21st Century Necromancer

Although Tashiro Nanao came from a distinguished background and sounded like a young lady of privilege, her work ethic was anything but that of a pampered heiress.

The work in the laboratory was far from easy; an animal experiment involved preparing experimental samples, recording the procedure, and finally analyzing the results. The tasks were often tedious and complex. However, Tashiro Nanao managed to complete all her tasks flawlessly, leaving no room for criticism.

Owing to her background as a pharmacy department graduate, her work was even more outstanding than that of Nakagawa Susumu, who already had quite a bit of experience. This made Nakagawa feel somewhat inferior in her presence.

Chen Yu did not pay much attention to Nakagawa's feelings. To his mind, Nakagawa himself still needed training. Having a more outstanding junior as a comparison was a good way to spur him to make more progress.

"Professor Chen, now that we have the clinical trial permission, can we start preparing to conduct the clinical trials?" The Glasses Doctor had started calling him "Professor" instead of "Doctor Chen," as he had done before, because Chen Yu was now an associate professor. However, Doctor Higashiyama, due to being closer with Chen Yu, had not changed the way she addressed him.

"There is no rush for the clinical trials. Even with the permission granted, it takes years to recruit volunteers, conduct the experiment, and analyze the results. There's no need to hurry." Clinical trials consisted of three phases, each requiring at least a couple of hundred people as experimental subjects to gather enough data.

Such tasks couldn't be completed in less than a few years, so even though Chen Yu had obtained clinical trial permission, he was in no hurry.

"So, Professor, what do you plan to..." The Glasses Doctor was unclear about Chen Yu's intentions and asked what he had in mind.

"For now, we will proceed with animal experiments and compile the preliminary plan for the first phase of the clinical trials based on the results," Chen Yu instructed the Glasses Doctor.

Among the group in the lab, Jounouchi Hiromi was not adept at conducting experiments, Doctor Higashiyama was preoccupied with her upcoming wedding, Nakagawa wasn't skilled enough to be responsible for these matters, and although Tashiro Nanao was capable, Chen Yu did not trust her. Therefore, the task inevitably fell to the Glasses Doctor.

"Understood." The Glasses Doctor, a graduate of the University of Tokyo Medical School, although often the butt of jokes for being forgettable, was beyond doubt in terms of professional competence and caliber. He nodded, showing that he understood Chen Yu's instructions.

Seeing the Glasses Doctor acknowledge his understanding, Chen Yu continued, "I talked to Professor Kube earlier about recruiting more staff, and he agreed to arrange for a group of trainee doctors who graduated from the University of Tokyo this year to come over. At that time..."

Chen Yu paused for a moment, glanced at the name badge on the Glasses Doctor's chest to confirm his name, and then continued, "...Dr. Moto, you arrange for them to start with you and keep a record of everyone. The professor arranged for a lot of people to come over, and we won't need to keep them all."

"I understand. I'll take care of it." Although he was disgruntled that Chen Yu had to check his name badge to remember his name, the fact that Chen Yu had called him by his name correctly for the first time without asking left the Glasses Doctor very pleased. He earnestly promised to take care of the tasks Chen Yu had instructed.

"I have some matters to attend to and will leave first." Patting the evidently encouraged Glasses Doctor, Chen Yu turned and left the laboratory.

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After leaving the laboratory, Chen Yu was on his way to meet with Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu from the Supernaturalist Association, because although he had posted a request for materials on the association's trading network, as a Master Rank transcendentalist with work obligations, Chen Yu himself did not take part in material exchanges. Instead, he left these trivial matters to Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu.

In exchange, he merely shared the training method of the Dark Warrior with him.

He was meeting Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu today because Yoshiharu had informed him that the first batch of materials was ready.

Chen Yu needed materials for his necromancy research, but collecting them himself was no doubt a tedious and complex task, especially now that he was an associate professor at the Eastern University Affiliated Hospital. Furthermore, his research had garnered him considerable attention.

If people found out he was collecting these items, or if rumors spread that a famous professor from the Eastern University Affiliated Hospital was fond of collecting corpses, his reputation would be severely damaged.

This was also the reason Chen Yu had stopped collecting the materials himself for the time being, to avoid unnecessary trouble.

"Master, here are the materials you required: ten kilograms of corpse wax, ten liters of corpse oil, and twenty kilograms of specially treated obsidian…" As soon as he saw Chen Yu, Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu hurriedly handed him a black briefcase and reported what was inside.

Listening to Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu's report, Chen Yu was quite satisfied with his efficiency in gathering materials. The contents of the briefcase were equal to what he had collected over the previous year. However, Chen Yu was more curious about how such a small briefcase could contain so much, saying, "This briefcase is quite interesting."

"This is a little invention developed by the Tsuchimikado Family, using Sealing Techniques to store items inside the briefcase, turning it into a large-capacity storage container," Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu quickly explained, and also took out a business card-sized metal box from his pocket and placed it in front of Chen Yu: "We've turned this surgical technique into simple Talisman Cards that can be used by directing the talisman at the item to be stored.

A Talisman Card can be reused ten times, and it's one of the main businesses of the Tsuchimikado Family nowadays."

Hearing this, Chen Yu picked up the metal box from the table with keen interest and took out a Talisman Card to examine it closely.

The card seemed to be made of resin, flexible and semi-transparent, with Runes inscribed on it. Upon closer inspection, he could feel a tinge of unmanifested spatial fluctuation, which made Chen Yu admire the cleverness of the one who had developed these Talisman Cards. Though simple, they were extremely practical.

"Well done. When you achieve the Formal Rank of Dark Warrior, I'll prepare your Promotion Ceremony," Chen Yu said encouragingly to Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu, also making him a promise. Chen Yu pocketed the metal box from the table and turned his attention back to Tsuchimikado Yoshiharu, asking, "Yoshiharu-kun, are you aware of the Tashiro Family?

Descendants of the famous Warring States Period physician, Tashiro Mikisai."