Opening Day Matters

The atmosphere in the living room turned a little strange.

As the instigator, Vanessa said nothing, merely pursing her lips as she smiled.

Sean was somewhat annoyed. Fine, Vanessa was trying to dodge the issue, but what was Elektra joining in for?

And Polaris! Why had she followed them back again?

"Darling~ come over here for a moment. I need to talk to you about something~"

With a fake smile on his face, Sean spoke gently to Vanessa.

"NO! Say it here!"

Vanessa refused to fall for it. She knew perfectly well that the moment she left Elektra and Polaris's sight, she would never escape Sean's clutches!

Tsk~ Did Vanessa really think these two girls could scare him?

"Fine~"

Sean agreed to Vanessa's request. Here it was, then!

He stood and walked over to Vanessa and Elektra, putting on the expression of a rich old landlord.

"Vanessa! It's time to pay back what you owe me!"

As he spoke, he lunged at Vanessa while the two women were stunned. With one grab, he lifted Vanessa up, spun her around in midair, and slung her over his shoulder!

"I'll be taking my leave!"

Sean did not forget to call out to Elektra and Polaris!

"Hey!!"

Elektra shot to her feet, ready to grab Sean, but Sean, pumped up like he had been injected with chicken blood, was far too fast. Even Elektra's human-limit speed could not catch up to his escape~

As she watched the bedroom door slam shut with a bang, Elektra stomped her foot in frustration~

"Come on, big sis will take you somewhere exciting! I'm not sticking around with these two perverts!"

Hearing the sounds coming from the room, Polaris blushed a little as well and hurriedly nodded in agreement.

A low cello melody drifted in from outside the window. Elektra knew nothing about music, but she could still tell that the performer was highly skilled.

At times it was flowing, at times clipped; flowing like the long call of a horn, clipped like startled birds taking flight~

At times it was impassioned, at times mournful; impassioned like iron steeds charging ahead, mournful as if weeping out a grievance~

Elektra actually listened carefully for a while before leaving Sean and Vanessa's home with an unreadable look in her eyes.

That night~

New York's neon lights were especially dazzling. Even their flickering seemed to have sped up, making the brilliance more brilliant still, though no one knew how many lonely dog eyes they blinded~

Amid the surging cello music, Vanessa somehow managed to hum Bach's First Suite in G Major~

Tonight was destined to be sleepless~

Linda Carter busied herself arranging the furniture that had arrived late, her busy figure like a fluttering butterfly flitting all around the clinic.

Ava Ellis, however, still lounged lazily against the wall, toying with her slender fingernails.

Yuriko displayed her extraordinary strength. She shifted the furniture around with ease, leaving the movers clicking their tongues in amazement.

Inside a van parked at the street corner across from the clinic, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents listened boredly to the sounds inside the clinic~

Meanwhile, Polaris followed Elektra into a bar.

A small bar in the Clinton District.

When the sun rose from the east once more, a new day began to bustle.

Sean got dressed in high spirits and brought the simple breakfast he had made himself to the bedside.

"Vanny, you need to replenish your nutrition~"

"F**K~ I'm full right now!"

"Uh~"

Like a child whose prank had succeeded, Sean rolled his eyes and snickered.

"I'll leave it here. Eat it yourself later!"

"F**K! Get the hell out already!"

Vanessa's temper was getting worse and worse, especially every morning! Maybe he should ask someone how to relieve his girlfriend's stress~

Sean shrugged and straightened his clothes once more before leaving home.

Today was a big day~

The brand-new clinic was reopening!

A clinic with doctors and qualifications! No more worrying about being shut down!

Yuriko was already waiting for him downstairs. They arrived smoothly at the clinic and parked in the open space behind it.

They were a clinic with a parking area now!

"Doctor White~"

Ava Ellis greeted Sean warmly. This she-devil looked no different than usual, but the other woman who had been busy all day was another matter~

Linda Carter had dark circles around her eyes, as if she had been thoroughly worn out.

She said weakly, "Doctor White, the doctors and nurses have been scheduled. They'll arrive at nine and ten-thirty respectively. I have to get some sleep~ Today..."

Sean was in a good mood, so with a wave of his hand, he let Linda off work.

But after looking around and sensing the Black Ledger, he frowned and asked, "Didn't Lorna Dane come?"

Ava Ellis looked at her nails as she answered, "Who's that?"

"..."

After glaring at the she-devil, Sean began inspecting his new clinic.

The first floor had three offices with examination rooms, one separate treatment room, and one break room.

The second floor had two patient rooms, five staff dormitories, and a dining room. Of course, there was also a kitchen~

Both floors also had fairly spacious halls.

Very nice!

It seemed that, aside from Ava Ellis, every doctor could have a private office.

Sean had deliberately divided the first floor into two sections. One section was prepared for the other doctors, like an ordinary clinic.

The other section was for Sean himself and still used the previous fee structure.

At nine o'clock, the doctors Linda Carter had arranged arrived. They were very punctual, arriving only two minutes early.

Two female doctors...

Sean had a bit of a toothache. Was this clinic destined to have more women than men?

"Hello, you must be Doctor White? I'm Christine Palmer. I had an appointment with Miss Carter."

"I'm Helena Moon."

The two women introduced themselves quite openly.

Sean did not really care what kind of doctors he hired. He only needed legitimate doctors.

But Christine Palmer was unexpected. That face, so strikingly similar to Rachel's, made Sean recall what he knew about this woman.

Doctor Stephen Strange's colleague, friend, and perhaps girlfriend as well~

It seemed she had appeared with her movie identity. That meant this world was inevitably tied to those Marvel films.

Compared to the comics, it seemed whoever had greater influence took charge.

An interesting world!

Sean returned the two women's smiles.

"I'm Sean White, the owner of this clinic."

"Nice to meet you~"

"If you have no further concerns regarding the terms, we'll be working together from now on."

It was a very simple meeting and a very simple decision.

After the two female doctors each called their lawyers, their employment contracts with White Clinic were settled.

They finished just in time before the nurses arrived.

However, only one of the scheduled nurses came. She was a Black-American mixed-race woman named Claire Temple.

With Ava Ellis's help, Sean quickly finalized the employment contract.

But the lawyer Nurse Claire had brought made Sean somewhat uncomfortable~

Matthew Murdock~

New York's famous Devil of Hell's Kitchen!

That dog-eyed Daredevil!

Consider this Tuesday's update~

I tried really hard, but unfortunately, I didn't finish before midnight!