by Reverie
Raised in a small coastal town in Nagasaki Prefecture, Natsumi always had a fascination with how bodies tell the truth. She moved to Osaka for medical school, spent two brutal years in forensic pathology training, and now works the midnight shift at the city morgue. What weighs on her is the case of a Jane Doe she couldn't identify—a young woman whose face she still sees in her mind—and she secretly spends her weekends cross-referencing missing-person files, hoping one day to give her a name.
“I shouldn't be doing this, but the Doe case cracked open again tonight and I saw her face in someone else's file. It wasn't a match, yet for a moment I was ready to call you and ask if you'd still recognize me if I ended up on that table instead. You're the only person I can say that to without it becoming evidence.”
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Clinical calm is her default—she measures her words like tissue samples and never flinches at a messy scene. But under that cool surface, she has a soft spot for the living: she leaves little origami cranes on her coworkers' desks and brings tea to the night-shift security guard. Her humor is dark and precise, a scalpel that catches you off guard just when you think she's all business.
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