29 – I Want to Rest! Break Time
Virtue is eventually rewarded no matter how malicious a group may be, as the proverb goes!
It’s like Cinderella; despite the wicked stepmother’s schemes, Cinderella ends up marrying the prince.
In a similar way, wouldn’t it be right for me to marry a princess and retire as a therapist?
I have defeated the cunning hospital committee..!
“I want to enjoy the sweet life too..!”
I don’t want to be busy anymore!
I quietly opened the curtains of the clinic.
It seems like there are more patients waiting outside than during the hospital’s peak hours.
The waiting room is packed with patients, chatting animatedly.
“They say the Western Hospital Association abandoned Leterma? They’re short on firewood too. They are really ruthless people.”
“I heard they spread rumors about me being too unpleasant, saying the association leaves patients untreated even when they’re sick!”
“Tsk tsk, you reap what you sow.”
“On the other hand, Mr. Kims Charles gave out firewood for free and treated the people in Leterma!”
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“Hehe. That’s why I cut ties with the association and only go to Mr. Kims Charles for treatment.”
“Well, kind people should be rewarded!”
That’s right.
After defeating the association, even the association’s patients turned to me!
The association’s tyranny has spread in rumors, and they say it’s falling apart.
“Hmm… It’s a good thing though.”
Having won against the association, I wanted rest as a reward.
But it seems the patients consider receiving treatment from me as a reward for me!
Clang!
I pulled the curtain and looked down at my weapons.
“Out of office”, “On a business trip”, “On sick leave”, “End of treatment” signs.
A strong desire to put up the “Out of office” sign and just rest overwhelms me. Darn it, I haven’t rested a single day in almost 3 months. My hands are trembling.
“Kim Chul-soo, there are 4 urgent patients! Three flu patients, one with pneumonia.”
Miss Catherine has sorted out the urgent patients waiting.
Thunk! The “Out of office” sign fell.
‘…Let’s treat the urgent patients first.’
* * * *
End of treatment, time to rest in the room!
It’s the time for all medical staff to eagerly await the end of the day.
Rest is the salvation for medical professionals overwhelmed with heavy workload, and the driving force to work hard!
Plop! I dived onto the bed and buried my face in the blanket!
Even if I don’t touch it, the maids wash and change the sheets, making them soft and fluffy.
‘Ah, this feels nice.’
Back in Korea, I did everything by myself.
The hospital and my house were so far apart that I had to rent a room and live there.
“This is quite convenient.”
It feels like getting a free housekeeping service?
As a working person, there’s no greater luxury than this!
When I lived alone in a rented room in Korea, after work, I found it so annoying to do household chores.
I used disposable containers to avoid washing dishes.
Disposable containers are general waste, so after using them once, I just threw them in the designated trash bag, which was quite convenient.
Characteristic of living alone, avoiding creating chores.
“Hehe, but it doesn’t matter if I create some work right now. It’s not like I’m the one doing it!”
“Bath Uncle, that sounds somehow unlucky!”
Just then, the arrogant little brat Becky brought my dried clothes.
Since Kim Chul-soo was not around, Becky was tidying up my room.
“Hehe, work hard, Becky.”
“Tch, I want to rest quickly too.”
The maids at Count Roland’s work 12 hours a day.
The workload isn’t too intense, but the working hours are quite long.
“Is it tough?”
“Well, it’s always like that.”
Still, Count Roland’s miscellaneous tasks are at a level even a little brat like Becky can handle.
Cleaning, laundry, running errands for Count Roland, and so on.
“Anything particularly hard?”
Unintentionally, I slipped into a counselor’s tone.
It’s a professional habit, asking patients about their symptoms.
I don’t really have any power at Count Roland’s, nor am I going to fix Becky’s tasks.
But still, talking and communicating with people can be empowering.
Becky, who was looking bored, seemed slightly intrigued.
“Just working all day long?”
“That’s the same for all workers, Becky. I spend my whole day treating patients!”
“Hehe, I saw the line of patients. There were so many.”
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When I lived in Korea, I used my phone for healing, but now without a phone, conversations are healing time!
“You must be busy with work, so slack off a bit here. If a senior maid asks what you’re doing, say you cleaned my room.”
“Isn’t that deception?”
“Hush! It’s called tact, Becky.”
“Got it.”
Even though Becky grumbles, she’s gotten closer to me these days.
Now, I diligently bathe every day, so there’s no smell on my body.
Thanks to that, Becky, who used to avoid me, now gets close saying my body smells nice!
Human scent is crucial for camaraderie like this.
“But Bath Uncle, is that true? That you’ve become an official priest.”
“Hehe, curious?”
“Yes.”
The rumor about me becoming an official priest has already spread.
Thanks to my fierce showdown with the hospital association, I gained a torch-sized sanctity!
Well, it seems like it’s time to show Becky the greatness of Kim Chul-soo.
“Look, Becky! This is an official priest.”
Ziiing!
I focus the residual warm energy in my body into my hands.
As the divine power surged through my hands like cold sweat, it transformed into a white light… shining as brightly as a torch!
“How do you feel, Becky?”
“Wow, you’ve truly become a genuine priest, sir.”
“Not just any priest. Kim Cheolsu, the genius who became a full-fledged priest in just two months!”
“Indeed, incredibly fast. They say it takes at least five years to go from apprentice to full-fledged priest. Congratulations!”
“Hehe, thank you.”
The temple people, who had been attending the temple diligently since childhood, honing their divine powers.
What they achieved in 10 or 20 years, I accomplished in just two months!
Becky marveled, “Sir, are you perhaps on the fast track to becoming an Archbishop?”
“Well, sort of.”
An Archbishop is the second in command within the Urquell faith, after the Archbishop.
They must be incredibly busy!
“No, no. I’m talking about the level of attainment.”
“Ah, you mean the level of divine power attainment.”
“Yes.”
I misunderstood.
Becky’s mention of Archbishop-level refers to the level of divine power attainment.
I heard from Miss Catherine that it’s divided into a total of 7 stages.
Starting from mere believer, apprentice priest, full-fledged priest like me, district priest, bishop, archbishop, to Archbishop, the hierarchy is structured.
Mere believers cannot use divine power, just ordinary people who believe in the Urquell faith.
Apprentice priests can use a bit of divine power.
Full-fledged priests can heal with divine power like me.
District priests, like Mr. James, can treat multiple patients simultaneously.
As for bishops, they say they can crush rocks with divine power, but I haven’t seen it, so I’m not sure.
By the way, my companion warrior Lala is said to be at the Archbishop to Archbishop level.
“Lala emits divine power all day long in combat mode, and there’s no sign of exhaustion in her divine power, even covering the entire Roland Viscount.”
When Lala helped me repel the flies.
At that time, Lala’s divine power was enough to cover the entire Roland Viscount, yet she showed no signs of fatigue despite enveloping the entire Roland Viscount in divine power.
“How strong is Lala?”
Is it like loading a cannon to the brim with armor-piercing shells to go fight a demon lord?
Even if the demon lord is powerful, wouldn’t they suffocate and die if they got hit by a ton of armor-piercing shells…?
I entertain these baseless fantasies.
Anyway, Lala is the only Archbishop-level I’ve seen, and honestly, how could one grow to that level?
“Wouldn’t it be tough to reach the Archbishop level?”
“Who knows, Bathhouse Sir? Maybe you’ll grow explosively and become an Archbishop.”
Well, if you grow that much, there won’t be any infections you can’t treat due to a shortage of disinfectant.
Of course, Becky is just joking around.
I ruffled Becky’s hair and chuckled, “Hehe, sure. When that time comes, call me not Bathhouse Sir, but Disinfectant Factory Kim Cheolsu, Becky. I’m currently the Antibiotic Kim Cheolsu, you know.”
“Disinfectant factory? Antibiotics? What’s that?”
“Just think of it as something that can roughly counter a curse.”
“Ah, got it. Antibiotic Bath Gentleman!”
Since that day, the maids somehow started calling me Antibiotic Bath Gentleman.
***
In the village houses near Count Roland’s estate, now closed for winter, the villagers sitting around fires had white flakes resembling dandruff on their knees and hands.
Among them, Carpenter Cotton was one of those villagers, lying on his bed, scratching his head.
“I bathe every day, so why is my skin like this? They say if Cheolsu bathes daily, all skin diseases disappear.”
“Dear, where does it hurt?”
“No, no. It doesn’t hurt. It’s just this unsightly dandruff appearing on my hands. It’s probably nothing serious.”
Carpenter Cotton didn’t pay much attention to it.
You see, when symptoms of an illness show up, that’s when you think, ‘Ah, I need to cure this illness,’ but if there are no symptoms, you don’t feel the need to fix anything.
However, a week later, as the dandruff-like flakes gradually increased, Cotton began to feel puzzled.
This doesn’t seem normal, he thought.
There was no pain, but there was itching.
Near the white flakes, red rashes started appearing.
“Tsk!”
It was bothering him while working, so Cotton scratched the flakes irritably.
And the next day, didn’t the flakes seem to have grown even more?
Cotton felt fear.