21st Century Necromancer

Although various things happen every day, no matter how busy work is, there always comes a time to clock out.

Having finished a day's work, Chen Yu packed up his stuff and, after saying goodbye to his assistant Shirai Rena, left his office to meet Jounouchi Hiromi so they could go home together.

Today, Jounouchi Hiromi didn't need to work overtime, so she could leave with him on time.

However, when Chen Yu arrived at the General Surgery office, he didn't see Jounouchi Hiromi.

Chen Yu found this odd. Before he had left the office, he had called Jounouchi Hiromi, who had said she had just finished her work and could leave for the day soon, so why wasn't she here?

"Where did Hiromi go? Has she left already?" Chen Yu asked the Glasses Doctor sitting next to Jounouchi Hiromi's desk.

When the Glasses Doctor saw Chen Yu inquiring, he hurriedly replied, "Professor, Doctor Jounouchi is in the emergency room. A stabbing victim came in with multiple wounds and needed immediate treatment, so Doctor Jounouchi was called to assist."

"Stabbed multiple times? Which emergency room?" Hearing this from the Glasses Doctor, Chen Yu frowned. Although healing the sick and injured was a doctor's sacred duty, facing such incidents when off-duty was still depressing.

"The third emergency room!" The Glasses Doctor quickly responded, having heard the nurse call for help earlier. Enjoy exclusive adventures from My Virtual Library Empire

After getting the information he needed, Chen Yu nodded at the Glasses Doctor and quickly headed to the third emergency room.

When Chen Yu arrived at the third emergency room, he expected to see a hectic scene of lifesaving efforts and bloodshed, but what he saw was entirely different from what he'd imagined.

Jounouchi Hiromi was suturing a patient's wound with surgical clamps. Indeed, the victim had been stabbed several times, but the wounds didn't seem to bleed much, and the room was remarkably clean—even the blood bag hanging on the side hadn't been used.

Chen Yu first thought it was Jounouchi Hiromi preventing the victim's blood from spilling out, but he felt no fluctuation of a spell, which seemed even more peculiar.

Though the resuscitation was still underway, neither Jounouchi Hiromi, who was suturing, nor the assisting nurse showed any signs of tension; on the contrary, they both appeared calm and collected.

"Hiromi, what's going on here?" Confused, Chen Yu asked Jounouchi Hiromi. Not wanting to disrupt her work, he didn't approach her but stood at the entrance to the emergency room.

"Chen Yu, you're here?" After hearing Chen Yu's voice, Jounouchi Hiromi glanced up at him, then returned her gaze to her work, tightened the stitch with the surgical clamp, and cut off the knot, "It's nothing serious. This guy was caught cheating by his girlfriend, who stabbed him a few times. The assailant was quite professional, avoiding organs and major blood vessels. Though it looks like he was stabbed many times, the wounds are superficial, not affecting any key vessels or organs. Stitching up the wounds will suffice."

"Stabbed multiple times without hitting any organs or blood vessels? That is indeed very professional," Chen Yu remarked, genuinely surprised.

Managing to stab someone multiple times without damaging organs or blood vessels requires a deep familiarity with human anatomy, ensuring all potentially fatal and organ-damaging areas are avoided. Each stab was designed to inflict pain without being lethal.

Aside from surgeons, the only other professionals with such knowledge would likely be forensic pathologists.

Chen Yu had thought he was in for a troublesome major surgery, but it turned out to be a simple matter of suturing wounds. If, as he had initially assumed, the victim had suffered vascular or organ injuries, the situation would have been much more complicated, not just a case of stitching up the wounds and calling it done.

The victim had several cuts on the abdomen, looking like small mouths opened on the stomach. Chen Yu could tell that if the cuts had been a few millimeters deeper, the victim's pancreas, liver, colon, and intestines would have been injured, possibly even severed. In such a case, an abdominal surgery would have been required, which is not something that could be resolved in a few hours, and the victim may not have survived.

After assessing the victim's condition and Jounouchi Hiromi's suturing speed, Chen Yu estimated she would finish in about half an hour, so he didn't stay to help or interfere with her work, deciding to wait outside the emergency room for Jounouchi Hiromi.

As Chen Yu stepped out of the emergency room and was about to sit down on the chair by the wall, two policemen who had been waiting there quickly approached him, asking, "Doctor, how is the victim inside doing? Are his injuries severe?"

"The victim is now stable. Was it his girlfriend who stabbed him? Her technique was very precise, missing all vital parts, so suturing the wounds is enough. It's just a minor injury," Chen Yu explained to the two policemen, and curiously asked, "Did you bring him in? That was very timely! Although every stab missed the vital parts, there was still some bleeding. If he hadn't been brought in for immediate treatment, there could have been a significant risk to his life."

Relieved to hear that the victim's life wasn't in danger, the policemen exhaled, grateful the assault case hadn't escalated to murder—a fortunate outcome for the police.

After their moment of relief, the policemen explained the situation to Chen Yu: "The victim's girlfriend, who is also the assailant, called the police. She discovered he was cheating on her with another woman, but didn't confront him at the time. Instead, she drugged his drink with sleeping pills at home. Once he was asleep, she tied him up, woke him, and then stabbed him seven times, letting him suffer for about ten minutes before calling the police herself.

We thought his condition was critical, so we called for an ambulance and sent him here. It's a good thing he's alright; it would've been much busier if this had been a homicide case."

"She called the police herself? Seems like everything was planned by his girlfriend! What does she do for a living? It takes a good deal of anatomical knowledge to ensure seven stabs avoid vital areas, even if the victim was tied up," Chen Yu inquired, curious about what the assailant did professionally.

"His girlfriend should be a female doctor; we saw the weapon she used was a surgical knife when we got there," the policeman provided the answer Chen Yu somewhat expected.