Misaki silently suffered as she watched the whole piece of cake get eaten by Ikari. Pondering over his answer for a while. “Hmm.. I guess you don’t have to.” She concluded, then a toothy grin graced her face, “Then I made the right choice in talking to you.” She tried to wink, not sure if it looked like something got into her eye and it was awkwardly twitching. She poured her and the blonde a glass of water, bringing one to her lips. She nearly choked when he asked to exchange phone numbers but tried to play it off when she heard it was to prevent another kidnapping. 

Coughing a little before gulping more water to soothe her itching throat. “Hopefully I won’t be calling you because of that.” She laughed at herself, though she really hoped that it would be the first and last that she would get abducted in her life. It was far too scary. Misaki fished her mobile out of her bag and unlocked it, revealing a picture on her home screen of a young Misaki with a wide toothy grin holding out a peace sign with a hand while the other was holding unto a boy her age. He looked a little shy but had a small smile on his face and his eyes were on the young girl instead of looking at the camera.

She flipped the phone round so it faced Ikari, and held it out for him to enter his phone number. She glanced at the black smartphone in Ikari’s hand, noticing that it was an older version of her phone. She didn’t want to ask a question that may be offending, but she was rather curious. She decided to keep quiet, maybe shutting up about it would be wiser. Instead, she proposed their next destination, to start their quest to find Ri-Chan. “I’m planning to visit Ri-Chan at his home. Do you want to come? I hope he hasn’t moved after all these years. But it’s a good pace to start.”