''Do you feel better?''
''Y-Yes! I'm very feel good.''
''Ok, I will give you a medical order else.''
A young doctor was typing quickly on the keyboard, his focused eyes fixed on the computer screen on his desk. Anyone who saw him would think that he was not only a professional doctor but also undeniably handsome.
''Done!'' He took a deep breath. Then, he glanced at a printer on a desk nearby.
Rustle.
Rustle.
Rustle
A medical order was printed slowly, and the young doctor took it with tiredness. He examined the entire medical order closely, hoping there wouldn't be any errors.
After he had done it, He slowly glanced at his patient again.
His young patient seemed too frail. He was also thin and standing on his trembling legs.
How unlucky.
This young patient had a serious disease: lung cancer, which had spread to his brain. His fate was certainly death, though not quickly—just later.
"Here! It's yours." The young doctor tried to smile as he handed it to his patient.
The young patient smiled weakly in response.
"T-Thank you very much!"
Then, he had taken the medical order from his young doctor's hand and stuffed it into his pocket.
Not yet, the young patient continued to speak.
"D-Doctor… Have you read my novel yet? A-And then, can you remark it a bit for me?"
When the young doctor heard this, he slowly scratched his hand through his hair. Clearly, he was being confused. He didn't say anything because the lie wasn't his strength.
"Y-You still haven't read it yet!"
The young patient's expression grew increasingly distorted.
"D-Doctor! W-Why?!"
After a few seconds of silence.
Immediately, the young patient gripped a nearby intravenous pole. Without hesitation, he struck the glass partition between the two rooms with all his strength.
Crash.
Shards of broken glass scattered everywhere, making the young doctor panic.
Luckily, the blouse he was wearing was long-sleeved. If it hadn't been, he would have certainly been injured by the sharp glass fragments.
Then, He slowly lowered his hand, which just defended his face from the flying shards. Afterward, what appeared before him was the young patient's angry expression.
The patient looked like a crazy demon and the young doctor was silent with worry.
The young doctor gulped while he cursed in his mind.
''I wasn't trained for this fucking thing''
The young patient shouted with a loud, powerful voice, unlike his earlier frail tone.
"FUCK YOU! Why didn't you read it? I WILL KILL YOU!"
He instantly lunged at the young doctor behind the glass partition, gripping his neck tightly.
''Aahhh…''
"G-Guard!.. N-Nurse! Is someone here?"
Yet, He also quickly realized his stupid action
"Fuck! I forgot where I am."
The young doctor managed to resist this damn patient, but he couldn't do anything. The grip on his neck was too strong.
'I-Impossible!'
This was truly abnormal. The damn patient's hand was thin, just skin wrapped around his bones. How could he be so powerful?
'Die! Die! Die! Die!'
The fucking patient, with a distorted expression, kept slamming the young doctor's head down onto the floor. And then he did it again.
Looking at the situation, the young doctor was like a house cat struck by a rat.
"It hurts too much!" The young doctor grimaced in unbearable pain.
A few seconds later, his mind began to spiral into chaos. Everything around him became unclear, fading into a blur.
He couldn't breathe as the patient's grip on his neck tightened more and more.
"If I'd known this, I would never have traveled to this godforsaken place."
"If I survive then, I'll definitely quit this job."
"Damn it!"
The last bit of his strength faded away. Everything before his eyes turned into endless darkness.
Yet, the patient showed no sign of stopping his killing, his murderous intent unrelenting—until a booming, aged voice echoed through the room:
"Fucking lunatic! What the hell are you doing to my son?!"
***
''Aahhhh!''
A loud sound suddenly erupted throughout the small room. It was sharp, angry, and unbearable. The sound echoed again and again until—
Slap! Slap! Slap!
"STOP! Don't shout anymore! You're fine now!"
An old man, his face twisted with rage, was slapping the young doctor's face repeatedly. And he did it again.
"N-No!" The young doctor struggled to resist, but all his efforts were in vain—until the old man realized the madness of his actions, he finally stopped it.
"Oops! Sorry, son! I'm just … too old."
The doctor slowly rolled his eyes while trying to regain his senses. He struggled to get up from the shabby hospital bed where he had been lying. Everything in front of his eyes was slowly becoming clear.
"Mr. Guard! What are you doing here?"
When the young doctor looked at this person, he also partly pieced together what had happened. Yet there was one thing, which still puzzled him.
The old guard hadn't worked at this worn-out hospital for a long time. Basically, this hospital had had a few patients, so the old guards could show up anytime if they wanted to work without payment.
And the old guard was staying, which certainly wasn't the case. Because this old guard told him that he wouldn't be coming anymore.
He was going to enjoy his old age.
''Oh, Nothing, I just want to give this to you '' The Old Guard smiled slowly and took a cake for the young doctor.
''Cake?'' The young doctor said in surprise. But he still grabbed it.
After all, refusing the gift was rude. Besides, this old guard had helped a lot in the past.
''Eat it!'' The old guard urged.
''Uh, okay,'' the young doctor sighed, then he took a bite of the cake.
Suddenly, the sweetness covered his entire tongue. It made him freeze.
''Amazing!'' he exclaimed in surprise.
''Hehehe... So, what do you think about marrying my daughter? This cake is from my daughter,'' the old guard puffed out his chest proudly as he spoke about his beautiful daughter.
The young doctor sighed again.
''Haizz! I'll think about it,''
It turned out that the old security guard had come here just for this, but in doing so, he had saved the young doctor's life.
As the young doctor reflected on this, his expression turned serious. He suddenly thought to fucking patient.
He immediately looked around, worrying, finding anything related to that lunatic.
"Don't worry. He's been restrained to a hospital bed nearby," the old security guard reassured him.
Then, the guard leaned closer and asked, "But more importantly, why did that patient act like that?"
A few seconds later.
The young doctor released a deep sigh and replied in a bored voice, "He asked me if I had read his novel yet."
Hearing this, the old security guard chuckled softly. He walked over to a chair, settled into it, and fixed his gaze on the doctor.
"Well, That thing becomes easy,"
"You just need to read it."
Some hours later, everything went fine. The patient drank a few pills, and he would be in a deep sleep. However, after that, he resisted incredibly
After that, the old security guard replaced the young doctor for night duty, the young doctor really needed rest.
Finally, he could sleep without worrying about that damn patient anymore. Yet, he still read the patient's novel because he didn't want his neck gripped again.
Once was enough for him.
—
''This is such shit!" the young doctor exclaimed in anger. "Why did I take so many hours for this fucking shit?"
He immediately threw the book in his hand into the trash near the corner of his bedroom. Then, he sighed and stood up from his chair.
"This time, I am going home."
He slowly took off his hospital blouse and threw it onto the table.
Anyway, he was also a messy person. The swift action was always something he needed.
He arrived at the door and opened it.
Creak.
He glanced at the room one last time after he shouted loudly with frozen eyes.
"Goodbye...forever!"
Creak!
On a remote path in a big village, the surroundings were filled with rice plants on the right of the path, and on the left was a long river. The surface of the river reflected the big half-moon. Apart from that, there was another shadow.
It was the shadow of a human.
"Fuck! I had to throw away this job just because of that fucking lunatic,"
The young doctor cursed loudly as he was driving his motorbike.
"I guess the fucking guy's brain was eaten up by cell cancer way."
Actually, the major reason that made him quit his job at the hospital was his inability to lie
Everything would have been simpler if he had been able to lie.
He only needed to say a few words like: "Yeah! I read it. It's good. You'll certainly become a famous author."
But that was something he could never do.
If he wanted love from others, he had to have the ability to lie.
That was the reason he ended up in this remote place.
Yet, it wasn't as simple as he had thought. Now, if he returned to the hospital, his neck would surely be gripped again.
"Perhaps the culprit is my fucking genes," he muttered. After he released all the anger in his mind through cursing, he steadied his breathing.
He took a deep breath and thought to himself:
"Probably... I will agree to Mr. Guard's request."
''I'm not young anymore...''
Blink.
Blink.
Blink.
…
"Motherf*er! Fucking headlight!"
"Go on!"
The young doctor shouted angrily when the headlight of his motorbike stopped working.
"What the hell!"
"I paid 3000 dollars for this motorbike? I'm going to sue that fucking Honda company!"
He sighed again after glancing ahead at the path and tried to open his eyes wider.
"Too dark!"
Everything in front of him blurred. He couldn't discern anything clearly anymore. It felt like he was moving through endless darkness.
"No way?" He looked up at the sky and was utterly surprised.
"The clouds have hidden the moon!"
"My luck is absolute shit!"
Suddenly, a cold wind hit his body.
"Cold! I'm starting to get scared of this!"
By now, the situation reminded him of a horror story. It truly made his hair stand on end.
"Come on! I'm already 24 years old. I'm not a child anymore!"
The young doctor tried to encourage himself, using his age as reassurance. Yet, his body's responses completely contradicted the words he had just said.
A few seconds later, his expression became increasingly frozen. He finally admitted to himself that he was scared of ghosts.
He began to say in trembling.
"M-My motorbike! I plead with you! Please, turn on the headlights."
"I promise I won't sell you!"
It seemed the motorbike heard his frightened plea. The headlight began to flicker faintly.
Blink.
"Hahaha! I knew it! You would work!"
Blink.
Suddenly, everything in front of him lit up. He could finally see again.
Light.
"Aahhhhhhh!"
The young doctor screamed loudly as an unknown white figure appeared in front of him, causing his heart to feel like it was about to leap out of his chest.
Following his instincts, he swerved the motorbike to the left, desperate to avoid the terrifying white thing.
Unluckily, the left side of the path led directly to a long, deep river.
Boom!
….
Over time, the river gradually became calm once again as nothing happened.
.