The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 350

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Chapter 350

“I don’t want to.”

I firmly refused.

“Eh.”

Sasha’s movements froze.

She seemed to have never thought that I would refuse.

“Why don’t you want to? Doesn’t it sound totally fun? I thought Clinic Director would like roller coasters?”

“Roller coasters are fine. I don’t like the school uniform.”

It’s not that I hate amusement parks. Though I don’t particularly like them either.

Since returning to the modern world, I’ve never once thought about going to an amusement park.

‘You just wait in long lines, and it’s nothing but annoying. Mountain climbing is much better.’

If I want to feel thrills from height and speed, I can just run using lightness techniques. Why would I bother riding amusement park rides?

I have absolutely no desire to go to an amusement park alone and wait in lines to ride things.

If I went with someone, it wouldn’t be boring so it wouldn’t be bad.

So if someone really wanted to go together, it’s not like I couldn’t go… but since returning to the modern world, Sasha was the first person to make such a proposal.

“Eeeeeek!”

But school uniforms are a completely different story.

It’s been so long since I graduated high school that I can’t even remember when it was.

“Did Clinic Director say she didn’t want to?”

Even Hasha, who was about to enter her room, heard our conversation and came running out.

She trembled with her hands shaking, her face shocked as if she had just heard me confess to murder.

“…Why on earth did you think I would like it?”

“It’s romantic!”

“It’s pretty.”

“What romance is there in clothes that students just wear? It’s not like school uniforms are the only pretty clothes.”

What is the purpose of school uniforms?

Clothing designed to instill a sense of belonging and group consciousness while strengthening discipline and community spirit, alleviating class differences while suppressing appearance competition, and creating an environment where students can focus on their studies.

Exactly which part of that is supposed to be romantic?

“…”

“…”

At my argument, both of them looked strange, as if they had heard something they shouldn’t have.

After a brief silence, Sasha pouted her lips and spoke up.

“It’s cool. Like a student from a traditional private school. I always envied schools with uniforms when I was little!”

“Me too, when I came to Korea, I wanted to wear pretty uniforms and have fun like in dramas!”

Hasha also clasped her hands together and blinked her eyes.

…I suppose from the perspective of someone who’s never worn a school uniform, they might feel romance.

“Fine. I won’t say anything about you two wearing them.”

If they like it that much, there’s no need to ruin the mood.

I can just accompany them wearing regular clothes.

“That’s unacceptable! When three people go to an amusement park, it’s impossible for only two to wear uniforms.”

“Why not?”

“It would look like Clinic Director is a teacher escorting students!”

“Really, if you grabbed any passerby and asked them, not a single person would think that.”

Like in the song lyrics, will you look in the mirror?

Sasha was making completely ridiculous arguments while stubbornly insisting.

“We all have to wear them together to share the romance of youth together!”

I could have ignored Sasha.

Since I didn’t like it anyway, wasn’t she just being more dramatic and stubborn?

“I was looking forward to wearing uniforms together intimately and eating churros and tteokbokki…!”

But in Hasha’s round, sparkling eyes, there was clear disappointment and regret, and even what seemed like sadness.

“Ugh.”

I couldn’t bear to meet her gaze and quickly turned my head away.

“Clinic Director…?”

There was no escape route for a martial artist who had fled.

* * *

A few days later.

I ended up coming to the amusement park after all.

My companions were the very excited Sasha and Hasha.

“A school uniform date with Clinic Director…”

And there were three of us including Kim Ijin, whom I had brought in thinking she would take my side, but instead created a 3-to-1 situation.

Only after arriving at the amusement park did I realize that was a misjudgment.

Weren’t many Koreans actually paying money to rent school uniforms at the amusement park?

The students who are actually wearing school uniforms would be longing for casual clothes, so what on earth is this!

“Wow! Let’s take a photo together, Kim! Can I call you Lee Jin?”

“Oh, yes.”

“I have to post on Instagram that I made friends with a gold medalist!”

Still, it seemed like bringing Kim Ijin was the right choice.

If the three of us had gone without her, how hurt would she have been later?

Fortunately, since we had gotten acquainted during filming, Hasha and Sasha readily agreed to my suggestion that she come along.

Kim Ijin could also make time since it was still before the season.

“Please let me try one too…!”

Unlike Sasha and Kim Ijin, who found meaning in the mere fact of wearing them together, Hasha seemed to really love the school uniform.

She chose and wore a uniform with a knit vest and jacket that looked exactly like something from a K-drama, and was extremely happy.

After taking some time for photo shoots like that, we looked for rides to board.

Sasha, of course, pointed without hesitation to the largest roller coaster in the place.

“Let’s ride that first.”

Worried they might have acrophobia, I looked back and forth between Hasha and Kim Ijin, but neither had any objections.

We decided to ride the roller coaster as Sasha suggested.

[Wait time 45 minutes]

“Damn… Wow, my heart’s really pounding.”

“Crazy. I want to ride this ten times.”

“But even waiting in line all day, five times would be tough. You see the line now? Next time it’ll really be a two-hour wait.”

Listening to the students in line ahead of us, it seemed they had rushed over right after entering and already ridden once with almost no wait.

We should have come quickly too, but we had dawdled renting school uniforms.

‘Whatever. Still, 45 minutes… that’s not bad for a weekday.’

Initially Sasha had mentioned the weekend, but we did well to change the date.

There were students on field trips too, so it wasn’t exactly uncrowded, but it still couldn’t compare to weekends.

‘The goal isn’t to get our money’s worth, but to hang out.’

I joined the line without regret.

Since Sasha was such a funny person, waiting in line wasn’t too boring.

The blonde foreigner chattering in English made people in front and behind us glance over, but fortunately sunglasses alone were enough to hide my identity.

“Waaaaaaaah!”

The roller coaster we boarded after waiting so long was…

…honestly fun.

Though it was over too quickly, at top speed it was much faster than lightness skills or horses.

A vertical drop at over 100km/h – is this what it would feel like jumping off a Hwasan cliff?

“Wow, this is fun. Much more thrilling than the roller coasters at Disney World in Los Angeles!”

Sasha was as energetic as before riding, and Kim Ijin showed no particular change either.

“Hasha, are you okay? Are you dizzy?”

“I just got motion sick for a moment. I’ll be fine before we ride the next one.”

Hasha seemed a bit nauseous, but when I asked if she needed treatment, she shook her head.

“Is this Hasha’s first time? Tell them to build one in Riyadh too!”

“I’ve been to Disney World once. And while the theme park in downtown Riyadh doesn’t have intense rides, they’re probably building a super-large theme park on the outskirts too.”

At the Princess’s words, Sasha’s eyes widened.

“Awesome, I have to go as soon as it’s completed.”

Will there come a day when we use the villa again?

Having actually ridden the roller coaster and found it fun, I became somewhat interested.

“Shall we ride that next?”

When I pointed to the flume ride, everyone agreed without objection.

Hasha also asked us not to worry about her motion sickness, saying she’d be fine by the time we finished waiting in line.

Whoooooosh!

It was quite fast, though less than the first roller coaster.

Just getting splashed with water somehow felt good.

“Huh, we got really wet. If I catch a cold right before the season…!”

Kim Ijin, who had sat in the very front and gotten especially soaked, was worried.

“We just need to dry off.”

Kim Ijin wasn’t concerned at all.

Right. Someone as healthy as Kim Ijin wouldn’t catch a cold from just getting her clothes wet, not like she fell in water.

Maybe it was occupational hazard, but I kept worrying about people getting sick or hurt.

‘If the head isn’t secured properly, cervical sprain could occur… Oh, that one’s bad for discs?’

All sorts of thoughts came to mind whenever I saw intense rides.

But I did my best to set aside my Korean Medicine Doctor persona.

If I worry about getting hurt from such minor things, I can’t do anything.

Today I’m sticking to my duty as an amusement park visitor.

“Uh, uh, how high does this go?”

“Uuuuuuuu… Kyaaaaaaah!”

So we rode the gyro drop too.

“Waaaaaaaah! I like this one the best!”

And we rode the viking.

“It shakes more than I thoughtaaaaaah!”

We also rode an attraction that spun rapidly in a dark tunnel to startle people.

“What should we ride next? Isn’t there something like bungee jumping?”

I looked around left and right and checked the map, but unfortunately there was no bungee jumping.

Should we look for another roller coaster? Where…

“Clinic Director, wait a moment.”

“Let’s rest for a bit.”

No, are they really this weak in stamina?

After begging to go to the amusement park like that, Sasha and Hasha were completely exhausted even though we hadn’t ridden that many rides.

“Should we eat churros?”

We each took a churro that Hasha bought and looked for a place to rest for a while.

We missed the afternoon parade while waiting in line for the viking, but hmm, maybe we should have lunch instead…

“How about riding that?”

As I was looking at the map and pondering our next route, Kim Ijin pointed to the carousel.

“Good, that’s good!”

“We should ride the carousel at least once!”

Before I could say anything, Sasha and Hasha ran toward the carousel.

Fortunately, the line was incomparably shorter than all the rides we’d been on so far.

We got in line behind young children accompanied by their parents and couples like us who were tired from riding other attractions.

“What the hell. What’s a carousel?”

“You don’t know, but this can be pretty fun if you ride it right.”

“Ah, that’s hilarious.”

Behind us, a group of boys who looked like middle schoolers came crowding over.

The same school uniform I’d seen when we first rode the roller coaster.

Being at an age where they’d laugh at even a rolling leaf, the students giggled while making silly jokes.

‘Sigh.’

Of course they paid no attention to us, but standing in my school uniform next to real students made me feel unnecessarily foolish.

“Please board from the inside~ Once you get on a horse, please fasten your safety belt immediately!”

Soon the announcement came, and we boarded the carousel.

As soon as I climbed onto the saddle, I habitually tensed my thighs and knees.

Then I suddenly realized I didn’t need to balance myself that much to avoid falling off.

“We’re starting! Have a wonderful time!”

The carousel began turning slower than a person could run, let alone an actual horse.

There was some up and down movement, but it didn’t seem intended to recreate the bouncing motion of a galloping horse.

“Kyaaaa!”

The young children enjoyed themselves, feeling like princesses from a fairy tale.

“Wow…! In dramas, the male lead always gazes at the female lead like this…!”

The real Princess was excited, feeling like she was in a Korean drama.

Sasha, sitting in front, took out her phone and stretched out her arm.

It looked like she was trying to take a selfie with us.

But on that screen, the horses behind us and their riders were reflected.

“Huh?”

Someone was standing up on a horse’s saddle.

It was one of the middle school boys in uniform who had been in line behind us earlier.

“What are you doing? That’s dangerous!”

I immediately turned my head and shouted.

But it wasn’t just one person.

The student next to him had also unfastened his safety belt and was climbing toward the horse’s head.

– Customer! You cannot stand up from your seat! Please sit down immediately!

The Safety Officer who heard my voice also spotted them and spoke up.

When the students ignored him, he must have pressed the stop button because the horses began to slow down.

“Ah, just wait. Just one photo, ah!”

At that moment, the student who had stood up with both legs spread on the saddle dropped his phone while trying to take a picture.

“Ugh! You stupid idiot!”

The student who had climbed onto the horse’s head mocked his friend.

He reached out his hand to try to catch the phone.

Crash!

He fell before there was any chance to help.

“…”

“As expected, the Clinic Director creates patients wherever she goes.”

Kim Ijin said.

It’s completely, 100% the students’ own doing.

Don’t talk like I’m some detective who causes incidents.

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