Chapter 26Outside the Korean restaurant, Hiroshi kept dialing Jamie. Where was she? Did her cellphone and Setsuko’s both need recharging? He called the coffee shop, but the shift had changed and the staff had no idea. Sakaguchi insisted—over all his protests—that Hiroshi back up Takamatsu in Shin-Okubo, so he had come. Hiroshi wanted to go look for the two women. Ueno wouldn’t answer his cell either.
Hiroshi’s fingers felt stiff from the cold and he needed a new winter coat. The last one he bought was years ago, and since he’d been inside all winter, he didn’t even know where his sweaters were—probably in a storage box somewhere. He kept moving around the small lane while Takamatsu took his time inside. Sakaguchi fingered through a bin of video games, looking up from time to time at the d
