In the operating room, Kaji Hideki was performing an appendectomy on Haruka Mifune.
Of course, Kaji Hideki employed the laparoscopic surgery he excelled at, though conventionally, opting for open surgery in cases of suspected appendix cancer would have been the more prudent approach.
But Kaji Hideki, having just returned to the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital's main branch, needed to stabilize his own position with a brilliant surgery urgently, and reverse his previously unfavorable image due to a botched surgery that led to his assignment in Hokkaido, reestablishing his signature as the Laparoscopic Mage of the General Surgery.
Therefore, knowing full well that laparoscopic surgery would increase the difficulty and risks if the patient was suspected of having appendix cancer, Kaji Hideki, with his years of surgical experience and a daring spirit, still took the risk of using laparoscopic surgery.
