Hospital 444
Chapter 646 - 15 White Tower

Chapter 646: Chapter 15 White Tower

"Bandove, do you know about Causality Curse Objects?"

"I know about Curse Objects, but Dad, what do you mean by ’causality’? Is it similar to a paradox?"

She often heard her mother and sister mention the word "paradox."

"For example..."

In front of six-year-old Natsume Bandove, Natsume Heisuke pointed at the manga on the bookshelf behind her: "Like the magical gadgets of Doraemon."

Natsume Bandove, being of Chinese-Japanese descent, liked reading Japanese manga, naturally including national favorites like "Doraemon."

"Dad, it’s ’Doraemon,’ not ’Ding Dong Cat.’"

"For example, many of Doraemon’s gadgets operate on causality. For instance, Doraemon helps the protagonist solve problems, and after he takes out a gadget, it often has effects similar to causality."

Listening to this, Natsume Bandove still didn’t understand her father, Natsume Heisuke’s explanation.

"Like when the main character, Nobita, is short of money, Doraemon can give him a gadget, and then his uncle from out of town might suddenly visit and give him a red envelope. Haven’t you noticed? Timing-wise, his uncle would have set off for Nobita’s home in Tokyo even before the gadget was used."

Upon hearing this, Bandove froze.

"Right... It’s indeed mysterious, and it’s not like a time machine... In fact, when Nobita’s short of money, his uncle might already be on his way from out of town. So, could the gadget even influence the past?"

But then she felt something was off. "Wait, no, if it’s like that, since the uncle was already on his way to Tokyo, even without the gadget, Nobita could still receive... the red envelope from his uncle."

"This is what I want to develop for the hospital — the Causality Curse Object. In a three-dimensional world, causality can only be the past causing the present or the future. But with a Causality Curse Object, the present can affect the past. Even what happens now could be the result of a Causality Curse Object from the future."

"Indeed, many other gadgets also have similar effects..."

Natsume Heisuke immediately took another "Doraemon" manga from the shelf and opened it, saying, "Like this story, ’Search for Mother Over 3000 Miles.’"

"Ah, I remember. Nobita, scolded by his mother, asks Doraemon to make it impossible for his mother to see him. So, Doraemon gives him a pill that makes him have to walk three hundred meters before he can see his mother. Otherwise, no matter what happens, even if they live in the same cramped house, they can’t see each other."

The first time Bandove read this manga, she found it unbelievable. Although Nobita’s house had two floors, it was at most a hundred square meters. Unless Nobita or his mother decided to leave or died horribly, how could they not see each other?

But to her surprise, the pill that Doraemon took out actually had a terrifying ability to affect causality. When his mother wanted to find Nobita, there would be a phone call or a visitor. If Nobita wanted to find his mother, he would be taken out to play baseball by Takeshi and Suneo. Even his mother entering a draw would result in winning a trip to Guam. Under the influence of this terrifying power, there was no way Nobita could meet his mother, no matter what he did.

It was just a manga, but watching it made Bandove anxious for Nobita and more amazed at the power of Doraemon’s gadgets. She couldn’t believe that humans in the future could develop such things.

"I thought it was just fiction..." Natsume Bandove asked in surprise, "Is there really such a thing as a Causality Law Curse where two people, no matter how hard they try, can’t see each other?"

"In current hospital cases, symptoms like these are very rare, even among curses. When they do occur, they’re a tricky situation for us," Natsume Heisuke pointed to his computer. "As I said, rare doesn’t mean nonexistent. If we can turn this curse around and make it a Cursed Object to be used by us... we might even be able to ensure a patient isn’t cursed from the start, achieving absolute healing!"

At that moment, Natsume Bandove looked at her father, Natsume Heisuke, with great admiration.

She had always been closer to her father since she was a child, whereas her sister was closer to their mother. Sometimes, even though they were one family, it felt like they were divided into two camps.

Their mother had always opposed their father’s development of new Cursed Objects. She had often heard her mother arguing with her father.

Their mother felt that, even if a curse became a Cursed Object, it was still harmful to doctors and patients, and that their father was madly obsessed with developing a Causality Curse Object. Just like Mary Shelley, forcibly developing a Causality Curse Object was simply madness. Eventually, countless lives would pay for his insane ideas.

But her father’s counterargument was that the development of Cursed Objects inevitably brought death, yet without Cursed Objects, doctors and patients would still face the threat of curses. Since becoming a Paranormal Doctor was their destiny, powerful Cursed Objects were necessary to level the playing field between doctors and Evil Spirits.

In Bandove’s memory, she and her sister had discussed these matters when they were alone.

"My father’s intentions are good," Bandove hoped her father’s idea to develop a Causality Curse Object could become a reality. "My father can become an even better Curse Object Department Doctor than Rodd Dai Lun. Developing the Causality Curse Object is his dream."

"Rodd Dai Lun is a genius among geniuses," her sister, Judy, shook her head. "Surpass him? How could that be possible? I think Mom’s concerns are right. How can Dad solve the issue of the curse backlash if he forcibly wants to develop this kind of Cursed Object? For the patients, is this treatment or murder? Cursed Objects can’t be experimented on with rats, it will inevitably cost human lives to fulfill his dreams."

"The White Tower of medicine is built on a mountain of corpses; other than Cursed Objects and surgery, there are no other ways to treat the curses affecting patients." Bandove continued, "I want to see the day my father’s dream comes true."

"Bandove, have you ever thought," her sister, Judy, said, "what if the mountain of corpses under that White Tower includes us or our family members?"

...

Even now, Bandove hasn’t been able to answer her sister Judy’s question.

The development of Cursed Objects is a continuous process of trial and error, accompanied by countless deaths. Among these was the brother of Lady Ophelia. At that time, as the wife of the deputy dean and the matriarch of the Faust Family, Lady Ophelia generously took in the two sisters. Therefore, Judy and Bandove proposed to participate in experiments conducted by Miss Lelia as a form of atonement and to stake their lives on the realization of the Causality Curse Object.

"This case is too similar to the example that my father and I discussed back then..."

Just like Nobita Nobi, Alex and Melody, the couple, couldn’t see each other no matter what.

It’s a typical Causality Curse!

Natsume Bandove stroked her own hair.

She was now here, relying on the power of the Causality Curse Object. As her father said, the present was affecting the past fruit. But all in all, everything she was doing was immensely dangerous. One careless step, and she could suffer backlash.

"Dai Lin..."

She continued to mutter this name.

She had never met Dai Lin.

But she knew that she would meet this man named Dai Lin in the future, and her future self was affecting the current her, insisting that she meet Dai Lin at all costs.

Not only that, she could sense the emotions of her future self. These emotions even affected her past self.

Just by seeing this man’s appearance and hearing his name, Natsume Bandove felt an uncontrollable urge to meet him. This urge couldn’t be suppressed by reason or explained by rationality.

"What exactly happened between me and him in the future?"

At this moment, she quickened her pace and continued forward.

She could sense the position of Melody and her daughter, but strangely...

Why was the distance between mother and daughter growing further apart?