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╰┈➤ [Chapter 23]
╰┈➤ [Third POV]

"So, after a patient gets wounded, what do you do?" Y/n asked as he was sitting on the table with a paper in hand.

"Check and see if the wound is vital or not," Akaishi answered, sitting in a chair and looking confident in his answering.

Y/n nodded, "Correct. The wound is a semi-deep scrap wound, what do you do?"

"Is it bleeding?"

"Yes."

"Clean up the wound, wash it with water, disinfect the wound, and then start bandaging," Akaishi answered instantly.

"And how are you supposed to bandage the wound?" Y/n challenged.

Akaishi sweatdropped slightly in hesitation, "Cloth then... wrap, crisscross."

Y/n narrowed his eyes slightly, a blanket of tenseness surrounded him. Akaishi flinched a bit at Y/n's gaze, but he kept a confident look on his face. He knew that if he were to get the answers wrong, he would have to start over on studying about medical care. Y/n was tough and headstrong when it came to other's well-being. However, Akaishi couldn't blame him, as medic, everyone's lives fall into your hands.

"Correct!" Y/n cheered placing the paper down on the table, "Congratulations Red-Chan! You've passed your first medical quiz!"

Akaishi's hesitant face washed off into one of relief and happiness, "Really?? Yes!! I did it!!" He cheered, "I finally got the hang of it!"

Y/n chuckled at Akaishi's excitement as he patted Akaishi on the head, "Yes, yes, you know what this means? You can finally start treating patients with minor injuries, no more having to drag people to me while fighting!"

Akaishi let out a laugh of celebration. He looked completely different from before. In the past, he used to have buzzed sides with a tuff of blond. Now, he let his hair grew out a bit more, and dyed it black with red highlights. Thus, the reason why Y/n calls him 'Red' and because it was easy to say in the heat of the moment.

"Thank you, Y/n-san!" Akaishi said gratefully as he bowed to his 'mentor', "I wouldn't know what I would've done if you haven't given me a second chance..."

Y/n let out a silently, breathy laugh through his nose as he jumped down from the table, he placed his hand on Akaishi's head once more, "Don't say that, Akaishi. There're a million things to do out in that world, I only gave you a pathway to one. Now, keep studying and restudy about what you just learned. The next quiz will have new and old stuff on it."

"Yesh!" Akaishi beamed, "Is there anything I need to do with the patients first?"

Y/n let out a small hum as he grabbed his keys, "Just check up on them every once in a while, since I need to head out. I need to get more food since I'm running low, and I don't want the patients to go hungry... it is almost lunch time..." He then turned to Akaishi as he was at the door frame of his house, "Just make sure they do their chores and change the bandages on the ones who have them, got it?"

Akaishi smiled proudly about himself as he put a fist over his heart, palm towards his chest, a sign for the medical division, "I will take care of them!"

Y/n chuckled at Akaishi before nodding to him, "I'm counting on you, Akaishi. I'll be off then!"

"Have a safe walk!"

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Y/n hummed to himself quietly as he looked through the vegetable section for a good kelp to pick out for soup for one of his ill patients that needed to be taken care of. He carried a shopping basket with him since he didn't really want to be seen with a full, half empty shopping cart. He carried on his shopping like any other day. If people were to only glance, Y/n would look like someone who's just in the crowd. However, that was not the case of a few other people.

Y/n tried his best to ignore the stares that he was getting on his back. Whenever he would look around to see who was staring at him, he would only find no one. He tried to lose and shake the eyes off of him by walking around the store, but it clearly didn't work. For now, he just has to continue to ignore the stares and hope for the best. Honestly, the staring was starting to get annoying and felt completely disrespectful.

"Thank you, have a nice day!" Y/n smiled as the cashier waved to him with a kind smile.

Y/n checked his groceries in the bag he was carrying. He counted everything and remembered all the prices to make sure that the cost was the correct amount. Thankfully, the cashier did their job and Y/n had paid the correct amount needed. Y/n then pretended to continue to check his groceries as he could feel the eyes from earlier continue to burn a hole in his back. All he just needed to do was keep walking and maybe the eyes will go away.

Thump.

"Oof..." Y/n muttered out as he bumped into someone, "Ara? I'm sorry about that, I wasn't looking where... Oh...?"

A group of boys surrounded Y/n. In front of him were two. Behind him were two. The eyes became stronger as the small punk gang closed in on Y/n, smirking at him. So, these were the ones that were watching Y/n like a hawk. Good to know that they were wannabes in Y/n's eyes.

Y/n kept a kind smile, "Oh, if you would excuse me..."

Y/n tried to move around the punks but to no avail. He narrowed his eyes slightly as the boys looked at him up and down, almost hungrily either out of lust or for money, Y/n wasn't sure. From afar, a boy, Kokonoi, took notice of the gang surrounding a male with (f/c) dyed tips. He raised a brow in slight confusion before realizing what was happening. He looked back and forth and was about to intervene, but his eyes had caught (e/c) ones.

Y/n raised a brow at the random male that wasn't too far away. Saying a small 'excuse me' to the punks, Y/n calmly walked over to Kokonoi and passed him his groceries, "Hold this for me for a second, yeah?" He walked back to the punks, not even waiting for the boy to answer.

"I-" Kokonoi was about to speak up, but Y/n had walked away from him.

The punks and Kokonoi looked at Y/n confused for a second as Y/n stood in front of the one who seemed to be in charge of the gang. The three punks and Kokonoi's eyes widened when Y/n straight up punched the leader in the face, sending him to the floor immediately. The punks let out a shout in shock but the was quickly shut up when Y/n kicked one in the crouch and punched one in the stomach.

The fourth punk tried to swing at Y/n, but he just grabbed the punk's arm and swung him over his shoulder. Y/n let out a small sigh as he dusted his hands, as if he just did a hard day of labor. He piled the punks on the sidewalk so that they wouldn't be laying in the middle of it. With a smile, Y/n returned to Kokonoi, who's mouth had basically dropped to the ground at the sudden actions Y/n just displayed.

"Ah, thank you so much for watching my stuff!" Y/n said with a smile as he grabbed his groceries from the stunned Kokonoi, "I'm sorry that you had to see that, it wasn't one of my best moments, haha!" He then took out his wallet and pulled out some money, "Here, a thank you gift from me to you!"

"I..." Kokonoi stuttered glancing back at the passed-out punks and back at Y/n, "I don't... I don't need the money...?"

Y/n chuckled as he shoved the 5,000 yen into Kokonoi's hand, "Oh, don't be like that! I insist!" He then started to walk to his home, "Thank you so much, once again. Bye-bye!"

Kokonoi watches as Y/n casually walks around the corner and disappearing, "I... What the fuck...?"

Kokonoi blinked out of confusion and shock, still trying to process that a seemingly nobody was able to beat up from punks. Although he is confused, he couldn't help but be intrigued in this random person. He knew that he heard of the details '(f/c) dyed tips' before but he couldn't put his finger on it. Besides, the dyed tips weren't what caught Kokonoi's attention, it was the (e/c) eyes. Geez, maybe he needs to see some of his boss's files again to remember.

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Y/n let out a sigh, rubbing his cheeks because of the force smiling he's been doing. He swears that he will get wrinkles before anyone because of this. He reaches for his keys in his pockets and was just about to open his door to walk into his house. However, a buzz from his pocket was felt and Y/n couldn't help but roll his eyes. He put his keys back in his pocket and took out his phone.

Y/n grumbles as he flipped opened his phone to see what and who wanted him now. However, when he looked at the screen, he paused. Chifuyu had texted him, but he only texted an address. Y/n's brows furrows and his lips tightens. His eyes suddenly went wide, realizing what this meant. He dropped his groceries and quickly texted to Akaishi that the groceries were at the front door and that he need to be somewhere at the moment.

Fast steps from Y/n's footsteps could be heard along with the pounding of his heart as he ran as fast as he could to where Chifuyu had just texted him, he tapped on his phone and called Chifuyu, "Fuyu!" Y/n shouted, "I'll be there soon, just hang in there!"

"O-Okay..." Chifuyu's stuttering and tired voice could be heard.

Y/n cursed silently to himself, "Save your energy, and breath steadily. Don't panic, please. Just stay awake!"

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╰┈➤ [Chapter 23]
╰┈➤ [1755]