21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 531 - 527: The New Professor (Please Subscribe, Seek Monthly Tickets)

"Good morning, Professor Chen, Professor Jounouchi!" As Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi walked into the hospital, the nurses they encountered greeted them. However, today there was one difference: somehow the nurses had started calling Jounouchi Hiromi "Professor."

"Professor? I'm not a professor yet, why are you calling me that?" Hiromi Jounouchi was a bit puzzled. Before she and Chen Yu had taken leave, she didn't have this title; how had her title changed to Professor in just five days?

"It was announced by the hospital the other day that Professor Chen has been promoted to full professor of General Surgery, and you, Professor Jounouchi, have been specially appointed as Associate Professor of General Surgery." Seeing that Hiromi Jounouchi was unaware of what had happened, the nurse quickly explained to her and did not forget to congratulate her, "Congratulations, Professor Jounouchi!"

"Thank you!" Now Hiromi Jounouchi understood and thanked the nurse before she and Chen Yu headed towards the elevator.

Once inside the elevator, Hiromi Jounouchi asked Chen Yu, "Didn't Professor Kube say that the hospital was going to appoint me as an Associate Professor? Why am I suddenly an Associate Professor now? Mr. Chen Yu, do you know what happened?"

"It must be because of your paper. Did you forget you wrote a paper on transfusion reactions? Even if The Lancet hasn't published it yet, if it passed the review, the hospital would likely have been informed. There's nothing strange about the hospital deciding to appoint you as an Associate Professor based on that," Chen Yu casually surmised the reason and explained it to Hiromi Jounouchi nonchalantly.

For them at this point, the hospital titles and positions didn't mean much; working as an ordinary doctor or as a professor was the same.

They exited the elevator and walked toward the office together. When Chen Yu was appointed as an Associate Professor by the hospital, he was given the treatment of a full professor, so he didn't need to change offices.

However, before the promotion Hiromi Jounouchi was just a General Surgery instructor with an office in the large General Surgery office. Now that she had been promoted, she was due for a private office. Thus, Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi were both curious about which office the hospital had arranged for her.

When they arrived at the office, the General Surgery doctors were all there. Seeing Yu Chen and Hiromi Jounouchi come in together, they quickly greeted them.

"Congratulations to the professors on your promotions!" The Glasses Doctor was the first to congratulate them and jokingly said to Chen Yu, "A dual professor promotion is an event that might happen once every few decades in a University Hospital. Such a big occasion, Professor Chen Yu, you have to treat us to a meal! All of us in General Surgery are looking forward to it!"

"Heh, how could I forget something like that! Hiromi and I were on leave and didn't know about this. Now that we know, we won't forget your treat." Hearing Glasses Doctor say this, Chen Yu certainly wasn't stingy about a meal, saw Hiromi Jounouchi nodded at him in agreement, so he said to Glasses Doctor, "Glasses Doctor, count how many people will come tonight, pick a decent place, and nobody goes home sober!"

"A decent place... What level are you thinking, Professor?" asked Glasses Doctor, his smile full of ill intentions, his intent to fleece Chen Yu abundantly clear.

Hearing Glasses Doctor's question made Chen Yu burst into laughter, and he retorted to Glasses Doctor, "What standard are you after? Want to pop open a bottle of Champagne King in Ginza? You'd have to work a bit harder to reach that tier, wouldn't you?"

"Professor, you can't say that! After all, we are doctors at Eastern University Affiliated Hospital, and we can certainly afford to pop some champagne in Ginza!" Hearing Chen Yu say that, the other doctors in the office couldn't help but voice their objections. Though it might be a stretch, they could indeed afford to open a bottle of champagne in Ginza.

However, jokes aside, the Glasses Doctor and the others weren't likely to really make Chen Yu treat them to champagne in Ginza. Spending an evening there would start at hundreds of thousands of yen, and they just wanted a meal on Chen Yu, not to bleed him dry.

"Find a place with a nice environment that can fit all of us," Chen Yu didn't comment on the Glasses Doctor's claim about affording champagne. He simply instructed him.

It was Jounouchi Hiromi, however, who asked Glasses Doctor, "Has the hospital told you where my office will be?"

"I know this one. When they announced you were promoted to professor, they already mentioned this. It's in room XXX," Doctor Higashiyama stood up and told Jounouchi Hiromi where her office was: "It should be right across from Professor Chen Yu's office. Do you need help moving your stuff?"

"No need, I can sort it out myself," Jounouchi Hiromi turned down Doctor Higashiyama's offer and looked at Chen Yu, teasingly saying, "Looks like I'll be your neighbor across the hallway from now on, Mr. Chen Yu!"

To Jounouchi Hiromi's remark, Chen Yu just smiled slightly. He didn't take much notice; after all, they slept in the same bed every night—what did an office across the hall matter to them?

After helping Jounouchi Hiromi organize her belongings, Chen Yu then carried the boxes filled with her stuff to her new office.

Jounouchi Hiromi's new office was indeed diagonally across from Chen Yu's, not even ten meters away. Obviously, this area was originally for the offices of the General Surgery professors, so it made sense for Jounouchi Hiromi's office to be there.

Compared to Chen Yu's office, however, Jounouchi Hiromi's was noticeably smaller. It wasn't a suite with a small partition like Chen Yu's, but just a single office. After all, associate professors didn't have secretaries.

"Alright, from now on, Hiromi, you are officially Professor Jounouchi!" Chen Yu placed a nameplate with Jounouchi Hiromi's name on her desk and, looking at the well-arranged office, smiled at Jounouchi Hiromi.

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Being addressed that way by Chen Yu, Jounouchi Hiromi felt somewhat embarrassed and shy. She lowered her head and felt somewhat uneasy when she was about to say something, the office door suddenly burst open. A nurse rushed in and said to them, "Professor Chen, Professor Jounouchi, Murata Kouta, the patient who had the Inferior Vena Cava Leiomyosarcoma removed, suddenly has a temperature spike to 38.2 degrees, a heartbeat of 120, and is experiencing pain in the right kidney area. You'd better go check on him quickly!"

Hearing the nurse's words, Chen Yu and Jounouchi Hiromi didn't hesitate to say anything further; they rushed out of the office together.