Hitomi cried all the tears of her eyes until there were no tears left to cry. For 2 days the healers circled in van's chambers checking van's pulse that continued to decrease.
Everyone was losing hope, except "detective Gaddess" who still went around the palace asking for a blond haired butler.
_"hey Gaddess, how's my little van going?"
_"from bad to worse… he still didn't wake up and his pulse is decreasing"
_"and how is hitomi?"
_"oh aunt Millerna I beg you not to ask, she's desperate"
_"curse this unfair life, van didn't get a chance for happiness now that he got finally rid of Celena this shows up"
Millerna was so furious and her now shaking hands dropped a plate that broke into peaces spread all across the kitchen.
_"curse her, even mentioning her name makes disasters"
It was just then that it hit Gaddess to ask about that blond butler, it would be sure that Millerna saw him since that night she was always in the kitchen.
_"say aunt Millerna the night of the ball, did a blond butler help in the kitchen?"
Millerna who was cursing Celena loudly suddenly turned to Gaddess and gave him a puzzled look:
_"why do YOU ask isn't it you who told him to replace Chesta for the night?"
_"what?And do you know me to interfere in kitchen affairs!"
_"but he was the one who said so"
_"so there was indeed a blond butler, did you know his name?"
_"yes he said his name was…huh…Allen yes, Allen. Wait! If it wasn't you who told him to come then who did?"
_"this guy is dangerous something about him I don't like, and that name of his sounds so familiar, he was the guy who gave van and hitomi their drinks, hitomi told me. So I wanted to know more about him and now that I did, I am going to find him"
_"so you suspect him to have poisoned van's drink?"
_"yes there is no other logical explanation for Van's sudden fall, did you know where he last went?"
_"no. and he isn't here today either"
With that answer Gaddess left to the stables, got on the back of his horse and rushed out to the city. 'he couldn't have gotten far, if he indeed was the reason than for sure he is still in the city'
[Meanwhile behind the prison bars]
_"you finally did like I told you?"
_"yes indeed my lady; you know I never disappoint you"
Allen seemed very confident and that made Celena smile even wider knowing the result of the mission. Even behind the bars she felt finally free and happy for that she knew that it wasn't for long until van would be doomed.
_"now you better keep an eye on things I do not want him to suddenly get back from the dead or it will be you who replace him"
_"yes my lady"
With that Allen left swiftly and silently before he was seen and went straight to the inn where he had taken a room for a few days. It was a bit far from the centre of the city, he chose it carefully for him not to be noticed very much around people with his long and incredibly blond hair, he would have cut it before going to Fanelia but he couldn't because 'his Celena' likes it too much…
…Gaddess has spent most of the day searching for Allen he had looked everywhere and asked so many people he was also very careful for disguises but still he failed.
On his way back he saw one of the royal horses coming closer to him he stopped wondering what happened at the palace.
_"Gaddess come fast, the king's pulse decreased into a critical level and they suspect him to die anytime soon!"
_"what? No it can't be let's go I must tell them before it's too late"
Gaddess rushed up the horse again and to the palace with Chesta and Chesta was wondering what Gaddess had discovered that was so important.
[Meanwhile in the palace]
_"my lady please to stay calm and cooperate with us for your own good"
Hitomi was now going insane when she was told that he hasn't much time left, she had refused completely to leave him alone even for them to wash him up.
_" I'm not leaving his side, ever and neither should you! You people are supposed to help him"
_"we did our best lady but we find no reasonable explanation for what happened to him and we have tried to lift him up the best we could"
It was just then that Gaddess came running up the stairs and entered the room. Hitomi's face suddenly lightened up with some hope:
_"you should try poison antidote to help him out, I believe it was a poison attempt"
_"and what proves this theory to you sir Gaddess?"
_"what do you people care about just do it, since you said that he was going to die anyway"
The healers were irritated by the way Gaddess talked to them but he was right they had to try that.
Gaddess was van's best friend and no one is more attached to him than he is and he wouldn't let him go.
One of the healers prepared the medicine and rushed to the room and tried to open van's mouth so that the liquid would slip down to his through but his body was not responding.
Hitomi and Gaddess were both very tensed and waiting impatiently for it to work:
_"lady hitomi we are going to need your help"
_"what am I suppose to do"
_"you will drink the antidote but be careful not to swallow it and then drop it with your mouth into his majesty's mouth"
Hitomi's face turned red at the thought of it and as usual Gaddess was there to break her from her trance.
_"no time to be romantic hitomi van's life depends on you so move"
So hitomi drank the liquid and carefully sealed her lips to his and with her tongue opened up his mouth and the liquid slid to his through. Hitomi parted from him waiting and hoping.
And suddenly van's body moved strangely and he vomit every drop of poison in his body, and a few minutes later weak eyes opened very slowly and looked around barely seeing anything.
Hitomi was in a complete shock while Gaddess was jumping up from happiness.
_"hi…hito…mi"
_"don't, don't talk at all just relax they ran to bring you some water, I just can't believe it" she put her hands gently around him to hug him close to her heart and feel his beat again.
…now that Gaddess made sure that van was okay and everyone was taking care of him he had to find Allen otherwise he might try again, and he is going to do anything to find him…