Chapter 1 page 28
Lypha: I used to live here, Grey. I used to run up and down this street in the summer… That car…it even looks like our old family car. It’s so weird to be here again.
Kyotoshi: It makes you wonder what it’d be like if time stood still, huh?
Kyotoshi is standing on the sidewalk, leaning over the railing of the steps, just behind Soshika. Soshika Lypha doesn’t turn around.
So much for “what if.” I knew that heavy way of speaking, the words just slightly clumsy. Nothing changed.
Kyotoshi: Hey, look at me. It’s been almost a whole year since I saw you last, Lyika.
Lypha turns around.
Kyotoshi: See, you got all mature-like. Weird.
Lypha: I’m not here to talk to you. We have business.
Kyotoshi: Does it hafta be like this? I thought maybe-
Lypha: You said you’d take him. I’ve got my notes on him, if you want a copy. So, payment…
Kyotoshi: Lyika… jeez. I don’t want any “Payment…”
Lypha: Oh, you don’t? I find THAT hard to believe.
Kyotoshi: …