Not One Less, Shorty's Astonishment

At the Medical Center.

Operating Room 3.

"Yes, that's the basic requirement."

Adam gave Shorty an appreciative look.

"Don't tell me you have a photographic memory too?"

Carter looked at Shorty, who had quite a bit of Adam's style, and was practically dying of jealousy.

"No."

Shorty Melendez shook his head. "Why would that require a photographic memory?"

"..."

Carter had no reply.

A photographic memory was an ability, but accomplishing something like that required more attitude than anything else.

Damn it!

Wasn't Shorty Melendez's understated showing-off exactly what he had always wanted to imitate from Dr. Duncan but never could?

Thinking about how he had just been outshown in the washing and disinfection room, and how Nurse Know-It-All now agreed that Shorty had even more of Adam's style, Carter's heart shattered.

"Violet, what is it?"

Adam noticed from the corner of his eye that Nurse Know-It-All had glanced at the monitoring equipment twice and casually asked.

"Nothing."

Nurse Know-It-All smiled. "I heard a cracking sound just now and thought there was something wrong with the patient's heart. Everything is stable now."

"Heh heh."

Such an obvious jab immediately filled the operating room with laughter.

Whose heart had shattered so loudly that no one could miss it?

Just look at whose face was the most awkward and red.

Carter was practically crying.

I was here first.

I'm obviously your good friend, Nurse Know-It-All.

"All right."

Adam reined in his smile and said to Shorty, "I didn't believe their story from the very beginning."

The story of the four climbers was fairly common.

The four of them had come together because they all loved extreme sports, forming a close-knit group of friends who often teamed up to challenge various limits.

This time, they had gone cliff climbing together.

According to the