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The phone was ringing. The hands on his alarm clock showed 2: 04. Monday, 2: 04 a.m. It was still dark out and Tengo had been sound asleep. A peaceful, dreamless sleep.
First he thought it was Fuka-Eri. She would be the only person who would possibly call at this ungodly hour. Or it could be Komatsu. Komatsu didn't have much common sense when it came to time. But somehow the ring didn't sound like Komatsu. It was more insistent, and businesslike. And besides, he had just seen Komatsu a few hours earlier.