Dalang, Take Your Medicine

Well, it's hard to say.

In short, it's hard to say.

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"Here I come... whoa!"

Cong Yu said this, she pushed open the door to the Doctor's office and immediately saw Xiao Cui lying on the operating table with her eyes closed.

Xiao Cui was there too... but why is she lying on the operating table?

Cong Yu was genuinely startled. She looked at the Rabbit Man with a bandage wrapped around his neck, then at the Doctor fiddling with the computer. "What happened to Xiao Cui?"

The Doctor shook his head regretfully at Cong Yu's words and sighed, "You'll know once you check Xiao Cui's breathing."

What's going on with the "!!!"?

Cong Yu panicked a little, reached under Xiao Cui's nose, and then opened her mouth wide in shock... She wasn't breathing!

It's out of breath?!

"For... wait, no, that's not right."

Before she could even ask, Cong Yu hesitated for a moment, then seemed to understand. "Your attitude was off, and the tone you used when you called me to your office was wrong... So this is your second matter?"

It's probably some kind of drug that induces a state of suspended animation.

Xiao Cui and the Doctor teamed up to scare him.

"..."

"Tsk..."

The Doctor clicked his tongue in displeasure and said, "Xiao Cui told me that 'Brother Cong Yu could guess it,' and I was skeptical... but it seems you're much more rational than I thought."

That's not actually the case; it's just that the Doctor's behavior proved that she was actually more naive than she imagined.

As the Doctor spoke, Cong Yu's magic gradually revealed Xiao Cui's condition... she indeed had little chance of survival.

The heart stopped beating, the blood stopped flowing, and there was no breathing.

From a conventional perspective, this would probably mean he's already dead.

"Xiao Cui is a magical girl after all. If you're going to say Xiao Cui is dead, at least point to Xiao Cui headless and heartless corpse when you say that, right?"

As he spoke, Cong Yu sensed the unusually strong and suppressed magical power within Xiao Cui's body, the power that sustained her life within her heart...

That was when I truly felt relieved.

"I'm not the type of person who gets flustered by concern."

As Cong Yu said this, she withdrew her hand, glanced at the blinking Rabbit Man, and was unsure of what she should do first.

But after thinking about it, I decided to reprimand the Doctor first.

"However, what you're doing is really scary..."

As she said this, Cong Yu reached out and pinched the back of the Doctor's neck, pulling the skin until it turned red. "Don't make jokes like that next time."

"..."

"Quack! Let go of me!"

The Doctor yelled, slapping Cong Yu's hand away, then chuckled, "It's all because of that guy Hong... If we fake our death, maybe we can fool Fate."

May I?

Cong Yu had some doubts about this.

The Doctor then began to talk about the Rabbit Man, saying, "The Rabbit Man has been saying lately that he's had bad luck, often getting injured by suddenly exploding light bulbs, and all sorts of strange attacks... but not by being hit by a large truck."

The Rabbit Man nodded vigorously in agreement.

The bunny ears on her head are swaying back and forth... If she were a loli or a young girl, she would look very cute.

But her body is that of a genuine hot Rabbit Woman.

So it just looks very timid.

"I rewatched the animation where they attacked the corporation by the Shunni Family lines... so we can roughly deduce what the Rabbit Man's original Fate was."

The Doctor then gave a general description. "He won't die, but he will suffer extremely severe injuries and will need a long recovery period."

So that's how it is. If Cong Yu hadn't come to the rescue, and instead Hong had, then Hong wouldn't have had time to completely save Rabbit Man.

It can be saved, but not completely.

Can it be saved? Only a tiny bit...

"..." But Cong Yu knew that what followed was the key.

"So, I severely injured the Rabbit Man and announced to everyone that he was seriously injured and needed a long period of rest and recuperation before healing Rabbit Man."

The Doctor, looking at the Rabbit Man with bandages around his neck, said, "Then, Fate seemed to let her go."

The Doctor surmised that Fate might not be such a rigorous thing, but rather something that can be easily deceived... or rather, Fate doesn't care about deception.

Just like checkpoints in a racing game...

As long as you pass through each visible or invisible checkpoint and finally reach the destination, the system doesn't actually care about your process.

Fate seems to be the same... it just wants the outcome that "the Rabbit Man is seriously injured and needs to recuperate."

Whether or not one truly needs rest, and whether the injuries have fully healed, is Fate simply doesn't care about.

In other words...

"You think Hong could try faking her death and then use Xiao Cui as a test subject for the drug?"

Cong Yu said this, then glanced at Xiao Cui, who was being used as a test subject... He finally couldn't hold back anymore.

Cong Yu stood behind the Doctor with her fists clenched, her index fingers knuckles pressing against the petite Doctor's temples.

Doctor:"..."

"Cong Yu, what are you doing?"

The Doctor, cold sweat beading on his forehead, asked the question, while Cong Yu's face had become incredibly resolute and sharply defined. "You are... dead!"

Doctor: "N-Nani?!"

"I'm drilling! Drilling, drilling, drilling!"

"Awooooo--"

"..." The Rabbit Man, unable to bear watching, turned his head away, indicating that he knew nothing, saw nothing, and remembered nothing.

Rabbit Man doesn't know --

Chapter 394 Dalang Takes Medicine

Fate may be deceiving, or to be more precise, as the Doctor said—in fact, the appeal of Fate is, in a sense, superficial.

So-called Fate does not require a long-term and predetermined state.

If Fate were a merchant, then all she wanted was the process of "Hehehe, buy one, I guarantee there won't be any empty."

Cash on delivery.

As for what happens to the goods afterward, or whether the money it received was snatched back on the spot, it's not really a matter of Fate.

Rabbit Man are a good example.

Fate seems to demand only two things—

[1. Recovering from serious injuries]

[2. Claiming to be cultured]

"..." Apart from that, whether the serious injuries were healed, and whether he really stayed in bed recuperating afterward... Fate didn't care.

The Doctor's example was also quite apt.

Just like checkpoints in a video game, once the person being chased passes the checkpoint, they're done.

This shows that the Doctor truly deserves to be called Doctor.

As a science geek, although I don't understand Fate is, I can still gradually deduce the mechanism from the phenomena.

But even so...

"Bang bang bang!"

Cong Yu tapped the Doctor's head, while the little Doctor curled up on the sofa, pouting with a wronged expression. "Stop hitting me, stop hitting me."

If you keep hitting the child, they'll become mentally impaired.

Xiao Cui, who had recovered from her apparent death, sat to the side and spoke up for the Doctor: "Brother Cong Yu— "

Xiao Cui's soft, sweet voice earned her an approving look from the Doctor... Yes, she should plead for her properly.

After all, today's "scare Cong Yu" plan was provided by Xiao Cui.

The Doctor was merely a facilitator, a haphazard agreement, and at best an accomplice! He should definitely be treated leniently.

Then, Xiao Cui spoke up--

You hit the Doctor

"Then you can't hit me anymore--"

"..." Doctor: "!@#JPY%...&"

While the Doctor remained speechless, Cong Yu looked at Xiao Cui and gave her a light tap on the head... a tiny tap.

"This will not be repeated."

Despite Cong Yu's warning, Xiao Cui blinked, feeling she had escaped unscathed, and immediately began to falsely accuse the doctor. "It was all the Doctor's doing!"

Cong Yu, with a smile, looked at the Doctor who had her mouth agape and reached out to rub her head. "Is that so?"

Doctor:"..."

Why are they treating us differently?! I protest! I protest!

The Doctor, clutching his head and grimacing with a fierce yet restrained expression, said, "I'm so unlucky to have found Xiao Cui and Xiao Xi as my assistants!"

That's not quite right.

Our lives are long enough; don't casually talk about eight lifetimes.

"Speaking of which, where's Nagashima Koki?"

Cong Yu asked this question, but it was actually unnecessary. Xiao Cui answered the question with an obvious answer, "Going to school."

Ah, indeed.

Cong Yu, an active male high school student, actually forgot that today was a school day... It can only be said that he has been taking a lot of leave lately.

There's no one else who's gone this far as a student.

Cong Yu couldn't help but smile, looking at the Rabbit Man was sitting to the side, seemingly lost in thought, "How are you feeling now?"

Upon hearing Cong Yu's words, the Rabbit Man, who had been covering his eyes with his ears to avoid watching Cong Yu interact with the two lolis, raised his head.

"Hmm? As for me..."

The Rabbit Man thought back and realized that a long time had passed, and his recent severe bad luck had not befallen him.

The pursuit of Fate has indeed vanished.

Okay!

"Everything is alright now, and Lord Hong should be back to normal."

Cong Yu shook his head at the Rabbit Man who said that, indicating that he hadn't asked that. He added, "I meant, how are your injuries?"

After all, the Rabbit Man's current injuries were all inflicted by the Doctor.

Cong Yu initially thought that Rabbit Man had been injured by the car... but now she realized it was probably the Doctor's doing, as Rabbit Man still has bandages wrapped around his neck.

"Huh? Are you worried about me?"

As he said this, the Rabbit Man was somewhat flattered and touched the blood-stained white cloth around his neck. "But my injury has long since healed, this is fake."

Are the bandages fake?

"A trick to fool Fate... though I'm not sure if it even matters."