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Chapter 2 page 12

The Armed Detective Agency's office is located on the fourth floor of a red-brick
building. Within it is a gym floor, a reception/conference room, the president's office, a doctor's
office, an operating room, and an office kitchenette. Although there is a back door with an
emergency spiral staircase, everyone exclusively uses an old elevator for entering and exiting.

It was that very elevator that Kunikida and the others used to enter the Detective Agency.

It was night. Most of the clerks were returning home, so there were very few remaining.
However, there were still two or three on the floor. Under the bright white of the fluorescent
lights, they were writing letters, reading novels, or sipping noodles. They remained there not
because their work was unfinished, but because they wanted to stay.

From the seaside visible from the office window, a distant merchant ship sounded its
steam whistle several times.

After briefly raising their hands in greeting to the clerks, Kunikida and the others left the
office floor and entered the conference room.

There was already someone there.

"My, my. Three men walking in with such sullen faces-what's the matter? If you're
dissection volunteers, that's all well and good, but we're closed for the day."

Sitting with her slender legs crossed, Miss Yosano looked up from her newspaper.

Ability User: Yosano Akiko. Ability Name-"Thou Shalt Not Die."

She is the Detective Agency's exclusive surgeon. In possession of an extremely rare
medical treatment ability, she is responsible for single-handedly treating the numerous, unending
wounds that the members of the Detective Agency receive in their encounters. Her skills are
unrivaled; however, because of her extreme fondness for surgery and dissection, which leads her
to try and dissect even those who suffered only minor injuries, she is feared by her allies even
more than her enemies.

It should be noted that her main surgical tool is a hatchet.

"Yosano-sensei," Tanizaki said, blinking with surprise as he stood in front of everyone.
"Can I ask what it is you're doing in the conference room?"

"As you can see, I'm reading the newspaper," Yosano-sensei said, rustling the newspaper
she was holding. "I was so busy today that I didn't even have time to read the paper."

While looking through the newspaper articles, she added: "There are some good articles
again today."