🎵[OST] - fluffing a duck : Kevin Macleod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJeGZaKESQs OST for the introduction.

For a full week.

Every time I drank cold water, my right molar throbbed. At first, I endured it, thinking, 'It'll get better in a few days.' But eventually, Guest had to accept reality.

I had to go to the dentist.

Guest: "...Sigh."

With a heavy sigh, I stepped inside the clinic as the automatic doors slid open.

The familiar smell of disinfectant. The cavity prevention posters on the walls. A meaningless health program playing on the waiting room TV.

It was definitely the clinic I had been attending for years.

Run by the white-haired director who was always blunt but undeniably skilled.

However...

Guest: "...Huh?"

Inside the treatment room was someone I had never seen before.