I
learned about The Mahjong Queen only when I finally decided to see Luisito again, over a decade since I escaped the deaths on his mountain. And that was four years after Dr. Kazuko Ozawa began communicating with me soon after Dr. Cesar met a terrible accident in Kumamoto.
With Luisito orphaned once again, I became concerned that he would think himself responsible for his adopted father’s demise.
The boy was inconsolable, per Dr. Ozawa’s letters. She didn’t stint on feeding me everything she knew, or had. Even Cesar’s thick journals arrived by Fed-Ex, unread by her, she said, as they might be private. She had no interest in finding out what he had written about her, especially since they had had a romantic relationship.
I could look them over, for I was a journalist, presumed to be ob
