[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-saya-and-the-dragon":3,"chapter-saya-and-the-dragon-saya-and-the-dragon-chapter-202":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Saya and the Dragon",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1705011,2177,"Chapter 195: Proded & Certified","saya-and-the-dragon-chapter-202",202,"\u003Cp>You think it’d be some kind of intimate candle-lit affair, right? A gentle older lady with warm hands and a discreet curtain? No. No, no, no.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a folding screen in a fly-ridden side room behind the magistrate’s office, one limp curtain, and a chair that smelled like boiled cabbage and last month’s shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The medic was a bald man with spectacles and sausage fingers who never once introduced himself. Just snapped on a pair of cracked leather gloves like he was about to gut a fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Remove your garments from the waist down,” he said flatly, not even looking up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I blinked. “Buy me a drink first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I undressed. Grudgingly. Under protest. Making a point of folding my clothes with exaggerated care, like defiance could cover my ass better than silk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He poked. Prodded. Checked for signs of infection, infestation, inflammation, andimproper usage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made me squat. Cough. Breathe. He squinted at my brands and tattoos like they were mold samples. He sniffed me.Sniffed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At one point he asked if I had ever exhibited signs of demonic infestation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Define ‘signs,’” I said sweetly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t appreciate that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He muttered something about rune compatibility and made me grip a brass rod while he scribbled down whether I glowed. (I didn’t. That time.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He checked my teeth. My eyes. My hearing. My pulse. Myhips.Measured thewidthof them. For birthing capacity, apparently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he asked, in the flattest tone imaginable, “Any recent conjugal injuries?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tilted my head. “Like emotional, or just teeth?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wrote “YES” and moved on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Final step: he dipped a thin stick in a foul green potion and asked me to hold it… internally. For temperature, he said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked if it had to be that end. He blinked once. I blinked twice. We compromised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it turned purple (a good sign, supposedly), he declared me free of “active rot, dripping ailments, or obvious mutations,” stamped the form, and told me to re-dress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No goodbye. No good luck. Just the smell of vinegar and boiled something clinging to my skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I left with the distinct sense I’d been pickled, not examined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But hey. Paperwork approved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am now,officially,safe to fuck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Saya, Certified Bed Hazard™\u003C\u002Fp>",370,"2026-06-06T14:39:25.900Z",1,"novelbin.me","c7561f4fd0ba5e2ac852b04d43b55316adf52a36dee0293db4df8e386d107042","saya-and-the-dragon-chapter-203","saya-and-the-dragon-chapter-201",228,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsaya-and-the-dragon-cover.jpg"]