Chapter 8
Title: ... A Doctor (Temporary One)
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Warning: slight mentions of gore and internal body parts in this chapter, you have been warned!
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Retsu's POV. -- 1st of October -- 2407 --
[HPSC Facility -- Seisho City]
The dream i just had, i don't remember it nor should i put too much time into thinking of it. Right now i need to focus on the exam and what comes after that.
As the car comes to a stop in front of the facility, i see a woman in a buisness suit waiting for us. In her hand is a black tablet with the HPSC logo on it's back, the same logo that we can see dominating the facility's glass entrance.
The logo shows a central shield with a single star in the middle. The shield is flanked by wide, symmetrical wings on both sides, and a laurel wreath curves beneath it. Below the emblem, the letters "HPSC" are written in bold, block-style text, with a banner underneath that reads "Hero Public Safety Commission." Small stars and simple lines decorate the lower part of the design. The overall layout is clean, balanced, and official, resembling a government seal rather than a hero controlling commission symbol.
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As the car comes to a stop in front of the facility, i open my seatbelt and exit the back door, father coming out as well before the vehicle is steered away by Mike to the parking lots.
The woman, –probably the one who will supervise this exam, looks up from her tablet once we're before her.
She is a woman of average build, wearing a tight, knees length buisness skirt with long stockings to hide her legs, and a buisness suit the color of black for top. Her appearance is ordinary, with the only extraordinary thing being her glowing yellow eyes. 'It's reminding me of that Nomu back then. ' I idly think. The glow though, is very dim. And where the Nomu's eyes glowed a sickly yellow and were bright as car torches, hers is pretty tame to say the least.
Anyways, she has glasses on as well, with her hair being a short brown, cut to her shoulders in a straight cut.
"It is nice to meet you. For today's exam, i will be the proctor, my name is Nami Heiashi. You may refer to me as Mrs. Nami throughout the proceedings. " She introduces herself, making me nod.
"Nice to meet you. My name is Benihana Retsu, and I'm here for the Accelerated Medical Licensing Examination." I inform, getting a nod from the woman. "Yes, we've been expecting you, Mrs. Benihana. " She says, before turning towards the facility, "please follow me as i explain how the proceedings will go from here on out. "
The duo of Father and Daughter begin following Nami inside, while the woman explains how the rules of the examination will work.
"First off, in order to take the exam and become a licensed Doctor, –although not a fully authorized one yet, today's examination will be divided into three phases.
First phase will be the theoretical aspect, where we will be testing your mind and and Cognitive abilities by making you go through a written exam. The questions of the exam will all be theoretical and will test your IQ during this phase, that is all i am allowed to disclose.
Second Phase, will be where the theories will be put into practical use, that is all.
Third Phase, i shall explain once you have passed the previous two phases.
After this, if you have successfully passed all these phases, you will be temporarily Authorized to carry yourself as a doctor with a supervisor.
Speaking of supervisors, there is no limit to who you may choose. Be it a family member or somone from the HPSC, it will be granted for you.
We allow freedom of choice here simply because it doesn't matter if the one you choose will be competent or not, they just need to be licensed and for you to be working alongside them for a period. And after they approve of you, you will once more be examinated in this same facility.
After the second examination, if the scores you show are within the threshold or beyond the need for the career, you will be fully authorized to pursue the job you've chosen, becoming a full time Doctoras you please.
However, should you fail these examinations, –be it now or the later one, your next chance to re-register yourself will be approximately 10 years from now.
I hope that you have understood all the things I've said, " They get before a white door within the facility before pausing, Nami turning to look at Retsu who's standing besides her. "If you have any questions, you may ask them now, otherwise we shall proceed to the first phase of the examination. " She says, making me shake my head,
"Let's proceed. " I say, getting a nod before Nami goes forth, putting an ID on the door before it opens. "You may proceed forward whenever you're ready. " Nami motions for me to head in.
I feel a hand on my shoulder, turning to see my father looking down at me, a reassuring smile on his face. "You've got this. I believe in you. " He says, giving me a thumbs up and making me smile at him.
I proceed to head inside, and once I'm inside, the door behind me closes and the lights within the room turn on.
It looks like a standard classroom, with the white board and everything. Except that there is no side window, and there is only one students seat in the middle.
The walls of the place are all white, with the seat that I've now sat on being the color blue and white mixed.
There are also active cameras set in the four corners of the room, having a full 360 degree of the whole room under its gaze.
Moments after I'm sat, a side door is opened, it's placement being the same as a typical classroom door, and in walks Mrs. Nami.
In her hand she is holding a slim notebook, probably the exam questions, that she brings and places before me.
A pen and Eraser is also put down, before she proceeds to the teacher's seat that's infront of me. Once she sits, her gaze, those yellow glowing irises, home in on me and doesn't leave my form.
"The timer for the examination is exactly 5 hours, Mrs. Banihana. This rule will only apply for this first phase, the second examination time will be disclosed once we're there. " She informs me, making me give a nod.
I proceed to open the slim notebook, and the first question that hits me makes me frown. 'What is this? Why would they put this kind of questioning here? '
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[Third Person POV. ]
Question: A patient has progressive multi-organ failure caused by a quirk-generated biological process that continuously rewrites cellular structure. All interventions stabilize one system while accelerating failure in another. No baseline state exists.
What is the best course of action one must take, in order to best help in the stabilization of the patient here?
'A trick question, huh? ' Retsu, of course has already seen through the ploy here.
'They expect me to give a reasonable answer while the question itself is unreasonable.
Somone with these kinds of symptoms do not exist. At least not yet. But In the future where Nomu's and the concept of "Incompatible quirks" becomes a thing, then and only then may questions like these become relevant.
They unknowingly asked me a future question. Now the decision is left on me. Should i give a future answer, Or should i go the way they expect me, outside the box and just say that symptoms like these don't exist? '
Retsu makes her decision after a minute of thinking, and writes it the fun way.
(A.N./ hope i didn't fry your brains or was able to get my meaning across.
Basically, don't give the question asked here any thought guys, it's a meaningless question. It doesn't have a solid answer. BUT, wait! It does?!?
Since Retsu knows of Symptoms like this becoming real in the future, when the concept of 'incompatible quirks' become real (i.e. Aoyama's navel laser because it isn't his original quirk, resulting in terrible stomachaches. Or Izuku's One For All hurting his body because it isn't his original quirk, his body having not been born to support it at first, but later adapting to it)
ANYWAYS! i won't be making this more tripy for you guys to understand, so let us continue!)
After answering the first theoretical question, Retsu moves on to the second. This one being more tame and reasonable though. 'So they're not making all the questions unreasonable. ' she asnwer the second one pretty quickly, then moves to the third. Answering that and moving to the next one. And like this she proceeds.
Some questions are environmental. Like asking for when she is in a position where she needs to do surgery but doesn't have the necessary tools, then what would she do?
Some Of these questions needs Retsu to think outside of the box, and also some similar to the first question. Being completely unreasonable and not having any solid meaning or answers.
For those, Retsu decided to think outside of the box, only giving the first question a future answer. As for the HPSC finding out about this, or somehow track it down to her in the future when 'incompatible quirks' begin to bloom, –Retsu refuses to believe Aoyama is the only one who got a quirk from AFO and it being Incompatible. She doesn't give a flying rat's ass.
Let them trace it back to her, what are they going to do huh? By the time Canon starts, Benihana Retsu will become a National Asset. Somone the HPSC won't be able to part with no matter what they do.
Then, she will be freer than ever to do whatever she wants.
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"Approximately 72 minutes and 35 seconds. The amount of time it took for the first phase of the exam, where the examinee was asked 100 questions, and she answered them all. "
A man in a black suit reports to lady Kimmy inside her office, in the same building where the said examination is taking place on the first floor of this facility.
Kimmy pauses on her keyboarding for a few seconds, before she proceeds with her work once more. "Understood. Bring me the full profile of her examination once it is over, otherwise you don't need to report them to me phase by phase. You are free to go. " She dissmisses.
"Yes ma'am. " The suit wearing man, somone with blue curved horns sticking out of the sides of his head, bows down before he exits the office.
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Kimmy is left on her own, her frantic keyboarding halted for her to think. After a full minute, she resumes with her work, her expression unchanging from start to finish.
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"Very well then, " Mrs. Nami says, after Retsu finished and gives the exam notebook to her on her desk.
Nami proceeds to stand up too, before she turns to the side door. "Follow me to the next examination room. "
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... To be frankly honest, Nami is a little spooked.
'The entire time i had my eyes on her. My quirk, Micro-Management, allows me to gaze at somone on the Micro levels once some conditions are met. I cannot move a single inch, but can also see the tiniest movements of the one I'm looking at. ' Nami gives Retsu, –who's walking besides her and has her bored eyes looking ahead, a side look.
'My quirk is very good at seeing the micro expressions somone makes, it can tell me how that person feels and everything.
But against her, i didn't see a single twitch of anxiety.' An involuntary swallow of saliva, 'my gaze is said to feel very uncomfortable when I'm staring at somone, to the point of making people lose their focus after a full minute of its exposure on them, but she...
... She didn't even so much as twitch when under my uncomfortable gaze. '
But of course, why would she? Nami may not know it, The HPSC may not know it, heck even All For One doesn't know this. But Benihana Retsu has the strongest mental fortitude there can be. No one has stronger mental strength than her, no one.
The gaze of a child is nothing compared to her. For she is Benihana Retsu, the oldest soul in the whole world.
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After the theoretical exam, comes phase two, the practical exam. The duo are now in a new room, this one emptied out but with the same walls as the previous room.
"Now in the previous phase, we talked of the theoretical part, and this phase we shall put those theories to use. " Nami says before she nods to a camera.
Moments later, a side door is opened and in walks two men, dragging somone on a white bed wheel with a blanket on top of them.
They bring the bed wheel and cuf the wheels in the middle of the room, before exiting the examination room, leaving behind the duo and the body.
"Our subjects name is Mr. Kurogane. He was somone who unknowingly died while going through a walk, this morning." Nami reads through her tablet in her hand, pacing back and forth through the room. "Cause of death, estimated to be heart failure.
Your task for this second phase is to find the real reason of this man's death. " Nami finishes, before she goes and sits to the side, leaving behind the barely 5 years old with the task of finding the cause of death of this body.
'How could they afford to bring an actual dead body here, is the real question i want to ask. But anyways, ' Retsu brushes these thoughts off, going forth and lifting the veilover the dead body. 'Oh, maybe not. '
She sees an older man in maybe his 70 to 80s or something, the skin having gone dry, stiff, and lost its coloration by now.
Besides the dead subject, on a stool are some equipments that Retsu may use in any way she wants. Cutting tools, a mask that she puts on, and hand gloves.
Retsu proceeds to only put on the mask and hand gloves, before she turns around to the dead subject, taking the blanket off and letting her see his dead body in its full glory.
(A.N./ Now don't worry! His lower area is covered by boxers, so no need to get uppity with me in the comments section! )
Using her quirk, Retsu makes herself a sharp blood scalpal, she begins by removing the skin on the chest area, right in the upper part of the stomach, and just below the ribs. She begins parting it and proceeding to push her blood inside.
'I have the ability to analyze something through touch. And this touch rule also applies to my blood as well. So basically anything that my blood touches, i can do an analysis on it.
My analysis currently isn't in dept enough for me to learn of somone's quirk factor, but i can analyse the structures within the body that a quirk factor may change, making that body part adaptive to the quirk it developes.
I can analyse those bodily changes, and can give a rough idea as to the nature of the quirk.
For example, Denser muscles indicate that the quirk is a physical enhancement type, and based on those 'mutations' i can tell which area it supports most. '
Though we are going out of track right now.
Anyways, Retsu's blood enter's the dead subject's system and proceeds to approach the heart. Once there, Retsu does a full analysis of his heart, but doesn't find any problem.
"The cause of death wasn't heart failure. " She says, making Nami take notes.
Retsu continues probing, going through his whole system, before after a few seconds she finds the problem. "The subject was poisoned. Sign of the left Lung failing first because of his excessive smoking, with the right lung following soon after once the dormant poison takes affect.
The reason why it was believed that the subject's heart stopped, is mostly due to the outer symptoms he showed during the process.
Problem with his breathing, lips slowly turning a blue color, Chest discomfort or tightness, and many others.
These symptoms I'm sure started showing during his dying phase. " Retsu finishes, before she starts regenerating the chest skin that she peeled away earlier, the healing working even on the already dead cells, patching the area after a few seconds.
Nami pauses to the side, her eyes drawn to the process, before she writes the final touches inside her report. "Alright. That concludes the second phase of this trial.
Now before we proceed, i need for you to feel like you are ready. Do you need to take a break after seeing the dead body or anything? " Nami asks, a little concern to her voice, making Retsu shake her head.
"I'm fine. Besides, that isn't a real body. It's a clone made from the cells of a real, living body." Retsu says, making Nami's eyes go wide, 'she could tell the difference? Her analysis ability is very formidable, perhaps even the best in the world, If she deduced that, that is a clone by simply touching it. ' Nami thought, –and she was wrong once again.
Benihana Retsu has seen far too many bodies throughout her long life to not recognize a real corpse from a fake one.
The moment she lifted the veil, she didn't need to touch the body, she could just tell that that wasn't a real body.
Now, seeing as Retsu isn't feeling nauseous from seeing her first ever corpse, –at least that's what Nami the proctor of this exam thinks, the duo proceed outside of this room through a similar door like the previous one.
The duo head outside of the room, and once the door opens, Retsu sees Redvein, Her father sitting on a couch at the side, waiting for when her examination is over.
Upon seeing her, Redvein –Tetsuya– stands and goes to her. "How is it proceeding? " He asks, making Retsu shrug. "I don't know, they won't tell me after each phase. Maybe they'll tell me at the end of the exams. "
"This way, Mrs. Benihana. " Nami calls out, making Retsu turn and follow her to a seperate room from the one she entered for the earlier exams.
The duo goes through a long corridor with a lot of side doors, before they exit through the one in front of them. Upon entry, Retsu finds herself in a room with the same coloring as the first two, with the difference being that this one is a school gym sized place.
"For your last phase of examination, we will be conducting it here. And the rules of this last one is as follows... "
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Author's note/ MUWAHAHAHAHAAAAA! CLIFFHANGER BABYYYYY!!! AGHHHHHAAAAA THIS IS SCRATCHING A SPOT BEHIND ME THAT I DIDN'T KNOW NEEDED STRATCHING!
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