I don't quite get the setting of this case. The family members have Chinese names and call each other by Mandarin Chinese honorifics, yet the spirit house and the police officer have Thai names. What gives?
Damn. What a fucking ride.
Everything has resolved for everyone. Fujiyoshi is firmly established, maybe he will even become the next professor for cardiology; Arase has moved on from his days of addiction to a new dawn as a proper educator; Ijuuin has matured as a doctor; Katou may have had to...
I understand Katou. Such a naive and evil thought she had at that moment would make one hate oneself for life. Staying single and choosing patients/work over personal relationships is her way of atoning for it.
I have worked in a hospital where female doctors were forced to choose work over having children before. It was very fucked up. I now work at a hospital where everyone implicitly understands that having children is a normal part of life and the topic isn't even mentioned--everyone just helps...