Anna was shaken when she heard that she was the cause of her children death mark! She closed her eyes for brief moments trying to get a hold on her emotions.
Noticing his wife silence, Smith took her in warm embrace, there was small tears falling on Anna's cheek.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Law, Lami..." Anna choked on her words as she felt so guilty.
Patting his wife back and kissing her forehead, Smith tried to calm her down, he assured, "Don't bme yourself my dear wife, it was my fault as well, had i researched more thoroughly regarding the death mark, i will already have a cure for it."
after several seconds of couple bonding and ended with Smith and Anna kissing each other under the awkward smile of Kimimaro, the ter cleared his throat to get back their attention before their lovey-dovey action escate further,
"Cough*, excuse me..."
"Ah!" Anna pushed her husband away while Smith scratched his head awkwardly,
"I'm sorry sir..." Smith apologized.
Shaking his head gently, Kimimaro continued, "...Amber lead poisoning was happening for long time, it had accumuted to the point it shown the symptoms nowadays, those white mark, organ failure and blood coughing are the te stage of its symptoms."
Smith raised his eyebrow as he recalled several patients in Royal hospital showing the symptoms Kimimaro spoke of! Not to mention Flevance Queen who he had attended this morning!
The Queen condition thankfully stabilized after he took care on her, as, seeing how the mark had already spread to such an extent, Smith was sure that the Queen days are numbered!
There was only one question inside his mind, and much to his surprise, his wife asked first, "Sir Kimimaro, how did you know that Amber lead was poisonous, listening to your expnation earlier, it seems to me that you had already knew about this since long time ago?"
Kimimaro chuckled, "It wasn't me who discovered the fact that Amber lead was poisonous."
"Then?" Anna,
"Who?" Smith,
Kimimaro raised his hand to stop both of them from specuting, he continued, "Doctor, for now lets focus on the cure, Amber lead is tricky, but it doesn't mean its incurrable."
Kimimaro doesn't want to involve these innocent couple into the world's nasty politics, he just want to let the doctor to become his proxy!
and the glory for the following discovery of the cure on Amber lead poison? it just his way to repay the doctor for taking all the attention from him.
Kimimaro had deeper thought when he decided to help Flevance, unlike when the time with Vegapunk which he admitted that he was a scientist easily.
On Flevance, Kimimaro felt that he had already garnered enough attention in only short interval! Marineford war, 3 great pirates of New World, helping Vegapunk perfecting his climate device, and the recent 50th Branch incident.
He doesn't want World Government focus their attention on him just yet, he need some buffer period in between his action to not let the World Government finding out his true intention.
Back to the scene, once Kimimaro word's fell. Anna sighed in relief while Smith expression turned bright!
"You're saying that you have a solutions?" Smith asked in impatient tone.
"Pretty much, i do have a solutions for it." Kimimaro nodded.
Smith expressly brighten even more, next he stood up and said excitedly, "Then, what are we waiting for sir? Lets go!"
Kimimaro raised his hand to calm the doctor down, he spoke, "Take it easy doctor. Before that, i want to ask, when treating the poison from the patient body, what do you usually do?"
Smith calm down immediately, he pondered for a while before he answered,
"If its known poison, just give the patient its antidote. If its unknown poison, we usually infusing a lot of liquid into the patient body and hope their own metabolism to flush it out. Of course we also need to protect their vital sign, such as their heartbeat, breath, and consciousness."
Kimimaro nodded, then he added, "Indeed doctor, thats how usually you treat ordinary poison, but..."
Smith, "But?"
"...Amber Lead is different kind of its own, despite its low potency, once its pass the lethal dosage, it would attach itself toward the victim organs, making it difficult to flush it out only relying on body metabolism system."
Smith put his head into it, it was no wonder that Amber Lead victim would have multiple organs failure at the ter stage!
It was because the degree of the long accumuted poison inside the system that burdened the victim's body heavily! Moreover, Flevanese had already got their body poisoned since birth!
If the babies born had poison already inside their system, it was only a matter of time for Amber lead symptoms to show. And due to prolonged exposure toward the substance, Smith shudders when he thought on the recent average age of death in Flevance.
In the future, he had no doubt that Flevanese would accumute the poison to the point the average age of death reach to that of children!
Kimimaro doesn't keep the doctor wait to long and asked, "....So, how do you pn to flush out the poison doctor?"
Anna turned her head toward Smith in concern while the ter frowned as he tried to find the answers, thankfully, Smith was one brilliant doctor himself, he began to answers,
"...If it truly attached itself to the organs, We need to break down the poison itself first, after that, we can flush out the poison from the system."
Kimimaro nodded, "Brilliant, yes doctor. We need to break down the poison first, next we just need to wait for the victim system to do its job."
Smith spoke once again, "We knew about the cause, next we should find out the way for us to break down the poison..." He paused as he sighed,
"...It need quite a lot amount of time, maybe years."
Anna grab a hold on Smith's hand once again seeing Smith distress and helplesness.
While the couple were menting on each other, Kimimaro simply pulled something from his slevee and put it on the table.
"What's this?" Smith caught the sight on a small bottle ampoule with grey liquid inside.
"This is your answer doctor..." Said Kimimaro simply.
"Answer?" Smith let go of his wife hand and picked up the ampoule from the table.
He observed the grey liquid inside it, wondering
on what might it be the liquid was.
"When you inject the liquid into the victim's body, it could disintegrate the Amber lead poison structure integrity rendering it harmless, binding to its remains and you can simply flush it out by using normal means." Expined Kimimaro
Smith and his wife Anna were stunned! Nonetheless, instead of feeling gratitude, They began to wonder, if Kimimaro had the cure ready. Why the ter don't use it directly and used such long winded conversation only for him to pull out a cure?! Whats the point?!
Seeing doubt on their face, Kimimaro chuckled slightly, he was sure that Smith and especially his wife would put a doubt on him.
Before Smith asked his doubt, Kimimaro beat him to it by expined, "That one bottle ampoule almost cost me everything doctor, including my life. I don't know how to make it, but one thing for sure, it is undoubtedly antidote for Amber lead."
That was a lie, how could Kimimaro as Null had no knowledge about the Antidote? As, in order to minimize his involvement, he doesn't have a choice but to let Smith mass produce the liquid himself with Royal castle of Flevance asistance.
Smith felt something wasn't quite right, while Anna sharpened her gaze toward Kimimaro without saying anything.