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Haruki exhaled feeling exasperated. He could feel the heat rising. He wondered what all those performance was for. Hiroshi hadn't been this way when they met during Ren's funeral. He had agreed to kill Aiichiro.
Remembering that, Haruki stopped in his tracks. Was all that that happened Hiroshi's doing? Did Hiroshi succeed as he claimed? That day, he had been too engrossed in his thoughts to believe Hiroshi.
He went late as Hiroshi wanted and Aiichiro had collapsed in front of him. It hadn't been announced on the news yet, and Kiyoshi hadn't returned with the report he asked for.
He wanted to but he couldn't call Aiichiro's assistant. The man had released Kataro meaning he had a reason to. Whatever the reason was, he knew the only person who truly knew what happened to Aiichiro was his assistant and his doctor.
