OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Amongst rumors of patients seeing an angel in their rooms, Takao finds out that a young patient she became friends with now has a terminal illness.OUR TAKEFollowing up from the end of last week’s episode where Ameku was seen as a golden god who could do no wrong and those who questioned her were summarily punished, she also got an email about someone she knew getting a leukemia diagnosis. That can be traumatic enough on its own, but it turns out that said person, a young boy named Miki, is one of the first patients she connected with at the hospital back when she was a resident, and was able to use her deductive skills to get him diagnosed in the first place. They seemed to be able to treat and cure it, but it now seems to have returned and be terminal. I have experience with chemotherapy myself (for bone cancer, specifically) and, to make a long story short, it’s not a fun process, but I’ve also briefly roomed with patients who did not survive their leukemia. It’s…not a great feeling, to say the least. Probably worse if you’re their doctor and thought they were through the worst of it, only for all that effort and treatment to be for naught. So, now Ameku is faced with a reality every doctor must deal with at some point: not being able to save their patient, something she probably doesn’t have to face often, if ever, before now.But we also have a mystery to contend with and it’s somewhat related. It seems that there’s an “angel” visiting the rooms of certain patients AND a few boys who bullied Miki, as well as some of the nurses, are getting sicker, so Ameku suspects their worsening symptoms may be foul play. Thankfully this show isn’t SO dark that it would be the worst possible scenario of kids getting possibly abused by nurses or doctors, so we can rule that out. But while Ameku may have already cracked that case, Miki’s seemingly inevitable death is distracting her a bit. Throughout this series, she’s been seen as someone who can solve any strange diagnosis or mystery, no matter how vague or hard to figure out, but she can’t stop people from dying all the time. And that’s a hard lesson to learn for anyone, especially when it’s in regards to a child’s life being tragically cut short, but it’s what’s happening. However, there is a second part to this, so we might as well see what the mystery of the angel holds, and if it might bring a solution from on high to save Miki’s life.