I became Hokage in Tokyo

Chapters 130 and 132 have all been filmed! Emergency meeting! (4k)

"It's almost midnight..."

Dr. Satomi would occasionally look up at the clock on the wall, his face showing a mixture of apprehension and anticipation.

Looking up, the bright light inevitably shone on Dr. Satomi's face. Dr. Satomi squinted at the fluorescent light above him. It was very bright, but it made him feel a little dazed.

Hospitals are strange places. Even in the bright daylight, they are so desolate that they give people a sense of loneliness, as if they are far removed from the world. Perhaps this is because hospitals are the places closest to death, like the dividing line between the human world and the underworld.

Light can dispel darkness, but it cannot dispel humanity's most primal instinct: the fear of death.

In the duty room, besides Dr. Satomi, there were two nurses.

One of them was a young intern nurse who had worked the night shift yesterday, and she was excitedly waving the video recording equipment in her hand.

As for the senior nurse Asano, she was not here; she had been replaced by another woman in her fifties with a stern expression.

"Head Nurse, are you on duty tonight? Where is Nurse Asano?"

Dr. Satomi knew the hospital's rules: the nurses on the night shift rotated weekly, and it wasn't time for Nurse Asano to change shifts yet.

"Nurse Asano has taken leave, so I'll be covering for her tonight," the head nurse said calmly.

After the strange incident that occurred in the early hours of last night, Dr. Satomi and Nurse Asano immediately reported it to the nursing department, which alarmed many doctors and nurses on the night shift at the hospital. Even the head nurse got up in the middle of the night and rushed to the 13th floor.

The fact that Professor Kurokawa's ghost returned to the hospital to perform surgery was so bizarre that the nursing staff couldn't be convinced by just a few people's accounts. They suspected that Dr. Satomi was hallucinating because he was thinking about it during the day.

But the fact that all three of them were experiencing the same hallucination was rather strange, and the whole thing seemed to have an eerie atmosphere.

To avoid trouble, the nursing department ultimately concluded that it was a false alarm, perhaps a misreading or a prank by someone.

Dr. Satomi and Nurse Asano had both worked at the medical university hospital for many years and were well-liked, so the matter was handled leniently.

Nurse Asano received a few words of criticism from the nursing department, neither too harsh nor too mild.

They didn't want these supernatural tales to circulate in the hospital, as it wouldn't be good if patients heard them or if medical staff heard them, so they immediately issued a gag order.

Nurse Asano was also greatly frightened by the ghost doctor incident last night and was under a lot of mental stress, so she simply took leave to go home and recuperate.

"I didn't expect the head nurse to be the one to cover the shift. It seems the nursing department still has reservations about what we reported," Dr. Satomi thought to himself.

Although the head nurse had a stern expression, she was actually feeling a little helpless inside.

Although the hospital had issued a gag order, the strange events of moving corpses in the morgue and the bizarre rumors of Professor Kurokawa returning to life to perform surgery inevitably circulated within the hospital. Some of the nurses were feeling uneasy, and at this critical juncture, no one was willing to cover Nurse Asano's night shift.

Left with no other choice, the head nurse had to step in personally to stabilize morale.

Actually, the head nurse didn't really believe in these supernatural things. She had worked in the hospital for half her life and had seen countless corpses come and go, but she had never seen a ghost or anything like that.

However, it is indeed somewhat abnormal that two ghost stories have circulated about the affiliated hospital of the medical university in one day.

The head nurse is personally overseeing the situation here to see if this is just a coincidence or if someone is playing a prank.

As for the other intern nurse, she later learned that the pale-faced doctor was actually Professor Kurokawa, who had died a year earlier. She was terrified but also excited.

This girl, who has always been interested in urban legends, is not just a hypocrite; she also possesses the fearlessness of a newborn calf. She prepared her own recording equipment and was eager to record firsthand footage.

As the clock hands gradually pointed to midnight, the atmosphere in the duty room grew increasingly somber.

Even the head nurse, who didn't really believe in supernatural things, kept glancing at the clock on the wall.

"Waaaaah—"

Suddenly, the sound of a child crying drifted down the corridor.

The intern nurse shuddered. Although she was terrified, her eyes gleamed slightly.

"Are they here?"

The intern nurse turned to look at the clock, but there was still more than a minute until midnight, and the voice coming from it was that of a child, completely different from the deep, magnetic voice of the uncle from yesterday.

Could it be the ghost of a child who came today?

The intern nurses' knuckles were turning white as they gripped the camera equipment.

"Waaah, Grandma, I don't want to leave you..."

"Good child, don't cry, Grandma will always be with you."

The head nurse's expression changed slightly. She listened intently for a moment, then let out a long breath and calmly said:

"It's coming from room 1302. It sounds like a girl crying. It should be the patient in bed number one and her granddaughter."

"It's that ten-year-old girl."

Dr. Satomi reviewed all the medical records of all the patients on the thirteenth floor today and knew all their information inside and out. Not to mention, he already had a strong impression of the patient in room 1302 and her family.

The patient in bed number one was a 65-year-old woman with late-stage liver cancer.

The elderly woman was originally being treated at another hospital. She was only in the middle stage of liver cancer, and the three-year survival rate after surgery was not low. However, her condition suddenly deteriorated rapidly, and the spread of cancer cells was unexpected. That's why she was transferred to the affiliated hospital of the medical university to seek a glimmer of hope.

However, after diagnosis at the affiliated hospital of the medical university, they concluded that there was no hope of recovery. Given the current situation, he definitely wouldn't survive the year; with a bit of bad luck, he might only have three or four months left.

"It's so pitiful. That patient's only immediate family member is that child. What will happen to the child if the old lady passes away?" the head nurse sighed.

The old lady's husband, son, and daughter-in-law all seem to have passed away in an accident, leaving only her granddaughter.

After the old lady was hospitalized, relatives from all over the world came to visit in an endless stream, showing concern and care, which even the nurses found tiresome.

A group of relatives were fighting fiercely over custody of their child, even coming to blows at the hospital.

The reason is simple: the old lady owns an entire apartment building in Shinjuku Ward.

After learning that the old lady didn't have much time left, these relatives even began to discuss outside the ward without any restraint how to divide the patient's apartment, while showing little concern for the girl's upbringing.

The old lady was so angry that she fainted once. When she woke up, she could only hug her granddaughter and cry.

Even Dr. Satomi couldn't stand it anymore, so he called security to chase them away and restricted these vampire-like relatives from coming to the hospital to disturb the patients.

"Those bastards, they're truly despicable!"

Dr. Satomi felt indignant at the thought of this, but he was powerless to do anything about it.

If the old lady were to pass away, the girl's guardianship would certainly fall into the hands of those relatives with ulterior motives.

Before a girl reaches adulthood, her guardian can manage her assets on her behalf. If anything happens to the girl, the assets will naturally fall into the hands of the guardian.

This is an entire apartment building in Shinjuku Ward, which is an astronomical sum. Dr. Satomi did not hesitate to assume the worst about these relatives.

But what can be done about incurable diseases like late-stage liver cancer?

Unless a miracle occurs.

A miracle?

The miracle of Ms. Ebina's transformation from late-stage to early-stage stomach cancer has already occurred once, and there is a chance it could happen a second time!

Dr. Satomi couldn't help but look expectantly at the elevator door.

"Tick-tock," the clock struck midnight, signaling the arrival of midnight!

With a "crackling" sound, the fluorescent lights in the entire duty room and corridor began to flicker again, and the next second, the lights dimmed instantly.

"Another power outage?" The head nurse's expression immediately shifted between light and dark.

After yesterday's power outage, the logistics department arranged for an electrician to thoroughly inspect the electrical system on the entire thirteenth floor and in the elevator lobby. The electrician confidently asserted that there was absolutely no fault.

"Mr. Kurokawa is coming."

Dr. Satomi rushed out of the duty room and ran towards the elevator. With him leading the way, the head nurse and the trainee nurse exchanged a glance and followed him.

The three of them arrived at the elevator lobby and saw the surgical elevator slowly starting up.

The surgical elevator is locked at night and stops on the first floor. The elevator sign indicates that the surgical elevator is moving upwards on the first floor.

The three of them remained silent. The surroundings were so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. The head nurse could even hear her own heart pounding. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the intern nurse trembling slightly, but still holding a recording device pointed at the elevator entrance.

The operating elevator ascended smoothly to the thirteenth floor, and a refined-looking male doctor with a handsome mustache stepped out.

"It really is Professor Kurokawa!"

How could a head nurse who had worked at the affiliated hospital of the medical university for half her life not recognize the pale-faced man in front of her? Her brain seemed to have been hit by a hammer, buzzing, and her face was full of disbelief.

Immediately afterwards, she was overwhelmed by an intense fear!

Professor Kurokawa, who had long been dead, actually came back to life.

Where is the patient?

Professor Kurokawa maintained his expressionless and indifferent demeanor, repeating the same question verbatim like a machine.

He ignored the three people in front of him, and even when the intern nurse was filming him with a video camera, Professor Kurokawa remained unmoved.

"In room 1302!"

Dr. Satomi vaguely figured out how to communicate with Professor Kurokawa's ghost, and he immediately replied.

"Prepare for surgery!"

Professor Kurokawa's ghost left a message and headed straight for room 1302. Dr. Satomi and the intern nurse had already witnessed this once and were mentally prepared, so they immediately followed.

Although the head nurse had seen countless storms in the hospital, this was the first time she had encountered a supernatural event head-on. Her face turned cyanotic, her lips moved as she tried to follow, but her feet felt like they were walking on cotton and wouldn't obey her commands.

On a bed near the door in the ward, an elderly woman with a withered appearance was lovingly stroking a girl who had cried herself to sleep on her lap.

If I die, what will happen to Haruko?

"Amitabha."

Tears welled in the old woman's eyes as she prayed to all the gods and Buddhas in the sky, hoping to delay the situation as much as possible. Her little granddaughter was only ten years old, and she had to protect this child from the wind and rain until the day she grew up.

Just then, the ward door opened, and a male doctor with a blank expression and a pale face walked in.

"The situation is critical; surgery must be performed immediately."

The old lady felt everything go black before her eyes, then her eyes closed and she fell asleep.

Room 1302 is also a double room. In addition to the old lady and her granddaughter, there is another patient.

The patient was also a young child, who had fallen asleep, and a couple who appeared to be his parents were keeping him company. The couple looked somber, it was unclear whether they were grieving for themselves or for the elderly woman in the same room.

"Are you a doctor at the hospital? I've never seen you before. Is there something urgent so late?"

When the husband saw the uninvited guest barge into the ward, he sensed something was wrong and immediately stood up to question him.

But the next moment, he met Professor Kurokawa's eerie white eyes. It was as if some unknown force had gripped his throat. A strong sense of fear gripped the man's heart. His Adam's apple bobbed, but he couldn't utter a single word and could only stand frozen in place.

"Begin the surgery!"

Professor Kurokawa walked to the old lady's bedside, placed his hands lightly on her chest, and a faint blue light emanated from between his hands.

A minute later, Professor Kurokawa withdrew his hand and stood motionless in place.

"Two more are needed. If I can save just two more, then I can..."

"Hahahaha!"

Professor Kurokawa let out a maniacal laugh just like on the first day, then glanced intentionally or unintentionally at Dr. Satomi standing at the door, before disappearing again into the white smoke.

Dr. Satomi took a deep breath, and whether it was his imagination or not, he noticed that Professor Kurokawa's expression had become slightly more lively from its previous almost dead look.

"I took a picture, Dr. Satomi..."

The intern's face was slightly pale, her legs were a little weak, and her voice trembled, but she couldn't hide the excitement in her tone.

"I photographed them all!"

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The next day, the atmosphere in the conference room of the affiliated hospital of the medical university was so heavy that it felt suffocating.

Not only Professor Zene, the Minister of Medicine, but also all the senior leaders of the affiliated hospitals of the medical university, including the president of the medical university, gathered together.

Such high-level meetings are held only a few times a year.

Am I really not dreaming?

Professor Zene's face was ashen as he put down the examination report under his hand.

"That Kurokawa guy... Professor Kurokawa has actually become a ghost doctor, and can even cure cancer?"

This time, it wasn't just Dr. Satomi's side of the story. The head nurse and the patient's relatives all spoke with one voice. Moreover, the video had just been shown on the projector. With so much evidence before him, he could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.

(End of this chapter)