✦Saki meets an amnesiac Japanese man outside the White House carrying a gun and a phone holding 8.2 billion yen in digital cash.
Synopsis
Saki Morimi is visiting Washington on her graduation trip when she gets into trouble outside the White House. A fellow Japanese traveler intervenes. He is naked, carrying a gun, and unable to remember who he is. His other possession is a phone loaded with 8.2 billion yen in digital cash. International travel guidance did not cover this encounter.
Ten unexplained missiles struck Japan three months before Saki's graduation trip. In Washington, she meets Akira Takizawa outside the White House under stranger circumstances. He has no memory or clothes, but carries a gun and a phone holding 8.2 billion yen. The public mystery and the private one begin close together.
Saki is on a graduation trip when a naked Japanese stranger steps into trouble outside the White House. He has no memory, one gun, and a phone holding 8.2 billion yen. What an absurdly precise bundle of questions. The earlier unexplained missile strike over Japan gives the meeting a darker edge without draining the opening of its strange, playful energy.
An amnesiac stranger is a familiar invitation to withhold answers. Eden of the East gives the device unusually concrete baggage. Akira is naked outside the White House with a gun and billions in digital cash, while Saki has arrived after an unexplained attack on Japan. The details are strong enough to make the mystery feel designed rather than merely delayed.