21st Century Necromancer

Although Nanami initially had an attitude that all doctors were charlatans, once she began to trust Chen Yu, she cooperated very well with various examinations and some basic healing.

It was clear she very much hoped that Chen Yu could cure her.

However, perhaps due to some of the negative impacts of her lower body paralysis, Nanami often acted like a child. Not only did her speech have peculiarities, but she also tended to be clingy, especially around Chen Yu, behaving like a little girl who couldn't bear to be away from adults. One couldn't tell at all that she was already sixteen years old.

This was actually a manifestation of subconscious self-protection. After the accident, Nanami's heart was filled with fear, and she hoped to escape it all. To her, her parents were her haven, her warm harbor, so subconsciously, Nanami sought the shelter of her parents.

Plus, the various experiences she had after the accident made her yearn to return to the age of childhood, which was free of pain. Thus, the childishness that Nanami displayed was at odds with her age because she was instinctively avoiding everything that happened as she grew up.

Although she tended that way, Nanami's problem wasn't serious. Even though Chen Yu was not a psychologist, he could see that as long as he could cure Nanami's lower limb paralysis and help her stand up again, these issues might resolve without the need for a psychologist.

Of course, as a responsible attending physician, Chen Yu still clearly explained this issue to Kosuke Kanai, and after obtaining his permission, contacted a psychologist to come and provide auxiliary treatment and guide Nanami through her psychological issues.

However, Nanami was clearly still very mistrustful of other doctors, always maintaining a defensive attitude. She would only show a certain degree of cooperation when Chen Yu was present. This made the psychologist who came to help feel somewhat helpless and frustrated, so the task of guiding Nanami through her psychological issues also ended up on Chen Yu's shoulders.

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Psychological guidance is really just conversation, but as Chen Yu engaged in these talks with Nanami, he distinctly noticed that Nanami seemed to become more and more dependent on him.

That inevitably made Chen Yu feel somewhat embarrassed because, after all, he was just a doctor. While on one hand, it's necessary for patients to trust him, on the other hand, it's not appropriate for doctors to become too intimate with their patients.

Like the previous incident between Doctor Higashiyama and Hanayama Mikie—although everyone wished him well in finding his other half very kindly, from the standpoint of medical ethics, what Doctor Higashiyama did was actually quite problematic.

By comparison, Hanayama Mikie was an adult. She knew what she was doing, understood her own feelings, and even though she had a fondness for her attending physician, as an adult, that was her choice. Others couldn't say much about it; at most they could criticize Doctor Higashiyama for not adhering to the medical ethics expected of him.

But Nanami was different, she was just a sixteen-year-old child. Although according to Japanese law sixteen is already the age at which one can marry, the prerequisite was that it required parents or guardians' signatures. Thinking of Nanami's father who would be the next Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Chen Yu instinctively didn't want to provoke such unnecessary trouble.@@novelbin@@

"So, Mr. Chen Yu, are you hoping that during Miss Kanai's hospital stay, I'll appear with you as much as possible in front of her, to dispel any thoughts she shouldn't have?" Upon hearing what Chen Yu explained to her, Jounouchi Hiromi couldn't help but laugh in a weird way, her eyes carrying a teasing and mischievous look as she watched him.

"Hiromi, you surely wouldn't want me to be entangled by a sixteen-year-old girl, right?" Chen Yu said with a wry smile as he looked at Jounouchi Hiromi, how could he not see that his fiancée was taking pleasure in his predicament.

Jounouchi Hiromi shrugged indifferently, her eyebrows raised as she chuckled, "I don't mind at all. That sixteen-year-old girl broke her leg, and now is the time she needs reliance. Weren't you enjoying playing the heartwarming big brother before? Now that the girl is clinging to you, are you regretting it?"

"What are you saying, Hiromi! When she already didn't trust doctors, I had to first gain her trust so that she could cooperate with the healing, only then could she be cured!" Chen Yu immediately felt more wronged than Dou E as he complained to Jounouchi Hiromi, "Who knew she would develop a dependency on me! And I'm not asking you to do anything, just to make her understand that I already have a girlfriend, and she shouldn't be thinking about anything unnecessary."

Hearing Chen Yu say this, the smile on Jounouchi Hiromi's face deepened, "That's what you think, but that's not what the little girl is thinking! I understand these young girls' minds better than anyone. If she has truly set her sights on you, she's going to throw herself at you without caring about anything else.

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Speaking of which, isn't this a good thing for you, Mr. Chen Yu? She is, after all, the daughter of the next Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Marrying her could mean you could work twenty years less. Mmm hmm, so you better hurry and deceive the young girl into your hands. I, who neither have status nor background, certainly can't help you work twenty years less."

"Heh heh!" Chen Yu gave a cold laugh with a dead-fish-eye expression and raised his hand to pinch Jounouchi Hiromi's cheek, "My dear Blood Knight Miss, do you think I, a Necromancer, care about so-called twenty years less of struggle? Or do you think I lack the support of a Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare?"

"Let go~!" Jounouchi Hiromi slapped away Chen Yu's hand that was pinching her cheek, rubbed her face before continuing, "She's a Cabinet member, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare is the highest administrator of the national medical industry. Marrying the daughter of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is something every doctor dreams of, right? It would save you a lot of trouble, wouldn't it, Mr. Chen Yu?"

"Trouble is the reality! If she were twenty-six instead of sixteen, what you're saying might be possible. But at sixteen..." Chen Yu shook his head, his expression becoming quite peculiar, "Although Japanese law allows marriage, I currently hold Chinese nationality, and such an act in China could lead to jail time, with severe cases even punishable by death. I really don't want to engage in such a misleading act. Besides, I already have a fiancée, don't I?"

Upon hearing what Chen Yu said, Jounouchi Hiromi finally showed a happy smile and kissed Chen Yu's face, "At least you say the right things."

While the two were talking, a young nurse suddenly ran over and spoke to Jounouchi Hiromi, "Doctor Jounouchi, Mr. Hamada in the general ward is suddenly experiencing chest pains and coughing up blood, he is suspected of having an acute pulmonary embolism!"