Punishment Laps~31

Stripe recieved a lot of praise from copying Alta's voice. Hue tap the pin from the face powder and it appeared.

"Unfinished!"

"Guys we need to stay in this place a little more." Nod announced.

"I am hungry, I hope that we can eat some thing." Hue complained.

And as if the author felt bad for the characters. The door opened and Gery came holding a box of pizza.

"What's the pizza for? Pia asked.

"It's for the ghost." Gery whispered.

"I don't expect you to believe in those kind of things." Pia teased.

"No, I just want to properly thank them. It's true that our work is disecting the dead but it does not mean we don't respect them. It's like paying respect to those who respects... Ah, I stumbled with my own words." Gery explained as he put a clean zip bag and left the box of pizza.

"This is a good thing." Hue exclaimed. He instantly grabbed the zip bag and used it to grab his own slice. The other followed his gesture. They cleaned up the box and left the disecting room. The four waited by the entrance when the bed with white sheet got rushed to the emergency room but was then later on directed to the lab.

For investigation the team rush toward the room and saw Hax instantly disinfecting the tools. Gery was preparing all that they needed as Pia read the information passed on them in a expressionless delivery and robotic posture.

"Yelo Pomegranate, Male a business owner. Prominent in media supplies. Pronounced dead 4pm. Stab by a piece of sharp object. Purpose of examination cause of death and organs to be send at Pomegranate residence but it due to the earthquake within the area we can't."

If Nod did not know what exactly happened by that secluded area then he dozed off from Pia's dull way of reading. Oak shake involuntarily. Her anxiety and fear displayed a huge effect on her face and stance. Stripe hugged her sister and comforted her. The incise and gashing of long and deep cut on the flesh made Oak curled like a ball by the corner. Nod was tapped by Stripe when Oak's condition is not getting better.

"I will take her out. I will take her on the hospital garden." Nod understood and carried Oak like a princess.

Oak gasped behind the door that startled the doctors. They froze for a moment and waited for the doctor to keep going. Nod lead them out as Oak pleaded to be put down on the floor.

Nod successfully reached the hospital garden and carefully put Oak down.

"Hey are you feeling better now?" Nod softly asked.

"Yes, thanks I just did not expect that." Oak replied as she shyly tucked in a strand behind her ear.

"Nobody does, Ah... How I wish we can grab a coffee while chatting that would gain me more points." Nod teased as he winked.

Oak giggled as she look around.

"Let's take a walk then." Nod offered as he extended his hand.

The two started their invisible date under the green roofed garden.

Hue and Stripe waited. This time Stripe did his best not to faint.

"Hmmn, this is strange the pierced wood did not reach his spine nor any system." Hax muttured.

"His lungs and kidney are totally damaged. Could it be that his death was not cause by the stab but by his lack of tending his body?" Gery perked up as he kept examining the said organ.

"Not really, the report given by the first aider was there was a large amount of blood leaking from his body." Hax corrected.

"Maybe the wood had some nail or anything else. Aside from that stab we can't find another reason. Though there was this strong force that pushed his bones from the back that causes his liver to bleed within his system." Pia enumerated.

"Maybe he got hit more than once by something thick and wide to have all the bones in his back moved an inch." Hax deducted.

"Let us check again. Take note everything that you notice as strange." Hax instructed.

Gery and Pia obeyed as they reexamined.

Hue and Stripe exchange glances as they recalled Nod hitting him twice at the back while he was arching his back on top of Stripe's mother.

Nod smiled as he sat by the bench and Oak followed suit.

"Are you sure you don't want to hear it." Nod asked as he gave out a encouraging smile.

"Maybe we should go and find out." Oak agreed.

"Then if ever you felt freaking out then you can just hug me." Nod offered as he open his arms. Oak walked out on him as he trailed behind.

The two passed by Pia handing a written report to the authorities.

"I guess we did not made it." Oak sadly remarked.

"It's fine, Stripe and Hue are there on our behalf." Nod assured.

They walked with Gery and Hax who was heading on the same room they are going.

"That was surprising. Who would have thought that Mr. Pomegranate received a blow." Gery stated.

Nod instantly held Oak's hand as he pressed his finger on the back if hers to comfort her.

"Yeah, it's unpredictable. The liver was pierced by his own bone. It was like his own body rebelled against him." Hax replied as they heared Pia called out and paused for the woman to catch them.

"The police said there was no witness of who killed him. The deceased seemed to have been trying to violate his own spouse in the midst of the disaster. His first wife was being taken care at a mental hospital." Pia passed as she walk with them.

Hax and Gery started to label the organs and stored it within the freezer. Pia took note of every information needed. They cleaned up the lab and left. Hue and Stripe remained daze. They did not notice that Nod and Oak walked in with the doctors.