Leo stood at the door for a few seconds waiting for someone to answer, but got no reply. He tried to turn the knob, but quickly found that the door was locked. [i]Must be taken. I'll try the next one then...[/i] and repeated the process with the next door, only to get the same result. [i]This is is gonna take a while...[/i] He thought with a sigh.

As he went to try the next door, a brown haired girl wearing glasses called his attention, and said something to him in Japanese. The boy just gave her a confused look. He couldn't figure out what she was saying, and he really didn't know what to think about the glass bottle she was carrying. He knew the legal drinking age was different here, but this was still a school dorm. Did they allow those things here? He figured they did because she didn't seem like the troublemaker sort. The girl pointed to some Japanese characters written on the doors, but Leo didn't have a clue what those meant. For all he knew, they could have said "keep out", or "come on in", or some other random phrase. He didn't have any idea what to make of those strange symbols. Her tone sounded like she was trying to help, she didn't sound mean, which he was grateful for, but this language barrier was going to be a problem.

Leo shook his head, and shrugged his shoulders. "I'm sorry, my Japanese isn't very good... Could ya' say that a little slower please?" At that moment, he remembered something he had read from a website containing basic Japanese phrases. "Um... Ni...hongo... o hana...sema...sen...?*" He said slowly. Silently praying that he pronounced that right, and that she was able to understand.

(*He's basically saying "I don't speak Japanese.")