As Akira heard the boy would be in Inaba for a year, he smirked and shook his head as he redirected his attention to the teacher addressing them.  A small sigh escaped the side of his mouth, blowing upwards as though breathing out smoke from pipe smoking. But he was then struck with a somewhat moment of shock during the announcement.  The disappearances wasn't a shock, no he was well aware of that.  But this had happened before? No way!  Inaba, such a small rural town didn't have as much coverage in national news so to this point he was completely oblivious of it.  Obviously it wouldn't be something you would naturally portray on the news with it being such a small place it could easily frighten off new comers to the town.  Then more, they had to travel in groups for the foreseeable future.  [color=ed1c24]"What, so whoever I'm with has someone to push under the bus?"[/color] Akira mumbled to himself as he listened.

But apart from this it was like everything was just business as usual.  To be expected really, even in a small town like this you can't come to a standstill just because of some incident that was occurring.  It was definitely something that should be handled by the police, and in such a small town surely something like this couldn't last very long.  However someone seemed to pipe up about their lack of faith in the police to do their job, and picked up on that the situation should maybe be taken more seriously.  Akira glanced over, it was the girl from the morning walk to school.  Clearly this one didn't mind attention or creating a scene.  It would also seem, that in their eyes the police of this rural town were pretty useless.

Another disappointed sigh escapes as he contemplates what had been said.  Clearly she was a local who was here during whatever happened a few years back.  So surely her word and opinion on the matter held some kind of merit.  Though it did seem a bit excessive as though there was some form of attempt to cause panic.  But then again, that really would just be a byproduct of her just speaking her mind of how things really are.  If the police were that useless maybe travelling in groups wasn't such a bad idea after all.  For if you can't rely on the law enforcers to keep you safe then you'll have to rely on those you can trust right?... Akira glanced around the classroom once more, this was not a good situation for him to be faced with.