The mountain dawn rose behind heavy pewter clouds, casting a cold, metallic light across the cedar valleys of Mount Fuji. Outside the Inaba shrine, the gravel courtyard was now lined with four armored black SUVs, their engines idling in a low, resonant purr. Uncle Kazuo stood on the veranda beside two elite clan doctors who had just finished checking Kenji's sutures. The head physician, an elderly man with graying hair…
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