"I'm going to go grocery shopping first."

Mars said, and prepared to go out.

"But, Dad, shouldn't we go to the hospital?"

Ada asked hurriedly.

"The doctor just called and said that the time was postponed, as if it was a sudden situation."

Ida shrugged.

Most Europeans and Americans make appointments for what they do, and now that they are canceling it temporarily, maybe something is really wrong.

Of course, there is another reason - that is, Mars himself does not want to go to the hospital, so he finds a perfunctory reason.

After all, the spirit of the mentally ill ...... It's a little abnormal.

Mars quickly left the house.

"I'm going to call the doctor."

After Mars left, Ida stood up.

"What's wrong?"

There's something strange about Catherine.

"We don't have a phone at all – to be precise, our phone, which hasn't been replaced since it broke down a month ago. He just didn't want to go to the hospital. ”

"Uh......"

It seems that this is the second case, and Mars did deceive them.

"Kate, Mr. Bitman will come over later, he originally wanted to go to the hospital with his father, please explain the situation."

"I see."

There don't seem to be public phone booths around, and it looks like Ada has a long way to go.

Ada stood up and left the house, while Catherine stayed.

Ida crossed the street and came to a public phone booth.

But just as she was about to make a call, she noticed that there seemed to be a person standing behind her.

"Daddy?!"

Ida was startled.

"Ada, come out. I know what you're going to do. Mars still looked calm.

"But Daddy—"

"No, listen, Ada. If you have to let me go to the doctor, maybe the next time you see me, it's in a mental hospital. ”

"It's just a anterior lobectomy...... Daddy......"

Ida looked at each other.

Lobotomy is a neurosurgical procedure and the world's first type of psychiatric surgery. These include schizophrenia, clinical depression, and a number of other anxiety disorders. It also includes people who are considered to have neuropathy, such as moodiness, youthful frivolity, etc.

This surgery was later abolished because the side effects were too great to have almost no effect, but it is now a very popular procedure. Americans are superstitious that this surgery can solve a mental problem.

If the white matter or cortex of the anterior lobe of the brain is removed, the person will be quiet. However, the reason why the patient who had his white matter removed became docile was not because his mental illness was cured, but because the higher mental activity functions that were in charge of the anterior lobe of the brain were removed. That is, the patient has become a waste and an idiot.

"Flying Over the Asylum" is a famous novel and movie about such a sick American society.

"No, Ada." Mars's eyes suddenly reddened, and he roughly pulled Ada out of the phone booth.

"No, do you understand?!"

Ida stopped talking, and her eyes began to redden, but this was completely different from what Mars meant.

In the 50s~60s, mentally ill patients in the United States who suffered from severe violent tendencies were forced to undergo "prefrontal lobotomy".

This scene on the street is only seen as a conflict between a girl and her father.

And at Ada's home, Catherine also welcomed a guest.

"Oh, beautiful Miss Catherine, I didn't expect us to meet here." Bitman smiled at Catherine.

"Ida has called, Mr. Mars has gone grocery shopping, and if you want to find them, you'll have to wait."

Catherine said to the other party.

But after waiting for a long time, Ida and Mars did not return, which made Catherine a little strange.

"Strange, what's wrong with them?"

Catherine was a little worried, then stood up.

She opened the door and looked down the hallway, but there was still no figure.

Bitman rolled his eyes, then looked out the window, still not seeming to see anyone.

He suddenly took out a bottle from his medicine box, and then took out another towel.

"Maybe Miss Ida met Mr. Mars, and the two went to the supermarket together." ,

Hearing Bitman's words, Catherine began to think so. Although New York is chaotic, Philadelphia is slightly safer, and Catherine guesses that this is probably the case.

"Miss Catherine, why don't we do another short hypnotherapy."

"Brief hypnosis?"

"Yes, it will take about ten minutes."

"Sounds pretty good."

Anyway, it's waiting. Although there is nothing wrong with me lately, it doesn't seem to be harmful to me. After all, I had already done it myself last time. But Catherine felt that Jenny's method seemed to be better.

Bitman placed the towel on the couch and motioned for Catherine to lie down.

"Good...... You close your eyes now. ”

He looked out the window again.

Still no one.

Around the corner of the street, Mars tugged at Ada's collar roughly.

"Nope! I'm not going back! ”

Ida shouted.

"Shut up! You're my daughter, so go back with me now! ”

Mars became unusually angry.

He seemed like he was about to explode, but he seemed to be trying his best to suppress his feelings.

"Listen, Ada. I must not go to that kind of place. Don't you understand how your Uncle Bill is doing now! ”

Uncle Bill, as Mars spoke, was his comrade-in-arms. Two years ago, he was also forced by his family to have an anterior lobotomy because of mental problems.

"He's already better! At least better than you! ”

Mars seemed to calm down suddenly.

Ida looked at him stunned.

"Yes, it's completely different from before, sitting at home every day, becoming demented. Listen, Ida, you are responsible for you, I love you as much as I love your mother. Maybe you don't understand, but you guys are really like ......"

Tears flowed like this.

"I know...... You want to go to Hollywood, you want to be an actor, but I'm against it. I don't want you to walk with those people on the dark road. Ida...... Oh...... Ida...... You are the only light I have alive......"

He fell to his knees suddenly.

"Ada...... I really don't want to lose you. ”

Ida opened her mouth, only to find tears running down her cheeks and into her mouth.

"But...... It's just a surgery that can cure you. ”

"Nope! You don't understand! He suddenly rammed up again, then pressed Ada's shoulders with both hands.

"Alright, let's go home."

Mars pulls Ada, but the other party would rather die.

"Nope! I will never go! Help me! Help me! ”

Maybe because of the previous sentence, passers-by seem to regard Ada as a bad girl who left home, so they don't pay attention to it.

Ada resisted desperately, but how could her strength be compared to Mars?

But at this time, Mars suddenly put Ida down.

"Huh?"

Ida came back to her senses, only to find that Mars was already running forward as fast as she could. Then, following Mars's direction, she saw a small car, and Dr. Bitman, who happened to be coming to her, was carrying a girl who seemed to be asleep into the car.

"Kate?!"

Ada was startled, and by this time, Mars had already rushed to the front.

……

Is it really that important? Being able to advance and retreat is a real magic weapon~

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