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( Emergency training. Sorry. My room after )

Forward dated to Sunday, late afternoon. Nishi Ginza Department Store, Tokyo, Japan.

For both the results of the shopping spree and for larger-than-life Sam Guthrie, Shinobi had rented the largest car available that wasn't a pick up and had gotten his mother's driver to chauffeur them around. After dropping them off at Sanrio World, Shin had gone on to buy some snacks, food, and manga, shipping some of it back to America and taking the rest of it home to his family's large apartment. Sebastian Shaw did not often come to Japan and when he did he usually stayed in the best hotel possible, so the apartment was more the territory of Shin and his mother, who used it at length at least three times a year. It was a welcome calm after the storm of The Three.

His business concluded early, he decided to return to the mall early to watch the tail end of the shopping, even if it meant submersing himself in Hello Kitty for half an hour or more. Watching The Three would be more than entertaining, he was sure.

The translator he'd hired was an old friend of his mother's, Hiro-san, who'd been intrigued by his proposition and had happily taken the large payment in exchange for trying to keep up with a teenage girl with money to burn and bffs-turned-butlers to boss around.

Walking past the large Hello Kitty on top of a white globe, he bowed to the first store personnel he found with a polite 'konnichiwa, hajimemashite' and looked around for the flurry he had come to expect from Pryde-san.

*konnichiwa, hajimemashite - hello, pleased to meet you