I will fucking kill him.
“Why does my Tiger think he’s suspicious?” I narrowed my eyes. “Did he say something to her?”
“No. He looked at her. Twice.”
“That’s it?”
“She said it was the way he did it.” Reo shrugged. “She believed he was hiding something so. . .I had some Scales grab him.”
“Just based off of that?”
“I trust your Tiger a lot more than most, and the fact that we both found him suspicious was enough for me to put him in your special torture cell below the house.”
I nodded and headed off. “Good. We’ll deal with him tomorrow. Do you think he’ll talk?”
“I’m hoping he will. I left a few bodies from your and Hiro’s work in the bamboo room to keep him company.”
“You put the other traitors’ corpses in the cell with him?”
“I believe the decor will give him a lot to think about.”
“It may.”
“Also. . .speaking of bodies. . .I have narrowed down the serial killer in Tokyo to two people.”
Along with the pressure in my chest, I could feel a headache coming. “I keep forgetting about Mr. Slice-off-women’s-feet-man.”
“Yeah. Well. . .Ali and I have not forgotten. I’m actually sending Ali back to Tokyo later this evening to get a closer look at the two suspects.”
“Have him take Scales.”
“I will, and none will be from the eastern side of the island. It will only be the most trusted that fly back with him.”
“They can’t get caught by my father’s men.”
“They won’t. Besides. . .Ali has been instructed to kill our Scales if they are caught.” Reo appeared tense as he said it. “And. . .Ali said he would kill himself.”
That couldn’t happen. While I didn’t care much for Ali, Reo loved him a lot and saw him as a brother.
“No.” I shook my head. “Send triple the men. The only people that die if the Fox’s men come around, is them. Not our side. No sacrifices.”
“I didn’t want to use up too many Scales for this mission—”
“You need Ali by your side in this war, which means I need Ali alive. Send triple the men.”
Reo let out a relieved breath and then slowly nodded. “Okay.”
I considered Nyomi and that whisper to Reo.
Tora. . .how did you figure out the guard was suspicious? Was it really just a look?
The pressure band around my chest yanked another hole tighter at the thought of her name within the context of a dangerous traitor.
You keep surprising me, Tora.
She didn’t grow up in this world, knew nothing of our rules. However, she’d been able to help me catch Watari and now Oguri.
We continued toward the stairs.
