Episode 43
To conclude, it was true that Jaeheon Lee was fine.
“What did I say?”
“That doesn’t mean it’s normal.”
“….”
Correct. He was just fine enough not to vomit blood.
The doctor was definitely smiling, but he didn’t look happy at all. He stared at Lee Jae-heon as if he were looking at a high-ranking criminal, and the people around him looked at him with blank faces, as if Lee Jae-heon would die if they took their eyes off him.
And this whole atmosphere made Lee Jae-heon uncomfortable.
“Did I kill someone somewhere?”
“If you consider yourself a human being, well…”
“Huh, no, huh.”
When Lee Jae-heon was at a loss for words, the doctor asked in his characteristic soft voice.
“I’m really curious. “How on earth could you have blood in your bronchi?”
“….”
“And while you were asleep.”
Lee Jae-heon could not easily answer those words and kept his mouth shut.
Of course, doctor Ha Seong-yoon nodded, saying that there was no room in his body that could cause him to vomit blood. In fact, he said he wasn’t sure because the diagnosis was made in the middle of a park without a stethoscope, but he seemed to have made a rough guess based on the medical knowledge he had accumulated over the years.
Moreover, there was no sign of him suffering from diseases such as leukemia or lung cancer, which are synonymous with hemoptysis, so in conclusion, Lee Jae-heon was just holding blood in his normal bronchi.
‘Like a thermos or a pouch.’
Lee Jae-heon gaped for a moment before hesitatingly answering.
“…I know too….”
“You don’t know?”
I really don’t know.
“…It might not be blood…”
“Are you serious?”
It might not be real blood.
‘…But it won’t work.’
In the end, Jaeheon Lee quietly kept his mouth shut. Yes, even if it were me, I wouldn’t believe it.
To be honest, he had no idea what the situation was. First of all, I think the lake water got into my nose and mouth because I was immersed in the lake in my dream… ‘
Of course, if you ask me why it appeared in reality, I don’t have anything to say.’
Lee Jae-heon, who was wondering what he could do to get over this, soon had no choice but to put a lot of things aside.
“Isn’t it okay if it doesn’t hurt?”
Originally, people had to be able to do things a little differently.
“It’s not like you’re particularly sick.”
“So where did I puncture my lung? Or do you have tuberculosis? How could it be such a big deal that the nosebleed that broke out while you were sleeping could have come down to your mouth?…” “
If it had seemed like the blood came from that direction, would I, as a doctor, have been so surprised, sir?”
“You might have looked at it wrong because you were a little tired.”
Lee Jae-heon frowned as hard as he could as he remembered his current life.
As if he was trying to suppress his dissatisfaction, he deliberately avoided eye contact and turned his head at an angle. Still, he continued speaking, twisting one corner of his mouth.
“We don’t have any proper tools here, and everyone is exhausted, but one or two misdiagnoses… It’s not that strange, is it?”
“….”
“Oh, of course, I’m not saying that your skills are poor.”
Lee Jae-heon, who said that, let out a short laugh. The head and eyes were still facing the other person, and there was absolutely no respect for the other person.
Then he made eye contact with the doctor with a look of disdain written all over his face.
“Isn’t that right?”
It was a kind of trick to divert words.
I don’t know about his past life, but in his current life, ‘Manager Lee Jae-heon’ often ignored people, perhaps because he was born into a fairly good family. Basically, unless you had a similar level of economic power as my family, it was like a nobleman watching a slave.
‘Just because you think about your past life doesn’t mean that Jjambap goes anywhere.’
Based on his memories, Lee Jae-heon maintained the attitude that people were most reluctant to take, while also praying that he would be able to overcome the current situation with ease.
‘It’s best if you get sick of it and don’t care anymore.’
A patient who was already disobedient is now ignoring me, even though he can’t thank me for the treatment.
It was nothing more than ignoring the call of a doctor who was willing to even report to the police for the sake of the patient. In general, doctors are people who get upset when their abilities are ignored, so Lee Jae-heon hoped that the other person would go crazy when they saw this.
If there was a mistake, it was that he did not properly understand Dr. Ha Seong-yoon.
“…Boss.”
“….”
“Being a doctor is a profession that receives more criticism from patients than you might think.”
Jaeheon Lee realized those words.
‘That’s bad.’
The interpretation seemed to have failed, perhaps because it was a character that had never appeared properly in a novel.
Sure enough, when they first met, Dr. Ha Seong-yoon was staring at Lee Jae-heon with his characteristic neat smile. Lee Jae-heon almost cursed without realizing it due to the strange softness that was hard to guess.
The doctor looked back at Chief Kang Min-ah and asked softly.
“Are you always like this?”
“…You said this often, but with a slightly different meaning….”
“I understand.”
Lee Jae-heon, who sensed a strange eerie feeling in the flow of conversation, reflexively asked back.
“…why? what? “What did I do?”
“Um yes.”
Director Kang nodded slowly and immediately avoided his gaze. Lee Jae-heon, who read the slight bitterness and regret in it, became even more complicated and frowned.
Seeing him like that, the doctor seemed to have regained his normal pace and opened his mouth.
“I understand how you feel.”
“….”
I don’t think I did it?
“I guess they don’t want to put any extra burden on us.”
“No….”
Isn’t it? It’s not really?
‘What kind of delusions are these bastards spinning out of their brains right now?’
For a moment, my bones felt bitter. He noticed that the entire party implicitly agreed with that nonsense.
Jaeheon Lee felt a strange sense of déjà vu. Should I say that I felt like I belatedly realized that the snowball had fallen from my hand and rolled away without even knowing when it had fallen from my hand. It’s an ominous feeling I’ve often felt up until now, and every time this ominous feeling explodes, the results have never been good.
As if he had no idea what Lee Jae-heon was internally screaming about, the doctor, on the contrary, regained his pace and continued speaking in his characteristic quiet voice.
“You look troubled, so I won’t ask any more questions for now. “It’s wrong to interrogate a patient, and in fact, it’s not a particularly bad thing for a doctor to do… But, as the director said, you didn’t kill anyone.”
“….”
“It happened because you were protecting us, so my attitude could be said to be hostile. “You must have been very tired from having to escape from being dragged by a monster.”
“…I’m more tired of those reactions now.”
“To begin with, I was a person who mainly performed surgery, so even if I had used a stethoscope, it would have been difficult to provide proper treatment. So, what the manager said may be correct. The mucous membrane inside the nose was bleeding, and it was pooling in the throat…”
After exhaling once, the doctor smiled softly and continued.
“Anyway, as long as I, as a doctor, don’t notice, then yes. I believe it won’t be that serious. Even if I say it, it seems like nonsense. Actually, diseases for which doctors don’t know the cause are inherently more serious, haha.”
“Isn’t that the reaction of someone who believes now?”
“I’ve just woken up from a nap, but do you have any instructions? “I guess we don’t know much about what we need in the wild.”
“Huh.”
Just eat it up.
Lee Jae-heon was impressed by the speaking style that blocked all directions, not just the front and back. The eloquence was quite brilliant on the subject of a clue that died at the beginning of the novel and left behind only a piece of rice cake.
‘…Let’s get this sorted out first.’
So, yeah. At a glance, that’s what it looks like.
Whether he was originally sick or was injured while being dragged by a green algae monster, they are under the impression that he is trying to hide his pain. I guess they were worried that I would be asked to go to the pharmacy or hospital again.
‘Well… Actually, it’s not that I wasn’t worried at all…’
Lee Jae-heon frowned in confusion.
If these young chicks enter a building full of monsters, how many of them will come out alive? If even one of the current party members dies, unlike in the novel, the protagonist’s mental health, which had been built up in a healthy manner, will become sharp in an instant, and won’t it become more difficult to recover?
‘Returning would be one of the options, but we can’t do this anymore.’
He knew that reset was not a convenient concept, so it was a situation he had to avoid.
‘No, more than anything, the current settings are too excessive.’
They think Lee Jae-heon is a good person who pretends to be someone else and has a strong sense of responsibility, sacrificing himself, but from the perspective of the doctor and the main character, he is also seen as a ‘survivor and victim of the other side of the world.’ It was almost as if they had mixed it together like bibimbap and created a sacrificial saint.
Of course, to be honest, yes. To some extent, this image of good character was what Jaeheon Lee was aiming for. Because the initial image was so bad, it was difficult to enjoy the main character’s group.
In short, he was managing his image to benefit from the main character’s buff. I didn’t mean to get this weird title…!
“Don’t you have anything to say? “Then can we prepare it ourselves?”
“…Now… Wait a minute, I’m blacked out right now.”
“Ah, are you confused? If you truly feel that there is something wrong with your brain and other senses, I will once again…” “
Oh, please. go away.”
At this point, I felt unfair.
I may have made some mistakes because I was distracted, but isn’t this a bit too much? Does this really make sense unless the God of Heaven and Earth was truly earnest and the entire universe helped?
‘Honestly, this kind of personality boosting doesn’t help much.’
Even though Lee Jae-heon’s personality is really good, the risk is so high that his personality, which he has already abandoned, has almost risen to the top of the clouds. If he revealed his true personality even just a little bit later, he would receive double the amount of criticism.
Can you really be that ungrateful? Humans were originally created to stab others in the back, and no matter how much of a brat he is, he’s always made someone cry at least once. Whether intentional or not, this was never a good phenomenon because it was human nature, system, and rule.
‘Instead of being a helpful helper, you have become a leader full of sacrificial spirit.’
Of course, I’ve already done something bad in this life, so I don’t rely on it or expect it to that level yet, but this is really…
‘Crazy.’
It was a really crazy situation.
“It looks like you have a lot of complexities on your mind. Are you embarrassed, sir?”
“…What do I… have to be embarrassed about? Really. What is it? “Why do you look happy?”
“This is such a misunderstanding.”
“….”
Fuck.
Lee Jae-heon cursed about 9 times in his mind and immediately covered his mouth.
‘…what’s my loss here and now?’
First of all, his personality was overrated to an excessive degree.
I don’t know if this is just the cute level of old-fashioned behavior that has been shown so far, but if he crosses the line just a little bit, his companions will probably feel betrayed. This creates the disadvantage of having a handicap in handling the sweet potatoes that will inevitably appear in the future.
Moreover, isn’t it clear that these guys are now making a rough guess that ‘Manager Lee Jae-heon’ is a fake? Well, there’s no way that people who work for companies that represent Korea don’t have that much brains. That was expected.
‘the problem is… ‘If this happens, I’ll get more tired.’
Lee Jae-heon blinked his eyes due to the overwhelming fatigue.
When some frustrating guys came out, I was planning on trolling again as if the current Lee Jae-heon had been completely resurrected, but such behavior would no longer be naturally accepted by the group.
‘Every troll thing you do from now on will be seen as intentional.’
And the advantages? The advantage is…
“….”
Are there any?
“Boss?”
“…I’m not a really good person…”
“Oh yes.”
“You really are a disgusting bastard.”
Phew.
After catching his breath lightly, Jaeheon Lee immediately raised his head.
“…That’s it for now. net.”
“Water.”
“Yes I need water.”
Although there wasn’t that much bottled water, there were a lot of people.
You can survive even if you eat less rice, but if you can’t drink water, you will go crazy first and your soul will go out second. In the first place, if you can’t stay hydrated, you can’t even eat rice, so water was essential.
He continued speaking while looking at the steadily burning bonfire.
“Since I made a fire, it would be nice to boil some water here and drink it. “Are there any cartons or cans of milk somewhere?”
“…I think I saw a few discarded cans on the way there.”
“It looks like there is still trash here. If you can pick it up, pick it up, but if you can’t, don’t. If that doesn’t work, you can filter it through clothes or distill it.”
“You’re telling me to bring water first, right? “If possible, cans.”
“Yes, if we can find enough drinking water today, we will have saved the day. That doesn’t mean there isn’t something needed, but… it probably won’t be possible to resolve it within today.”
“All right.”
Lee Jae-heon wiped the corners of his mouth as his sincere voice was heard.
“Is there anything else you want to say?”
“….”
A pitch-black gaze.
No matter how hard you try to pretend not to notice, it’s so obvious and disgusting that you can’t help but notice it, so you automatically clench your hands.
It was such an annoyingly familiar gaze.
Jaeheon Lee answered briefly.
“doesn’t exist.”
This bastard is doubting me now.
