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A dark, dark room.

Only the monitor screen emits bright light.

“Upload completed…”

I just uploaded the episode I made after tapping hard on the keyboard.

As soon as it was uploaded, a blue notification sounded and dozens and hundreds of comments appeared like bamboo shoots.

“The response is good this time too.”

I read through the numerous comments one by one, adding emoticons to each comment.

It’s mostly emoticons, but I feel good because it seems like it’s fun to read.

The author started writing last year, completed 6 works, and is currently serializing 2 works…..

Yes, now I can proudly say that I am a writer.

The work I am writing is about a man and woman reversing or pure love.

It can be said to be minor, but it is one of those genres that I hope will become a major genre someday.

“By the way, it will be time soon…”

I lived a similar life at home as an unemployed person, earning money, but my only sister was different.

By pouring the inheritance left by his parents into gold coins, he has multiplied the value dozens of times and is now running various businesses.

Now, he is an outstanding CEO who runs several stores such as a convenience store, PC room, coin karaoke room, and coin laundry.

Because my sister doesn’t know that I’m a web novel writer, she always tries to introduce me to jobs at her workplace.

Well, every time I run away into the room.

Anyway, my sister will be coming soon, so I have to prepare dinner.

On the outside, I look like an unemployed person, so I feel like I am dependent on my younger sister, so I am in charge of all household chores such as cleaning.

I got up from my computer chair, stretched, yawned loudly, and headed out the door.

I often heard from my parents that I shouldn’t step on the threshold, but will my old habit go away anytime soon?

This time, as was my habit every time, that moment when I stepped on the threshold and was about to head to the kitchen.

“Uh…huh?”

I suddenly felt extremely dizzy and lost my center of gravity.

As I started to feel like my body wasn’t my own, I started to feel like I couldn’t control it properly.

It’s not just dizziness.

I had no strength at all in my whole body, and I was even experiencing a tingling numbness.

At that time, I had a hunch.

It’s a stroke or something like that.

I always thought I would die from this disease.

Because I just sat and wrote all day and didn’t even leave the house…

I didn’t even go out, making the excuse that my parents had died in an accident in front of my house, which left me with a big trauma.

It’s already been two years since my parents passed away…

I haven’t even left the house for two years.

Then, even if my body was broken, it would have been broken for a long time.

I even ordered groceries to be delivered from a nearby supermarket…

“Ha…I feel sorry for Minji, so what should I do…”

Strangely, tears flowed.

I couldn’t act as my older brother properly… I didn’t even do anything right…

As soon as I got home from work happily, the first thing I saw was my brother’s body…

Isn’t that too much?

And after a while, consciousness began to fade away.

***

I must have died, but my eyes opened.

Plus, the unfamiliar white ceiling was enough to make me feel embarrassed.

And even with the hose on my right arm flowing liquid and the door being closed, the smell of chemicals coming from somewhere…

Just by looking at it, I could tell where I was lying.

“Is it a hospital….?”

It seems Minji found me and brought me to the hospital.

I really thought I was going to die, so I shed tears, snot, everything…

How can I live looking at Minji’s face now….

By the way, before I fell, I had absolutely no strength in my body, but now I had strength in my hands, I could move my feet, and everything was normal.

It seems that the temporary symptoms caused by dizziness were mistaken for symptoms similar to a stroke.

“Thank goodness…I’m so glad…”

I never thought there would come a day when I would be so thankful that my limbs could move normally.

It gave me chills that my sister, who was only 23 and now 21, would almost support me.

“This is not the time… Nurse Call…”

Once you wake up in the hospital, it is natural to press the nurse call.

I turned around to check where Nurse Call was.

Usually in hospitals, there will be a nurse call hanging on a string at the bedside or next to the hospital bed…

Ah, here it is.

Beep-

When I held the nurse call in my hand and pressed it, a sound resounded as if the head of a chicken were being twisted.

Has it been about 2 minutes?

As I lay down and felt the cold liquid from the IV dripping through my veins, the door opened.

There were needles, blood sugar monitors, blood pressure monitors, etc. on the rattling cart, so it felt like a typical hospital.

However, there were clear differences from other hospitals.

I don’t know why, but the three nurses who came in were all men.

what.

Why are there only men?

“Hello, patient.”

“Hello…”

As I sat down and greeted them, the nurses smiled brightly.

Then, they started checking my blood sugar by making a hole in my finger with a phlebotomy machine, and measuring my blood pressure by wrapping a cuff around my arm.

All three looked young, but they were very skilled, so it didn’t take long.

“Your blood pressure is slightly high, but your blood sugar is no problem.”

“Hey… I have a question…”

“Yes. What is it?”

“Where is this hospital?”

There weren’t many male nurses at the hospital I worked at.

In most cases, male nurses were not in the ward but assisted in outpatient treatment.

“This is Busan Black Hospital. Looking at the medical records, I see that this is a hospital the patient visited often?”

“Yes? Is this the Black Hospital?”

No, of course, it looked like a black hospital.

I was hospitalized often when I was young, so it was a little unfamiliar, but there were also some familiar aspects.

But that made me even more suspicious.

Because you couldn’t see male nurses in the wards of the Black Hospital.

*

After completing the blood test, I went outside under the pretext of drinking water.

I looked around a bit while carrying an IV holder, and all the nurses, starting from the desk, were men.

Could it be that I have fallen into hell?

A world where there are only men.

No, that’s not right.

There were women among the patients, so they did not fall into that kind of hell.

If not, has a policy of preferentially selecting male nurses been implemented without my knowledge?

The world was noisy with the Covid virus and all, so we couldn’t rule out that possibility.

“Ugh… Let’s drink some water first.”

I took out a paper cup hanging next to the water purifier and held it in my hand.

These days, people use a lot of paper cups, but it looks like these paper cups are still used here.

I don’t really like these paper cups.

“Ugh…what’s wrong with this…”

I tried to open it by putting it in my mouth and blowing air, but it didn’t work.

This is why people don’t use these paper cups often…

Plus, they use cups like this in the ward.

“Ha… I should just bring a paper cup from my room.”

Trying to use a paper cup with one hand in the first place was a mistake in itself.

I sighed, dragged the IV holder, and turned around to go back to the room.

When I looked back, I saw a woman I had seen somewhere with her eyes wide open.

It seemed a little different, but wherever I looked, it was my younger sister, Minji.

As soon as I saw Minji’s face, my face turned a little red.

I remember shedding all my tears and closing my eyes…

Ah…shame on you!

“Oppa!”

But Minji seemed to have already forgotten the past and ran to me and hugged me.

Why is this guy acting like this all of a sudden?

You haven’t hugged me even once since you entered elementary school?

“Minji. My brother is okay….cough cough…sseuup…”

“It’s okay! Is it okay to walk?!”

Minji began to express her worries without hiding them.

No, I felt like my level of worry was slightly outside of my younger sister’s range.

I can’t believe you cried in my arms with tears streaming down your face.

He can’t be like this.

“Oh..even my brother thought something was wrong…how…dark I am…”

“Trigram…is it okay? There really isn’t any pain.”

My body was still a little sore, but it wasn’t to the point where I could say it hurt.

When she made a muscular pose and expressed that she was okay, Minji’s tears finally stopped.

“Really? Really?”

“Okay, okay… When has your brother ever lied?”

The tears that I thought had stopped continued to flow, so I gently wiped them away with my hand.

Only then did he feel a little embarrassed, so he took out a small handkerchief from his pocket and smiled bitterly at Minji, who was wiping away her tears.

“Oppa… you always lied to me?”

“Huh? Now that I think about it, that’s right.”

You always lied as if you were eating a meal, right?

I forgot that.

*

“Minji, are you okay? At least water alone…”

“Stay still!”

“Nun.”

Minji and I returned to the hospital room.

As soon as Minji returned to the room, she headed to the refrigerator and took out a bottle of water.

If I had known there was bottled water over there, I wouldn’t have gone out.

Minji, who poured water into a paper cup, approached me as I lay down without handing the cup to me.

All she said was to lie down because she will feed me.

It feels strange to have my little sister help me…

Is this okay?…

No…let’s just stay still.

If you offend me for no reason, you will get hit.