Chapter 8
The next day, Sunday, October 21st. The investigation scheduled for the day continued in two groups. Yet, Mikihiko was in a better spirits than yesterday, since his friend had revealed the true purpose of this trip.
Tatsuya, Miyuki, Minami were going with Masaki and Minoru to Mt. Arashi, while Mikihiko, Erika and Leo were going to Takaragaike, towards Matsugasaki. The eight of them planned to gather at the hotel early in the morning.
However, the situation took an unexpected turn.
“...I’m sorry, Tatsuya-san.”
Minoru said so from the futon with a pitiful voice. He suddenly had a fever this morning, it was a completely unpredictable situation.
”Don’t mind it. It’s not your fault, Minoru.”
“Nevertheless... I feel really pathetic.”
Hanging onto words of consideration from Tatsuya, Minoru frowned as contrary to the hotness of his face.
”Minoru, you don’t need to blame yourself. You’ve done well so far.”
The only ones who were in the room were Tatsuya and Minoru. The other members with exception of the two had been waiting in the lobby.
”I’ve heard that you have a weak constitution. That is not of your will, I was willing to receive your help with understanding of this possibility.”
Minoru averted his eyes from Tatsuya.
”You’ve helped enough. We wouldn’t have been able to go to that shaman’s place yesterday, were it not for your help.”
“...Really?”
While averting his face in front of Tatsuya, Minoru answered with a weak voice. “I do really think so.”
Minoru returned his line of sight to Tatsuya timidly.
Tatsuya’s expression was surly as usual. He did not wear a compassionate smile, nor the fake smile that was full of lies in his face. Tatsuya’s face was as sincere as his words. “You have been very helpful, you should not force yourself now. That way, you’d be more helpful in the case of an emergency later on.”
”Am I still... Tatsuya-san’s friend?”
”At any rate, we won’t reach Zhou Gongjin’s place today. We’ll need your power by then.
That’s why, you can rest for today.”
“…Understood.”
Minoru smiled weakly. Although he was still depressed, at least he had stopped blaming himself.
”I’m going to let Minami stay behind. She can do universal household chores. Feel free to rely on her, since Minami will also enjoy doing so.”
Minoru showed an embarrassed expression. He probably had other reasons than a fever for the blush on his face. Perhaps, he was ashamed to receive help from someone who rejoiced over it.
”Please watch our belongings while we are away.”
This did not mean that they would immediately go back to Tokyo after their investigation, it was only until they came back here again.
“Leave it to me.”
Minoru seemed to understand Tatsuya’s kindness, he floated a smile.
After Tatsuya went out from the room, he met with Minami who had been standing there alone, and talked to her.
”Sorry to trouble you, please take care of him.”
“It is no trouble at all. This is part of my job. Please leave Minoru-sama in my care.”
Minami answered while bowing, Tatsuya headed to the lobby where Miyuki and his friends were waiting.
When she couldn’t see his back anymore, Minami knocked at the door of the room where Minoru slept.
Without waiting for his reply, Minami opened the door with the electronic key that was entrusted to her by Tatsuya. Minami had no intention in disturbing the sleep of an ill person just for that.
She closed the front door, and opened the sliding door, where Minoru tried to rise from the futon.
Minami ran to sit by his side without any sound, she was pressing both of his shoulders gently as to let him lie back down.
“Minoru-sama, please don’t mind me. If you do so, there is no meaning in me taking care of you.”
Minoru felt that those words were coming out of a villain who tried to blame him for overdoing things. However, no matter how hard Minami tried, she wouldn’t be able to treat Minoru that way, it seemed like Minoru had misunderstood Minami’s true meaning.
”I understand. Then, I will dutifully sleep.”
This time Minami wore a disappointed expression.
Minami sat beside Minoru while staring at him motionlessly, she sat with aligned knees as the correct manners dictated.
After 30 minutes passed, Minoru’s closed eyelids suddenly opened, and he smiled wickedly.
“Sakurai-san, if you keep staring at a man like that, it’s quite embarrassing, even for me.”
He should have been accustomed to being stared at due to his good looks. Yet, he felt like his liberty was affected in this private close proximity, and the fact that his sleeping face had been observed intensely.
“Pardon my rudeness!”
Minami lowered her head to touch the mat in apology with ‘uwaaa’ voice, she also set two meters distance between them to be seated.
Her bright red face which was facing down on the tatami mat was not visible to Minoru.
As for Minami, she had not meant to stare at Minoru’s face. It wasn’t like there was anyone else in the room to talk to, and she thought it was rude to the patient if she read or watched videos, in fact, she was only dazed without any significant thoughts in her head.
However, after hearing Minoru’s words, Minami even doubted her own actions with a ’was that true?’.
The things that Minoru said about her staring at him.
Minami questioned herself, ‘was I really staring intently at him?’.
—— ‘And if I did, what did I do that for?’
Her face which had been red became more and more blushed.
Even Minoru who was lying down could see that her ears had turned red, Minoru was worried about Minami’s physical condition since the dogeza pose that she had maintained seemed to have burdened her much.
“Ehh, umm… are you ok?”
Minoru was about to rise.
”I’m alright! Please continue your rest!”
She was pushing with a strong tone on the verge of screaming as compared to the gentle push of her hands earlier, Minami rose noisily and went out of the room while hiding her face.
She closed the sliding door forcefully. Yet, still leaving a little gap.
There was no sound of the front door being opened or closed.
Minoru seemed to be solidified for a while, with a hand stretched towards Minami who had now gone.
Although in the original plan Tatsuya’s group had consisted of five members, since Minoru was sick and Minami stayed behind to nurse him, in the end they had three members, the same as Mikihiko’s group. And Masaki who was supposed to follow their commuter with his bike, since the commuter was only a 4-seater capacity, they ended up riding the commuter together.
The two seats in front were occupied by Tatsuya and Masaki, while Miyuki was seated in the rear alone. Honestly, Masaki wanted to sit beside Miyuki, yet he suppressed his real intention and sat next to Tatsuya, since he prioritized common sense and manners in this situation.
The one who set the destination was Tatsuya. Masaki had agreed on going to Mt. Arashi during yesterday’s meeting, hence Tatsuya proceeded directly to the parked commuter without even stopping to think twice.
“Shiba, aren’t we going to Mt. Arashi?”
“We’re going to get some clues before going there.”
He answered Masaki while turning back, Tatsuya looked back at the foot outside the car.
“I want you not to talk about Zhou Gongjin from here onwards.”
“...Is it supposed to be a secret?”
“I do not want to involve that person, if possible.”
Masaki returned with questioning eyes at Tatsuya. Tatsuya suspected that Masaki misunderstood his words, but they had already reached their first destination. Furthermore, Tatsuya didn’t feel any need to give an excuse.
It had been three minutes since Tatsuya’s group arrived here.
“Tatsuya-kun, I’m sorry for making you wait.”
“No, you are right on time.”
Tatsuya said so to assure the female college student who had rushed from her commuter.
“Huh? Miyuki-san?”
“Good morning, Saegusa-senpai. I didn’t get to meet you last time, so ‘long time no see’.”
Mayumi’s eyes were wide open, while Miyuki smiled at her.
“I didn’t expect that Miyuki-san would be coming along.”
As she said, Tatsuya did not tell Mayumi that he was not coming alone.
However, Mayumi had to restrain herself from using her usual sarcastic tone due to the presence of the other companion.
“Ichijou Masaki-kun, right? This is the first time we have the chance to do self-introductions.
I’m Saegusa Mayumi.”
Instead of showing her wanton behaviour in front of Tatsuya, she introduced herself as a daughter of Saegusa Family from the 10MC.
“I remember your face. I’m Ichijou Masaki.”
Masaki replied with a hint of nervousness. As both of them said, this was not their first meeting. Nevertheless, it had been four years since their last greeting and this meeting was their second. Although they both knew the other party as a celebrity in the magic world, otherwise, it would be weird to remember about each other.
“I’m sorry, Ichijou-kun... Tatsuya-kun, come here for a second.”
Mayumi retreated away from Masaki with a dazzling feigned smile, while winding her right arm to Tatsuya’s left arm——not with any visible sweet intention——she pulled Tatsuya. After distancing herself about two meters away, Mayumi began to cross-examine Tatsuya in whispers.
“Tatsuya-kun, why didn’t you mention that Miyuki-san would be coming along?”
Tatsuya showed a natural amazed face.
“I don’t think you need to ask specifically about this. Didn’t you expect me to come together with Miyuki?”
In a failed attempt to refute, Mayumi showed a ‘giving up expression’.
“That’s right…There’s no way Miyuki-san would let Tatsuya-kun go alone, right.”
She shook her head in exasperation, before suddenly turning back to her serious expression. Her sight was fixed upon Masaki.
“Then, I wonder why is Ichijou-kun also coming along.”
“That is a total coincidence. Yesterday, Yoshida who did a preliminary investigation of the surrounding area for the Thesis Competition met Ichijou who had the same purpose. Since he has been wandering around the venue to look for suspicious people, I brought him along in place of a bodyguard.”
“So Yoshida-kun and others are also here… Ah, of course, he is the current Public Morals Committee Chief after all.”
“You are well informed.”
Without speaking out his real intention, Tatsuya was trying to say ‘you’re well informed despite having graduated’, Mayumi shot an ‘I won’t be cheated’ look at Tatsuya. Seemed like Mayumi knew that Tatsuya had a habit of trying to find something that could be used against her.
“Then, does Ichijou-kun know about my situation?”
“I have not received such permission from senpai, I won’t blabber anything unnecessary.”
Suspicion dwelled in Mayumi’s eyes, they had become increasingly distinguished.
Tatsuya also noticed the suspicion that was directed at himself. However, Tatsuya couldn’t be bothered about it.
“Anyway, senpai, do you really not want to explain the situation to Ichijou? I think he is someone you can rely on.”
Tatsuya flakily made a smile at Mayumi.
Mayumi sighed heavily.
“I wonder if it’s wise… To use the only son of the Ichijou Family under your chin.”
“I’m not using him under my chin. In the first place, he wasn’t even that cute of a guy.”
Tatsuya answered with a disappointed voice, Mayumi giggled and smiled.
“Ok, I will gladly accept his help then.”
He finally scored, Mayumi might take it that way. Yet, she regained her mood, and gave permission for Tatsuya to explain the situation to Masaki.
Led by the detective on duty, the four of them entered the evidence storage room in the police station.
Masaki showed a surprisingly positive attitude when he heard that she wanted to search for the culprit who murdered Nakura. It seemed like he expressed a great sympathy in (what he interpreted as) the investigation to dispel the chagrin of the bodyguard. As a future head of a family of the 10MC, the thought of (what he interpreted as) using a subordinates as a mere tool seemed to touch his heart.
Usually, this variance of purpose was not preferred. Since the ancient times, there was a saying `He who runs after two hares will catch neither’ (- literally: to chase 2 things in greed, and not obtain either), this was a predictable proverb. However, Tatsuya had a premonition. Rather than based on his reasoning, this time he was betting on his ‘hunch’.
——Zhou Gongjin was the one who murdered Nakura Saburo——
Tatsuya had that conjecture. That was why even when Masaki inflamed his chivalry for Mayumi, it was not really conflicting his purpose. Therefore, he felt no inconvenience.
While he was thinking about the matter, the detective came back with Nakura’s belongings on the table.
“These were the clothes which were worn by Mr. Nakura on that day. Unfortunately his CAD…” Nakura’s CAD was obviously retained by Kouichi. A CAD was not only useful for those who knew how to adjust it, but also an amazing research material to know about other magician’s magic by analyzing it. Thus, it was natural in the magic community not to pass such an important secret to non-relatives.
However, Mayumi remembered the guilt covering Kouichi when he recovered Nakura’s CAD. In fact, it was possible to analyze the flow of the battle to a certain extent by examining the CAD. It could even uncover the state of the battle at the time, and guess the kind of damage that the enemy received. Further possibilities included narrowing the suspect list by investigating the patients who visited hospitals to receive treatment for grave injuries. It was a common practice for magicians not to let the CAD fall into the possession of others, but it might be due to the fact that Kouichi was not so cooperative with the police, or rather, blatantly uncooperative.
“Excuse me, Keiji-san (detective). Whose blood is this?”
The detective replied with a rueful shake of his head.
“Unfortunately, all of it is from the victim.”
Even though it was not easy to examine all the blood stains on the victim’s clothes, modern forensic technology had made it possible. To investigate all of the body fluids on the victim’s body for a hint of the perpetrator was a basic procedure in all murder case.
“Nakura-san’s abdomen was pierced from behind, his chest muscle burst out from within, and his heart also ruptured.”
Which was why it was reported as a strange corpse.
However, the newspaper had not reported such details. Tatsuya learnt this from Mayumi.
“Burst from within…?”
Masaki voiced out with a deep suspicion.
“It was as if he was ‘exploding’.”
“No, Shiba! The Ichijou Family is absolutely not involved!”
Confusion floated within his mind during his conjecture, making Masaki show an excessive reaction.
Hearing such a loud voice within a closed room, Mayumi knitted her eyebrows lightly.
Tatsuya was not seriously doubting the involvement of the Ichijou Family.
“However, there is no natural phenomenon that can explain how one’s chest can burst from within, to control bodily the fluid of a human, a magician to boot, I think there isn’t any other magic that could manipulate the momentum of the burst to be strewn over this way.”
The purpose of this discussion was to sort out the information.
“That’s…”
——Even so, it was a tough situation to be in.
“The Ichijou’s ‘explosion’ is not something that can be copied so easily though.”
“Of course! Ah, but still.”
“Calm down. I only said that it looked like he ‘exploded’. I didn’t mean to put any special meaning in the word ‘explosion’, I don’t even doubt that the Ichijou Family is not involved.”
Masaki blushed faintly, realized that he had been distraught, and he was probably ashamed to be scolded. Tatsuya saw that as ‘this guy’s personality took a weak turn against an unexpected circumstances’.
“Magic which interferes with another individual’s body is difficult to be applied. However, it is not so difficult if it’s applied to your own body. For example, self-acceleration is a fairly popular magic.”
Mayumi opened her mouth.
“Tatsuya-kun, do you think that Nakura-san exploded him——killed himself?”
Mayumi questioned Tatsuya timidly, and Tatsuya shook his head.
“Even if he did explode himself, he did not commit suicide.”
“Onii-sama, do you think that Nakura-san chose to explode himself since he already had a fatal wound?”
Tatsuya nodded to Miyuki who was beside him.
Before returning his sight to Mayumi.
“I think the ruptured heart was due to some sort of side effect from his magic.”
“He must have already received a mortal wound from behind that pierced through his abdomen, so he simultaneously attacked the murderer with this magic?”
“Senpai. Did Nakura-san have a special magic with liquid as his weapon?”
After answering Masaki’s question, he turned to ask Mayumi.
“…I’m sorry, Nakura-san had never really used his magic in my presence.”
However, Mayumi failed to answer that question.
“I see.”
Tatsuya did not answer with a disappointed voice.
However, Mayumi heard his patience wearing thin in his reply.
“Ah, but I heard something when I first met him. Wait a minute.”
Mayumi folded her arms, while thoughtfully humming ‘umm, umm’.
(Somehow… She ticks like a manga character.)
Before Tatsuya thought that ‘it might be rude’, Mayumi made a revelation gesture with her hand.
“Now that I recall, Nakura-san was good at magic to make needles from water.”
Masaki knitted his eyebrows.
“Water needle? How? And what kind of effect would it result in?”
“I’m not sure how he did it, I wonder if it supposed to pierce through something since it was called needle. If you applied a convergence type system to water, it could even securely gather force at a practical level for a weapon.”
Masaki was annoyed at the involuntary uninteresting answer, and was about to ask another question. However, right on that instance, he remembered that Miyuki was present.
“…That means, the victim turned his own blood into needles and shot the perpetrator, huh.”
“A counterattack at the price of his life...”
Tatsuya stored the information of Nakura’s blood from the remnant of his clothes with his Elemental Sight.
“Shiba, what are you doing?”
“I was checking if there is any other magical trace at the area of the abdomen wound.”
“I see…”
The one who squinted his eyes due to Tatsuya’s plausible lie was not only Masaki, but also Mayumi. They actually detected a usage of magic instead of observation with the five senses, to recognize magic with one’s eyes was the most direct analysis.
“Umm, nothing left.”
Mayumi dropped her shoulders in disappointment, Masaki also sighed heavily.
“Me too. I can feel some traces here, but the pattern is just too blurred to be understood... Shiba, did you find anything?”
“I can’t obtain any specific clues to specify a certain individual. However, this injury was probably caused by a genjuu (mythical beast).”
“Genjuu?”
“Onii-sama, what is this genjuu?”
Mayumi and Miyuki sought an explanation of the alien word. The detective behind the two of them was seen taking notes.
Tatsuya tried to impose upon Masaki to take the explaining role, yet Masaki casually denied his invitation. Either he did not know about the matter, or he was just tired of explaining things. Since the one who asked was Miyuki, he’d probably answered it enthusiastically if he knew.
Hence, Tatsuya interpreted that Masaki, most probably, also did not know.
“Genjuu is a kind of kasei-tai. It reflects the light that comes into contact with the body through magic, which causes a pretext that it possess an entity (real body, substance) and even applies pressure to the object. It shows a shape to the enemy via an illusion by reflecting the light. Therefore, it also has an effect to fit into a created form, the same as a Kasei-tai.”
“Kasei-tai can be seen by everyone since they reflect physical light. However, genjuu utilizes magic from the Spirit Interference System, it will only be visible to the opponent intended by the magician. Am I right?”
Tatsuya gave a satisfied nod to Miyuki’s explanation.
“That’s right. You’ve explained well. These type of illusions are not restricted to visuals. There are also established genjuu spells for auditory illusions.”
“Wait a minute, Tatsuya-kun. If I digested this properly, you said that genjuu would not form if it’s not recognized by the opponent?”
“The main difference between genjuu and Kasei-tai is found in the Magic Sequence that affects the opponent to think that there is ‘something’.”
Mayumi did not fully comprehend this, her face was filled with questions.
“If that’s the case, then why did the attack come from behind? He would have realized if there’s noise. If it materialized behind him, Nakura-san should have realized it if the distance between them was close enough, he shouldn’t have ended up getting pierced from the back.”
“He did not necessarily notice where the creature was.”
“What do you mean…?”
“In the case of genjuu, it can work even without clear recognition from the opponent. Since genjuu do not exist fundamentally, if one see its shape clearly, one will know that it is an illusion. As long as anxiety is risen, against some unknown creature, that will give strength to genjuu which is a phenomenon that is not supposed to exist in reality.
“…I don’t really get it.”
“I’m sorry, did I confuse you? To put it briefly, his enemy firstly imprints a recognition magic of the shape of the beast that would give a pretext that he was going to be attacked by something, which in turn causes the enemy’s magic to get stronger. It didn’t even matter if the first illusion shown was only a kasei-tai.”
“By getting alarmed by the enemy’s magic, he strengthened the power of his opponent…?” “If you understood this, the effect is reduced by half. The effect was as you’ve seen in the remnants of Nakura’s clothes.”
She lowered her head lightly in appreciation of Tatsuya.
Mayumi was puzzled to the point of not knowing how to react.
The four of them rode on the same commuter and went to Mt. Arashi. (The commuter that Mayumi used had headed with other users upon release, since it was unmanned for quite some time.)
The front seats were taken by Tatsuya and Masaki, while Mayumi and Miyuki sat behind.
Once the commuter started to run, Masaki talked to Tatsuya.
“Shiba, about the genjuu earlier.”
Neither Tatsuya nor Miyuki had ever mistaken who he was referring to. Masaki called Tatsuya with ‘Shiba’ without any honorific, while calling Miyuki with ‘Shiba-san’.
“Are they different than the ‘Kugutsu-shiki-oni’ that we’d encountered yesterday?”
“I’ve also never heard about Kugutsu-shiki-oni before.”
Tatsuya sat in the front seat, but the commuter did not require him to drive since it was automatically driven. Hence, there was no problem to shift his line of sight.
“Nevertheless, you should have heard of Golems, since it’s quite common. You should be able to discern their differences by their name right?”
“Ichijou-san, Onii-sama, sorry for disturbing your conversation.”
Miyuki leaned lightly from the rear seat. To be more exact, she grabbed the back rest of the front seat and shoved her head forward.
“Onii-sama, I also only know Golems by name, do you mind explaining briefly about some of its characteristics?”
Tatsuya shot a questioning stare for a moment. Golems were popular in the Christian and Jewish culture. Miyuki who had also received an education about foreign magicians who were less likely to ‘only know it by name’.
However, he noticed his sister’s eyes were glanced towards Masaki, so he noticed her real intention. He did not think that she was a busybody, he didn’t even waste his effort to do so.
Tatsuya began to explain about Golems a little bit for Masaki rather than Miyuki.
“Golems are made by embedding parts from a number of organisms or a monster with a independent information body that is programmed to mimic the legend, it continuously changes the relative position of each part in addition to convergence-type magic, a magical robot that reproduces an organism-like behavior.”
“For example, a titanic golem stone soldier. At first glance, it only looks like a lump of hard stone joined together, yet once it moves, it mimics human movements. However, it was not due to a wholly connected system. It is similar to fortifying magic, the magic is only for securing a relative position. In short, each part of the body is only piled up on top of one another.”
“As a consequence, golems would be irregular, depending on the substances that formed its body. Inorganic material such as water, or organic material such as wood, alike. However, it has every capability affiliated with physical materials, unlike kasei-tai and genjuu.”
“To move the golem, it is necessary to embed an independent information body behavioral pattern program. If the magician stopped supplying Psion’s, the magic sequence for the golem would stop working. If the magician himself were beaten, the golem would also lose its power.
This is also applied to those which are created from a formless material, such as water, the golem will just collapse in the aftermath.”
“For wood or stone based golems, they are often used in the engraving magic technique to affix the magic type. On the other hand, the amorphous materials based golems, such as one that is made of water, it is used as a magical communicator that requires the magician to continue casting the magic over and over again. Yesterday’s golem was rather small and disposable, it was presumed from the blood of the Ninjutsu users as the communicator.
“Before Modern Magic was established, blood had been considered an important magical tool.
The Ancient Magic seen is a highly effective offering, and there are many magics’, which require blood as a medium. In Modern Magic, the Eidos of blood is directly connected to the life support of your body, including the brain, which records the details of the Psion property of the owner in high density. Therefore, it can be said that blood is very suitable to project a magic.”
“…In short, the difference between genjuu and Kasei-tai to golem is in the existence of its entity?”
Mayumi summarized Tatsuya’s explanation in one sentence, she might feel that it started to get cumbersome.
“After I heard your explanation, I think that the golem which has an entity seems to be easier to deal with.”
Tatsuya shook his head lightly in response to Masaki’s opinion.
“If only Kasei-tai and genjuu were strong enough, there wouldn’t any need for troublesome and inefficient biological forms. In fact, the magic was centralized in the narrow range of its nucleus, and can be erased easily if you destroy the nucleus. Or you can simply destroy the force field which shapes the virtual image. Moreover, golems are much more useful in terms of physical strength, it possesses destructive strength for physical work.”
While they were having this conversation (through the one who was mostly doing all the talking was Tatsuya), the commuter ran closer to their destination.
Minami read quietly beside the sleeping Minoru.
Aside from his fever, his condition was stable. There wasn’t any household chores to be done at the hotel, and there was no need to compete for preparing the meals and teas either. Minami was finally in a relaxed mood after a long time.
Still, she was together with a young man——or a boy with the same age, just the two of them.
Moreover, the other party was superbly beautiful, so she was feeling impeccably content. Yet, she was wondering why she felt this relaxed.
It shouldn’t be because she was used to Miyuki. Both her and Miyuki were——though sometimes she did not think that——female. Minoru was a male. Of course she would feel different about him.
Moreover, the visit to Nara before, and yesterday, too, when she was nearby Minoru, she had been really nervous. She was aware that she was nervous. It was by no means due to the fact that he was a ‘son of the Kudou Family’ that she had been kind of nervousness. Most likely, because she saw Minoru as a member of opposite sex who was of the same age as her. He was a ‘boy’ as contrasted to Tatsuya.
He had great magic power, and could even be said to be a tremendous one. He might even stand on par to the Yotsuba’s masterpiece, Miyuki.
His looks were also extraordinary, which didn’t need to be said at this late hour.
Yet, why did she feel a sense of familiarity. Somewhere inside, she felt just like him. She was attracted to him, she was aware that Minoru was aware of this, which resulted in her nervousness.
Minami held both of her cheeks with her hands. She blushed as she was ashamed of her delusion.
She stood to cool her head, and went to wash her face.
However, she immediately returned to her position. Not for reading a book, but a seating pose beside Minoru. She noticed that Minoru’s breathing was suddenly raged.
His breath was short and painful. His hand was getting hotter. Minami rushed to call a doctor, but she stopped in the middle.
Minoru was from the Kudou Family. A magician who inherited the bloodline of the former Ninth Laboratory. I wonder if ordinary doctors would be allowed to examine him?
Minami wavered. Minoru’s illness was certainly not to be nursed by an amateur. Nevertheless, she could not decide if she can call the doctor by herself.
A solution flashed in Minami’s mind.
She wanted to ask Tatsuya.
Minami hurriedly retrieved her information terminal, and launched the voice communication function.
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