QT: The Host is Listless

1.5

The trip to Dr Ying was short and it took barely a minute's walk for them to reach his office. It was a grey door with the name Dr Ying Song slipped into the name placeholder. The Nurse knocked on the door twice and twisted the knob open when a buzzing sound resounded. The door unlocked and they walked in, the Nurse didn't follow as she shut the door behind them.

Shen Yi dragged himself over to the chair in front of the doctor's worktable and sat down slowly whereas Lan Xing remained standing beside her. He looked at the Doctor who greeted him with a patient smile, on his table was a holographic display of the scans and data of his brain, blood, bones, and yearly examination report.

"Hello, I'm Dr Ying Song, you can just refer to me as Dr Ying," The man said, his handsome face was a real wake-up call. Shen Yi closed his eyes in almost resignation. It seems that the creator of this world had a really small casting for the story because from the way this man looked and his name, there was no doubt, that this was the third male lead of the story.

"Ying Song?" Lan Xing looked stunned, then she looked at the man properly again. "No way, Auntie YY's son?"

What? Exactly how small was the casting in this story, one person single-handedly was the identity of not only Lan Ming's doctor, the childhood friend of Lan Xing, and also the third male lead of the story? Bravo, amazing, 10/10 for creativity. Clearly, the author's imagination was less than what Shen Yi had initially given them credit for. What a letdown.

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"Ah?" Dr Ying blinked at her then, he shifted his eyes between Lan Xing and Shen Yi before recognition flashed through his eyes. He looked surprised, but it wasn't an unpleasant expression as he seemed to welcome the familiarity. "Xing Jie? Then, this one here must be Ming'er?"

"It really is you!" Lan Xing smiled. Then, she shook her head. "Wait, not the point. You're supposed to conduct a test for Ming'er, he's been awake for a very long time, it's time for him to rest already."

"Yes, let me sleep," Shen Yi agreed mechanically. He really couldn't be bothered to do anything, dying wasn't a problem, and failure in the mission didn't affect him at all so- yes, the only reason he was even doing things was that there was a lingering fondness inside him for the female lead.

As expected, the original Lan Ming is full of love for his sister.

"Right, according to the report, your brain activity is abnormally resulting in the constant deterioration of your other biological functions. This causes your body to be weak and susceptible to diseases," Dr Ying began. His words were clear and concise, both siblings listened to his explanations raptly.

"However, there is no explanation as to why the activity is abnormal," Dr Ying frowned. "Ms Shen, does your brother often drift off into his own world without any awareness of his surroundings?"

"Yes!" Lan Xing nodded. "Ming'er often just stares off into space, I thought he just liked daydreaming but it happens too often, now that I think about it. Is it something to take note of?"

"I'm unsure as of now, I will need to look further into this. Please, you may leave the consultant now."

I still don't understand why I had to be the one to visit the doctor and not the other way around. Shen Yi's inner criticism was left unsaid as he allowed himself to be pulled towards his ward, dragging his feet the whole way. Lan Xing had a soft smile on her face and then, a second later, she froze.

"Wait, what is the coincidence that Ying Song is your doctor right after we speculated that Auntie YY tried to poison us?" Lan Xing demanded, sounding incredulous. She then took out her phone and began typing rapidly into it, scrolling down furiously as she tried to contact the police in charge of their poisoning case on the matter.

Shen Yi looked unimpressed. Did the female lead just realise this? Funny. Still, he responded with a perfunctory hum in acknowledgement, not even bothering to speak. He was looking forward this sleeping in his new bed more than listening to the female lead slowly come to her own conclusions regarding everything.

Shen Yi didn't trust anyone in this world except for himself. And yes, this included Lan Xing, because as said before, some weapons don't know that they were turned into one. Shen Yi, thoroughly dissected every part of Lan Ming and came to the conclusion that this boy was just as foolish as his sister when it came to other humans. Sure, he had intelligence but his emotional understanding of things was pathetic.

"Shiba."

"HOST!!!" Shiba exploded into existence right before his eyes, this time taking the form of a tiny child who was no taller than his knee along with facial features which mimicked his own. Shen Yi looked puzzled at the appearance, for a moment, before he nodded at the system who probably just liked changing forms like how many people liked changing their phone covers.

"You finally called me! I'm being banned from speaking with my precious host unless you call for me, they say that I'm annoying you! I'm not annoying you, right, Host? I'm the best system right?" Shiba continued to ramble, his voice whiny and filled with indignance.

"Sure."

"I knew it! I'm going to write a customer feedback to complain, how can they do this to me?" Shiba mumbled holding onto Shen Yi's hands on the side as he walked slowly down the corridor. Then, Shiba blinked at Lan Xing who was staring at her phone intensively with a frown on her face. A simple message to the policewoman in charge of their case shouldn't take this long.

"By the way, what is the Female Lead looking at?"

"Her explosive black material," Shen Yi explained bluntly. "Give it a second."

Before Shiba could question what Shen Yi had meant by that sentence, Lan Xing clarified the vague statement easily by metaphorically exploding. "What the fuck is this?!"

"Jie, we're in the hospital, please keep your voice down," Shen Yi placated flatly, his voice still monotonous. But this calmed his sister down enough for her to grip his wrist tightly and sped up their walk to his hospital room.

As said before, the hospital room was a private one that looked more like a studio than a hospital room. Shen Yi stared at the room in disbelief, there was even a kitchen counter on the side, an attached bathroom, and a small balcony with ceiling-high windows. Truly, it was disbelieving how rich the imagination of an author can go.

"Doesn't this look great?!" Lan Xing beamed up at him, "I'm going to move in here with you too! So we can just stay in the hospital together without me needing to rent outside, and it's on discount too since we're going to stay here for a long time."

"...Are you sure you didn't get scammed into getting a billion-dollar debt?" Shen Yi questioned sceptically, ignoring Shiba who was pressing his face against the windows to stare outside.

"I'm not stupid!"

Well, don't be too sure.