Chapter 237 – Chapter 12 – Treatment
“Ugh. Tea.”
A small clinic in a remote area of the countryside.
The woman, who was the only doctor there, moved the box containing her medicine with great difficulty and patted her sore waist.
It has already been 5 years since I inherited this clinic from my teacher and started running it alone.
There were often people who looked down on her because she was a young woman running a clinic alone, but thanks to her recognition for her skills, there are very few people like that these days.
Still, when I move heavy objects like this, I feel uncomfortable because I am alone, so I often think of people who came to me and asked me to be their disciple.
‘Because I don’t have the skills to teach others yet.’
She was not yet skilled enough to receive an apprentice herself.
If I were to try to receive a disciple with this level of skill, I would have no reason to see the Master again in the future, so it was something worth thinking about only after 10 years had passed.
By then, her health will be deteriorating, so if she doesn’t want to grow old and die alone, she should at least find someone to help her.
In fact, a simpler way was to just find a suitable partner.
She is quite good-looking, has some abilities, and she is still young, so if she wants to find a mate, it won’t be difficult to find her.
No matter how small the village is, there are dozens of young men, so if you pick one decent person, you will relieve loneliness and worry less about the future.
In fact, it is true that she has done something like that a few times while running the clinic.
It’s because you’re still young right now. In just a few more years, when you get closer to marriage, the difficulty of finding a mate will increase significantly, so if you want to find a mate, now is the right time.
“… Ha.”
The problem is that there is no man I like.
It wasn’t that I was a single person or that I had too high of an eye on men.
In the past, I just ignored her because I was busy with training, but later on, I had the desire to live happily as a proper woman.
‘This is all because of that customer.’
He said that he became like this because of a customer who came to visit him about two years ago.
A Taoist monk whose tone of voice was impressive as he urgently carried a person dressed in blood in the middle of the night and asked for urgent medical attention.
The person himself was not the problem, but the problem was with the patient the Taoist monk brought.
Strangely, he thought it was strange that he could not see the face inside the blood cloak, but he asked to take off the blood cloak as he could not see the doctor if it continued like this.
When I think about it now, I shouldn’t have done that.
It definitely didn’t look masculine.
If you say he’s a man, he’ll look like a man, but if you say he’s a woman, he’ll look like a man, but if you say he’s a woman, you’ll see him that way. In addition, he doesn’t have any muscles on his body, and his overall body size is small, so he doesn’t have the masculine beauty that is commonly thought of, but…
-Gulp
‘I should have treated you somehow…!’
Even after two years, I still can’t get it out of my head.
When I still think about that scene, I felt like the strange scent coming from the patient’s body was still lingering on the tip of my nose.
For the first few weeks, I thought it was because he was such an impressive patient, but since I kept seeing it even after several months, I thought maybe I had dangerous tastes, so there was a time when I hid in secret and watched the neighborhood kids.
Fortunately, seeing as I haven’t been dragged to the coffin yet, it doesn’t seem like I have that kind of taste…
“Haa.”
Looking at my current situation, it seemed like it would be wrong to get married for the rest of my life.
And since I already thought about that scene again, I just felt bad today.
I may not count down the nights as much as I used to, but I probably won’t be able to sleep until the moon sets.
-Thump!
“Look! Is there a doctor inside?”
-Surprise!
At that moment, I came to my senses when I heard the patient’s voice outside the door.
No matter how personal the circumstances may be, a clinician cannot rest as long as there are patients.
“Yes, yes! I’m there, so you can come in!”
If they came here at night, there was a high possibility that the situation was really urgent.
A thought occurred to me as I was quickly gathering tools, so I could see a doctor.
‘… But the voice seems somewhat familiar.’
For some reason, it was a voice and tone I had heard before.
.
.
.
“Ah. You’re still here. That’s a good thing. When I went outside right away, I saw that this was the only doctor I could think of nearby.”
“Uh. Are you the master who came two years ago?”
“I remembered. You must have seen one or two patients.”
“Ahaha… It’s natural for a doctor to remember a patient.”
“I know we know each other, but could you take care of the patient first? Please tell me where I can lay him down.”
While I was saying hello to the Taoist monk, who seemed to have not aged at all compared to two years ago, a slightly harsh voice was heard.
At the place where her voice was heard, a girl with impressive blue hair was carrying a woman who was taller than herself.
“Ah. You can lay it down on this side. You can clean the dirt and such, so just lay it down comfortably.”
“Ugh. Cha.”
She seemed to be having a hard time just by looking at it, so she quickly pointed to the blanket where she was going to put her patient down.
The girl may have been stronger than she looked, but she easily laid the woman she was carrying on top of her.
“…”
-Bruise
The moment she saw that, she couldn’t help but feel dazed for a moment.
The golden hair mixed with a slightly strange color was enough to give an unrealistic feeling, but what was even more unrealistic than that was the appearance.
Even with her eyes closed, she has facial features that cannot even be described as perfect…
-New liquid. New liquid.
‘Wow. This is.’
For a moment I thought she had something inside her clothes, but it was all flesh.
Even though she was just lying down and breathing, the unrealistic lumps of flesh that were shaking up and down in time with her breathing and did not even fall down were difficult for even a woman to take her eyes off.
Normally, when it’s that big, it’s affected by gravity so much that it flows down, but how could I have managed it even if it was this size.
“… Don’t you see a doctor?”
“Hot!”
She shook her head from side to side to shake off her worries and lifted the treatment tool.
“I will be seeing the doctor first, but can I ask you a few questions to ensure smooth treatment?”
“It’s okay.”
“Um… First, the simplest question is, how did you fall? You had to fight with each other… Or where you fell… It’s easier to figure out the cause if you tell me in detail.”
‘First of all, it seems like I’m breathing properly…’
If the person was not breathing properly, it would be considered hopeless, but fortunately, it seemed like they could still be saved.
Next is the heartbeat.
-Mulkeong
“…”
‘When you wake up, let me ask you what your favorite food is.’
Even though she had foolish thoughts, she was properly performing her role as a member of the National Assembly.
The heartbeat is…
‘… It seems slow?’
Something was strange.
First, the heart rate was not within the standards of a healthy human.
I wouldn’t know if it was an animal that went into hibernation.
“Well. I had a little accident while fighting the enemy. And I was covered in strange energy.”
“What enemy was it?”
“Uhm. Let’s say it’s a remnant of a blood cult.”
“… Wow.”
A scary name came out.
I heard that it was destroyed more than 20 years ago, but remnants still remain.
To that extent, you need to search Master’s records.
At least it was something I had never experienced before.
“Wait a minute. Then I think I should read Master’s book too.”
I stood up for a moment and started looking through the books Master had left in the storage room.
I can only hope that there is a record.
* * *
While the congressman was away to look through books, Yeo So-cheon and Geom-hu were talking with heavy expressions.
“What does that doctor know? This is a completely different area than the one that treated him before.”
“I have no choice but to believe it. Right now, this is the closest doctor I can find around here.”
“Damn. That white witch treats her accident as an accident and doesn’t say anything. If she arbitrarily borrowed someone else’s body and made it look like that, she should at least provide a way to treat it.”〈 Br〉
“I guess that’s why we can’t contact her because we don’t have you. I guess she did it on purpose because she was her.”
“If she’s that damn girl, she might have done it on purpose. She can’t even hold her hand, and she’s been doing that for 10 years, so she might have done it out of jealousy.”
“Keuhum.”
She didn’t think she had the right to say anything, so she stayed quiet, but that didn’t mean she didn’t think there was anything wrong with what was going on between him and her.
With her personality, if she spoke about it so openly, she couldn’t help but blush and clear her throat.
“That’s right. Can’t you roughly know what this person’s condition is right now? Don’t you have a lot of strange knowledge?”
“I can understand. But the problem is that the current situation is not very good.”
“… Is that so?”
“Do you see this? These are this woman’s fox beads.”
Yeo So-cheon took out her blue ball of light from her fallen body and showed it to her swordsman.
“The higher a fox youkai’s level, the more she assimilates with her fox bead. In this woman’s state, it’s safe to say that this bead is actually her alter ego.”
“… The color seems cloudy.”
“Yes. As it is, it should have a completely blue color because it contains only the pure energy of nature, but…”
What was actually visible inside the bead was an overall blue light and a dark red energy the size of a fingernail inside.
The dark red energy is gradually expanding its area, as if paint was put into a water bottle.
Considering that the condition of the fox bead is the condition of the main body, I could tell just by looking at it that the situation was not good.
And as proof of that, it was confirmed that the proportion of red and black areas in her hair had slightly increased.
“… What happens if that dark red energy takes over the entire bead?”
“…”
Geomhu carefully asked questions about the situation.
“… At least it won’t be the way we originally remembered.”
Yeo So-cheon avoided giving a clear answer and looked in the direction of her warehouse where the lawmaker had left.
