[There's a fond look before she shakes her head again. Leon does have a good point in that, she must admit.]
When you look at it that way, you're probably right. Okay. [She settles in, comfortable with him once again as she thinks for a brief moment.] So...Inaba's always been a really quiet little town. Just far enough outside of the city to make you feel disconnected from everything, which is why I moved back there. When I went on my hiatus for work, that was the perfect place for me. My grandma owns a tofu shop there, so she let me stay with her for the school year. She never really asked me questions like why I quit or when I was going back...she just let me stay there and help in her shop. [Which unknown to Rise, Yosuke already told Leon.] But a lot of things happened before that...before I took my hiatus and moved, two people were killed. It was the start of a serial murderer case, and they knew it was the same guy because of how he left the bodies. They were always strung up on an antenna. [She wrinkles her nose.] It started back around April, I think.
Originally it was just Yu-senpai, Yosuke-senpai, Chie-senpai and Yukiko-senpai. [A pause.] No, that's not right. Just those first three. Yukiko-senpai was the first of us to get kidnapped to the TV world. I never saw her Shadow or anything and nobody really talked about it afterwards, but all of us sort of agreed that our dungeons were pretty bad. For a long time, we would be monitoring the Midnight Channel. I know I've told you a little about it, but it was something bigger than we thought. It was a reflection of what someone thought humanity wanted to see...so all of the victims were people that were seen on TV recently. Since they had public attention, it seemed like those were the people that the town wanted to keep track of.
[A pause.] You know about Adachi-san. But there was another man involved...his name's Namatame. Following so far?
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When you look at it that way, you're probably right. Okay. [She settles in, comfortable with him once again as she thinks for a brief moment.] So...Inaba's always been a really quiet little town. Just far enough outside of the city to make you feel disconnected from everything, which is why I moved back there. When I went on my hiatus for work, that was the perfect place for me. My grandma owns a tofu shop there, so she let me stay with her for the school year. She never really asked me questions like why I quit or when I was going back...she just let me stay there and help in her shop. [Which unknown to Rise, Yosuke already told Leon.] But a lot of things happened before that...before I took my hiatus and moved, two people were killed. It was the start of a serial murderer case, and they knew it was the same guy because of how he left the bodies. They were always strung up on an antenna. [She wrinkles her nose.] It started back around April, I think.
Originally it was just Yu-senpai, Yosuke-senpai, Chie-senpai and Yukiko-senpai. [A pause.] No, that's not right. Just those first three. Yukiko-senpai was the first of us to get kidnapped to the TV world. I never saw her Shadow or anything and nobody really talked about it afterwards, but all of us sort of agreed that our dungeons were pretty bad. For a long time, we would be monitoring the Midnight Channel. I know I've told you a little about it, but it was something bigger than we thought. It was a reflection of what someone thought humanity wanted to see...so all of the victims were people that were seen on TV recently. Since they had public attention, it seemed like those were the people that the town wanted to keep track of.
[A pause.] You know about Adachi-san. But there was another man involved...his name's Namatame. Following so far?