Red Beard Page #3

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Doctor!

What is it?

It's my mistress! My mistress!

What about her?

She's run away!

I left the key in the lock.

I was in the kitchen.

Please help me.

I'm not insane at all.

Please listen to me.

You're the new doctor,

aren't you?

Osugi told me.

Doctors in uniforms are no good.

They won't listen to me.

But you will, won't you?

I admit to killing the clerks.

But there was a reason for it.

L...

When I was a child,

a man did something

very bad to me.

But... a woman can't talk about it.

I'm a doctor. Don't be shy.

When I was nine years old,

an old clerk did something naughty.

If I told anybody about it,

he said he'd kill me.

He was dismissed soon after that

for spending store money.

But he made me do things

many times before that.

Each time he threatened to kill me

if I told anyone.

Then...

No, I can't go on!

Tell me.

Tell me everything.

When I was 11,

it happened again.

In a warehouse.

With a shop assistant.

He also said he'd kill me

if I told anyone.

He told me to come the next day.

I did as he said.

I thought he'd kill me

if I didn't.

I'll be killed.

I'll be killed!

Calm yourself.

I'm afraid!

Be calm!

I'll be killed!

I'm afraid!

Be quiet!

Please help me.

Please!

Calm yourself

and tell me everything.

When I was 17,

a clerk came into my bedroom.

I knew I'd be killed.

He'd kill me this time for sure.

I forgot myself.

With this...

The clerk lay down beside me.

He held me this way.

He talked like this to me.

Then I did this.

I'd kill him instead.

I stabbed him with this.

Right here.

Don't get up.

Lie quietly.

She missed the artery,

just grazed your neck.

You'll be well in a day.

But if I'd come in any later,

you'd be dead.

Cook, she lit into me too.

She bit me five times here.

She was born that way.

You heard about her childhood too?

But many other girls

have had experiences like that.

It's nothing. Lie still.

You were drunk.

And men have a weakness

for pretty girls.

That's all.

Don't be ashamed,

but let it be a lesson to you.

Please go to North Ward No. 1.

An order?

Dr. Niide wants you.

You won't?

Why not wear your uniform?

You'll get dirty.

You examine him.

He's unconscious.

He's dying.

His case history.

Give me a diagnosis.

- Stomach cancer.

- No.

There's a case like his

in your notes.

It's a kind of cancer.

It's in the liver.

The cancer doesn't spread fast.

Pain only comes

when it's grown large enough.

So it's too late then.

It's rather rare.

Remember it.

There's no cure for it?

No, and this disease isn't the only one.

There are no cures, really.

Medical science

doesn't know everything.

We know the symptoms

and how things go.

If the patient has a chance,

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