21st Century Necromancer

In the operating room, Kaji Hideki was performing an appendectomy on Haruka Mifune.

Of course, Kaji Hideki employed the laparoscopic surgery he excelled at, though conventionally, opting for open surgery in cases of suspected appendix cancer would have been the more prudent approach.

But Kaji Hideki, having just returned to the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital’s main branch, needed to stabilize his own position with a brilliant surgery urgently, and reverse his previously unfavorable image due to a botched surgery that led to his assignment in Hokkaido, reestablishing his signature as the Laparoscopic Mage of the General Surgery.

Therefore, knowing full well that laparoscopic surgery would increase the difficulty and risks if the patient was suspected of having appendix cancer, Kaji Hideki, with his years of surgical experience and a daring spirit, still took the risk of using laparoscopic surgery.

Of course, while the surgical risks increased, Kaji Hideki had enough confidence to complete the surgery.

However, at the same time that Kaji Hideki was engaged in the surgery, in the observation room above the operating room, Chen Yu was also leaning on the glass window with his arms crossed, watching the procedure intently.

Chen Yu had naturally heard about the Laparoscopic Mage, Kaji Hideki, from Glasses Doctor, and he was quite curious about his surgical skills.

After all, before Chen Yu and Daimon Michiko came to General Surgery, Kaji Hideki had been touted as the ace and even garnered the nickname Laparoscopic Mage, which clearly indicated his highly exquisite surgical skills. Therefore, Chen Yu really wanted to see for himself just how skilled his surgery was.

It must be said that Kaji Hideki deserves his nickname of Laparoscopic Mage; the proficiency he demonstrated in laparoscopic surgery lived up to such a title. His incisions were precise, the operation proceeded smoothly, his handling of various problems was very decisive and correct, reflecting a very high level of surgical skill. By ordinary standards, he indeed deserved the title of Super Doctor. Enjoy exclusive chapters from NovelBin.Côm

While Chen Yu was watching Kaji Hideki’s surgery, the door to the observation room was suddenly pushed open, and when Chen Yu looked back, he saw Jounouchi Hiromi entering.

"Hiromi? What brings you here?" Chen Yu was somewhat surprised by Jounouchi Hiromi’s appearance.

"I went to your office looking for you, but you weren’t there. Rena said you were in the operating room, so I came over," Jounouchi Hiromi walked up to Chen Yu, looking at the surgery being performed in the room below with quite a bit of curiosity and asked, "What are you watching?"

Chen Yu turned his gaze back to the surgery below and smiled, "Just getting a sense of the surgical skill level of the once ace of General Surgery. I have to say, the title of Laparoscopic Mage is deserved, though the nickname is a bit humorous and juvenile. His skill is certainly not bad. Even I have something to learn from him."

"Really? It seems that this Doctor Kaji is indeed quite skilled!" Hearing what Chen Yu said, Jounouchi Hiromi couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows, becoming curious about Kaji Hideki’s surgical abilities, and so she also began to watch his surgery attentively.

However, while watching Kaji Hideki’s surgery, Jounouchi Hiromi didn’t forget the reason she had come to find Chen Yu, and she asked him, "By the way, Mr. Chen Yu, what was last night’s dinner with Member of Parliament Kanai about? It looked like you were carrying a file folder when you came back, did he give you something?"

In response to Jounouchi Hiromi’s question, Chen Yu naturally did not hide anything and explained to her, "Last night he was just thanking me for curing Nanami. As for the thing I brought back last night, it was simply a gesture of his appreciation."

"A gesture of appreciation? Mr. Chen Yu, do you also accept gifts of appreciation from others? What was it?" Jounouchi Hiromi, curious, glanced at Chen Yu and inquired with considerable interest.

"Didn’t I tell you before that I provided Ryosen-kun with a formula for a Healing Potion? Now, his family’s Kyuuzai Pharmaceuticals has turned that formula into a product. The original Potion is meant for Transcendents, so naturally, there are no issues.

But they’ve developed a civilian version, and if they want to sell it on the market, they must obtain regulatory approval. Among the things that Member of Parliament Kanai gave me last night, one of them was this approval document," Chen Yu simply explained the contents of what he received the night before, emphasizing the establishment of the Regenerative Medicine Research Laboratory: "As for the other approval document for the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory, it’s also based on this Healing Potion and the nerve reconstruction surgery I proposed. Both of these can be included under the category of Regenerative Medicine."

"Regenerative Medicine? This research subject is really a hot project these days! Mr. Chen Yu, what are the benefits for you in getting this approval? It should be just an approval, and you still have to set up the laboratory yourself, right?" Jounouchi Hiromi naturally understood what the approval document was all about.

"Yeah, that’s right," Chen Yu nodded but was not concerned about the fact that the laboratory still required his effort to establish: "There’s no need to worry about the laboratory; Ryosen-kun will handle it. As for funding, Member of Parliament Kanai giving me the approval along with the production license for the Healing Potion is a hint for me to seek support from Kyuuzai Pharmaceuticals. Clearly, though, he doesn’t know that Ryosen-kun is my subordinate."

"You can leave the establishment of the laboratory to Ryosen-kun, but what about the personnel? Even if it’s just a laboratory, you need researchers, right? The hospital’s staff consists solely of doctors and trainee doctors, who may not be able to follow you! And Mr. Chen Yu, do you plan to leave the hospital?" Jounouchi Hiromi’s concerns were not unfounded. If Chen Yu had his own laboratory, he could consider leaving the hospital.

"Shouldn’t these two things be unrelated? Directing the laboratory won’t affect my work at the hospital, isn’t it quite common for professors at University Hospitals to be affiliated with research institutions or to have their own laboratories?" Chen Yu had not considered leaving the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital. He intended to simply have a nominal role in the laboratory: establish the research topics, set the research direction, and the detailed and tedious experimental work could be left to researchers below ground, not requiring his direct involvement.

This was also one of the perks of being a leader; leaders do not need to do everything themselves. What can be delegated should be delegated to subordinates, and one only needs to oversee and steer the overall direction.

In this way, Chen Yu’s work at the hospital naturally would also remain unaffected.

And having such a laboratory to call his own would be much more convenient for Chen Yu, especially when studying content from the "Multiverse Universal Necromancy Spell Compendium." After all, conducting research in the hospital requires formal applications. While Professor Kube had been very supportive, it was still not as convenient as having one’s own laboratory.