I Became the Oriental Doctor for Divine Beasts - Chapter 79

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I had become a physician for Divine Beasts.
#79
A formal shirt with the necktie loosened just slightly.
Baek Eun-ho crossed the courtyard of Baek Myodang naturally and came to stand before me.
He looked at me, then lifted an eyebrow.
“Go, why the long face? Something wrong?”
“Oh, it’s nothing serious, just….”
I trailed off, then suddenly tilted my head.
“But what brings you here anyway?”
He settled casually onto the veranda beside me before speaking.
“Came to check if you’re behaving yourself.”
“What?”
“You’re always collapsing or getting tangled up in some incident or other. Someone has to make sure you’re in one piece.”
Since when was I a disaster magnet with the sense of a child?
But he wasn’t entirely wrong either, so it felt strange to argue back.
‘Tch.’
I closed my mouth sulkily.
Baek Eun-ho sat on the veranda and crossed his legs with ease.
With those long legs stretched out and his relaxed posture, even though it wasn’t his home, the space somehow looked like his territory.
“So.”
After a moment of quiet sitting side by side, he suddenly asked.
“What’s eating at you?”
“Is it that obvious?”
“Your sighs nearly punctured Baek Myodang’s ceiling.”
…….
I rolled my eyes awkwardly, then finally brought up the broadcast offer.
“Actually, I got a proposal to appear on a show.”
“A show?”
“Yes. But honestly, I’m just not cut out for broadcast. I’ll probably stumble over my words in front of the camera.”
I hesitated a moment before adding quietly.
“…But if I don’t go, O Ro-ji will be alone on camera, and that bothers me too.”
“O Ro-ji?”
“Oh, my college classmate. Something happened with her, and….”
Baek Eun-ho listened to me quietly.
When I finished my story, I drew my knees up and hugged them.
“I wish I could see the answer in a dream like you do.”
In that moment.
Baek Eun-ho’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“What do you mean by that?”
“Oh, when I strengthened the Myoan Stone this time, I also absorbed Yang Si-heon’s Precognitive Dream ability.”
“…What?”
I’d said it without thinking much, but his voice rose sharply.
I blinked.
“Why?”
He let out a laugh of exasperation.
“You absorbed that wolf’s ability instead of mine?”
“Yang Si-heon is a wolf? He’s a sheep.”
“And.”
Baek Eun-ho ignored my comment and crossed his arms.
“Precognitive Dream is vague anyway. The real best ability is Beast Clan Dominion.”
“Why are you suddenly making this a competition?”
I looked at him with a bewildered expression.
Eun-ho seemed to be in a foul mood.
‘What’s gotten into him all of a sudden?’
Was he upset because he thought his ability was inferior?
Was this a sensitive topic among Divine Beasts?
Regardless.
I murmured while gazing out at Baek Myodang’s courtyard bathed in the dusky evening light.
“And honestly, I’m a bit scared too.”
“Scared of what?”
“If I go on the broadcast and my face becomes known, I’m worried the Fallen Ones might target me again.”
Though the incident in Sokcho this time was only an attempt.
The thought that they could appear again at any moment left me genuinely uneasy in some corner of my heart.
…….
Baek Eun-ho fell silent for a moment.
Oh no. Did I whine too much?
I’d held it in well until now, but something about the evening mood made me voice my weakness in front of Eun-ho before I could help it.
I glanced at him cautiously, and he finally spoke.
“Go, you’re misunderstanding something.”
“Yes?”
“Your information is already known to anyone who needs to know it. You’re safe right now because you’re under my influence.”
Ah, yes…. Thank you….
A statement brimming with typical Baek Eun-ho confidence.
I was laughing awkwardly when his slate-blue eyes quietly fixed on me.
“And actually, if you become more famous, it might make it harder for them to touch you carelessly.”
I paused to think. Now that I heard it, that made sense too.
Baek Eun-ho chuckled and asked.
“And you have no confidence you can beat that woman in skill?”
“No, that’s not it.”
I answered immediately.
He shrugged as if it were obvious.
“Then what’s the problem? Go out there and crush her.”
“Crush her?”
I finally burst out laughing.
“Why do you say such scary things?”
“Because it’s the truth. No one can match your skill.”
……!
Eun-ho said it so matter-of-factly that it became oddly comforting.
I quietly traced the wood grain of the veranda with my fingertip.
‘If O Ro-ji becomes famous through the broadcast, not just Se-rin but other patients will follow that misguided diet.’
But if I appear on the broadcast.
I could show people that there are other ways.
‘And I need to grow stronger.’
I had to heal more people and grow as a Purifier, and eventually end the Divine Beast War.
I had to uncover the secrets my mother left behind.
For that, I couldn’t keep hiding from the world.
I exhaled deeply.
“All right, I’ve decided. I’ll do it.”
At that, Baek Eun-ho’s lips curved slightly upward.
I picked up my phone.
And began typing a message to Yun Se-rin.

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The Broadcast Station.
Countless people hurried through the station’s corridors.
Staff finishing shoots, junior writers rushing about frantically, the crackle of walkie-talkies audible from somewhere.
…….
Yang Si-heon passed through it all with a blank expression, pressing a baseball cap down on his head.
Black shirt and slacks.
Despite the ordinary clothing, he had an inexplicably striking presence.
He could feel staff members glancing at him as they passed, but he walked forward with the ease of someone accustomed to it.
Then it happened.
“Hey?!”
Some man came running toward Si-heon with a delighted expression.
“Yang Si-heon! I’m PD Kang Tae-wook. It’s been a while.”
“…Hello.”
Si-heon lowered his head slowly.
Inwardly, his thoughts remained indifferent.
This person was a PD from the entertainment division, if he recalled correctly.
‘What show was it again….’
Meanwhile, Kang Tae-wook was plainly excited, like someone who’d spotted a rare catch.
“Wow, to meet you here! I’ve been contacting you, but you never responded. You must have been busy, right?”
…….
“Would it be difficult for you to appear this time too?”
Another one of these conversations.
Yang Si-heon swallowed a small sigh internally.
He genuinely had no interest in variety shows.
The act of droning on with predictable talk and laughing while pretending to enjoy himself was simply tedious.
For that reason, he’d been politely declining all variety show offers up to now.
Si-heon smiled appropriately and spoke.
“I’m afraid that might be difficult.”
“Aw, come on, don’t say that.”
Kang Tae-wook pressed on almost desperately.
“The format this time is really good. We’ve brought on two promising practitioners as guest panelists. If you add Yang Si-heon to the mix, the buzz will definitely explode, I’m telling you?”
Si-heon maintained a slight smile while Kang Tae-wook began earnestly trying to persuade him.
“I mean, our program’s been a bit sluggish lately, but you know what they say—the old is the best. Just a bit more buzz and the ratings are guaranteed. Health shows have a solid base viewer anyway….”
Ah. Now it came back to him.
This PD was in charge of , a health show.
That program—the one he’d seen himself appearing in during the Precognitive Dream.
Si-heon’s eyebrow twitched ever so slightly.
‘Then could those practitioner guests be…?’
A sudden premonition struck him.
His nerves sharpened, but Si-heon concealed his emotion beneath a courteous smile.
“Is the format different this time?”
“Yes. This time we’re doing a special on practitioners. We’re recruiting two practitioners to create a rival dynamic.”
“Which practitioners?”
“O Ro-ji, the director of O-hui Korean Medicine Hospital, and Go Yeon-hee, the director of Baek Myodang Clinic. Ah, you’ve been to Baek Myodang before, haven’t you? There are rumors going around about it.”
In an instant, Si-heon lowered his gaze as if nothing were amiss.
But his mind was racing rapidly.
‘Go Yeon-hee is going on broadcast?’
It was unexpected.
She was the type who cared about little besides her patients.
Kang Tae-wook, oblivious to the shift, continued eagerly.
“We were originally just going to recruit the O-hui Korean Medicine Hospital director, but the writer really pushed for Go Yeon-hee.”
…….
“Since they’re both young practitioners, the rival dynamic seemed like it would work well.”
The moment he heard those words, Yang Si-heon’s eyes dimmed slowly.
The broadcast world was never a gentle place.
Sensational editing. Manufactured conflict. Forced confrontation.
Even devil’s editing, in extreme cases.
And Go Yeon-hee was not someone accustomed to such machinations.
‘Innocent, I suppose—or pure, rather.’
Someone who thought only of her patients.
If things went wrong, Go Yeon-hee might get swept up in it….
Si-heon’s brow furrowed with clear displeasure, but then his shoulders suddenly stiffened.
He had just realized something.
Lately, he’d been paying attention to Go Yeon-hee far more than seemed normal.

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