Japan’s No. 1 Doctor

Yakushi General Hospital

This hospital isn't a top-tier hospital, but it is very famous throughout Japan, even worldwide.

Because the hospital director, Yakushi Kiriko, is a Hydromancer specializing in medicine and Japan's best doctor. She has precise control over the human body and has solved many complex and difficult diseases, gaining international fame.

If Kurogane Shizuku's Noble Art as a Hydromancer only approaches the Healing Capsule, Kiriko's medical ability truly surpasses the Healing Capsule. Even someone deemed dead would fully recover if treated by her.

Her talent and power in this field have been recognized worldwide, making her one of the top three doctors in the world.

"Hello, I'm Nangou Hoshiharu. I have an appointment with Dr. Yakushi today."

Hoshiharu arrived at the reception desk of Yakushi General Hospital and greeted the receptionist.

"Ah... are you Mr. Nangou? The dean has given instructions that you can go straight in."

The receptionist glanced at Hoshiharu, then looked again. After a few looks, she realized what she was doing and quickly responded.

"The dean is doing rounds now, please follow me."

Hoshiharu took the map handed to him thoughtfully by the receptionist and followed the directions through the atrium, entering the large hospital building in the backyard, and taking the elevator to the third floor.

The decor here was no different from other hospitals. There were no wards, and it didn't even look like a hospital.

When he said it didn't look like a hospital, he didn't mean the cleanliness or anything, but the patients here.

No one here was wearing hospital gowns, even the nurses wore makeup and chatted cheerfully in the corner, while children sat on the sofa happily playing cards.

Unlike the impression of hospital corridors filled with the smell of disinfectant and patients looking lethargic and depressed, the corridors here were fresh and the patients were very energetic.

Hoshiharu found Kiriko in the third ward.

At this moment, Kiriko seemed to be consulting with a doctor, placing her hand on the hand of an old man who was at least ninety years old, with a light blue magical glow emanating from her hand.

"It's almost done. The pain should be gone, right?"

"Hahaha, as expected of Dr. Yakushi, now I can drink again!"

"Don't drink too much."

The one scolding the patient with a gentle expression was a beautiful girl under twenty years old.

She was only wearing a black t-shirt and a white coat. She looked very simply dressed, but her figure was quite impressive.

She had slightly curly green hair, emerald-colored pupils with the softness of a doctor, and flawless bright cheeks with a very ordinary round impression.

"Oh, you're here, Hoshiharu."

She turned and walked out of the ward, and happened to see him waiting at the door, so she raised her hand to greet him.

"Heartbeat, pulse, muscles, bone marrow, adrenaline... everything is normal. It seems you've recovered well."

Kiriko didn't use any instruments, she just looked at Hoshiharu and assessed his condition.

"Long time no see, Kiriko-san."

Facing this woman, even Hoshiharu set aside his usual arrogance and greeted her very seriously.

Eight years ago, when Kiriko first became famous, she was invited by the God of War to help Hoshiharu with rehabilitation training for several years and solved many of his problems.

Since then, Kiriko has been his main doctor, and that hasn't changed to this day.

Hoshiharu is where he is now, mainly because of Kiriko.

"We're all old acquaintances, why so serious?"

Kiriko shrugged her round shoulders and said indifferently.

"You're here to see Ayatsuji Kaito, follow me."

She led Hoshiharu and walked further into the ward.

"The atmosphere here is really different from other hospitals."

On the way, Hoshiharu looked at the wards on both sides and couldn't help but sigh when he saw the patients who didn't care about disinfection and were having fun.

This was also his first time coming to this hospital.

"Really, in your eyes, do they have a happy life?"

Kiriko raised her eyebrows slightly, pursed her thin lips, and asked.

"Very happy."

"Haha, that's good."

Kiriko lifted her lips and smiled, but the smile soon turned bitter.

"They are all seriously ill."

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"Even though I'm known as Japan's best doctor, after all, I'm not the god of the underworld. I can't save everyone. The patients in this building have long been sentenced to death. All I can do is eliminate the pain in their bodies and allow them to spend their last days happily."

Even in this extraordinary world, diseases like heart disease are still incurable and fatal. Even Kiriko cannot save those patients.

But she couldn't bear the pain and helplessness of seriously ill patients before they died, so she used her Noble Art to block the pain nerves in their bodies so they could at least spend their remaining years in peace.

To prevent them from falling ill suddenly, she would check the wards every day, eliminate bacteria in the wards every day, and adjust the patients' bodies every day.

In front of her, patients didn't need to have any restrictions, didn't need to lie in hospital beds, didn't need to frown all day, they could happily indulge and enjoy the rest of their lives.

"That's nice."

Hoshiharu said sincerely.

Any doctor deserves respect, especially a doctor like Kiriko.

"But after all, I can't save them, and the same goes for Ayatsuji Kaito whom you sent."

Kiriko smiled bitterly.

"I have repaired his body. It can be said that he is as healthy as an ordinary person, and his consciousness is almost awake, but I still can't do anything about his heart disease..."

Kiriko is a very good doctor.

Although when they first met, this girl was cold to everyone. She looked at Hoshiharu like a white mouse that could be killed at will in a scientific experiment.

At that time, Kiriko seemed to have no humanity at all. In her eyes, all living beings were just things that could be manipulated at will.

—Because she was too powerful.

She could control trillions of cells in the human body at will, and could flatten and distort the ecology of any living being. In her eyes, humans were just pebbles that could be exploited at will.

But not long after the two got along, she gradually changed and slowly realized how precious life was, and then she became as gentle as she is now.

Kiriko glanced at the young man following her, her eyes shining with a sigh.

To Hoshiharu, she might indeed be his benefactor.

But to Kiriko, he was also the teacher who taught her how precious life was.

In this young man, she saw an unshakable fighting spirit of life. Watching him persevere in life every day and feeling the shocking willpower, she realized how precious life was.

"This is it."

The two stopped in front of a certain ward.

There was an argument coming from the ward.

"I said it's okay, Ayase, I'm so healthy now that I can swing my sword a hundred times!"

"No, Dad, you lie here first, I'll find Dr. Kiriko, don't get down to the ground now!"