Chapter XV
Three Transubstantiations
“These koi fish are lovely,” said the white woman. “I saw them at the Met Annex.”
A fifty-year-old Japanese man who was clothed in yellow and blue familial robes replied, “Nishikigoi is the correct name for these fish.” Junichi Daisuke (like most people) disliked reporters. “Koi just means carp. These are not ordinary carp.”
“Nishikigoi,” repeated the woman, with an accent that he found laughable. “Is that correct?”
The Japanese man walked away from the reporter and circled the elephantine aquarium—a ten-meter-in-diameter glass tank that was suspended in the air by micron wire and filled with filtered water. This immaculate vessel was to serve as the central backdrop for Derrick W.R. Dulande’s resurrection speech.
The frown on Junichi Daisuke’s fa
