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GROAN Chapter 7: God and Buddha

Chapter 51: Although offered a higher position in the prison hierarchy, Jin rejects it in favor of the better treatment of all inmates. The headman is not pleased by this statement, now demanding again Jin’s death. However, the inmates revolt against the prison hierarchy, moved by Jin’s consideration...

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GROAN Chapter 6: Tribute

Chapter 50:The “Thinning” has started in the prison cells, and Jin has been chosen as one of its victims. However, when a cockroach enters the headman’s ear, Jin is given the chance to save the headman...

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GROAN Chapter 5: The Prison House

Chapter 49: The court deems that Jin and Saki are to be jailed. Jin is sent to the lowest cells, the Tairo, where he faces the worst of experiences he has had ever since arriving in the Edo period. His clothes stolen and his body beaten, as he feared, Jin has found himself in literal hell. As to why he has been so cruelly accused though remains a mystery…?

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GROAN Chapter 4: Scrutiny

Chapter 48: Jin is arrested by the royal servants for poisoning Kazunomiya-sama. Although he pleads innocent, the servants believe that his sweets were poisoned. Even after searching the temple and among the other people who had attended the event, there had been no other proof of other possible methods...

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GROAN Chapter 3: Poison

Chapter 47: The play ends, but Kazunomiya-sama suddenly collapses. After inspection, Ryojun declares that she had been poisoned. Jin, who had been invited to watch the play at the location, convinces Ryojun that he knows the nature of the poison, that is was likely arsenic poisoning. Trusting of Jin’s observation, Ryojun allows him to help save Kazunomiya-sama.

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GROAN Chapter 2: Watching Theater

Chapter 46: Jin has been tasked by Ryojun to persuade Tanosuke to perform privately for Kazunomiya-sama. The negotiations end smoothly, as the honor of performing before royalty does not escape Tanosuke’s grasps. Thus, at a temple, the play is performed for Kazunomiya-sama. But something goes wrong...

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GROAN Chapter 1: Princess Kazunomiya

Chapter 45: The sweets that were made to treat Ei’s Beriberi have become a new delicacy on the streets of Edo. Fame for Nokaze has risen too, causing some trouble at Jin’s Clinic, though nothing that Jin is unable to settle. But one request has come in for Jin from Ryojun Matsumoto...

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PARENT Chapter 4: The Courtesan Nowake

Chapter 44: Originally in a slump, Tanosuke happens upon one of Unzen’s Ukiyoe paintings of Nokaze, sparking an idea to create a play about her. The play becomes a hit, causing sales for the paintings to skyrocket and people to visit her at Jin’s Clinic. Meanwhile, Jin continues to deliver sweets to Ei. But on one day... 

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PARENT Chapter 3: Mid Autumn

Chapter 43: Jin had the bright idea of giving the barley rice diet to Ei through what she loves: sweets. Yet she resists, keeping to her stubbornness that she’ll die. Memories of baking sweets with his own mother erupt within Jin, causing him to persist in convincing Ei, telling her that at the least, she should die eating what she loves. Finally convinced, Ei accepts Jin’s plea.

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PARENT Chapter 2: Edo Sickness

Chapter 42: Also under the severe conditions of beriberi, Ei is unwilling to live on, thus rejects any treatments by Jin. Although knowing that changing one’s diet greatly cures beriberi, Jin has noticed that spreading this information even through the Medical Institution has had little effect on the common people. Even then, in sight of Saki suffering, Jin wishes to prevent Ei’s death...

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PARENT Chapter 1: Ei's Decision

Chapter 41: Jin finally returns back to Edo after a long half-month away spent in Kyoto. Returning to his life in Jin’s Clinic, Jin meets with familiar faces once again. However, the clinic is visited by Kyoutaro Tachibana, who asks Jin to come to the Tachibana residence and examine Ei, Kyoutaro and Saki’s mother, whose health has deteriorated since Saki had rejected the marriage proposal.

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 7: Adolescence

Chapter 40: Invited to a party by Kogiku, Jin along with Ryoma and Oryo head to Gion. There, they are surprisingly met by the cat being strapped in a wheelchair. With the maker of the wheelchair unknown, they leave the question unanswered. Later that night, Jin is also invited to meet one more important person...

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 6: Ryoma and Oryo

Chapter 39: With business mostly done in Kyoto, Jin takes his time to observe the results of the battle that had occured. There, he is met by Ryoma, who brings along his fiance, Oryo. Oryo eventually helps Jin in checking those who had been injured in the fire, which he greatly appreciates.

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 5: A Young Girl

Chapter 38: The fight between the Satsuma and Choshu settles as the latter flees in defeat. In the midst of this, an injured cat is brought to Jin by a young girl, Kogiku, and Souji Okita. In spite of not having operated on an animal before, Jin agrees to operate on the cat. But he also places his attention on Kogiku, seeing how dejected the children of this era can be...

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 4: A Life Decision

Chapter 37: The fires of city now spreads towards the mansion where Jin is operating on Oshima. During this panic, two Choshu soldiers infiltrate the mansion to cut down Oshima, the leader of the Satsuma army...

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 3: Saigo

Chapter 36: Jin had collapse from exhaustion, resting through the night. Upon waking, he hurries to examine Oshima, only to find signs of peritonitis. ..

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 2: Appearance

Chapter 35: After treating the injuries of a young soldier, Shusuke, Jin is demanded by the Shinsengumi to leave his station to come with them. Jin abides and is lead to the Satsuma clan’s residence, where he is told to keep a secret as to why he had been summoned. And there, he meets with yet another historical figure...  

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ENCAMPMENT Chapter 1: Young Soldiers

Chapter 34: The Choshu attack the palace in order to gain control over the emperor, and the Satsuma fight back. And as a fire break out, refugees fled for safety. Jin has asked Shozan Sakuma's pupils to help treat such refugees on the Kamo river bank. But the refugees are not the only ones in need of first aid...

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RENEWAL Chapter 5: The Labyrinth of Kyoto

Chapter 33: A rivalry stands between the Choshu and the Satsuma, and Jin stands in between them as he treats Shozan’s wounds in hiding...

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RENEWAL Chapter 4: To Kyoto!

Chapter 32: Ryoma once again comes by, asking that Jin journeys to Kyoto in order to treat someone who had been injured in an assassination. Though not given much details, Jin realizes that this man may be Shozan Sakuma, thus accepts the request. However, Jin finds out there is a problem in performing his treatments away from Edo...

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RENEWAL Chapter 3: Torrent

Chapter 31: Ryoma brings news that in Kyoto, the Shinseigumi has assaulted a meeting between anti-foreigner faction leaders. These leaders annihilated, Ryoma and Katsu are both stricken with grief, bringing Jin to realize that Ryoma will also be historically assassinated in the next few years...

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RENEWAL Chapter 2: The Painter's Dream

Here is the last chapter that I upload in 2017.  Thank you very much for your support, I hope to see you all in 2018 too. Happy new year!

Chapter 30:Though he had rejected the offer of surgery by Jin, Unsen the painter has submitted to have the surgery on his hand after recognizing how pitiful he is, especially when his daughter has been rejecting marriage to take care of him. While under the drunken influence of anesthesia, Unsen begins to blurb about objects familiar to Jin... 

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RENEWAL Chapter 1: A Silent Fetal Movement

Happy Holidays, everyone. Thank you for your kind support throughout 2017. Here is the new chapter, enjoy!

Chapter 29: Sakuragawa Unsen. An ukiyo artist who doesn’t draw often, but is still famous nonetheless. Lately though, he has set his eye upon Nokaze, wanting to draw her in what she had been before: the famed Oiran courtesan...

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SEEKING Chapter 2: The Life of A Woman

Chapter 28: Jin has decided to perform a surgery on Nokaze to remove the tumor. However, with this decision, he has also tarnished Misumi’s reputation, which he is deeply vengeful about. When the day of the surgery arrives, unexpected people intervenes the surgery...

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SEEKING Chapter 1: A Fateful Decision

As change stirs in his life, such as Saki’s marriage and Nokaze’s suspicion that she has breast cancer, Jin overhears shady rumours about Saburi, the new assistant...

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BODY Chapter 2: An Omen

Chapter 26: The doctor of the ship Jin and Ryoma rides falls off the main mast, and Jin performs surgery right away. Although faced with the swaying of the boat and the seasickness that accompanies it, Jin completes the operation...

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BODY Chapter 1: Redemption

The fire in Edo had been taken care of, and peace returns to Jin's clinic. A letter from Nokaze arrives though, telling Jin that she’ll be redeemed by a lord, thus requires a health check up by that lord’s doctor, Shunsai Misumi. She asks that Jin overlooks the health check up. For Jin, this brings up many questions of what has come and what will become...

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DRAGON Chapter 2: The Castle In Flames

Chapter 24: Fire breaks out in the center of Edo, and to this, Jin hears the fire bells amidst his wavering judgement of whether he should spend a night  with Nokaze or not. Having been confronted by Tatsugoro to prove that a doctor can be useful during a fire, Jin decides to leave the courtesan to aide the firemen. Will Jin meet Tatsugoro’s expectations?

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DRAGON Chapter 1: The Fireman's Banner

Chapter 23: After succeeding in saving Hatsune, Nokaze's childhood friend, Jin finally received financial support from Gihe Yamaguchi to develop a stronger penicillin. However, Jin had no idea on how to let people know about the penicillin without having his own clinic, until he met a man...

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SUBMERSION Chapter 2: A Flamboyant Man

Chapter 22: Jin and Ryoma went to Tanosuke to ask him for money for the production of stronger penicillin. After being refused by Tanosuke, Jin met with someone who is willing to lend him money in exchange of something important to Jin... As Hatsune's disease worsens, will Jin be abel to make the stronger penicillin to save her...?

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