Manami had not immediately noticed anything had changed, still waiting for Keita's reply to her nugget of wisdom when he started look around with a confused look on his face. Wondering if he had noticed something amiss, she glanced around the store as well, noting with some incredulity that they were, in fact, no longer [i]in[/i] the store at all. Curious.

[i]What?! What the what?![/i] Manami's alarmed thoughts blared through her mind, as she spun on the spot, as if searching for a backdrop indicating they had merely stepped off a studio set or something. But... how could you walk from the setting of a store to the inside of an elevator - one filled with several others, at that - with no visual cues? Hell, she was standing perfectly still!

Manami was on guard, dropping the basket at her feet as she took in the others. She quickly realised that many of the faces were familiar. She saw them occasionally at school, right? And they all looked equally lost and perturbed. So they were all in the same boat, huh...?

The elevator opened up, revealing something... distressingly familiar inside.That overly-blue room, the TV screens showing a strange, disturbing city... and a little girl.

Tsukuyomi? Manami tilted her head slightly. That was... certainly an uncommon name to have. Her clothing was stylised, but recognisable as a miko outfit (Manami had to gulp down the urge to scold the girl for needlessly modifying her uniform in such a manner), so maybe it was a weird tradition her family had? All first-borns were named after Tsukuyomi or something?

She stepped forward to address the girl, leaning down slightly. Manami was, as probably expected, not exactly wondrous with kids but she certainly had to try, right?
"...Hello, Tsukuyomi-chan, I'm Yamada Manami. Just call me Manami, okay?" she offered a small, if somewhat worried smile, "please ignore my colleagues' rudeness. They're just surprised. Er... you called this a 'hollow space', right?"