Chapter 20

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌⁠Dr. Kenji Asano gazed out the window of his office at the Institute, the last shafts of sun casting long shadows in the canyons below. It was late Tuesday afternoon, and gales of December wind tunneled around the skyscrapers of Tokyo, chilling the gray steel and glass. The blank computer screens reflected back his smooth, trim face, his glum eyes. Technology. It was divorcing man from all sensibil