Julia smiled, "One day I'd like to go." Her smile faltered, then disappeared. "But, I have too much to do here. Can't leave yet, and certainly not for a while." She shrugged, It is what it is. Her responsibilities were her responsibilities, and she couldn't get out of them. And she certainly would never leave Albert to deal with her father alone.

Meanwhile, it was lunchtime at Ikebukuro High School, and the school let students go off campus for lunch as long as they had a special mark on their ID card, one that couldn't be faked, unless of course one's entire ID was faked. Albert happened to have that mark on his, legitimately, so he was off campus at one of the local pizza joints, having some pizza.