The Complete Ring Trilogy by Koji Suzuki

Author:Koji Suzuki
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Soon after he’d encountered Mai’s corpse, Ando was notified of the death of Kazuyuki Asakawa. As Asakawa’s condition had deteriorated, he’d been transferred from Shinagawa Saisei Hospital to Shuwa University Hospital, but he’d died almost immediately. Ando had been notified about the change in Asakawa’s condition, but he hadn’t imagined the patient would go so quickly. According to the attending physician, the death came about as the result of an infection, and the patient had passed away peacefully, as if from old age. Asakawa had never regained consciousness after losing it in the accident.

Ando went to the Shuwa hospital and told the doctors in charge of the case to look out for something during the autopsy: a sarcoma blocking the coronary artery, a smallpox-like virus in the tumor. Ando figured these points were crucial in terms of forecasting the future. He made sure the attending physician understood the importance of the situation and then left.

As he walked back to the station, he felt renewed disappointment that Asakawa had never awoken. He’d possessed essential information, and he’d died having imparted it to no one. If only Ando knew what Asakawa knew, he’d have a much better idea what to expect. The future was maddeningly opaque now. Ando didn’t know what to prepare for.

The biggest thing worrying Ando right now was whether Asakawa’s death had been bad luck or a necessary outcome. The same question applied to Mai, for that matter. Both of them had wasted away and died after accidents—a traffic accident in Asakawa’s case, a fall in Mai’s. Their deaths seemed to have something in common. But Ando had no way of knowing if it had anything to do with their having watched the video.

As he walked, he suddenly realized that the building where Mai’s body had been found was not far from the hospital he’d just left. He’d been wondering why she had chosen to climb to the roof of a shabby old office building; now was his chance to have a look and maybe find out. He needed to go soon, before any of the evidence disappeared.

He decided to go back to Nakahara Street and catch a cab. He’d be there in ten minutes.

After stopping once on the way to buy some flowers, Ando had the taxi let him off in front of a warehouse belonging to a shipping company. All he’d been told at the M.E.’s office was the name of the company and the instruction that the building was to be found to the south of the warehouse; he didn’t know the name of the building itself.

Standing on the sidewalk, he stared south at a building. There was no mistaking it. It had fourteen stories, and an exposed staircase spiraled up the narrow space between its outer wall and the warehouse.

Ando moved toward the front door and then stopped. He walked around to the outside staircase. He thought he’d try to figure out how Mai had gone up. She could have taken the elevator to the

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