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Shouts of karaoke club barkers. Motorcycle engines roaring. Three young men sit on the pavement outside a shuttered shop doing nothing in particular. The shutter is covered with spray-painted graffiti. Bet I threw you for a loop. Looks heavy," Kaoru says. From the brightly lighted avenue they turn into a narrow lane and head uphill.

Kaoru walks quickly and Mari hurries to keep pace with her. They climb a gloomy, deserted stairway and come out to a different street. The stairs seem to be a short cut between the two streets.

Several snack bars on this street still have their signs lighted, but none of them suggests a human presence. For couples. By the hour. See the neon sign, 'Alphaville'? That's it. It's okay. I'm the manager. It's kinda hard to explain. In the basement. His band's practising all night. Students have it easy. Guests at this hotel choose their room from large photos on display in the foyer, press the corresponding numbered button, receive their key, and take the lift straight to the room.

No need to meet or talk to anyone. Room charges come in two types: "rest" and "overnight. Mari takes in all these new sights. Kaoru says a quiet hello to the woman at the reception desk at the back. Then she says to Mari, "You've probably never been in a place like this before.

Down a short, narrow corridor they come to a door numbered A young woman with hair dyed a bright red nervously pokes her head out. She is thin and pale. She wears an oversized pink T-shirt and jeans with holes. Large earrings hang from her pierced ears. I was going crazy. I used a ton of paper towels, though.

Besides the redhaired woman there is another employee in the room, a small woman who wears her hair up and is mopping the floor. Kaoru does a quick introduction. The one who can speak Chinese. The redhead here is Komugi. Yeah, I know it sounds like 'Wheat,' but it's the name her parents gave her, so what're ya gonna do? She's been working for me for ever. Now, that's not her real name. You'll have to ask her why she wants to be known as 'Cricket. Crouching on the floor in one corner is a naked woman in a bath towel.

She hides her face in her hands and cries soundlessly. Bloodsoaked towels lie on the floor. The bedsheets are also bloody. A floor lamp lies where it was knocked down. On the table is a half-empty bottle of beer and one glass. The TV is on and tuned to a comedy show. The audience laughs. Kaoru picks up the remote and switches it off. Her customer. She's a prostitute? Like they fight over the money, or the guy wants some perverted stuff or something.

I can't call the cops, though. She's probably an illegal alien, and I don't have time to go and testify every time something like this comes up. She kneels down and speaks to her in Chinese: "Ni zenme le?

The woman may not have heard her. She doesn't answer. Shoulders quaking, she sobs uncontrollably. Kaoru shakes her head. I bet he really hurt her. Still the woman does not answer.

The woman finally nods. Her long black hair trembles. Mari continues speaking, quietly but persistently, to the woman.

She asks the same question several times. Kaoru folds her arms and watches their interaction with a worried look. Komugi and Korogi, meanwhile, share the clean-up duties. They gather the bloody paper towels and stuff them in a vinyl trash bag. They strip the bed and put fresh towels in the bathroom.

They raise the lamp from the floor and take away the beer bottle and glass. They check replaceable items and clean the bathroom. The two are obviously accustomed to working together. Their movements are smooth and economical. Mari goes on kneeling in the corner, speaking to the woman, who seems to have calmed down somewhat at the sound of the familiar language. Haltingly, she explains the situation to Mari in Chinese. Her voice is so faint, Mari has to lean close to her in order to hear.

She listens intently, nodding. Now and then she says a phrase or two as if to encourage the woman. Kaoru gives Mari's shoulder a little tap from behind. We're gonna take her to the office downstairs.

Come along, okay? She says he took everything she had on. Shoes, underwear, everything. What a bastard! Mari quickly averts her gaze. The woman's body is small but beautiful: wellshaped breasts, smooth skin, a shadowy hint of pubic hair. She is probably the same age as Mari, her build still girlish. Her steps are uncertain. Kaoru puts a supporting arm around her shoulders and leads her from the room.

They take a service lift down, Mari following with her bag. Komugi and Korogi stay behind to clean the room. T he three women enter the hotel office. Cardboard cartons are piled along the walls. One steel desk and a simple reception area with couch and armchair.

On the desk are a computer keyboard and a glowing liquid crystal monitor. On the walls hang a calendar, a framed piece of pop calligraphy by Mitsuo Aida, and an electric clock. There is a portable TV, and on top of a small refrigerator stands a microwave oven.

The room feels cramped with three people in it. Kaoru guides the bathrobed Chinese prostitute to the couch. The woman seems cold as she clutches at the bathrobe, drawing it closed. Kaoru aims the light of the floor lamp at the prostitute's face and examines her wounds more closely. She brings over a first-aid kit and carefully wipes away the dried blood with alcohol and cotton wool swabs. She puts BandAids on the cuts. She feels the woman's nose to see if it is broken. She lifts her eyelids and checks to see how badly bloodshot the eyes are.

She runs her fingers over the woman's head, feeling for bumps. She performs these tasks with amazing deftness, as if she does them all the time. She takes some kind of cold pack from the refrigerator, wraps it in a small towel, and hands it to the woman. The woman nods and presses the cold pack under her eyes.

Kaoru turns to Mari and says, "That was some pretty spectacular bleeding, but it was mostly from the nose. Luckily, she doesn't have any big wounds, no bumps on her head, and I don't think her nose is broken.

She's cut at the corner of her eye and on the lip, but nothing that needs stitches. She'll probably be out of business for a week with black eyes. He just threw a lot of wild punches. I'll bet his hands are killing him now, the bastard.

He swung so hard he dented the wall in a few places. He really lost it. He didn't know what he was doing. Mari says, "She told me he took everything—her handbag, her money, her cellphone. I mean…her, uh, period started all of a sudden before they could do anything. It was early. So he got mad a n d … " "Well, she couldn't help it," says Komugi.

Go and finish cleaning Sorry," Komugi says and leaves the office. I wanna say, 'What are we—a chemist's? She's not goin' anywhere like this. They can't be laundered, but let her put on a pair. We don't want her to have any draughts down there making her nervous.

Don't worry, they're clean. She doesn't have to give them back. All I've got is rubber flip-flops for her feet, but that'll be better than nothing. Kaoru opens a cabinet and takes out a few sanitary napkins. She hands them to the prostitute. You can change in that bathroom. The prostitute nods and thanks her in Japanese: "Arigato. Kaoru lowers herself into the desk chair, shakes her head slowly, and says, "You never know what's gonna happen in this business. Judging from her dialect, she's from the north.

I suppose somebody's gonna come and pick her up. They sneak women in by boat from the mainland and make them pay for it with their bodies. They take phone orders and deliver the women to hotels on motorcycles—hot 'n' fresh, like pizza. They're one of our best clients. I was a professional wrestler a long time, and we used to do these national tours, so I got to know a few yakuza. Let me tell you, compared to these Chinese gangsters, Japanese yakuza are sweethearts. I mean, you never know what's coming with them.

But this kid's got no choice: if she doesn't go back to them, she's got no place to go. With her face looking like that, it'll be a while before she can have any customers, and she's worthless to them if she can't make money.

She's a pretty thing, though. The top has an Adidas logo on the chest. The bruises remain distinct on the woman's face, but her hair is now more neatly combed. Even in this well-worn outfit and with her lips swollen and face bruised, she is a beautiful woman. Kaoru asks her in Japanese, "I'll bet you want to use the phone, right?

The prostitute answers in fragmented Japanese. She presses the buttons and, speaking softly in Chinese, she makes a report to the person on the other end, who responds with an angry outburst. She gives a short answer and hangs up. With a grim expression, she hands the phone back to Kaoru. The prostitute thanks Kaoru in Japanese: "Domo arigato. Right away. Mari explains to Kaoru: "I think they're coming to get her now. Usually the man pays, but this particular son-of-a-bitch left without paying.

He owes us for a beer, too. She pours the tea into three cups and hands one to the Chinese prostitute. The woman thanks her and takes a drink. The hot tea hurts her cut lip. She takes one sip and furrows her brow. Kaoru drinks some tea and says to the prostitute in Japanese, "But it's hard for you, isn't it? You come all the way from China, sneak into Japan, and you end up with those goons sucking the life outta you. I don't know what it was like for you back home, but you probably would've been better off not coming here, don't you think?

I'm just talking to myself. Jiao shenme mingzi? What's your name? The prostitute hesitates a moment and answers, "Guo Dongli. Mari offers the woman a little smile—her first since midnight. The man driving it wears a full-face helmet. He leaves the engine running as though he wants to be ready to get out fast if he has to. He wears a tight-fitting black leather jacket and blue jeans. High-top basketball shoes. Thick gloves.

The man takes off his helmet and sets it on the petrol tank. After a careful scan of his surroundings, he takes off one glove, pulls a cellphone from his pocket, and punches in a number. He is around thirty. Reddish dyed hair, ponytail. Broad forehead, sunken cheeks, sharp eyes. After a short conversation, the man hangs up and puts the phone back into his pocket.

He pulls his glove back on and waits. Soon Kaoru, the prostitute, and Mari step outside. Rubber sandals flapping, the prostitute drags herself towards the motorcycle. The temperature has fallen, and she seems cold in her jersey outfit. The motorcycle man barks something at the prostitute, who responds softly.

Kaoru says to the motorcycle man, "Ya know, fella, I still haven't been paid for my hotel room. The john pays. She clears her throat. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. That's how we do business. This has been a drag for us, too. I mean, this was a case of assault with bodily injury. We could've called the cops. But then you guys would've had a little explaining to do, right?

So just pay us our sixty- eight hundred yen and we'll be satisfied. Call it even. He looks up at the neon sign: Alphaville. He takes off a glove again, pulls a leather billfold from his jacket pocket, counts out seven thousand-yen bills, and lets them drop to his feet. There is no wind: the bills lie flat on the ground. The man puts his glove back on. He raises his arm and looks at his watch.

He performs each movement with unnatural slowness. He is clearly in no hurry. He seems to be trying to impress the three women with the sheer weight of his presence. He can take as much time as he likes for anything. All the while, the motorcycle engine keeps up its deep rumbling, like a skittish animal. A deep silence reigns for a time. Arms folded, Kaoru keeps her eyes locked on the man's face.

Her own face marked with cuts, the prostitute looks uneasily from one to the other, unable to comprehend their give-and-take. Eventually the man picks up his helmet, slips it on, beckons to the woman, and seats her on his motorcycle. She holds on to his jacket with both hands. Turning, she looks back at Mari and at Kaoru. Then she looks at Mari again. She seems to want to speak but finally says nothing. The man gives the pedal a strong kick, revs the engine, and drives off. The sound of his exhaust reverberates heavily through the midnight streets.

Kaoru bends over and picks up the thousand-yen bills one at a time. She turns them so they face the same way, folds the wad in half, and stuffs it into her pocket.

She takes a deep breath and rubs her palm over her short blonde hair. Nothing has changed. The image of the man in the chair, however, is larger than before. Now we can see him fairly clearly. The signal is still experiencing some interference: at times the image wavers, its outlines bend, its quality fades, and static rises.

Now and then a completely unrelated image intrudes momentarily. But the jumble subsides, and the original image returns. Eri Asai is still sound asleep in the bed.

The artificial glow of the television screen produces moving shadows on her profile but does not disturb her sleep. The man on the screen wears a dark brown business suit. The suit may well have been an impressive article of clothing in its day, but now it is clearly worn out.

Patches of something like white dust cling to the sleeves and back. The man wears black, round-toed shoes which are also smudged with dust. He seems to have arrived at this room after passing through a place with deep piles of dust.

His hair is tinged with grey. No, it just may be that his black hair is splotched with the white dust. In any case, it has not been properly combed for a long time.

Strangely, however, the man's appearance gives no impression of poor grooming, no sense of shabbiness. He is just tired—profoundly exhausted—after unavoidable circumstances have conspired to smear him, suit and all, with dust.

We cannot see his face. For now, the TV camera captures only his back or parts of his body other than his face. Whether because of the angle of the light or through some deliberate arrangement, the face is always in a place of dark shadow inaccessible to our eyes. The man does not move.

Every now and then he takes a long, deep breath and his shoulders slowly rise and fall. He could be a hostage who has been confined to a single room for a very long time. Hovering around him there seems to be a drawn-out sense of resignation. Not that he is tied to the chair: he just sits there with his back straight, breathing quietly, staring at one spot directly in front of him. We cannot tell by looking at him whether he has decided for himself that he will not move or he has been placed into some kind of situation that does not permit him to move.

His hands rest on his knees. The time is unclear. We cannot even tell if it is night or day. In the light of the banked fluorescent lamps, however, the room is as bright as a summer afternoon.

Eventually the camera circles round to the front and shows his face, but this does not help us to identify him. The mystery only deepens.

His entire face is covered by a translucent mask. Perhaps we should not call it a mask: it clings so closely to his face, it is more like a piece of plastic wrap. But, thin as it is, it still serves its purpose as a mask. While reflecting the light that strikes it as a pale lustre, it never fails to conceal the man's features and expression.

The best we can do is surmise the general contours of his face. The mask has no holes for the nose, mouth, or eyes, but still it does not seem to prevent him from breathing or seeing or hearing. Perhaps it has outstanding breathability or permeability, but, viewing it from the outside, we cannot tell what kind of material or technology has been used to make it.

The mask possesses equal levels of sorcery and functionality. It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light. What makes the mask truly eerie is that even though it fits the face like a second skin, it prevents us from even imagining what if anything the person within is thinking, feeling, or planning. Is the man's presence a good thing? A bad thing? Are his thoughts straight? Is the mask meant to hide him?

Protect him? We have no clue. His face covered by this precisioncrafted, anonymous mask, the man sits quietly in the chair being captured by the television camera, and this gives rise to a situation. All we can do, it seems, is defer judgement and accept the situation as it is.

We shall call him the Man with No Face. The camera angle is now fixed. It views the Man with No Face straight on, from just below centre. He is on the other side, looking straight into this room where we are. Of course his eyes are hidden behind the mysterious glossy mask, but we can vividly feel the existence—the weight—of his line of vision. With unwavering determination, he stares at something ahead of him.

Judging from the angle of his face, he could well be staring towards Eri Asai's bed. We trace this hypothetical line of vision with great care. Yes, there can be no doubt about it. What the man in the mask is staring at with his invisible eyes is the sleeping form of Eri. It finally dawns on us: this is what he has been doing all along. He is able to see through to this side. The television screen is functioning as a window on this room.

Now and then the picture flickers and recovers. The static also increases. The noise sounds like an amplified sonic version of someone's brain waves. It rises with increasing density, but at a certain point it peaks, begins to degrade, and eventually dies out. Then, as if changing its mind, it emerges again. The same thing repeats. But the line of vision of the Man with No Face never wavers. His concentration is never broken. A beautiful girl sleeping on and on in bed.

Her straight black hair spreads over the pillow like a deeply meaningful fan. Softly pursed lips. Heart and mind at the bottom of the sea. Whenever the TV screen flickers, the light striking her profile wavers, and shadows dance like inscrutable signals. His shoulders rise and fall unobtrusively in concert with his breathing, like an empty boat bobbing on gentle earlymorning waves.

In the room, nothing else moves. Kaoru is seeing Mari somewhere. Mari has her navy blue Boston Red Sox cap pulled down low. In the cap, she looks like a boy—which is probably why she always has it with her. How about you? What the hell, you've gotta be some place killing time till morning.

An old Ben Webster record is playing. Some forty or fifty old-style LPs are lined up on a shelf. Kaoru is drinking draught beer from a tall, thin glass. In front of Mari sits a glass of Perrier with lime juice.

Behind the bar, the ageing bartender is involved in cracking ice. But she won't be pretty for long, living like that. She'll get old and ugly overnight.

I've seen tons of them. That kind of work takes a lot out of you. You've gotta have stainless-steel nerves. Otherwise you start shootin' up, and you're finished. I'm doing Chinese at the University of Foreign Studies. What're ya gonna do after you graduate? I don't think I'm suited to a nine-to-five. From the time I was little, though, my parents always told me I'd better study hard, because I'm too ugly for anything else.