52 – 09: I met a strange person again today.
It’s a strange thing to say suddenly. I thought it was very fortunate that the hospital fee for the exorcist was free.
If, like in the original world, you had to pay and it took a long time to treat the wound, it would have been even more difficult to go to the hospital.
Disgusting smell of disinfectant and noise. And the faint smell of blood. Moaning. Listening to the sound of pain, I closed my eyes tightly and waited for the emergency room doctor to finish stitching up my shoulder.
The doctor’s hand sewing my shoulder trembles strangely. I could feel the tension over my anesthetized shoulder.
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Didn’t the doctor have something like a resident or a new member of the resistance?
Then it is understandable to be so nervous. How anxious would you be if someone who had just run into the field were suddenly told that they were going to sew people’s flesh?
If it’s not an ordinary wound but a dented shoulder, it’s disgusting.
If I were my normal body size, I would have been more anxious if someone whose hands were shaking like this was treating my shoulder. Now…… Let’s be honest, it’s not even my body, so what?
I said a word to support the doctor who will treat many people in the future.
“Don’t be nervous. If you just put this body together, it will heal on its own. First, become an exorcist.”
“Yes?! Yes. Ah, ha, huh. Yes… ….”
I told her to relax, but the doctor nodded with a dark face, as if she had swallowed a poison she didn’t want to eat.
A face that looks like it will cry if you touch it. Now that I look at it, the doctor who sewed my shoulder looked like he was middle-aged, even though he was new. The atmosphere around me was also strange.
The people around me looked at me and the doctor and were shaking with faces that looked like they were seeing a dump truck on fire rushing into a gas station.
All the nurses and doctors examining the patients could do was roll their eyes, but the patients and their guardians, who were conscious, were in an uproar.
I already knew that my face was sold after the Red Mask incident, and I was planning to take advantage of all the attention from people, so I was not happy about this attention, but I could understand it.
But to think that it was just watching a celebrity on TV, the gazes gathered were full of fear and tension.
It was already a strange enough situation, but what was even stranger was that some people were kneeling and praying.
It was so quiet that I didn’t even think it was an emergency room, so I tilted my head. I found Wooshin next to me, staring intently at a medical needle being pierced through my skin.
And then I realized who was to blame for this strange situation.
“Hey Wooshin.”
“I called. Leader?”
“Go outside and wait.”
“Hmph.”
I say I’m used to it, but the spiritual power that the spirit unconsciously emits is so enormous that even I sometimes freeze. But the mere presence of such a spirit nearby would make people stiff.
Wooshin might not know, but Blue Dragon would know that well. Did you forget that you were worried about me and just follow me?
For a moment, my heart warms and I wonder if this is why people have pets? I thought so, but
When I saw Wooshin leaving the emergency room with his shoulders drooping, I stopped thinking when I saw the doctor shedding tears of joy like someone who had drowned and barely escaped.
As soon as Wooshin moved away from me, people seemed to have finally come to their senses and took out their cell phones and started taking pictures and making a fuss.
“How much would I make if I sued those people for infringement on their portrait rights?”
“Ah…… “You will earn a lot, right?”
When I spoke to the people taking pictures, they finally put their phones away.
Putting aside my fame, what a nuisance are you blocking the road in an emergency room with so many sick people?
I frowned fiercely and looked at the people gathered in the middle of the emergency room, looking at me like they were watching monkeys at the zoo.
Isn’t it also true that I, who brought a spirit to a place like this without even thinking about it, have nothing to say? I had very little thoughts about it.
I realized what I had done and reflected on it, so I decided to forgive. If you complain, I will swing a blue dragon sword at your head.
I thought in a slightly hazy state of mind.
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I had the hole in my shoulder filled, but I was told that it would be a dangerous wound if I didn’t fill it by transplanting flesh from another area.
If it was obvious, it was natural. I was bitten by a half-human, half-cat evil spirit. It had teeth as dense as awls. Since the flesh had been torn off by something like that, it was natural that the wound was in terrible condition.
But whatever. In this world, it seems that if you have a lot of spiritual power, all ordinary wounds can be healed.
The doctor was astonished to hear that the bleeding had already stopped and the weight was gaining weight after only connecting the parts that could be connected to block the important blood vessels in her shoulder.
The doctor asked if the wounds healed overwhelmingly faster than an ordinary exorcist who was of the A level level.
In other words, even ordinary exorcists can heal easily and quickly if they are not injured to this degree.
At this point, I thought exorcists should be classified as a completely different creature than a human. This wasn’t the important thing.
“Captain. “Are you going to look for a place to sleep now?”
“No.”
Wooshin asked as he greeted me as I came out of the emergency room.
Normally, like Wooshin said, I would look for a suitable abandoned house to find a place to stay tonight. Or maybe you were thinking about going to a sauna after a long time, but today was different.
I have no intention of letting go of the evil spirit who gave me red gauze and armrests.
I’m going to catch that evil spirit, and I’ve already thought of a way to find that evil spirit. The first thing I need to do now is investigate the evil spirit that attacked me.
Does that evil spirit have rules or is it a virtual evil spirit? Don’t you need to know that to be able to win?
Even so, it is clear that there are limits to obtaining information through the Internet. I’m also not good at looking for things.
Buying information through a broker I learned about while receiving a request for handling loneliness in a B-class casting [Of course, the chairman doesn’t even know it was loneliness] Would be the most convenient method by my standards.
As far as I know, there is no way a broker would be collecting information about evil spirits.
While receiving anesthesia and repairing my shoulder, the game screen that appeared as if I had been hit by lightning showed my younger brother moving a character to buy information about an evil spirit from a character with the name “Broker in the Back Alley.”
I remember this screen because my younger brother sat me down next to the computer and showed me the gameplay using chicken as bait.
Of course, the chicken was more important than what my younger brother was doing, so I just opened my eyes and ate the chicken, ignoring what my younger brother said.
At that time, I tried to eat both legs but failed. And when was the last time I ate chicken with my younger brother? Did you ever eat chicken when you came to this world in the first place?
Maybe it’s because of the side effects of the anesthetic, but as I try to force my still dazed head to move, my thoughts start to go in strange directions.
“…… This won’t work. “I need to get some rest today.”
I realized that my condition is not normal now.
My shoulder is said to be healing quickly, but I feel out of place, I feel bad, my thoughts keep wandering, and I don’t move forward.
If you try to do anything in this situation, things will just go wrong.
Didn’t you learn from living on the streets since childhood that it is important to know your condition, and that walking around with overconfidence that you are fine will only worsen your condition?
Let’s go to a motel or something today and get some rest. But if you take Wooshin to a place like a motel and rest for a day, how will the owner of the motel react?
Even though he looks like just a kid, he is a god. Will a god come and take a rest and make it a big hit by promoting it, or will crazy people come and beat me up? And why am I thinking like this?
“Let’s go to a place where we can properly rest today and rest.”
“A sauna?”
“No motel. “It’s been a while since I’ve slept in bed.”
I trudge along with a dry face.
It was late afternoon, when even the light rain had stopped and the hot sun had appeared again, but I was just thinking about sleeping all day at the nearest motel.
“Do you have time?”
I turned my attention to the male voice that sounded strangely clear on the street where people were passing by.
When I turned my gaze, the first thing I saw was a middle-aged man getting out of the driveway.
A middle-aged man with a gloomy face covered in freckles from fatigue was calling to me with a cigarette in his mouth.
I felt even hotter as I watched him because he was wearing a jet black suit and long coat, but the man wasn’t even shedding a drop of sweat.
Seeing that his complexion is not good, I wonder if he is sick.
“Who are you?”
“Nice to meet you. Exorcist Lee Jun. Wooshin. I am a B- level exorcist belonging to the Exorcism Agency. “Can I talk to you for a moment?”
Exorcism office? As I saw the word “Exorcism Agency” Written on the civil servant card the man was showing, I wondered why the Exorcism Agency, which had been quiet until now, had approached me.
I wondered if he was going to do something strange again, but the fact that my shoulder was torn and I had to go to the emergency room was probably already spread all over the internet by people who proudly took pictures of it.
Seeing that, the exorcism office must have come to say something to me.
But it hasn’t even been an hour since they first entered the emergency room, and looking at them already showing their faces, I wonder if they are really running out of time.
Because it has been raining a lot recently, various accidents have occurred, evil spirits have run rampant, and even the main character has been busy, so he wanted to ask me for a request, but is the exorcism office free?
No, if you look at your complexion like that. On the other hand, you might be so busy that you have to send away someone who should be resting.
“-If it’s a story, I think it will be decided whether or not to listen to it depending on the content.”
“That’s right. Then. Uh, wait a minute. The higher-ups told me to make sure to pass it on. Let me check what that nonsense was.”
As the middle-aged man said this, he took out an old notebook from his arms and rolled his eyes as if checking its contents.
“It’s bullsh*t, it’s nonsense. Ah, you damn old ladies have lost their minds. This isn’t co-optation, it’s quarrel. Good. If I tell you the official position of the Exorcism Office, it is nothing but a dispute…….”
“To put it bluntly, the Exorcism Office wants Exorcist Lee Jun to become a member of the Exorcism Office. But I don’t think anyone would come into a sh*thole like this, even me.”
“I want to use my company money to buy beef. Could you help me? “I plan to freely leak information about the evil spirit that attacked the exorcist this time, so I don’t think there will be any loss.”
I felt a growing fondness for a middle-aged man I met for the first time. I gave extra points for buying beef.
I will think about whether the information about evil spirits is useful later.
The middle-aged man grinned with a cigarette in his mouth. He smiled and nodded his head vertically.
The man was satisfied and lit a cigarette in his mouth, but as if he had suddenly realized his mistake, he continued speaking with a bitter smile.
“Ah. This. You didn’t even reveal my name. Excuse me. My name is Park Chun-sik. I made this mistake after not sleeping properly for about a week……. “Then, I hope you have a good day today.”
“Ah. Yes.”
Park Chun-sik. It’s definitely a name you’ve heard before. As one of the characters in this game.
I’m sure my younger brother said that he was the only one at the exorcism office who was doing his job properly. I remember seeing his younger brother introduce a male character and finding it fascinating.
But I don’t think of this man as an ally.
I don’t know what this man thinks of me, but at least I can confirm whether the entire organization called the Exorcism Agency has gone crazy and is trying to kill me.
Thinking like that, I looked at the man with a smile. He opened the door of the car he was riding in, saying he knew the most expensive beef restaurant around here.
…… The smell of cigarette smoke! How much does this guy smoke?!
I cursed inside. Since I was planning to eat meat today, I decided to quietly endure it. If it weren’t for what Wooshin said.
“Captain. “This person’s car smells like smoke.”
“Okay. Let’s walk. The car smells so bad. “You don’t plan on putting your child in a car like this, do you?”
“…… Oh my. God…… ? Huh, I understand. “Then let’s walk.”
I spoke to Wooshin, who was frowning and covering his nose. The man put the cigarette in his mouth back into the box and smiled bitterly.
I am at the age where I think that anyone who smokes in front of a child can get their head broken, so I thought it was a good thing that I was able to avoid the unfortunate situation that would occur if he kept smoking in his mouth…….
No. Not a kid. He’s a walking nuclear bomb kid, so technically he’s not a kid.
Maybe it’s because the effects of the anesthetic haven’t worn off yet, but he just keeps talking strange nonsense. I dried my face and sighed.