The Physician of Traditional Medicine Returns from Murim - Chapter 41

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Chapter 41

Who would play the role of Chu Miyoung’s boyfriend? Of course, it was me.

Who else besides me could guarantee everyone’s safety?

Chu Miyoung initially opposed it, saying it was too dangerous, but I easily convinced her.

“Come at me, however you want. If you can even touch a fingertip, we’ll call it off.”

Swoosh. Swish.

Of course, avoiding her as she swung her arms and lunged at me was nothing.

In the end, Chu Miyoung pretended to give up and accepted my proposal.

“Let’s give it a try.”

The date we decided to draw out the stalker was that very Saturday.

Chu Miyoung posted a photo of us holding hands on her Instagram a little after lunchtime.

[I was lonely after coming to Busan, but I made a good friend.]

Despite neglecting it for nearly a year, she had tens of thousands of followers, so quite a few comments appeared.

[How can you do this? I came all the way here for you.]

We easily found the stalker’s comment.

“He saw it right away.”

“Yes. Sigh, it would have been better if he’d sent a DM that we could use to get outside help.”

Chu Miyoung was disappointed, but for me, it was better that he came directly rather than waiting ages to track him down.

After all, she said she’d been feeling him lurking around from time to time.

Since he might break into the clinic, I camped out in Haneul Clinic’s waiting room from the afternoon, waiting for the stalker.

“He didn’t come during clinic hours.”

“There are too many eyes watching – staff and patients everywhere. Actually, I’m not even sure if doing this will make him show himself.”

“Even if he doesn’t reveal himself openly, he’ll come to see. He followed you all the way to Busan, so he’ll definitely try to confirm it somehow.”

Chu Miyoung said from the start that he wouldn’t appear during clinic hours. I had also come early just in case, but expected him to show up after closing time.

“By the way, you really look cool. I wondered what handsome guy had come. If the clinic director were a man, I might have actually fallen for you.”

“Hehe.”

I glanced at the full-length mirror.

As she said, I seemed to have coordinated quite stylishly.

I had twisted my hair up and tucked it into a beanie, wore a loose-fitting shirt and coat to hide my figure. Since I was already tall, I added some insoles and sunglasses to complete a decent street fashion look.

While I didn’t have a very masculine build, if someone thought of me as a man, they probably wouldn’t be suspicious.

“Shall we go, princess?”

“Ahaha.”

The current time after weekend clinic hours was 5 o’clock. There was still no sign of the sun setting.

We went into a nearby Western-style restaurant for dinner, and Chu Miyoung took a photo of her pasta to post on Instagram.

[Thank you for your support. It feels so good to communicate with you all after so long ♡]

This time she subtly positioned her hand so the ring on her finger would show.

Comments asking if she was getting married flooded in, but the stalker didn’t react at all.

“He read it. One hundred percent.”

“Yeah… we need to be careful.”

Chu Miyoung nodded tensely.

“I’ll handle everything, so don’t worry so much.”

I gently loosened Chu Miyoung’s tense shoulders and even gave her a jaw massage.

After that, we left the restaurant and went to a cafe to chat while waiting for the sun to set completely. He probably wouldn’t come out while there were people around.

Deep into the night. I took Chu Miyoung’s hand and went to the park.

It was the very same park where I had embarrassed myself in front of Seo Inae while drunk last time.

This place was located at the entrance of the hiking trail, not right near the station, so there weren’t many people even on weekends.

It was the perfect location where I could immediately notice anyone approaching within the perimeter.

“Let’s try to lure him out. I’ll get up for a moment, pretending to go to the bathroom.”

“Okay.”

I left Chu Miyoung on a secluded bench and turned toward the bathroom. I didn’t forget to run my fingers through my hair for whoever might be watching.

“…!”

I felt killing intent from behind.

If he had been watching us at the restaurant or cafe, I couldn’t have missed it. Had he followed us belatedly after seeing the Instagram photo?

I moved as if completely unaware of him.

Of course, if the stalker approached Chu Miyoung, I could close the distance again in one second.

Whoooosh!

I expanded my ki sense enough to cover the entire park.

Usually, hypersensitive hearing only causes inconvenience, but right now it was absolutely necessary.

“I kept… telling you I was by your side…”

Behind the fountain! I heard a voice from not too far away.

He was a man with an unusually weak presence.

“How, how…”

Hearing his muttering, I was conflicted.

Come out. Come out and threaten her. Only then could we definitively call the police.

‘Is he really planning to just keep watching like that?’

If that’s how he’s going to play it, I’ll have to grab him and give him quite a scare.

But I can’t let Chu Miyoung see that. Won’t Chu Miyoung keep feeling anxious?

It would be better if he jumped out at Chu Miyoung while she’s alone and expressed his emotions somehow…

“How dare you leave me behind! For some parasite brother!”

“Huh?”

Thud thud thud thud thud!

As if he had made up his mind, the man ran.

But his target wasn’t Chu Miyoung.

‘He’s coming this way?’

I was ready to go back and subdue him immediately if he threatened Chu Miyoung, but the man’s footsteps were heading toward me.

I moved further away from Chu Miyoung, pretending to look for a restroom while positioning myself near the CCTV location I had spotted earlier.

Tap tap tap tap tap.

Thud thud thud thud thud!

For about 20 seconds, a chase that wasn’t quite a chase unfolded.

Unlike me who walked at a slightly fast pace, he ran with all his might, so naturally he caught up to me.

And when the distance had narrowed enough for even an ordinary person to hear footsteps.

Swoosh!

The moment I turned around, a sharp weapon swept past my eyes.

‘A knife?’

Since he hadn’t even been able to show himself until now, I thought at most he’d follow and secretly watch or threaten me.

But the stalker was holding a kitchen knife about 20cm long.

“How dare you take Miyoung!”

He was a much more dangerous man than I had expected. He really intended to kill, stabbing with all his strength and body weight behind it.

“Oh my, oh my.”

Of course, I lightly leaned back my upper body to avoid the man’s attack.

Though he showed no hesitation, he didn’t even have the courage to look at his opponent properly.

There was no way an arm thrust out with eyes tightly shut by someone who had learned neither martial arts nor even basic fighting could reach me.

Tap.

I moved out of the man’s trajectory while simultaneously pressing the Mahyeol acupoint behind his neck and the left and right Cheonju points.

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“Guhhhh…!”

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Normally these are therapeutic acupoints good for drawing out evil qi that has risen to the head for symptoms like headaches, insomnia, and neck stiffness, but at the same time, if you push energy into those points, you can temporarily paralyze consciousness.

The energy I injected through the two acupoints traveled down the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian.

Thud.

His legs gave out and he collapsed.

From the CCTV’s perspective, it would roughly look like he swung a knife around by himself and got hurt falling down, right?

“You’ll get in big trouble carrying a weapon around carelessly.”

I retrieved the knife the man had dropped, then immediately called 112.

“Hello, there’s a man here threatening people with a knife…”

“Ahhhhh!”

“Yes, yes. It’s a little west of the park restroom.”

He tried his best to resist, but moving his body was impossible.

Throughout my detailed explanation of the location, he couldn’t offer any resistance.

“You, you! What is this! What did you do to me!”

“Who knows.”

The stalker had listened quite extensively to my phone call with the police right beside him. Only then did he realize that I wasn’t Chu Miyoung’s boyfriend.

There was no need to hide anymore.

The moment I took off my hat along with my sunglasses, my long hair that had been hidden cascaded down.

“Hmm. A chivalrous hero helping a beauty tormented by a villain, you could say.”

“Miyoung is… Miyoung is my woman.”

Sure, sure. Let me listen to what nonsense you spout until the police arrive.

I looked down at the man crawling on the ground with my arms crossed.

“From the beginning, only I truly loved her!”

“The beginning would be when you made your Instagram account at most.”

He revealed his possessiveness based on delusion while constantly seething.

Should I have pressed the Ahyeol point too? Though it’s better for the police to find him if he keeps screaming like this.

There was nothing particularly good about conversing with someone who wasn’t in their right mind.

“I’m different from those bastards who just drool over pretty photos.”

“I see.”

“I… I know everything about her. Miyoung at work. Miyoung leaving work exhausted. Even her smiling while thinking of me cheering her on from beside her…!”

This man, who seemed like he had never properly raised his voice once in his life, screamed until his throat was hoarse.

‘He doesn’t actually have hallucinations from madness.’

He knew better than anyone the fact that Chu Miyoung could never love him.

Since he said he’d been watching for a long time, was he initially just someone who was happy when Chu Miyoung responded to his comments? After her followers increased, he probably wanted to become special.

Just because that bastard wants to see something doesn’t mean he can see everything.

He dug into Chu Miyoung’s private life and continued his stalking from Cheonan to Busan again.

‘There’s no cure for this kind of thing.’

As I listened to the man’s words and monitored his behavior, two police officers arrived before long.

Chu Miyoung, who had been sitting alone on the bench in tension, was with them.

I withdrew the energy I had injected and handed the kitchen knife to the police officer.

The police officer looked at me with some suspicion, but when I pointed and told him to check the CCTV, he arrested the man without further comment.

“Miyoung, Miyoung.”

Even while being handcuffed behind his back and subdued, he called out to Chu Miyoung.

Chu Miyoung frowned. Since the stalker had been shouting so loudly, Chu Miyoung had also heard some of the content.

“…Fuck.”

Still seeming frightened, Chu Miyoung, who had been sticking close to the police officer not handling the restraint, quietly spat out a curse.

She took a step toward the stalker whose arms were restrained.

“Please don’t get too close.”

“Fuck. So it was you.”

“Miyoung! I was just staying by your side to protect you…!”

One police officer was properly holding his arm, but he shook his head desperately, wanting to reach her somehow.

“Aaaahhhhh!”

Chu Miyoung stared at his pathetic state, then suddenly screamed.

“Fucking disgusting, really disgusting. I want to kill you. What? You know everything about me? Fuck, if I could, I’d want to smash your head in!”

“Mi, Miyoung…”

“Ha, haha. Because of this bastard. Couldn’t even use Instagram. Trembling every time I got off work.”

“Ma’am, please calm down.”

Not only the stalker but even the police officers were greatly flustered by her reaction.

“Fuck, this won’t do. I don’t want to send this bastard to prison nicely. Can’t I at least burst his balls?”

Of course they couldn’t say yes to that.

Before the police officer could even answer, Chu Miyoung was already charging toward the man.

“Director Chu, please calm…”

Thwack!

An upward kick as fierce as the moment the stalker had rushed at me.

“Gyaaaaaahhhhh!”

I could have stopped it but deliberately didn’t.

Well… the police officer who was restraining him probably felt the same way, right?

Shortly after, the stalker was taken to the police box with some damage to his lower body.

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