Sotoki
The doors of the train opened as soon as it reached its destination. Sotoki stood up and headed outside while keeping his guard up. After getting out of the cab, he sighed then opened his phone to check the map he installed on it before "Akihabara.. Akihabara..." chanted him as he walked to the exit of the station. Akihabara is where he's going since it's where he can buy what he wanted. His cat took out its head from the bag and stayed like that as they traveled.
The phone displayed the route that he can take to get to Akihabara from the station that he is in, Sotoki started walking. There were many people around him, but he didn't guarded himself like he did in the train. The people wasn't a bother to him that much now as he thinks he can do well within an open area if somehow a fugitive came to do his evil deeds to Sotoki. Minutes passed and finally, he arrived at Akihabara and now looked around it.
"So many things here..." he was quite amazed at the different objects that he saw. But he managed not to get sidetracked "Well, let's look for a computer." Continuing his shopping, the cat beside him suddenly meowed "Hmm? What is it?" looking at where Tako was facing, he saw a pet shop "Oh. You probably sensed something there." Sotoki wasn't in a hurry to buy what he needed. A trip to a pet shop wouldn't hurt.
The pet shop had many merchandise for animals like dogs, cats, birds and more. "So what do you want here?" asked to the cat, and like a reply, Tako meowed at a pet food "Oh. It would be nice to have something else other than the ones at house huh?" He grabbed the pet food and went to the counter then left after finishing his purchase.
After shoving the pet food inside his bag, he continued to look for a computer. Eventually, he found a building that sells one. Sotoki entered it and looked at the computers "Wow... These are expensive." but he has enough money to buy at least one of them. Since there are different designs, he continued looking at them and will buy what he liked. A few minutes after, he picked a computer set that had black and green designs. "I guess we're done here." he bought the set and went out of the building.
Sotoki breathed a sigh of relief after going through everything that he needed to do just to get a new computer. He went to sit at a park after buying a can of soda from a vending machine "Let me just sit here for a bit." then he went to recover his energy first before leaving again.
Airi
"We have arrived at Akihabara." said an intercom. Airi's friends quickly stood up and one of her friends, Saki, dragged her hand "I-I can walk!" she told her, but she kept dragging her "You might get lost." mocked her friend "I'm not a kid." she pouted and everyone just laughed at her.
"Woah! Woah!" Airi's eyes sparkled in amazement as she saw what was behind the shop's windows "You're such a kid Airi." said Megumi, another friend of hers "Am not!" said by the girl while glaring at her friend. "Hey Hey! Let's just go and buy things!" and everyone went from shop to shop. Clothes, "Would this look good on me...?" asked Airi and her friends gave her a thumbs up. It was a blue and white blouse that kind of resembled the sky. Accessories, "OH! I need a new watch!" Airi raised her arm, showing that she has no watch right now "Oh right. The other one broke at school." recalled Mika, another friend. Airi's watch hit the ground hard in school when she accidentally slipped on waxed floor. Then they went to some more shops and bought things to their heart's, or wallet's contents.
At the park, all of them sat on the benches and shared their delight about what they bought to one another. Airi had two bags and the others had three or more. She isn't really a shopaholic. Her friends was buying things and she was just dragged with them, but she didn't regret it as it was fun and she got nice things. "Hey, I didn't mind it earlier, but now that I think about it, those guys have been following us." said Saki out of nowhere. The rest was prompted to look at where she pointed and Airi was the one who was surprised of them all. Two men with a necklace that had the symbol of Airi's shrine was near their spot 'Mom...! I thought I asked her to stop with that...!' Her parents always sent people to guard her wherever she went. Airi found it tiring and told her
parents to stop doing it. But it seems that Airi's words just went in the right ear and out with the other.
"You're right..." "I wonder who they are?" "This is scary..." her friends gave their comments one by one. "E-Everyone! You can go home now!" told Airi "What? Why?" then Airi became nervous, she needs an excuse "I-I have somewhere else to go after this and my parents are there~ Ahaha..." she was given suspicious looks, then Mika spoke "Eh? I hoped that we could go around the city some more, but if you say so." after her was Megumi "Well, we'll just go eat then go back to the city." then they bid her farewell and told her to take care.
Airi sighed then turned to the two men behind him "You two!" she shouted "What are you doing here?" the men walked in front of her and Airi felt scared for a bit but managed to calm down after realizing there's no need to feel that way "Hah... I don't need to ask do I...?" but she quickly smiled "Sorry for making doing this all the time." then one of them spoke up "Do not worry about it, it is our job after all." then the other walked nearer "Let us bring those for you." he said, referring to the shopping bags "Oh. If it's okay with you." she said with a smile and the two men took them. "I won't go home yet though. I need to eat~!" but her bodyguards didn't mind and just followed Airi.
Nikko
Nikko was blinded by the sun after not seeing the outside for a few hours. He covered the window that was beside him at some point because of the sunlight going through. Quickly, he opened the umbrella after realizing that he forgot to do so "It's hard to travel like this..." he sighed. Looking at his arm, he saw his watch and learned of the time "I need to head there now. She might be there already too." They had agreed to meet at the park in a certain district. He picked that place because it'll be near to where he'll be after leaving the station.
People looked at him with curious looks as he walked. The way that he looked like was eye-catching after all. Albinos are pretty rare and isn't talked about that much, so some people question him in their minds to why he looked like that 'I feel awkward...' he thought after noticing them. But he forgot about that soon enough after thinking that he should buy something for his best friend's first meeting.
Fortunately, he was close to an accessory shop. Nikko entered it and looked around immediately, he's still considering that Yoshimi's already there. He decided to give her a bracelet that isn't too cheap nor too expensive. After searching through their merchandise, he picked a bracelet with white and pink colors. It was affordable for him, though he felt quite nervous all of a sudden "I wonder if I picked the right thing?" he's not knowledgeable about what girls like, but the bracelet looked nice and would fit a girl. After asking the clerk to wrap it in a gift wrapper, he went out of the building.
He went to their meeting place afterwards and stood beside the fountain "I hope she doesn't find me weird." he was carrying an umbrella and is wearing a jacket right now despite weather, he felt quite uneasy about it. Nikko continued to wait for her while thinking of how to greet Yoshimi.