Chapter 28Outside the station, Hiroshi read the LINE message from Chizu again and pulled his coat tight against the cold. The sun had set and the wind had stopped, but the cold came on harder. Takamatsu stepped out from the front door without a word and lit a cigarette, nodding to some detectives coming in. He seemed to know everyone and Hiroshi, with his office in the annex, felt like he knew almost no one.
“The woman from HR at Senden, Chizu, texted.”
“Is that where we’re going?”
“She called from the toilet, so she—”
“From the toilet?” Takamatsu nodded at detectives going home for the night.
“The only safe place in a company for women to call from. She wants to meet, but wasn’t sure when.”
Takamatsu blew his smoke up high into the air.
“She found out something about Mayu.”
“But w
