Chapter 12Hiroshi grabbed a taxi outside the club and called Sakaguchi back.
“How did you find him?” Hiroshi asked.
“When will you get here?” Sakaguchi asked.
“Fifteen minutes, if we can get past the traffic around the station.” He showed the driver his badge and told him to hurry.
He regretted the whiskey, but it was too late now. He called Ayana to tell her he would be late. He leaned back and watched the bright lights of Shinjuku turn to crustier, darker streets toward Nakano, trying to imagine what Mayu went through and what her family and friends and colleagues must have felt. Everyone struggles to go on after a death, but not everyone struggles for revenge. When he lost his parents during college, he learned the world can’t be reset, but that didn’t stop him thinking about it.
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