Run a cuddle clinic? Get some practice with massages or something! Or if you want something more up your alley, maybe... A place to listen? Toss five hundred yen and you'll help them with whatever ails 'em. The same shit you always do, but you get paid big-

[ "thank you, thank you. i swear i won't forget your generosity..."

it's a single sentence, murmured in a city full of sound. it's a miracle she even hears it at all: even at two in the morning, the place isn't silent in the slightest. but there's no mistaking it. someone's just begged their way into a place to stay.

someone who sounds an awful lot like the target they've been tailing.

she stops mid-sentence, covering kou's lips with a finger. shhh. where was it? behind them, maybe, or perhaps coming up through a vent. there's only one way to find out. ]

He's here. [ she doesn't wait for him to acknowledge it - she's already running to the edge of the building, trying to aim for where she thinks the voice came from. ] Keep an eye out for the cloak! I need your eyes up here!

[ and that's the last warning she gives before she plummets down - off the edge and to the alleyway below.

they've got a lead. they have to chase it. ]