Rasputin of the East

Episode 2

1906. The Winter Palace was cooler than ever.

“…why can’t you fix it?!”

“Your Majesty, hemophilia… Hemophilia has not been cured by any doctor until now, and we have not been able to figure out why it happens…”

“These useless things!”

At the anger of the tsar, the doctors backed away.

The tsar is never evil. Rather incompetent, he was a very gentle and kind person.

But if a child is sick and there is nothing doctors can do about it, how can he not be angry as a father?

And if that child is his heir, the only son, the Crown Prince who is only three years old.

When Nicholas II, who was in full rage, entered the hospital room. The Empress, who came out wiping her tears, opened her mouth.

“honey.”

“… I didn’t know the doctors were so incompetent.”

“Maybe there is a way, if the doctor can’t. If you can’t find your way in Europe, maybe you can find a way in the East.”

“East?”

“My maid’s brother had cholera, and while everyone was preparing for the funeral, I heard that an astrologer showed up and saved the child.”

“Astrologer?”

“Yes, I have saved several other people, I heard that they live somewhere in St. Petersburg… Maybe that person has a way. I heard that he is very good at astrology and looks into the future and fate of people.”

“Pyothor!”

“Yes! your majesty.”

The man who rushed forward knelt in front of the Tsar.

“Move Ohrana. There is someone to find!”

“Yes?”

Confused by the sudden instruction, the man asked the Tsar.

“Your Majesty, are you the one I need to find?”

“Vostok.”

“Yes?”

“I am an astrologer who uses the pseudonym Vostok. Find it and bring it to me!”

“……I will take your orders.”

***

“We have already gathered like this.”

With the stretch on, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

The money is already reaching its target. The time to leave St. Petersburg was approaching.

“…..but it was a bit of a pity, though.”

Still, it’s best to disappear before something happens. I’d definitely like to settle down somewhere, but settled in St. Petersburg? Are you crazy, human?

Do you want to experience World War I, the Red and White Civil War, the Great Purge, and World War II as a full course? I want to see war in the newspapers in a safe zone, and I have no intention of going out and fighting with a gun myself.

‘Is this still two-job or three-job? Anyway, running was the right answer. It’s only been less than a year, but you’ve already saved up like this!’

Can you believe it? Money will be copied!

To be honest, it was quite fun to see the expressions of people who genuinely believe in me because I was doing a live show next to a barrel that boils oral sap as if I was playing magic.

If you think of oral sap as something similar to holy water made by some kind of magic, I’m just grateful. If other people copy it, both you and me, I’ll tell you what to eat.

Even if I go to the US and apply for a patent for oral infusion, I will have enough money to live on for the rest of my life. Among the scientists who devoted themselves to the medical field, there are some great men who did not apply for a patent saying that they belong to mankind…. Those people make money just by giving lectures, but if I don’t have this, I have to worry about the next day’s meal, right?

Of course, for smallpox, I only know how to use the vaccinia method, and if you ask me to treat other cancers or tuberculosis, there is no answer even if I give you thousands of dollars.

All I can do is take care of nursing, and the only thing I can do now is that my stock price has risen because the number of patients with diarrhea has increased. I need to save money and move to the US before the bottom line is revealed.

‘I’m going to go buy some clothes today.’

The 21st century clothes I was wearing lasted a long time, but I think the time has come to let them go.

‘Go buy some clothes, eat some at a restaurant while you’re out, but what should you wear to work? You can buy any clothes that are comfortable for you to wear at home.’

After all, my business is strictly a seller’s business. Today is a day off. Are you twisted? What I miss is that, Human.

I took the money in my wallet and went out on the street. As I imagined a rosy future, a hum came out.

If you earn a lot of money, you will have more time to date, and then in America, you will find a woman with a good face and personality…

The flight of my imagination was cut off by a voice from behind for a very short time.

“Astrologer Vostok. Am I right?”

“Who are you?”

As soon as I entered the alleyway, I flinched at the sound of a voice behind me.

Dangerous. My intuition screamed, and I sped up and tried to run away. The front is not blocked yet, and this alleyway is familiar enough to me…….

At that moment, my shoulders were gripped wretchedly.

“If you run away, you will be in trouble. I don’t want to hurt the teacher.”

He tried to look back, but a cold metal sensation touched the back of his head, forcing him to look forward.

Gun… Is this a gun? There’s no point in running away if he gets shot. My head will explode before I can even take a few steps.

I got goosebumps. His legs became stiff and he refused to come off the ground.

“You don’t know who we are, there are people who want to see you.”

shit. did you get caught?

No, think positively. Somewhere, a master from a powerful family is ill and wants to call me a doctor… Worse! There are a limited number of diseases that I can cure!

“Come on, wait! It’s good to take them, but I have to tell you what’s going on…”

“You talk a lot, tie it up.”

“What… Whoops!”

Suddenly, something shoved into my mouth and something like a bag was put on my face.

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My limbs, which were suppressed in an instant, were caught. I was dragged along and headed somewhere.

Still, this alley is a place I know very well. While I was trying to estimate roughly where I was going, my body was lifted up and stuck somewhere.

Fortunately, there was something like a cushion, so it didn’t hurt. Immediately after that, the sound of people getting on and the door closing was heard.

car? Or a carriage? I can hear the rustling of the horses, so it’s a carriage.

Who can send several men to catch me and keep a wagon waiting?

He quickly brings back memories of his past life. What to do in this case?

How to deal with it.

Trained a long time ago to dig out and retrieve half-forgotten memories.

If you are caught by the enemy, what should you do? First of all, I had to think about who took me.

And the most likely opponent…

‘Public Security and Order Protection Bureau?’

Ohrana by another name. It was established to crack down on political terrorism by left-wing revolutionaries…

‘No, I have never been active on the left. Why is Ohrana dragging me? Or did I say that what I did was disrupting the social order? If I ask you to pray and leave Russia like this, will you spare me?’

Cold sweat wet my back. Have you ever reached your destination? I just sat down in a chair.

When the envelope covering the head was removed, it was only then that I could see clearly in front of me.

‘shit.’

I clenched my teeth.

It’s like an interrogation room.

But the first problem in this situation is that I was trained not to blow information and never trained to survive in such a place.

And the second is that I still don’t quite understand why I was brought here.

“Nice to meet you, Vostok? May I call you Vostok?”

“Ugh!”

“Sorry for keeping your mouth shut, some people thought you might be putting a curse on you.”

f*ck you, if I had the ability, I would have turned the wagon upside down and ran away.

“I won’t release you right away, but I promise to release you if you help us enough. The price will be enough.”

A man standing next to me came and opened my mouth.

“You… you guys, are you a guardian country?”

“You are quick-witted. No, is it an insight? Whatever happened.”

“What… if Ohrana needs me, does she want me to find someone?”

I don’t think that would help much.

When I said that, the man shook his head.

“No, but someone wants to meet you.”

“……If I move my ohrana to meet one person… maybe…”

Ohrana originally belonged to the Ministry of the Interior.

However, that does not mean that the Minister of the Interior and the like are free to use Ohrana for private purposes.

There are only a handful of people in all Russia who are able to do that… There are people who they want to meet, and there are only a handful of people in all of Russia who can mobilize several Ohrana agents to bring them in.

“Yes, the Tsar wants to meet you. He said he had something to do for you.”

“…I think you know why, but just to be sure, can you answer me?”

If the tsar is looking for a fortune teller/doctor, he can foresee one possibility.

It’s a possibility, but it’s a very high possibility.

“If it’s possible on my line.”

“The Crown Prince. Is His Majesty Prince Alexei sick?”

“………It is a question that cannot be answered in my line.”

But the answer has already come from the other person’s reaction.

“Then, did Empress Mama invite anyone other than me to be a doctor?”

In an instant, the way they looked at me changed.

Empress Alexandra. If she, who had attracted the monster Rasputin, took an interest in me and provoked the Tsar…there is a good chance that I would be brought here.

I judged it like that and tried it once, but seeing their eyes change from interest to borderline at once, I decided that I had been stabbed in the right direction.

“none. My side asks, how did you know that?”

Rasputin isn’t there yet. Lucky…is it?

Anyway, I have to answer that question now. I had a good excuse ready.

“Someone foresaw that a tall woman was looking for me. I didn’t know it would be this way. And is there not only one high-ranking woman in the empire, or in the world, who can move Ohrana?”

Of course it’s bluffing. However, he nodded his head as if he understood whether he felt very persuasive to the other party.

“It certainly doesn’t seem like a scammer.”

No, this is a bluff that I can take my own eyes on the future.

But they persuaded me, even though there was nothing I could be sure of that I could actually heal people or possess supernatural powers.

The problem is that Rasputin came to power and gained trust…. He cured Prince Alexei’s hemophilia. Can I act like Rasputin?

‘Damn it, I’m tired.’

I don’t think things will go smoothly in this life either.