21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 488 - 484: Soul Arrest (Seeking Subscriptions, Seeking Monthly Tickets)

When Chen Yu rushed downstairs, the attacker had already breathed his last.

Although there was theoretically a possibility of survival from a fall from the fourth floor, the attacker's hands had been cuffed by the police. Unable to maintain balance in midair, this resulted in him landing headfirst and dying on the spot, without a chance for rescue.

"No onlookers! No onlookers!" Seeing patients gawking in the lobby, Chen Yu immediately shouted twice, gesturing for the nurses to disperse the crowd, while he took off his white coat to cover the body.

The police were not slower than Chen Yu in coming downstairs. Seeing Chen Yu covering the body with his clothes, they naturally began to disperse the onlookers as well.

"Is there any hope?" asked the police officer who had just been taking Jounouchi Hiromi's statement, coming over to Chen Yu's side and looking at the body covered with a white cloth, harboring a sliver of hope.

"Headfirst impact, dead on arrival," Chen Yu sighed, shaking his head. "If he had landed on his legs or chest, there might have been a glimmer of hope, but the head..."

The police officer could hardly believe it and bent down to lift the white coat that Chen Yu had used to cover the body, wanting to see if there was still any chance of saving him. However, the sight of the clearly crushed skull, eyes pushed out of their sockets, and brain matter told him it was a hopeless case of death.

Even as a seasoned police officer used to gruesome scenes, he had never seen such a brutal manner of death. Fighting the nausea, he covered the body again, and standing up, said to Chen Yu, "We'll need to seal off the scene for an incident like this and wait for the forensic team to handle it. We hope the hospital can cooperate."

"I understand. I'll get the nurses to work with you," Chen Yu nodded, called over a nurse who was evacuating the patients, and asked her to summon the head nurse.

For the police officer, such an incident was quite a stroke of misfortune. He had come merely to arrest the already subdued attacker, but unexpectedly, the man escaped and died in the lobby of the University Hospital!

Such a malicious event, he'd have to spend a whole week just writing the report when he got back!

Not to mention that the attacker's statements before his death were enough to prove he was not a regular assailant but a cultist.

This was a matter for the Public Security Bureau to handle!

The officer now felt like he had two throbbing headaches, but he still had to muster the energy, pulling out his phone to call back to the station for reinforcements.

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The chaos in the lobby lasted until the afternoon. Although Tokyo University Medical School Hospital was qualified to conduct forensic examinations, a forensic pathologist from UDI came along with the visiting police officers from the forensic department.

"Teacher, what are you doing here?" Misumi Mikoto, surprised to see Chen Yu standing beside the police officers without his white coat, greeted him in amazement.

"I work here! And the deceased had previously attempted to attack Hiromi," Chen Yu replied, equally surprised to see his student, but he explained to her what had happened.

After listening to Chen Yu's explanation, Misumi Mikoto nodded in understanding and said, "So that's the situation. It's actually my first time here at your office, teacher! However, I am currently working, so I'll come to visit you later."

Having said that, Misumi Mikoto, accompanied by Tokairin Yuko and Kube 'Tool Man' Rokuro, started their work.

Watching Misumi Mikoto begin to work, Chen Yu also turned curiously to a nearby police officer and asked, "Why is it that now you have UDI personnel coming directly to the scene rather than having the forensic officers collect the body and then send it to UDI for examination?"

The police officer, not surprised that Chen Yu was inquiring about the police procedures, responded, as the University Hospital also has the qualifications of a forensic firm, and the bodies are often sent there for examination by the police.

"Recently, the Metropolitan Police Department has strengthened its regulations, so now when a body is found, both the forensics team and UDI are notified at the same time, allowing UDI to conduct an on-site investigation and then take the body back," the police officer explained the appearance of UDI at the scene and then excused himself to attend to his own duties.

Chen Yu raised an eyebrow at the bustling activity and, seeing that there was nothing left for him to do, headed towards the elevator to go back to his office.

However, when Chen Yu stepped out of the elevator, Jounouchi Hiromi, who had been waiting for him for some time, hurriedly came up to greet him. Chen Yu had previously not allowed her to come downstairs upon witnessing the death, which had caused her considerable concern.

"Mr. Chen Yu, what's the situation? Where are your clothes?" Jounouchi Hiromi asked with concern. Since she was standing upstairs earlier, she couldn't see clearly what had happened below, just noticing that more police had arrived and closed off the hospital's reception hall.

"The person who jumped died on the spot, so both the forensics team and UDI personnel came. But it's all taken care of now; they will handle the follow-up, and they'll be gone soon," Chen Yu explained to Jounouchi Hiromi as they walked back to the office together. "As for my coat, I took it off to cover the body earlier. We couldn't just leave the body lying there in the hall, could we? What if it scared other patients?"

"Then you'll have to buy a new white coat again," Jounouchi Hiromi said after hearing Chen Yu's explanation. She let go of her worry and then asked him about the attacker, "Mr. Chen Yu, do you know who the person who came to attack was? He didn't seem like a commonplace attacker!"

In response to Jounouchi Hiromi's comment, Chen Yu nodded in agreement, "Indeed, he didn't look like someone who acted on impulse or just because of hatred. On the contrary, his actions were premeditated and prepared, and the man himself seemed like a fanatic, so this is likely related to the 'truth' he was shouting about."

"Then, Mr. Chen Yu, what do you think this truth is? Did the police find anything on the person that might reveal his identity?" Jounouchi Hiromi was also intrigued by the "truth" the attacker had been obsessed with, even shouting about it until his death, "Could it be some sort of belief?"

"It's probably a cult, after all, only a cultist would be so fanatical as to disregard their own life," Chen Yu mused, equally interested in the topic.

The two continued conversing as they walked and quickly returned to Chen Yu's office.

After instructing his secretary, Shirai Reina, to help him borrow a white coat, Chen Yu entered the office with Jounouchi Hiromi.

Sitting down at the desk and seeing Jounouchi Hiromi close the door, Chen Yu gestured with his hand and pulled out a wisp of gray mist, which was the soul of the assailant.

"Alright, now let's properly ask the attacker what exactly this truth he spoke of is," Chen Yu said, looking at the soul in his hand.