The Emperor's Dragon II

The Hospital

Katsudou wanted to scream and to rip his hair out. He'd been inserted into Jaku Hospital a few days before the heroes arrested the founder - Kyudai Garaki - and that was all the rest of the staff could talk about.

It was great for him to collect information but all of it was hearsay. Most of it was about how good a boss Kyudai was. How he cared for his patients and staff and was a good person. It was infuriating.

The heroes did not arrest good people... so there had to be something the staff were deliberately not saying. There had to be something...

In his work as a spy for the Hero Public Safety Commission he'd learned there were two types of workplaces. The ones where staff told newcomers all the gory details and the ones where they liked to think the situation was perfect. This was definitely the latter and right now, he needed the former.

The former would allow him to concentrate on pinpointing what secrets the Doctor was hiding.

The Police indicated the Doctor was cooperating with their investigation but did not appear to know anything. Katsudou knew that at least some of the officers thought that this was a waste of time, and the Doctor should be released. They were postulating that the villains had simply used the Doctor's name and reputation.

It was ridiculous. Why would the villains do that? Sure, identity theft was still a thing but why would villains even bother to do that? In this situation? It was far more likely that the Doctor was an associate which is why he was ready to tear his hair out! He had to find something to prove it. The Doctor was only 8 days into the 23 days they could hold him, and with the HPSC backing this case, the Police would hold the Doctor for as long as they could. But it did mean he was on timeline.

Katsudou huffed and kept pushing at the trolley he had. He might have been inserted into the Hospital staff, but it was as the lowest of the low. He was part janitor, part maintenance and all do whatever the fuck someone told him to do.

Right now, that was to wheel a body to the morgue. The morgue was in the basement, which helped maintain the fridges required to keep the bodies from decomposing. It also had a set of wide doors that lead directly to a loading dock. That was how various funeral homes collected the corpses.

He didn't have to worry about that. All he had to do was take this one to the fridge and put it there. Since the ... woman had died under medical supervision, and even with the founder arrested, this was still a medical facility, there was no need for a coroner's report. So, he just had to fridge the body while the Doctors above let the family know. They'd make the decisions from there.

Katsudou huffed. This was the type of work they gave the newbie to haze him, but the body didn't bother him. It was the wasted time that did. Anyone could have done this. He was sure that Doctor Souzoushii had waited so that he could order him to do it.

The trolley hit the double doors leading to the morgue and he pushed it through, stepping quickly to avoid the backswing hitting his butt. He'd learned that on the first day. All the doors were set up like that, not just the morgue. Then he looked over at the fridges. One wall had a bank of them for bodies. Katsudou didn't really know enough about hospitals to know if the number was normal, but it seemed excessive to him. Still, he wheeled the trolley over and ...

He did know enough about hospitals to know he shouldn't be alone down here. There was usually someone who had to check the body in and fill out all the necessary details and then... Katsudou frowned? Where were they?

He huffed again. Whoever it was, could be on break. Or with the general activity they might have left, and no one knew or... there were any number of innocent reasons why someone wasn't here. He knew what to do though. Katsudou looked around and spotted the registry. He went over to it and tapped the tablet. There weren't that many applications on this one, mostly games and... there it was, the registration app. Katsudou clicked it, and the spreadsheet opened. It wasn't exactly a spreadsheet, but in every way that mattered it was. The app was actually an entry point for the central registry. Births, deaths, marriages were all entered there, and they were responsible for issuing the official certificates. By using the hospital app, most of the details would already be filled in.