Kanou-sama is his check-in guy. Part of me is curious whether that's actually someone back in Tokyo or someone with really good connections and understanding with the ODA getting him to spill.
Interesting note. The operator asked to connect Kanou first, but directly connected Ooishi. Probably nothing but Ooishi being locally known.
The mahjong parlor we've seen in TIPS before! Did not expect games club with Aka and Ooi.
Who's the new narrator? It's not Akasaka, and not Ooishi. Informant, or middle aged man? There's a Sato amongst them. Or maybe we are Ooishi. I don't understand Mahjong (or Bridge) at all, but I like how whenever a main character is actually being competent, we switch focus away from them.
Old man = Dam Foreman; can't stand Sonozaki's daughter (Mion? Shion?) - Infor Man(t) = Sato
Oryou Sonozaki = Empress, head of Sonozaki clan and decision-maker. Mion worthy to succeed Oryou. Mayor Kiichirou Kimiyoshi and his family attending, Rika's priest father and mother and her attending. The Sonozakis attending were like a giant snake coiled about the room.
Mion with some strong authority. Her father married into the family and has Shishibone under underground control. Sato saying that the Sonozaki's know about the kidnapping is huge news.
They know about a Public Safety person sent all the way from Tokyo?! Wait, so, did this meeting happen yesterday? Is this the Rika warning Akasaka, because she was in that meeting and already knows? Is that why they were fishing for information, especially if he was from Tokyo? Yup, yesterday. So Rika was a trap laid for Akasaka at the dropoff point, and the bus likely had more than a few people on watch for him.
...Holy ****, a choice? In one of these games?! Oh, oh no. Red or blue?!? The other box will disappear and I won't get to see it. Ahhhh~ The red truth it is! That was a really good, introspective tip on the power and finality of choice-making. Wish I made better decisions in life, and didn't choose 'open neither box' so often.
Mion calling her father to take out the grandson or to release?
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