Euler went into the Leiden hospital where Alexei was. Ignoring the call outs from nurses to not run hastily in a hallway, Euler made his way to Egon, who has just finished checking up on Alexei.

"Calm down, Euler. Your master has not passed away, though he's starting to lose weight and his condition is worsening." Egon said.

"Father, may I ask you a favor? Will you appeal to your autonomy of physician and have the Leiden university professors look into my therapy?"

"Hm, I can do that. Let me hear about your therapy first though, Euler. It's not that I don't trust you, I have to know what I'm talking about to make such an appeal."

"Thank you, father. This therapy might sound strange at first, but you must hear it to the end for it to make sense. I'll try to make it quick as possible." After some time explaining, Egon was quite overwhelmed by how radical this method was.

"As always, Euler, you come up with crazy ideas that will make even the calmest man balk. But it always ended up in success, so I can trust you know what you're doing. But I don't think I can confidently say I understand the therapy completely, so I'll need your help writing the appeal letter."

"That I'll gladly help with. Thank you for your support."

"Don't mention it. I have to go check up on other patients now. You can visit your master now, but don't push him to talk too much. The cancer has damaged his throat significantly." Egon then left to the other room.

Euler entered where Alexei laid, and his master's condition got worse ever since he seen him. His face became somewhat thinner due to losing weight from cancer. When Alexei saw Euler, he lifted his hand wanting to get hold of Euler.

With both hands, Euler took hold of Alexei's hand. "Master, it will be alright now. My father, Dr. Rush, Violet, Rory…Everyone has been very helpful in this process of performing a treatment to cure your cancer. I'm not letting you die, and that's a promise."

Alexei gave a faint smile and nodded.

"And…Remember how I never just couldn't get why understanding human emotion was important? Violet somehow made me understand it now, at least part of it. I can't explain rationally why, but I now just feel compelled to take a person's feeling into consideration. Perhaps it's because I experienced those feelings before, I understand the state of their mind better. You taught me the word 'empathy' before, is this how it's like?"

This time, Alexei gave a bigger smile, and nodded with more enthusiasm.

"I'm glad that I'm at least on the right path to something you wanted me to comprehend, master. When I get you out this hospital, I can continue to…make you happy with my breakthroughs. That's what you wanted, right?"

Then Alexei put some effort into speaking slowly. "Euler. I'm still proud of what you did. Even seeing you alive has made me immensely happy. But, I neglected to tell you…I want you to learn to live life beyond breakthroughs…"

Euler stood in silence after those words were spoken for a while. "What do you mean, master? Life beyond breakthroughs? I don't understand…" When Alexei made further attempts to speak, he could do nothing but cough. "There's still time. Don't push yourself too much master. When you get better, you can explain it to me. I'm sorry to leave you so soon, but I hope you understand that I must go help my father write his appeal now. Please stay strong."

Alexei gave a nod of acknowledgement, then Euler slowly walked out of the room. Alexei glanced over to a latest letter that Gerald had sent to him, a letter that he pictured Gerald was angrily writing for his negligence of preparing Euler for a life other than achieving breakthroughs.

It was the morning after Egon had written his letter to Leiden university. While Dr. Rush was in his office, he got a call from Dr. Han saying that he and others wanted to meet regarding the letter of appeal by Dr. Egon Pierce. Dr. Rush was surprised that the letter was addressed quickly and wasted no time in meeting Dr. Han in the designated room. Dr. Han, Grant, and Madison were sitting at a table waiting for him.

"Good morning, Dr. Han. I assume that you wanted to ask whether I advised Dr. Euler Pierce to write the letter of appeal to him? In that case, the answer is yes."

"Good morning to you too, Dr. Rush. I'm not surprised that is the case, after all the times you pestered us on behalf of Dr. Euler Pierce to look after his thesis paper over others."

"Well, I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience that I've caused. But enough of that. Do you approve of Dr. Egon Pierce's appeal to his autonomy of physician to diagnose the radiation therapy? I assume you've read the paper as well."

"We have indeed." Dr. Grant said. "However, we aren't here to just discuss whether we'll say yes or no to Dr. Egon Pierce's letter of appeal. It's something far more important than that."

"We're here to initiate a step in bringing back the true meaning of medicine; a field where deserving intellects that work hard and adhere to medical principles have the privilege of practicing such discipline." Said Dr. Madison.

"I don't follow…What are you trying to say?"

"Do we have to spell it out for you? We will free this university from the grasp of Dr. Euler Pierce, who is changing the course of history of medicine for the worst as he selfishly sees fit!" Dr. Han said.

"The metallic augment that protects his spine is a daily reminder that he gets to effortlessly make breakthroughs without rigor or sweat, rendering all regular intellects inferior and robbing them of sense of purpose. Do you find this fair at all, Dr. Rush? That a kid can just have a monopoly of spotlight just because he has a privilege of possessing a superior brain?" Dr. Madison said.

"You're not making any sense. Shouldn't we at least be glad that Dr. Euler Pierce has moved the field of medicine forward by a century? Yes, he infuriates us all for a different reason, but doesn't his contribution have any merit at all?"

"His work has also made simpletons think themselves at the same level as ourselves who studied medicine for a long time. They don't respect medicine as a delicate and noble discipline and instead see it as a miracle worker that spares them from the troubles of sickness. If this continues, the reputation and respect for medicine will be reduced to nothing as people feel entitled to its miracles." Dr. Grant replied.

"You're all absurd." Dr. Rush rose from seat. "I understand if the attitude of Dr. Euler Pierce towards you was offensive, but there's no way that you don't know how ridiculous your reasoning is! Don't you care that his master's life is at stake? Don't you even care that cancer at its spreading stage could potentially be cured?"

"You think us absurd? What if you're being naïve for such simplistic reasoning you have?" Dr. Han responded. "You know Euler well, Dr. Rush. He has done everything in the past to push his breakthroughs, bothering you in different ways every time. Devoid of any care of human emotion, he never was concerned for your inconvenience, was he?"

"But this time, it will be different. You won't believe me, but he actually seemed to consider the frustration I had in the past and apologized for pushing his breakthroughs on me. That never happened before, and you know it! He even swore that after this, he will never initiate any thesis on his own!"

"Well, given his greed for making breakthroughs, he could've been researching emotions and putting up an act to trick you into having sympathy. Given his intellect, I don't have a reason to doubt he got it on a first try, as he always does." At Dr. Grant's response, Dr. Rush simply shook his head.

"Don't also forget that your constant act of pushing Dr. Euler Pierce's papers on top priority is grounds for facing discipline from the faculty, Dr. Rush. I'm sure you remember our compassion for keeping this a secret?"

"Damn, I should've known you will bring that up sooner or later." Dr. Rush said to Dr. Madison. "But I still don't get one thing; why bring this up now? Why didn't you do something about Dr. Euler Pierce sooner if he was a problem?"

"That's because we didn't have the chance to ask for the people's view on this." Dr. Han said. "People were always fascinated about Dr. Euler Pierce's 'miracle' as they said. After all, the view of the public shouldn't be completely neglected. So, let's see what people have to say when…this radiation therapy works the same way as the potency of radiation from an internationally forbidden weapon of an atomic bomb."

"Why, you…"

A full day and a half passed since Dr. Rush met with other professors. Meanwhile, judging that all he could do was wait, and that there was still time left for his master, Euler spent the time to catch up on a week worth of work he missed because of concentrating on his efforts to save his master. After he had sufficiently caught up on his work, he went on his way to pay a visit to his master.

Then he saw something strange. A crowd was outside of the entrance of the Leiden hospital. Some were holding up signs and seemed to have something against the hospital. As Euler approached the crowd to see what was going on. "What is going on here?" he asked one of the people.

Upon seeing him, the person shouted. "Here's the guy with the fancy spine augment! It's him!" Then the crowd all turned towards Euler and got much louder, shouting one thing or two against Euler.

"What the? Why are you hostile towards me? I don't know anything I've done against you!"

"You're trying to kill us all with your stupid radiation experiment, that's what!"

"Not that you'll understand since you don't seem to care about human life!"

"You're a quack! That's what you are! A quack!"

Eventually the hospital called in its staff and guards to escort Euler out of the crowd. Then the crowd was sternly instructed to not obstruct the entrance to the hospital lest they call the cops on them and dismantle the protest.

Then the chief medical officer of the Leiden university hospital called Euler. "Explain to me what I'm hearing from these protesters. They're saying you are putting something like an atomic bomb in your therapy. It was you who helped to write the letter of appeal for Dr. Egon Pierce after all."

"To answer your question, no, the materials used in my therapy are nothing like the atomic bomb. Where would I get the ingredients for it anyway when the agreement to not produce it has been signed by every single country of the continent? I use the beams consisting of protons, photons, and electrons to treat the affected areas so that cancer cells die as a result."

"Well, go talk to them or something! Having protesters right by the hospital is not a good sign for its image and if this news reaches to their peer-reviewers at the university, they might reject the letter altogether and you can kiss your new radiation therapy goodbye!"

In the evening, Violet left work and was on her way home. As she began to pass by two men holding a newspaper, she overheard their conversation.

"Ugh, Dr. Euler Pierce experimenting with radiation that has the potency to kill cells like the radiation from the atomic bomb? That's disturbing."

"He always unsettled me with his indifference towards human feelings, but this is going too far. Maybe all his obsession over 'moving humanity forward' finally made him mad."

Hearing such comments made Violet uneasy. She was tempted to initiate a talk with them, but they already boarded on a public transport. After walking through a city street more, soon she heard some man shouting something on repeat. He was saying to petition the Leiden university hospital to not consent to Dr. Euler Pierce's dangerous radiation therapy experiment that worked on a same principle as atomic bomb's radiation potency to human cells.

Violet rushed to Henry's house, wanting to know what had been happening and why Euler seemed to be getting unfairly slandered. She found Henry sitting by the front porch with a newspaper in his hand.

"Good evening, Violet. How was work?"

"It was good today, thanks. But I want to ask you something. Why is Euler receiving unfounded criticism? He never meant harm in any of his paper."

"Hm, I've been reading about that part just now. Weirdly, the newspaper delivery boy said that today, the fee was subsidized, and we didn't need to pay. But that's beside the point. I think it has something to do with how Dr. Euler Pierce's radiation therapy is similar to an atomic bomb's radiation? It kind of gave me chills when I read that part."

"Atomic bomb? I've been in a military and have never heard of that before."

"Oh, that's a surprise. A couple of years before the great war, there was an accident when our military was testing this bomb underground. Then the radiation leaked out or something and…ugh, it was awful. You don't need to see the photos of people who got exposed to that radiation. Anyway, after seeing how fatal the bomb was, every country on this continent decided to not make this bomb ever again."

"I see…But is it really true that Euler's therapy can be harmful as they say they are? I do remember reading something about side effects while working with him, but isn't that a different story from damage done by an atomic bomb?"

"Beats me. I never was the type to understand all those science mumbo-jumbos any way. Apparently, a big medicine professor named Dr. Han is concerned about this radiation therapy, so maybe he's right? No, but Dr. Euler Pierce is apparently a genius too…"

"Whatever the circumstance is, I find it very difficult to admit that Euler means to harm people with this therapy. I want to trust in his sincere love for his master."

Just then, Rory came back from his work. "Hey Henry, I'm back from work. And are you Violet that I heard about from Henry? Nice to meet you, name's Rory Stevenson."

"Good to meet you, Mr. Stevenson."

"Rory's fine. If it's okay with you, what were you talking about?" Henry and Violet brought him up to speed with the news of how Euler's radiation therapy was being associated with a deadly radiation produced from an atomic bomb. "Damn straight. Sounds very rough for Dr. Pierce. I think it's unfair, because he's the type of genius that can pull off experiments in a first try. In all honesty, it seems like that Dr. Han squeak is trying to bring him down."

"Why do you say that dad?"

"You should've seen his and other squeaks face during the prosthetic limb demonstration. It was as if they were saying: 'How dare this dumb, school drop-out be on same ground as us?' When everyone clapped, it was clear that they were upset that those claps were not for them."

"I was wondering for quite a while, Rory, but why does everyone seem to treat Euler's name so casually, as if he was ordinary? He's done amazing things and very knowledgeable." Violet asked, gesturing to center the attention on her prosthetic arm.

"Well, the thing is, everyone acknowledges what Dr. Pierce did. The only issue is that his unpleasant aura gets all the attention that his genius is taken for granted. When he first bargained with me, I had a very bad feeling because behind all his etiquette, there was a stubborn desire to get what he wants one way or the other. Hm, now that I think about it, when he picked up the radiation therapy machine from us the other day, he actually genuinely thanked us. I thought I was going crazy when I saw that."

"Euler is capable of caring. I believe in him. It's his love for his master that he's doing everything he can to save him. He never means to hurt people. It's wrong that he's being treated like this!"

"So then, he had that side to him, eh? I never could've known. I highly respect your effort to know more about a person no matter how unpleasant they are, Violet." Rory sighed. "I'm very sorry to say though, that no one else will be standing up for Dr. Pierce now. He never left a good impression on anyone, so people will be indifferent, or even like the idea that he's a bad guy now. That Dr. Han squeak made a first move, and now Dr. Pierce is driven into corner."

"Oh no….Euler…"