I Became the Oriental Doctor for Divine Beasts - Chapter 35

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A doctor for the Divine Beings
#35
“The orthopedic surgeon recommended me so strongly that I went in with high hopes, but they said the situation isn’t straightforward there either.”
Jin Do-gyeong smiled ruefully.
“If it were just a muscle strain, there would be options, but with a rupture, in the end there’s nothing to do but wait and let it heal over time.”
……That’s true enough.
If even O Ro-ji had said the treatment would be difficult, the condition was definitely serious.
‘I should take a look with Spirit Vision.’
I steadied my breathing quietly and gathered my focus.
Still, my level was too low.
Spirit Vision could only be used on patients whose condition I’d already assessed to some degree.
‘If I’ve grasped it this much, it should work.’
As I drew my concentration higher, the flow of Spirit Qi indeed began to appear around Do-gyeong’s shoulder.
The next moment.
I found myself frowning.
“……!”
The grain of the Spirit Qi was clearly misaligned at her shoulder.
Like a fault line twisted by an earthquake, the flow that should have connected was severed, the strands twisted in entirely different directions.
A sigh escaped without my meaning to make it.
“My goodness, you must have been in terrible pain. How exactly did you injure yourself?”
“Ah, well.”
Do-gyeong laughed, looking embarrassed.
“I was chasing a motorcycle on a bicycle. When they threw a wrench at me, I swerved to avoid it and went down, hitting my shoulder in the process.”
“Excuse me?!”
“Ha ha. I’d nearly caught up with them, so I was a bit frustrated about that.”
“?”
Officer, listen—
chasing a motorcycle on a bicycle,
dodging a wrench flying through the air,
crashing at full speed in that condition and ending up with only this level of injury—
‘this is absolutely not something to brush off so lightly……’
I closed my mouth, which had been hanging open.
Sigh. Best not to comment.
Divine Beings are certainly different from humans.
Since I didn’t even know where to start pointing things out, I decided to let it go.
“Let me start with Acupuncture Treatment.”
In cases of muscle rupture,
Korean medicine focuses on using acupuncture and herbal medicine to improve blood flow, reduce inflammation and pain, and create an environment conducive to recovery.
When needles are placed, they relax tense muscles and aid the circulation of vital energy to the damaged area, helping to accelerate recovery even if only slightly.
But of course—
a muscle rupture that would normally take six weeks doesn’t heal in a matter of days.
While pain may decrease and recovery accelerate, a certain amount of time is always essential for the muscle to knit back together.
‘Still… the officer is a Divine Being, and I can use Spirit Qi.’
I pinned my hopes on that possibility.
Fortunately, all the day’s consultations had ended.
I resolved to use the remaining Spirit Qi to its maximum, short of pushing myself to collapse.
Whoosh—
Shoulder Well, Shoulder Bone Hole, Upper Arm—
I infused the Spirit Qi held in the Myoan Stone and placed needles one by one at the major acupoints around her shoulder.
After all the needles were in place, I handed her a stock herbal remedy we kept on hand.
“Drink this while the needles are in.”
“What is this?”
“It’s called Sintong Chugeo-tang—a formula that dissolves blood stasis and reduces inflammation. I keep it stocked for patients with muscle damage.”
Fifteen minutes of Needle Retention passed like that.
“All right, let me remove the needles now.”
After removing all the needles, I held my breath and examined Do-gyeong’s shoulder again.
“…….”
“…….”
Moments later.
Do-gyeong and I both blinked at the same time.
There was no significant change.
I’d used the Spirit Qi in my necklace until it was nearly depleted, yet the misaligned flow showed no sign of even beginning to realign.
‘Honestly, I thought at least some of it would mesh back together……’
This was nowhere close.
Jin Do-gyeong opened her mouth first, forcing a reassuring smile.
“It can’t be helped. It was an unreasonable request on my part to begin with.”
“…….”
I clenched my teeth hard.
Not from embarrassment, but frustration.
The officer needed to recover quickly and return to the field,
so those horrible criminals could be caught even a day sooner.
“For now……”
I gathered my thoughts and spoke.
“I’ll prepare a separate herbal medicine to support recovery and send it to you. Make sure you take it regularly.”
But I already knew the truth myself.
If even the stock remedy hadn’t produced any notable effect, herbal medicine alone would take far too long.
‘This approach won’t work.’
I bit slightly at the inside of my firmly pressed lips.
Some kind of revolutionary different method was needed.

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Meanwhile, at around the same time.
O Ro-ji was preparing to close her newly opened clinic.
Refined and luxurious interior design.
Soft lighting reflected across the marble floor.
The latest physical therapy equipment lined along the walls.
It was a clinic where every penny had been thrown at it—borrowed money, personal savings, everything.
But O Ro-ji didn’t regret it one bit.
‘If I’m going to beat Go Yeon-hui, this is the minimum.’
Her goal had never been about money.
To crush Go Yeon-hui.
That was O Ro-ji’s sole life objective.
‘Hee hee hee……. Go Yeon-hui’s shabby old Baekmiodang doesn’t even compare.’
She looked around the clinic with a satisfied smile.
Only two weeks since opening, and the number of patients was growing faster than expected.
She’d even hired three nurses from the start.
For the opening, she’d given out premium German cookware to her patients and styled the opening celebration to match her own vibrant personality.
At this rate,
it wouldn’t be long before all the patients in this neighborhood flocked to her clinic.
‘After all, academic scores aren’t everything.’
There are types who excel in practice, like me.
O Ro-ji laughed brightly, praising herself.
It was then.
Whoosh—
The clinic’s automatic door slid open, and a middle-aged man walked in with heavy steps.
Ro-ji brightened at the sight of him.
“Oh my, Father? What brings you here without calling ahead?”
The man who built the massive brand known as O Hui Korean Medicine Hospital.
And O Ro-ji’s father, O Hui.
He slowly looked around the clinic interior and nodded.
“Well? After insisting on opening your own place, has it satisfied your ambitions?”
O Ro-ji laughed, covering her mouth delicately with the back of her hand.
An air of refined elegance naturally emanated from her posture.
“Hee hee hee. Father, we’re doing better than expected. We’ve only been open a short while, but there are already plenty of patients. Today was really busy for me too.”
But O Hui chuckled and smiled,
regarding her with eyes like he was watching a child who didn’t understand the ways of the world.
“Right. Well, we’ll see what happens.”
“……?”
At the weighted tone of his words, O Ro-ji felt a moment of puzzlement.
But soon she shook her head and brought up a different matter.
“Oh, that’s right! Father, I have something to tell you.”
“Hmm?”
“Please let Uncle know there’s no need for him to send patients my way.”
Her uncle was an orthopedic surgeon.
He maintained a cooperative relationship with O Hui Korean Medicine Hospital, frequently referring patients back and forth between the two.
One patient had come to this clinic through that channel this time as well.
O Ro-ji lifted her chin slightly.
“Unless I become the top in this region through my own strength, it doesn’t mean anything. I won’t accept patients being steered to me that way.”
“……Right, I understand. I’ll let him know.”
O Hui gazed at his daughter for a moment before nodding.
Then his eyes suddenly narrowed.
“Was it a shoulder muscle rupture patient, by any chance?”
O Ro-ji’s eyes widened.
“That’s right. How did you know that, Father?”
“Your uncle mentioned it. He said she barely avoided Grade 3 damage, but the condition was quite serious.”
O Hui spoke in a low voice.
The patient came to mind for O Ro-ji—
a tall woman with a solid build.
She seemed like an athlete or someone in a physically demanding profession.
‘Her name was Jin Do-gyeong, I think.’
She said she’d fallen off a bicycle, but the damage seemed excessive for an accident of that nature.
“I examined that patient quite carefully too. The muscle fibers were deeply ruptured, so… honestly, there was almost nothing I could do.”
For the first time, hesitation crept into the normally confident woman’s voice.
O Hui’s gaze sharpened.
“Then what treatment did you administer?”
O Ro-ji instinctively recognized that the question was a test.
She straightened her posture.
“I placed needles primarily on the shoulder—at points like Extreme Source, Shoulder Bone Hole, Shoulder Well. I also prescribed herbal medicine to reduce pain and improve blood flow.”
O Hui’s stern expression gradually softened.
“……You covered the basics, at least.”
O Ro-ji’s chest eased slightly at those words.
Relief tinged her formerly rigid face as she asked carefully,
“Was there perhaps some other method that could have healed it faster, Father?”
O Hui clicked his tongue softly.
“Tsk. A case like that can’t be helped. Muscle rupture requires prolonged rest—essential. Even the finest physician can’t make it heal significantly faster than the body’s natural timeline.”
O Ro-ji could only nod at her father’s firm words.
That was true.
She had done her best.
She murmured to herself.
‘Right. This is one of those unavoidable cases.’
There would be no way to change that. Not for anyone in this world.

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