Chapter 13When they got Mayu’s father, Kazuki Yamase, back to the station for interrogation, Sakaguchi sent Sugamo and Osaki home. They didn’t even pretend to argue, tired from running. Fortunately Yamase had not put up any fight. They had surrounded him in the alley and walked him back to the car without incident. Sugamo and Osaki apologized to Takamatsu and Hiroshi before heading home to their families and sleep.
As they waited outside the interrogation rooms for Yamase to get through booking, they saw the chief coming down the hallway. Takamatsu skipped away to the official smoking area, but Hiroshi was too slow to escape, and Sakaguchi’s knee gave him no hope of fleeing.
The chief walked up and put his hands on his hips. “We have the corpse of one of the most accomplished businessmen
