May 27 (Part 4 of 8)

Sakura

May 27, 5:25 pm, Tokyo, Japan

Katsuo was silent during the entire train ride.

After escaping the hospital, Sakura realized that police were keeping an eye on the rental car. While it would have been easy to disguise the fact that they had taken it away, it would be better in the long run to simply ditch the car. After all, the police now had the plates and model and make. Taking it with them would be like lighting a flare signal that only attracted police.

"Where should we go?" Sakura had asked Katsuo once they had reached the station. "Your place or mine?"

"It's real," Katsuo had muttered, looking at Sakura like she was some kind of two-headed ghost. "You...were blessed by kami?"

"Maybe. I dunno," she said truthfully. "But it was the closest answer I could get."

Katsuo just didn't respond to any questions after that. He simply stared ahead, in a daze.