Alluring red
Ep.01.2 • The Curse of the 95th Mort Day
[This content is a fictitious work of fiction and is not factual.]
The sun, which had been hiding between the colorful lights, rose.
As the day dawned, I poured myself a cup of coffee from the coffee machine. I looked out at the peaceful and deserted road, almost to the point where I wondered if yesterday was really Mort Day. I took a sip of the finished coffee.
Jiying-
The phone on my desk rang. The caller was Nurse Kim.
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-"hello."
-“......”
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-"Hello? Please speak."
-“......”
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-"....Nurse Kim..?"
-“......”
-"...professor..."
After several questions and no answer, the voice that came out was trembling seriously.
A wet voice and a chaotic atmosphere over the phone
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-“What’s wrong?”
-"...I think you should come to the hybrid room quickly..."
*Hybrid Room: A place to receive emergency patients
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-"Okay, first, please remain calm and brief me on the patient's condition."
Nurse Kim, who never loses her composure in most situations, gasped for breath instead of briefing, and Yeoju realized the seriousness of the situation.
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-"I'll be down soon, so take good care of the patient."
The heroine put the coffee she was holding down on the desk and ran.
When I came down, the emergency room situation was extremely serious.
Patients still in their makeup, perhaps still reeling from yesterday's surgery, were lying in beds, shouting things like, "My arm is broken," "I think I've had a cold," "I'm in more pain, you're in less pain."
There weren't many doctors, and patients kept coming in. The chaos and disorganization made my head spin.
“Teacher, please come to bed number 3!”
“There’s a crack in the 7th bad bone, sir!”
“There’s an emergency patient here-!!”
It's the 14th of June, and it's like this every year, but I never get used to it.
And the corner of the emergency room where there were a lot of people. It was none other than in front of the hybrid room.
He approached people who were talking nonsense like they were monkeys, without any consideration for patients who needed absolute rest.
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"Please step aside and return to your seats. Is the hospital a zoo?"
Only after she returned to her seat one by one at her dignified words was she able to enter the hybrid room.
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“Sorry I’m late, what patient are you?”
Outside, the doctors were standing around a patient covered in a white blanket in a bleak atmosphere, doing nothing.
As she entered, all the doctors gave space next to the patient's head.
As if that place had to be the female protagonist's place.
The heroine rolled her eyes at the unknown situation, carefully threw off the blanket, and then sat down with a thud.
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“... What is it...”
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"....What is it...? Why... Why Sojeong..."
Pale skin formed by a skeletal frame, no different from the skeletal mannequin in her examination room, but she could tell that the patient was Yoon So-jeong.
A pearl necklace with a red ruby was hanging around her neck.
The other doctors could tell, too. So-jeong had always bragged about the necklace Yeo-ju had given her, so there was no way they wouldn't know.
Beep be ...
The eerie mechanical sound that had been inaudible since it came in suddenly finally reached the female protagonist's ears.
She closed her ears to the reality she wanted to deny, and her colleagues, who first saw her broken figure, were shocked, but they pulled out the machine code for her.
When no one can dare to speak and only silence remains,
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"...Patient Yoon So-jeong passed away at 8:34 AM on June 14th."
The heroine's voice, without any ups or downs, penetrated the silence.
Before she was Woo Yeo-ju, Yoon So-jung's friend, she was Woo Yeo-ju, a doctor at Daehan Hospital, so she had to let go of Yoon So-jung, the patient who was in eternal sleep in front of her.
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“....The cause of death was excessive bleeding.”
This year, another victim of the Mortday curse has fallen victim. The 95th victim has been sacrificed.
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"There are a lot of patients outside. Let's go out quickly. Professor Woo, please stay here."
Giving her some alone time was the only comfort and consideration her colleagues could give her.
Everyone left, and only the doctor was left with his eyes fixed on the patient lying motionless on the bed.
The doctor stared at the necklace around the patient's neck.
The white pearls were so blood-tinged that the red ruby was indistinguishable from the pearls. It was the only red blood visible in the pale patient.
The doctor lifted the necklace and checked the neck.
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“......”
There were two small and large holes in the neck. They were neither animal's nor human's, just ordinary holes.
A singularity was discovered 95 years after the curse began.
Until now, those who became wealth were immediately incinerated, claiming they bore the curse of the god of death. This was a long-standing custom.
However, thanks to the limited time given to Woo Yeo-ju, an elite doctor at Daehan Hospital, and her friend, Dr. Yoon So-jeong, I was able to discover the first characteristic.
And this becomes the medium through which the main characters of the story meet.
+Due to the story's development, the male protagonist will not appear for the time being. Please keep this in mind when watching.
+Please be patient even if it's a little boring😞