Dressed in an outfit straight out of a men’s magazine fashion column with a caption like “Middle-Aged Playboy Essentials,” Kyoichi explained that he frequently visited Tokyo for business meetings. In fact, later on he would be going to the Roppongi nightclub district to, as he put it, “catch up with an old friend,” and Kido was shocked by the lewd overtones in the way he said this with a suggestive smile. Although the inn’s home page included a photograph of Kyoichi’s wife, describing her as the “Beautiful Proprietress,” Kido now wondered if Kyoichi kept a mistress from his Tokyo days—not that
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