It was earlier that day.
"Good morning." A doctor walked into an office with his hands tied behind his back.
His colleague crossed his arms and questioned "What happened this time?"
"Well you see.. my daughter asked me to pretend to be a robber so I did and now here I am..."
"Why doesn't that surprise me anymore." He sighed, "Stand still let me untie you." He walked over to the doctor with scissors, "Can't you use your hands?" His friend shook his head slowly and knelt down behind the doctor with him worriedly looking back.
"Can't you trust me with sharp objects already I'm a surgeon now you know.. and anyway, I have the feeling today's going to be a busy day so I want to save as much strength as I can, don't want to mess up during an operation now do I." He slowly cut the doctor free from his binding.
"I'm still scared of you and sharp things alright, you have a problem with that?" He grabbed his wrists and examined them.
"I don't have any problem, it's just that sometimes it's troublesome." His friend laughed which made the doctor worry less, "Oh it looks like the new shipment we asked for arrived just now, you'd better get to work." The doctor changed his clothes and walked out of the room.
"I have a bit more work to do this morning too eh.." He lazily sighed whilst taking papers from his desk, "Can't Izumi forget that accident already.. still can't say I'm surprised though."
"Hey Izumi the shipments that arrived earlier seem to be lacking a few items, should I go ask for them now?" The doctor scratched his chin while reading a report, "Some of these are important, tell them to deliver it by tomorrow."
"Still as professional on the job as ever aren't you." His friend entered the room Izumi was in, "You've been working here for three years now, shouldn't you be bit more friendlier with the other staff." Izumi placed down a stack of papers and turned behind him.
"You may be right.." He faced back towards the stack of papers, "Want to go out for a drink later this week? I'll bring some friends along."
Izumi's eyes widened, "You're bringing some friends.. who?" But he was disheartened to hear what came after, "Look, I know you want to see him but I just can't reach him."
"It's alright, I know you tried your best, it doesn't matter much anyway as long as he's still fine somewhere." Izumi slowly walked away as he spoke and shut the door behind him, Izumi's friend walked over to have a peek at the papers he'd left on the table.
"Hm? Oh that Izumi I swear.. giving more work to me now." He sighed and went back to his office with the papers.
As the day quickly went by, many patients entered the hospital.
"Looks like he was right after all, today was quite busy." He checked a long list of patients newly admitted into the hospital, "It seems today's just another one of those days.."
A lady came running to Izumi who was at the front counter, "Doctor, we need you at the surgical ward right now!" She spoke quick with urgency.
"What's the problem?" Izumi asked.
"We just got a pair of car crashed patients, they're both injured and require surgery, I don't know the details yet but I doubt anybody does."
They run to the surgical ward and enter a room, Izumi is horrified.
"Asahi..?" He whispered with his eyes widened.
After several hours, "Both the patients seem to have settled down, but the damage was irreparable... is there something wrong, doctor?"
"After all this time, I haven't seen you once, and now you suddenly appear in this condition.." He mumbled under his breath as his friend entered the same room as him, "That amount of damage was super hard to contain.. it's a miracle Asahi managed to survive..."
"You're still sweating a lot.. are you ok?" His friend asked, his face concerned.
"You're sweating as well, things are calming down now so we can handle things here, I'll report to the head about this and arrange a room."
Izumi was transfixed to a chair as he continued mumbling, "Hello.. can you hear me?" His friend waved his hand infront of Izumi's face, "Oh oh.. sorry, I spaced out for a second."
"This is quite a big problem now.." He frustratingly scratched his head, "Ugh.. this wasn't supposed to be like this, Izumi.. are you ok?" He placed a hand on Izumi's shoulder and shook him, "Ah.. no, I spaced out again..."
"Talk to him later in the morning.." Was all that he could say before walking off.
Izumi covered his face with his hands, "Why did this have to happen..."