Chapter 12 - Sungjin Mental Hospital #2
Sungjin Mental Hospital #2
Translator : Elizabeth
Thud.
"Ugh."
Along with the sound of the door closing, my shoulders flinched, belatedly grasping the situation.
Just what did I experience just now?
Clearly, I heard that if I say I'm a Visitor, the initial crisis would be averted, so why suddenly, there...
Click. Click.
The alien appearance of the nurse I saw earlier came to mind again, making me freeze thud in place.
"But why did I become an Intern...?!"
A series of absurd situations!
I looked down at the outfit held in my hands.
A nurse uniform with a pinkish hue, looking exactly like a child's costume.
Se- seriously, tell me to wear this? Me?!
"Ah, ugh..."
「▶ You feel a pounding emotion at the thought of undertaking a new profession.」
"Wh, When did I?!"
It will definitely fit.
Because my current body is in a state boasting supreme beauty...!
But what does that have to do with the current situation?!
Kidnapped to an Anomaly hospital out of nowhere, I intended to calmly follow the manual and escape back to where the warm Daycare is—
This, things have gone wrong, way too wrong.
「A Quest has arrived.」
「▶ Wear the nurse uniform and formally become an Intern of 'Sungjin Mental Hospital' (Incomplete)」
So, it's telling me to do it. Follow it for now.
"Aaaah..."
After agonizing, I wiggled and lifted the bottom hem of the hoodie I was wearing.
"Ugh."
The touch of cold air touching my bare skin gives me goosebumps.
Unfolding the finely folded nurse uniform, I managed to put my arms and legs in somehow and wore it.
"Wh, Why is the size."
Fit so perfectly? As if it was custom-made for me in advance.
Is this also the mystery of an Anomaly...?
"...."
「▶ Quest complete. Now, how about going outside and going through proper probationary procedures?」
"R, Rewards...?"
「▶ How about stepping on it (going through procedures)?」
"I got it...!"
I carefully, and stealthily, examined the situation outside the door.
The scenery inside the hospital is still flowing peacefully—
"Mmph! Mmmph!"
"....!"
Someone in a wheelchair, struggling, is being moved somewhere.
Wrapped tightly in bandages so even the face couldn't be seen properly—
With the whole body restrained, they were being led by a nurse's hand and moved somewhere in the hospital.
Still, the people, no, the Anomalies, were focusing on the roles they each had to play as if that scene was familiar.
Tap, tap.
The nurse sitting at the lobby desk typing hard on the keyboard.
I didn't know when I first met her, but now I could check what she was looking at through the monitor.
'...It's off.'
The monitor screen was reflecting black color, turned off.
She was just typing on the keyboard looking at a black screen.
...As expected, this is a crazy place.
I closed the door stealthily again, and accessed the gallery for a moment while wearing the nurse uniform.
**[↳ User: ...Did a problem occur?
↳ Yes?
↳ User: Things got a bit twisted, I became a Nurse Intern instead of a Visitor.
↳ ??
↳ User: Is there perhaps a separate manual for when you become an Intern status?
↳ An Intern manual hasn't been established separately.
↳ Because everyone went crazy or died while helping the Anomalies.
↳ User: Ah.]**
**[↳ ...Just how did you end up like that?
↳ User: I don't know either, suddenly.]**
I said that and looked down at my outfit.
...Let's just not say it.
Feeling the sensation of my face burning hot, I continued to send a DM.
**[↳ User: For now, I'll use the gallery tab a bit separately.
↳ Yes, be careful. If anything happens, send a DM immediately.
↳ User: Yep.]**
After the DM ended, it was time to check the gallery tab.
[Someone just got dragged away in a wheelchair]
[Leave it, must be an agent whose luck didn't fit]
[What if it's a civilian]
[Is there anything that changes if we know? We have to do what we have to do]
[I'm alone on the 3rd floor of the hospital right now, any other agents here?]
[Fuck almost got caught by a nurse earlier because of a mistake]
[Ah crazy bastard if you're gonna die just die alone;;;]
I clicked one of those posts and entered.
"Uh?"
I froze in place at the familiar nickname visible immediately.
'SafeToday!'
The person who taught me how to use the stone at the very beginning!
What? Is this person here right now too?
But thinking about it, it wasn't that strange of a thing.
Because Administration Bureau agents are fated to be deployed to Anomalies at any time.
"Uh..."
But looking at the content of the post, it wasn't exactly positive news.
**[- Came here dispatched because a civilian rescue request came in, but don't know which bastard it is, but they took a massive dump here and left ah.
↳ What is it?
↳ SafeToday: Some crazy bastard left the door to Room 208 open fuck.
↳ Ah.
↳ Lolololol fucked.
↳ Then you have to stay trapped there for a whole day.
↳ SafeToday: Ha fuck.
↳ You won't get far~]**
Room 208?
Just what kind of place is that for it to be mentioned continuously.
Having checked up to there, I solidified my will to move slowly as requested by the quest window.
'I'm not going to be here continuously anyway.'
Thinking about the Daycare time, if just I do well, the probability of encountering dangerous situations is low.
Wouldn't it be fine if I just work hard as the nurse tells me to...?!
Then, then...
'SafeToday.'
If luck reaches that side too, maybe we can meet and somehow! help each other...?!
"Or not."
Still, wouldn't that person playing in the C-Rank gallery figure things out much better than someone like me, an F-Rank agent?
"Gulp."
With such thoughts, I left the assigned patient room to change clothes.
"Ah!"
As soon as I left the room, I made eye contact with a nurse.
An Anomaly nurse wearing the same outfit as me, but with a vastly more mature physique.
"The outfit suits you well~! You're the Intern supposed to learn the work from today, right?"
She is smiling brightly and kindly, but I knew the malice hidden behind that expression.
"Ah, ah. Yes."
「▶ Fortunately, your Senior Nurse seems to be a good person. It seems okay to open your heart a little.」
'Quiet...!'
Warning the status window chattering as it pleased, I naturally followed the Anomaly nurse beckoning me to follow.
Click, clack.
Inside the hospital flowing actively, the sound of the Senior Nurse's heels brushed past my ears clearly.
"If you need help or are curious about anything, come to me."
"Ah, yes."
"Even if you see patients wandering the hallway occasionally, just come to me."
"Ye, yes."
"Don't go to the 3rd floor. You must absolutely not make the doctors uncomfortable."
Stop.
While moving and talking, I almost bumped into her because the Senior Nurse suddenly stopped moving.
What, suddenly...!
"Ugh."
"Got it?"
The nurse was looking down at me with only her head turned.
Of course, her body is looking straight ahead.
What does that mean?
It means standing as she was, only her head turned to the opposite side and was looking down at me!
Wow! How does a person's face turn like that?! Ah right, she was an Anomaly?! I got confused for a moment because she was kind!
"Ah, uh, ah..."
"Got it?"
"Ye, ye, yes...."
"Okay~!"
When I answered, she smiled brightly again as is and walked looking forward.
'Driving me crazy, seriously.'
I watched that figure blankly, then startled, I followed the Senior Nurse entity again.
**[↳ User: Following the nurse right now;;;;;;
↳ Yes? Why that?
↳ No, are you okay?
↳ User: For now she's treating me well... Since she spoke kindly for now.
↳ ;;;;;;; You're probably the only one saying that.
↳ User: Is that so?
↳ Anyway, will this be okay... She told me to follow since I'm an Intern so I am following for now but.
↳ For now, just roughly copying what other nurse entities do.]**
Is that so.
Wouldn't it be okay if I just do what I'm told and don't do what I'm told not to...?
"Excuse me, Nurse..."
"Yes~?"
"What work do I do..."
"We have the role of assisting patients so they can leave the hospital fully healthy! We make medicine too, and perform the role of examining if patients have any painful places."
"Ah..."
"Fufu, no need to worry too much. Everyone makes mistakes at first."
Does that one mistake bring up an escape failure death ruling or not?
Folding the doubt naturally rising in a corner of my head, I continued to walk following the nurse.
"...."
But this, just how far are we going?
It's been a long time since we moved away from the hospital lobby.
The name of the area I saw last was 'Blood Draw Room', and now we are going further from there.
Shiver.
'Ughhhh...!
Goosebumps rise all over because of the wind brushing inside the skirt occasionally.
Why does it flutter so uselessly...!
Originally I wore a baggy hoodie and pants so it was comfortable, but this is the complete opposite...!
Not only does a tight-fitting line form on the body, but it keeps brushing here and there, bothering me.
Why on earth did they dress me in these clothes...?!
.. ... ....
Thrust.
"Here."
"Eh?"
When I reflexively received the chart held out to me before I knew it, various room numbers were written there.
"Go around and if there are uncomfortable or sick patients, help them, or request help from us."
The Anomaly nurse said so with a still smiling face.
"Got it?"
"Ah... Yes."
I couldn't say 'I don't want to' to that, so I had no choice but to nod reluctantly and receive the mission.
Ding!
「▶ A Quest has arrived.」
「▶ You have now become a worker of 'Sungjin Mental Hospital' and have come to handle today's work faithfully. Perform the missions written on the chart and prove your value within this hospital.」
"Here, emergency medicine. If there is a patient in pain, feed them this."
"...Yes."
I received the several pills handed over next as they were.
Why are the colors all like this...?
Red, red, red.
And it's not a typical pill with a hard surface, but squishy as if I really shouldn't eat it.
Leaving only those words, the nurse stood blankly in place and looked at me.
Ah, go? From here? Suddenly?
I looked back at that nurse, then soon due to the silent pressure, I ended up moving my spot hesitantly.
'S, Suddenly doing what here...'
For now, does it mean to move as given in the chart?
**「▶ Check Patient 107 (Incomplete)
▶ Bring the patient wandering in front of Room 203 to the ward (Incomplete)
▶ Give a warning to children running around the hospital (Incomplete)
▶ Put the 'body part' fallen in the hallway into the disposal bin (Incomplete)
..
...
....」**
'Why is there so much...?!'
Did they really hire me as some new rookie?
A workload that seems tough even if done all day, and even the content of some tasks is strange.
Wh, What is picking up body parts. Aaaah...!
「▶ Interview with the Doctor (Incomplete)」
Even the content the nurse urged me not to do is included.
Just what are they telling me to do?
"...Ah."
Still, if told to do it, I must.
Let's try doing as ordered for now...
Just in case, yeah. I might be able to contact an Administration Bureau agent who can be helpful here.
With such thoughts, I decided to head to the nearest ward for now.