OBS Chapter 268 A Summer Tale of Heroic Spirits and Masters 5
Chapter 268 A Summer Tale of Heroic Spirits and Masters 5
"Summer is the peak season for bacterial growth. Invisible bacteria and fungi can multiply on food and clothing..." Wearing a white sun hat, a yellow swimsuit, and holding a megaphone, Nightingale loudly summarized to everyone, "So the most important thing is to kill germs! Hygiene is the prerequisite for all treatment!"
“Indeed,” Ibaraki-dōji nodded repeatedly after Nightingale finished her speech, rubbing her cheek. “My teeth hurt so much in the summer, it must be because I’m not clean enough! Master! You need to clean more diligently!”
The once sharp, wolf-like green eyes of full-time nanny Shuichi Akai now held only the weariness of raising a child. He longed to take out a cigarette, but seeing the enthusiastic head nurse on stage, he ultimately abandoned this dangerous idea.
She'd probably kill it, thinking it was something unhygienic.
"Your toothache has nothing to do with whether it's summer or not," Shuichi Akai coldly commented. "It's simply because you've been eating too much sugar and cold food without restraint. If you keep this up, you'll become the first Heroic Spirit to lose a front tooth."
Just thinking about the candy wrappers and food scraps that Ibaraki-dōji had left all over the house made Shuichi Akai feel exhausted. Why had he been so indulgent towards her in the first place? Heroic Spirits are just a source of hatred!
"Hiss—" Ibaraki-dōji covered his cheek, his pupils dilating in shock, terrified by that horrible future. "I don't want to!"
"Alright, let's go see a doctor first." Shuichi Akai picked up Ibaraki-dōji, who was 147cm tall, and was indeed a dwarf next to Shuichi Akai. "You've had a toothache for a long time, you have to get it treated."
Moreover, whenever he was in pain, he would roll around and set fire to Akai Shuichi's room. Akai Shuichi went from being patient at the beginning to now grabbing Ibaraki-dōji and spanking him when he was angry. His initial fear and vigilance towards Heroic Spirits has been thrown to the wind. I wonder what kind of torment this cool guy has gone through to change his style.
"No! I don't want to see the dentist!" Ibaraki-dōji wiggled his short legs, a hint of fear in his golden eyes. "The wicked dentist will pull out the demon's teeth. I'm a demon, I don't need to see the dentist, ouch..."
In his shouting, Ibaraki-dōji pulled at his cheek again, gasping in pain.
"You have to go see it!" Shuichi Akai wouldn't budge an inch. He didn't want the room to burn down again. He was an FBI agent, paid to work, not printing money!
"No! No! No! That head nurse is scarier than a ghost! No ...
“But you threatened to burn down the other dentists!” Shuichi Akai remained unmoved. He had no other choice. No one could survive after treating Ibaraki-dōji’s teeth, so he could only turn to Nightingale, who was also a Heroic Spirit.
"Has someone arrived? Ah, it's you..." Rei Furuya was overseeing the front desk work, helping people register for treatment. He was also Nightingale's assistant. When he saw Shuichi Akai, his expression changed instantly. "Does an FBI ace need to come for treatment?"
“It wasn’t me.” Akai Hideyoshi said expressionlessly, shaking his right hand, which caused Ibaraki-dōji to shout in dissatisfaction, “It was her.”
Rei Furuya noticed Ibaraki-dōji's long demon horns and then her inhuman demon claws, prompting Ibaraki-dōji to bar her teeth and say, "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a demon before?"
"This is a Heroic Spirit?" Furuya Rei was a little surprised. He had never treated a Heroic Spirit before. Perhaps because he had spent so much time with Nightingale, Furuya Rei had developed a bit of an interest in all sorts of difficult and complicated cases. Ignoring his conflict with Akai Shuichi, he enthusiastically picked up the medical record. "Name, what illness does it require?"
“Her name is Ibaraki-dōji. She had a toothache, but she wouldn’t let me see her. I guess it’s already decayed.” Shuichi Akai was like a worried old father, babbling on and on, not at all like a cool guy. “She’s in pain day and night, especially at night, she can’t sleep at all.”
"But she doesn't want to stop eating snacks and candy, so it's definitely worse now."
"Even Heroic Spirits get toothaches?" Furuya Rei was even more surprised. "I understand." He quickly filled in a few strokes on the medical record book, then tucked it under his arm and lifted the curtain of the makeshift tent behind him.
"come in."
Florence Nightingale, who had just given her speech, sat solemnly inside, her pale red eyes sweeping over: "Are there any patients coming? Rest assured, I will save your life, even if it takes your life, I will not hesitate."
"You're scaring me even more!" Ibaraki-dōji really wanted to escape now. She quickly broke free from Akai Shuichi's grasp and ran away.
Previously, Ibaraki-doji was just using a different kind of coquettishness; otherwise, given Shuichi Akai's human physique, no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't possibly restrain a Heroic Spirit.
"Behave yourself and don't even think about running away! It seems we have no choice but to use force!"
Once it comes to treatment, the head nurse, with an aura of 2.8 meters tall, leaps up, her whole body exuding an aura more like a demon than Ibaraki-doji. How could Ibaraki-doji, with his C-level agility, possibly outrun Nightingale, who has B+ level agility?
Not to mention, once it comes to treatment, even an agility A+ might not be enough to escape the head nurse's clutches. I'm talking about you, sickly swordsman Okita Souji.
Okita Souji: My weakness is a fixed debuff that can't be cured!
"Aaaaaah, don't come any closer! Shuten-dōji, come save me! I don't want her to heal me! Aaaaaah—"
Ibaraki-dōji screamed for help, but was eventually dragged back by the head nurse, who had him tied up.
"what--"
Nightingale turned on her flashlight, gesturing for Ibaraki-dōji to open his mouth.
"what……"
Ibaraki-dōji opened her mouth in despair, allowing Nightingale to examine her oral cavity.
“It’s completely hollowed out.” Nightingale put down her flashlight, her expression serious. “Zero, prepare the surgical consent form. She needs an amputation.”
"Amputation?!" Shuichi Akai was shocked. Could it be that bad?!
“Ahem,” Furuya Rei coughed twice. After spending these days together, he had already understood some of Nightingale’s words. “Miss Nightingale meant that a tooth needed to be pulled.”
As he spoke, Furuya Rei wrote out the surgery form, deliberately filling in a relatively large number in the consultation fee section, and handed it to Akai Shuichi with a smile: "Please sign, and remember to turn left outside to pay the fee."
Although Nightingale really wanted to provide free medical services, surgical equipment and various medical supplies all had costs, so they would still charge a fee, just not a very high one... for people other than Shuichi Akai.
"Oh." Shuichi Akai calmed down again and decisively signed his name on the surgery form. As for Rei Furuya deliberately raising the consultation fee to get revenge on this guy? It doesn't matter. Compared to the damage caused by Ibaraki-Douji, it's nothing.
As long as Ibaraki-doji keeps quiet, what's a little money?
"Waaaaah!!" Ibaraki-dōji protested incoherently with her mouth still open, but no one listened to her.
Once everything was ready, Nightingale changed into her surgical gown, put on silicone gloves, and walked towards Ibaraki-dōji with a blank expression. Her cold, pale red eyes seemed to be considering where to make the incision and how to dismember Ibaraki-dōji.
The beautiful head nurse picked up the forceps.
"You need treatment. Be honest. Pain is proof of life."
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"
Ibaraki-dōji's screams echoed through the sky, even scaring away the seagulls flying overhead.
Shuichi Akai seemed unable to bear the sight of such a horrific scene, and silently... turned his back.
Just don't watch it. The FBI's top agents are very good at covering their tracks.
"The surgery was a great success." Nightingale put down the murder weapon, along with a decayed tooth, which fell into the silver dish.
"My fangs!" Ibaraki-dōji screamed in agony the moment he was freed from his restraints.
Ibaraki-dōji, holding a mirror, stared with a mournful face at the obvious gap in his back teeth: "Waaaaah, Shuten-dōji, my teeth are gone... I'm a toothless demon..."
I feel like the Great Demon of Mount Ooe has completely lost face.
"Your toothache is gone now, isn't it?" Shuichi Akai asked with concern.
"Huh? I don't feel any pain anymore!" Ibaraki-dōji suddenly realized what was happening, and just as he was about to burst out laughing, he saw his own tooth in the surgical tray...
"It's all your fault!" Ibaraki-dōji dared not look at the head nurse who had pulled her teeth, and could only vent her anger on her Master. "I'm going to eat you, bite off your flesh, drink your marrow, and devour you completely! What, are you scared now!"
Ibaraki-dōji was beaming with pride.
"Ah, I'm so scared." Akai Shuu said expressionlessly. To be honest, he had heard this kind of threat hundreds, if not thousands, since Ibaraki-dōji was summoned. At first, he was a little wary, but now he could just listen to her threatening voice and give her a good spanking.
"You also have pica?" Nightingale's eyes flashed. "It seems you need further treatment."
"No, no, no, I was just kidding! I don't eat people, I only eat sweets! You can ask him if you don't believe me!" Ibaraki-dōji was so frightened that he turned pale and quickly explained.
Nightingale looked at Shuichi Akai, who nodded, and the head nurse regretfully gave up.
"Although this treatment is over, we need to restrict her diet daily, especially sweets, and she cannot eat them without restraint..." Nightingale gave Akai Shuichi a long list of medical instructions, and Akai Shuichi nodded repeatedly and took out a small notebook to write them down.
He'd long wanted to stop Ibaraki-dōji from eating so many sweets; otherwise, he couldn't guarantee that this time it wouldn't be a toothache, but next time it might be diabetes. Speaking of which, can Heroic Spirits really get diabetes...? Eh, even cavities can cause diabetes, so naturally they can...
Shuichi Akai shuddered at the thought and quickly told Ibaraki-dōji, "From now on, you can only eat three macarons, or cakes, or candies each day."
Ibaraki-dōji was furious and jumped three feet high: "It is an honor for mere humans to offer tribute to me!"
"If anyone dares to withhold my offerings, I'll eat them..." Sensing the head nurse's suddenly excited gaze, Ibaraki-dōji quickly changed his words, "I'll only eat this much, that's enough, hahahahahaha."
A burst of awkward laughter.
Ibaraki-dōji thought to himself, "Anyway, once we get back, she'll still be in charge. I doubt a mere human would dare to defy me! Hehe, I'm so clever!"
Shuichi Akai knew immediately what kind of trick Ibaraki-dōji was up to, after all, she was a demon herself: "If you eat too many sweets, you'll get cavities, and then you'll have to come and pull your teeth again."
"At that time, you'll really be a toothless ghost."
Ibaraki-dōji's smug expression froze on his face, petrified, shattered.
"Welcome back next time!" Furuya Rei waved goodbye to Akai Shuichi with a smile. Haha, just looking at that guy's face, he could eat two more bowls of rice.
Of course, these emotions come and go quickly.
Seeing that more people had come seeking medical help, Furuya Rei suppressed his smile. As a medical professional, he usually didn't wear a smile.
He spoke to the visitor with kindness rather than gentleness, and without realizing it, he seemed to have become accustomed to this kind of life.
Compared to being a police officer, or even the dark side of this country, this is another way of saving others, and perhaps it is also a way of atoneing for what he did as an undercover agent in the past.
If he could, he would like things to stay this way forever.
……
"Shirou?"
Shiina Mashiro stopped drawing and looked up at Red A.
"Is there a problem?"
Red A lowered his gaze. He seemed to have heard a scream just now? Oh well, it probably had nothing to do with him. There were so many Heroic Spirits on this beach; it wasn't his place to take action, being a second-rate one.
"It's nothing, she's really fair-skinned."
Red A ruffled Shiina Mashiro's hair: "Is this painting finished?"
"Ok!"
Shiina Mashiro turned the sketchbook in her hand over and showed it to Red A. It showed an endless sea and people playing on the beach. Just looking at it could make people smile from the bottom of their hearts.
"What else do you want to draw? Diving, sea fishing, or beach volleyball?" Red A pondered carefully, wondering where these activities were available, since their purpose in coming here was to gather material.
Shiina Mashiro shook her head.
"So what does Mashiro want to draw?" Red A asked gently.
"Shirou." Shiina Mashiro stepped onto the sand, her two delicate white feet rubbing together. She raised her head, her ruby-like eyes looking clearly at Archer. "Let's go play together too."
Red A was somewhat surprised: "Didn't you say you came here to gather inspiration for your paintings?"
Shiina Mashiro tightened her slender white fingers holding the sketchbook: "Because they are not Shirou."
"Eh?"
Shiina Mashiro raised her small face, her usually innocent and expressionless face now flushed slightly, and her red eyes seemed to hold a pool of autumn water.
Perhaps she herself doesn't know what she feels, but she will have the courage to express it.
"I want to draw me and Shirou."
Shiina Mashiro's expression softened, and a slight smile appeared on her lips: "I want to create memories with Shirou, so that I can draw them."
"It's not anyone else, they just want to draw me and Shirou."
So, let's go together.
The blonde girl was as white as a blank sheet of paper, but at this moment, it seemed that some other color had been added to the original pure white.
Red A chuckled, feeling a rare sense of relief, as if his own daughter had grown up.
He took Shiina Mashiro's hand in his, the heat of his palm seeming to burn others.
Mashiro simply held that hand tightly.
"Okay, let's go together."