When you encounter a robber, your first reaction is to squat with your head in your hands? This is completely different from "Division 1 Elite".
Ichijō Mirai's eyes twitched as he continued to listen.
Onidzuka Hachizo's reaction was a bit more drastic, and he simply blurted out in surprise: "What? Impossible!"
It was a bit too intense.
He explained the reason for his reaction, "I met Officer Ichijō before I was transferred to the police academy as an instructor, and briefly worked together on a case when a medical..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Yoshida interrupted with a knowing tone, "Medical malpractice."
"You're talking about the medical incident where some cancer patients were accidentally given inappropriate medication by mistake or coincidence."
As he said this, he emphasized the words 'medical malpractice', 'accidentally', and 'coincidence'.
Ichijō Mirai immediately realized: it was never an accident.
In the lower right corner, a system alert slowly appeared: [Quest 'Cold Case - Medical Malpractice' detected.]
[You have accidentally learned of a somewhat strange case: twenty-one years ago, a medical accident occurred at an unknown hospital in Tokyo, where a nurse accidentally took the wrong medication for a cancer patient due to a long night's work.
It's an unfortunate accident, but it's surprisingly acceptable in Japan, isn't it]?
[Mission Requirements: Investigate the truth of the case.]
[Reward: Unknown.]
[Note: This case is categorized as a 'cold case', with fewer clues and a greater difficulty in solving the case, so please take it with caution.]
Considering the passionate style that the people of Japan have been displaying lately, Ichijō Mirai agrees with the system's description: "It's true that this kind of thing happens in Japan."
It's really easy to accept that this kind of thing happened in Japan, not to mention 'medical malpractice', even if the truth of the case is 'the doctor boldly proposed to have an in-depth conversation together, the patient politely refused, and the nurse accidentally took the wrong medication' and other outrageous things, he can still accept it.
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As well as: the mission series is 'Cold Case'.
A cold case is a murder case where the clues are few and far between and the murderer cannot be found.
The system has already given us a hint, and the combination of Yoshida's deliberately heavy-handed use of certain words proves that 'medical malpractice' is not a so-called accident.
Inside the house, Onidzuka Hachizo paused, then responded fluently, "Yes, it was the medical accident. I met Officer Ichijō during that accident."
"Because the family of one of the patients had strongly requested an autopsy, the police department was rushing a forensic pathologist over for three days," he recalled, "Before the pathologist arrived, I went to the hospital morgue with Officer Ichijō and examined the body in a cursory manner."
"The body was horrible, not at all like a normal corpse, with tumors of all sizes."
"I was inexperienced in cases, so..."
So it was quite disgusting.
"But Officer Ichijō didn't do that at all, she didn't even change her face for a second, she simply put on a layer of gloves and examined the body with a flashlight, not only observing the pupils of the body from close range, but also opening the body's mouth and sniffing it, and even touching the tumor with her hand, and found pus and blood inside the tumor."
Onidzuka Hachizo said, "I'm very impressed. How could she be so scared that she crouched down immediately when she met a robber when she saw the body of a victim of medical malpractice without changing her expression as if she had gotten used to seeing that kind of body all the time?"
"Even if she was just a police cadet at the time!"
"But she did get scared, when she was confronted by those two poorly equipped robbers," Yoshida said, "and the gun they were carrying was even a fake gun."
"So much so that at first, I thought she was just an ordinary resident, and it wasn't until the robbers were subdued by a freshman under my command, who in turn went to help Officer Ichijō and asked how she was doing, that I realized she was a police cadet as well."
"That was the first year I transferred to the academy."
He reminisced, pausing for a moment before adding, "It was so cowardly, so cowardly that I was ashamed of myself, how could someone like that be a police officer?"
"So when I got back, I found out about her, and realized that she was from a remote prefecture, had very few records on her file, and didn't even have any family or friends in Tokyo, so I went to ask her instructors about her."
"Her instructors were not impressed with her, after three months, they only vaguely remembered that she was a quiet person who rarely spoke, was never praised, and her grades in any of the training programs were average and unremarkable."
She was a far cry from the impressive 'Officer Ichijō'.
Yoshida's tone softened a bit at the memory, and she smiled again, "Why are you frowning, it was really like that at the time, but that was only for the first three months, and then her instructors probably weren't too happy with her either, and kept an eye on her during training, so she skyrocketed, and soon became so good that many of the instructors knew about her."
"And,"
He thought for a moment, adding a smile to his tone, "The police cadet who subdued the robber at the convenience store, her last name was Ichijō."
"Ichijō as in 'Officer Ichijō'."
In Japan, when a woman marries, she changes her family name to her husband's, and the law requires that only one family name be listed on the family register.
"I guess they got together quickly because of the hero's rescue," Yoshida says, 'and it seems like a lot of people were teasing them, calling her 'Officer Ichijō' in jest."
"When I heard her name again, she was already the outstanding 'Officer Ichijō', not only did she speak at the graduation ceremony as the outstanding graduate, but she also entered Division One as a rookie, and in just two years she was known throughout Tokyo."
He paused and whispered a description he'd given before, "The moon."
"When the moon is in the sky, she sheds a silvery-white light and tries to illuminate the night, which is good, and those who walk the earth will be grateful to her and adore her, but there will also be those who hide in the shadows who hate her."
"When the moon suddenly breaks and disappears from the sky, the shadows will cover the earth."
Yoshida's voice lowered as he spoke slowly, "In the beginning, she will be missed by many, but as time passes and Tokyo no longer remembers her name, the time will come for those who hated her in the shadows to revel."
"Onidzuka, I know you're trying to disguise yourself as a mouse, but you have a fatal flaw."
Onidzuka Hachizo: "...What?"
"You call him 'Ichijō Mirai'," Yoshida said meaningfully, "even though you call him 'Kujō' countless times, in your heart, his last name is the shining moon, 'Ichijō'."
"The mice have always hated to walk around the moon, and will only take out some contemptuous name to ease their hatred and fear, and will never call out the family name directly."
Onidzuka Hachizo was stunned and blushed slightly, "I-" called out 'Ichijō'?!
Under the greenery, Ichijō Mirai raised his eyes and briefly recalled, Instructor Onidzuka called out 'Ichijō'?
He doesn't remember at all.
The two names were too similar to be recognizable.
When there's no mission, the serious players don't care about this kind of thing, they'll just go 'Did you hear, player, the president died in a murder case! , 'Yeah, yeah, NPC, I hate going to work too'.
Ichijō Mirai is being very polite by answering the question himself instead of just skipping over the dialog.
...Mainly because you can't skip it.