Chapter 113 - The Shibuya Nest

​The dawn over Tokyo brought neither the damp gloom nor the suffocating drizzle that had stalled in Paris; instead, the Japanese capital welcomed them with a clear sky of a gélido, clean, and piercing blue that filtered with geometric force through the massive windows of the Shibuya high-performance clinic. The medical complex, a state-of-the-art bunker reserved exclusively for elite athletes of the national delegation and the country's Olympic projects, operated with a silent, almost robotic focus that contrasted radically with the acoustic chaos and wear and tear breathed in the terminals of the Old Continent. The scent of ozone, sterilized canvas, brewed coffee, and ultrasound conducting gels dominated the atmosphere of the third-floor evaluation cubicle. There, high-definition digital monitors looped the three-dimensional sequences of the scans obtained barely an hour ago.