The relationship between the fake doctor and Nǎi Nai

The relationship between the fake doctor and Nana was both intimate and professional, formed around a medical practice conducted under the Army Medical Captain’s identity. Nana assisted with nursing and managed the accounts, while the fake doctor performed the medical work. Their household arrangement later changed, but their financial and managerial connection continued.

Shared Life and Work

During the war, the fake doctor served as a medical corpsman and worked with the Army Medical Captain. After demobilization, they opened a clinic together: the fake doctor assisted in its management and practice as the captain’s condition worsened. Nana, originally the captain’s legal wife, lived with the fake doctor as his common-law wife, with the captain’s understanding and approval. She helped him in his work as a nurse and was responsible for the accounts.

The fake doctor described the relationship as initially free of conspicuous discord. Their shared work and domestic life were interwoven with the clinic’s operation: the fake doctor practiced medicine using the captain’s identity, while Nana handled the finances. In his account, this arrangement did not begin as a simple transfer of the captain’s professional role; it also depended on Nana’s continuing practical contribution and the household’s cooperation.

Separation and Continued Partnership

The arrangement changed when the fake doctor hired Toyama Yoko as a new apprentice nurse. Nana was unhappy about the appointment and proposed that she and the fake doctor live apart. He agreed, and they had been living separately by the time of his affidavit. The testimony presents the new hire as the immediate cause of the separation, though it does not describe the couple’s private discussions beyond Nana’s proposal and his agreement.

Living apart did not end their financial and managerial relationship. The fake doctor said that he continued to report all revenues and expenditures to Nana and to recognize her rights as co-manager. Her role therefore persisted in the clinic’s administration even after their domestic arrangement had changed. The account gives no indication that she relinquished her financial stake or responsibility.

The Captain’s Identity and Nana’s Role

Nana also had a part in the transition that made the fake doctor’s use of the Army Medical Captain’s identity more formal. As the captain’s mental state deteriorated and his public appearances became a source of concern, Nana suggested that he stop attending outside events and that the fake doctor register himself as the captain. The fake doctor reported that the captain agreed and that, despite formal adjustments, the clinic’s actual operation remained much the same.

This decision tied Nana’s relationship with the fake doctor to the practice’s central deception: she was not only his common-law partner and the person overseeing its accounts, but also a participant in the arrangement by which he took over the public identity under which the clinic operated. The evidence establishes her suggestion and the fake doctor’s registration, while leaving her precise motives beyond the stated concern about the captain’s condition unspecified.

A Relationship Reported Through Testimony

The relationship is reconstructed primarily through the fake doctor’s retrospective affidavit, in which he explains the clinic, his domestic arrangements, and the separation. His account acknowledges that Nana and he became intimate only after she had initially been the captain’s wife and accounts manager; it also says that the captain had feared the fake doctor would leave and used pressure on Nana to encourage a bond between them. The testimony thus presents their partnership as developing within a strained household and a shared medical enterprise, rather than as a relationship detached from the captain’s dependence on the fake doctor.

By the time of the affidavit, Nana had opened a piano school and was teaching students in the city. The fake doctor cited this change in her circumstances while affirming that he still reported the clinic’s finances to her and recognized her co-manager rights. Their relationship had shifted from living together to separate households, but remained bound to the practice through continued accounting and acknowledged management.