Chapter 31Once he got down to the underground exit of the building, Hiroshi took off at a sprint, slowing and sidestepping and speeding up to dodge people in the crowd. He swiped his train pass to get inside and headed for the Narita Airport Express platform down two flights of stairs, up an escalator, at the far end of a long platform.
He got there just as the doors opened and the alarm sounded for the brief few seconds it took to let on people and their luggage. He hopped on and the door slid shut.
Hiroshi waited for the conductor in the space between the cars, showed his badge, and got a ticket for a seat. The conductor carefully deducted 150 yen from his train pass and calculated the new fare on his handheld ticket machine.
Hiroshi called Akiko.
“Can you find the number for the Nar
