[@Soragoku][@ZekariVoblis][@Kitsune]

[color=tomato]"A quick question. Actually 2. 1. Where did you come from? 2. You didn't happen to see a girl around here did you? She wore a maid outfit. May have been yelling in Japanese or something. Didn't seem like she was from around here?"[/color]

Duncan just [i]stared[/i] at the man before him.

[color=tomato]"Please. It's really important."[/color]

He felt his eyebrow twitch a little.

So now there was some Japanese girl [i]in a maid costume[/i]. Missing. At night. In the same city in which he'd gotten blown straight the hell up and had a front-row seat to what was likely the horrifying end of someone he'd spent half a decade [i]fighting wars alongside[/i] as well as some kid whose name he didn't know but whose terrified, dying face was damn-near burned straight into the back of his eyeballs.

Seriously. This was happening right now.

And then what he could only assume was a freaking [i]Giant[/i] (because of course there'd be a Giant, that's just how his night was going) walked out of the tavern behind the blond man, which also helped him notice the other guy who'd been apparently standing there in total silence the entire time.

The bald man's eyes clenched shut as he pinched the bridge of his nose and let out a sigh.

"...I am [b]so fucking done[/b] with this place..."

Taking a slow, calming breath, his eyes opened again and fixed upon the man in front of him with a look of pure contempt, not at him, but for the sum total of the events of his evening.

"Long story short..." He answered the blond man, gesturing towards the distant smoke with his cigar "Went that way, had a [i]really bad time[/i] and suddenly showed up back here. Don't know how or why, but frankly I'm in no mood to give a damn right now."

He took another drag of that sweet, sweet stick of happiness and cancer in his hand and continued, without blinking or breaking eye-contact.

"If there is a... Japanese girl... [i]in a maid-outfit[/i]..." He continued, some part of his psyche clearly struggling to allow him to [i]say[/i] those words out loud in a serious context "...Running around these streets at night and possibly in harm's way, then we'd better start looking for her [i]now[/i] and worry about details [i]later.[/i]"

His eyes flicked back and forth between the two men as the giant declared his intent to head out solo and look for the girl in question to the quiet one.

"Anyone know where to start? I'm not exactly familiar with the local scenery."