"Didn't think I'd really get another chance this soon..."
As Daimon Michiko stitched up the wound on Shiraishi's arm, where the bone was nearly exposed, she chatted with him. Shiraishi had chosen local anesthesia himself, and with this amount of blood loss... he was hardly about to lose consciousness!
"It's not like I wanted to give you an opportunity..." Shiraishi said helplessly.
"Don't worry. I have experience with your body now. This time, I probably won't need to redo anything!" Daimon's repeated rework last time had actually been to reconnect his nerves.
With anyone else, there would have been no need for any "rework" at all—no amount of redoing it would have restored them!
"About how long?" Shiraishi asked.
"Half an hour." Daimon's speed in surgery was absolutely second to none.
"Can I make a phone call?"
"No."
Daimon flatly refused that unreasonable request.
Shiraishi could only wait until the suturing was finished. With his arm bandaged, he left the operating room and asked Gen, who had been waiting outside, about the aftermath of the Kidnapping Case.
Gen froze at the sight. Even with local anesthesia, but... sir, you had been bitten by an orca and just walked out on your own?
"All the kidnappers have been caught. Mrs. Suzuki and Ujihara Ayano were also examined at the hospital. They only suffered superficial injuries. Considering their condition, they're currently giving statements here at the hospital," Gen reported directly to Shiraishi.
"Good. Take me there." Shiraishi nodded.
"Huh? Right..." Gen was speechless at the chief's "dedication to work."
Anyone who didn't know better would have thought he had merely been bitten by a small dog!
That had been an orca!
At this time, Kuroki and Kanzaki, who knew the case best, were "questioning" Ujihara Ayano in an office borrowed from the