No. 18 The second night

I got back to the cell in the Suginami Police Station.
As there was no clock, I didn’t know the exact time. Later I heard that I went out of the cell at 13:19 and came back at 17:50.
I ate dinner for the first time at the cell. As dinner time was over, I ate it alone spreading a gray place mat on the table of the smoking room. It was a box dinner with a sheet of dried laver. The food was cold. Quick-cooking miso soup was also cold. They were not good. I couldn’t eat them.
After dinner what I should do was to brush my teeth and go to bed. Like kids, 21:00 was time to go to bed. Everyone seemed unable to sleep. They were fumbling around.

I heard I was able to go back home in two or three days. I was glad to have a hope that I would go out tomorrow! Suddenly I was worried about my job for the first time since arrested. I am a driver of the Keihin-tohoku line. My work schedule was completed for a month to come. “Yesterday was my paid day-off, today’s timetable is No.12 and tomorrow’s diagram is No.1. Who will drive on my behalf?” Worksite traveling was planned on Nov.4. On 15-16 November I was to join the basketball tournament sponsored by the JR East Company, which I had continued training for. I really wanted to join the games.
Of course I was worried about my wife and son. The sight of my arrest came back clearly before my eyes. “Why am I given such cruel treatment? Why am I here in the cell?”Tears kept filling my eyes again.

18 Mar. 2008