Another Monster

<h3>Chapter 2 – Kenzo Tenma (May 2001; Yokohama, Tokyo, London)</h3>
<p data-rte-fromparser="true">This chapter dedicated to <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Dr.%20Kenzo%20Tenma%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Kenzo%20Tenma%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Afalse%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BKenzo%20Tenma%7CDr.%20Kenzo%20Tenma%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="633396-15540127445efe27cddc75a" href="/wiki/Kenzo_Tenma" title="Kenzo Tenma">Dr. Kenzo Tenma</a> went ahead straight with facts on him: He was born 2nd of January 1958, in Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture. His father was a director and manager of a city-owned hospital and his mother a former editor for a medical publisher.  Both were divorced and they had Dr. Tenma after the first year of their marriage. It is also revealed here that Dr. Tenma had two older half-brothers.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Weber hired an interpreter to help him get around and he also tried to secure an interview with the hospital his father managed with no avail. He learned that Dr. Tenma kept in touch with very few of his friends, and those willing to assist Weber in his investigation declined upon knowing that he was a foreigner. Weber also confirmed Inspector Lunge's assessment of Dr. Tenma that he does not fit in the Japanese society nor is he culturally German--he is stranger to both cultures.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Weber had, eventually, been able to interview one of Dr. Tenma's friends back in elementary and high school. That friend of Dr. Tenma was still living in near the Tenma household. When interviewed by Weber, he was very much surprised that his friend was linked to a series of murders, because back when they were young, he was that kind of student who was very diligent and hard working. He also described Tenma to be very accommodating, despite his 'rich boy' status. He told Weber that Dr. Tenma liked sports, but team sports did not interest him. He was very good at solo sports though.<img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BFile%3ATenma_chilld.png%7Cthumb%7C196px%7CYoung%20Dr.%20Tenma%20in%20episode%2036%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Tenma_chilld.png%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22Tenma%20chilld%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22caption%22%3A%22Young%20Dr.%20Tenma%20in%20episode%2036%22%2C%22width%22%3A196%2C%22captionParsed%22%3A%22Young%20Dr.%20Tenma%20in%20episode%2036%22%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="633396-15540127445efe27cddc75a" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/obluda/images/4/41/Tenma_chilld.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/196?cb=20121230074605" width="196" height="146" class="image thumb withCaption" data-image-name="Tenma chilld.png" data-image-key="Tenma_chilld.png"  type="image" />
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Weber asked him what he remembers about Dr. Tenma in their childhood. He said he used to bully Dr. Tenma together with his older brother that one time, they had come up with an idea to scare the young Tenma off. They asked him if he should like to play hide-and-seek with them. The young Tenma consented, and he was made the 'it'.  Now, they really did not hide, but left young Tenma there in the woods for half an hour until they decided to get him back because it was creepy back there. The young Tenma actually peed in his pants because of panicking that he was left alone. His friends started calling him names, but he did not cry about that. The next time they asked Tenma to play hide-and-seek again, he thought Tenma would not fall for the same trick again, but Tenma still consented and played. This time however, they left him there for forty minutes. When they tried to look for him after that, they couldn't find him, so they concluded that Tenma had already gone home. Later Dr. Tenma's mother called them, asking whether they are still with Kenzo, so they went back on their play place and saw Tenma there, saying "<i>No fair, I've been hiding the whole time</i>!".  After that incident they stopped picking on him and they started being friends. That friend of Dr. Tenma concluded after this incident that Dr. Tenma was always hardest on himself.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">In seventh grade, Tenma tried to play with the coal heater, heating it up until the metal pokers bend and twist. Their teacher, who was so used at employing corporal punishment to discipline her children, asked who did it. Tenma spoke up and he was scolded and hit. However, he said nothing for that matter. However, when another classmate of his played with the heater, his teacher scolded him and even pointed the hot metal poker on that student's neck.  This made Tenma stand and he said tot he teacher, "<i>You can't do that, it's too cruel. If you think this is education, I'll tell the principal and the Board of Education</i>." Those words scared the teacher away.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Weber was able to interview another friend of Tenma who was a commercial film director.  He described Tenma as a 'straight-A' student in his eighth and ninth grade.  Although being on the top of the class, he was not singled out and got along with everyone for the most part. When Weber asked him if he believes Dr. Tenma is a mas serial killer, he said it was because of this question that he is reluctant to agree in this interview. He firmly believed Dr. Tenma cannot be a murderer. But then again. people don't always stay the same, and because the German government treats it like it is a big deal, there's a possibility that it is true.  He also said he was not able to call Dr. Tenma and check on him because he himself is struggling whether or not to believe in Dr. Tenma's innocence. When asked about Tenma's preoccupations in middle school, he said Tenma was a good guitar player and even said that Tenma was multi-talented. Tenma, he says, was very quick on appreciating other people's abilities and belittles his own talents even though he has his own innate talents.  He also said that Dr. Tenma did not like being in a group altogether, thereby getting at a consensus with the previous interviewee's statement. When asked about the music Dr. Tenma liked, the film director said the he [Tenma], liked this one laid-back song he saw from the from Tokyo Music Festival on TV, but he forgot the title of the song.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1"><img data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22image%22%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BFile%3ADoktor%27s_friend.png%7Cthumb%7Cleft%7CSketch%20of%20Dr.%20Tenma%27s%20friend%2C%20who%20knew%20a%20lot%20about%20his%20family.%5D%5D%22%2C%22title%22%3A%22Doktor%27s_friend.png%22%2C%22params%22%3A%7B%22alt%22%3A%22Doktor%27s%20friend%22%2C%22thumbnail%22%3Atrue%2C%22align%22%3A%22left%22%2C%22caption%22%3A%22Sketch%20of%20Dr.%20Tenma%27s%20friend%2C%20who%20knew%20a%20lot%20about%20his%20family.%22%2C%22captionParsed%22%3A%22Sketch%20of%20Dr.%20Tenma%27s%20friend%2C%20who%20knew%20a%20lot%20about%20his%20family.%22%7D%7D" data-rte-instance="633396-15540127445efe27cddc75a" alt="" src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/obluda/images/e/ea/Doktor%27s_friend.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20130101083123" width="180" height="168" class="image thumb alignLeft withCaption" data-image-name="Doktor&#39;s friend.png" data-image-key="Doktor%27s_friend.png"  type="image" />The third person Weber had interviewed was one of Dr. Tenma's high school friends who was now a section chief of a large trading company.  He said he was friends with Dr. Tenma through high school, but after entering college, they kind of lost touch with each other because of Dr. Tenma's medical classes and him being at Law School enjoying his college life.  He firmly stated that he was one of the people in constant contact with Dr. Tenma before he moved to Germany.  When asked if he believed Dr. Tenma was guilty of the crimes pinned on him, he said he used to make a lot of jokes about it in front of their friends but deep inside he was worrying about him.  He said Tenma was introverted, with not much time on girls and lovelife.  After setting parties for him to know more women, no one interested him.  There was even a time when Tenma was asked by one of her friends about love problems.  That girl actually fell for Tenma, but Tenma did not reciprocate the girl's feelings and tried to uplift his male friend's image to that girl.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">When this friend of Dr. Tenma was asked if he knew anything why Dr. Tenma flew to Germany, his friend recounted these events: While Dr. Tenma had two older half brothers, his eldest brother, eight years older than him, had an inclination to the liberal arts and pursued an economic degree. This made their father hesitant to leave the family business to his eldest son as customary.  His father's second son was into medicine, but failed to pass the entrance exam in Kenzo's college.  He was able to enter another school however,  but its caliber and prestige was way below Kenzo's so their father was firm on his statement that Dr. Tenma should inherit their family business.  Dr. Tenma did not want to handle it, and he was afraid it will be forced on him.  Surprisingly his mother supported the idea that the second son should manage the business.  It can also be noted that Dr. Tenma's mother was very hard on him compared to the sons of his husband.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">When Dr. Tenma found Dr. <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Udo%20Heinemann%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Udo%20Heinemann%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BUdo%20Heinemann%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="633396-15540127445efe27cddc75a" href="/wiki/Udo_Heinemann" title="Udo Heinemann">Udo Heinemann</a>'s research on Alzheimer's disease, the young college man decided to fly to Germany, to study under the tutelage of the said researcher and also, to escape his father's strong grasp on him. Of course this made his father angry, said Dr. Tenma's friend, but Dr. Tenma did not request for any money and spent his scholarship fund during the length of his studies in Düsseldorf University. Dr. Tenma went to a language school for about a year and then went off to enrolling for medical school.  He had exemplary marks on his studies and found employment in <a data-rte-meta="%7B%22type%22%3A%22internal%22%2C%22text%22%3A%22Eisler%20Memorial%20Hospital%22%2C%22link%22%3A%22Eisler%20Memorial%20Hospital%22%2C%22wasblank%22%3Atrue%2C%22noforce%22%3Atrue%2C%22wikitext%22%3A%22%5B%5BEisler%20Memorial%20Hospital%5D%5D%22%7D" data-rte-instance="633396-15540127445efe27cddc75a" href="/wiki/Eisler_Memorial_Hospital" title="Eisler Memorial Hospital">Eisler Memorial Hospital</a>.  He later learned that Dr. Heinemann's researches were not actually written by him, but by his teaching assistants. Dr. Tenma feared that he might become one of them.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Dr. Tenma, is one of the few people who possessed the traits of a good surgeon: careful judgment and inst decision-making.
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