Chapter 440 – Why Did I Come Back Again…
Anyway, it was time to go back.
– “The heroine will come to pick you up, so wait in the lobby.”
“Won’t that be too much trouble for you?”
Finally, Ayeon had contacted me by phone.
However, unlike the heroines who had previously told me to come, Ayeon was saying she would come to pick me up.
Of course, I didn’t want to put her through unnecessary trouble, so I suggested a compromise.
“I’m sorry, but I’ll go instead. Or we can meet in between.”
– “It’s fine. Anyway, I will be there soon, so please wait a little.”
Ayeon stubbornly insisted on coming to pick me up from the hospital.
Honestly, I felt grateful and a bit bad that she was actually going to come for me.
It could be a hassle for someone to pick up another.
The fact that she was willing to do this for me was touching.
“I’m sorry. I feel bad for bothering you.”
– “In situations like this, you should be thankful. You taught me that, didn’t you?”
With that, I ended my call with Ayeon.
“Thanks. Then, could I ask you for a favor?”
– “Understood. See you soon.”
The moment I started waiting quietly for Ayeon in the hospital lobby, I noticed two doctors being escorted by male nurses.
And a certain doctor yelling at them.
“Do you have any idea what you’ve done to a patient as a doctor?!”
“”……””
“I would be fine tearing you apart right now!”
“”……””
Was the silence of the doctors bothering the yelling one?
This time, he delivered a harsh punishment to them.
“You are now permanently banned!”
“W-what?! That’s impossible!”
“You, you are going too far!”
“We have no inventory left!”
That was quite a severe punishment, a permanent ban.
Perhaps the intensity of the punishment was too significant?
One doctor squirmed and tried to defend himself.
“I-I had no choice but to meet!”
‘Could it be they established a relationship with the patient?’
[Well, even if so, it’s a bit nuanced legally.]
Certainly, Piece had a point.
Even if it was terrible behavior, it’s somewhat ambiguous territory for legal punishment.
There’s no law banning all doctors from meeting patients socially.
Of course, a normal doctor wouldn’t even dream of meeting a patient socially.
“What type of relationship do you have with the patient?”
“My younger sister.”
That was indeed a relationship that could lead to private meetings.
“So what did you do yesterday?”
“I spent the night at the hospital.”
And the more I heard…
“Were you sexual about it?”
“Yes.”
“So it’s a fucking permanent ban!”
It was clear he was no doctor but a dog bastard.
To sum it all up, this guy’s sister was hospitalized as a patient, and they hooked up in the hospital.
He was truly a great incest dweller.
“Just a physical relationship, what’s the problem with our love?!”
“It’s a problem because you are a mortician!”
And on top of that, he had the title of time dweller.
[……It really was just a physical relationship.]
‘Hah, fuck.’
As the mortician sulked at the doctor’s rebuttal, another doctor who was being dragged out cautiously spoke up.
“My patient was very much alive, shouldn’t I get a pass?”
“……What’s your profession?”
Distancing himself from that mortician.
“I’m a veterinarian.”
“And that’s why it’s not allowed, you crazy bastard!”
Of course, he was no different from that bastard.
But there was something strange about what was being said here.
There was something in the veterinarian’s statement that I hadn’t yet grasped.
I couldn’t understand, but somehow I felt it was better not to know.
At that moment, the mortician exchanged glances with the veterinarian.
Thanks to that, my unease subsided completely.
It was clean and total.
“Thanks to you, I wrote well earlier.”
“Was it good?”
“Both of you get out, fuck.”
I kind of wished I had remained uneasy until the end.
[Ah, so it was ‘alive’… huh?]
‘What the hell is going on with these crazy people every single chapter?’
Just as the doctors were being dragged out, Ayeon arrived.
Ayeon tilted her head at the sight of the departing doctors.
“Why are they being dragged out like that?”
“Um… it’s just… fuck…”
“Hmm… I see.”
She didn’t pursue her curiosity further, perhaps because she had suffered before out of curiosity.
Indeed, she was certainly a well-trained heroine in this aspect.
Even Ayeon took off my leash.
“Oh, and I’ll release the leash.”
“Thanks.”
Definitely a classic heroine thinking of me.
“But I will handcuff you.”
– click.
“……Wouldn’t it be better to just keep the leash on?”
No, scrap that about her thinking of me.
“It’s too old to keep, we have to throw it away.”
“……Fine…”
Anyway, after Ayeon ditched the leash, we left the hospital.
As we got into the car and fastened our seatbelts, Ayeon suddenly made a proposal.
“How about we stop by a café for a drink before heading back?”
“Is that okay?”
I hesitated for a moment at those words.
The other heroines were probably eagerly awaiting my arrival.
I worried about what they would think if we detoured like this.
But Ayeon’s insistence continued.
“The heroine would also like a cup of milk tea.”
“If you want to drink, let’s go.”
“And don’t you need a little rest too?”
“That’s true. As long as it’s not too late, I guess it’ll be fine.”
Eventually, I decided to respect Ayeon’s words.
“But can you take off the handcuffs in front of people… it feels weird…”
“I’ll take them off later, for now, just take a short nap.”
“Okay. Thanks, I’ll sleep a little.”
After all, it was an action for my sake.
It wouldn’t be right to dismiss her sincerity.
“And before you sleep, drink some water. You must be thirsty.”
“Thanks.”
As soon as I heard that, I drank the bottled water provided in the car and closed my eyes for a moment.
Perhaps because the day had been too tiring, I quickly fell deep asleep.
And the moment I opened my eyes.
“Hey, you crazy woman.”
“What’s wrong?”
I immediately couldn’t help but curse at Ayeon.
She tilted her head, expressing she didn’t understand why I was reacting this way.
But this time, I couldn’t hold back the curses.
It’s because the place we had arrived at wasn’t a café.
“Didn’t we come to have milk tea at a café?”
“And we arrived safely, didn’t we?”
It was not a café but a hotel, after all.
“Since when did we start calling a hotel a café?”
“According to recent laws, hotels operated by succubi can be called cafés.”
This was a suite room reminiscent of something I’d seen before.
Plus, listening to Ayeon, this place was run by succubi.
And while I was asleep, Ayeon couldn’t have moved me by herself.
She surely must have gotten help from the succubi.
“How did you bring me here…”
“There are ways.”
In other words, the hotel was in cahoots with Ayeon.
Furthermore, it seemed Ayeon had done something to my body.
If my state was normal, I surely would have woken up during that process.
Most importantly, I couldn’t move my body apart from my lower half right now.
“Did you put something in my drink?”
“Sleeping pills and paralysis medication, along with the aphrodisiac I got this time.”
She must have done something sneaky to the water she told me to drink.
“……How did you get the sleeping pills and the paralysis medication…”
“Remember, my dear.”
Only then did I start to understand all of Ayeon’s actions.
“The succubi have a wider reach than you might imagine.”
“Fuck.”
The reason she ditched the leash was to avoid other heroines tracking me with GPS.
Telling me to drink water in the car was to execute all these plans.
Handcuffing me was to prepare for a situation where I might rebel.
And in my area of expertise, she even managed to deceive me.
“So where did the milk tea go, fuck?”
“According to the law, it’s permitted to call semen milk tea for succubi.”
She was the epitome of devilish, meticulous succubi.
[So they even obtained legal permission…]
‘……Just how far have the succubi taken over our country…?’
I tried to say something to Ayeon.
“What kind of bullshit law is that?”
“There’s a saying that even bad laws are laws.”
Ayeon was just calmly setting up the bed.
I felt strangely uncomfortable with that.
So I snapped at Ayeon sharply.
“If bad laws are laws, then is hemorrhoids also quality?!”
“That’s undoubtedly true.”
“How can the two be the same? The characters are completely different!”
But as soon as I heard Ayeon’s calm response.
“Both will bleed if you poke them, won’t they?”
“…….Yeah… You’re right… you crazy woman…”
I simply had no more intention to argue.
[Is this some ‘quality’ bad joke?]
‘Crazy women…’
I decided to passively accept my fate.
At that moment, I had one concern in my mind.
When would I be going back?
If I wasn’t careful, the heroines would come searching for me.
I would be afraid of what kind of retaliation I’d experience afterward.
“Isn’t it bad if it gets too late?”
“Don’t worry. This is just a game, it’ll be over soon.”
Hearing that, I let out a sigh of relief.
“Hah… what kind of game is it?”
“Hide and Seek.”
I wasn’t quite sure why it was called hide and seek.
But if Ayeon was right, it would surely end quickly.
It was a relief in some sense.
“The time limit is until I find you and the heroine.”
“Ah, fuck.”
Not a relief but a serious problem.
“If we’re late, we’re really fucked!”
“Shut up and get ready to get fucked.”
“Crazy woman.”
But despite my urgent feelings, my body wouldn’t move.
In the end, I could only quietly lie down and accept the current situation.
Thus, the night at the hotel deepened terribly.
The succubi security created by Ayeon lasted quite a long time.
How much time passed, honestly, I couldn’t tell.
But finally, the day Hyeji broke through the wall came, and I was able to escape from there.
“You crazy woman!!!”
“Ah, we’re in trouble.”
And once again, after having no memory, when I opened my eyes, I was welcomed by…
“……Uh…?”
“Doctor! Shinwoo is finally awake!”
A tangle of IV drips and a nurse’s fuss.
It was clearly an episode that began in the hospital.
Yet it had only ended in the hospital on a last-minute basis.
[This is the proverbial ‘story circle.’]
‘Shut up, mouth…’
If that’s ‘story circle,’ then it’s indeed a fucked-up one.
