[The label isn't a nice one. It isn't from a proper pharmacy. It's just scrawled on -- and it's the name of an obscure immune system suppressant. It's not something people would normally take. It's a jacked-up version of the kind of thing given for organ transplants and other such things. A drug to keep the body from rejecting something -- or rather, a cocktail of both drugs made to do that, and the signature drug that was used to stave off the epidemic. It didn't save lives in the end, but it extended them.
The thing is, that drug should be mostly out of circulation. No one's left alive who can't safely carry the virus. And Kida's symptoms aren't the ones of that illness. But Mikado would have to have studied the experimental drug that killed so many people by making their bodies fight themselves, and that's now used as a high-end poison for shady dealings, to recognise this as the counter-treatment. Neither what's in this bottle nor the monster drug that causes the condition these pills fight are supposed to exist at all.
But if he has heard, he'll get it. Why Kida looks so tired all the time, and what's happening to him now. The experimental drug XPC-10, when given to someone with the virus who is normally infected, can extend someone's life up to a year. But given to a carrier, it causes a slow, agonizing death, somewhere between three and six weeks of torturous pain and wasting away. It can't be stopped once it starts -- the drug is a single injection that causes an overnight change in the body's function. The only way to counter it is with constant, vigilant treatment using what Mikado has in his hands right now. Every eight hours, on the dot. The medicine wears off at about eight and a half hours, at which point there's a violent surge of symptoms, lasting longer depending on the progression of the "illness". Once that's over, the patient goes right back to where they left off.
And even with treatment, it's simply drawing death out to a few years of slowly fading. Kida's not sure if Mikado will figure it out, but either way once he can breathe a little, he looks up and puts on an exhausted, pained little smile.]
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The thing is, that drug should be mostly out of circulation. No one's left alive who can't safely carry the virus. And Kida's symptoms aren't the ones of that illness. But Mikado would have to have studied the experimental drug that killed so many people by making their bodies fight themselves, and that's now used as a high-end poison for shady dealings, to recognise this as the counter-treatment. Neither what's in this bottle nor the monster drug that causes the condition these pills fight are supposed to exist at all.
But if he has heard, he'll get it. Why Kida looks so tired all the time, and what's happening to him now. The experimental drug XPC-10, when given to someone with the virus who is normally infected, can extend someone's life up to a year. But given to a carrier, it causes a slow, agonizing death, somewhere between three and six weeks of torturous pain and wasting away. It can't be stopped once it starts -- the drug is a single injection that causes an overnight change in the body's function. The only way to counter it is with constant, vigilant treatment using what Mikado has in his hands right now. Every eight hours, on the dot. The medicine wears off at about eight and a half hours, at which point there's a violent surge of symptoms, lasting longer depending on the progression of the "illness". Once that's over, the patient goes right back to where they left off.
And even with treatment, it's simply drawing death out to a few years of slowly fading. Kida's not sure if Mikado will figure it out, but either way once he can breathe a little, he looks up and puts on an exhausted, pained little smile.]
...Sorry.