21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 328 225: Doctor Named Sai (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions)

Inside the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital, Shimoe Akiba's arm had been reattached, and he now lay weakly on the hospital bed, his face pale.

Yet, more damaging than the physical weakness from his injury was the emotional shock from having his arm severed and the impact of being defeated by a girl in her twenties.

Imahon Okuyama was also in the hospital room taking care of him, but the shock he received from this incident was no less than Akiba's.

Kojo Kyoko's father and he were good friends, and he had watched Kyoko grow up since she was a child. Although in recent years he had been transferred to oversee a dojo in the United States and was not at home in Japan, seeing his friend's daughter reach heights he himself could not even aspire to was a colossal mental shock for Okuyama.

Ever since he had brought Akiba to the hospital, he had been somewhat lost in thought, seemingly preoccupied with other matters.

Fortunately, at this time, Akiba himself was in no mood to talk with him, so the strange state of both men had no particular impact.

Just as the two of them seemed resigned to forever maintain their dismal state, the door to the hospital room was opened, and an old man with white hair and beard, exuding a sharp presence, walked in.

The elder was dressed in a traditional Japanese kimono, had an aura of natural authority, and his facial lines were remarkably firm, as though carved by knife and axe. Even the wrinkles on his face were like sword scars, evoking a sharp pain, and just being swept by the old man's gaze was enough to make one feel as if the point of a knife was pressed against one's eyes, causing the hairs on the back to stand up.

The elder, who walked in, looked at Akiba lying on the hospital bed and Okuyama sitting beside him both in a state of dejection and despair, frowned disapprovingly, and coughed loudly.

At the sound of the cough, Akiba and Okuyama instantly snapped awake as if jolted by thunder, quickly regaining their wits and looking towards the elder, with Okuyama even springing up from his chair.

"Headmaster/Teacher Chiba?!" Both exclaimed in unison.

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After eating a breakfast of wontons at the gate of his high school, a meal which Yu Chen had longed for, he drove Hiromi Jounouchi back home.

By the time they arrived home, his parents had already gotten up, finished breakfast, and even gone shopping for groceries.

Seeing that Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi had not returned home all night, Chen Yu's father couldn't help but chide his son, "Young people should show some restraint. You two aren't even married yet!"

At those words from Chen Yu's father, Hiromi Jounouchi's face flushed, and she stood beside Yu Chen, looking down, too embarrassed to speak.

Hearing his father say this, knowing his father had misunderstood that he went out last night because Hiromi Jounouchi was worried about the house's lack of soundproofing, Chen Yu quickly started explaining, "Dad, you've got it wrong. Hiromi and I just went to a classmate get-together last night, but one of my classmates suddenly vomited blood, and when we got him to the hospital there was no surgeon available to operate, so we temporarily stepped in to do the surgery. We only left the hospital this morning, and I've just taken Hiromi to breakfast, so that's why we're only getting back now."

Chen Yu's explanation made his father understand, but obviously, the older generation wouldn't apologize to the younger, so he pretended not to understand and turned his head away, ignoring his son and continued pulling the grocery cart home.

It was Chen Yu's mother who asked with some concern, "Which one of your classmates was it? How come throwing up blood needed you to perform surgery all night?"

"It's that Wang Jiancheng who used to live with us. After he threw up blood, he was taken to the hospital, but the surgeons on duty were all operating on car accident victims, so Hiromi and I helped out," Chen Yu replied, taking the vegetables from his mother's hands and walking home together with Hiromi Jounouchi.

While walking, Chen Yu continued to explain to his mother, "However, once he was on the operating table and we'd opened up his abdomen, we discovered he had gastric cancer, so we had to switch to tumor removal surgery on the spot."

"Wang Jiancheng? Is that the kid who always used to hang out with you but blamed you for grave-robbing during junior high? That kid is no good; why bother saving him!" Chen Yu's mother knew immediately who he was talking about upon hearing Chen Yu's words and said with great distaste, seemingly upset that Chen Yu had saved such a person.

"Mom! I'm a surgeon, and he's my classmate; I couldn't just stand by and let him die, could I?" Chen Yu said with a wry smile, feeling that the person might not have deserved saving, but his professional ethics as a surgeon prevented him from not acting.

"Alright, alright, Doctor Chen Da, with your medical skills and compassionate heart, you have time to perform overnight surgery for others but no time to give your own mother a call?" Chen Yu's mother chided him while also looking sympathetically at Hiromi Jounouchi, "It's bad enough you going off to do surgery, but don't you feel for your wife at all? Making this girl stay up all night to assist with the surgery, how could you?"

"Hiromi is an anesthesiologist, she was needed last night to anesthetize the patient..." Chen Yu murmured an explanation, but although he was being scolded by his mother, he could tell she was just showing concern for his wife. He glanced covertly at Hiromi Jounouchi and saw her cheeks were already red as if ablaze.

When they got home, although Chen Yu's mother continued to reprimand him, she still let them go back to their room to catch up on sleep, planning to call them for lunch at noon.

Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi couldn't refuse his mother's kindness, nor could they show any sign of being transcendental, so they just did as Chen Yu's mother said and went back to their room, closing the door and stripping down to their clothes before lying on the bed.

But just as Chen Yu was about to close his eyes and actually get some sleep, his phone rang.

Chen Yu frowned, picked up his phone, and upon hitting answer, he said, "Hello, may I ask who's calling?"

"Chen Yu, it's me, Zhu Yiting." The voice of Zhu Yiting came through the phone, though she sounded hesitant as she spoke.

Chen Yu, feeling annoyed when he realized it was Zhu Yiting calling, thought of the surgery he performed on Wang Jiancheng the night before, fearing that there might have been some complications with his condition, so he still patiently inquired, "Oh, it's you. Is there something wrong? Did Brother Jiancheng's condition worsen?"

"Well, you could say there has been a recurrence, but it's not exactly a recurrence. The results of his CT scan just came out, and in addition to the ulcerative gastric cancer you diagnosed, he also has cancer at the hepatic hilum of the biliary tract," Zhu Yiting's voice seemed heavy, but prompted by someone nearby, she pressed on, "Chen Yu, I read a paper on hepatohilus cholangiocarcinoma surgery in The Lancet before, written by a doctor from The University of Tokyo named Sai. Do you know who this Sai doctor might be?"