The clerk set the seal down beside his inkstone and smiled, saying there's a way to close this with no trouble after. Outside the window, a fox's shadow sat on the power line, listening to every word of it.

• Shiranui AzusaOne stamp from you, Priest, and my work's cut in half.
  Sakaki GennoshinThen you also know that half is worth one person's life.
• Horie TatsuoJust give me that clerk's name. One line in the paper and the seal goes right back in the drawer.
  Akagi JinHave you considered, reporter, whose neck that one line might end up around?