Dr. Shin Seonhan: The Doctor Who Sees The Future [EN]: Chapter 241

# Extra Story 23: Snake and Wildcat (9)

‘Of all people, it had to be Song Yoo-joo who got first place…!’

Shivers-

Dong-tak trembled with rage.

Of course, he knew Song Yoo-joo was a good student.

After all, she was the freshman representative at the entrance ceremony.

But coming to medical school, taking exams in major subjects without cheat sheets, and topping the class was a completely different story.

‘Damn it, if this happens… if this happens, I won’t have any authority…!’

Could there be a more fitting expression than a thorn in one’s side? [A constant source of annoyance or trouble.]

Song Yoo-joo was the enemy of the student council.

The presence of just one person was overwhelmingly significant.

When trying to establish discipline among the freshmen, Song Yoo-joo alone caused no end of trouble.

For example…….

-These guys will be in trouble if they dye their hair!

-Um, isn’t that pink-haired girl passing by?

-Huh?

-What, so it’s okay to dye your hair?

-No, it’s not!

He had gotten a lot of high blood pressure because of situations like that, but now…….

-These guys have to listen to us to get cheat sheets and do well on exams!

-Isn’t that the top student who doesn’t listen passing by?

-Huh?

-What, so cheat sheets aren’t a big deal?

-No!!

The thought of having to go through situations like this already made his head throb.

‘Hoo… calm down. After all, she’s just one person, a lone wolf.’

Na Dong-tak.

He was in his seventh year of college.

Seven years ago, when he was a student at Chungwoon University’s medical school, the student council president was a position of immense authority.

So when he became the student council president of Yeon Guk University’s medical school, he was as happy as if he had ascended to the throne.

But now.

Like sand slipping through his fingers, his power was draining away—

And the more that happened, the tighter people clenched their fists.

But even so…….

Changes were coming from all over campus.

It was still a distant story, but it was coming faster than he thought.

* * *

Winter had arrived.

The winter vacation of the second year of pre-med had a special meaning.

If you had to express this time in one sentence, would you say, ‘The good times are over?’

Some people even exaggeratedly said, ‘The last free time of your life is coming to an end.’

In fact, from the first year of medical school, a large amount of major study was waiting.

Also, the exam you take as soon as the first semester of medical school starts must be prepared for during the winter vacation.

So, most people spend their vacations with a sense of tension about their studies, but…….

Right now, there was a completely different kind of tension in this place.

“Let’s go in one take.”

“Please.”

“Do well.”

“You do well.”

A small practice room.

Yeo Bong-cheol took a deep breath, raised his drumsticks solemnly, and struck them together.

-Tak, tak, tak, tak!

The performance began.

But 3 seconds later.

The notes went awry.

Song Yoo-joo and Kim Viper stopped playing their guitars and glared at each other as if they were about to devour each other.

“You messed up the beat again.”

“You were slow.”

“Are you kidding me?”

“Let’s practice a little beforehand. Isn’t it a waste of time?”

They’re fighting again!

They were like mortal enemies.

Watching them, novice bassist Ma Dong-seop and novice drummer Yeo Bong-cheol were wearing a look of hollow laughter.

“Hehe…….”

“How can any practice not even last 3 seconds…….”

They were the two people who made you wonder how there could be a duo that didn’t match on anything from one to ten.

If that’s the case, why are they even rehearsing…….

They should just rent a gym and spar…….

After such a chaotic practice session, they came out of the practice room, and the outside world was covered in snow.

“Ugh, it’s so cold!”

“Wow~ it’s snowing, it’s snowing!”

Flap, flap, flap!

Yeo Bong-cheol and Ma Dong-seop jumped out with gestures that suggested they were dogs in their past lives.

Meanwhile, Kim Viper and Song Yoo-joo came out of the building, standing far apart.

The cold wind was blowing so hard between them…….

You could even feel their firm determination not to get close to each other during the time they weren’t rehearsing.

“Beom-soo~ come here! Let’s have a snowball fight together!”

“No.”

“Yoo-joo, come here too. Let’s play together!”

“No way.”

The two of them watched the snowball fight of the bulky brothers with their hands in their padding pockets.

Thwack, thwack, thwack!

A fierce battle began with tremendous sounds.

It was the first time they knew that snowball fights could make such sounds.

After a while, Song Yoo-joo opened her mouth, puffing out white breath.

“Aren’t you going to tell me now?”

“Tell you what.”

“What really possessed you to do that back then?”

“What, again…….”

“……Why did you join our band?”

Song Yoo-joo was still amazed.

No, should she say she was embarrassed?

Well, she was a rock maniac, so…….

Since she was young, she had always thought that she wanted to be in a band at least once.

After becoming a college student, she had been flaunting her desire to be in a band all over the place.

She practiced electric guitar at school whenever she had a chance.

Meanwhile, Ma Dong-seop…….

-If Yoo-joo wants to do it, I have to do it. It’ll be fun. I needed a hobby anyway!

Saying that, he readily took on the bass for a very simple reason.

-Hey, playing the drums relieves my stress! Maybe I have a talent for it! It’s fun, it’s fun!

Yeo Bong-cheol also readily started playing the drums.

She was grateful.

She never thought that she could be the center of something.

She had always been used to being alone.

Anyway, Song Yoo-joo was going to play both guitar and vocals at the same time, and they were going to start as a trio, but.

Kim Viper suddenly came to the practice room after hearing the story from somewhere…….

-Hey, let me join too.

-???

-I bought a guitar.

……That’s how it happened.

The band’s name?

Undecided.

The members had such different opinions that even the band name hadn’t been decided yet.

Especially Kim Viper vs Song Yoo-joo.

These two had almost never agreed on anything.

It took them 3 hours to choose a practice song.

She was curious as to why Kim Viper kept coming to practice.

“I told you, I was bored.”

“That’s funny.”

Song Yoo-joo said without a flicker of expression.

“You’re telling me you chose a hobby that takes up so much time, like band activities, just because you’re bored? That doesn’t sound like you.”

Then Kim Viper raised his foggy glasses and said as if confessing.

“That’s right, it’s a waste of time.”

“What, you little…….”

“Practicing instruments and meeting up to match each other, it takes a lot of time. Especially when I don’t get along with you, it feels like I’m turning time into money and then tearing it up and throwing it on the floor…….”

Song Yoo-joo said with an ‘oh~’ look.

“You’re really good at saying things…… that make people lose interest.”

“Is that a compliment?”

“Does it sound like a compliment?”

“Anyway…… if we keep talking about what we were talking about.”

Kim Viper cleared his throat and said.

“, do you remember that saying?”

“……Professor Baek Eui-sin?”

“Yeah.”

Kim Viper nodded.

The sentence that Professor Baek Eui-sin had written on the board during a lecture last year.

.

Because they always live in the water, they can’t help but not know the existence of water.

Perhaps Professor Baek Eui-sin wanted to compare this to the lives of doctors.

Then, thinking in reverse…….

“What should a fish do to know water?”

“……Jump out?”

Kim Viper nodded and said.

“I’ve never jumped out before.”

“!”

“I want to jump out of the water just once in my life. But it seems like the only age to do that is…… when I’m a college student…….”

Kim Viper picked up words one by one and scratched his neck.

“Ugh, it’s so cheesy. So why do you keep asking for the reason?”

“Sorry. I didn’t think it would be such a cringe-worthy reason…….”

Song Yoo-joo responded with a dry joke and laughed it off.

“Anyway, to put it simply, you wanted to do something useless at least once, right.”

“Yeah.”

“Then you chose well. Something useless.”

Song Yoo-joo slightly raised the corners of her lips.

It was a very small smile, but it was a smile she hadn’t shown in a long time.

Kim Viper quickly added to that.

“That doesn’t mean I’m going to do it for a long time. It’ll be over after one performance in the spring.”

“Ah~ how many times do I have to say it? It’s going to be stuck in my ears. I got it!”

“Don’t hold me back after the performance.”

“Don’t you come crying that you want to do it more.”

Kim Viper and Song Yoo-joo agreed for the first time in a long time. These two can’t agree on anything unless it’s about this kind of story.

And after a while.

Two bulky people who looked like snowmen due to excessive snowball fights, and a wildcat 끼인 [sandwiched] between them, disappeared into the subway station.

“Be careful going home!”

“See you all next week!”

“Okay, bye.”

After everyone left for their respective homes.

Kim Viper got on the bus.

He climbed the steps that were muddy from the snow, sat by the window, and leaned his head back.

A cool sensation reached him.

It was a good temperature to calm down the complicated and excited thoughts.

‘……?’

The question was wrong.

If you had asked a different question, I might have answered a little differently.

“Tsk…….”

I want to know.

What is the identity of this anxious feeling?

As someone said, is it the curiosity of waving at a cat on the wall? [An idiom referring to a fleeting interest or curiosity.]

Or did some kind of stubbornness arise from constantly looking at an opponent I can’t admit?

Or is it something else…….

I don’t know either, damn it…….

Swish-

Kim Viper took out his earphones and plugged them into his ears.

I don’t know how many times I’ve listened to it, I haven’t counted.

I now listen to the song I once listened to with only one earphone in front of the Oido sea, alone and leisurely.

-You don’t know The Strokes?

I know, now.

I like it now too.

I liked it as I listened to it.

The English lyrics flowed over the familiar guitar riff.

Some people think they’re always right

Others are quietly getting uptight

Some people look fine

But inside they might be sad and twisted

Out of twenty-nine different opinions

Seven will do

There are twenty different ways to see the world

There are twenty ways to start a fight

Kim Viper opened the window and closed his eyes.

A fierce snowstorm seeped through the window, so cold that his nose was numb, but…….

His heart was already moving past the season.

He was looking forward to spring.

If the performance goes well.

After that…….

-Extra Story Part 1: Snake and Wildcat part.1 End