Chapter 2 – My Life Is Truly a Legend.

[The EX-level gate attack, which the association put forth all its effort in collaboration with the three major guilds and large guilds, was successful. However, due to this attack, the world hero rankings number 1 ‘Dain Adamas’, 2nd place ‘Mir Ryuin’, and 3rd place ‘Mei Ruina’ were seriously injured to the point of unconsciousness, so the association held a press conference as soon as the treatment of the three heroes was completed. I will…]

Everyone’s attention in the emergency room was focused on the emergency news heard on TV.

An EX-class gate that opens every few centuries and poses the worst crisis to humanity.

When I first detected the EX Gate at the Gate Observation Station, I thought the world would be destroyed as written in the literature, but fortunately, the attack seemed to have ended in success.

“Hey, not that other person, but those three people are unconscious? It must have been a really dangerous gate.”

Although there was a loss that could not be ignored, as three of the world’s most powerful heroes emerged unconscious and seriously injured… It was fortunate that they were able to conquer the EX-class gate that had only been told about in legends.〈 Br〉

“It’s an EX-class gate that is so dangerous that the era collapses every time it opens. “I think success is actually really great.”

“That’s right. Anyway, those three people will receive intensive care and get out of the hospital bed in no time. “If it was a real emergency, they would have come here.”

Yes. If it had been a true emergency in the first place, we would have received the three heroes as patients even before the news came out.

Because this is a national public emergency room exclusively for awakened people.

Because it was a place with the best personnel and equipment where emergency patients from all over the world came.

“That’s right. Just because you didn’t come here doesn’t mean it’s anything serious. Oh, it’s the youngest. “Did you inspect the anesthetics and painkillers that came in today to see if they were defective?”

“Oh, I haven’t done it yet. “I have something to do first, so I’m doing that…”

“You haven’t done it yet?”

And I am the youngest in this emergency room.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t have enough time. It’s already been 4 years since I worked here.

Because I’m such a tough worker, when a replacement comes in, he leaves in half a day or two days if it’s as long as possible. I don’t have time to go somewhere and listen to the youngest.

“This bastard is missing… Hey, are you saying I ate enough for a while? That’s right, he’s the youngest. “You bastard, I’m drowning in the ramen soup I spilled while eating in the bathroom!”

“Sorry! “I will quickly go and inspect it!”

But what can I do? Even though I’ve been there for 4 years, the fact that I’m the youngest doesn’t change. If I have to criticize my seniority, I should criticize him.

I quickly headed to the warehouse, thinking to myself for the 60,000th time this month that I wanted to quit.

I really want to quit my job. I want to get away from this hellish place.

Without realizing it, I forgot about the three S-class heroes who had become unconscious, and went into the warehouse where the light bulb was broken, dreaming of quitting my job, which I couldn’t do.

A month has already passed since I spent such terrible days that I dreamed of quitting my job or going to hell every day.

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“How are you? I’m the youngest. You have been given a personnel appointment. “You can go to the place of work that I will tell you right away.”

“Yes?”

After only three hours of sleep, I went to work in a half-asleep state, and the team leader, who was normally supposed to be giving time to his subordinates and serving refreshments in the bathroom, greeted me at the entrance to the emergency room.

An incomprehensible sight, an incomprehensible personnel appointment, and my brain, which had not yet fully booted up, had a hard time understanding the team leader’s words.

“Once you get there, they will guide you through everything. You have done a good job so far, and continue to do well. Okay then, go.”

After the brief and abrupt announcement of personnel appointments, the team leader entered the emergency room, handing me a note.

“······What is it?”

There are degrees of suddenness, but isn’t this beyond the limits? Even though it is a place worse than a prison, such personnel appointments are a bit…

With that in mind, I opened the note the team leader gave me and looked at the contents.

“Top floor of special ward… VVIP room?”

There was something unusual.

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“Oh, you’re here.”

When I arrived at the location written on the note, I was greeted by a woman in a black suit standing in front of the door of the VVIP hospital room.

“Haa… Why have I been going through so much trouble since dawn?”

The woman did not welcome me warmly. She had an expression that made her look so annoyed that she could be seen even behind her sunglasses.

“That’s Mr. Stay, right? Working in the emergency room.”

“······Yes, that’s right.”

“I’m Nice. “I work in the association’s Central Intelligence Department.”

The woman, who introduced herself as Nice, took out a document from her briefcase and handed it to me.

But I couldn’t move a single finger even while looking at the documents handed to me.

Lord, the Central Intelligence Agency? Why did you call me in a place like that…?

This was because the Central Intelligence Agency she belonged to was one of the places that modern awakened people were most afraid of and could never ignore as an awakened person.

A place that thoroughly covers the dark side of the association with the association behind its back and will do whatever it takes to achieve its goals.

The association’s Central Intelligence Department was the one that even the large guilds, which were said to have power comparable to that of a nation and were made up of only heroes of at least B grade, tried to avoid.

The fact that the Central Intelligence Agency came to see me means that they already know everything about me, from the moment I was born, to what I saw yesterday and why I hit my daughter…

One of the reasons why the Central Intelligence Agency was able to establish its reputation is to investigate everything about the target before taking action.

Why on earth did he come to such a great place, where I was only an F-level awakened person, a debt collector with hundreds of millions in debt, and who wanted to quit every day, but was only imagining it because it was obvious that if I did, I would be scolded…〈 Br〉

“Hey, Mr. Stay. Don’t you accept it?”

“Oh, I’ll take it!”

I was startled by Nice’s irritated voice and snatched the document from her hand.

Just as I was about to check the contents because I felt like if I just received it and stayed still, I would be asked again, ‘Why don’t you read it?’, Nice’s hand passed a pen over the document so that I couldn’t see the contents.

“I’ll explain it quickly, so you don’t have to read it. I don’t have time to wait to read. Just listen while signing. Because you have no other option than to sign.”

“Yes? What on earth is that…”

“I told you I belong to the Central Intelligence Agency, right? Then you’ll get a rough idea. I already knew that you owed me a huge debt that I could never repay without this job. And if you don’t sign that document, you’ll be fired from this job. In that case, you will probably end up living a life where your organs are removed one by one whenever you need them as an expensive awakened organ storage facility for loan sharks.”

“······.”

Such harsh, quick, and extremely bitter words without the slightest consideration.

But nothing was wrong, so I had no choice but to receive the pen from Nice.

As she said, I had no choice.

“I’m glad you seem to understand what I’m saying. Well, that doesn’t mean there’s any reason to feel hostility towards me. “You and I will never meet again from today, and the terms of the job transfer agreement written in that document are probably pretty good for you.”

“Good terms?”

“Yes, let’s quickly sign it, we’re going to do it anyway.”

That is correct. If I don’t sign, I will be fired from my job, so I have no choice but to sign.

Yes, if you can’t avoid it, you have no choice but to accept it coolly.

As I started to sign the signature line on the document that Nice gave me, she looked at me and started explaining the contents of her document.

“From now on, your job is to take care of the three awakened people. Well, he won’t cause a scene or anything, so you don’t have to worry about that. “All three of us are in a vegetable state.”

“······Yes?”

“I’m sure you know these people. I’ve met you before. May Ruina, Dain Adamas, Mir Ryuin. They all know each other, right? Well, it doesn’t seem like a good relationship from your perspective, but I’ll give you twice as much as you originally received, so it’s okay, right?”

The moment I heard Nice’s list of the names of the three people I had to take care of, I couldn’t help but believe my ears.

However, when I looked down and checked the contents of the document, I realized that this was reality when I saw the names of those three people written there as well.

Dain Adamas, number one in the world’s hero rankings.

Mir Ryuin, ranked 2nd in the world hero rankings.

May Ruina is ranked 3rd in the world hero rankings.

Even if you are not an Awakened person, anyone living in the same era should know about the world’s best and strongest heroes.

A month ago, these three people, who succeeded in conquering the EX-class gate that could lead to the destruction of the world by sacrificing themselves, were currently showing such great power that they were nicknamed heroes of all mankind.

However, the problem was that he gained power while in a vegetative state.

“For the past month, the association, major guilds around the world, and the Holy See have been working together to find a treatment method, but in the end, they failed. The three people will have to stay in bed in a vegetative state for the rest of their lives. The Vatican, which reveres the hero May Ruina and calls it a saint, has also confirmed that the recovery of the three is impossible, so this fact will not be overturned.”

“I see…”

“Even though they have become vegetative, almost like corpses, it is still true that these three are heroes who saved humanity. So, we decided to provide the best aftercare service possible to the three people at the national level.”

May Ruina, Dain Adamas, and Mir Ryuin did not have great character as humans, or to be honest, they were half-baked people, but they were heroes who saved the world.

That’s why I nodded to what Nice said.

“Well, that’s right. It is an immutable fact that those three people are heroes who saved humanity… Huh? “The best aftercare?”

Then suddenly something strange about what she said caught my attention.

Why use someone like me for the best aftercare?

“Yes. “It’s the best aftercare service we can provide.”

“But why me?”

Nice answered my question as if it were very obvious.

“That’s because you work in a national emergency room for public awakened people.”

“Yes? What on earth is that…”

“The fact that you worked flawlessly for four years in that hellish place proves that you are the best service we can provide to the three heroes. Didn’t you know? “What kind of evaluation is the emergency room among the awakened?”

It was my first time hearing it.

For me, the national public emergency room exclusively for awakened people was like the edge of a cliff just before hell, where awakened people whose lives had been completely ruined crawled to try to survive somehow.

“In the public, people who work in that emergency room are called examples of self-sacrifice. Of course, those who know the real situation of those employees cannot say such things… But it is still true that public opinion is favorable.”

“Oh my god.”

“That’s why you caught our eye while you were working in the emergency room. How is it. Now do you know why we chose you to be the caregiver for those three people?”

After listening to Nice’s explanation, honestly, I didn’t understand why that horrible emergency room was evaluated that way by the public, but somehow I understood.

Certainly, to someone who doesn’t know anything, we who work in the emergency room might seem amazing.

I had no idea that I was evaluated that way for only sleeping three hours a day and spending all my remaining time working without any days off.

But despite this, there was one question that seemed unlikely to be resolved unless asked.

That’s why I confidently asked Nice.

“But I’m the youngest person in the emergency room. Why was I chosen?”

In response to my question, Nice chuckled and answered as if it was obvious.

“You said it yourself. Because you are the youngest. “You can think of it as being ignored in technical terms.”

The reason for selecting the caregivers for the three heroes who saved the world was a very realistic yet absurd reason.

“Anyway, I’ve roughly finished explaining the important things, so now I’ll start explaining what you need to do while working as a caregiver. “I won’t do it twice, so listen straight through the first time.”

That’s how the explanation of the duties that must be observed while working as Nice’s caregiver began.

“Until this three recover. Until then, I will devote my life to this work. That’s what you have to do.”

It ended so simply.

Just as I was about to raise a question mark over her head at her explanation, which was much simpler than I expected, Nice’s explanation continued a little further.

It was an explanation of the penalty that would arise if she failed to fulfill her obligations.

“Please note that this is an unavoidable obligation that has been imposed since you signed the document, and if you fail to comply with it, our Central Intelligence Agency will define you as an enemy. After manipulating public opinion by saying that you are a criminal who is no better than a piece of trash for neglecting the heroes who saved the world, both your real and non-existent crimes will be poured out on you, and you will be summarily punished.”

“······.”

“Well, the salary is double, and the work isn’t as intense. Wouldn’t it be easier to just think of yourself as having a job for life?”

As someone who dreamed of quitting my job as soon as I paid off all my debt and opening a café in a quiet neighborhood, this was not comforting at all.

The Vatican also nailed it that there was no room for revival, so they just told us to live as those three servants until we die…

“Okay, then that’s all I have to say. From now on, everything that happens while providing care is entirely your responsibility, so please be responsible and work hard.”

After finishing what he had to say, whether I was in despair or not, Nice took the job transfer contract out of my hand and left the place.

In the hallway with no one except me, I was painfully aware of why my seniors had taken the time to handle this issue with me, who was the most lazy person.

“You’re a confirmed slave just because you’re a Jjamchi… “I have to live my whole life as a caregiver for people in vegetative states.”

My life is truly a legend.