Chapter 41When Hiroshi got back to the car parked near the Diet building, he saw Ueno walking back from a convenience store with a plastic shopping bag. Even at a distance in the foggy morning, he could see the bag was full of onigiri rice balls and hot cans of tea. Hiroshi felt suddenly, immensely hungry. Ueno plopped the bag on the hood of the car and went back to the convenience store. He came out carrying three large instant noodle cups, steam rising from them into the humid air.
Hiroshi helped arrange them on the hood of the car and dug through the rice balls, pulled out his favorite flavor, salmon, and opened the layered plastic wrap. He stirred the boiled water in one of the noodle cups and bent the top back down to let it simmer, wrapping his hands around the cup to warm up.
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