<em>A brief cut away to the bad guy.</em><br/><br/><strong>Kashiwazaki’s Plot</strong><br/><br/>This is the temporary office of assemblyman Kentaro Kashiwazaki. “Dammit! That goddamn punk! At this rate my main plan will be for nothing!” With a hateful sneer, Kashiwazaki presses his cigarette into  an ashtray. He turns to his secretary, who waits patiently, and says, “This is going to get violent, but there’s no other way. You, get everyone together.” His face is contorted by a grin.<br/><br/>None of the player characters can take part in this scene. The point is to establish Kashiwazaki as the vile political fixer who’s working to hinder the excavations. He’s actually secretly working on a government plan to build a nuclear power plant on the mountain, but the Sanada family bought the land right before he was going to make his presentation. This was after Kashiwazaki had been promised that pushing the plant through would launch his political career into the limelight. He’s desperate to stop the excavation so he can make that happen. Naturally, very few besides Kashiwazaki know about the reactor plans.