‘Maybe if I retire now,’ Nanao says into his phone, ‘I’ll become a legend too.’ ‘Oh sure,’ Maria shoots back, ‘you’ll go down in history as the man who couldn’t get off the train at Ueno Station.’ ‘I’ll be getting off at Omiya.’ ‘Good idea. That way they won’t call you the man who couldn’t get off the train at Omiya.’ Nanao hangs up and goes back to his original seat in car four.
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