Chapter 45The five-man wall blocking Hiroshi and Sakaguchi’s exit wore sunglasses and dressed in black, jackets, shirts, and pants.
Hiroshi reached for his badge, but the three men in front mirrored him by reaching into their jackets, so that Hiroshi put his hand back down.
“We don’t need to see your badges,” said a shorter guy standing behind the front line. “We know you’re cops.”
“You’ll want to answer our questions then,” Hiroshi said.
“Someone will, but not us,” the shorter guy said. “Upstairs.”
The men stepped forward, and Hiroshi and Sakaguchi stepped backwards to squeeze onto the elevator. There was nothing for Hiroshi and Sakaguchi to do but see what these men would do. The short guy slipped around the door and put a key in the button panel and pressed the top button. The othe
