Chapter 39Sakaguchi took two steps after Nakata, then doubled over. He’d stepped wrong on his knee. Hiroshi took off after Nakata down the hallway.
The younger detectives, unsure what to do, stood watching. Takamatsu told Sugamo to go to the front door and Osaki to pull the stop on one of the elevators and take the other to the roof with the young detectives.
Takamatsu found Hiroshi hunkered down behind a car just outside the parking lot door and frowned. Hiroshi waved him down out of sight. “Nakata was heading for that door on the other side of the lot.”
“The one that goes into the underground storage area?”
“Where Chizu took us.”
“There were a dozen tunnels in there.”
“Each with a locked door.”
“I’ll call Imasato,” Takamatsu said.
“Do you think he has the keys?”
“He better. Did
