Chapter 185: Red Demon Brown
The Ruby couple struggled to wake up that morning, their bodies utterly exhausted.
Mrs. Ruby touched her cheek and suddenly realized how sharply her cheekbones protruded.
There was work to go to, Luna to take to school, and a whole day of things to do. She still had to get out of bed.
The bathroom scale was still in the corner of the room, but today, Mrs. Ruby was a little afraid to step on it. Slow as she had been to notice, even she could tell something was wrong now.
When her husband got up and stretched, she noticed how clearly his ribs stood out along his sides. He looked frighteningly skeletal. Then she noticed how much the joints of her own elbows and knees protruded from her arms and legs.
Yet despite his exhaustion, her husband went into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash up as usual, then came out to get dressed with dark circles under his eyes, as though he did not think he was sick at all.
For some reason, this filled Mrs. Ruby with dread.
"Honey, come weigh yourself!"
"What for? I'm not trying to lose weight."
The man, who was straightening his short-sleeved shirt, paid little attention to her, but Mrs. Ruby went straight over and pulled him to the scale.
"Just weigh yourself. I want to see how much you weigh now."
"All right, all right. I think I was eighty-two kilos last time."
As he spoke, Mr. Ruby stepped onto the digital scale. The reading jumped to 61.2 kilograms.
"Huh? What's going on? Is your scale broken?"
Mr. Ruby was startled. How could he suddenly have lost twenty kilos?
The couple argued in their room for a while before finally deciding to go to