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Originally Posted by jjblue1
While he's at the hospital someone (a nurse, a doctor who sees in him his long lost son, whatever) could have grown fond with him, taken him home and help him to find a job and then he could grow engrossed in the Rokkenjima mystery anyway and write novels about it just the same.
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No offense, but that is basically the same thing that happened with Ikuko, only with a local deferment and a bridge-character being inserted into the plot. Be it a doctor or a nurse, people would be asking the very same questions of, why would she risk her job to help him, why is that person infatuated with Battler in the first place. Making them see a lost family member in Battler would actually spark more "that person is actually Ushiromiya XXX" theories.
On the other hand Battler being disassociated from Battler was necessary for dramatic tension to build around his very fate. Thus amnesia is the only logical conclusion unless you write a reasonable explanation for him avoiding his other surviving family members.