Chapter 16

The hours passed, the evening twilight began, the cold winter wind was coming through the window of the bedroom Naomi was using, Tatsuo was sitting on the bed, staring into the void, when suddenly his mind made him remember the past. But precisely how it all began.

The Seijinshiki ceremony, in which Tatsuo celebrated his 20th birthday, was also a date chosen to commemorate the agreement reached between the Mori family and the Zhao family to form a partnership to buy, sell and export drugs and weapons for military use that would be smuggled to South Asia, Southeast Asia and also to Canada and Europe as new investments.