Ch 7: The Price of Redemption

"A wave of relief washed over me as the little girl's operation succeeded."

A prompt appeared before me.

["Life saved: 1/11"]

The prompt jolted me from my thoughts, reminding me that other patients were waiting.

I moved to the next child, a small boy around ten years old.

He had died from kidney failure. Being an orphan, no one was willing to donate a kidney for free.

I tried to find a compatible kidney, but his rare type was only available on the black market, and the price was exorbitant.

But this place was created by the "Trial of Wit," which meant there had to be a way to save him.

The nurse's voice interrupted my thoughts. "Doctor, the father of this kid wants to meet you."

"Father? When did an orphan kid have a father?"

Then it struck me; this must be the trial's way of solving the problem.

"Yes, it's said that kidneys from relatives are generally compatible."

Which meant if his father donated a kidney, the boy could be saved.

"Nurse, take me to the child's parent."

The nurse started to move, and I followed.

We soon reached the visiting area, where relatives of patients stayed. There was only one drunken man waiting.

"Hello, sir. Are you the child's parent?" I asked in a polite tone

"Ah, who... you must be the doctor in charge of my kid," the man slurred.

"Yes, sir," I replied politely.

"Ahm, you see... doctor, I want to take my child back with me."

"Sir, your child's condition is critical. If he is discharged now, he will most likely die."

"Don't give me that crap. I want to take my son back."

"Sir, do you understand the gravity of what you're saying?"

"You see, doctor, I don't like to repeat myself. Let me take my son back, or you will face the consequences of kidnapping him."

"Sorry, sir, but if we discharge him, he will die in five days."

"Then let him die. At least I'll have one less mouth to feed."

I was stunned. How could any father be this cruel?

There was one father whose entire world crumbled at the thought of his daughter's death, and here was another who hoped his son would die.

I took a deep breath, struggling to suppress my rising anger. ''He's just a figure created by the trial,' I reminded myself."

But then suddenly something clicked, and I noticed If he was created by the trial, then on what basis was he created, it must be on the basis of reality 

Why would any parent leave their child in an orphanage?

All the sympathy I had for this man vanished. There was no need for further explanation.

If this were reality, I would never do what I was about to do.

I struck the drunken man with telekinesis, rendering him unconscious.

then, "I carefully performed the surgery, extracting one of his kidneys with precision."

If this were reality, I would be considered one of the worst criminals.

After taking the kidney, I implanted it in the child, saving another life.

The panel appeared in front of me: "Life saved: 2/11."

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I moved toward the next patient, a young woman about the age of 20-24, she had a stage 3 breast cancer

previously, when I was alive I noticed this

and, being limited by knowledge and equipment at my time, I couldn't treat her

but, after her death, I learned everything about cancer and as time went on, the treatment also improved

I always wished I could go back in time with my current knowledge and equipment and save this young woman

I didn't expect my wish to come true this way

I operated on her and removed her cancer, with the help of modern tools in the hospital

[pannel once again appears in front of me "Saved life 3/11"]

I hurriedly moved toward the next critical patient

An old man, looking at the old man reminded me of myself

but, the fate of this old man was worse than mine, there was no one to take care of him,

"Doctor, don't save me, my time has already come I want to reunite with my wife"

looking at the old man reminded me of myself

"I know how it feels when you want to reunite with a loved one"

"I would really have let you die, but trust me there is no heaven only hell" I spoke to the old man remembering my experience in a blank space

"I hurriedly gave him anesthesia which made him asleep and operated on him"

[prompt appeared before me "Life saved 4/11"]

then I moved towards one small child who was left

continuously performing surgeries and using telekinesis was straining my body, this exhaustion I never felt in my soul form

suddenly I had a brilliant idea,

if I was here on trial, then why don't I do something I have never done before in my life,

"Nurse, bring me a steroid injection"

hurriedly, a nurse ran out to bring the injection without even asking

the nurse was quite effective, and beautiful "A..hum"

my wife would scold me if she heard this, I shudder at that thought

the nurse soon brought a steroid injection, and without even checking the amount dose I hurriedly injected it into my body, 

"That was quite risky, just there"

Taking steroids I suddenly felt rejuvenated, all the exhaustion disappeared as smoke

then I focused on small children,

the previous cases were only cases of emergency

all the other were cases where they died due to limitations of medicine in my time,

but, I have studied medicine to effectively save all of them,

without break, I started to perform surgery on all patients,

first, a small child was saved

[A prompt appears as always Life saved 5/11]

after curing children I ran toward man's first 

I cured men,

I thought why does, men's always die first, there were 5 men which were almost combined of children and women together

after, curing all the men's 

[prompt appeared life saved 9/11]

(note: 9? 11, you are saying this is a number for saving life)