Chapter 16 - The Doctor #2
The Doctor #2
Translator : Elizabeth
[Title: So what is on the Basement 3rd Floor?]
- I looked it up a bit and they said it was the Morgue though.
Why is it that whenever anyone enters there, whether civilian or agent, they get an inescapable death ruling?
↳ If we knew that, would we be sitting here in the C-Rank Anomaly tab?
↳ Author: ??
↳ We don't know either, so we just headbutt and die or just don't even look lol.
↳ Ah lol agents are consumables in the first place lol.
↳ The manual also warns repeatedly not to go, so if you go, well, you should die.
[Title: As far as I know]
- I know there's something else besides the Morgue there.
So the really dangerous floor isn't the floor after the 4th floor.
But it's on the basement side yep;
↳ What is the basis for saying that?
↳ Author: Just my hunch.
↳ ?
↳ Author: Or not~
↳ No fuck lol.
↳ This guy is so confident I have nothing to say.]
[Title: So!!!!!! So!!!!!! So!!!!!!]
- Where!!!!!! Is!!!!!! That cute baby Anomaly that guy showed earlier!!!!!!
I want to receive help from an Anomaly too!!!!!
I want to stroke-stroke and chu-chu that legendary cutie Anomaly!!!!
↳ What is this guy again?
↳ This is another new technique.
↳ They say it's terminal symptoms of mental pollution~]
[Title: They say it became super chaotic because a report went up to the Administration Bureau about that anyway]
- Because of the word 'Peculiar Anomaly', executives including researchers are doing somersaults looking for information.
Looking at the pic earlier, it really looked like a living doll.
Almost went to find and kidnap her, phew...
↳ But what information do those bastards find just sitting in their rooms ordering around? We have to run with our own feet anyway.
↳ Who is we?
↳ Uh-uh Ghost-bro, can you take responsibility for those words?
↳ Fr lol there's a bastard here who really believes anonymity.
↳ Author: ? Isn't it anonymous?
↳ Well about that..
↳ Yes~ informed~
↳ Author: What is it fuck.
↳ This part is the Anomaly.]
"....."
On the way to Basement 3rd Floor, I lifted my phone and tried accessing the gallery.
Even searching keywords related to 'Basement 3rd Floor', no particular information came up.
It's dangerous. Must not go. No one knows the terrible situation after going.
Only posts covered in all sorts of unknowns were overflowing.
...It's okay for me to go here, right?
Feeling anxious for no reason, I stopped once for now and took a long deep breath.
The most important thing in an Anomaly is to take an obedient attitude toward the rules valid here.
Currently I am beyond an Intern, a quite skilled Nurse.
In any situation that will come in the future, there is no reason for me to shrink or be intimidated.
"Because I have Ung-ae too...!"
There is even a reassuring ally.
You saw earlier, right? Even the Room 208 patient attacked and just got slammed bam...?!
"Phew...!"
I gathered my will and moved forward.
Passing the hallway, I stepped chuk chuk bravely on the stairs heading down.
[Title: Is there any Ghost-bro on the 4th floor right now?]
Nickname: SafeToday
- I came up to the 4th floor now.
Wasn't there a Ghost-bro saying they were dying or something earlier?
Where is the room number, tell me.
↳ ?
↳ Why crawl up to the 4th floor? Save your life first.
↳ Author: Can't even break even if I go out now anyway, what do I do;
↳ Ah, I acknowledge that.
↳ Ah, performance is more important than life lol.
↳ But how did you go up so quickly?
↳ Author: Was wandering around with the peculiar Anomaly-chan, then heard something like an announcement broadcast and all Anomalies in the hospital flocked away?
↳ ?
↳ I've been exploring the Gallery Owner (Hospital) until now but it's the first time hearing such a thing?]
[↳ Isn't it a lie?
↳ Author: Why would I lie risking my life coming all the way here fuck.
↳ Uh-uh don't get angry.
↳ Yep this part is the Anomaly.
↳ Augh fuck that damn.
↳ Is the Gallery Owner a damn gold mine these days? Why are there so many sudden events?
↳ Peculiar Anomaly appearance, broadcast situation.
↳ Sir, do you usually express that as a gold mine?
↳ If we aren't the ones entering, it is a jackpot event.
↳ Administration Bureau are truly famous dopamine hounds yep...]
The Gallery Owner mentioned here must be Sungjin Mental Hospital, right?
Saying it looks like a gold mine only when looking from the outside... As expected, no matter how I look at it, Administration Bureau workers are not normal.
Rattle.
Arrived like that, Basement 3rd Floor.
Beyond the thickly cast darkness, only pale lights were dimly illuminating the internal space.
Crossed the end of the hallway stretched far away.
"Aah, it hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts."
"Let me out, please let me out. I wanna go out, want to go out."
"Hihihihi, hihi. Hihihihi!"
Beyond the iron bar doors that seemed to exist to confine something, voices kept talking to me.
「▶ They seem to be patients receiving special treatment from the hospital. It doesn't seem necessary to give interest.」
Advancing with the status window chattering next to me, the end of the hallway approached gradually.
Thump! Thump!
Beyond this, an unknown territory not properly revealed even in the gallery yet—
Imagining it, unknown goosebumps and elation, and simultaneously discomfort kept knocking on my chest.
Human curiosity was this scary.
Like that—
【Emergency Operating Room】.
Creeeeaaak...
Reaching the terminus of the hallway, I grabbed the handle of the door at the very end and opened it.
Whoosh!
A chilly wind sweeps past my cheek.
What cast first was deep, deep darkness.
The lights were off.
However, I could know by feeling. That beyond this door, countless existences are lurking in advance to the point where even breathing is reluctant.
Not original hunch, but survival instinct warns so.
That here, something that should never happen is happening.
"...Ah."
Next moment.
I came to face a vast cavity.
When did I take one more step and move my feet into the space?
I had entered the space before I knew it.
"....."
Countless heads were growing in the cavity.
No, looking again.
Countless people on countless seats were sitting quietly.
The sight of quietly looking at the center of the cavity without a bit of noise had something overwhelming even before feeling the emotion called fear.
- Surgery will begin soon. Please be seated.
"...Ah."
At the broadcast heard subsequently, I hurriedly found an empty seat and squeezed in.
"Ugh, eek...!"
Squeezing forcibly between nurses or patients who didn't even move, I sit on the seat.
As if waiting only for me to sit, dim lights hit my vision fiercely in an instant.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
Waiting for the lights turning on brightly from afar, soon the cavity where darkness had settled becomes brightly lit.
"...Ah."
And I faced it.
The vivid appearance of the huge cavity consisting entirely of white, seeming to exist solely for one stage.
Faces were covered by darkness so I couldn't see properly, but now I see.
Everyone seated at the scene was smiling happily.
They were reactions clearly anticipating the Doctor's 'surgery' that will start from now.
And the center.
Waaaaaaah!!
There was an existence slowly revealing itself receiving everyone's applause and cheers.
Wearing a doctor's gown, it arrived at the center of the cavity dragging a fixing table where a person was tied in a large '大' shape.
It was dim because seen from afar, but the shocking part is imprinted clearly in my head.
First of all, parts that could be called human remained. However, the problem is.
'The lower face...'
Whether the skin from the nose to the chin rotted and crumbled away as is, white bone is revealed as is.
It was a bonus that skin tissues that couldn't fall off yet were attached sparsely here and there.
"...Ugh."
「▶ The Anomaly in question seems to be the owner of Sungjin Mental Hospital. How about going first and greeting?」
Shut up!
Whether the cooldown turned, I cleared the status window saying weird things from my vision.
...But maybe because it said weird things even in this situation, I think I feel a little relieved.
I swallowed saliva gulp once and looked at the arrived 'Doctor'.
"Thank you all for gathering like this amidst your busy schedules."
The man whose lower face was only bone looked around the audience and continued speaking.
"Everyone probably knows me, but still, it would be good to introduce myself once again. You never know, there might be someone who doesn't know me."
Hahahaha!
Wa, Was this a timing to laugh?
At the loud laughter suddenly bursting out from the side for no reason, I trembled my shoulders hic.
"I am the one and only doctor of Sungjin Mental Hospital. Here, there are many people always working hard for patients, but there is no talent possessing as much medical knowledge as me."
"....."
"Therefore, when calling me, just the title 'Doctor' is enough. Because there is only me anyway, haha."
Hahahahaha!!
"Ha, haha...!"
Didn't miss it this time!
I also naturally mixed among them and laughed reacting naturally to that joke that wasn't even funny.
"And right now at this seat, it seems there is a cute nurse who just started working at our Sungjin Mental Hospital for the first time."
"Haha..."
"Shall we have you come out here once."
"Ha?"
Hmm?
Hmmmm?
Eh, strange. Surely he's not talking about me. Eeey...
"Oh dear, did you hide because you were too shy. Don't be too embarrassed, and please come out once."
Snapping a finger once, soon darkness casts, and lights began to concentrate brightly on only one spot.
And that lighting, was shining down very brilliantly right above my head.
Is this a hospital, or a variety show program?
"Ah."
Whe, whe, where is there such a law...?!
"Now, please stand up."
At that unexpected designation, I slowly stood up from the seat with my body trembling uncontrollably.
Ugh... Everyone is looking at me. I, I really can't stand places like this...!
Even worse, they aren't people's expressions but Anomalies', so it feels like my skin is tingling and prickling.
Trembling my body again due to chills, I looked at the ringleader of all this.
"Now, everyone. Applause for our Sungjin Mental Hospital's new nurse!"
Clap clap clap clap!
Then, thunderous applause hit my eardrums.
"Hic, ah..."
Why are you doing this to me, seriouslly...
I had no choice but to close my eyes tightly in place.
"Hahaha! Our little lady is quite on the shy side, isn't she just so petite and cute!"
Ah.