The Ultimate Doctor

Chapter 8

Elijah and Mia arrived at an old district in the suburbs of Brooklyn Heights and located a small bungalow behind the district's graveyard.

As they closed on the building, they noticed the commotion at the entrance and hurried quickly to see some rough-looking men hanging around with weapons.

"If you don't give us this house today, we'll bury you inside of it." The leader of the group had a great stature, and the scar across his face was terrifying.

He was talking to a middle-aged woman who stood petrified with tears in her eyes.

"Aunt Lena, what's going on?" Mia hurried quickly to her mother's sister who was shivering at the center of this commotion.

"Mia, you're here" The woman spoke regretfully, "It's my fault, I needed to pay to renew your mother's space at the graveyard but I had no money so I borrowed from the loan shark"

"Loan shark?" Mia's eyes widened in shock.

In Brooklyn Heights, everyone knew the loan shark was bad news and should be avoided at any cost.

They were associated with the underground crime network of the city and would do a lot of evil to those who borrowed from them and failed to pay.

Even the police department would not dare crack down on the loan shark organization for fear of being beaten to death.

Aunty Lena sobbed, "I know I'm wrong, Mia, but I couldn't watch your mother get dug out of her resting place. She won't forgive me"

Mia couldn't blame her Aunt, as even she might have done the same thing for her mother.

"Aunt Lena, now that I'm here, I'll work hard with you and pay them back the money"

The leader of the group laughed loudly and puffed his chest, "What money? We don't want your money anymore, we are taking this house as our own"

As he spoke, the terrifying men took imposing steps forward, brandishing the knives and sharp weapons in their hands.

Mia couldn't help but be scared by this sight.

Still, she managed to say, "Don't be this way, this house is all that my mother left for us. Just give us one week and we'll find the money"

"One week?" The leader laughed again, "We've given you enough one week, today, we won't leave without this house or we'll draw blood"

"Isn't there anything we can do?" Mia begged, "If I work hard, I'll raise your money quickly and pay back twice what we owe"

She emphasized twice to pacify the men, but the leader wouldn't budge.

He continued to brandish the knife in his hand, "Maybe we can do something...." His eyes ran over Mia lustfully and she shyly covered herself.

"Just a few days Mr. and we'll find your money"

"No!" He stamped his feet arrogantly on the floor, then added, "You have really good skin, why don't you come accompany my sick boss? I'm sure he'll be well once he touches a beautiful woman"

Mia's face turned a little pale and she took a step back, "We'll find your money, don't be this way"

"Well, I don't need money anymore; what I need now is you for my sick boss." The leader of the group grinned from ear to ear.

If he brings such a beauty to the chair-ridden, sick boss, he would surely be rewarded in some way.

He held his knife tighter and tried to move.

"If I heal your sick boss, you won't bother this family again." A voice no one expected came from the side, and they all turned in awe.

Elijah stepped forward confidently and spoke again, "I'll heal your sick boss but you must agree to leave this family in the future, consider their debts paid"

The leader of the group turned fully to Elijah and barked, "Heal my boss, who do you think you are?"

"Big brother is a Doctor, he knows a lot about medicine" Mia was quick to step in and back him up.

"Hmph! A doctor...?" The man looked at the appearance of Elijah from head to toe, "Then let him hurry up and pay me times fives of your debts or I'll bring his insides out"

He flexed the knife in their line of sight.

"I'm offering to heal your boss now, there might be no second chance," Elijah spoke very calmly, and this only surprised the leader even more.

"You, heal my boss, you don't even know his sickness"

Elijah raised his fingers up slightly, "There's no sickness this hand cannot find a solution to"

This might seem like bragging but it was very much true.

Fifteen years on the mountain with one of the greatest Grandmasters to exist in this world, he had served as his disciple and learnt his way.

Everything his master knew about healing techniques, pill refinement, and rare alchemy, he taught him to perfection.

Even the Grandmaster on the mount became intrigued at the rate Elijah learnt his ways fast.

Before his master vanished, he started to call him, Elijah: the healing hands of the gods.

The leader of the group started to laugh again and his men joined him too because they understood.

In five years, no doctor in this world has found a solution to the sickness of their underground boss.

It became worse until he retreated to hide his face from the world.

Many doctors have claimed to have solutions but in the end, they had their fingers broken or worse, removed permanently.

Since then, doctors and healing practitioners have run away from the name of their boss and wouldn't even want to come near.

Yet this ordinary-looking man claims to be a Doctor and is boasting about healing that sickness.

The leader tucked his knife in place and cleared his throat, "Since you are eager to die, I'll help you with it. Then I'll come back here, take this house, and take this woman for my boss"

Mia subconsciously took a step back and hugged her aunt.

"And if I heal your boss?" Elijah demanded.

"We'll not cross this place in our lifetime anymore, and even our boss will give you whatever you ask for. As for me, I'll become a dog you can call on anytime. In this district and beyond, I'm a feared handler"

Hearing the leader of the group, Elijah casually said, "All I need is for you to stay away from these people and consider their debts paid"

He wanted Mia and her aunt to live comfortably in that house without a terrible loan shark group bothering them.

"If that's what you want. I'll take you to my boss now," The leader grinned.