I Became the Oriental Doctor for Divine Beasts - Chapter 52

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Became the doctor for Divine Beasts
#52
Baek Eun-ho’s warning that the Won Clan would regard me unfavorably for political reasons among Divine Beasts.
As I laid out the situation clearly, Eun-ho hesitated for a moment before looking at me.
“That’s right.”
He nodded slightly.
“Since strengthening your Spirit Creature—a Purifier—benefits everyone, the Won Clan will cooperate. They won’t deliberately sabotage it. But their attitude toward you might be somewhat… prickly.”
Eun-ho seemed worried that I might take their territorial behavior to heart.
Or perhaps he felt sorry that the fundamental cause of it lay with the Baek Clan.
I walked in silence for a moment, then let out a small laugh.
Eun-ho stopped when he heard my laugh.
“What?”
“Don’t worry. I wasn’t raised sheltered in a greenhouse, either.”
I shrugged.
“I faced discrimination growing up without a father, in a single-parent household. And from high school on, I’ve lived alone without my mother.”
I flicked a pebble from my path and added, “Discrimination, prejudice—I’ve grown thick skin about those things. Most of it doesn’t hurt anymore.”
I kicked at another stone beneath my feet. “Discrimination, prejudice… that kind of thing doesn’t faze me anymore. These days, I barely feel hurt by that sort of thing.”
“…….”
Eun-ho stopped walking.
And he stared at me intently.
What? Why are you looking at me like that?
Embarrassed, I scratched the back of my neck, and only then did Eun-ho avert his gaze and speak.
“We’ll be late. Let’s hurry.”
“Right. Actually, I was wondering—how do we get to Sokcho? By train? Your own car?”
I asked brightly, and Eun-ho sighed heavily, pressing his palm against his forehead.
“Seriously. You really…”
“Why! I’m new to this world, okay? It’s natural that I don’t know!”
“……Fine, forget it. I’ll explain.”
Eun-ho shook his head and opened his mouth.
“There are Spirit Creatures for spatial movement. Think of it as a door with a special handle—an item attached to it. We call it a ‘Transfer Gate.'”
“A Transfer Gate?”
My eyes lit up.
“Like the ‘Door Anywhere’ from that one cartoon?”
“I knew you’d say that.”
Eun-ho laughed despite himself and continued.
“Well, it’s similar in a way, but the conditions for use are tricky.”
“What conditions?”
“It works on the principle of drawing ambient spiritual energy, so it only operates in places with a strong spiritual aura. And there are size limitations too.”
I furrowed my brows.
“Size limitations?”
“The door is quite small. An adult would have to squeeze their body through.”
“I see.”
“There are also limits on the number of transfers and the distance.”
I’d imagined the cartoon version of “Door Anywhere,” so I felt slightly deflated.
Eun-ho shrugged.
“So it won’t be as cool as you think. It’s not like opening a door and walking through dramatically—it’s more like squeezing through a cat door.”
I pouted briefly, then nodded.
“Well, I understand. So to use that Transfer Gate, where do we need to go?”
“The nearest Transfer Gate from here—”
His gaze turned slightly toward the distance.
“Is at our family’s summer estate.”
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A short while later.
“What is this place?”
I murmured in surprise, looking around.
Deep in the mountains of Eastern Gyeonggi Province.
There was barely any sign of people, and the air itself felt different.
Sunlight filtered through the leaves danced gently, and from somewhere came the faint sound of a stream flowing through a valley.
‘The energy here feels strangely good.’
As soon as I stepped into this place, my body felt lighter and energy surged through me.
Baek Eun-ho answered briefly.
“Baek Clan Summer Estate.”
What emerged between the trees was a low building made of glass and concrete.
All unnecessary ornamentation stripped away—clean, minimalist design. Simple, yet somehow captivating to the eye.
As we entered the annex, a fragrance that reminded me of a luxury hotel lobby brushed against my nostrils.
Eun-ho led the way deeper into the building.
“Here it is.”
I naturally looked up.
I saw a structure suspended slightly from the ceiling and walls.
A space on another level entirely, made of thin metal frames and glass railings.
‘Wow. It’s like a transparent loft floating in midair.’
I narrowed my eyes and asked.
“Is that the ‘Transfer Gate’?”
Embedded stairs could be unfolded to climb into that transparent loft.
And in the ceiling of that space, there was another door leading somewhere.
It looked like an ordinary side door at first glance.
But the handle caught my attention.
A handle made of some metal—brass or bronze, I couldn’t tell.
Its surface was engraved with intricate patterns, and it gleamed with a subtle luster whenever it caught the light.
‘So that’s the Spirit Creature that transforms an ordinary door into a warp.’
Opening that and going through takes you to Sokcho!
It was fascinating. Each time I encountered something like this, it drove home the reality that I’d stepped into a strange new world.
“So you’re saying if I really open that door and go through, I’ll end up in Sokcho?”
I turned to Baek Eun-ho with a skeptical look.
Eun-ho shrugged.
“Suit yourself. Go ahead and try it, or don’t.”
“You’re certainly polite with your words.”
I grumbled as I climbed the stairs.
When I reached directly beneath the Transfer Gate in the ceiling, the door looked even smaller than I’d expected.
There was a footrest nearby.
‘They want me to go through there?’
I stepped onto the footrest and stretched to grab the handle. Its coldness touched my palm.
Creak—
Inside was only complete darkness. It was so dark I couldn’t see even an inch ahead.
I took a moment to steady my breathing, then pushed my head through first.
The moment I squeezed my upper body through—
“Oh, right.”
I heard Eun-ho’s voice from below.
“When you go in there, you’ll fall. That’s the only way it can connect to the Sokcho Transfer Gate.”
“……What did you just say?”
I yelped in shock, but it was already too late.
The moment I pushed my upper body through, space flipped.
The direction I thought was down became up, and what I thought was up became down.
“Why would you tell me that now—!”
I tried to pull my body back, but my head was already plummeting downward.
A dizzy sensation of falling through emptiness flooded my mind.
“Aaahhhhh!”
My heart dropped as if I were falling from a great height.
I squeezed my eyes shut.
A moment later.
Thud—
It wasn’t the hard impact I’d expected.
Instead of my head hitting the ground, something firm caught the back of my knees and my back.
‘……Huh?’
I cautiously opened my eyes.
A strange man’s face was right in front of me.
Brilliant platinum hair that fell past his nape.
Multiple piercings in his ears, and his eyes looking down at me sparkled with a hint of mischief.
Both his arms were firmly supporting me.
Which meant this man had caught me in his arms as I fell through the air!
He looked down at me with interest, then his lips curved into a smirk.
“Wow. You’re incredibly beautiful.”
Who is this guy?
After the initial shock wore off, I came to my senses and, twisting my body, spoke.
“Please put me down!”
“Oh, sorry.”
The man set me down without protest.
The moment my feet touched the ground, I looked around.
“Wow.”
My eyes widened involuntarily.
Beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, I could see the sea.
A long blue horizon stretched out, and the water sparkled in the sunlight.
‘Is this a café? Or a villa?’
It was a small, cozy space with wooden tables and chairs. When I looked up at where I’d just fallen from, there was a small loft door in the ceiling here as well.
Just then, the loft opened and a shadow dropped from the ceiling.
“…….”
It was Baek Eun-ho.
He landed lightly on the floor as if he were simply descending stairs, completely unfazed.
“How could you tell me that so late! I could have been hurt!”
At my sharp accusation, Eun-ho nonchalantly shrugged.
“But you weren’t.”
Seriously.
While I was glaring at Eun-ho, that man from before strode up to me.
And he extended his hand with a smile.
“Hey there, beautiful. You’re that Purifier, right? I’m Won Jun, the heir of the Won Clan.”
I hesitated briefly, then shook his hand.
“……I’m Go Yeon-hee.”
This person is a Divine Beast of the Won Clan?
It was completely different from the image of a “craftsman” I’d vaguely imagined.
An endlessly carefree demeanor.
His tone and manner had none of the quiet, grave feeling of a craftsman working in a workshop—he was just…
‘Like a pretty delinquent.’
As I evaluated him with suspicious eyes, he rolled my name around in his mouth.
“Yeon-hee……. What a pretty name.”
A playful smile crinkled the corners of his eyes.
“How old are you?”
“I’m twenty-seven.”
“What? Me too! So should we be friends?”
“Huh?”
Now suddenly he was speaking informally.
But perhaps because I sensed no malice in it—
It was absurd and ridiculous, yet oddly inoffensive.
I let out a small laugh and shrugged.
“Sure, why not. Then I’ll drop the formality too?”
“Sounds good.”
He flashed a bright smile.
That’s when—
Baek Eun-ho, who had been watching our introduction from the side with a slightly irritated expression, spoke up.
“Won Jun. Where is your clan master, Won Young-ok?”
“Oh, Eun-ho.”
Won Jun brushed back his long platinum hair and replied.
“She’s at the workshop. She’s probably working. Let’s head over.”
Then Won Jun glanced at me with a grin.
His lips curved playfully.
“Come on, Yeon-hee.”

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