[Three-year Class E] Asagao

Today's Qiannan Emergency Center is still very busy. People in white coats keep walking, starting from the slight sunshine in the morning until sinking into the bottomless night.

The pale building of the hospital was covered with soft brilliance by the sunlight, and the medical helicopter on the side of the tarmac was still quietly covered under the tarpaulin.

It was the end of the night shift, and the woman sitting at the desk after the inspection rubbed her somewhat stiff neck, looked at the electronic clock on the wall, and put down the dedicated tablet computer in her hand.

She took off her name tag from the duty list on the side and put it on the empty seat beside her. As if she remembered something, she turned and told the nurse at the counter: "Nakajima, remember to remind Dr. Takasaki to pay attention to the condition of Mr. Kobayashi in the ICU." , and Ms. Uchida’s chest drainage.”

"Don't worry, Dr. Shinohara, leave it to me." The nurse who raised her head smiled after hearing this, and then waved her hand as a gesture of dismissal, "On duty 26 hours a day, you should go back and have a good rest."

"Well, then I'm leaving." With a wave of her hand, she put down the small walkie-talkie in her hand, turned and entered the dressing room.

She took off the clothes that were stained with a faint smell of disinfectant, and she had already changed into simple casual clothes when she came out.

Xingzhi, who went down to the lobby on the first floor, subconsciously turned to the direction of the coffee machine, but the last remaining rationality pulled her back.

"Ah, I don't have to be on duty today..." Mumbling to herself like this, the woman boarded the bus that just stopped at the station at the door.

Consuming the last trace of clarity in her brain, she took out her mobile phone from her bag.

Great, no missed calls or messages.

Xingzhi, who turned off the screen, rested his head on the glass, and the whole system went into a shutdown state.

Fortunately, the residence is not too far away, and the car arrived at the stop before she fell asleep.

Familiarly repeating the action of entering and locking the door, going straight and turning left, Xingzhi, whose head was planted on the soft quilt, reluctantly took out the still cold mobile phone, pressed the screen a few times to send a routine report to someone Information.

Feeling the familiar vibration, she curled her mouth and turned over, and got into the quilt with peace of mind.

The morning of the holiday was awakened by the sound of boiling outside the window, Xingzhi pushed the quilt on her body and sat up from the double bed.

Touching the phone to check the time, the sudden caller ID surprised her.

While complaining that the other party's timing was really good, he pressed the answer button honestly.

"Good morning." Turning on the speakerphone and putting the phone aside, Xingzhi began to change clothes.

There was a chuckle from the other end: "It sounds like you just woke up."

Due to work reasons, she and Akabane have only been in touch with each other in the past few days, and it is indeed the first time to hear each other's voice after many days.

"Isn't it? After 26 hours in a row, I feel that I may be so close to dying on the spot..." Putting on the sweater, Xingzhi stretched, "By the way, how long will you have this time?"

"Just for this celebration party, I will probably be able to get home today."

"um, I……"

Before he could say anything more, Xingzhi was startled by the loud noise on the other end of the phone: "Ye! What's wrong!"

In the noisy voices, she intermittently distinguished the word "collapse", and her hand on the quilt suddenly tightened: "Ye! Is everything okay over there?"

"I... Xingzhi..."

The call that suddenly lost signal left only the beeping sound echoing in the room, mixed with the woman's own increasingly rapid heartbeat.

There was a feeling of emptiness in her heart, and she was a little out of breath as if she was being grabbed by something.

As a doctor, she didn't let this state dominate her for a long time, Xingzhi immediately grabbed her mobile phone and dialed the number.

But before she made that call, the same number showed up on her screen.

Nurse Nakajima's voice came from the receiver: "Doctor Shinohara? There is an emergency in the nearby area, please come quickly."

Seeing that she didn't seem to respond, Nakajima called her again: "Doctor Shinohara?"

"...Ah, I see, I'll come."

Pressing down his trembling hand, Xingzhi took a few deep breaths, tidied himself hastily, and then rushed to the place where he had only been away for a few hours.

When she returned to the hospital, some wounded who could be transported had already been sent to the hospital. The voice of the senior who was on duty today came from the walkie-talkie that Nurse Nakajima gave her: "Hey Shinohara, can you hear me?"

"Yes, I'm here," she replied, wearing her medical uniform.

"Now we're going to send the doctor to the scene by helicopter. Shinohara, can you take the lead?"

"……I see."

Her voice was calmer than she expected.

After receiving the first aid kit from the nurse next to him, Xingzhi began to run at full speed towards the outer apron.

The propellers that had already started to spin created air waves that messed with her hair, and her beating heart pounded heavily in her chest.

As if in this way, her uneasiness can be suppressed to the bottom.

An intern and a nurse from this issue also rushed to the scene with Xingzhi.

Let them prepare the classification signs and other necessities on the plane first, and she listened quietly to the report from the on-site fire brigade in the earphones.

There must be many people participating in this kind of celebration party, but it is still in the underground new subway station...

From the window of the helicopter, the outline of the new platform can already be seen, as well as the scene of people moving around underneath.

The helicopter turned back to the hospital after putting down the three of them, and the firefighters at the scene immediately came up to guide them.

"Doctor! Come here, please!"

"Doctor Shinohara?"

"...Let's go."

Such a scene would not give her time to think wildly.

The whole space was filled with the smell of dust, mixed with the smell of blood.

The wounded who were brought up first were sorted and placed on the platform on the first floor, and some who couldn't bear the pain let out intermittent cries of pain.

As the firefighters went down to the ground, Xingzhi, who was devoted to the rescue work, felt uneasy when he had time to spare. It was already three hours later.

The action of handing over the patient to another doctor, taking the first aid kit from the other doctor and turning back back was repeated countless times.

Every time she saved a person, her heart sank even more.

But this is not the reason why she can stop.

Xingzhi saw Akabane industry with his own eyes when he transported seriously injured patients back to the hospital for the sixth time.

After the handover in the emergency room, she was about to replenish some medicines and equipment and return to the scene when another stretcher was pushed in.

That crimson color hurt Xingzhi's eyes severely.

The moment I lost contact with them was nearly seven hours apart.

She was at a loss for a moment, and her instinct as a doctor forced her to react quickly.

Following the steps repeated countless times, Xingzhi reported the relevant detailed information of the patient in a volume that everyone around could hear.

Height, weight, age, medical history and drug allergy history...

The colleagues present all paused for a moment, because almost no one has access to so many aspects of information except those who accompany them day and night.

Nurse Nakajima hung up the infusion bag and asked softly, "Is... Dr. Shinohara acquainted?"

"No." The woman who was intubating the tube in her hand answered without raising her head.

"It's my lover."

With the efforts of many parties, the rescue operation was finally completed before dark.

After boarding the last helicopter and returning to the hospital, Xingzhi felt relieved from his tense spirit all day long.

The woman leaning on the back of the chair suddenly felt like returning home.

It wasn't the day when she was on duty. After helping to check a few wards, Xingzhi sat in front of Akabane's hospital bed with a plastic bag from the convenience store downstairs.

The steady sound of the ventilator echoed mechanically in the air.

It's not the first time to see his quiet appearance. As a doctor, she basically wakes up earlier than him during the rare tender time.

But he had never looked so weak before.

It may be because since the time when he broke into her world forcefully, he has always given her that kind of easy-going image, always with such a flamboyant smile.

Sighing, she tore open the package of the rice ball, and quietly held the other's fingertips with one hand.

The ward round in the early morning was not long after Xingzhi woke up. Fortunately, there were enough people and she was responsible for updating the data with a tablet.

After going around for a while, she still returned to someone's ward. It happened that the drip was about to be changed, so she took it with her along the way.

Hanging the infusion bag in his hand on the shelf, Xingzhi, who was adjusting the drip speed, found that the person on the bed had opened his eyes and was staring at him.

She blinked, turned her eyes away to look at the value of the instrument next to her, and closed the blackout curtain around the hospital bed so as not to disturb other people's rest.

"...Don't talk yet, I'll help you remove the tube."

After completing a series of movements familiarly and gently, she walked towards the prepared medical tray.

It was just a simple placement, but Xingzhi didn't move after that.

Her gaze wandered, and finally landed on the tablet in front of the metal tray. The two names on the electronic screen were clearly black and white, and she was inexplicably lost.

After the conditioned cough, the man who put on the oxygen mask turned his head sideways, his eyes reflected a slender figure half submerged in the darkness.Then his Adam's apple moved up and down.

The syllables are mixed with the sound of exhalation, which is slightly blurred.

She heard the hoarse voice very clearly.

"Star Branch."

With her eyes wide open, the woman hesitated to turn in his direction.

Countless emotions surged up and almost overwhelmed her, and she obviously didn't have such an impulse when she heard the news of the disaster.

Now just hearing him call her name, tears rolled in her eyes uncontrollably.

It may not be because of the name, as long as I hear his voice, as long as I have the real feeling that he is still alive beside her...

She was so happy that she almost shed tears.

"……Cried?"

It was familiar, but that smiling tone was more gentle than ever.

Out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of his small movements before her vision completely shattered and distorted.

Grasping the hand that was restlessly about to be raised, she deliberately bent down to get closer.

The wet eyes did not cover any emotions at all, allowing those colors to pour out.

Like a child who has been wronged but is unwilling to take the initiative to reveal the secret, he writes everything on his face and waits for the adult to find out that he cares.

Full of questioning, she carefully wiped away the tears before they fell, and the ten fingers holding his left hand trembled imperceptibly.

The hand that had just pulled out the infusion needle lifted the mask slightly, and the man who fully understood her thoughts took a deep breath and gave a clear answer word by word.

"Because my wife is an emergency doctor."

The hair suddenly spread out on his quilt, and the woman buried her head on the side of his neck protested: "This reason is not valid, Mr. Akabane."

Still in a crying voice, he paused, and then continued to complain.

"Do you know that now, I can't sign your surgery notice?"

Both of them were silent for a while, and Xingzhi, who did not wait for a response, raised his head slightly to reveal his eyes, squinting to the side.

But a hand stretched out supported his head, and gently pushed it to the side.

Then came into contact with something, a soft and rough texture.

"Wait for your injury...!"

Realizing that it was the bandage on the opponent's head, she quickly tried to get up, but was held down by the hand that hadn't left.

"Again, let's stay a little longer."

"Feel sorry."

Tiny vibrations came from where they were close together, from his chest to her heart.

"Look at you, it's too much."

While complaining softly, her other hand was unexpectedly held, and her fingers interlocked.

If the current situation didn't allow it, he would definitely reach out and wrap his thin body in his arms.

Obviously, a long, long time ago, he had already complied with someone's request.

[Don't let her experience any more pain. 】

This time, he broke his promise.

Even if that man came back all the way to beat him up now, he would have nothing to say.

Closing his eyes, Akabane heard Xingzhi's sudden words: "Brother, he won't beat you up now, it's just a threat."

Not surprised by her sensitivity, he raised the corners of his mouth.

"When I'm discharged from the hospital, let's hand in the application form."

"So suddenly?"

"Why are you pretending to be stupid? Didn't you fill it out a long time ago?"

The light outside the window breaks through the hazy night.

The author has something to say:

Please feel free to eat without a knife! !

This is a story where the confession of the murder group [is not] finally revealed the evidence!

In fact, this product is because I personally like medical dramas very much. 】

Anyway, thanks for watching-