After Ogino Kei signed a thick stack of documents, he sat in the waiting area feeling refreshed.
From the attitude of the doctors and nurses, he could clearly feel that this time's condition was no longer as urgent as the previous times.
As expected, my son will be discharged from the hospital soon.
It's a pity that he can only stay with his son for another month... In the past few days, he has to pick out some toys for his son so that he can receive countless surprises as soon as he is discharged from the hospital.
What should I buy? I must have the latest electronic game console. My son has said he wants it many times.
There are also aviation models suitable for ages 12+.
This kind of toy is a bit expensive. He used to think that his son was too young and it would be a waste if it broke. Although they were not poor, they should maintain good consumption habits, so they never bought it.
But now, Ogino Kei decisively added it to his shopping list.
After writing down a full page on the note he carried with him, Ogino Kei put away the notebook and began to think about other things.
He had bought insurance for his family a long time ago, and now he can actually use it. Although he doesn't know how he will die in a month, the huge insurance money will definitely allow his wife and children to live a good life.
In the past, he was dissatisfied with his wife's refusal to resign, but now he just feels lucky. With this guarantee, she will be able to take good care of his son after his death.
Thinking of this, Ogino Kei suddenly remembered that he had not told his wife about his son's illness.
In fact, after losing their son, the two of them were not in a very good mental state and gradually lost contact.
At this time, his wife was equipped with a mobile phone for work convenience. Ogino Kei recalled it and found that he still remembered the phone number, and was a little surprised.
He stood up and prepared to find a phone booth to contact his wife and experience a perfect family again. Even if it was only for one month, this should be the best month in his life.
When walking through the corridor and heading to the stairs, Ogino Kei almost bumped into someone with great expectations.
This was not entirely because he was distracted, but more because the other party was walking too fast and there was wind under his feet.
After Ogino Kei stepped out of the way, he habitually glanced back. In this case, the two parties would usually make eye contact and then nod to each other as an apology.
But the other party completely ignored him and walked away with five or six people.
...It's really rude. However, it may be that the family member is critically ill and they can't take care of it.
Ogino Kei was in a good mood now. Seeing that everyone was very tolerant and did not care about such things, he shook his head and walked away quickly.
He walked briskly through the neat and clean corridor, and when he was about to go downstairs, a chaotic sound reached his ears.
Ogino Kei didn't react at first. He just stopped for a moment and observed carefully like every passerby who noticed the excitement.
After this observation, he discovered that the noise came from behind him - the place he had just left.
What happened?
Ogino Kei stretched his neck from the corner and looked at the place he just left for a while. Of course, he couldn't see anything from here.
Considering that his son was still nearby and worried that he would be frightened by the noise, Ogino Kei turned around hesitantly and prepared to walk back.
It doesn't matter if I tell my wife a little late, since she is still on a business trip and won't be able to come back for the time being.
On the way back, several security guards held walkie-talkies and rushed past him.
When Ogino Kei arrived, he happened to see a group of people fighting together. The security guard's dark blue uniform, the doctor's light-colored surgical clothes, and a few messy personal clothes were mixed together, creating a chaotic scene.
Ogino Kei looked on with countless patients and frowned deeply.
While he felt disgusted with those people who behaved barbarically, he actually felt a little guilty in his heart.
Before his rebirth, although some family members of patients would break down and curse in the hospital, it was still very rare for so many people to rush in and cause havoc.
But now, because of what he did as the "anchor", these things have unfortunately become more frequent...
I don’t know which unlucky doctor was beaten this time. If he was really beaten innocently, then he could visit his son after the operation was over.
Ogino Kei watched leisurely and secretly condemned, but disappeared without a trace after a man who was making trouble was pulled away by security guards and a gap was revealed in the crowd.
He looked at the operating bed that was involved in the chaos, and suddenly his whole body trembled, and then he rushed over - the person on the operating bed was actually his son!
On the way to the operating room, unfortunately, he was intercepted by the patient's family, who happened to be the doctor who performed the surgery on his son!
It's a pity that Ogino Kei's reading of literary works is limited, otherwise he should have known a long time ago that there is a kind of people who are unique in the world, all incredible things will happen to them, all conflicts revolve around or will soon revolve around them, no matter what happens in the sky
Whether it's a pie or a rocket, you will definitely choose one out of ten million and hit them accurately on the head.
——This kind of people are collectively called protagonists.
Unfortunately, he is now the protagonist of this virtual world.
At this moment, Shiraishi, with an extremely ordinary face, was mingling among the people waiting for treatment in the hospital. He watched from a distance as Ogino Kei jumped into the melee crowd and subdued the intruder with one against three bodyguards.
To be honest, although he was the architect of this period of Kei Ogino's life, when he was thinking about the script, Shiraishi did not expect that Kei Ogino would be so miserable in the role.
After all, Ogino Kei couldn't stay here all his life. After experiencing all this, he had to leave the fantasy world, return to the real world, and live his own life.
Moreover, the stone flowers cannot last for a month.
If Ogino Kei is allowed to experience the bliss of the world in a fantasy world, and he goes back a few days later, he will find that his son is gone and his wife has already left. The gap is huge. What if he collapses on the spot, kills Yuta Ogawa in front of him, and then commits suicide directly?
, Shiraishi's reputation points may be deducted to a negative number.
So he thought about it, the so-called tragedy is tearing beautiful things into pieces for others to see.
The so-called comedy is to step people into hell first, and then shake the crying person awake: Hey brother, you just had a nightmare, but in fact you are still in the world. Surprise or not? Accident or not?
To put it simply, have a sweet dream and have a happiness level of 4 stars.
And if you have a nightmare and wake up halfway, realizing that you are just dreaming for a moment, your happiness level may soar to 5 stars.
After thinking about it for a while, Shiraishi's conscience no longer hurt, and he even felt like an angel.
As his thoughts turned, the chaos ahead, which was slightly stagnant, continued.
…
The group of people were finally subdued. The doctors and nurses were already bruised and swollen. Fortunately, they were still able to stand, and the scene didn't look too bloody.
But Ogino Kei saw his son lying motionless. He wiped the nosebleed from his face and shook his son carefully twice. After a while, he woke up and said, "Oh, did you give him anesthesia? Doctor, are you okay?
Well, you can still..."
The rest of the words were interrupted.
Several doctors and nurses were still covering their faces in confusion, but upon hearing his words, they immediately gathered around anxiously.
Ogino Kei looked at their faces and slowly felt that something was not right.
When the doctor lifted up the quilt and took a look, his expression changed. He ignored the injuries on his body and asked someone to push his son to the operating room. Ogino Kei felt even more panicked.
"Our anesthesia usually waits until the operating room." The staff member who came to deal with the aftermath answered his question tactfully:
"Someone fell on the stretcher just now, but don't worry, the doctor will take care of it as soon as possible." As she spoke, she glared at a person who was being held down by security guards.
"...Okay." Ogino Kei nodded, but thought in his heart that this was too "as soon as possible".
What happened that caused the doctor to go directly to the operating room without even taking a break after being beaten?
Ogino Kei couldn't sit still.
He no longer had the leisurely energy he had before, and kept wandering in the waiting area. If his gaze could be turned into reality, the watches in the hall would have been smashed by his glare.
But time passed by, far exceeding the time required for ordinary appendicitis, and the door of the operating room still could not be opened.
Ogino Kei is all too familiar with this kind of overly long wait.
He tried hard not to think about anything, to believe in the doctor and his son's luck.
However, a few hours later, what was wheeled out of the operating room was still just a corpse.
Ogino Kei stood up stiffly, as if there were countless bees flapping their wings and buzzing in his ears. He could see the doctors' mouths opening and closing in front of him, and they could see their silent and apologetic deep bows, but he couldn't hear anything clearly.
.
This time, the despair was even greater than before.
After all, his lifespan as a bargaining chip has been exhausted in the transaction, and there will never be a chance to come back.
Soon, time stopped again.
Looking at the young man sitting opposite him, whose expression was unclear, Ogino Kei suddenly thought that this man might not be here to save him at all.
These rebirths and partings and deaths are more like punishment.
——Punishment for him killing an innocent child without permission.
"……It was my fault."
Ogino Kei lowered his head and finally came to the conclusion that he had always been unwilling to admit.
He slowly walked up to Shiraishi, and Tugeza put his head on the ground. He had no hope, but refused to give up and said:
"I shouldn't have ignored my son's strangeness, shouldn't have angered the doctor, and shouldn't have killed the child... It was me who was wrong, and I was the only one who was wrong.
"I will give you all my life, the next life, and my soul. Please turn back the time to six hours ago and save my son.
"He has done nothing wrong. He has always been brave and optimistic. He is a completely different person from me... Please, please save him."
The young man looked down at him with a calm expression and an extremely calm tone:
"This timeline has been twisted to the limit. Even if I take your soul, I can't go back to a few hours ago."
Ogino Kei heard it, but seemed not to hear it.
He no longer knew what he was saying, let alone what others were saying. He just said whatever came to his mind, like an old man who was about to die, repeating his impossible last wish over and over again - not to achieve it, just to achieve it.
By talking like this, I will feel more relaxed when the ending comes.
He spoke until his throat went dry and he could no longer utter any words, and then he was finally forced to stop and let out a hissing sound.
However, for some reason, those words that were tossed around did not stop, and they still kept echoing in Ogino Kei's ears——
"...Save my son!"
"...Please save him!"
The tone of his voice was very similar to his plea just now.
But the sound was obviously not made by him.
The unusual situation made Ogino Kei's heart skip a beat and he became a little clearer.
He raised his head in surprise and found that he was no longer in the hospital lobby.
——He returned to the familiar park, standing in the bright sunshine slanting down, with dark and sticky blood under his feet.
A few meters away, an ambulance was parked with its door open. Inside was life-saving equipment. In front of the car was Masayuki Ogawa and his son who was held tightly by him.
Ogino Kei's previous slash with all his strength almost cut the child in half. It was only thanks to Ogawa Masayuki's support that he could barely keep his body intact.
The first responders had no choice but to comfort the father who had lost his son and gently suggested that he keep the scene until the police arrived.
It seemed that no one could see Ogino Kei, and no one rushed to catch him.
Ogino Kei then stood there alone, staring blankly at the doctor he had hated for two years. The elite was in a state of embarrassment at the moment, with his face half in tears and half in blood, and his mind was confused and he repeated over and over again:
"Save my son, please. I've stopped the bleeding. There must be hope..."
Next to them, a translucent child squatted on the ground with his face covered. He glanced at Ogino Kei through his fingers, and then turned away with a complicated expression.
Watching this scene, Ogino Kei felt that his heart had been broken into pieces and was thrown under the steamroller and crushed hard for several more rounds.
Suddenly, he felt someone walking next to him.
"With your lifespan, your lifespan in your next life, and your soul after reincarnation, time will go back one hour from now." The man asked softly, "Are you willing?"
Ogino Kei slowly began to tremble. He was very emotional and seemed to want to say something, but his hoarse voice could not utter a word.
In the end, he just nodded his head hard. After a moment, he nodded again.
The translucent Ogino Tomoya stood up from the side of the ambulance and looked at him in surprise.
Ogino Kei noticed his gaze and lowered his head in embarrassment, avoiding his son's clear gaze.
However, the next second, the sound of footsteps approaching, Ogino Kei was startled, and he looked up in shock, just in time to see a young figure with tears in his eyes, striding towards him.
Ogino Kei wanted to run away, but his feet seemed to be frozen, unwilling to move even a step away.
He bent down slightly, moved his arms very skillfully, and picked up the child who should have been out of reach.
"Dad is so handsome! He knows his mistakes and can correct them. He is worthy of having the same surname as me, Ogino. There is no regret for the surname passed down by our ancestors!"
Ogino Tomoya said this like a little adult, while he nimbly climbed up on his father, hugged his neck tightly, and kissed Ogino Kei on the face, causing his face to be covered with tears and snot.
He casually wiped it on his face, then carefully wiped it off Ogino Kei's face, and said loudly and seriously:
"Don't do bad things again, I will keep an eye on you!"
"Always..." Before Ogino Kei could reflect on these words, the translucent figure slowly disappeared like the foam after the waves faded.
What disappeared together was the sticky blood, the crowd of onlookers, the eye-catching ambulance, and Ogawa Masayuki holding his son...
And the young body.
"uncle!"
A voice came from under Ogino Kei's feet.
At the same time, he felt his trouser leg being gently pulled by a small hand.
Ogino Kei lowered his head in confusion, and met a pair of eyes that were so smart that he wanted to cry.
Ogawa Yuta held the plane with bright eyes, his whole body was filled with happiness, and little flowers almost floated out of his head:
"Look, I've put it together! How about we try to make it take off!"
He waited expectantly for a while, but the man in front of him showed no reaction at all.
Ogawa Yuta hesitated, took back his hand, and looked at the model he was holding. Could it be that he didn't put it together correctly?
Before he could check again, a figure suddenly approached and someone hugged him.
This embrace was extremely heavy, very different from his father's gentle embrace, and Yuta Ogawa was very unaccustomed to it.
He turned his head in confusion and saw the uncle who gave him the gift crying silently, tears flowing down the fine wrinkles and falling on his shoulders.
Ogawa Yuta's eyes twitched, a little disgusted.
But the other person was crying so sadly that he always felt that it would not be good to push him away at this time.
After tilting his head and thinking for a while, Yuta Ogawa suddenly realized.
"Uncle, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Ogawa Yuta patted his broad back twice like a man, and spoke with a little pride:
"My dad is a very good doctor. Let's go to the hospital and ask him to check you out!...Hey, but you seem to be his colleague? Don't you know what's wrong with you? Didn't you do it when you were in school?
Didn’t you study seriously?”
Ogino Kei shook his head, said nothing, and knelt on the ground, crying like a two-hundred-pound child.
Ogawa Yuta felt the wet spots on his shoulders getting bigger and bigger, and he gradually wanted to run.
However, after holding the airplane model in his hand, he felt that he could endure it a little longer.
Sick people are very fragile and need care, and so do adults. It should be done, and this is what it should be.
While Ogawa Yuta continued to pat Ogino Kei's back comfortingly, suddenly, he saw several people running over anxiously in the distance.
The one who rushed to the front was a child who looked to be the same age as him.
Ogawa Yuta thought it was some classmate at first, but after a few glances, he knew it wasn't him.
So he quickly looked away and looked at the other person following him.
This person is very easy to recognize.
"Dad!" Ogawa Yuta was very surprised. He raised his hand from the gap in Ogino Kei's arms and waved vigorously, "Come and see this uncle, he is sick!"