Synopsis

He pieced it together with painstaking care. Takagi had sought her out, his mentor’s lost love, only to find a silence that echoed with absence. She had believed Date had abandoned her, and in that despair, ended her own life. The old English teacher, a man consumed by a cruel mistake, had mistaken one Wataru for another, and then, in a twisted act of retribution, blamed Takagi for the woman’s demise. Before Sato could learn where Takagi had been, the old man, poisoned by the wine he drank, brea