Thanks to the support of Yeon Wol and Venus Guild, the situation was nearing a smooth resolution.
Bang─!
Combat Division instructor Kim Dong-hak abruptly threw open the situation room door.
“Who in the world is the overall coordinator of this battle!”
He had just received the report and rushed over. Apparently, there existed here a foolish overall coordinator who had been stripped of command.
“Hiieek…!”
Upon realizing Kim Dong-hak’s arrival, Han Yoomin quickly hid under the desk.
“…”
But that didn’t last long. An operator standing nearby subtly pointed toward the desk.
Kim Dong-hak dragged Han Yoomin out from under the desk and grabbed him by the collar.
“So, it’s you, Han Yoomin.”
“Tea, tea, tea, Instructor…!”
Though Kim Dong-hak wanted nothing more than to punch that vacant face right then and there, he barely managed to restrain himself.
Still, it’s only fair to give him a chance to explain. You never know.
“What exactly happened here?”
Kim Dong-hak glared fiercely at Han Yoomin.
Han Yoomin trembled with fear.
“Ah, I did my best here…! Honestly, the blame entirely lies with that operator who randomly seized the command and Shin Yoon-seong… gak…!”
Puhk─!
As it turned out, there was no such thing as a chance.
Kim Dong-hak immediately threw a punch at Han Yoomin’s mouth.
That man has no qualifications to be an instructor.
Even though the battle had ended, the teaching hospital was still bustling with activity, if anything, it was peak time now.
─A patient transport vehicle number 5 just passed the school gate! Expected to arrive at the emergency room within 3 minutes!
─Oh no! Where did the driver from vehicle 3 go? Contact the technical division office quickly!
─Evacuation team! Is evacuation team 4 available? It’s time to depart!
The emergency room was chaotic. Students busy pulling medical carts and paramedics moving patients were everywhere.
It was almost like a battlefield.
“Senior! Stop this nonsense!”
“Move aside! I’m going myself!”
Meanwhile, on one side of the emergency room, two people were arguing. Choi Soo-eun and her junior.
Choi Soo-eun clearly intended to leave the emergency room at any cost, while her junior was trying to stop her.
A tense tug-of-war was ongoing.
“You’re part of the reception team, not the evacuation team! You should stay here in the emergency room!”
“Can’t you see? There aren’t enough people, so the ambulances can’t depart!”
“If you go on your own, you’ll be punished for unauthorized departure!”
“I don’t care! Right now, what’s more important is getting more people to the field!”
Apparently, the issue was about evacuating the injured.
Currently, many Medical Division students have gone to the field to transport patients. However, there were more casualties than expected, resulting in a shortage of evacuation team personnel.
Choi Soo-eun was raising a fuss, insisting she would go out herself.
“What about the emergency room? If you go, there will be a gap in the reception team!”
“There are plenty of Medical Division students here! There are enough people to take care of patients!”
When an emergency occurs, the Medical Division divides into two teams to perform their duties.
One team goes directly to the battlefield to retrieve injured personnel, known as the Evacuation Team, while the other treats the injured at the emergency room, known as the Reception Team.
By the way, Choi Soo-eun was currently assigned to the Reception Team.
“Still, this is by the hospital director’s order….”
“Hospital director….”
That word made Choi Soo-eun’s mouth twitch, and a shadow crossed her face.
“Have you ever seen me assigned to the evacuation team?”
“Uh? You’ve been assigned to the evacuation team… hmm…”
The duty rotation for the Medical Division works the same way as for the Combat Division’s first-response teams.
For example, if you were assigned to the Evacuation Team last week, this week you would be on the Reception Team, and next week would be off-duty, and so on.
“Thinking about it… you’ve never been on the evacuation team, have you?”
“Never, have I?”
“Yes…”
“Why do you think that is?”
Surprisingly, Choi Soo-eun had not once been assigned to the evacuation team since she enrolled. She had only ever been part of the reception team.
The reason was simple: Choi Soo-eun was the daughter of Minister of Hero Management Choi Chang-hwan.
He was a father who treasured his daughter dearly. He cared for his child so much that he lobbied the hospital director personally.
Basically, he would say, “Please take care of my daughter.”
“So it’s all because of my father.”
“Senior…”
“Sorry, but I have no intention of being some fragile flower in a hothouse!”
Taking advantage of this pause, Choi Soo-eun quickly turned towards the central station, grabbing the ambulance keys there.
Then, she ran towards the parking lot.
“Senior, wait…!”
As Choi Soo-eun left, the junior shouted after her.
“By the way, this car… it has a stick shift!”
But that was no problem for Choi Soo-eun, who confidently got into the driver’s seat of the ambulance.
Then, she rolled down the window and said,
“I may look it, but I have a class 1 driver’s license, you know!”
Because she floored the accelerator, Choi Soo-eun was able to arrive at the scene quickly. She immediately got out of the ambulance and grabbed a first aid kit.
From this point on, she would have to run on foot. The ground was badly distorted, and there were still areas with roaring flames.
It’s inconvenient, but there was no choice.
“Hmm.”
After taking a deep breath, Choi Soo-eun hurriedly moved forward.
To look for the injured who have not yet been evacuated.
─Be careful! Even if they’ve stopped breathing, their nerves might still be alive!
In the distance, the corpse of a monster could be seen. Even fallen, it was of colossal size.
“That’s an A-Rank Monster….”
It was the first time she had seen one with her own eyes. It was nothing short of astonishing. Such an enormous beast must have engaged in a bloody battle, right?
Shin Yoon-seong surely contributed significantly to defeating that monster.
“….”
Rather, is Shin Yoon-seong alright? When she was in the emergency room earlier, there was no record of him being evacuated.
If that’s the case, it probably means he hasn’t been severely injured.
“Oh, medic! This is great timing!”
At that moment, a man in a black leather jacket waved his hand vigorously, requesting help.
“There’s an injured person over here. Can you come and check him out?”
The man pointed somewhere with his hand. It was difficult to see who the injured person was due to the terrain upheaval caused by fissures.
“Do you know Shin Yoon-seong? It’s him.”
“Shin Yoon-seong…?”
Upon hearing that name, Choi Soo-eun’s heart plummeted. Soon, her lips started to tremble.
“Ah, don’t worry too much. He’s just lost consciousness for now. There’s no external injury… hey, hold on a moment!”
Before the man finished speaking, Choi Soo-eun turned her body swiftly and sprinted like lightning towards where Shin Yoon-seong was.
“If we don’t get him help quickly…!”
Without any hesitation. Her legs moved instinctively. Choi Soo-eun moved her legs more briskly than ever.
It’s been such a long time since she ran this hard.
“Huff… Huff… Huff…”
Why is that?
Why are my legs moving on their own?
What made Choi Soo-eun so frantic?
This reaction was too intense for merely encountering a typical injured patient.
The emergency room never made her this anxious when dealing with critical patients.
“Please….”
Yes. This is all because of Shin Yoon-seong. Everything about her current state is entirely Shin Yoon-seong’s fault.
At some point, somewhere deep in Choi Soo-eun’s heart, Shin Yoon-seong had taken a deep root. At the beginning of the semester, he didn’t occupy even a tiny space.
It’s truly amazing. In the past, she always found Shin Yoon-seong bothersome, but now she was the one who kept hovering around him.
The heart of a person is truly a hard-to-understand thing.
Clap─!
Choi Soo-eun overcame the obstacles one by one, closing the distance to Shin Yoon-seong.
There he is. As the man in the leather jacket had mentioned, she could now see Shin Yoon-seong.
“Uh….”
However,
Shin Yoon-seong was not alone.
Someone else was with him.
Arna was guarding Shin Yoon-seong.
Choi Soo-eun momentarily stopped her steps. From a distance, she quietly observed Arna.
“…”
Arna was sitting on the dusty ground. She had Shin Yoon-seong’s head cradled on her knees.
In that position, Arna gently stroked Shin Yoon-seong’s head, with a heartrending gaze.
It was like a scene from a painting. It seemed disrespectful to approach them hastily.
Unconsciously, Choi Soo-eun muttered to herself,
“Don’t touch him…”
Hmm. What was that just now? Was that something I said to Arna?
Why? If I keep this up, it would seem that I hate Arna.
I don’t feel any particular emotions towards Arna at all…
“Could it be… that I’m feeling jealousy?”
Choi Soo-eun placed her hand over her chest gently.
Her heart was cold.
