An F-Rank Veterinarian Physically Heals an S-Rank Magical Beast - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111
“Now, imagine this. What if I had simply dumped those mutant humans into the emergency room of a regular university hospital in Gangnam without any precautions? The lethal toxicity of the nectar pouring from their bodies would have contaminated the entire hospital, and regardless of doctors or anything else, a secondary Beast Zombie infection crisis would have erupted in the heart of Gangnam. It would have been the day South Korea fell.”
I rose slowly from the sofa and stepped directly in front of the rigid Inspection Team Leader.
My massive shadow fell eerily across the team leader’s pale face.
“That’s why I, a veterinarian, acting under the Special Quarantine Law, thoroughly isolated those contamination sources in the sterile chamber of my hospital’s pocket dimension—my precious private property—and graciously performed ‘euthanasia prevention and purification work’ by pouring my own money and top-tier interdimensional pharmaceuticals into forcibly extracting the Beast toxins from their bodies.”
“That’s… that’s absurd sophistry… mere wordplay! Treating citizens like pigs with foot-and-mouth disease!”
“It’s not wordplay, Team Leader. If a citizen harboring Grade 1 Beast toxin in their body wanders through the heart of Gangnam, they’re no longer a citizen deserving protection—they’re a biochemical terrorist. This is perfectly legal, not a single letter out of place in the law books, and it’s heroic quarantine work that single-handedly prevented a national disaster.”
I tapped my finger repeatedly against the Inspection Team Leader’s chest, driving my point home.
“Yet the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Hunter Association, instead of thanking me and presenting commendations and tens of billions in quarantine support funds, showed up with a worthless scrap of paper warrant lacking jurisdiction and trespassed on my private property, destroying equipment. Isn’t that right?”
The Inspection Team Leader found himself nodding without realizing it.
“That’s not all. You even shouted and released murderous intent in front of my VIP patient, an S-rank Beast, who had just undergone life-or-death surgery and desperately needed mental and physical stability. Do you realize this constitutes special animal abuse and Beast Management Act violations—a serious felony carrying a minimum ten-year prison sentence?”
“…!”
The Inspection Team Leader’s jaw trembled convulsively. My sophistry—disguising humans as Beasts, medical treatment as quarantine—was grotesquely twisted.
Yet the gears of this deformed logic meshed together with chilling perfection, sharply probing the contradictions in current law.
It was a legal blind spot.
In this transitional chaos where the legal framework for Hunters and mutant Beasts hadn’t yet been properly established, I had identified the gaps in current law and forged them into my own invincible shield—a stroke of genius.
Before me, even the most formidable chief investigator of any state agency found their breath stolen and their words trapped.
“Now, do you have a better grasp of the situation and the legal interpretation?”
I smiled faintly, tapped the tablet screen a few times, and tossed it into the Inspection Team Leader’s lap.
“Since you were so adamant about following the law, I’ll also follow capitalist law precisely and provide you with a receipt. I’ve already sent it to the Association’s shared email, so when you return, have the Association Chairman and the Minister review the billing documents on their desks.”
The Inspection Team Leader grasped the tablet with trembling hands and checked the details.
The moment he finished, his eyes bulged as if they might pop from his head, and a deflating sound escaped his lips.
[Arcana Medical Center Invoice and Damages Claim Statement]
– 1st Floor Lobby premium Italian marble and specialized automatic door restoration costs: 2 billion won
– Business interference and forced closure resulting in canceled appointments, breach of contract penalties, and lost opportunity costs: 15 billion won
– Special psychiatric treatment and premium Beast meat snacks for S-rank Thunder Blood Wolf’s severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): 30 billion won
– Intensive VIP 1:1 personal training education for unlicensed inspectors’ inadequate physical conditioning (Lead Senior Trainer: Ma Dong-tak, S-rank Hunter): 500 million won per person × 30 people = 15 billion won
[Total Claim Amount: 62 billion won (10% VAT additional. 20% daily compound interest accrues if unpaid by midnight tomorrow)]
“S-sixty-two billion…?! Are you insane?! You think you can pull off this lunacy against a state agency and walk away unscathed?!”
The Inspection Team Leader’s rage flared as he raised the tablet to hurl it to the ground.
At that moment, Thunder Blood Wolf, crouched at my feet, let out a “Grrrrrrgh-!” growl, baring crimson fangs.
Red lightning crackled from his snout, searing past the Inspection Team Leader’s nose bridge and charring his hair pitch black.
“Eeeek!”
The Inspection Team Leader swallowed his scream. In the end, he clutched the tablet protectively to his chest instead of throwing it.
“Fraud? I calculated this with utmost reasonableness and conscience—the bare minimum actual costs.”
I adjusted my glasses and smiled with ease.
“Tell the Association Chairman this clearly: if he quietly deposits this invoice amount and immediately removes that foul-smelling hindrance from in front of my hospital, I’ll graciously overlook the fact that you all trespassed on my private property today and attempted to abuse my adorable Beast.”
“But… what if the Association refuses this?”
My eyes froze over in an instant.
“Then tomorrow morning, I’ll summon hundreds of reporters to the Gwanghwamun Yi Sun-sin Statue Plaza during peak foot traffic and conduct a live ‘S-rank Beast outdoor release and stress tolerance test.’ Of course, Thunder Blood Wolf’s leash—a symbol of the Hunter Association’s unjust oppression and corrupt legacy—will be removed, and we’ll play a nice game of discus throw. If you substitute police cars for the discus, it’ll be an excellent stress reliever.”
Jin-hyuk tapped the Inspection Team Leader’s shoulder and whispered.
“You’ll finally see just how well that noble ‘citizen safety’ you were so willing to die for is being protected. Let’s verify whether it’s worth 62 billion won.”
“Y-you insane…! This is blatant terrorism and extortion against the nation!”
“It’s not extortion—it’s a perfectly legitimate and lawful veterinary outdoor exercise activity. So what will it be? Pay the 62 billion and keep it quiet, or shall we have a nice bloody game of tag with an S-rank beast right in the middle of Gangnam?”
He was completely outmaneuvered.
The Inspection Team Leader, who had stormed in with such swagger backed by state power, now found himself stripped bare by Jin-hyuk’s flawless logic, playing like a toy in the palm of his hand.
Ma Dong-tak’s overwhelming physical force that crumpled the Association’s armored vehicles like paper, combined with Jin-hyuk’s vicious capitalist madness of bending law like mud to unleash an S-rank beast in the city.
This was no fight a mere bureaucrat could handle.
“Ugh… Ugghhh…! I… I’ve lost… Retreat… Full retreat!”
The Inspection Team Leader finally declared surrender, tears of blood in his eyes.
The investigators lowered their weapons and sighed with relief, collapsing to the floor.
Just the fact that they could escape that hellish PT room where flesh was torn to shreds made them grateful to the demonic Jin-hyuk.
“Excellent judgment. Oh, but before you leave, you should separate and clean up all that garbage scattered on the floor.”
Jin-hyuk gestured with his chin toward Park Ki-tae collapsed on the ground.
“Isn’t he the one who reported to the Ministry of Health and Welfare with those ridiculous lies? Your flimsy warrant was hastily issued based on his false report.”
“W-well, that may be….”
“Then from the Association’s perspective, he’s the rotten ‘tail’ responsible for this entire mess. Cutting off the tail—isn’t that a specialty of South Korea’s political circles? Pin him with ‘spreading false information against state institutions and obstruction of official duties’ and throw him in solitary. That way you can wipe out the remnants of Apollo Hospital in one go, and you’ll have a hypocritical justification to avoid media criticism.”
The Inspection Team Leader’s dull eyes suddenly widened. If he made Park Ki-tae a perfect scapegoat as Jin-hyuk suggested, things would change.
From a mere bureaucrat’s perspective, it was the perfect exit strategy to cover up today’s shameful retreat from Arcana Hospital as a mere ‘misunderstanding caused by malicious false reporting.’
“I… I understand, Director Kang. You’re a man who… truly has no equal to a demon risen from hell.”
“When it comes to collecting payment, I’m more generous than an angel. Ma, see our guests out.”
“Ouch, they haven’t even cooled down yet and they’re already leaving? What a shame. Next time you visit, I’ll tear into your lower body and core, so come back with some good protein!”
The investigators fled toward the elevator amid Ma Dong-tak’s boisterous and chilling laughter.
Gone was the dignified presence of their uniforms from when they arrived; they looked like livestock fleeing a slaughterhouse with their tails between their legs.
Whirrrrr— clunk.
The elevator doors closed, and silence and peace returned to the basement. Only then did Jin-hyuk lean back against the sofa and stretch languidly.
“Phew. I’m exhausted from cleaning up trash all morning.”
“Boss. You really have nerves of steel. You demanded 62 billion won right to the Association President’s face—do you think those cheapskates will actually deposit it?”
Ma Dong-tak asked while casually picking up scattered 150-kilogram barbells with one hand and organizing them on the rack.
“Of course they won’t. Whose dog’s name is that money? It’ll take a year to pass the budget review. But it doesn’t matter. That invoice isn’t about receiving money—it’s a kind of ‘leash.’ As long as we hold that document with clear debt written on it, the Hunter Association won’t dare come within a kilometer of our hospital. We’ve bought peace with money.”
Jin-hyuk smiled the smile of a victor while sipping his watered-down iced Americano.
That’s when it happened.
Jin-hyuk’s system window, quietly floating in the basement’s empty space, suddenly burst into brilliant golden light like fireworks and began emitting a loud mechanical alarm. It wasn’t a simple notification from completing a Quest, but a grand and weighty wave announcing a massive system update itself.
Ding-! Ding-! Ding-!
[Achievement Unlocked: Guardian of the Sanctuary]
[You have mercilessly crushed the nation’s massive state power and unjust pressure with overwhelming physical force and perfect logic, proving the hospital’s absolute independence and extraterritoriality to the entire world!]
[Current Hospital Reputation (Recognition): Lv.4 (Sanctuary that even mega-guilds bow to) → Lv.5 (Inviolable Independent Territory) explosively breaks through its limits!]
[Fame Bonus: The ‘absolute obedience’ stat of Hunters and beasts toward their physician increases by 30%. Now even ordinary beasts lose their ferocity merely by making eye contact with the physician.]
Jin-hyuk’s eyes widened. The recognition stat that had been rising sluggishly for so long had changed. And it had broken through its limits with this national incident as the turning point.
Of course, he couldn’t stop here.
But the truly remarkable reward lay elsewhere.
[System Window Main Server Upgrade in Progress… 100% Complete.]
[Hidden Veterinary Privileges Unlocked Due to Attending Physician Kang Jin-hyuk’s Rank Elevation.]
[Special Knowledge Reward: ‘Demonic Beast Anatomy Knowledge (Intermediate)’ is now completely imprinted upon your cerebral cortex. You can now penetrate the skin and muscle of S-rank demonic beasts with your naked eye, perceiving their hidden fatal weaknesses and the flow of mana cores.]
Zzzzzt—!
Pwoooosh!
In that instant, terabytes upon terabytes of staggering information crashed down into Jin-hyuk’s mind like sharp lightning, tingling with electric intensity.
His eyes became covered in geometric golden grids. With each blink, he realized the world appeared differently before him.
As he gazed upon the Thunder Blood Wolf crouched before him, its thick crimson hide became transparent and vanished, revealing a massive heart pulsing with each beat, and the energy flow of the azure cerebral mana core coursing along its spine materialized in the air like a perfect three-dimensional hologram.
‘Is this… the power of intermediate knowledge?’
Turning his head in amazement to look at Ma Dong-tak, he could even perceive the grain and texture of the muscle fibers comprising the human’s pectoral and latissimus dorsi muscles.
It was an awakening that transcended the mere scope of veterinary medicine, achieving a biological understanding approaching that of a creator.
Ding—!
[Beginning Phase 2 Large-Scale Expansion Construction of the Pocket Dimension Hospital Infrastructure.]
[In addition to the existing Subspace Zones 1-3, Subspace Zone 4 ‘The Abyss Sterile Isolation Operating Room’ and the ‘Mana Stone Smelting Furnace’ have been unlocked.]
[A new ‘Black Market Shop’ tab is now active, allowing you to purchase magical medical equipment and elixirs beyond Earth’s currency, transcending into new dimensions.]
Jin-hyuk pressed the Black Market Shop tab with curious eyes, and a dark crimson interface materialized in the air.
[Premium Elixir Refinement Extraction Device: 10 Billion Won]
[Orichalcum-Coated Vibration Scalpel: 5 Billion Won]
[Dragon Bone Saw: 10,000 Prestige Points]
Items with performance as terrifying as their price tags were being sold endlessly. Even Jin-hyuk, who rarely showed surprise, found his jaw dropping.
He’d been saving money to expand the hospital, only for the system to reveal a new money-devouring beast alongside it.
“Heh… the jackpot really hit, but so did the hole in my wallet.”
Jin-hyuk removed his glasses and hummed a tune while gazing at the Black Market Shop tab once more.
Due to the worst crisis—the forceful invasion by state institutions—the Arcana Medical Center had transformed into an inviolable domain that no one could touch.
Moreover, intermediate anatomy knowledge, the operating room in The Abyss, and the Black Market Shop had all been unlocked.
Now, even if an unknown calamity-class demonic beast were to arrive, the ultimate system for perfect ‘physical therapy’ was complete.
Jin-hyuk rose from his seat and straightened his white coat neatly.
“Well, I’ve cleaned out all the pests and finished system maintenance… now let’s start operating smoothly while welcoming wealthy patients with deep pockets.”
Just then.
BOOM—!!!
The thick iron door of the PT room, which had been firmly shut, burst open with a tremendous explosive sound as if struck by a bomb.
“Jin-hyuk! We have an emergency!”
The person who rushed into the basement, breathing heavily, was Yoo Yi-soo.
Blood—whether from someone else or not—was smeared on Yi-soo’s usually immaculate combat attire.
“Yi-soo. Blood? Are you hurt?”
As Jin-hyuk approached in alarm, Yi-soo shook her head.
“It’s not my blood! In the lobby just now… a critical emergency patient was brought in. They just escaped from a dungeon and won’t stop hemorrhaging—it’s a severe case!”
Jin-hyuk’s expression turned cold as he narrowed his brow and stopped in his tracks.
“I made it clear in front of the reporters earlier. My hospital absolutely does not accept human patients. Send them to the emergency room at a regular university hospital.”
“I know! I wanted to send it back, but a regular hospital can’t even touch it! It’s been poisoned by an ‘A-rank Highly Toxic Chimera’ and its entire body is rotting away! The hunters from a major guild threw bundles of checks worth 10 billion won at our hospital desk, demanding we save their chief hunter!”
Because of my unwavering principle of refusing to treat humans, I found myself hesitating.
But 10 billion won in checks changed the equation entirely.
What captured my attention in that moment was Yoo Yi-soo’s action.
“Moreover… the patient is barely clinging to life, and he won’t let go of this no matter what. He says it’s absolutely essential to neutralize the otherworldly poison.”
Yoo Yi-soo carefully opened her trembling, blood-stained hands to reveal it.
Nestled in her small palm was a legendary phantom elixir so rare that even the Tower’s layer masters might see it only once in a lifetime.
And it wasn’t the commonly known variety of phantom elixir.
What Yoo Yi-soo held was a leaf of the ‘Nebula Flower’—the miraculous herb said to make even a dead man’s heart beat again.
It emanated an ethereal, mysterious blue light from her grasp.
“…!”
Behind my glasses, my golden pupils—freshly awakened to intermediate anatomy—flashed with terrifying intensity.
My ruthless, ferocious capitalist instinct as a veterinarian stirred, ready to shatter even my own absolute rules before money and rare items.
“Ma Dong-tak. Heat the operating room bed to maximum temperature.”
I licked my lips with my tongue and rolled up my gown sleeves.
“Today, for once, I’m going to conduct some serious ‘human pest control’ that reeks of profit.”

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