Chapter 2: The new world isn't so bad, it just doesn't go out to sea.
1 Day Pass. . .
since I had a splitting headache and was forced to watch Stephen Strange 's memoirs . The current body I live in
It has been 1 week since the accident that caused the loss of both hands ...
I mean. . . It's still have hands, just can't control them.
The nerves in my hands are badly damaged. Even though had a lower ranking surgeon than STRANGE at Metro General Hospital in New York TRY reconnect the nerves, they are still at a level can do ONLY daily life
But hands will shake so much that there is no way I can go back to holding a scalpel, operating and reconnecting the patient's nerves and blood vessels.
I slowly took my time to digest, absorb, and process the information I received from the memories of this body's owner, who had lived for two decades in a world that was . . . completely different from my previous world !
At first, I didn't know how to begin to understand and learn the vast amount of information that a person has lived for over 20 years !
I worry that I'll have to be in a vegetable state for 20 years to relive this Stephen Strange life story .
But fortunately ... the next morning I woke up with a much reduced headache, but I still had some swelling on my face, which had wounds from a car accident the week before.
I opened my eyes with mixed feelings before closing them, taking a deep breath, exhaling slowly before opening them again, turning to look at the screen beside me, which I now understood what it was, and looking at the date and time on the screen, which read
April 1, 2016. Time 08.18 hrs.
" April 1st … April Fool 's Day … My being in the body of a man named Stephen Strange is just a one of good lie story "
I said softly before closing my eyes again , taking a deep breath and exhaling slowly to meditate, organizing the life experiences of the genius surgeon of Metro General …
no , it should be called " FORMER" from the current state of my hand, the nerves and tendons were destroyed.
Stephen is an American by birth, living on the North American continent, one of the world's seven major continents .
A world without the Red Line dividing it, without the CalmBelt dividing it, making the sea into four great sides, and the Grand Line being a paradise for pirates or a graveyard for those who love adventure at sea.
The world Stephen lives in used to have pirates, but they were suppressed. Even though there are still pirates in some areas, they are not as thriving as in the world I lived in.
This world has very different systems because the living space is on a large continent with a wide land area. There are 5 oceans that are not traveled by ships very often. There is only a large amount of cargo transportation.
In this world, people travel by plane, flying across continents !
On each mainland continent, there are roads for cars to drive and travel back and forth quickly, and there are railways and trains that are like the Sea Train of Water Seven that connect to Enies Lobby and 3 other tourist islands . However, in this world, the trains do not run on the sea . . .
Train in this world NOT like Puffing Tome , steam locomotive of Water 7
but it's a bullet train that moves very fast. Fast like . . . According to Stephen's memory , from driving car for 10 hours, taking a high-speed train takes only 1-2 hours !
The world has advanced technology and social conditions, and people live well under the democratic republic system in most countries , constitutional monarchy , or in some places communism.
But all of this is under the umbrella of the UN , which is different from a world government in that each country has full control over its own affairs. Intervention is only through condemnation, negotiation, or trade sanctions, diplomacy.
There is no finger-pointing and ordering people to do things arbitrarily like the Celestial Dragons !
There is no open slave trade, wearing collars to pull people like animals that are commonly seen in Sabaody !!
Even though this world is not 100% beautiful , there are still shortages, poverty, war, economic problems, mafia, and gangsters who oppress people. But there are public organizations and charitable foundations that help people, including protecting wildlife and preserving natural areas. Even though nothing can be changed immediately because of the dark power of capitalism, it is not as bad as the world I came from .
at least , in Stephen 's memory, in the past 100 years, no kingdom on any island has been able to hide the truth that its valuable, luxurious resources are actually poisonous, and when the people in the city get sick, they "wipe out the whole city" on orders from the World Government or the main government agencies like the one on my island was . . .
But this world has had two world wars , and the second one was a horrific genocide . The Little Boy and Fat Man nuclear bombs destroyed two cities in Japan, killing many people and leaving the survivors suffering from radiation poisoning that lingered in that area for decades .
No matter which world, humans are a vicious species, doing anything for what they want, regardless of what other humans, other animals, or the environment in other areas are like .
Overall... I think Stephen Strange's world isn't that bad. It's just ... I don't have the chance to go out to sea and have adventures with Bepo , Sachi , Penguin anymore .
Thinking like that, I felt warmth around both of my eyes, before tears welled up and almost overflowed from my bruised eye sockets. Even though I tried to suppress my sadness, it was too late.
Knock knock
The moment the tears streamed down her cheeks, where the wounds from the accident had just started to heal, there was a knock on the door. The two arms that were suspended in the air and the hands that were connected to the metal stick were unable to move to wipe away the tears.
So i tried to make my voice normal, not like someone who had just cried to say let the person knocking at the door can come in. But the voice that came out was quite hoarse, and there was also sobbing mixed in.
" Come in … come in … gulp . "
The door opened, and the same woman came in, except she was wearing a new outfit: a brown long-sleeved shirt, black trousers covered with a gray coat, and a brown-red-and-white checkered scarf.
Her name is Christine Palmer. She is a doctor who is highly skilled in surgery. Although she is not as skilled as Stephen Strange , she is still one of the top doctors in New York .
She had been friends with Stephen for a long time. In fact, the owner of this body had dated Christine before, but their feelings were more like coworkers than lovers. However, I could tell that Christine's gaze when she looked at the injured body, whose hands were unusable, and tears were streaming down on MY face ...
The way you look at me right now gives me a feeling that is more than just that of a colleague.
There was more concern than one coworker could have for another, and there was also concern, anxiety that showed through his face, which froze and widened his eyes for a moment before pretending to be normal.
in Stephen 's memories, this was the first time he cried in front of someone.
Of course, a genius, an intelligent person with a high ego, who is arrogant and thinks he is more outstanding and talented than ordinary people, would never cry in front of anyone. But right now, I am crying not because I am worried about my broken hand, but because I miss my friends in my original world.
Just this hand, wait for my power to recover, then use the Ope Ope fruit to open a ROOM , perform surgery, connect the nerves easily, and heal as if I had my original hand back.
For me, who had successfully removed amber lead from all over my body, including difficult areas like my brain, just reconnecting the nerves in my hand was an easy task!
but I didn't plan on saying it out loud. It was beyond the comprehension of the average person in this world who didn't have special powers, didn't have Devil Fruit powers, didn't have the Navy's Six Types of Skills, or practiced Haki like the people in the New World. The second half of the Grand Line . . .
Oh, and that doesn't include the Avengers team that came out to protect New York from the alien invasion in 2012 .
What am I going to do from now on? Should I continue my new life in this body, continue working as a genius surgeon, or … should I find a way to return to my original world? I'll think about it when my body has fully recovered . For now, I have to play the role of Stephen Strange .
"Good morning, Christine ," I greeted her hoarsely, teasing her about her outfit to cover up the tears I was shedding. "You look very autumnal today, but isn't it spring in New York?"