2.7
Later that day, I visited the White Room in Saitama, which had undergone renovation, and was searching for images and worrying about the selection of further educators. Then Kamogawa came up to me.
“Thank you for your time, Mr. Ayanokouji. The important thing is that the children are… Are the arrangements underway?”
“How could we start the project otherwise? The scheme is almost complete.”
“Oh, ooh, that's just great… You don't have to tell me what's in it, of course. I don't want to get caught yet.”
The method of acquiring children that cannot be expressed to Kamogawa.
That is, to obtain newborns illegally from black market brokers using the Oba clan.
However, this involves many risks. Therefore, we must eventually switch to a more legitimate way of collecting children.
We’re still in the planning stage, but in the near future, we’ll set up a website and announce that we’ll be a place to take care of children from parents who are unable to raise their unborn children due to unavoidable circumstances.
It would be ideal to cooperate with them even before the birth of the child. There are women who cannot rely on the government system and cannot afford the cost of childbirth. There are many cases where women give birth and die in secret. Of course, it’s theoretically possible, but at the same time, there’s a big risk involved. When you carry a child in your belly, you aren’t really a parent in the true sense of the word. You cannot give birth to a child, and even if you did, you would not be able to raise it. But in many cases, they become mothers the moment they meet their children.
And what if there’s a fatal accident? If they sue for the return of their child, it’ll be traced back to the White Room. That must be avoided.
If it gets out, it’ll be more than just a blemish on Naoe-sensei's name.
It’s imperative that we only accept children from those who have given birth elsewhere, who aren’t responsible and who cannot be mothers.
On the homepage, it would be good to put up a myriad of beautiful and hypocritical words.
“Don't take a life,” “We accept babies anonymously,” “We provide counseling for the needy,” “How the foster care system works,” and so on. These are all slogans that guarantee a future for themselves and their children.
Whenever a mother visits the hospital, the first step would be to arrange a meeting. They won’t be asked for their names or where they live, but would simply be asked to give reasons why they cannot raise their children freely. If the child is simply unacceptable, some will readily allow the child to be placed in foster care. If they’re in need of money, let them keep some of it. When you have no choice but to give the child to the hospital, you must allow one week for the child to be released. After that, some parents may regret giving up their children.
In this way, unrecognized children are gathered and sent to the White Room.
We keep a connection with each mother in the form of a name, just in case we’re asked to return the child two or three years later.
Of course, you can't return a child you put in foster care.
We have to avoid being publicized when we do something illegal.
These are the reasons why the treatment of children is extremely sensitive and difficult.
“The problem is rather beyond that. We need to also consider the medical care of the child brought to the White Room.”
“Medical…?”
“Children are fragile. The slightest thing can make them sick. But since it's difficult to take them to the hospital, it's essential to have a doctor who can treat them in the White Room.”
Not just anyone can be a doctor.
There are a few requirements: the doctor must have their medical license revoked. They must be flexible in their thinking. They must be as old as possible, but not too old. They must be able to re-acquire their medical license if the situation demands it. Also, they must be in need of money or be unwilling to work in a legitimate way in the outside world.
“That's… a pretty difficult set of requirements. It's not looking good…”
“No wonder you think so. However, if you search all over Japan, you’ll find people with unexpected backgrounds. In my search, I came across a former doctor who lives deep in the mountains of Tottori. He had a history of a traffic accident that killed two college students who were riding a moped together.”
Accidents are not uncommon. While returning home after a hard day's work late at night, the doctor, overcome with sleepiness, started to make a right turn without knowing the distance between himself and a moped going straight ahead, and they collided. The police and ambulance were immediately dispatched, but he couldn’t be saved. The doctor, who was unlucky enough to have hit a child of a well-known local landowner, ran away to a discrete location to escape from the public's attention.
“Ten years have passed since that incident. He was able to get his medical license again, but he spent his days drinking.”
“Well, it's good that we found someone like that… But while it's good news that he's been found, isn't there cause for concern?”
“He used to be a flamboyant, spendthrift guy. That's what we're after.”
At least one. Maybe one more.
We need a doctor who can take care of the children's health.
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