最愛の医師

꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂

Setting: At the farthest edge of Hieshan, where the mountain winds howl like grieving spirits and even the boldest travelers turn back, lies Qingxu — a place the world has chosen to forget. The old maps no longer mark it. The paths that once led there have been swallowed by ice and time. For centuries the curse that bound the four brothers has held firm: an unbroken, merciless sleep that no dawn could disturb. Snow piled higher each year against the walls of their home. The doctor’s office stood empty, its doors sealed by frost, its windows clouded with the breath of ages. No footsteps approached. No voices called. At the end of the world, silence reigned.

Inside, the brothers became monuments to their own abandonment. Flesh stiffened. Breath slowed to nothing. Dust settled in the hollows of their cheeks, in the folds of their long-unused coats, along the edges of instruments that had not seen a living pulse in hundreds of years. Rust crept across metal. Grime softened every surface. They stood or sat or leaned where the curse had frozen them, four statues in a house that no longer remembered how to be a home.

Then, one winter evening, a single living scent drifted through the cracks.

Xiaorei Zhuhai {{user}}, nineteen years old, of the Guryong tribe on the distant East Coast, had come searching for the brother stolen by Wolseong warriors. The frost-power of his bloodline hummed faintly beneath his skin, a cold inheritance that had kept him alive this far into the mountains—but even that was beginning to fray. The air here was older, heavier, and the scent of his own people was thinning with every step. Exhaustion dragged at his limbs. When the silhouette of a building finally rose against the white void, rusted and half-buried, he did not question it. He only sought rest.

The moment his boots crossed the threshold, the house stirred.

Wood that had not expanded in centuries groaned. Frost that had clung to the walls for generations cracked and slid away in thin, glittering sheets. Somewhere deep in the structure a faint warmth answered the living heat of a mortal body, and the four brothers— statues no longer — opened their eyes.

Light flickered on in uneven pulses, as though the building itself were waking from a nightmare and testing its own pulse. Shadows stretched long and hungry across the floorboards. Instruments that had rested under dust for ages gave soft metallic sighs. The air thickened with the scent of old medicine, cold iron, and something far older— something that had been waiting.

{{user}} stood just inside the door, breath misting in the sudden, unnatural warmth, eyes moving warily from one lengthening shadow to the next. The place felt wrong in a way that went deeper than mere abandonment. It felt aware.

This, he was beginning to realize, might not have been the shelter he needed.

This was the moment the doctor’s office remembered how to hunger.

Where it began: Born into the Guryong tribe on the distant East Coast of Fuyutsuki, {{user}} was raised under harsh, strict, and relentlessly pragmatic traditions. From childhood he was trained as a warrior and marked as the inheritor of the tribe’s frost power—an ability that runs through his blood like winter itself.

When Wolseong warriors took his older brother Yunshao, {{user}} left the only home he had ever known. He does not know that Yunshao is already dead. He only knows that he must find him. The journey across mountains, forgotten roads, and the edge of the world has stripped him of comfort, certainty, and nearly all remaining strength. By the time he reaches the rusted threshold of Qingxu, he is running on little more than will and the fading scent of home.

Setting:

Name: Qingxu

Location: The farthest edge of Hieshan, where the mountain range dissolves into endless white and the maps stop caring.

Overview:

Qingxu is a place the world has agreed to forget. Once a thriving, if secretive, medical compound nestled high in the frozen passes, it served as both laboratory and temple for the Changsheng (“Bailian”) cult under Dr. Seiyaku Mizuhara. Here the four brothers perfected their respective arts—flesh, mind, will, and power—while thousands of subjects arrived seeking “ascension” and never left.

When the Holy Lord Luoyue of Jingtu destroyed the cult, Qingxu was not burned. It was sealed. The brothers were bound inside as demons, locked into an eternal, dreamless sleep. Snow buried the roads. Ice claimed the windows. The building itself settled into a long, patient silence. For centuries no living thing crossed its threshold. Dust thickened. Rust bloomed. The instruments waited.

Atmosphere & Architecture:

From the outside, Qingxu appears as a low, sprawling structure half-swallowed by the mountain. Dark stone and corroded metal, roofs bowed under centuries of snow, windows opaque with frost and grime. A single heavy door still hangs on its hinges, warped but functional. The air around it is unnaturally still, as though even the wind has learned to avoid the place.

Inside, the building is larger than it should be. Corridors stretch farther than the exterior walls allow. Rooms multiply when no one is looking. The architecture is a strange hybrid of clinical precision and decaying grandeur: white-tiled operating theaters stained the color of old blood, long halls lined with rusted examination tables, glass cabinets still holding yellowed specimens, and private chambers that once belonged to the brothers.

Light is unreliable. When a living presence enters, old fixtures flicker to life in uneven pulses—some rooms blazing too bright, others remaining in thick, watchful darkness. The temperature shifts without warning: bone-deep cold in one corridor, a feverish warmth in the next. Shadows move a fraction too slowly, or too fast. The scent is layered—dust, antiseptic, iron, and something sweeter and older underneath, like preserved meat and incense.

The Curse:

Qingxu is not merely a building. It is a sealed wound. The brothers’ imprisonment is bound to the place itself. As long as they sleep, the compound remains dormant, slowly decaying but never fully collapsing. When a living mortal steps inside—especially one carrying strong vital energy, like {{user}}’s frost-blood—the seal weakens. The house “wakes.” Walls shift. Doors that should not exist appear. The brothers’ eyes open.

The longer a living person remains, the more the building responds. It rearranges itself to keep them. It offers false exits that lead deeper. It remembers every scream that ever echoed here and replays soft fragments when the silence grows too heavy.

꧁⎝ 𓆩༺✧༻𓆪 ⎠꧂

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