Log:Finding Rei, Scene 1

Finding Rei 2015/04/05 	 Yutaka Yushio

1

The Meeting
Yushio sends Shoro a text message  ** I'd like to meet with you to discuss a personal matter. Please RSVP with time and place if agreeable. **

Yutaka texts back within minutes,  ** My schedule is open at 3pm, location is your choice. I can meet you anywhere. **

Yushio texts back  ** At my Mansion in Colonial Bay. We can be assured of privacy there. **

Yushio dons the battlesuit for the first time in almost a year, not without a little difficulty as she's put on weight. And flies from Japan to the Mansion getting there a few minutes ahead of time. A phone call has already woken the Mansion staff and tea is ready for the meeting.

Yushio changes out of the battlesuit into traditional attire.

Yutaka arrives promptly at 2:59, he announces himself at the interbox.

The security guard on duty tells Yutaka that Yushio is in the main lounge and asks if he needs directions.

Yutaka nods, "I have not been here, so yes, that would be good." he says to the security guard. Assuming he is led there, he enters the room "Ms. Takaga..you seem..very..different from our last meeting?"

Yushio stands from where she was kneeling beside a tea set and bows politely, "Thank you for coming, Yutaka. I didn't know who else I could trust for such a delicate matter as I am presented with."

Yutaka nods and bows, "Takaga-sama, it is an honor to be called to the house of Takaga, please let me know what it is I may be able to assist with." he approaches, and motions to the table, "May I join you?"

Yushio nods, "Please do." she says, and kneels agains to pour tea. "Among my father's belongings stored at the Corporation HQ were several encrypted data chips. I have been working on decrypting them but it's a very slow process. However I had finally managed to decrypt one of the data chips. It was a secret dairy my father kept."

Yutaka nods slowly, and kneels in seiza himself, "I am certain that any decryption needed on a man of your father's illustrious nature would be well concieved. I fail to see though how I may be of any help. I am sure we will get to that though. Please continue."

Nobody says, "The dairy reveals that my father had a mistress, Yutaka, and that his mistress had a child. His child. It seems I have a younger half-sister."

Yutaka nods slowly. "I am sorry to hear that..? I will keep this knowledge to myself."

Yushio smiles, "I am not sorry. Oh, I do not wish this to become known publically. But there is comfort in knowing I am not the only surviving member of the Takaga family. I would like you to find this girl, Yutaka. The dairy reveals that her mother died giving birth to my half-sister. My father recorded that he found a place for the girl and visited her on each birthday. But he does not mention where that place was or any other details."

Yutaka nods, "I am happy to help find your sister, but would it not easiy enough to find a pattern given his travel?"

Nobody says, "My father travelled everywhere, constantly. There are too many patterns and too little specific data to locate any one instance that fits. Perhaps you will have more success?" Yushio pulls a data chip out of her sash end. "This is the decrypted dairy. There are six images of my father with my half-sister. I suspect one for each birthday she had before my father was murdered."

Yutaka nods, "What years are we thinking we are talking about." he takes the encrypted diary. "I will look for clues. I cannot promise results, but I will be happy to help you. How much time are you wanting this solved in?"

Nobody says, "She will be sixteen in a week or so. If you could find her before that date I would be pleased but there is nothing time critical about this. Now, the question of fee and expenses. Would five million Yen be acceptable for your fee? And all your expenses will be covered. Although let me know if those expenses exceed fifty million Yen."

Yushio adds, "If you wish to bring others you trust in on this you are free to do so."

Yutaka nods, "Perhaps, I generally work alone, but perhaps, I will see if anyone has specific skill sets to help with this. I am generally not a philanthropist Ms. Takaga, even for matters of the heart."

Yushio nods, "Anyone you hire will come under expenses, Yutaka. It will not reduce your fee."

Yutaka nods, "I will work on this for you. Probono lets say as a measure of good faith, I like to be paid for results, not gestures. Are you agreeable to this?"

Yushio bows, "Perfectly agreeable, Yutaka-san."

Yutaka bows deeply, "I will keep you apprised of the progress Takaga-sama. I get too many 'build me an impenetrable fortress' requests, and not enough 'Help me do something good' requests. It is my pleasure to assist you." he slides back gracefully and stands, "Shall I show myself out?"

Yushio stands, "Allow me to show you out." she says and walks with you to the door.

Yutaka nods and smiles, breaking his stoic japanese demeanor, "Thank you Ms. Takaga." he appreciates the gesture, and walks with her. "You have been absent for a few months. Work in Japan called you away?"

Yushio sighs, "Work is never-ending, Yutaka. This is my first visit here in almost a year. And I had a serious stuggle getting into my battlesuit to make the flight. Too many lunches with customers and officials. I really don't know how Anthony Quinn manages."

Yutaka chuckles, "It is likely he has technology to keep the weight off. Perhaps you should think about that." he winks as they make it to the door, "You could make even more money than all of the tech your company creates." he gives Yushio a headbow, "Thank you for the meeting, I will work on this."

Yushio says, "Thank you, Yutaka. I'll look forward to hearing from you."

Yutaka nods, and steps outside. His home is only across the way, so it wont take him long to begin work on the file.

Legworking
Q: Yutaka messages Yushio to see if he can get acccess to the travel documentation of her father. Including flight logs for her father's private jets."

A: Those will be provided as soon as Yushio gets Yutaka's message. The problem will be that, as Yushio said, her father travelled so extensively there are many locations that would fit an annual visit."

Q: Filter out the junk and see what's left, he would have to travel to the same locale on the same day and based upon the pictures I should be able to get time of day travel occurred.

A: The pictures show Yushio's father with a young red headed girl at different ages. Five of the images are effectively useless but the sixth and last shows the father and girl in a room with a window. Through the window is visible part of a large wooden Temple Arch, a overview of part of a city, and beyond the buildings a seaport. The viewpoint is clearly up on a hill.

Q: I'll try to do this the easy way: create an algorithm to see any dates that do not have corresponding travel destinations"

A: There are no dates. The dairy is free form not arranged by dates. All there is inferred is a visit by Yushio's father to the girl on her birthday, which isn't not given a date. So the pattern is presumable the father travelling to a specific place once a year for six years. And with all his travelling to corporate locations that's a pattern that exists for dozens of locations.

Q: Even if there are no dates, entries should have a time date stamp?

A: No time data stamp. It's obvious that Yushio's father made getting any useful data out of the dairy as difficult as he could. There are no names and no dates. The way it's written and stored, even if someone got their hands on the diary, without context little could be proved.

A: The sixth image is the best and mostly the only real clue. The viewpoint being a building on Temple grounds overlooking a seaport city. A bit of CSI trickery zooming in gets you the name painted on the side of a cargo ship in the port. Checking the voyages of that ship you discover it has visited Yokohama port and nowhere else in the home islands.

A: Knowing the city you can then locate the location of the picture. There's a Temple school that is also a boarding home for children, provided someone pays for their board. That's where the picture was taken."

Q: Ok, as soon as he figures it out, he goes via transmat to Yokohama's station, spends the night and goes to the school. we can scene the meeting of yu and the school master, using high society and conversation to see if he can find out her name and current age and see if she's still at the school