#doubt underworld

We then move to her work place – the hospital she works at as a nurse. She runs into her boyfriend who also works there, Takeshi Aida (who she lives with) and tells him she made onigiri for when he gets back from his late shift. Lately he’s been busy studying, and even last Tuesday they had to postpone their plans cause he had some business. He says they should go somewhere next time they both have time off. MC goes to inspect their shift timetable and takes a photo.

Evidence gathered

Photo of timetable

MC has seen a wedding magazine(?) at their place and is thinking that Takeshi is thinking of proposing sometime soon. They’ve been together for 3 years. She’s thinking about how happy she will be if she marries him.

Sumika Shito who is also a nurse and MC’s friend. Sumika is wondering why MC is so happy but she doesn’t explain (haha) and Sumika remarks that Takeshi is working at other hospitals too and that she’s thinking he’s saving up for a wedding. MC didn’t know about that and thinks about how he’s already so busy but going to those lengths anyway.

Yoichi Tokiwa, a medical intern enters the staffroom. There’s some talk about their patients (I think). Another nurse, Shunsuke Wataya enters also.

He says that last night they’ve admitted a “special patient”. Sumika is guessing if it’s a politician, an actor or… a yakuza? Lol her face:

Shunsuke is basically like yup you got it… MC panics and goes to escape the room when a senior nurse comes in and asks her to be in charge of the VIP patient. And yep, it’s none other than MC’s father.

He is a leader of one of the major yakuza groups, “Ryumon” (literally dragon gate). Next to his bed, is his right hand man and number 2 Ao Okura.

MC's father is in the hospital because he collapsed yesterday, and he laughs saying he thought he died. MC wants him transferred immediately. She left her family 7 years ago, when she went to nursing school because she wants nothing to do with the underworld.

Her father remarks that she’s grown to look like her mother. Kosaku Ichimura, the treating doctor enters.

He’s usually super busy and MC is thinking about how he must have been assigned because Okura demanded the top doctor of the hospital. MC makes an excuse to leave because she doesn’t want Ichimura-sensei and Sumika to find out about her relationship (to her father and the yakuza). As she’s going down the hallway she runs smack into Takeshi who tells her not to push herself too hard. As she watches him go she thinks about how she REALLY doesn’t want him knowing she is a daughter to a yakuza but that would mean lying for her whole life… She then notices a pen on the floor.

Evidence gathered

Cat shaped pen

She meets Okura at a nearby café wanting to have her father transferred. She tells him about how her mother was a nurse who fell in love with her father when he was admitted as a patient. After MC was born was when her father told her mother about him being a yakuza boss. Then, when MC was 5 years old an accident has left MC’s mother in a coma ever since. MC believes she’s been robbed of a normal life being tied to the underworld and so left it all behind and cut all ties.

Okura asks if that’s all and calls her a “stupid brat” who doesn’t understand the world. He hands her a slip of paper which shows he is transferring. He writes down her father’s contact info on special Ryumon memo pad paper.

Evidence gathered

Memo with father’s phone number

He tells her to visit/contact again before he dies. MC asks what his illness is and he has stage 4 cancer, with an estimated one year left.

MC now back at home is thinking about contacting her friend, Karen Nakano who like her, is a daughter of a yakuza. She runs a club in Ginza. She messages her on TalkTime telling her she wants some advice and that her father has cancer. Karen is shocked, saying he visited the club last week, on February 10th (last Tuesday) with a young guy she hasn’t seen before though remarks that for once he wasn’t smoking. She sends a photo she took at that time. MC looks at the photo and sees someone who looks like Takeshi in the back…

Evidence gathered

Photo of father and Karen

MC asks Karen about it but Karen says she was quite busy and doesn’t quite remember. That was the Tuesday that MC had plans with Takeshi that fell through. The delivery man comes, delivering a letter for Takeshi with the words “credit company” printed on it (he’s buying stuff on credit).

Evidence gathered

Registered envelope

She notices the place is a bit messy and goes to tidy up.

Evidence gathered

Wedding magazine

Memo (with amounts of money written on it)

Taxi fare receipt

Short term job finding magazine

Slot machine guidebook

MC isn’t sure why he has a guidebook for slot machines. When she sees that he has a magazine advertising short term jobs (and high paying) she thinks he may be saving up for a wedding. But as a whole the items are suspicious and she thinks that Takeshi and her dad might have a connection.

Takeshi then returns home but as MC has been preoccupied she hasn’t made anything to eat. He suggests going out and goes off to get changed when he receives a TalkTime message (he left his phone on the table). MC sees it and her suspicions are confirmed – he’s hiding something big from her and she needs to get to the bottom of it.

Evidence gathered

Photo of Takeshi’s smartphone screen

Takeshi: I’m ready to go.

MC: Before that, there’s something I need to ask.

10 photo limit reached, continued in part two: