Officially speaking, they’d been on opposite sides of a run that had gone wrong. Sly’s Mr. Johnson had been a mid-level exec for Kansei, a corp attempting some industrial espionage against a Kyoto-based multinational called Yamatetsu. The Johnson got what he wanted, then suddenly decided he didn’t want it anymore. What he wanted was to get it back to Yamatetsu, now. (To this day Sly didn’t know exactly what had gone down, but she could guess. Various shadowy characters had showed up at his house, maybe worked over his wife or threatened his kids. Hinted that things would only get worse if he didn’t make restitution —full restitution—to Yamatetsu immediately.)