Fifth Vital [EN]: Chapter 60

60. Medical Helicopter

“Seriously.”

“Are you still upset?”

Eui-jin asked the head of the security team, who kept grumbling, with a smile.

“Of course, I am! I’ve been guarding Chairman Kim for 10 years. But this is the first time I’ve experienced something like this. It’s just absurd. Absurd.”

Even the team leader, who had experienced all sorts of things while guarding Kim Geon-hyung, was experiencing this for the first time.

“Everything has its procedure. But to have complete strangers not only cut open the chairman’s stomach but also be in charge of the transport, ignoring all procedures, was truly dumbfounding.”

“Oh, I’m sorry about spraying the pepper spray earlier. Is your eye okay?”

“It’s fine. My head is about to roll, so what’s a little pepper spray?”

“Your head is about to roll?”

“Have you two been living abroad?”

“No.”

“Then did you come from some island?”

“Neither. Both my senior and I are from Seoul.”

“Then you don’t know who this person is?”

“Why wouldn’t we? He’s the chairman of Nuga Group, known even abroad.”

“No, not the woman, but that person there, Mr. Kim Tae-kyung.”

“Ah, me.”

Tae-kyung, who had been staring intently at Kim Geon-hyung’s face, finally raised his head.

“Yes, you.”

“Of course, I know. Who in Korea doesn’t know Chairman Kim Geon-hyung? But I’ve only seen him on the news, never in person.”

“Let me ask you something.”

“Yes.”

“Why did you two do that earlier? I’m curious why you were so desperate to save the chairman.”

One person jumped into the car and locked the door, and the other sprayed a fire extinguisher and pepper spray. He wondered why they had engaged in such a physical fight.

“It’s not that there was another reason. It was an emergency, so we couldn’t just ignore it.”

“I feel the same way.”

“Honestly, I’m not a doctor, so I don’t know if you two saved the chairman or not, but I know one thing for sure.”

“What is it?”

“Because of you two, my entire security team, including me, is going to get fired.”

“Ah.”

“…….”

Tae-kyung and Eui-jin were taken aback by the unexpected answer. They had rushed in to save Kim Geon-hyung, but now others were in trouble because of them, which made them feel quite sorry.

“Hahaha! Are you really the same people who were so spirited earlier?”

The team leader burst out laughing at the two people’s guilty expressions.

“What can we do about what’s already happened? Actually, the chairman has a bit of a difficult personality… but let’s pretend you didn’t hear that.”

“Of course. I didn’t hear the word ‘difficult.’ Senior, you didn’t hear it either, right?”

“Of course not. I had my ears closed the whole time.”

“You guys are subtly funny. Anyway, actually, more than the chairman, it’s his daughter…”

“Yes?”

“Never mind. The elevator is opening. Let’s go.”

The team leader stopped talking and quickly shut his mouth. And with the opening elevator, they headed to the helicopter landing pad.

Doo-doo-doo-doo-

A helicopter was descending with a loud propeller sound and a tremendous gust of wind.

“Perfect timing. Whatever the result, thank you both for your hard work.”

“You’re welcome. I’m sorry if I caused trouble for you. Please contact me if there’s anything I can do to help.”

“It’s okay. Don’t worry about it. Mr. Kim and our Pepper Spray Man, please get home safely.”

“Yes, I hope for the chairman’s speedy recovery.”

“Me too. And please tell the security team members that I’m sorry.”

As the two finished their greetings, the door of the landed helicopter opened.

Click-

However, the expressions of the three people simultaneously hardened at the scene inside the helicopter that unfolded before their eyes.

“Sob!”

A young woman, who looked like a college student, was crying with startled rabbit eyes.

* * *

The VIP ward of Sae Hope Hospital, reminiscent of a luxury goods store decorated with Italian marble and high-end wood, was bustling.

Doctors representing each department were rushing into this place, which even people working in the same hospital could not freely enter.

Some doctors hadn’t even put on their gowns because they had been urgently called in from home on the weekend.

“I heard the witch is here?”

“You have no idea. The atmospheric pressure is so high right now, it’s about to break through the stratosphere.”

“She’s going to start her sword dance again.”

“Well, if you think about it, it’s the chairman who was stubborn. We all tried to stop him.”

“That’s right. Is he the kind of person who listens to others?”

“That’s true. He treats doctors’ words like dog poop. What’s the point of talking to him?”

“That’s enough, everyone.”

The hospital director, who was walking in the lead, stopped and turned around.

“What’s the use of us talking like this among ourselves? Anyway, it’s also our fault for not stopping him more strongly, so let’s all bear with it a little.”

The hospital director comforted the professors and knocked on the innermost room.

Knock knock-

“Madam. The director and the doctors have arrived.”

“Tell them to come in.”

Click-

“I’m sorry for…”

Thud-

As soon as the door opened, a heavy cell phone flew towards the doctors. The professors, including the hospital director, were used to it and dodged the cell phone with practiced ease.

“Oh my. Here we go again.”

A professor in the back row whispered in a small voice.

“Ha! Is this even possible?”

“We apologize for causing concern.”

“Concern! Concern!”

The woman who lightly ignored the director’s words was Kim Geon-hyung’s eldest daughter and the head of Nuga Group’s hotel business, Kim Seo-hyun.

She was known as a leading female entrepreneur with great abilities and an outwardly elegant and intelligent person, but the reality was different.

“Is this something that can be resolved with concern? Huh?”

It was true that she was capable, but her elegance was an external image created with money. Her mindset was that of a true *chaebol* [a wealthy family-controlled conglomerate], and her temper was so terrible that it was sometimes unbearable, and this was one of those moments.

“You shouldn’t have created a situation where we had to apologize in the first place.”

“We apologize.”

“Apologize! Apologize! Ah~ I don’t want to hear it, so shut up.”

She would go wild for anything related to her father, Kim Geon-hyung. She was known as a filial daughter who cared for her father, but internally, some people said it was a strategy to secure the top position.

“How much money do we give you, and you can’t even protect our father’s life? Is that even possible?”

“We strongly advised against it, but the chairman insisted on going because it was an important event that had been scheduled for a long time…”

“So, you’re saying that our father ignored your words and went to the baseball stadium and almost died.”

“No, no… I didn’t mean it that way.”

“No, that’s exactly what you meant. Director, that’s what you just said. After our mother passed away, how much did our father suffer while living? That’s why I asked you so many times to just help him with his health! Huh?”

“We are sorry. We will pay more attention.”

“That’s a joke. He almost died already, what more are you going to pay attention to? And what? Some crazy bastard dared to touch our father’s body.”

At Kim Seo-hyun’s words, all the professors, including the director, flinched.

Kim Seo-hyun was the type of person who wouldn’t accept anything unless she approved of it herself.

People and things all had to be the best and meet her standards. That’s why she deliberately hid the fact that someone other than the attending physician had treated Kim Geon-hyung. She knew that if she found out, she would cause a scene. But she found out.

“You let some guy who doesn’t even know where he crawled out from touch my dad’s body!?”

“That was also an unexpected event for us. But the person who treated him is a doctor, and according to Team Doctor, that person…”

“Shut up!!!”

Kim Seo-hyun finally screamed.

“Did you see if that guy was a doctor or not? Are you sure that person is a doctor? Did you check his license!?”

“Not exactly, but…”

“Are all doctors the same?”

“…….”

“Anyway. You guys better be prepared.”

At Kim Seo-hyun’s words, who was glaring and causing a scene, Tae-kyung’s colleague closed his eyes tightly.

‘She probably doesn’t know what I said, right? Well, she doesn’t even know Tae-kyung’s name, so if I just keep my mouth shut, she’ll never know until the end.’

Tae-kyung’s skills were beyond question, but his colleague decided to stay quiet, fearing that he might stir up trouble unnecessarily.

* * *

“Sob! I, I don’t know why this happened either.”

The helicopter, which was supposed to be for medical use, was a regular helicopter, and the young woman sobbed and repeated the same words.

“I really don’t know.”

“What happened? I was told that a medical helicopter was coming?”

Tae-kyung, who was about to leave after seeing them off, asked the security team leader to find out the situation.

“The headquarters definitely said it was a medical helicopter, but why this came instead…”

The team leader was just as clueless. Frustrated, he started making a phone call somewhere, and Tae-kyung and Eui-jin calmed the woman down.

“Excuse me. Can you explain without crying? You’re from Nuga Group, right?”

“Ah, yes. I’m sorry. I was too surprised.”

When Eui-jin handed her a tissue from his pocket and asked, the young woman wiped away her tears and tried to calm down.

“I’m from Nuga Group headquarters.”

Tae-kyung’s eyes moved busily. The woman’s clothes and shoes, and even the large kit box on the floor. Without seeing anything else, he could tell who the woman was.

“Ms. Lee Soo-jin, you’re a nurse, right?”

Tae-kyung asked, looking at her name tag with certainty.

“Yes, that’s right. I’m a nurse in the headquarters medical office.”

“What happened?”

“Well, I don’t really know either. The medical office team leader accompanied the executive director on an external schedule today, and I was on duty, so I came to the office. Suddenly, I was told that the chairman had collapsed, so I packed an emergency kit and rushed to the rooftop.”

Lee Soo-jin poured out her situation as if complaining.

“Originally, a medical helicopter would go if the chairman collapsed, but I don’t know why this happened. I just joined the company this year and I’m still learning, and I’m a newbie, so I don’t know much.”

Only then did he understand why Lee Soo-jin was crying when the helicopter door opened earlier.

How surprised would a newly hired nurse be to be told to go to Chairman Kim Geon-hyung? Especially since he wasn’t in a normal state but had collapsed.

Regardless of the profession, anything new is bound to be nerve-wracking. It was natural to be surprised and nervous. It was the same as assigning a collapsed hospital director to an intern.

“Geez! It’s just my luck that today’s the day. It seems like today’s not the day.”

The security team leader, who had hung up the phone, rubbed his forehead in frustration.

“What happened?”

“The chairman has a total of five personal helicopters, one of which is a medical helicopter. But the heart transplant patient who had been waiting received a heart donation, so the medical helicopter went to pick up the heart, and as you can see, a regular helicopter came instead.”

Since the helicopter that should have been at the hospital was gone, the headquarters helicopter came instead, and a newbie came without a doctor.

“It looks like we’re going to have to transport the chairman without a doctor. Damn it!”

While the team leader was frustrated and unable to do anything, Tae-kyung naturally boarded the helicopter with Eui-jin. And he said to the team leader.

“Why isn’t there a doctor? There are two of us here.”

“What are you doing now?”

“What do you mean? I’m boarding the helicopter.”