"Gimme!" Erimi's shout of distress had Zeno and Kotami glancing up from their respective dinners towards the 2 teens. Kouen was holding a juicy peach up to his wide-open mouth. Erimi was pouting and doing every single possible kind of angry face she could at the blue haired teen.
Kouen's eyes sparkle and he dips the peach into the opened mixture of herbs before offering it to the youngest. Erimi looks at the peach differently now, gone is the look of want and instead is replaced with disgusted glares thrown at the mixture. Zeno had to wonder just how bitter it could be for her to dislike it this much.
"Eat." One demanding word comes from Kouen. Additionally, the teen says it in such a soft tone with such adoring eyes that Zeno isn't sure if the chances this world is secretly a shoujo world are completely 0. Erimi pouts once again before the sulky action is interrupted with a coughing fit.
Recently she has been having more of those. Which means her health has gotten much worse and Kouen is very much in the right to try to force feed her medicine. It also means Zeno is going on the hunt for a good pharmacy again.
Zeno isn't good with medicine at all, he knows only the very bare bones. And those too just to take care of other people. This is another aspect Zeno should improve upon, if he knew what sickness Erimi had maybe more modern solutions could help.
Because Zeno knows for a fact Erimi's illness is something curable in the modern times. It just doesn't have a cure in the year 1875.
Zeno quietly lets out a sigh of relief when the girl finally resigns herself to bite the herb-soaked peach.