Hirsch

Dr. Hirsch (ヒルシュ, Hirushu) is the anatomy instructor at BLUE, known as "Second-Hand Killer Hirsch" because he does not hesitate to dissect corpses with his scalpel.
Due to having been a murder suspect 15 times to date, the World Detective Alliance demoted Hirsch from S- to A-rank; his guilt was never proven though.
==Physical description==
Hirsch has multicolored hair: While most of his hair is dark and kept short, a thick streak in the front is fair and long; it is kept slicked back. He also has a thin mustache and wears glasses and a tie with a deer on it.
==Personality and traits==
==Biography==
===History===
Throughout his life, Hirsch has been a murder suspect 15 times. He was never ruled guilty due to lack of evidence in every case. According to Ron Kamonohashi, all evidence that connected Hirsch to those crimes was cleanly erased.
Hirsch once nearly killed Ron when Ron snuck into the autopsy room and took a nap on the autopsy table. Ron ran out of the room after opening his eyes and seeing Hirsch with a scalpel hovering over him. Hirsch then chased Ron down the hall with his scalpel. Years later, he claims he only wanted to "playfully challenge" BLUE's top student and did not intend to harm him.
===Bloody Field Trip Case===
Five years ago, Hirsch attended the faculty meeting to decide on the student who would participate in the next practical exercise. Due to the exercise's difficulty, they immediately settled on Ron, BLUE's best student. The next day, Hirsch started his vacation.
While Hirsch was fishing in the mountains, he received a call from Scotland Yard: They wanted him to perform the autopsies of the victims in a large-scale homicide. Curious, Hirsch returned to London and examined all seven bodies. All victims had been stabbed to death in vital points and died more or less immediately. Despite the impressive precision of the murders, there was nothing special about the case. Hirsch's interest was only piqued when he learned that the data on the blood found at the crime scene was erased and a rumor spread that he was overseas when the incident occurred.
A year ago, Fin Fennic spotted Hirsch tailing Aimee Emmerich who had just left the Bloody Field Trip Case's crime scene. When Hirsch noticed Fin, she asked him what he was doing here, and he claimed he wanted to check if he had not left anything at a crime scene he had worked on.
===Benizome Hot Springs Murder Case===
The vice principal gathers Hirsch, Aimee, and several other staff members, i.a. Fin, John Grizzly, and Spitz Fire, to inform them that Ron has apparently resumed his detective work although he is no longer licensed to investigate any cases after he was expelled five years ago. Aimee orders that Ron should be investigated to confirm the rumor. Spitz volunteers and is sent to Japan.
===Twin Prison Locked Room Murder Case===
At BLUE Academy in England, Hirsch is dissecting a corpse.
===Coin and Carving Murders Case===
Hirsch is invited to Tokyo to teach the Metropolitan Police Department's and the Tokyo Seaside Medical University's forensic medicine departments his techniques for solving cases via autopsy. Hirsch is welcomed at the university by Toto. To Hirsch's surprise, Ron is there as well; he did not expect to see him again considering what happened in the Bloody Field Trip Case. After Hirsch mocks Ron about the incident, Ron confronts him about the fact that he was a murder suspect fifteen times. Hirsch reminds him that if he was truly a criminal, he would not be an instructor at BLUE. Then, Ron reminds him of their encounter years ago at BLUE in which Hirsch tried to kill him when Ron pretended to be asleep on an autopsy table. Hirsch comments that he was only making a joke; he also notes that it is a waste Ron cannot solve any cases with his deductive talents.
While Ron and Hirsch talk, Totomaru receives a phone call: Another body was found. Hirsch takes the phone from him and gets permission to investigate the Coin and Carving Murders Case with an assistant—Ron.
At the river terrace where the fourth victim, Ryu Yanobe, was found, Ron lies down next to the body and examines it: He was killed with a blow to the head last night. The number "4" was carved into his abdomen after his death, and the lack of dirt from the riverside on Yanobe's shoes indicates that he was killed elsewhere and planted here. Hirsch joins Ron and lies down next to the corpse too; he makes some additions to Ron's deductions: If Yanobe was killed by the same culprit as the previous three, there must be a coin inside him. Hirsch then demands to perform the autopsy, but Toto reminds him that they need to get an analysis permit first. Hirsch also wants information on all victims which Toto also has to gather.
Later, while Toto talks to Yanobe's wife at the police headquarters, Hirsch and Ron wait in a conference room. As Hirsch studies the autopsy reports of the first three victims, Ron asks him why he made him his assistant for this case. Hirsch replies that he likes surrounding himself with people worse than him on which he can place the blame if he has too; because of that, he was never arrested. Ron believes him. In this moment, Totomaru enters the room and announces that the autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Because Nagaoka is already assigned to the case, Hirsch cannot perform the autopsy which upsets Hirsch. However, he accepts the decision and leaves.
Although Toto was unable to call Hirsch regarding the newly-discovered fifth victim, Hirsch arrives at the crime scene and promptly starts to examine the corpse. Ron asks him where he has been, and Hirsch replies he was wandering around Tokyo before he changes the subject by stating that Nagaoka must be overwhelmed with two corpses at once. Because of that, he would gladly help with the autopsies. Toto protests because of the official procedures, but Hirsch does not want to listen as they are in a race against time. He then shows his detective license to get immediate permission. Ron notes Hirsch's demotion from S- to A-rank, and how odd it is that he is so fixated on this particular corpse and that he knew the crime scene's location although Toto could not reach and tell him. Hirsch replies that he saw the scene when he was simply passing by. When Ron points out that the university is quite far from his hotel, Hirsch shuts him down and ends the conversation by reminding Toto to set up the autopsies.
The next day, Hirsch, Ron, and Totomaru meet up with Nagaoka, the surgeon assigned to the case, at the Seaside University. Nagaoka suggests taking turns examining the bodies, but Hirsch is vehemently against it as he despises waste; he wants the autopsies to happen concurrently so that they will not lose any time. Hirsch also wants to omit the CT scan which usually precedes an autopsy in Japan. Toto permits Hirsch's suggestions and insists that he and Ron will observe the autopsies.
While Nagaoka examines the fifth victim under Ron's observation, Hirsch conducts Yanobe's autopsy with Toto as his observant. Nagaoka finds no external injuries on the fifth body, and Hirsch determines that Yanobe was killed with a single blow. Hirsch notes that the number on Yanobe's body is tilted whereas the numbers on the first three victims were not; Nagaoka adds that the number on the fifth victim is tilted as well. Hirsch also theorizes that there must have been a connected brutal unsolved case that occurred right before the first victim in the Coin and Carving Murders was found. Toto informs him that a Tokyo doctor was stabbed multiple times during that period.
Hirsch and Nagaoka then proceed to examine the victims' abdomens. Whereas Hirsch finds a coin inside Yanobe, Nagaoka does not find anything in the fifth victim's stomach. Hirsch then calls out in surprise which catches the attention of Nagaoka, Ron, and Toto, though Hirsch quickly adds that he was mistaken. He puts something in his pocket before he leaves the autopsy room. Toto and Ron hurry after him, and when Ron asks Hirsch to show him what he hid, Hirsch quickly dismisses him and leaves.
Later that day, Hirsch goes into the university's morgue where Toto and Ron are already expecting him. Toto confronts him about the fifth body: The man was not murdered; he died of a congenital heart disease. This means that Hirsch took the corpse and planted it behind the research wing after making it look like a victim of the serial killer. Toto wants to arrest Hirsch, but Ron stops him: Hirsch is not the culprit, but the true killer will arrive soon.
A moment later, Nagaoka enters the morgue. He wants to leave when he sees Hirsch, Ron, and Totomaru because he does not want to interrupt their conversation, but Ron invites him to stay as Hirsch allegedly wants to show him what he discovered during the autopsy. Hirsch says that he found "something strange" inside Yanobe. Nagaoka wants to see the object immediately; however, Hirsch wants to lay out his deductions first: The victims had several commonalities—the carved number, the international coin, having been found in Tokyo. Hirsch asks why the murderer did those things, and Ron answers: The culprit wanted to connect the victims and then make sure a forensic scientist from Tokyo would be assigned to the case as the culprit wanted to retrieve the corpses. The serial killer is, thus, Nagaoka.
Nagaoka denies the allegations, but Hirsch simply continues: Nagaoka pretended not to notice that the numbers were tilted because he wanted to cover up that the numbers were used to hide appendicitis surgery scars. Ron adds that the victims were all over 30 years old because, nowadays, appendicitis is treated with endoscopic surgery which does not leave any scars; the victims, therefore, all had surgery for appendicitis about twenty years ago which means the killer targeted people of a certain generation.
Hirsch continues that the stabbing of the doctor provides the reason why the killer went after people who had an appendicitis surgery. The doctor was a gastrointestinal surgeon who performed the surgeries of all victims—he was also an university classmate of Nagaoka. Ron says that Nagaoka used the autopsies to search for something inside the victims' bodies. Hirsch then holds up a small pouch with the item in question; he tells Nagaoka he will only give him the item if he turns himself in. Subsequently, Nagaoka breaks down and confesses.
After his wife died twenty years ago, her ashes were turned into a diamond, but the diamond was stolen. A few days ago, Nagaoka met up with the gastrointestinal surgeon for a drink; they had been university classmates. The surgeon admitted that he stole the diamond because he was in love with Nagaoka's wife and hated Nagaoka for marrying her. He then hid the diamond inside one of his appendicitis patients to ensure Nagaoka would not have his wife forever. Nagaoka killed the surgeon and stole his patient data for his plan to retrieve the diamond. He hid the coins inside the bodies because he wanted to make sure that the bodies would be autopsied; the coins were remnants of overseas trips with his wife.
Then, Hirsch reveals that the pouch was a feint; the diamond was not inside Yanobe. Nagaoka charges at him for tricking him but Hirsch stops him by pointing a scalpel at him. He calls Nagaoka disgrace to all forensic scientists and tells him to never call himself one again. Defeated, Nagaoka sinks to the ground. At the same time, Ron collapses due to the side effects of his Kill on Sight medication.
A few days later, Ron feels well again, and he and Totomaru meet up with Hirsch who called them. Hirsch wants to know how Ron figured out his deduction, and Ron replies that he considered his incomprehensible actions from the angle that he was doing all that to catch the culprit; and, indeed, from this angle, all his actions made perfect sense: Hirsch wanted to unsettle Nagaoka and force him to reveal himself. Toto then asks about the fifth corpse, and Hirsch tells him that he asked the dead patient's family for permission to use the body in a major case. He also argued his case to perform an autopsy on the body so that he will not be charged with mutilating a corpse.
Ron comments that, from his actions, no one would know that Hirsch has been a murder suspect multiple times. Annoyed, Hirsch replies that he should be more concerned about himself considering how bad his side effects are. Hearing this shocks Ron, and Hirsch then asks him if he wants to know what really happened during the Bloody Field Trip Case before he starts to recount the events:
Hirsch was the one who performed the victims' autopsies and found nothing special about them. He is only interested in the case because people, for some reason, have been meddling with its evidence and documentation.
After Hirsch told Ron and Toto everything, he asks Ron if he has a guess who could have framed him for those murders. When Ron replies that it was the M. Family, Hirsch is shocked and discourages Ron from investigating any further because of how dangerous the M. Family is. Hirsch also notes that whoever told Ron about the rumor that he was overseas might be working for the M. Family. He then leaves with a final warning.
==Etymology==
* "Hirsch" means "deer" in German.
==References==
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