Chapter 29 - How Did You Do That?! #2
How Did You Do That?! #2
Translator : Elizabeth
[Title: As of today, I have decided to worship, believe in, and follow only the Gallery Owner-nim]
- Why?
I almost died in that damn Grocery Store.
But our Gallery Owner-nim descended directly and saved me.
From now on, my soul, body, and mind belong to our Gallery Owner-nim.
ABSOLUTELY PRAISE THE GALLERY OWNER
↳ What kind of technique is this again?
↳ F*, now I even have to see a bastard calling himself an Administration Bureau agent worshipping an Anomaly?**
↳ Author: If you don't like it, get lost you ignorant fool.
↳ 'Ignorant fool' lolololol.
↳ Originally the atmosphere of this gallery is weirdly Gallery Owner-worshipping, but this guy is even worse lol.]
[↳ But what happened for even users from other galleries to come here and make a fuss praising?
↳ This time the Gallery Owner here suddenly appeared at 'Underground Grocery Store'<< they say.
↳ SafeToday: ?
↳ They say there's a Ghost-bro who received help then.
↳ F*, the talk about an Anomaly saving people was real?**
↳ SafeToday: Gallery Owner appeared at the Underground Grocery Store?
↳ SafeToday: First time hearing it?
↳ Is there a reason you couldn't hear it first?
↳ Fr ego is crazy, the tone lol.]
[Title: So Gallery Owner wasn't a peculiar Anomaly of Sungjin Mental Hospital?]
- Heard she was same as other nurses except being freaking cute.
↳ Nonono different.
↳ Official announcement from Administration Bureau popped up a while ago. Said they decided to specify as a completely new Anomaly.
↳ I'm from Response Team, heard talk about hunting the Gallery Owner here this time.
↳ ?
↳ F*, whose permission do you have to catch Gallery Owner-nim.**
↳ Opponent is Response Team directly under the upper echelon, what can you guys do lol. At most F-Rank tool bitches.
↳ But Response Team also praises if they see Gallery Owner-nim yep;]
[↳ This gallery is damn hot these days.
↳ Is Gallery Owner an Anomaly at least?
↳ Sir, this is an Anomaly-related gallery for what it's worth, if you say no.
↳ No f* even so.**
↳ I have over ten years of Administration Bureau experience, do I have to believe the story of an Anomaly helping people? This?
↳ Fact is whether you believe or not, you are just a consumable yep...
↳ Hey you bastard.
↳ Suddenly came out hooking and hitting lol.
↳ Agents are tools, correct.]
.. ... ....
"Doctor!"
What! How...?!
The man covering his lower face wearing a white doctor's gown recognized me immediately upon seeing me.
"Meeting like this again, our Head Nurse."
"H, How did you come here...?!"
Meeting suddenly here, really glad!
How did he really come? No, anyway glad though!
"That is."
The Doctor, who was glad seeing me, took something out from his bosom.
"Eng."
Familiar paper.
The health checkup sheet I received when kidnapped from the Daycare to Sungjin Mental Hospital at the very beginning was held in that hand.
"Thinking about it, I hadn't taken care of our Head Nurse's health actually."
"Uh... That doesn't matter..."
"It is not."
The Doctor tapped tok tok on the top of my head with a gloved hand and continued speaking.
"Checking the nurse's condition and ability is indeed the responsibility and duty of the charge doctor."
"Still, I."
Body is always on the healthy side, and except feeling fatigue after urgent work or using skills occasionally—
There was no part particularly to call abnormal in the body.
Always healthy! Stomach also doesn't get particularly hungry unless I want it, yeah.
"Hahaha, I am also glad our cute Head Nurse always looks healthy, but there might be parts not visible to eyes immediately."
"Parts not visible to eyes...?"
"Yes. Probably... even if we have appearances similar to ordinary humans, we are different."
"...."
Anomaly.
Existences born from people's stories.
Since I am also included in the category the Doctor is talking about now—
Felt somewhat restless.
...Mm, every time I think about it again, feels like my heart is fluttering.
Thought I got used to the changed daily life, but seems fragments of days being an ordinary human are stuck stingingly in a corner of my heart still.
"Why are you doing that?"
"Ah, nothing."
Whether noticing the expression becoming not good, the Doctor asked, but.
I shook my head side to side shake shake and asked.
"Then, how do you do the checkup...?"
"First plan to examine this and that. Pulse, eyesight, hearing, and..."
"Su, Surely drawing blood too?"
"Hahaha, our Head Nurse, are you scared of needles?"
...Is there a person not scared of needles?
Especially the vivid sensation of the needle digging into the skin causes PTSD enough to make shoulders tremble shiver just imagining...!
"But you do not need to worry. If you do not wish, it is not a part forcibly recommended."
"Phew..."
"And..."
The Doctor turns his gaze to behind me, the Sleeping Room of Crying Children.
"Mysterious energy is felt. Something cozy, and feeling like wanting to check surges mak, such feeling."
"Ah... Want to see together?"
"Will you permit?"
"Yes!"
Director Teacher, it's okay, right...?
The first impression with the Doctor being bad at the very beginning bothers me a bit... But health management of our Ung-aes is acknowledged, yeah.
I grabbed the Doctor's sleeve and led him inside the Sleeping Room.
"Ho-oh... This is fascinating."
Entering the Sleeping Room, the Doctor started treatment revealing curiosity immediately.
"Zzz..."
Approaching Crying Children sleeping deeply in respective beds, applies stethoscope once each.
"This is... everyone is healthy."
"Re, Really?"
"Yes, seems our Head Nurse takes care extremely sincerely usually, haha."
Di, Didn't do such thing though...?
Everyone kept sleeping without problem, and status window also said okay so just watching from close up was all.
"Still, the most important thing to such patients is, indeed emotion becoming the foundation of existence... love."
"Love?"
"Yes. These patients, children are in a very stabilized state due to the love the Head Nurse bestows."
What is that. Something like a buff?
Me, actually was amazing? To the extent of being an indispensable existence in the Daycare?
Due to the Doctor's diagnosis result, shoulders shrug shrug shrug continuously.
After coming out of the Sleeping Room, it was introducing the structure of the Daycare roughly to the Doctor.
"Uh... Director is taking a rest for a moment, so she is not here now."
"Rest?"
At those words, the Doctor's head tilted slightly.
"Why...?"
"That is also fascinating. Probably because members of this place are partly bound to the Head Nurse..."
What, scary.
"No, but even so, a relationship that can entrust one's own space entirely like this... Ah, Head Nurse makes that possible. As expected..."
Suddenly muttering unknown words, the Doctor.
Watching that eccentric behavior quietly, as if regaining senses soon, looked back at me.
"Oh dear, I muttered too much alone."
"Ah, no."
"Then first, shall we move to the next."
Finally, the purpose the Doctor came here, checkup of my body condition started.
Thump. Thump.
Over the thin clothing area, the cold touch of the stethoscope is felt.
The Doctor who closed eyes and concentrated mind for a long time in that state spoke.
"Th, What is this?"
"Yep?"
The Doctor's eyes after finishing a series of examinations were unusual.
Wh, What. Am I sick?
"What energy is this like this... No wait, just what is this."
"Why, wh, why...?"
"Why... Why are energies of several people felt from the Head Nurse's body?"
Several people?
Looking up at the Doctor with an expression asking what he is talking about, Teacher looking down at me with a still serious face.
"This, seems surgery might be needed."
"Yeeeeeeh?!"
I ended up stepping away one step from him.
"Wh, Why? I'm not sick though...?!"
"No. If what I detected is really correct, right now the Head Nurse's body is in a situation where it wouldn't be strange if it collapses any moment. Very dangerous state."
"So why!"
"Head Nurse, what do you think is the origin of existences like us."
Origin of Anomaly.
That is of course stories people fear.
Director is Sunshine Daycare, Doctor is Sungjin Mental Hospital, Bella is Underground Merchant Guild.
They are like important objects composing the space made of respective stories.
"However, our Head Nurse, story... meaning energy forming the foundation of existence is mixed."
What is that. Is it bad...?
Mixed, isn't it good?
"Isn't it good if combined...?"
"Not at all. Originally the Head Nurse was a person containing the story of Sunshine Daycare here."
"Uh, right?"
"But besides that, energies of our Sungjin Mental Hospital's story and another alien story are permeated more into the Head Nurse. This is an important issue that might harm the Head Nurse's identity itself if things go wrong."
"That."
"Yes."
Hearing that story, one existence in the status window keeps coming to mind continuously.
"Uh... Because of my ability, seems like that..."
"Yes?"
"Because I, can do such thing."
My skill, Little Lamb's Embrace, possessed ability to read a part of memories by contacting others.
So, because of that, didn't you feel various energies are mixed right now.
"That, no. Cannot happen. In the first place, isn't the Head Nurse from Sunshine Daycare...?"
"Uh... No though...?"
"?"
Cannot reveal completely, but I am a case accepted as 'Family' belatedly here in Sunshine Daycare.
Still memories of almost being attacked by Crying Children, sometimes pop out startle startle while sleeping.
Every time that happens, wake up startled and go to Director asking to dig ears and sleep again.
"Th, Then just."
"I don't know well either... Regained senses and was here before I knew it, and then went to meet the Doctor."
"Hah..."
Even after that, the Doctor asked this and that question to me, but to that, I also couldn't give clear answers mak this and that.
No, I don't know my current body either, what do I do then...
"B, But I know that."
"What is it?"
"If I go and hug dangerous or first-meeting people, everyone likes it. For now, it was so until now."
"...Haha."
Listening up to there, the Doctor seemed to shrug shoulders a little—
"Hahahaha!"
Laughed in place for a long time as if bursting momentarily.
What. Did I have talent in comedy?
Anyway seeing him laugh because he is happy like that, I also feel good, yeah.
"That is truly fortunate. I had many worries whether our Head Nurse might suffer in other places."
"Hihi."
"If there is no problem, and will be none in the future, I am good with just that. However..."
"However...?"
"Regarding that mysterious ability you possess as expected, I want to investigate a little more."
The Doctor putting the stethoscope on me again asked.
"Perhaps this energy, meaning the ability making stories harmonious."
"Yees."
"According to the Head Nurse's will, can't you maximize one side's ability more?"
"....?"
Maximize one side's ability?
Just what does that mean.
"Never tried such thing though."
"So, try once at this opportunity."
"D, Don't know how to do it though..."
"No, if you handled it well like this until now, it will be sufficiently possible."
S, Status window-ah... Possible?
I called the status window abruptly for now and touched this and that.
As expected, what I checked first was the Title tab.
「▶ Title
- Lowest-Ranking Prey
- Graduate of Sunshine Daycare
- Head Nurse of Sungjin Mental Hospital
- Excellent Member of Underground Merchant Guild」
Uwah... Collected a lot in the meantime...!
Of course what is equipped under my name is, naturally the name of Underground Merchant Guild obtained last.
So, if I change this to another title...?
Whoosh...!
「Title has been changed.
▶ Excellent Member of Underground Merchant Guild → Head Nurse of Sungjin Mental Hospital」
"Uh, uh?"
As soon as checking the title change, felt unknown energy flowing into the body.
Something, familiar energy again.
Not flowing from outside, energy located inside sweeps the whole body familiarly.
Waiting for the change happening again briefly like that, what was seen.
"Ohh...!"
Along with the Doctor's admiring voice—
"Het?"
My appearance wearing the nurse outfit of Sungjin Mental Hospital again.
Rustle.
On the head, the texture of the Director's flower crown remains as is.
This, there was a changing clothes mode...?!
'Not even some skin...!'
「▶ If you change the title, you can borrow a part of the power of the corresponding related story.」
"....."
What is this, this sense of betrayal?
Still thought we knew each other quite long, Status Window-ah.
This... Isn't the timing of informing too late...?
"As expected, that appearance suits you best, haha."
"Is, Is that so...?"
Watching the Doctor purely happy, feeling not so bad again.
I realized a part of the function hidden in me today.