher’s condition clearly, or if the teacher really… in the living room…
Then the consequences would be unimaginable!
“Teacher, I noticed you seem a bit unwell. Your face doesn’t look very good. Is there something uncomfortable with your body?”
Kefi’s eyes sharply caught Sefina’s abnormality. She couldn’t help but lean in closer, her face full of concern and anxiety.
‘The teacher suddenly slumped over, her face is terrifyingly red, and her breathing is so ragged… Is she sick? It looks quite serious. What exactly is wrong with her?’
Meanwhile, Mia realized what was happening at almost the same time as Ellaria.
After all, she was the one who had “personally heard” the teacher in a similar state outside the dormitory bathroom!
That bizarre curse would periodically plunge the teacher into this state.
But Teacher Sefina just had to… at this time… ‘How should this be solved?!’
“Teacher, what’s wrong?” Kefi asked, then tried to step forward to support Sefina and check her condition.
“Wait! Kefi!”
Mia reacted incredibly quickly, stepping forward in a flash to grab Kefi’s arm and stop her from approaching.
Her tone carried an irrepressible panic as her brain worked at high speed to make up an excuse.
“The teacher… she seems to have… a fever! Yes! A sudden high fever! And it seems a bit serious. She looks like she’s slightly unconscious!”
She hurriedly looked at Ellaria, her eyes conveying urgency and pleading.
“Imperial Princess Ellaria! Please take the teacher back to her room to rest! Kefi and I will go buy fever medicine right now; we’ll be back soon!”
Mia felt she had to get Kefi away. The fewer people who knew about the teacher’s strange curse, the better.
Although Kefi probably wouldn’t talk, considering Teacher Sefina’s dignity and sense of shame, it was better if fewer people knew. Therefore, this time Mia wanted to use a cover-up to hide it from Kefi.
“But… but… Teacher Sefina…”
Kefi looked at Teacher Sefina’s obviously abnormal state and felt it didn’t look like a simple fever. Her tone carried a hint of hesitation and confusion.
At this moment, as Ellaria watched Mia’s frantic eyes and her desperate attempt to stop Kefi from approaching, she immediately understood her intention — Mia must also know about the magic crest.
She was helping with the cover-up and didn’t want Kefi involved or to know about this embarrassing secret.
Ellaria immediately suppressed the storm in her heart, forced herself to calm down, and followed Mia’s lead.
“Yes, Mia is right. The teacher looks like she has a very high fever. Kefi, please go with Mia to buy some medicine. I’ll take the teacher to her room and look after her immediately.”
Her tone remained as steady as possible, carrying the composure typical of a princess.
Seeing that even Imperial Princess Ellaria said so, although Kefi still had questions, she didn’t ask further and instead nodded.
“Okay, then we’ll be back soon!”
With that, Kefi was pulled away by the anxious Mia, hurriedly leaving Sefina’s villa.
The moment the door closed, only Ellaria and Sefina, who was almost completely overcome by the magic tattoo backlash, were left in the living room.
Ellaria didn’t dare delay. She stepped forward, bent down, and carefully picked up the limp, burning Sefina in a bridal carry.
Sefina was lighter than she looked, and now she leaned into her arms as if she had no bones, her scorching body heat clearly passing through her clothes.
At this time, during the slight jolting of being picked up, that hand reaching downward was still moving instinctively.
However, as she attempted to bend her fingers for a deeper motion, a sharp, familiar sting suddenly shot from her knuckles!
“Ugh…”
Sefina let out a suppressed groan of pain.
It was tenosynovitis.
The recurring stabs of pain from continuously bending her fingers were like fine needles, forming a double torment along with the churning effects of the magic crest inside her.
While these waves of pain could not extinguish her desire, they were like a bucket of icy water, slightly waking up a shred of her chaotic consciousness.
But it was only a tiny shred.
It was just enough for Sefina to vaguely realize she was being carried and moved by Ellaria, to realize she was being sent back to her room, and that the damn magic crest inside her urgently needed to be dealt with…
Soon, Ellaria familiarly carried Sefina into the bedroom and gently laid her on the soft, large bed.
Ellaria looked at the teacher on the bed with blurred eyes and a slightly twisting body. She was actually… still instinctively continuing those blush-inducing movements.
This image was too powerful, carrying a breathtaking, eerie beauty that made Ellaria’s cheeks flush red instantly. Her heart pounded wildly, and she almost didn’t dare look further.
She subconsciously wanted to turn and leave the room, closing the door to give the teacher a private space.
However, just as she was about to step out the door —
“Ellaria…”
A weak, powerless call, with a heavy nasal tone, caught Ellaria’s footsteps like a spiderweb.
It was Teacher Sefina!
Ellaria suddenly turned around and saw Sefina on the bed struggling to reach out to her, her eyes full of helplessness.
As it turned out, while Sefina tried to handle it herself, her fingers could not continue moving due to the intense pain.
Relying on the last shred of logic gained from the pain, Sefina called out Ellaria’s name.
Ellaria also suddenly remembered — Teacher Sefina had tenosynovitis. She couldn’t solve the influence of the magic crest by herself at all!
‘Could it be… the teacher is…’
This thought suddenly exploded in Ellaria’s mind, leaving her frozen at the door, her mind a complete blank.
‘It… it couldn’t really be that I have to do that, right?!’