Chapter 36Osaki outweighed Hiroshi by double, but ran twice as fast. Osaki looked back once, and then went ahead at a sprint.
At the hospital, Hiroshi, soaked with rain and sweat, bounded up the stairway to the entrance and rushed across the lobby toward the elevator. Hiroshi pushed into the small elevator and flipped open his badge, telling the doctors and nurses not to press any other floors. He jammed his thumb on the close door button.
On the tenth floor, Hiroshi rushed past the nurse’s station toward Takamatsu’s room. Spinning into the room with his left hand on the doorframe, Hiroshi bumped smack into Osaki. Osaki didn’t budge.
Hiroshi looked around his shoulders to see a woman leaning over the bed, holding Takamatsu’s barely lifted hand, her long hair draped like a canopy over hi
