[I don't have a drinking problem, drinking is how I cope with my Retrospec problem.]
Ah, that puzzle piece slips into place at last. So, it's something too important to the both of them, they're willing to overlook where the other one ended up in life. Or their friendship's too important. Or both. Get a cop working with a yakuza, and, actually more surprisingly, a yakuza working with a cop.
[Or their careers were themselves a means to an end. But Tatsuo
isn't ready to tell that particular tidbit just yet.]
Sort of. They know the person, or
persons, belongs to a group called the Gold Watch Syndicate. Bunch of
people who were given gold watches because they graduated at the top from
top schools in Japan. Is that a thing in our Japan, do you know?
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Ah, that puzzle piece slips into place at last. So, it's something too important to the both of them, they're willing to overlook where the other one ended up in life. Or their friendship's too important. Or both. Get a cop working with a yakuza, and, actually more surprisingly, a yakuza working with a cop.
Any clue who the someone is?
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[Or their careers were themselves a means to an end. But Tatsuo isn't ready to tell that particular tidbit just yet.]
Sort of. They know the person, or persons, belongs to a group called the Gold Watch Syndicate. Bunch of people who were given gold watches because they graduated at the top from top schools in Japan. Is that a thing in our Japan, do you know?