Faced with this issue, none of the three spoke immediately. Instead, Mr. Benhart's smiling face gradually grew serious. After a few seconds, Mr. Benhart nodded with a renewed smile:
"Of course, it was a joke."
Marquis Mosen widened his eyes and looked at him. Shard noticed he even stopped breathing:
"A joke? Wait, was that sentence a joke?"
"It's not a joke."
"Then what was a joke?"
Mr. Benhart blinked and thought for a moment, then motioned for Shard to speak.
So Shard spoke up:
"Your heart indeed had a problem just now, which you can understand as a curse imposed by a powerful relic. Using arcane technique, I temporarily maintained your life, and after bringing you here, before we tried to trace the source of the curse backward, the curse disappeared on its own."
"For ordinary humans, such heart issues would permanently weaken the heart. But for us, the curse's disappearance allows the heart to recover."
Mr. Coroner Albert, who had dissected similar corpses, said:
