“Mr. Koduki, why it annoys you. You said you cannot be sure if you have met Sasaki before, did you?” I asked him for there was unexpectedly long pause.

“He sounded like I should have known him, That’s why I was annoyed. Well, as a human nature, you don’t remember minute detail unless you were interested in a certain thing in great degree, right? He accused me of my bad memory for I obsessed with malicious the fact that I have known him. And he concluded me being insincere. He said that in quite strong tone. That’s why it annoyed me.”

Mr. Koduki’s way of thinking is that if he had met Sasaki and known him a while, and the knowledge included Kanai was working for Sasaki, then Mr. Koduki became the person who had tried to cheat Sasaki instead. Mr. Koduki said that the whole scheme looked the other way around so that Mr. Koduki had tried to scout Kanai along with the business that Sasaki had been trying to grow, if Mr. Koduki had known Sasaki well.

“But, I believe why Sasaki said that was to put me under his control by . . . .well, by pulling me around or put me being at a loss. Being born in wealthy family, I am pretty obedient to the words. If someone gives me a question, I try to give answer and think hard. That’s been my nature, I won’t see sideways or twist the words.

” Let’s suppose I don’t know Sasaki. If that is the case, the situation is pretty same, isn’t it? Then I had to find out two answers to overcome his question, one for each status. I mean the case 1 is if I know Sasaki, and the other is that I don’t him.”

“Sasaki must have seen through me and sensed that I don’t face the reality. Then he calculated that I’d be trapped to doubt myself, doesn’t it?”

Mr Kouduki seems to has arrived this conclusion after a long thought. Because the next thing that had occurred was that Kanai had got cerebral infarction like committing suicide. Kanai was chased to the corner for not realizing a sale for Mr Koduki.