After Professor Kurokawa's soul returned, someone on the hospital staff secretly called the police despite the gag order issued by senior management.
Before visiting Professor Nor iuchi, the Public Security Bureau had already questioned several doctors and nurses. Not everyone was as blinded by self-interest as Professor Nor iuchi; when questioned by the police, they gave a full account of the supernatural incident on the thirteenth floor.
From the very beginning, the hospital's attempts at secrecy had been as full of holes as a sieve.
Besides the ghost doctor, some nurses also mentioned a rumor circulating in the hospital lately: the bodies in the morgue moved around when no one was there.
Following the trail, the Metropolitan Police Department also took into custody the security guard and the private detective Sasaki, who had previously sneaked into the morgue. Both men had already been frightened out of their wits. Faced with a pack of fierce police officers, they immediately spilled everything they knew.
Grace summoned the director with the ring of hair around his bald crown who oversaw the morgue, intending to ask him about what had happened.
The balding director avoided her gaze and hemmed and hawed. In the end, it took a call to Professor Nor iuchi to get him talking.
They were all the same. This was supposed to be a hospital, yet it was as foul as a bureaucratic swamp. Whenever anything happened, they wanted to pretend nothing had happened, deceiving their superiors and keeping their subordinates in the dark.
Such a small place, yet so much scheming; such shallow waters, yet so many scoundrels.
Grace had some interest in the body Detective Sasaki had been after, but only learned upon asking that it had been sent to the crematorium and cremated yesterday.
Bodies came and went