Say Hello to Black Jack 15

Say Hello to Black Jack, Volume 2, Chapter 15 (pp. 149~168)


<149>
=Impossible...

=A man who gave up the scalpel on his own...
=Has no right to enter the operating room again...

=Please...
=Stop believing in me...


<150>
=No!!

#15: Selfishness


<151>
=I don't want to give up...

=You're different from all those doctors at Eidai...
=That's why I put my trust in you, Doctor...

=I thought you really cared about your patients...

=If this is reality...
=Then I don't want to be a doctor...


<152>
=If you're also going to abandon your patients...
=Then I don't want to be a doctor anymore!!

=Don't be selfish...
=Even if it is for the patient...


<153>
=For the patient...?

=Yes...
=This man is doing all this for the patient...

I'm the one...
Who's really being selfish—


<154>
=Dr. Saito...
=Are you certain I'll be able to wield the scalpel again...?

NOD...

=But no matter how much trust you have in me...
=The heart can betray the doctor too.


<156>
=Dr. Saito...
=I also wish to see Dr. Kita take up his scalpel again.

=But...
=Medicine isn't a gamble.

=I won't turn a blind eye if worst comes to worst...


<157>
PLICK

=So now I'm gonna go to sleep...
=And get laid out on that operating table, huh...

=Thanks Doc...
=Thanks for listening to all those selfish demands I made...


<158>
=Come to think of it...
=There's tens of thousands of people in Japan with the same disease as me, right?

=How many of us are lucky enough to meet a doctor we can really trust...?

=Getting a good doctor...
=Makes all the difference, doesn't it...

=There shouldn't be any unreliable doctors in the first place...


<159>
SWUP

=I'm satisfied, Doc.

=Even if the operation goes badly...
=I was lucky enough to meet you...

DRIP..

=No...
=There's no point unless you make it through...


<160>
=I'll see you again, right...?
=Doc...

=Of course...


<161>
[x3]RATTLE

[sign]Operating Room


<163>
CLICK

CLACK...


<164>
=It's been awhile...
=How's everyone been doing...?


<165>
=Commencing the operation...

=Master...
=Oneself...


<168>
WHISHHH

The cardiac operating room...
Anything can happen here...