You Have Been Defended [EN]: Chapter 243

You Have Been Defended – Episode 243

[Infiltration Log, Day 1]

I was assigned to a 6-person room.

To be honest, I thought getting admitted and carrying out a mission without even being sick was going to be a cushy job.

But I was wrong.

My damn head really hurts like hell.

I told Tae-shik hyung [older brother or close male friend] to take it easy on me, but it feels like he hit me way too hard.

No joke, not just my head, but my whole body aches…ㅠ

Maybe hyung usually has a lot of complaints about me? ㅠ

They did some kind of intense inspection, and I think I might have claustrophobia or something; it was so scary;;

But the nurse in charge is different, so I don’t know what to do;;

And the junior doctors talk to me too much; it’s overwhelming;;;]

Startled by the sudden sound of someone approaching, Sang-gil quickly flipped his phone shut.

Before him stood the professor and young doctors on their rounds.

“Patient Choi Sang-gil, how are you feeling today? Does your head still hurt?”

“Ah, yes. It really hurts so much. I feel like I’m going crazy, really.”

“Hmm, I wonder why. There aren’t any major abnormalities. You have a mild concussion, but the headache is lasting longer than expected?”

The professor tapped his lips with a pen and tilted his head.

“We’re planning to do an additional MRA [Magnetic Resonance Angiography] scan, and we’ll know more when the results come out. Even if the accident wasn’t the cause, there’s a possibility you had an underlying condition.”

The ‘junior doctor’ standing behind him stepped forward and reported to the professor.

Sang-gil sneered inwardly.

‘There’s no such thing.’

‘Who doesn’t know they’re just excited to get the examination fee because I said I was a little sick?’

“Okay. Is there anything else you need?”

The professor was clearly just asking out of courtesy, but Sang-gil actually had so much to say.

Sang-gil looked around the room.

‘This room is full of fakers.’

‘They’re all perfectly fine, so they’re too energetic; that’s the problem.’

‘They’re noisy all day long, and they keep opening my curtain and bothering me.’

‘If I even try to follow Goo So-jung, they keep tagging along, asking where I’m going!’

“Uh, no. But……”

“But?”

“I was wondering if you could change my assigned nurse.”

“Your nurse? Is there a problem?”

“It’s not that, but the nurse looks too much like my ex-girlfriend, and it breaks my heart every time I see her… Really, it’s so hard. I’m already sick, and now my heart is… Waaah.”

He thought about saying she looked like his deceased mother, but he felt bad pretending his mother, who wasn’t even dead, was dead.

More than that, he thought they might not change her if she resembled his deceased mother, saying it would be good to build a stronger bond.

“Hahaha. Is that so? Well, okay. Haha.”

But the professor thought it was Sang-gil’s joke and started laughing without a clue.

Then all the junior doctors standing behind him chuckled softly.

‘Don’t laugh, geniuses. I’m serious.’

It’s been two days since I was admitted.

I haven’t even seen Goo So-jung’s face yet.

* * *

-Hello?

“Hello. This is Attorney Cha Joo-han.”

-Ah, Attorney. How have you been?

Kim Seong-woo’s voice, which was full of wariness when he first saw me, was now bright, as if he recognized me as an ally.

It was fortunate that it was a phone call.

If we were face to face, I wouldn’t have been able to hide my stiff expression.

“I’ve been well, thanks to you.”

-Thanks to me, haha. Anyway, what brings you here? Do you have more questions?

“No, I don’t have any specific questions for you right now. I’d like to meet Nurse Goo So-jung.”

-Nurse Goo So-jung?

Kim Seong-woo answered in surprise, but soon relaxed and quickly added.

-Well, it’s right to meet the central figure in the case first.

“Yes. I was originally going to meet Nurse Goo So-jung that day, but I happened to run into you and talked to you first. After talking to you, it was past Nurse Goo So-jung’s 퇴근 [quitting work] time, so I just came back.”

-I see. Didn’t Teacher Yang give you Nurse Goo So-jung’s contact information?

“I’m not planning to tell Dong-jin about meeting Nurse Goo So-jung for now.”

-Ah, well, it’s better not to tell him, since Teacher Yang might get his hopes up for no reason.

“Yes.”

I hadn’t really thought of a reason not to tell him, but Kim Seong-woo understood on his own.

‘How grateful I am.’

-I think it would be good to ask Nurse Goo So-jung first and then give you her contact information; would that be okay?

“Yes.”

-Okay. If I say you’re Teacher Yang’s friend, she might not want to meet you…….

“But I have to show some sincerity since I received a favor from a friend… Please tell Nurse Goo So-jung that I want to meet her if possible, since nothing will happen to her.”

-Okay.

I hung up the phone and fiddled with my phone.

No matter how friendly Kim Seong-woo is to me, he’ll probably be annoyed that an outsider keeps stirring up the case, so he’ll try to get me to meet her quickly and get rid of me.

I think he probably contacted Goo So-jung right away.

I should look through the case Kang Min-jae is handling and wait.

“Attorney, you’re a little late today. You’re late, you’re late.”

I hadn’t even turned a few pages when the office door opened.

Kang Min-jae and Manager Oh were coming in with coffees, having finished their lunch.

“I told you in advance.”

“Ah, by the way, Attorney, there’s a part of the case we’re working on where we need your opinion. Could you take a look?”

Manager Oh said, placing a box full of documents on my desk.

We decided to proceed with the case under Kang Min-jae’s jurisdiction for the time being, but they’re asking for my opinion.

I looked at him, wondering if Kang Min-jae would be upset.

“……I’m not sure. Haha.”

Kang Min-jae scratched the back of his head and approached Manager Oh.

“I was roughly grasping the case before Kang Attorney came, but what’s wrong?”

Kang Min-jae, who’s been staking out the office to learn from me, is asking me something he doesn’t know; how can I refuse?

I had no choice but to be caught by Kang Min-jae and read the documents.

It took 3 hours for Kang Min-jae to exclaim with confidence.

I think my mouth is all dry from arguing with Kang Min-jae, who repeatedly refuted every opinion I suggested.

Still, it seems like Kang Min-jae has grown a lot.

Before, he was quick to agree with me no matter what I said, but now he has his own opinions and beliefs.

I sat down at my desk and checked my phone, which I had forgotten about.

A text message had arrived from Kim Seong-woo an hour ago.

[Goo So-jung 010-X XXX-XXXX]

As I expected, Goo So-jung seemed to have let her guard down with Kim Seong-woo and heard that it was okay to meet me.

She answered as soon as I called and immediately said okay when I asked if we could meet today.

She said she was afraid that someone might see her in the area where Myungdae Hospital is located and rumors would be reproduced, so she would come here.

Usually, the person with the errand goes to meet the other person, but her attitude of coming all the way here, not even to an intermediate point, certainly made me suspect that she had received instructions from Kim Seong-woo to meet me and make sure that it was Dong-jin’s doing.

“Ah, hello.”

Since I had received Goo So-jung’s face from Tae-shik in advance, it wasn’t too difficult to recognize her.

She was a very petite person with a kind impression, too much so to have committed the terrible act of causing anaphylaxis in a patient and turning them into a vegetable.

I heard she was 27 years old, but she looked even younger.

Her voice and tone also felt much younger than the average woman in her late 20s.

‘Well, impressions aren’t really that important.’

‘Even among heinous criminals who are often stereotyped as having menacing impressions, there have been cases where people have made lovers throughout their escape with their good looks and received help.’

“Thank you for coming out like this when I contacted you so suddenly.”

“You’re welcome.”

We took a seat in a secluded place, ordered drinks, and sat facing each other.

“Could you tell me in detail about the case you’re aware of?”

“……Right away?”

She asked in surprise, with a straw in her mouth.

“Is something wrong?”

“Ah, no. It’s just that you started talking right after we sat down……”

“Isn’t that the purpose of meeting you?”

“That’s true. Haha. Yes, then… Um, you said you’re Teacher Yang’s friend, so you’ve heard Teacher Yang’s side of the story, right?”

“Yes.”

“The overall content isn’t much different. The only point where my words and Teacher Yang’s words differ is one thing. Teacher Yang thinks he told me to give Moxifloxacin instead of Cephalosporin, but the problem is that I clearly heard Teacher Yang tell me to give Cephalosporin.”

[Lie]

I was worried about what to do if Goo So-jung also got a truth judgment, but it was a needless worry.

If that were the case, it would have ended in a tragic incident caused by each other misunderstanding each other’s words or distorting and remembering what they said and heard.

Goo So-jung deliberately distorted Dong-jin’s order.

The conversations that followed were also not far from what I expected.

The reason why she didn’t raise any objections was that she had been badly burned in similar cases before when she raised objections, so she thought Dong-jin’s words must be right.

“I know how surprised Teacher Yang must have been. He must be very worried about the patient, and I feel bad too.”

She lowered her gaze and said in a small voice.

And the letters that appeared at the moment she said those words were surprisingly [Truth].

She’s the one who put Dong-jin in the mire, but she feels sorry for Dong-jin.

After all, it’s clear that she was forced to do something she didn’t want to do.

Of course, I don’t think I’ll be able to find the timing to ask directly today, but.

“Then, when Dong-jin ordered you to inject Cephalosporin into the patient at the time, was there anyone else in the room besides the patient? A caregiver or family member, for example.”

I had already confirmed with Dong-jin that there was no one, but I asked just in case.

She answered without hesitation.

“There wasn’t.”

[Lie]