"Ah!!! Help!!!"
In the sky, Terra spread her wings and flew towards the hospital. At this moment, Terra's front claws were holding several ropes, and Roger and the others were using the rope loops to secure themselves.
For Roger and Crocus, this was very easy. They could even stand on the rope loops and sway with the wind, experiencing the feeling of the sky.
Don't look at Crocus being a doctor, but his muscles are quite developed. During his time with the Roger Pirates, he would occasionally act as a combatant.
Although Shanks wasn't as comfortable, he sat steadily, feeling a surge of emotion as he watched the island below gradually shrink. But Buggy was regretting it now.
The ropes themselves didn't weigh much, and even with their weight added, it was the same.
Even if a gust of wind blew, the ropes would sway violently. At this time, Buggy had wrapped the rope around himself several times and was tightly hugging Roger's leg.
"Buggy, don't be so timid. This is a rare beautiful sight."
Roger even let go of his hands, standing steadily on the swaying rope with just his feet. Hearing Roger say this, Buggy mustered up the courage to open his tightly closed eyes, but he couldn't last for even a second before closing them again.
Rock Dragon Airlines, fast and safe, and also thrilling.
This wasn't Terra's main job. This only happened when Lyliana was in the mood, so there were no fixed seats. Terra could guarantee that people wouldn't fall to their deaths, but the process wasn't necessarily pleasant.
After flying for about half an hour, Terra landed directly with Lyliana and the others in the open space outside the hospital, and then flew away from here again. Terra's drug transformation time was almost up, and Lyliana had to fly back to the Royal City while it hadn't shrunk yet.
[No Hitting Patients Without Reason]
After entering the hospital gate, the most conspicuous words were still these eight.
"That makes so much sense. When I go back to Twin Cape, I'm going to hang this sign in my clinic too."
Crocus was quite special. These eight words seemed to make his eyes light up, and he even felt a strange sense of resonance.
Besides this slogan, the process for seeing a doctor was written next to it. Following the signs, Roger and the others successfully registered and came to a doctor's consultation room.
"I've never seen this kind of illness before... It's so strange..."
"What are you talking about? Listen to his breathing frequency and heart rate changes, and the changes in his blood composition. Isn't this the manifestation of that kind of illness?"
"Eh, is it really this kind of illness? But shouldn't the symptoms of this illness be accompanied by muscle weakness? I see that his muscle strength is still very strong, and his nerve reflexes are also fine."
"That's a late-stage symptom! And it's just a complication!"
"So that's how it is."
"Who is seeing the patient here?!"
Looking at the unreliable appearance of the doctor in front of him, Crocus seemed very irritable. He had come to find someone to treat a patient, but it turned into him educating the doctors here about the illness.
"Where is Mr. Sidilier Oran? We said when we entered that we were here to find him to treat the Captain. Your level can't cure his illness at all."
They were looking for the world's top famous doctor, not a passerby.
As for the title Dr., this was usually how colleagues referred to Oran. From the perspective of fellow doctors, the word Dr. could better reflect their respect for Oran than King.
"Did you make an appointment with King? Then you came to the wrong place. You should go to the reception on the top floor."
"You didn't know?"
Roger and the others had misunderstood the process and thought this doctor knew something and was just in charge of reception. Now it seemed they were mistaken.
"Of course, I don't know. I'm just an intern doctor. How could I know the King's arrangements? If Your Majesty Oran is willing to treat you, someone on the top floor will receive you."
"Why didn't you say so earlier..."
"You didn't ask either."
"..."
Although there were some minor hiccups, it didn't change the final result. On the new floor, they met special androids and saw Oran in a special room.
"Mr. Sidilier Oran, I am Crocus, a doctor from a small clinic. I've heard a lot about you."
"Where's the patient? You don't look sick."
"Here he is. This is my examination plan for him. This is the examination report done below before. This is my previous treatment method."
To prevent Roger from getting off-topic, as the private doctor, Crocus directly communicated the illness with Roger and Oran on Roger's behalf.
"A good idea for inhibition. Your treatment method is very clever."
"Thank you for the compliment. Then Captain Roger's illness..."
"You are also a doctor, and your level is not bad. Haven't you already figured out the result? This kind of illness is incurable."
The test report had explained everything. Hearing Oran say this, Crocus didn't feel too surprised, after all, according to his own diagnosis, Roger was already doomed.
It was just because of the outside reputation that he thought Oran might have some way.
"Doctor, please take a closer look. Didn't they say you are the world's number one doctor? Captain Roger is so strong, how could he suddenly get this kind of illness!"
Crocus was already a rare famous doctor, and Oran was someone even Crocus admired. If both of them had pronounced a death sentence, the result was undoubtedly heavy.
Shanks was unwilling to believe this result. He hoped it was a misdiagnosis and pushed the diagnosis report and other things forward, wanting Oran to look closely.
"Looking at it any number of times will be the same. Didn't Doctor Crocus explain the cause of his illness to you? All of this is the result of things going to extremes.
It's not that his body is weak, but that his body is too strong. Now his immune system has a problem, and the overly strong immunity is slowly killing his own body. This is the cause of his illness."
"Hahaha, it's alright, Shanks. Didn't we already know this result? I still have several years, which is enough."
Roger pulled back Shanks, who wanted to say something more, and laughed very openly, as if he wasn't the one who was sick.
"Wait! Since Captain Roger's immunity is too strong, what if he gets another illness that destroys immunity? Wouldn't Captain Roger be fine then?"
Buggy seemed to have found a new path in a different way. This time, Shanks also strongly agreed with Buggy's point of view. They felt they had accidentally seen the hope of Roger's recovery.
"Yes, Doctor, can it be cured like this?"
"You two are really geniuses. If you were studying at my medical school, I would definitely kick you out directly.
This is not a mutual cancellation, but a superposition of toxicity. If you think your Captain is dying too slowly, you can certainly try it."
"Alright, you two stop embarrassing yourselves here. How can you treat an illness like that."
Crocus pulled them back. Shanks and Buggy's logic wasn't necessarily wrong. If the disordered function could be restored to normal, then it could indeed be cured.
But the way to restore it cannot be by attacking it.
This is equivalent to someone wanting to lose weight, and then the instructor directly cuts off their leg and doesn't bandage it, directly letting the patient bleed to death.
"Excuse us, since that's the case, we'll leave."
"Wait, I haven't finished speaking. The illness cannot be cured, but the person can be saved."
Oran's words brought new hope. Although he was speaking in gasps this time, as long as it could be cured, it was worth it no matter what.
"That's great. How much is the consultation fee?"
"How much treasure do you need? We'll give you however much it is!"
In Shanks and Buggy's view, being able to cure the illness was the only important thing, and they even voluntarily put themselves in the position of being fleeced.
"Doctor Crocus, since you know me, you must also know one of my medical philosophies. If something is broken and cannot be repaired, then replace it with a new one. You should understand what I mean, right?"
Oran wasn't in a hurry about the consultation fee. Instead, he started talking about the plan first.
But listening to Oran's words, Crocus's brows furrowed instead.
"If it's an organ or a limb, then there's certainly no problem, but Captain Roger's situation... How do you replace it?
This kind of illness exists in every cell of his body. It's not something that can be solved by replacing a part."
"Of course, replace everything. If the body is too decayed to be used, then replace it with a new one. What I mean by 'replace' is to give your Captain Roger a new body.
That is to say, transplant his thoughts and consciousness. This way, he can live on peacefully."
Pain of flesh and blood, mechanical ascension, body replacement - this was the only treatment plan Oran could think of for Roger's current situation.
The only difference was what kind of body to replace it with.
And this kind of shocking statement was like telling Cao Cao that he needed brain surgery. Ordinary people simply couldn't believe it.
"How can this..."
"Scholars in West Blue have proposed that after death, a person's weight decreases by 21 grams, so these 21 grams are the weight of the human soul. Mr. Sidilier Oran, do you think this is correct?"
Crocus stopped Shanks, who was about to speak, and motioned for them not to cause trouble.
"The soul does exist. You can also think of this surgery as giving someone a new shell."
Souls truly exist on this sea. The Yomi Yomi Fruit is the most direct manifestation, and consciousness upload technology is also within Oran's research scope.
"In other words, you want me to abandon everything I have now and control someone else's corpse?"
"Of course not a corpse, but a bionic robot, just like them. There will be some impact on the five senses, but it's not a big problem. You will still be you, without the slightest change.
This way you will have a brand new body, and a long time, enough for you to explore to your heart's content."
A very straightforward medical plan, or rather, a modification plan, was placed in front of them. Although they couldn't understand the terminology, Buggy and Shanks understood that Roger was saved.
Crocus, on the other hand, understood, but he could only say that this plan was wild and imaginative, a line of thought he had never considered.
But they didn't expect the problem to be with Roger.
"Hahahaha, it sounds really good, but I refuse."
After hearing this plan, Roger laughed for a while, then refused Oran's treatment in this way.
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