Kōkenji and Watanabe rushed to the hospital. The entire trip had taken barely ten minutes, but as they stood before the Emergency Room, the emergency doctor faced Kōkenji with a slight tremble and told him that Kōkenji Chunping had stopped breathing!
"What?" Kōkenji could not accept it.
Though he was usually quite the womanizer, practically a veteran among women, perhaps precisely because of that, Kōkenji had very few children. He had only this one child, Kōkenji Chunping!
Now that he had heard his child had died on the emergency table, he naturally could no longer control his emotions!
"No! Bastard, you're wrong! The person on the emergency table isn't my child. Chunping is still waiting for you to save him. Get in there and save him!" Kōkenji grabbed the Doctor by the collar and snarled.
The doctor had been able to tell at a glance what kind of fellow Kōkenji was from the moment he saw him. Thus, he had always kept his distance and watched his tone when speaking to him. Still, he had to inform him of the death, and there was no avoiding the family member's emotional outburst!
Emergency Doctors had seen this sort of thing often enough! Though Kōkenji was no good person, the Doctor still spoke responsibly and professionally. "Sir, the deceased truly is Kōkenji Chunping. After being brought in, he succumbed to extensive burns and blast injuries. We... we did everything we could! Please accept our condolences!"
Though he was somewhat afraid of the fellow before him, he still conveyed all the necessary information.
"Sir, because your child's injuries before his death were somewhat beyond the ordinary, we have already called the police. They will be arriving shortly, so we hope you will be prepared."
Though the Doctor was somewhat afraid of Kōkenji, the