In the Windy City That Never Sleeps - Philip and Shotaro
“That would be correct,” Philip answered the youkai, “New York is a city in America, a large country made up of several different states. Until today, neither I nor Shotaro have ever visited it. It costs a lot to travel to America from Japan, let alone as a vacation.” he remarked.
Shotaro, on the other hand, was too busy taking in the sights, the smell, the… hard-boiled air… to respond to Satori immediately. He probably knew better than to fantasize about his dream New York on the job, but he he had a feeling he wasn’t going to be getting the chance to do this again any time soon. To everyone else, though, he looked… odd. He was just facing away from everyone and stared off into the distance, watching the rising sun with his hands in his pockets. You could practically see a tumbleweed make its way through until he finally spoke up. “Alright,” he said cooly, “The first thing we should do to learn about what’s going on,” he turned his head back to the others and snapped with his left hand, “Is get a newspaper. Let’s see if the public’s noticed anything weird going on and had it reported.”
The idea seemed smart enough for Shotaro, but Philip immediately countered it with the obvious. “Surely you don’t expect us to buy a newspaper, right? Who knows if the yen of our world can exchange cleanly into the dollar of this?” Shotaro had not considered that, actually.
“…W-Well, I didn’t say buy, I said get,” he retorted, “C’mon, let’s just ask someone who’s already reading one what’s up.” And with that, Shotaro scanned the area for anybody that had a newspaper on them, intending to make a beeline straight for them if he could spot anyone.