Now, there are times when the hospital's owner would come by to visit. Though a doctor is the one who manages everything and acts as a president, the owner of the building was different. He didn't like the idea of managing a hospital and he only asked that a small percentage of the hospital's income would go to him. Every time he enters his building, he would be greeted by the old doctors and nurses. But due to his mean outer appearance, especially the large scar that was stitched around his left eye, the newer employees of the building would grow wary of him or sometimes fear him. They would keep their distance around him, and they would only respect him if they were told who he really was. Seeing such reactions would only make him sigh. He didn't want to scare them or anything, he just wanted to see how well his hospital is doing.
On a certain day, the scar faced man visited the hospital. The head nurse quickly greeted him, and moments later the head doctor came to greet him as well. While they were doing their greeting, chatting, talking, one of the newer employees came by. The nurse asked who the man was and why were their seniors acting kind towards the stranger. The doctors became furious after hearing the question. They wanted to scold the nurse right away, but the scar faced man interrupted. He himself introduced who he was, and there the nurse became silent. The nurse quickly apologized for her rude question, but the scar faced man answered that he didn't mind. In truth, every time he visited the hospital, similar occurrence such as what had happened would appear. Since he only visits twice every five months, he thought that it wasn't that surprising why he isn't that well known. Thinking about it more, he thought that it would actually be bad if they learned that a person was benefitting from the hospital's income without even doing a single task.
While there, the scar faced man asked the head doctor if he could see the adopted child of the hospital. At first, he wasn't all that interested at her, but after the span of nearly 7 years when the girl first arrived, he became a bit interested. He actually just wanted her condition, how she felt about the place, her daily life in the hospital, any problems that she experienced while living within the hospital, things about her the hospital that he didn't know of. Though he had heard that the girl had a certain condition with her eyes, he wasn't bothered. The scar faced man thought of it as a sort of disease, that's all. In the first place, he wasn't a doctor and there was no time that he had studied medicine in the past.
With the agreement of the head doctor, he was left alone in a room. He was told that he could take his time, but he answered that it might be inconvenient for the girl if she were to spend most of the time with an old man like him. Inside, the scar faced man noticed that the room was simple. There were no colorful decorations or anything like that. It was a simple room, nothing more, nothing less. He approached the girl and the girl took notice. As the girl looked towards him, he was surprised to see her eyes. Like her eyes were stolen from her, they were white. He was speechless for a moment but he began to talk eventually.
The scar faced man asked about her and her life while living in the hospital. The girl with white eyes answered that she didn't experience any sort of trouble that she couldn't solve. The girl talked and talked, about the hospital, about the staff, and even about the patients that get admitted. As the scar faced man continued to listed, in his heart he became glad. Yes, he was glad that his hospital was doing fine, but there was something else he was glad about. When he asked the girl if she could see him, the answer replied with a yes. He waited for something else, but the girl only made a simple yes. A gentle smile was on the girl's face as she looked at him. It was not the face of a person giving him respect for his position nor it was a face that was wary due to how he looked. It was a gentle smile of a person looking at a fellow human being. The scar face man smiled as he realizes the fact. And so, the afternoon continued with him listening to the girl's story. What's more, the man laughed at the end when the girl grew flustered after he revealed his position in the hospital. It was the first time that he did not ignore a reaction made towards him and it was the first time he had felt glad about himself that his hospital was taking care of such wonderful child. But by the end of the conversation, it was the scar faced man that was surprised. It happened when he was about to leave and at the time he said his farewells.
"Goodbye sir. You sure have a beautiful lady with you, is she perhaps your wife?"
This surprised the man that he quickly stood up his seat. This was the first time that he had introduced himself at the girl and there were no parts that he recalled about his wife being part in the talk that they had. As a sweat dropped down his forehead, the man asked what she looked like. The girl with white eyes answered. She first described her eyes, then her hair, and after that was her shape. The girl did not look like she was lying, and every part that she had described were real. Basing it from the description she made, the man could easily imagine her wife. More, the man asked the girl if the lady had said something or done something. There the girl tilted her head. She answered that the lady had left and that she had only spoken during the time she was about to leave.
"Please don't worry about me and instead worry about Lucy… She doesn't want to see her papa cry does she... Also, thank you..."
The scar faced man was speechless. He couldn't make a sentence after what she had heard. Instead, he walked towards the door and left the room. He knew that his actions were rude towards the girl, but he didn't know what else he could do. As he held his head outside the room, a friend of his came by. He was an old doctor who had worked in the hospital during the first time it was in operational. He quickly asked him if someone told the girl about him, about his wife, and even about his daughter. There the doctor asked him what had happened. After listening to him, the doctor became silent for a moment. The doctor began to talk, it was a story about the time he spent a night at the girl's room. The two men quickly agreed that the girl was not lying about anything that she had said until now and had never joked about the situation. The scar faced man thanked the doctor and left. He continued on exiting the hospital and driving back home. After arriving, his daughter came by to hug him. He patted her head and excused himself that he needed time. In his room, he sat by his desk and began thinking at what had happened. He looked at a picture frame on top of his desk and couldn't help but cry. Inside was an image of him, his daughter, and his deceased wife.