kirara

Utage?

Akafuyu?

I was gonna meet up with Kirara here. You seen her?

What? The girl coming for treatment? You arranged to meet here too?!

Hey, uh, guide?

(Raises head for a glance)

(Lifts phone, points it at the highway scenery)

(Continues tapping on phone)

Ms. Guide—

(Taps on phone screen)

Whaddaya showing me your phone for...

'guide...'

And then a question mark?

You're not the guide who's supposed to show me outta the city?!

(Taps on phone screen)

'no... im... not...'

Then why'd you get in my car? The hell, did the L.G.D. send you?!

(Taps on phone screen)

Quit typing and talk to me!

L. G... D.?

I thought...

Clearly now!

I thought you were... the driver taking me to Rhodes Island...

'Scuse me, you see a girl dragging this giant case around here?

A girl with a giant case? Can't say I have.

You're an hour late, you only just got here! Of course you haven't seen anything!

Miss, are you talking about a teenaged girl towing a big suitcase, about as tall as you?

Yeah, her! Was she, like, super-absorbed in a hand thingy playing a video game when you saw her?

Can't say as such.

Come again?

She was playing on something that seemed like a game console for a little bit, but then she put it away really fast, and pulled out her phone right after, and she'd just type and then send photos.

Phone?

(Her phone's gonna be from Higashi. Can she use it in Lungmen?)

(Nah, no time to sweat that.)

Should be her, for sure. Do you know where she went?

A car just stopped in front of her a moment ago, and then the driver and her had this look between them, and she took her suitcase and got in. The driver even moved it into the boot for her.

Where's the car headed?

Unbelievable...

My goddamn luck. The guide I book just so happens to be a young Ægir woman in a Higashinese outfit... How the hell does a stumbling block like you come outta the woodwork?!

Um...

If you got something to say, then say it!

I just wanted to ask... why... you thought I was wearing Higashinese clothing?

Huh?

You're garbed up like you walked right outta one of them Higashinese mangos. If that's not the look, what is?

I think you only really look stereotypically Higashinese if you dress like a samurai or a miko or...

Samurai? Miko? Isn't that all just manga stuff? They really got types like that walking around over there?

Uh... never mind.

What are you... driving this... fast for?

Huh? I'm trying to get home!

See, but was gonna meet up with a friend and she was waiting literally where I got in this car... and could you just take me back before you go home?

Fuhgeddaboutit!

Orrr... where do you live? You could go home first and then I'll find a way to get my friend to pick me up...

My home's in Siracusa. That good enough for you?

S-S-Siracusa?!

That's NG, that's totally not happening! I came here all the way from Higashi, I don't have time for a trip to Siracusa too!

Grgh.

See this knife here, ragazza?

Don't tell me you're with... the mafia? The <i>Siracusan</i> mafia?!

Not exactly... but yeah, something like that.

You sit tight and make peace with it. You're my hostage now.

But... you said you missed your guide, so even if you leave Lungmen you still...

Shut it! I ain't giving you no second chance!

That stupid pickpocket didn't just rob a jewelers, he went and nabbed a hostage...

Truly sorry, Miss Akafuyu, that we requested cooperation with Rhodes Island on this investigation and still let this mess happen, and we got your friend involved in it.

Save those words for later! What step are you at in your measures?

We've already sent officers to every expressway and city exit so we can conduct vehicle-to-vehicle inspections...

Clammin' up again? What gives?

(Lifts up handheld device)

You're in the world's nuttiest situation and you still got time to play video games?

(Nods)

You don't got a lick of sense.

What, sick of games now? On your phone again?

...I brought this phone from Higashi.

So?

I can't use a Higashinese phone in Lungmen.

Huh.

Lemme see what you're typing there.

No!

Clam it and give me the phone!

No way! Never ever!

You give me that—

Cazzo, a traffic jam?

Great, perfect. I got my hands free now, ragazza. You give the phone and let me see. If you're not blabbin' to nobody about nothing, we won't have a problem.

I promise you, I'm not doing anything that would be unbeneficial to you!

The hell's a promise do? If promises meant shit, would I have gotten duped all the way out to here?

Just give me the damn phone!

I'm gonna lock it first, okay?

No, you're not—

I think whoever's in the car over has been staring at us!

What?!

Merda!

I'm not typing anymore, I'm putting the phone away, I'm gonna keep playing games, okay?

...Ah.

Okay, you've been going 'ah' every coupla minutes and nothing else. What the hell is it?

I, uh... I've died four or five times on this stage. I... I think I'm tilted.

Am I messing you up here?

No...

(Instinctively pulls out phone)

The hell you think you're up to?!

Sorry—sorry! I just did it automatically!