Chapter 16 – Why Am I Here

In a single room at the hospital, I lay on a bed wearing only a patient’s gown without an intravenous drip. It was a bit complicated to explain why I became like this.

The policeman who saw me for a while took me to the hospital. The demon king said that there was something to be investigated and he was taken to the police station.

After about a third of it was sewn, my parents came. My father looked at my wounds and looked worried, and my mother got angry and she asked me to tell him where he was. The two of them made the hospital noisy like that, and stayed by my side throughout the treatment.

When I was about two-thirds of the way sewn up, I got a call from Yuri. She cried, but she couldn’t quite hear what she was saying. Still, she seemed to be roughly saying sorry, so I said I’m fine and she hung up the phone.

Now, around the time of disinfection after treatment, the policeman who took me there came. The bully was taken into custody for special injury, and he said he was going to jail because of what he had done the other day. Besides, what I did when I subdued him would be self-defense, so I left a word not to worry.

The uncle left and I was trying to pay for the treatment, but someone else appeared. This time he was a man in a suit. He said he must be hospitalized, and he assigned me to a single room. In addition, he told me not to worry about treatment and hospitalization costs.

I don’t know what’s going on, but I can’t accept it even though it’s free.

Even though I said it was okay, my parents stayed with me until the end of the hospital visit time, and I barely stopped one person from staying to take care of me.

I couldn’t even get an intravenous drip on a little torn wound, so what kind of help do I need… It wasn’t that I didn’t like it.
Anyway, now I am left alone in this spacious hospital room. I didn’t like the silence without anyone, so I turned on the TV and filled the room with noise. Now I was about to pick up my phone and do something, but I heard a knock.

Smart

I put down my phone and looked at the door to the hospital room. The hospital door, which was made larger than a normal door, remained closed and did not open.

I didn’t know who was coming, so I just looked at them without saying a word. Then many knocks began to ring out.

Smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart smart

… I could see who the person on the other side of the door was.

“Come in.”

Drooling!

“How are you feeling?”

As soon as the words were finished, the person who entered was, as expected, the Demon King. He was dressed in the same black sweatpants as when he parted during the day, and had a confident smile as usual. As she closed the door, I saw her wearing the familiar bag I had seen in my room.

I closed her door and spoke to her as she approached.

“Is the visit time over now?”

“What does that matter? Wouldn’t it be better if you didn’t get caught?”

“What does it matter!”

“It’s okay. Originally, there should be at least one caregiver in a single room.”

As she said that, she took off her bag and laid it on her floor. Now I asked, looking at the demon king sitting on my bed.

“Are you the caregiver?”

“Why? Is it too good?”

“Good. I love it so much I’m dying.”

“You don’t have to like it that much.”

“Don’t you know what irony is?”

“I already knew you were a tsundere.”

Unaware, she bent down and took a bottle of orange juice from her bag. I reached out for her, thinking that 1.5-liter drink was my giant.

“Is this a hospitality gift? You don’t have to bring it.”

“I didn’t know that, so I didn’t bring it.”

After saying that, he opened the lid and started drinking. I didn’t care even though I looked absurd. Even so, he exclaimed as he removed the mouth of the bottle from his mouth.

“Kichya! It tastes like honey!”

“It must taste like orange, what kind of honey is it?”

“Don’t be upset, I bought you a good drink too.”

The Demon King, no, the Demon King picked up the bag and placed it on his lap. As he rummaged through his bag, he continued.

“I bought one with barley in it because I thought lumps of sugar would be bad for patients.”

“Did you buy barley tea?”

“This is it!”

What she took out was a can of beer.

“Hey! Are you buying a drink for a patient?”

Even at my words, the demon king made an exaggeratedly surprised expression.

“What? Was beer a drink? Jim thought it was a drink!”

“If a minor can’t afford it, that’s alcohol!”

At my words, the demon king giggled and laughed. If she wasn’t pretty when she saw her like this, she wanted to. Then you can hit at least one.

She put her beer can back in her bag. Then she pulled out her hand again, and in her hand was my switch.

“Then let’s do this! Get it!”

He gave it to me as if tossing it, and this time he took out his own.

As her game console came out, it was strange that she didn’t have my drink, so I asked her.

“Did you really not buy mine?”

“If you want a drink, come on! Have a drink!”

She held out her soda bottle beside her. The lid was not closed, so I could see the mouth of the bottle where the devil’s spittle was still buried.

I thought that if I drank this, it would be an indirect kiss, so I just received it and didn’t drink it. Perhaps noticing that, she asked with a teasing smile from the demon lord.

“Oh, do you think Jim is a woman?”

“It is not!”

As soon as she heard that, she immediately put her mouth on the mouth of her bottle and drank. Looking at her, she hardened her face slightly.

“I-I feel bad hearing that.”

She listened to what the demon king had to say and lowered the plastic bottle. She said while trying to ignore the mouth of the bottle where my saliva and the devil’s saliva were mixed.

“I feel bad that I didn’t buy my drink.”

“Ah, does this guy get mad about that?”

“That is a sexist remark, you.”

“What kind of bullshit are you? And aren’t you satisfied that I let you use a single room?”

While the demon king said that, she looked around her as if to look.

“What? Did you?”

“Exactly, Jim’s father. Talking about what happened today, they called this hospital and told them to do their best to treat you. You will pay for the hospitalization as well as the treatment. How is it, is it good?”

I thought the demon king’s father was just an ordinary landlord. Of course, the landlord is not ordinary, but if the hospital can provide a single room with just one phone call…

“Hey.”

“If you ask me if I’m friends with Jim, I’ll kick you out right away.”

“Okay.”

“Let go of this hand too.”

“Huh.”

He gently let go of her hand. When my hand fell, the demon king said while focusing on the game machine.

“But what did the doctor say?”

I also picked up the game console and pressed the power button.

“This? Maybe two or three weeks?”

“Isn’t that enough to live on?”

“No! It’s getting better, but that’s how long it will take!”

“Heh, just kidding.”

I raised my head for a moment and looked at the demon king’s face. The doll-like appearance was fixed to the game machine and did not move. I lowered my eyes again and turned on the game. He continued talking while waiting for loading.

“Yes, they also said not to let it touch the water for a while.”

“I heard that when Jim was cut.”

“What?”

I looked at her again. The demon king didn’t know that he would say such a thing, but he was looking at me with his eyes wide open as if he couldn’t believe it himself.

“What did Jim just say?”

“You, bee, bee? You?”

“No! It’s not what you were thinking!”

“You can’t!”

The words she said at the entrance to her cinema and in the bathroom came to mind.

“It wasn’t a bloody fight, and at that level, it’s 2-30 days at least. Besides, even if we don’t agree, it will end in a ban.”

“It always paid off only for Jim.”

Strangely, I knew very well how much the settlement money was, and I called my injury a price. Just looking at this made it easy to reason about her past.

“Did you fight every day in the past?”

“Oh, isn’t it?”

“Would you believe that! Were you Iljin in high school?”

“It wasn’t an Iljin! Jim was a lone wolf!”

He must have been a loner!

“Look at the past as the past! Please! Now I don’t go around arguing with anyone!”

I remembered the certificates I saw at the kendo hall. Having received so many awards, it was strange to come to our department without going pro. It seemed like he was banned from participating in some big accident in high school.

Anyway, as she said, I decided to leave the past in the past. Still, the way I see the Demon King hasn’t changed.

“Hey, did you fight while being stabbed? It’s bloody, it’s bloody.”

“Didn’t you get hit with a knife too! Besides, that bitch is pointing a cutter knife at me, should I just stay still?”

“You shouldn’t have created that situation!”

With that said, we started the game. While chasing a monster much bigger than her own body, I suddenly had a question, so I asked.

“But there you are.”

His eyes were still fixed on the screen of the game console.

“Why is that?”

Her flat tone made me think she was like me.

“Did you exchange numbers with him? I refused last time.”

“You mean that? I guess I did as Jim said. I think the student council asked for Jim’s number.”

“How did you do?”

“You must have flirted with the girl from the student council.”

“Well, if it’s him, it’s worth it.”

“I guess he was trying to use that as an opportunity to connect you and Yuri.”

“Okay.”

“Other than that, I haven’t had any contact with him.”

“I got it.”

“Now that your business is over, please know that I blocked you.”

“I got it, ouch!”

“Why are you like that, sweetheart?”

At my moans, she stopped her game and lifted her head. I answered while examining the wound that caused the pain.

“It hurts a little here.”

In fact, after the stitching, I felt the skin on this side tighten. However, playing the game with such a hand seemed to irritate the wound.

After looking at it, the demon king took out my game console.

“Uh, hey!”

“I don’t think this is the time to play games.”

I wanted to protest, but she was right. Even the doctor said moving could make the scar bigger, so it was better not to play the game.

“Look at Jim’s brilliant play instead!”

“What?”

Suddenly, the demon king came to my side holding a game console. She stuck to my right and started playing the game.

“Hey, hey.”

“Noisy. Aren’t you concentrating?”

No matter what she tried to say, the Demon King kept her eyes fixed on the screen and did not move. Because of that, I felt her heart ache because of her sweet smell. It wasn’t the body wash she used in my room, it was her own scent.

In addition, when the white and clean skin like a doll and the dense features were right in front of my eyes, my heart started beating fast. Her heartbeat was so loud that I could hear it in my ears, so I fervently prayed that she wouldn’t hear it.

It hurt my pride to see her heart beat by the demon king, but this wasn’t something I could control.

“You.”

When he called me at that moment, he thought he had been caught and was startled. But she pretended as nonchalantly as possible, and she answered.

“Uh, why?”

“How about doing that?”

With a pretty face less than two feet from my face, she gestured towards the TV in her hospital room.

“I’m doing it by connecting to it. It’s hard to watch them together on this small screen.”

“Joe, great! Let’s do it.”

“I knew it and brought it!”

Saying that, the Demon King left my side. Then, along with relief, I felt some kind of regret.

Anyway, she picked up her bag and pulled out her Switch dock, which connected her game console to the TV.

“Did you bring it to play games with me, not to visit me in the hospital?”

“I didn’t even know Jim could use this. After all, it’s ubiquitous.”

The demon king took the switch dog and walked to the TV. She started installing the switch dock in a drawer under the TV. She turns her back on me and plugs in the cable, and she notices that her ears are pink. She looks at me wondering if it was that color originally, but she asked as the demon king turned his back to me.

“Come to think of it, did you get a call from Yuri?”

When she heard that, she remembered the glass she had seen at the cinema. Even after I left the bathroom with the demon lord, she stood at the place where she shouted to me to bleed. Yuri made her face pale and she was in no mood to speak.

Even so, she called me properly even though she cried earlier.

“Come. Why?”

“Did you come to visit me?”

“No.”

“You are an ungrateful woman.”

“No, it must have been because I was very surprised.”

“As expected, Jim is the best, uh! You! See!”

Suddenly, the demon king looked at the TV screen and shouted. When she saw the screen as she said, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

-Around 1:00 noon today, a high school student with a knife caused a commotion in the movie theater. However, a college student subdues him, and it is a big topic.

The news was playing on the TV that I had turned on because I didn’t like the quiet. But in the news, what I did came out. When the movie theater CCTV video appeared on the screen, the demon king looked back at me and said.

“Nice! That’s cool! Awesome!”

On the screen, I even ran to a high school student over the hype, but the video stopped. It didn’t come out that he was beaten or something like that would go through deliberation. Still, I was proud that what I had done was on the news. Until the next thing comes out.

– The name of the young man in this video is Hajun Lee. He said in an interview that he did what he had to do. Watch the interview video.

An exaggerated face appeared on the screen. He was speaking against the backdrop of a movie theater.

– You did what you had to do. Anyone would have.

During the video of the interview, no one spoke. Then, the moment the video ended and the next news came out, the demon king said.

“Did you see this fucking dog!”