21st Century Necromancer

Although Chen Yu really wanted to turn the murderer over to the police and have him pay the price he deserved, without evidence, the police wouldn't believe what he said. Therefore, he had to wait for the murderer to recover, at least to regain consciousness and be able to speak before he could take any action.

Otherwise, pointing at a patient in a coma and calling him a murderer would lead the police to think Chen Yu was mentally ill.

Despite the dissatisfaction, since he had decided not to take the law into his own hands, he had to abide by legal procedures and act accordingly.

However, Chen Yu still tampered with the murderer in secret, accelerating the healing of his wounds so he could wake up faster while also casting a curse on his soul, plunging it into an endless nightmare. The murderer was forced to experience the pain felt by those he had killed, a small measure of revenge and punishment.

Forcing the murderer to continually experience the agony of being killed and to recall the sins he had committed was but a trivial punishment for his crimes.

Of course, while meting out punishment to the murderer, Chen Yu was also investigating his identity. Through his connections at Eastern University Affiliated Hospital, he had the patient's medical records sent to hospitals around the site of the fire for comparison in order to investigate the person's identity. Although the results were not yet in, it wouldn't be difficult to unearth the truth.

Before Chen Yu obtained the results of his inquiry, they received medical records of the other ten victims from UDI, seeking help with the same process of identifying the dead.

Chen Yu, taking a particular interest in the matter, requested the ten medical records and went through them one by one.

"Hmm?" The medical records of nine victims revealed nothing special, but a detail in the ninth victim's record, the one labeled number nine, caught Chen Yu's attention.

"This doesn't look like a wound from a laparoscopic surgery, does it?" Holding the medical record, Chen Yu went to the surgical department office to consult Daimon Michiko.
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Although Chen Yu himself deduced that the wound was not from laparoscopic surgery, he had not seen many such wounds before and therefore wanted to confirm with the more experienced Daimon Michiko.

But Daimon Michiko only glanced at it before confidently stating, "This is a gunshot wound, rare in Japan, but definitely caused by a shooting. Judging by the appearance of this wound, it's likely caused by a regular handgun, probably around fifteen years old."

Hearing Michiko's affirmation surprised Chen Yu, and he couldn't help but express his doubts, "Daimon-san, are you sure? It wouldn't be good if we made a mistake."

"When I was a military doctor in Cuba, I saw these kinds of wounds daily, countless times. I cannot mistake it. If I could examine this wound, I could even tell you the caliber of the handgun and the shooting distance," Michiko said with a confident smile, affirming her own deduction, and added, "Even when it comes to identifying wounds, I don't fail!"

Seeing Michiko's confidence, Chen Yu shook his head and chose to believe her, "Then, I'll pass this information to UDI. Thank you, Daimon-san."

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"So, the wound wasn't from a laparoscopic surgery but a gunshot wound? Thank you!" Kube Rokuro thanked and hung up the phone, then turned to Misumi Mikoto and Tokairin Yuko who were watching closely and said, "That was a call from Eastern University Affiliated Hospital. The wound on victim number nine wasn't from laparoscopic surgery as we had speculated but from a gunshot."

"Gunshot wound?" Tokairin Yuko looked at Kube Rokuro with a questioning expression, not quite understanding the situation.

Kube Rokuro nodded and continued to explain, "There is a doctor at Eastern University Affiliated Hospital who used to be a military doctor in Cuba. She is very familiar with this kind of wound. She said it's a gunshot wound from over ten years ago."

As Kube Rokuro explained, Misumi Mikoto and Tokairin Yuko finally understood and nodded, realizing the new information.

"Gunshot wounds are rare in Japan, so we were mistaken," Misumi Mikoto cursed in annoyance, which made Tokairin Yuko and Kube Rokuro look at her sideways.

After cursing, Mikoto looked at Kube Rokuro and asked, "Did Eastern University Affiliated Hospital have any other information?"

Although Kube Rokuro was surprised that Mikoto would curse, he nodded and continued, "Yes, Brother Yu compared the situation we sent and the scars on survivor number eleven, saying the rope marks on number nine were not from being bound before death, but from him rescuing someone."

"Rescuing someone?" Tokairin Yuko uttered, puzzled, not grasping how their initial speculation of a bound and beaten victim suddenly turned into a rescuer.

"We based our speculation on number nine's rope marks and the blunt trauma to the back of his head that he had been bound and beaten before death.

But Brother Yu found similar rope marks on survivor number eleven's back, marks that appeared after burns," Kube Rokuro explained, drawing illustrations on a nearby whiteboard, "Number nine had cross marks from the ropes on his chest and horizontal marks across his abdomen, while survivor number eleven had a horizontal mark across the back.

These marks come from a binding technique called 'carrying a piglet,' used by firefighters to carry incapacitated individuals in emergencies."

"So, our initial assessment was wrong. Number nine wasn't bound and beaten before death, nor was his body burnt post-mortem to destroy evidence..." Tokairin Yuko, eyeing the illustration Rokuro had drawn, realized their previous conclusions were incorrect.

At that moment, Mikoto also understood, staring at the illustration Rokuro had made, her eyes widened, "Number nine rescued number eleven using the 'carrying a piglet' technique, then went back into the fire to save others. But the fire was too intense for him to escape, so he moved everyone to the fourth floor to wait for rescue... That's why all the bodies were found on the fourth floor.

He wasn't a victim but..."

Pausing, Mikoto looked up at Kube Rokuro.

Kube Rokuro nodded gravely, affirming Mikoto's speculation, "He was a hero who saved others."