Chapter 30Sakaguchi already had the door open as Ueno pulled to a stop in Shin-Okubo. Always spare with words, Sakaguchi fumed in total silence in the car from Higa’s murder site. Before Hiroshi could say a word, he was stomping down the alley toward Kim’s Korean restaurant—the only place open along the emptied-out street, its shops shuttered and the food smells long gone in the night air.
Osaki and Sugamo ran to catch him before Sakaguchi tried to bust in on his own to the fortified seclusion where Takamatsu had delivered the sword. Hiroshi slowed his pace to watch behind for Takamatsu, pulling his coat tight around him against the cold wind blowing from both directions.
Ueno caught up with Hiroshi, both of them waiting for Takamatsu, who finally hopped out of a taxi to join them. Hiros
