Dr. Shin Seonhan: The Doctor Who Sees The Future [EN]: Chapter 238

Dr. Fresh Future – Episode 238 (238/241)

Extra Story 20. Snake and Wildcat (6)

What’s the highlight of a year in college?

It’s the Festival.

The Yeon-guk University College of Medicine festival lasts for a week.

Freshmen have to prepare a talent show on the first day….

—Freshmen, if you don’t want the festival to become a funeral, you better prepare well. All the upperclassmen will be watching.

Don’t even think about sneaking out while your classmates are suffering!

The upperclassmen threatened.

Because medical students are swamped with exams every week, most of the preparations fall to the pre-med students.

And then came the long-awaited first day.

The freshmen were divided into blue and red teams and held a talent show competition.

A situation where they had to somehow liven up the atmosphere.

And the aces of each team are….

“Now, let me introduce the ace of the blue team! Yeo! Bong! Cheol!”

Yeo Bong-cheol, wearing a captivating black dress, walked onto the stage, moving to the rhythm.

Everyone was shocked by the unconventional outfit.

“Aaaagh!”

“My eyes!”

“Oh, my eyes!”

Yeo Bong-cheol, in an unflattering drag [cross-dressing], performed .

The reaction was explosive.

It felt like a huge rock had splashed into the stream-like festival.

The audience cheered enthusiastically!

At this rate, the blue team was expected to win overwhelmingly.

But—

The red team was by no means easy to beat.

“Now, next up, let me introduce the ace of the red team! Ma Dong-seop!”

“What? Why is he dragging a chair out?”

“Could it be…?”

Drag—

Ma Dong-seop, wearing hot pants, drags a chair onto the stage.

Looking at the atmosphere, it looked like a hardened detective was dragging a chair into the interrogation room, but.

Clack!

As the beat dropped, Ma Dong-seop sat on the chair like a subway man-spreader [someone who takes up too much space on public transport] and danced.

“Aaaagh! My eyes!”

“Puhaha!”

“Well done!”

Yeo Bong-cheol’s vs Ma Dong-seop’s .

It was a historic showdown.

A ‘sexy dance’ battle representing the music industry!

The upperclassmen roared with laughter, enjoying the freshmen’s talent show, and the classmates filled the stage with applause and cheers, but—

As always, some were happy and some were uncomfortable.

Especially for Yeo Bong-cheol and Ma Dong-seop themselves, it was a moment of creating a dark history.

“Should I drop out?”

“Should we?”

“Let’s quit school. No, let’s die together!”

After the stage ended—

The bulky brothers, who had reluctantly enlivened the atmosphere, gulped down 500cc glasses of beer at the after-party pub.

Drag! Me in drag!

I didn’t come to medical school to do this!

Let’s die, let’s die!

Let’s drink and die!

* * *

The festival continued.

The scenery of the campus, which was always the same, was a little different at this time.

“Kimchi pancakes are 5,000 won each, come and eat! When ordering, please shout for the landlady!”

“Landlady!”

“Yes, I’m coming~!”

In front of the medical school, they were running a themed food stall in a tent, making snacks.

“1,000 won per dart game! Guys, come and throw a dart. If you score 300 points or more, you’ll get a doll!”

“Honey, let’s do this!”

“Shall we?”

On the other side, they had set up and were running a dart game.

If you go inside the building, there are exhibition halls prepared by various academic clubs.

[Yeon-guk University Medical School Anatomy Festival]

Are you curious about anatomy?

We will guide you into the mystery of the human body.

Shall we explore every corner of our body?

Contents: Human body dissection practice and introduction of human specimens

Location: Yeon-guk University Medical School Anatomy Practice Room (next to the basketball court)

Host: Yeon-guk University Anatomy Department

Kim Snake was in charge of guiding the anatomy exhibition hall.

It’s a much simpler task than preparing a talent show or running a tent.

This was also a strategy.

A sweet gig!

It was the most efficient and smart choice to participate in the festival while saving time, and….

“Why are you here?”

“Am I not a medical student at Yeon-guk University?”

“I didn’t know I would have to keep seeing your face during the festival.”

“Who are you to talk?”

Kim Snake glared to the side.

Song Yu-ju was standing in the exhibition hall hallway with her hands behind her back.

She is wearing a white blouse and a name tag necklace that says [Guide].

“You usually don’t even show your face at school events….”

“That’s because the upperclassmen call me out for no reason, and this is an official event.”

“Well done.”

Kim Snake snorted.

Of course, Song Yu-ju was still an outsider at school.

But recently, public opinion about her has been changing little by little.

—She doesn’t fit in with group life. We have to pretend she doesn’t exist in our medical school! Exclude her!

……Many upperclassmen were still saying that.

—Why? I like Yu-ju! It’s enough if she’s smart and studies well. Isn’t it time for our school to get rid of its old-fashioned culture?

……There were also upperclassmen who said that.

They even called themselves the ‘Song Yu-ju Fan Club’ and secretly took care of her.

Kim Snake didn’t like that.

How can the world be so unfair that there are people who support her even if she lives her social life like that?

Someone is working hard to please the upperclassmen, and it makes me angry again.

“I don’t like it….”

“Are you picking a fight again?”

“Being with a social misfit makes me feel like an outsider too.”

“You stay more than ten steps away. I don’t want to breathe the same air as you, you’re unlucky.”

“You go.”

“I’m already at the end of the hallway.”

“Get lost, you’re not a kid.”

“No, I can’t go because I’m at the end of the hallway!”

While the two were bickering with their hands behind their backs.

“Why are you two fighting…?”

At the childish voice, the two turned their heads at the same time.

It was a child.

A very young child.

A soft, chubby girl was staring up at the two with wide eyes.

The festival is open to outsiders, but this is the first time there has been such a young visitor.

“Did you come alone?”

“Mommy is busy talking to other people over there.”

“Ah, I see….”

“What is this place?”

“……!”

Kim Snake’s heart skipped a beat.

Unlike what he looks like, he was weak against small and cute creatures.

When the girl with her hair braided in pigtails and walking with staggering steps asked in a lisping tone….

Kim Snake’s voice was trembling without him even realizing it.

“Are you, are you curious about what this place does? Shall I explain it to you?”

“Oppa [term for older brother used by females] looks scary. I want to go to the pretty unnie [term for older sister used by females].”

“……!”

Staggering—

Leaving Kim Snake, who was heartbroken, behind.

The child approached Song Yu-ju and grabbed her pants.

“Unnie, what does this place do?”

“Um… it’s a place that explains our bodies.”

“Is this our body?”

“That’s right.”

“Wow, that’s amazing!”

Soon, Song Yu-ju bent down to the child’s eye level and began to explain the human body models hanging on the wall.

‘……Unexpected.’

Kim Snake glanced at Song Yu-ju.

It was the first time he had seen Song Yu-ju make such a soft expression.

Of course, even so, the corners of her lips only went up by about 1mm and the corners of her eyes went down slightly….

Since he had always only seen her icy expression, she looked like a completely different person now.

The child’s questions continued.

“What is this?”

“It’s blood.”

“Blood?”

“That’s right.”

“I hate blood… it’s scary….”

“Blood isn’t scary. It’s always flowing in our bodies. It’s flowing here now too.”

Song Yu-ju said that and pointed to the child’s body.

It was a kind explanation in her own way, but the child seemed a little scared.

On the wall, red and blue liquids were moving back and forth in the heart and lung models, showing the flow of blood.

“Is that water inside my body?”

“That’s right.”

“Water spills if you’re not careful… if all that water spills out… what happens then?”

“Then you die.”

“!”

The child’s face stiffens.

Kim Snake swallowed hard.

He was anxious.

The thought that he should shut Song Yu-ju’s mouth right now was creeping up.

“Die?”

“Yes.”

“I don’t want to die… it’s scary….”

“Death is natural. As you get older, if this heart you see here doesn’t beat, everyone will die someday.”

“……My mom and dad too…?”

Song Yu-ju made eye contact with the child and nodded warmly.

“Die.”

“Hey, you!!”

“Aaaaaaaaaah!”

The child burst into tears.

Kim Snake had to struggle to soothe the crying child. But because he looked so fierce, he had no talent for soothing children at all….

Song Yu-ju belatedly tried to win the child’s favor with candy, but it was not enough….

“Why are you making the child cry?!”

“I’m sorry.”

……The two, who were abandoned by the child for different reasons, had to bow their heads to the child’s mother.

* * *

The last part of the festival is always drinking.

A small pub in front of Yeon-guk University.

Right now, here….

A bizarre phenomenon that Kim Snake’s common sense cannot understand is unfolding.

“To see Yu-ju at a drinking party like this!”

“I’m so happy!”

“Yu-ju, unnie cherishes you! Can I hold your hand once?”

It was almost a regular meeting of Song Yu-ju’s fan club upperclassmen.

This is because there were many upperclassmen with relatively moderate tendencies in the academic club.

Of course, it wasn’t that there weren’t upperclassmen trying to maintain discipline in the middle….

“Hey, Song Yu-ju! Haven’t you dyed your hair back yet? You have to do your own thing in moderation, you can’t enter the medical school building like that! You’re really a freshman who has no sense…!”

“Hey Kim Song-tak! Don’t scold our Yu-ju! Who are you to do that!”

“That’s right!”

“Protect Yu-ju!”

“Ah, I can’t say anything. Okay, okay! I won’t…….”

Far from maintaining discipline, he had to go back without even getting his money’s worth.

Song Yu-ju sipped her alcohol with a slightly embarrassed expression, and Kim Snake sipped his alcohol with a troubled expression next to her.

What the hell…… what the hell is this?

There were this many upperclassmen who shielded Song Yu-ju?

He knew they existed, but he was embarrassed to see them in person.

“Have other upperclassmen been bothering you all this time?”

“Don’t be discouraged! There aren’t only old-fashioned upperclassmen at Yeon-guk University!”

“Yu-ju, we’re here!”

“Although we are outnumbered and don’t have the power because we are outsiders, still, cheer up!”

“……Thank you.”

Song Yu-ju bowed her head.

She was also unfamiliar with this situation.

Because she had lived a life where it was natural to be an outsider for a year.

She felt strange being surrounded by people who supported her.

“Um…… upperclassmen, you worked hard preparing for the academic festival…….”

When Song Yu-ju greeted awkwardly and bluntly, the upperclassmen responded with cheers and applause.

‘……You can even say things like that?’

Kim Snake was silently shocked.

Song Yu-ju’s attempt to be polite to the upperclassmen felt awkward.

Why is she like that?

Different from usual.

What wind blew?

Of course, it was Kim Snake himself who pushed her on the back, saying, ‘If you’re human, you should at least attend the after-party’….

But when Song Yu-ju gradually mixed in with the people, he felt strange.

‘I don’t like it.’

The fact that even if she lives like that, there is a gear that fits somewhere in the world…… he couldn’t accept it, and he didn’t want to accept it.

“I’m going to buy some cigarettes.”

As Song Yu-ju awkwardly left her seat, the fans smiled contentedly.

“She’s chic.”

“The expression ‘edgy’ suits her perfectly.”

“Doesn’t she look like a cat on a wall?”

“But it’s surprising that Yu-ju came to the after-party. I didn’t think she would come.”

“That’s right, it’s amazing.”

Soon they turned their attention to Kim Snake.

“Is it because Bum-soo is here?”

“I guess so.”

“I guess Bum-soo and Yu-ju seem to be close. Thank you for bringing her, Bum-soo!”

Cough.

Kim Snake almost spat out his beer.

They seem to be seriously mistaken.

He wiped his mouth and said.

“……Upperclassmen, I’m sorry, but I’m not close to her. She doesn’t like me either.”

“Hey, I don’t think so?”

“Weren’t you close? You two looked good together when you were guiding the exhibition hall?”

That looked like they were getting along…… It was clear that a huge misunderstanding had accumulated while preparing for the festival.

The upperclassmen continued.

“Song Yu-ju always has the same expression on her face to other people, but the only time her expression changes is when she’s talking to Bum-soo, right?”

That’s right.

It was mostly a hateful expression, though.

“I don’t think Yu-ju usually talks for long…… but it seems like she always has long conversations when she’s talking to Bum-soo.”

That’s also true.

She usually says ‘get lost’ in a long way, though.

“A kid who doesn’t even show her face at school events, but she participated in the anatomy festival booth out of all the many events? And she even came to the after-party?”

That’s also true, but.

The flow of the story is getting weirder and weirder.

The upperclassmen smiled as if something was unusual and said.

“Maybe…… Yu-ju likes Bum-soo?”

Later, Kim Snake recalls.

He shouldn’t have listened to that with even one ear.

But because of the inexplicable magic of alcohol, a small whisper crept up in one side of Kim Snake’s brain.

‘……Was that it? The reason she’s different from usual?’

No, you crazy bastard!