(￣︶￣) Ravaged Building (I)
After that, Annie didn't bother checking on how the Lin guy and his seriously ill father were doing after they got to the hospital. She didn't know them, after all. Given that they'd only met by chance, she'd already been kind enough to bring them to this hospital and give them some money for medical expenses. What, was she supposed to become their nurse, too?
She was only eight, you know! Still a child herself!
So, without even saying goodbye, Annie went off on her own and wandered around the enormous hospital known as N City Second Hospital.
"..."
Honestly, hospitals were usually depressing places full of sick people, and there wasn't much fun to be had in one.
But Annie couldn't help thinking that a hospital still operating at night, in a world where ordinary people wouldn't dare go out after dark and the uncanny ran rampant, had to be different somehow.
So, figuring she was already here and might as well make the trip worthwhile, she started wandering around the hospital as if she were sightseeing.
And as she wandered, she really did discover that something was off about this hospital, which was still open for business in the middle of the night.
"??"
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"That's..."
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Most of the patients staying at the hospital were perfectly ordinary. They had one ailment or another, and everyone had something wrong with them, to some degree. There was nothing unusual about that.
The uncanny creatures lurking in the corners were ordinary, too. At least, there were an awful lot of them in this hospital.
For example:
There was a ghost hiding inside the machine in the outpatient lobby that automatically dispensed registration slips!
Most of the time, it acted normally. But whenever it encountered a terminally