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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Teottry
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“Rabbit. You’re going to die in three days.”
“What?”
The Doctor spoke in a calm voice after checking the test results.
But unlike her calm voice, the content she recited was so absurd that I could only ask back stupidly.
Regarding my question, the Doctor kindly explained in detail what she meant by “you’re going to die in three days.”
“You’re going to die. Your insides are a complete mess. Because two opposing energies are constantly clashing inside your body, you’re not healing, and if this continues, the internal bleeding will get worse, and you’ll die after vomiting up dozens of liters of blood in three days. I’m certain.”
I was momentarily flustered by the emotionless verdict she delivered with a straight face, but I forced a laugh and denied reality.
“Ha, haha! It’s been a while since we’ve seen each other, Doctor, but I don’t think such a nasty joke is funny! Phew, I almost fell for it! Oh my~~~.”
“Huh…”
But what came back to me was the Doctor’s unchanging face and the gut feeling that I was fucked. My back was already soaked in a cold sweat.
I hesitated for a moment and then, one more time, asked the Doctor to confirm the truth.
“For real?”
The Doctor nodded, confirming that everything she had said was true.
“For real.”
“No way.”
For fuck’s sake, holy shit. That wasn’t a power-up, it was a death flag?
After putting Scarlet to bed at her mansion and Lapi, who didn’t know her way home, on the makeshift rest bed in the search team leader’s office (it was called a makeshift bed, but it was incredibly comfortable because she had splurged her own money on it), I immediately went to find the Doctor.
Vomiting smelly, black blood was one of the typical symptoms of metamorphosis, where the body is reconstructed into a perfect state.
To be able to use blue and red sparks that I had never seen before, and to even show symptoms of metamorphosis, which could be called the top tier of power-ups, made my heart pound beyond just beating fast.
‘Am I finally getting stronger! Am I finally breaking free from this peculiar constitution of being an Awakener who can’t use mana and can’t escape F-rank, damn it!’
I shouted in my heart and headed to the Doctor’s lab with a light step.
And so, I asked the Doctor, who resides in the lab about 365 days a year, to give me a full-body examination out of the blue, and the result of the examination was a terminal diagnosis.
And it wasn’t a six-month or three-month terminal diagnosis, but a fucking short one of only three days.
My body couldn’t help but tremble like an aspen tree in a typhoon at the thought of my ridiculously short remaining life, which was less than a sick leave for a new soldier.
“Is there no other way? Do I really have to die like this?”
With death right in front of me, my voice naturally became watery.
If the Doctor said I was going to die, and even added “for real” to it, then I was really going to die.
The Doctor would say she could do almost anything, but for things she couldn’t do, she would admit it without even a shred of lingering attachment.
So, although I asked, clutching at straws, there was probably no way to avoid my confirmed death.
Still, it’s good that I lost my virginity before I go. If I had known, I would’ve just cum inside her and done whatever I wanted, fuck… No, no. In the first place, this happened because I came inside her. I should’ve just run straight to the Doctor and asked her to do something when my body heated up, instead of trying some folk remedy. Fucking hell, I messed up!
Even the terrible fate of marrying Scarlet was better than dying. Facing death, I was sure. It’s better to live, even if it’s in a pile of shit.
But it was too late by the time I realized that. I was destined to die, and regretting what I had already done was the most foolish thing in the world.
So, I decided to just think about how to spend my remaining three days meaningfully.
What should I do for three days? Should I write a will? Would it be better to tell Scarlet? She might apologize then. If Scarlet knew I was going to die, she would definitely weep. Sobbing her eyes out, she might say, ‘I’m sorry, Fasterrr. Don’t die! Don’t die! Please… I’ll apologize as many times as you want. I’ll apologize, so please don’t die!’ If I could actually see that scene, dying might not be so bad… No, still, for fuck’s sake, living is much better than dying.
As I was thinking that and deciding what to do for the next three days, the Doctor’s questioning voice broke through my stray thoughts.
“Hmm? No. You can just go to Ia Aris and get treated. Of course, the fundamental problem won’t be solved unless you do something about those two energies in your body.”
“Huh. Will that work? You said I was going to die.”
“I said you would die if you left it as is. I never said you would just die. In the first place, if Rabbit was really about to die, do you think I could be this calm?”
Honestly, I think the Doctor would be just as calm as she is now even if I were really on the verge of death.
Even if I thought so, nothing good would come from saying it out loud. So I just laughed and nodded my head.
“Y-You’re right. Haha! The Doctor is always a cold and rational person, but to the men she likes, she’s warm and full of humanity!”
“Hehe. That’s right. I do tend to be full of humanity towards our Rabbit. But Rabbit. Speaking of humanity, why are the manas of Scarlet Rate and Lapis Julie mixed in your body?”
The Doctor asked me, her eyes remaining as dull as a dead fish’s, with only her mouth smiling.
What came out of her mouth was clearly a question, but it wasn’t a question asked because she didn’t know the answer.
It was a fucking nasty question, asked because she knew everything and was curious to see how I would react.
“Y-Yes?”
“I’m asking what the hell you did to have the manas of two S-rank Awakeners lingering in your body.”
The moment I heard that question, my body began to tremble.
“Th-Th-That is. So… uh, uh?”
What is this? Why is my body trembling? Why is my heart pounding? And why am I out of breath?
Just from hearing the question, my body reacted as if it were in extreme fear.
I, who would now only flinch slightly in the face of an S-rank Awakener’s anger and not feel such anxiety and fear, couldn’t make sense of my body reacting so strangely just from a single question from the Doctor, a non-combatant.
It was also strange that, unlike my trembling body, my mind didn’t feel particularly afraid.
Wait… could this be.
I placed a hand on my strangely trembling chest and then used Rabbit Burrow to run a white spark through my entire body.
At the same time, my body flickered white. Only when I moved to the seat next to me, aware only of my original body and clothes, did the crazy trembling finally stop.
As I thought. So that’s what it was.
I furrowed my brow slightly and glared at the Doctor.
The Doctor subtly averted her eyes, and that cautious movement confirmed that she was the culprit.
I spoke in a tone one level lower than usual, even mentioning the Doctor’s name, which she disliked being called, and asked seriously.
“Eme, should I be angry?”
“Ah, no. Rabbit being angry is cute, but I don’t like it when you’re angry at me.”
As expected, the reason my body was suddenly trembling as if I were about to die of anxiety was the Doctor’s doing.
She must have injected something when she pricked me with the needle to draw blood earlier.
Seeing the symptoms of my body trembling, my breath shortening, and my heart pounding, it seemed she had developed the ‘drug that suddenly makes you feel afraid of the other person and confess everything you have and don’t have’, which she had mentioned in passing before.
But why the fuck would you use it on me? Without my consent.
This wasn’t the first or second time the Doctor had done something like this, but it was just as infuriating every time.
“Then why do you do things that make me angry? I told you to at least give me a heads-up when you do things like this.”
“B-But. If I give you a heads-up first, the experimental effect might decrease. The effect of drugs related to the psyche changes depending on the subject’s awareness…”
“Eme, is that what you should be saying right now?”
“Ah, no. No, it’s not. This is just TMI. But Rabbit, do I really have to say that to you? At my age, saying that to a younger man is a little embarrassing, even for me, who is known for being shameless.”
Embarrassing in this situation. Hearing that suddenly made me pissed off.
Why are they all so reluctant to say that one simple phrase?
The more this kind of situation repeated, the more Lapi, who had sincerely apologized and asked for my forgiveness, was being re-evaluated in my mind.
Both the Doctor and Scarlet were a problem because of their fucking strong pride.
I knew they were at the top of their respective fields, so their confidence and pride were sky high, but that was no reason not to apologize for their mistakes.
I wanted to remind the Doctor of that once again and get really angry at her, but she was my benefactor.
The grace I had received from her was immeasurable, so I couldn’t perform the womb electro shock on the Doctor as I had on Scarlet and Lapi.
So all I could do was just leave.
“If you don’t want to, then don’t. I’ll just not listen.”
I threw a farewell to her in a sharper tone than I had intended and turned my back on the Doctor to go get my messed-up body treated.
Then, from behind me, I heard the Doctor’s uncharacteristically urgent voice and footsteps, and a small hand grabbed the edge of my clothes.
“Ah, no! Rabbit, no! I’ll do it! I’ll do it! I’ll even upload a 10-minute apology video with a black thumbnail and ‘I’m sorry.’ written in white in the center! Stop! Stop walking out of the lab with a pissed-off stride!”
The Doctor, flustered, spat out incomprehensible words like a machine gun, but in the end, to sum it of it was that she would apologize to me.
If she’s going to apologize, I should accept it.
I turned my back again to face the Doctor and, with a single nod of my chin, demanded her apology.
The Doctor fidgeted with her hands hidden in her sleeves, then finally put her hands in front of her navel, bowed her waist, and sincerely apologized.
“I’m sorry for experimenting on Rabbit, who is much younger than me, with ‘Horror Special! Confess Everything!’ without any prior notice. Actually, I was going to tell you first, but because the manas of Scarlet Rate and Lapis Julie were detected simultaneously in Rabbit’s body, various assumptions about why the manas of those two people were in Rabbit’s body flashed through my mind, and because of that, I got annoyed and impulsively did it. I’m sorry.”
There were a few things that shouldn’t have been in an apology, but still, it was a huge improvement compared to the first apology the Doctor had ever given me.
I don’t remember why I was angry, but I do remember the Doctor, sweating profusely, saying, ‘N-Next time, I’ll try to go through the procedure of trying to make sure this doesn’t happen.’
Anyway, it was a pretty good apology, on a completely different level from the messy apology back then, so I nodded my head and forgave her.
“Hmm, it’s not a 100 point apology, but I can feel your sincerity. Okay, I’ll accept it. Don’t do it again next time… you’re going to keep doing it, aren’t you?”
“Yes.”
The nerve of her to say yes.
But this was the Doctor. An extreme efficiency freak who didn’t tell unnecessary lies. I knew that side of the Doctor, so I wasn’t surprised and nodded my head.
“Okay. Then just give me a heads-up. If you do this again next time, I’m really not going to see you for a week.”
“That’s a bit much. Okay. I’ll be sure to inform you of the medication next time. That’s good enough, right?”
“Honestly, I wish you would ask if it’s okay before you medicate me… but well, I guess I have to be satisfied with that.”
“That’s right, Rabbit. Anything more than that would have been over the top.”
The Doctor had regained her usual, extremely shameless demeanor already. That side of her was very annoying, but it was also one of the Doctor’s charms.
She hates people she dislikes unconditionally, but she loves people she likes very much….. It’s a bit of a sea squirt-like charm.
I was a case of disliking her at first and then coming to like her, so I chuckled and patted the Doctor’s small shoulder to end this commotion.
“Never lets someone else have the last word. Anyway, can I go and get treated now?”
“Hmm? Oh, yes. Now that you don’t have any bad feelings towards me, you can go. Stop by again after you get treated. I’ll be sure to hear about why the manas of Scarlet Rate and Lapis Julie are mixed in your body then.”
Hmm… I wonder if it’s the right thing to say that this happened because I touched their womb tattoos after having sex with them.
Still, I feel like I can tell the Doctor. The Doctor, one way or another, was someone who had helped me a lot.
Maybe she’ll even awaken the true potential of this new colored spark? Maybe she’ll even create a cool attack skill like Firebolt or Icebolt for me??
With such delusions, I left the lab to meet Ia Aris.
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-Woooong. Thump!
The thick lab door closed, and Eme, who had confirmed that Faster had left, checked the test results she had put in the inner pocket of her lab coat once again.
“This is not good. This is…”
At the end of Eme’s gaze, who was muttering with a furrowed brow, were the words ‘Extreme Yang, Extreme Yin’ filled in the mana characteristic column.
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