Xavier's Resentment

The next day.

White showed up at the clinic with two black eyes.

Ava carefully took Sean's coat, helped him into his white coat, and did not dare say a word. She had even forgotten to bat her eyelashes at him.

"Ava, go get a catalog from the auto dealership across the street."

"Yes, Dr. White."

"Mhm."

As they watched Sean enter his office, Ava and Linda exchanged looks and could not help laughing.

Dr. White had obviously been punched in the eyes~

That was quite a rarity!

Sean felt wronged too. Who had he offended?

All he had done was fool around with his girlfriend until dawn.

Did Elektra really have to rush out first thing in the morning and give him two punches right in the eyes!?

As expected of a top assassin, those two punches had left perfect bluish-black circles around his eyes, perfectly symmetrical.

Sean suspected that if he closed his eyes, people would mistake him for wearing sunglasses.

Linda had already placed today's paper on his desk. The moment Sean saw the front page, he burst out laughing, and the gloom from his two black eyes seemed to vanish.

"X-Men Brutalize Bystanders!"

"X-Men Attack Ordinary Citizens!"

"The X-Men Are Not Worthy of Their Name!"

Sean flipped through a couple of papers at random. They were all about what had happened at Lincoln Center yesterday.

Yet strangely, there was not a single mention of Python Princess's robbery. They only emphasized how four mutants had fired rifles recklessly in the street. Everything else was about Cyclops hitting Sean and Sean hitting Cyclops.

Tsk~ Reporters these days were really full of hostility!

Mutants... really were a social issue. The hostility between ordinary people and mutants had already been stirred up, and the United States government had not played a positive role in it either.

Stirring up that kind of opposition was easy, but easing it was hard. On top of that, mutants had the Brotherhood, a notorious organization of villains dedicated to destroying relations between ordinary people and mutants.

Sean had inadvertently helped the Brotherhood this time, stomping hard on the X-Men's reputation.

The television was also airing yesterday's events. Sean thought he looked pretty handsome on TV.

On screen, Dr. White moved like a hare taking flight and a falcon diving, subduing Cyclops in the blink of an eye. He looked so cool!

Especially the moment he put on the mask. It was insanely cool!

Sean was delighted with himself.

The news ended far too quickly, though. Bad review! Why did they not show a slow-motion replay!?

Next came a report about the White House being attacked by a mutant.

Hm?

A mutant had tried to assassinate the president?

A mutant suspected of teleportation...

Why did this sound like the plot of X2?

Could it be that next... William Stryker would attack the mutant school?

Sean shook his head, dismissing the thought.

This was the real world, not a movie!

There were no demons or Spider-Man's girlfriend in the X-Men films.

Playboy Tony Stark's celebrity gossip was still sitting right there in the newspapers!

Something like that could not happen!

Tsk~

But Storm and Cyclops looked exactly like they did in the movies~

Sean immediately became conflicted.

It was not that he was conflicted over whether he should get involved. He was conflicted over what this world actually was. Could it be some grand collection of movies?

"Dr. White, the catalog you wanted~"

Ava entered the office timidly and set the material down on the desk from as far away as possible.

It was as though getting too close to Sean would get her eaten.

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"Get over here!"

Ava instantly froze. Even the body she had been shrinking backward came to a stop.

"Fix my eyes~"

"Oh~"

Ava let out a breath of relief. She had been scared to death.

She had thought he had heard her snickering.

Ava's healing ability was quite impressive. In just a few seconds, Sean's black eyes faded away.

"Did anyone come looking for me last night?"

Sean was still thinking about Gwen Stacy's payment. He did not know whether Commissioner Stacy had passed the message on to Gwen.

Interest was no small amount when it piled up day after day.

"No. After you left yesterday, not a single person came to the clinic~"

Ava answered quickly, her eyes full of expectation as she looked at Sean.

The meaning was clear: could they cancel the overnight emergency shift already!?

But Sean completely ignored Ava's look. He merely nodded indifferently and sent her out.

The clinic only saw an average of two or three people a day. Half the day had passed today, and not a single person had come through the door.

Ava made lunch, with Linda helping a little.

The demon woman grumbled endlessly while cooking. Seeing patients, pulling shifts, cooking, running errands... she felt like she was living as a slave, with no freedom at all.

Linda just listened with a smile. She was used to it by now.

In the afternoon, the front door rang!

At last, a patient had arrived. Even Linda was looking forward to it; the past two days had been far too idle.

A young girl came in with green-dyed hair, around eighteen or nineteen years old.

"Welcome to White Clinic~"

Linda greeted her warmly.

"I-I'm looking for Dr. White~"

The girl had named White directly. She clearly came prepared.

Linda led her to Sean's office.

"..."

White looked up and saw Polaris Lorna standing there timidly, leaving him a little speechless.

"You're here."

"Mhm~"

"What do you want?"

"I-I want to ask you for a favor~"

Polaris looked uneasy. When facing Sean alone, she could not even muster anger. To her, Dr. White was practically a great demon king.

She did not know when this impression had formed, but it had rooted itself in Polaris's mind as though it were only natural.

"Oh? What favor? Don't even mention reducing the debt."

"No~ It's not that. It's about Ororo."

Polaris hurriedly waved her hands.

"Storm? She got 300,000 dollars for free. What else does she want?"

Sean's heart hurt whenever he thought of it. More than half of his meager leftover profits had gone to Storm.

Polaris Lorna was not originally a patient girl, but after Sean questioned her like that, she immediately found herself unable to say anything.

"Lorna, you would not be this proactive. Did you really come here on your own?"

"Ah~ Y-yes, I came on my own."

"Tsk~ Is everyone at Xavier Institute dead? They sent a student to plead for a teacher?"

Sean did not believe this had been Polaris's idea alone.

"Ororo... isn't doing very well right now. If possible, could you take back part of... um, that 'gift'?"

Polaris forced herself to finish. As for the outcome, there was nothing she could do about it.

"Your school has so many teachers. Surely no one is taking care of Storm? Don't worry, she won't starve to death."

Sean did not care whether Storm was having a hard time. If she had not tripped him up back then, would all this later trouble have happened? Her loose tongue had brought about this disaster. She could suffer the consequences herself.

"The teachers are all busy. Ororo can't manage on her own... I asked her, and she should be willing to accept... treatment."

Polaris spoke with some difficulty. What treatment? This was obviously robbery!

Storm was indeed willing to accept... well, treatment. Her current state was no different from an ICU patient's. Other than not needing a breathing tube, she needed tubes inserted everywhere else. It was agonizing.

Her neck was so fat that she could not even swallow. She wanted to die.

"Then bring her here."

Sean had no objection to another deal. Storm herself weighed sixty-six kilograms. With the extra one hundred and fifty kilograms he had given her, she weighed two hundred and sixteen kilograms total. His profit was sixty-six kilograms. In the end, he would still lose eighty-four kilograms, but it was better than letting all one hundred and fifty kilograms disappear without return.

"Can you come to the school?"

Polaris asked tentatively.

"Umm..." Sean hesitated. A house call meant double the price! He would earn it all back in one go, with plenty of profit left over.

But... the Professor was there. He really did not dare go.

"I have a phobia of bald heads, so forget it..." Sean answered conflictedly.

"The Professor?" Polaris found it strange that Sean was afraid of the Professor. As for this so-called phobia of bald heads, it was probably made up.

"The Professor isn't in today. He went out with Scott. They said they were going to see an old friend."

The moment Polaris said that, Sean's heart skipped a beat. Could they be going to see Magneto?

He remembered that in the movie, the Professor had been captured by William Stryker this way, and Xavier School had been raided that very night.

"What about the other teachers?"

"The other teachers are all here."

"Oh~~~"

Sean relaxed. It looked like this was not that damned X2 plot.

"Then hurry up. Before the Professor comes back, let's go there and back quickly!"

Sean immediately stood up, not even planning to change out of his white coat.

"How did you get here?"

"I drove."

"..." Jealous!

The clinic was thirty-seven kilometers from Xavier School. It would not take long by car.

But Manhattan was truly hard to get around, so it took a little extra time.

They arrived at the school after four in the afternoon. Sean was extremely anxious, worried that the Professor might suddenly return.

Just hearing that bald man's name made Sean uneasy, let alone meeting him.

Storm had been placed in the school's underground infirmary. Only the doors there could conveniently accommodate moving her in and out. Otherwise, her size made her incredibly difficult to move.

"Hehehehehe~ We meet again, Ororo~"

Sean looked very happy to see Storm. The woman was now sprawled on the bed, with only a white sheet covering her body.

He realized that the effect of those one hundred and fifty kilograms of fat was simply heaven-defying. Next time, he needed to find another fat person to treat and get a full two hundred kilograms! He could double his earnings!

Sean could earn back one hundred and thirty-two kilograms from Storm's treatment this time!

Colossus and Polaris had accompanied him down.

Both of them felt helpless seeing Sean's attitude toward Storm. This grudge was probably set in stone.

"Sean White!"

Storm's voice had become dull and muffled, as though it came straight from her throat.

But the hatred in it had not been affected by her obesity in the slightest.

"Hehehehe~ It's me. So, are you sure you want to lose weight?"

"...Yes!"

Sean seemed to hear the sound of teeth being ground to pieces.

"Fine."

He flipped through the ledger. Mm, Ororo Munroe's page had already been generated. Cross out one hundred and fifty kilograms of fat~

Storm, lying on the widened bed, immediately returned to normal.

She became sexy again, just as before. Her graceful curves showed clearly through the white sheet.

Sean took a couple more looks.

The lights in the room began flickering...

Sean curled his lip. This woman could not control her temper. The weather outside was definitely changing.

"You two go out first."

Colossus reacted the fastest and immediately headed outside. Sean and Polaris followed him.

"Does the school have lightning rods?"

"It should, right?" Colossus was not sure.

"Hehe~ Lorna, take me back."

"Dr. White, can you get back by yourself?"

"???"

(⊙o⊙)...

This little girl was already so skilled at burning bridges after crossing them?

How was I supposed to get back?

Fly back?

It was over thirty kilometers. Was I supposed to run all the way back?

Sean: Tsk~ Why did I have such a bad feeling about this?

Storm: Because you can't leave anymore!

Sean: ...

The plot's about to kick in~

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