The pharmacist’s assistant sells the girl with the dark glasses eye drops for her infection, clumsily hitting on her in the process, and later turns up blind in the hospital. During the middle portion of the novel, he enthusiastically supports the ward’s efforts to try and win power back from the thugs. After the doctor’s wife kills the thugs’ armed leader, the pharmacist’s assistant participates in the internees’ attempt to raid the thugs’ ward. However, the blind accountant fires indiscriminately and kills the pharmacist’s assistant in the process. His corpse is consumed in the fire that destroys the hospital.