박사님.

After that matter with the fight, he and AeHee decide to just return to the village and keep a low profile for a while. AeHee definitely doesn't feel at ease to pretend to be his father around, despite he has quite a lot of influence, that could come handy. He just feels wrong doing that.

On the way to the gate, AeHee decides to stop by a food stand to buy something to eat for that evening.
While the other waits for his turn to buy the food, LaNi takes a few steps, looking around.
He happens to overhear the conversation between a couple of men, talking about someone close to death.
"... Ye, the Princess doesn't have long left", murmurs one of the men, in a very low tone.
LaNi reaches one of the three tiny, colourful rings right above his left lobe. They look like piercings, but they are not. They are to actually regulate his hearing, volume, frequency, intensity, isolate sounds... he definitely has a few improvements.
"Aish, that poor thing", mutters the other man. "The physician could do nothing about it?"
"Ani, they have called all the best physicians of the Empire, that child is condemned. Aigoo... how can such a thing happen to a young girl?"
"It won't bring anything good to the nation, you'll see. The death of a young Princess is the worst of all the bad omens!"

"How old is she?" suddenly asks LaNi, causing both the men to turn around, baffled and worried.
They look at each others. "4 years old."
"What does she have?"
"It seems to be an infection, but it was noticed too late." One of the men motions the other to just leave fast.

LaNi remains there, his mind in a total chaos of thoughts all together.
When AeHee finishes to buy the food, he approaches him and shakes him a little. "LaNi? Are you all right?"
"Hyung... I think I'm going to die."
"Eh?!"
And LaNi starts to run at a very crazy speed, not supernatural for auriold's standards, but almost.
"YAH! WHERE ARE YOU... AISH!" And AeHee starts to run too, not managing to keep his pace. "He is going to kill me today!"

LaNi runs all the way towards the Imperial Palace and when he reaches the walls, he stops by the gate. His heart is pumping like crazy and his mind is working at 1000. "I can save the Princess, let me see her!" he tells to the guards, whom, of course, don't take him seriously the slightest bit and aim to kick him away.
He fights them and KOs them relatively fast, then climbs the wall and starts to run from there, to avoid to be slowed down too much from the guards.
In some spots it's inevitable to jump down, in others to fight, but eventually he manages to make his way to the central part of the Palace.

There, he grabs a maid who was walking by and shakes her a little. "Where is the sick princess? TELL ME!"
The maid screams, but eventually answers: "T-to the nursery!" And points the direction.
LaNi lets her go and starts to run again, sharpening his hearing and setting it so that it will be the most useful to find the right place faster.
When he finally reaches the building, he rushes inside and closes the door, locking it and kind of barricading himself, and all the people who were inside before, in.

He quickly enters the room where the little Princess is, ignoring whoever else could be inside, not even listening to them if they speak to him, he'll do what he has to even if they put a blade under his neck.
He wears his own gloves, that he had in his pockets, and starts to check the vital signs, the eyes, the mouth, the finger tips, the nails, everything, but it's when he checks the top of her head that he gets the answer. He shuts his eyes. "It's meningitis..." Auriold children can contract viruses and bacterial infections, as well as weakened adults.
Bacterial meningitis - two words entirely unknown to the best physicians of Xhuanghen, whom probably suggested to pray as the only therapy.

He throws his bag on the table nearby and starts to search for the few items he has. "These will have to do..." he mutters to himself, taking a thin syringe and filling it with a bright white liquid. He injects the Princess with the content and her entire body gets completely frozen. Since the situation is critical, he did the only thing he could to buy himself some time.
Luckily the physicians still have a good amount of fine ingredients that he can use, much better than they'll do for the next 500 years.
He can't get an antibiotic as powerful as what he'd be able to synthesize in his lab at home, but something decent enough. Given the circumstances, that's literally all he can do.

While he works on the antibiotic, the palace guards and some armed eunuchs manage to break inside and surround him in no time.
The mother of the Princess, though, screams at them to let him do.
"If my child is doomed to death, why should I forbid this person from trying one more time? If he does wrong, the outcome will not change..." she says in a desperate tone.
LaNi ignores everything that is happening around and just ultimates the antibiotic.
He approaches the Princess and puts her in a particular position, injecting her in a specific spot, all to make sure the cure will reach her brain the fastest. * By then, the freezing effect wore out.

He takes a deep breath and takes a glowing blue vial from his belongings, carefully pouring it in the Princess' mouth while holding her head.
Done that, he puts something inside an handkerchief and closes if, handing it to the mother of the Princess. "Give this to her when she wakes up. The big one first..."
After that, made sure that he is done with his attempt, for now, he is escorted to the dungeons of the Palace and left in a cell, until the Imperial Family will decide how to handle the matter.

After a couple of hours, the Princess indeed regains consciousness and the physicians confirm a big improvement in her condition, although she is naturally still stunned and weak.
The mother gives her the bubble of enriched water and the nourishing pill LaNi left to her, which hydrate her body and give her some proper energy.

Meanwhile, in his cell, now that he calmed down and his mind has started to work normally again, he finally realises how he left AeHee like that and how worried he must be. It makes him feel so dreadful to think about it.
He curls up in a corner and takes his head in hands. "Mianhe, hyung..." he sobs.