sickly red. Picking up  lifeless feel of  once strange and curiously familiar, o to takaakaurned around, nodded tole boy smiling beionless eyes. ohe shiny black surface. Zen.

    “Order Sato and Miyagi back to tokyo immediately. If t incompetent fool  a distant relation, I would akahashi said.

    “Yes, oyabun.” time to question the oyabun’s decisions.

    “No ively involved  afford a political scandal. e  t.”

    “Yes, sir.”

    “And Yamamoto’s killer?”

    “e found out edly under t command of Major-general ang of tment, oyabun.”

    “the Chinese are declaring war on us?”

    “Yamamoto ’s all related to the consoles.”

    “t o be t w now.”

    “e kno already, oyabun. t communication  rip to Shanghai.”

    “Sokyo, I  you to personally go o Shanghai.”

    “S of Japan.”

    “ Major-general ang dead. Do you understand? I don’t care if Sato or Miyagi lose t.”

    “Yes oyabun.”

    “e’ll take care of tokyo.”

    “I see.”

    “And hirayama?”

    “Oyabun?”

    “If you fail, you are no longer welcome in Japan.”

    tub of ainly conspiring against ly to  one day Nobu takaion.