Day 53 - Enough to Fight?

**Schwarz:** It's a light injury. There's no fracture, nor any muscle damage.
**Schwarz:** You may see some bruising, but the pain should be gone in about 3 days.
**Demi:** I see, thank you.
*It's 3PM. I should be at work right now, but...*
*Instead, I'm in the clinic, having an injury looked at and treated by Schwarz-san.*
*I was giving my all today, performing my duties, when suddenly...*
*I tripped over a training dummy when I was trying to put them away.*
*But now that I think about it, this country's medical technology is pretty comparable to Earth's.*
*Stethoscopes, x-rays, vaccination posters in the waiting room...*
*Other than their looks, the citizens of this country are oddly close to humans on Earth.*
*I wonder if all intelligent life just ends up developing similar types of cultures...*
**Demi:** (They even speak Japanese. It's useful for me, but definitely mysterious...)
**???:** Ugh... Schwarz~... My head's pounding... Give me an IV~...
**Demi:** Ah! Erdinger-san!
**Erdinger:** Nh?
**Erdinger:** Ahh, it's Demi. Thanks for coming to see me the other day.
**Erdinger:** And you can drop the "-san". I don't like stuffy, formal stuff. I'll do the same too.
**Erdinger:** I dance there a lot, so come on by again sometime. ...Uegh...
*By his symptoms, he looks pretty hung over.*
**Demi:** (Huh... He acts completely different on and off stage.)
**Schwarz:** Oi. Again with the heavy drinking? When are you going to learn to stop that, you idiot.
**Erdinger:** Come on. At least don't get so angry at me when I'm feeling so awful. It just makes my headache even worse.
**Schwarz:** A hangover is caused entirely by your own actions. You reap what you sow. Suffer through it and think about what you've done.
**Erdinger:** I can't help it...! My customers want me to, so...
**Erdinger:** I can't just not drink when they offer to treat me, you know?
**Schwarz:** Then don't work a service job where you can't turn down a drink offered with ulterior motives.
**Schwarz:** Don't just go along with whatever your customers want you to do. Think about the services you offer as a professional.
**Erdinger:** But even a single drink purchase directly affects my own income!
**Erdinger:** And there you go giving advice, despite never working a service job yourself.
**Schwarz:** Medical service is without a doubt a service job.
**Schwarz:** At least that's how I see it when I interact with my patients.
**Erdinger:** ...Urgh. You perfect devil... You're an enemy of the weak!
**Schwarz:** Shut up. Enough already, busy your mouth with this.
**Erdinger:** ...Ah. Ramounet.
**Schwarz:** It's glucose. Put it in your mouth and come to the exam room.
**Erdinger:** ...Hmph. Thanks. I guess.
**Erdinger:** See you later then, Demi. Seriously though, come on by the club again sometime.
**Schwarz:** Oi. Quit with the sales pitch in my clinic.
**Erdinger:** What! It's just a goodbye, it's fine.
**Schwarz:** I thought I told you to shut your mouth. Don't make me repeat myself.
**Erdinger:** Saying things like that just makes people want to rebel against you. I wish you'd realize that already.
**Demi:** (Are they on good terms, or bad...?)
To be continued.