Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 108:
Chapter 108 - Duty (3)
It was a hospital not too far away from the Sahdahng station .
The roads weren't fixed yet, so it was probably faster to run there than to ride a car . When Woojin opened the door to enter the hospital, the inside of the hospital was filled with people . It was so packed that he didn't have a place to p[lace his feet .
“Hmmm . ”
There were several times more injured people than casualties .
The elevator was pretty much paralyzed by the number of people trying to use it . He bypassed them, and he ascended using the emergency stairway . He walked past the corridor filled with patients, and he headed towards the isolation ward .
“You can't come in here . ”
Woojin had suddenly entered the ward, and the nurses were surprised by his appearance . They tried to stop him .
“It's all right . I'll just go in for a brief amount of time . ”
“No . You might become infected . ”
“I'm a Roused, so I'll be fine . ”
Being a Roused didn't mean his body was invulnerable . She was busy, so why was he being so obstinate?
Woojin pushed forward his Roused Card . When the nurse saw it, her eyes became round .
“Kahng-woojin?”
Rank A was printed on the card, but this was merely the Rank that was registered with the Roused Association . Kahng-woojin of Korea was known to the world as a Rank AA Roused . There were those who considered his rank to be as high as Rank S .
“Still, you might get infected… . ”
“I'm fine . ”
“…… . ”
Now that she knew who this person was, his words didn't sound like a tantrum anymore . The nurse was struggling with her decision when she decided to make a call . It wasn't within her power to make this decision .
“Yes, director . The Roused Kahng-woojin is here, and he wants to go into the isolation ward . . . ”
After a long talk, the nurse ended the call then she spoke to Woojin .
“We won't mind if you enter there, but you'll have to be checked when you come back out . That is a must . ”
“Understood . ”
“Who are you here to visit?”
“I'm looking for Do-jiwon and Do-jaemin . ”
“They are in room 3 . Professor Lee-soomin should be evaluating and speaking to them right now . ”
Woojin opened several doors, and he arrived at a small corridor . He saw 4 hospital rooms . There was transparent windows that allowed one to look into the rooms . At a glance, Woojin could tell there were more people inside than the rooms could accommodate .
Woojin's appearance surprised Professor Lee-soomin and the two residents .
“Are you Mr . Kahng-woojin? I'm Lee-soomin . It is a pleasure to meet you . ”
“Open the door to the 3rd room . ”
Woojin gave a half-hearted handshake, and he pointed towards the locked door .
Instead of an isolation ward, it looked like a detention room . . . Lee-soomin, and the doctors shook their heads from side to side .
“We can't allow you to come in contact with them . You'll have to talk to them from here . We are still identifying the symptoms of these patients . ”
“…… . ”
One of the resident brought him a mic . It's purpose was to allow him to hold a conversation through the speaker installed inside the 3rd room . Woojin let out a short sigh .
“Ha . ”
He didn't know what they were doing . This was incarceration instead of isolation .
They weren't actually treating the patients . They were just observing the patients .
They were wasting time without making anything better .
“Open it . ”
“Uh-huh! It is an unknown virus . After the quarantine, we have to observe the progress of the disease . ”
Woojin stared intently at Lee-soomin .
“Open it . ”
“We aren't even sure of the route of infection yet… . ”
Woojin smirked . The fact that the professor was grasping at straws was laughable .
Woojin's arm wrapped around Lee-soomin's shoulders . Woojin's thick hands grabbed Lee-soomin's shoulder .
“Ooh ooh ooh . ”
The pain caused Lee-soomin to let out a moan . The residents let out a shout .
“Uh-huh . What are you doing!”
“Let go of him! He's going to get injured . ”
The residents didn't dare charge forward . They could only talk to Woojin in a rush of words . Woojin grabbed the doorknob with his other hand .
“If you are a doctor, you should watch this . ”
Kwah-jeek .
Woojin opened the door so easily that his expression didn't change . He carried Lee-soomin into the room .
When the door opened, Lee-soomin used his free hand to cover his mouth with his sleeve .
“Hoo-oop . ”
Woojin smirked when he saw Lee-soomin panic .
“W . . . Woojin-ah… . ”
Jiwon called for Woojin, who had just entered the hospital room . Woojin greet her discreetly with his eyes, then he spoke into Lee-soomin's ear .
“It isn't an airborne disease . Put down your hand before I crush your chin . ”
“Huhk . ”
Lee-soomin quickly lowered his hand .
At a glance, there were 14 people gathered inside the room .
“No one here is diseased . ”
“H . . . however, the people who had direct contact with the infected… . ”
“Nothing will happen . You can let them out of the isolation ward . ”
Woojin led everyone out to the corridor . The residents had already run away, so they were nowhere in sight . Lee-soohmin couldn't do anything right now as if he was placed inside the jaws of a lion . He hated the situation he was in .
Woojin grabbed the door of the 1st room .
There were 5 people moaning, and they seemed to be in a critical state .
“They are poisoned by the Ghoul's corpse poison . I guess Ghouls haven't shown up on earth before, so this should be the first time you guys have seen this type of poison . You can only get it if you touch them . Don't worry about it . ”
“D . . . don't open it . ”
“You are a **** doctor, yet you value your life so much . It is unsightly to see you shake like this from fear . ”
“…a doctor's life is more precious . I have to live, so I can save numerous lives of patients… . ”
“Bullshit . ”
Woojin put strength into the arm he had over the doctor .
“Do you see soldiers going out to a battlefield not put their own lives on the line?”
One went out to battle with one's life on mortgage .
Woojin never avoided death . Not even once . No, he always lived with death close by his side .
“I wanted to live, but it isn't as if I disliked the idea of dying . ”
He didn't want to become a monster . He didn't want to become like Trahnet's commanders . . .
That was why he persevered as he thought about his family . He tried hard to consciously think of himself as a human .
“…… . ”
What **** was he spouting again? Lee-soomin frowned in worry .
Woojin sent his stored souls into the moaning patients, and they were immediately healed . When the patients became relaxed, the sight made Lee-soomin's eyes open wide .
‘My **** . ’
All large hospitals possessed Roused with healing type abilities, and other select highly qualified professionals . All the patients here were quarantined, because neither the current medical science or any of the Roused abilities could discern the root cause of the sick patients .
Woojin had cured them so easily that Lee-soomin was dumbfounded .
It wasn't as if he didn't know, who Kahng-woojin was .
He was a Rank AA Necromancer .
He was a Necromancer, who controlled corpses, yet he was using healing magic right now . Wasn't that a bit strange?
Woojin looked into the transparent window of room two .
“Do you know what those three have?”
“I have no idea . ”
“It isn't poison or a disease . It's a curse . ”
“…… . ”
Kahng-woojin said it with so much confidence that Lee-soomin wondered if he should believe those words or not .
However, since he was amazed by Kahng-woojin’s confidence, Lee-soomin couldn't help but ask the question .
“Can you treat them?”
“It's too late to treat them . There is no way to reverse the curse now . ”
“Ah!”
It basically meant the golden time had passed .
Woojin looked at the people, who was shaking like they had a chill . It seemed they had gone into a frenzy, and they had to be tied to the bed . Unfortunately, Jaemin was one of them .
Jaemin's eyes were rolling back and forth . When he caught sight of Woojin from across the transparent window, tears started falling out of his eyes .
If he hadn't been cursed in the first place, he might have been able to do something . However, Jaemin already had it, so there were no cure .
“Then those people… . ”
“They'll shake like that for a day, and the curse will activate . ”
The doctor's face fell into despair at Woojin's declaration . Jiwon, who had heard him from the back, asked with a shaking voice .
“S . . . so what will happen to him?”
“He'll become a servant of the Night Nobles . ”
“W . . . what is that?”
“He'll become a monster . ”
He would become a mindless servant of a vampire . He'll be a monster, who only longed for blood . Jiwon crumpled to the floor as strength left her legs .
“Hoo-ooh . Jaemin-ah . . . . ”
Jiwon sobbed her heart out . Woojin looked down at Jiwon . He couldn't comfort her right now . Woojin's arm, which had been around the doctor, was released . He grabbed the door to the 2nd room, and he opened it .
Kwah-dook .
He easily broke off the door, and he walked into the room .
Three sets of eyes landed on Woojin . They were tied to the bed .
“Hyung . ”
Jaemin's round eyes looked at Woojin .
“Do you want to live?”
“Yes… I want to live . ”
Jaemin nodded vigorously with his pale face .
“You were bitten?”
“Yes . My shoulder… . ”
Woojin ripped open Jaemin's clothes, and he saw the clear bite mark on his shoulder . The mark had already turned from red to purple .
“Chet . ”
“Hoo-oohk . What's going to happen to me, hyung?”
“Do you know what a bloodsucker is?”
“Yes, hyung . ”
How could he not know? A vampire-like being had bitten him .
“You are going to be like that . ”
“Then I'll never be able to see the light of day anymore?”
Woojin smirked .
Jaemin was looking at the situation too optimistically .
“No . You will be able to see the sun . Instead, you will die tomorrow, and only your body will live to become a bloodsucker . You will cease to exist starting from tomorrow . The being you described are the true Vampire Race . You will just become their servant, a bloodsucker . Basically, you'll be a monster . ”
“……Hoo-ook . Hyuuuuung . ”
If his body wasn't tied down, he would have run to Woojin . He wanted to cry, while grabbing onto Woojin's pants leg .
Woojin looked down at Jaemin with a serious face .
“Do you want to live as a vampire? As you said before, you won't be able to see the sun ever again . ”
“Hook . Yes . I still have a lot of things I want to do . I've only studied up until now . . . Please save me, hyung . ”
“All right . I'll save you . ”
The two patients, who had heard Woojin's answer, yelled out .
“Please save me! Please I beg of you . ”
“Ahjuhshi . Please save me too . ”
Woojin shook his head as he looked at them .
“I can't save you . ”
“What! Why can you save him, but not us?”
“Aren’t you Kahng-woojin? Can a public figure act this way?”
“Please save us too!”
Woojin didn't respond to their outcries . He silently released the binding mechanism holding down Jaemin .
“Hey, fucker! Save us too!”
“If you leave, I'll blab too everyone . I'll tell them Kahng-woojin isn't a hero . I'll tell everyone you are a fake!”
Woojin smirked as he brought Professor Lee-soomin into the room by his arm . He had been vacantly standing in the corridor . Professor Lee-soomin was brought into the 2nd room in a moment of confusion, and he looked at the two patients, who were struggling at the death's doorstep .
“Who said I'm a hero? If you want to beg for your life, you shouldn’t do it to me . You should do it to the doctor . ”
Woojin patted professor Lee-soomin's shoulder, and he exited the room with Jaemin .
“W . . . what do you want me to do? Please tell us the method we have to use to dispel this curse . ”
Lee-soohmin followed Woojin out, and he asked Woojin in a sincere manner . It was a problem if he didn't know how to treat it . Of course, he would save his patients if he knew how .
“I need to take out the heart of the vampire, who bit them . If I can perform the Ceremony of Blood, Jaemin will succeed its power . ”
“…… . ”
The method was grotesque for this unknown curse .
“I can perform the ceremony for only one person . Unfortunately, it seems all three of them were bitten by the same batard . ”
“…… . ”
“I'm going to save my dongsaeng . ”
“Hyuuuuuuung . ”
Jaemin was touched by the words, 'my dongsaeng', so he started to tear up . Woojin spoke to the doctor, who was falling into a state of panic .
“They'll become bloodsuckers after one night . You'll regret it if you tie them up that loosely . ”
“ . . . what . . . what should we do?”
“You take care of it . Either you can try to save two monsters, or you can administer euthanasia to save countless people inside this hospital . ”
“…… . ”
The professor had no words .
How could this man speak so irresponsibly?
Lee-soomin looked with pleading eyes, but Woojin looked back with indifferent eyes . Woojin didn't have any other methods . He had a choice, so he made the choice .
If he was to tell the absolute truth, he wasn't saving Jaemin . He was just making human Do-jaemin into a vampire Do-jaemin .
“I'm not a doctor . You are . You deal with it . ”
Woojin put out his hand towards Jiwon, who was still sitting on the floor .
“Let's go . ”
“Where?”
“I have to go save Jaemin . ”
“Thank you . Thank you, Woojin . ”
“If I don't find the culprit within the day, he'll die anyways . ”
“…… . ”
Didn't he just say Jaemin was his dongsaeng . . . When he spoke about Jaemin's death in such a calm manner, Jaemin's heart sank .
Woojin exited the isolation ward with Jiwon and Jaemin . Lee-soomin flopped down to the floor .
“What should I do… . ”
The room was still chaotic .
The two patients tied down on the beds were letting out swear words and curses like crazy people .
“Professor . Are you ok?”
The residents, who ran away, returned, and they helped the professor back to his feet . They had run away at the sight of danger, yet when Kahng-woojin disappeared, they immediately showed up again . He was disgusted by their behavior, but it wasn't a good time to talk about the loyalty a pupil should have towards his teacher .
“Go acquire some information on the curse of a vampire . ”
Lee-soomin hadn't incarcerated these people . They had been showing symptoms of unknown cause, so he had been approaching these cases with caution .
Since they were still alive, shouldn’t he do his best to save them?
“Request data from the Roused Association, and even the Roused organizations around the world . ”
If he didn't know the cause, then he could plead ignorance . Now that he knew the cause, he had to do his best to find the cure . He didn't want to shame the profession of doctor with his actions .
The hospital was his battlefield .