The interrogation room smelled of old concrete. Suginami Branch, Metropolitan Police Department——a ten-minute walk from Ogikubo Station, a reinforced concrete three-story building next to the ward office. Special security units had been dispatched from headquarters for Olympic security, and the entire building carried a heavier atmosphere than usual. At eight in the morning, Seiichi sat in a chair in that interrogation room. Sitting across the desk was a man in his fifties. Black-rimmed glasses, black hair arranged with bureaucratic precision, a flat voice drained of emotion. A Defeated Nation Citizen Administrator——an internal affairs ministry position that supervised those from former enemy nations under the Resident Enemy Alien Control Law, enacted in 1951——introducing himself as Hotta. "[cold]Jack O'Brien. Antiquarian bookstore owner in Kabukicho, Shinjuku. A resident foreign national from the former United States. We have witness testimony that you conducted monetary transactio