General Riyo Takagi smiled at Admiral Nobu Nagano. The latter lay in his hospital bed, a bandage around his head. “I thought I"d lost you, old friend.” Riyo said.
“Eh, Riyo-san? What are you talking about? It"ll take more than six assassins to kill me!”
The two of them laughed, both knowing this a bit of bravado. “Too bad she died in the attack, eh? What a fighter!”
“Nearly killed "em all, I heard. Just one got away, left a trail of blood, stole that yacht, and evaded all the security. Who was it, eh? Who tried to kill me?”
Riyo shook his head. “We don"t know, Nobu-San. Not like the Yakuza to assassinate someone in your position, eh? There"s a couple of sects we"re investigating, but listen, Nobu-San, what if it was some foreign agent or agency?”
“Foreign? You mean the Iberians? Like
