Chapter 42Hiroshi stood at the bottom of the stairs outside the factory building and pressed the doorbell. He heard a faint clonk upstairs. He pressed the doorbell again as Sakaguchi pulled at the large rolling doors into the workroom to no effect, hammering on the metal so the sound echoed back from inside.
Hiroshi went around the side of the building, but his way was blocked by metal drums full of discarded parts and an unplugged vending machine leaning just sideways.
Hiroshi walked back to the front and glanced over at Ueno and Osaki waiting by the car parked on the other side of the small canal. Kudzu grasped at frayed canvas awnings and clung to signs lettered in chipped paint. It coiled up and over the sides of the abandoned buildings, windows taped up or boarded over. Along the ro
