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Doctor of the Demon World Chapter 1

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Light flashed.

s.h.i.+-Hyeok grimaced instinctively.

He wondered who had turned on the lights when he had been sleeping well. Even if it wasn’t so, because he had to take over intern duties, his eyes had just closed at 5 AM.

He opened his eyes.

Was about to go on a bout and lash out, but he saw strange things.

“Huh?”

s.h.i.+-Hyeok looked at his surroundings with a puzzled expression.

Now, it was not the intern quarters where he had fallen asleep but outside.

The dim, black sky was the very first thing that entered his eyes. White light was whirling in the sky like a pattern, but curious, golden-yellow letters were floating within.

Besides that, the sky was slightly strange. It wasn’t endlessly laid out like the Earth’s, but it was somewhat bent as if it was inside an enormous dome.

The only strange thing wasn’t the sky.

The state of everything in his surroundings surpa.s.sed s.h.i.+-Hyeok’s common sense.

First of all, the buildings.

They were a very strange shape. Like in a movie scene set in middle-age Europe, there were spiky towers and walls in place surrounding the area. Shabby buildings made from wood were also visible here and there. And, like that, behind s.h.i.+-Hyeok’s back stood a giant statue.

Loud sound could be heard from all directions. Wondering what it was, he saw people fiercely fighting demons.

Wearing armor made of iron, people equipped with swords and bucklers.

Arrows were shot blindly from the neighboring tower. As the arrows cut the air, they flew over the ramparts. Every time they were pierced by an arrow the monsters let out a horrible shriek.

s.h.i.+-Hyeok stood like a nail hammered into wood and gazed at the spectacle before him.

‘Am I dreaming?’

As to those are armed people, let’s leave it at that. Since there are people who use pre-modern weapons among occasional rare special ability users.

Then what the heck are those monsters?

A small demon wrapped in flames.

Its height at best was not even one meter. A gaunt body with red skin, it possessed cruel canine teeth. It had a misshapen face, and it was holding a three-p.r.o.nged spear with thin arms. It had a tail with an inverted-triangle protrusion, and occasionally the end of the tail sent out a trail of flames.

The armed people were bit by bit pushed back by the demons. They were leaning up against the ramparts and barely holding out.

The spectacle outright had no reality to it.

It was like dreaming, and also as if watching a movie.

As he was blankly standing, somebody thumped him on his back.

“You there! If you were summoned, you should join in the battle. What are you doing? You can’t wait for every single order! When you become a medic, you have to take initiative!”

“Urk!”

The force he was. .h.i.t with was enough to make his eyes tear up.

s.h.i.+-Hyeok turned to look at the person who had hit him. He had been about to say something, but the moment he saw him his energy died.

With a height over two meters, he was a man with rugged muscles over his entire body. His entire body was protected with snugly fitting armor, and his two eyes were burning brightly like a tiger’s. Whether it was because there was a difference of two heads with s.h.i.+-Hyeok’s height of 170 centimeters, it was hard to look at him firmly.

Something was emitting a peculiar energy. As soon as that energy stimulated s.h.i.+-Hyeok’s body, strangely a confidence with unknown base rose quickly in his mind.

When he doubted this sensation within his heart, the man changed his expression.

“h.e.l.l, I considered it, but are you new?”

“What does that…..”

“d.a.m.n! Why is the front line like this today? Follow me! I’ll show ya what to do!”

The man grasped s.h.i.+-Hyeok and dragged him away.

He quite didn’t know his strength. Like a kitten carried by its mother by the scruff, s.h.i.+-Hyeok could not put up any resistance.

The place the man had taken s.h.i.+-Hyeok to was a tent far from the ramparts.

“Urghh……”

“It hurts so much!”

“Kill me instead!”

The tent was falling in on itself, but several wounded were lying inside moaning.

It was a gruesome scene.

In comparison, amputated arms and legs were child’s play. He could see someone whose lower body was completely gone. One person had a body burned completely black.

Whether it was because his skin was so burnt that he couldn’t feel his agony, the man was grinning, but the smile instead gave off an uncanny feeling.

s.h.i.+-Hyeok swallowed his saliva as he looked at these people.

The rancid smell of blood. Even the smell of burning meat hung in the air. Automatically, a nauseous feeling seized him, and he began to feel like throwing up.

The man pushed s.h.i.+-Hyeok forward. He shouted, ignoring s.h.i.+-Hyeok’s reactions.

“Treat them, quickly!”

Do what?

Filled with questions, s.h.i.+-Hyeok looked at the man.

The man beat his chest in frustration.

“There’s no time! If you’re a doctor too, didn’t you learn medicine in your own world? Help the wounded with that! Then, whatever the injury, they will be healed, and they can be thrown back into the battle!”

It was crazy.

No matter how he looked at it, the wounded inside the tent seemed to be on the verge of death.

They were people that were to have gone immediately to the emergency room if it was Earth.

Save those people?

Impossible.

The moment s.h.i.+-Hyeok was about to shake his head, the man yelled.

“Don’t judge this world by the laws of your world! Just treat them with the medicine you have learned! Then everything will return to rationality!”

Rationality?

s.h.i.+-Hyeok looked at the man with eyes of cold distrust.

In all rationality, it seemed like those people over there were just going to die.

Since the man had been insisting so strongly, he first went to the wounded. Seeing them up close, a sigh came out automatically.

“Huu-u, I don’t even have acupuncture needles or anything so what does he expect me to do……huh?”

At that moment, he felt something in his left hand.

He felt several metallic objects.

Reflexively, he looked down at his left hand, but he witnessed something unbelievable.

Several long, thin metallic objects were held in his left hand.

Even just a moment ago there was definitely nothing there. But these things had appeared out of thin air.

A very familiar feeling for s.h.i.+-Hyeok.

These thin (acupuncture) needles.

And among acupuncture needles, these were the kind that were as fine as hair on one side and slightly thicker on the other so as to be comfortable to handle, just as s.h.i.+-Hyeok remembered.