[She holds the tea to her mouth, and nods, taking a sip.] More or less.

The central prefecture police were growing frustrated with the lack of progress made on the Inaba murders. They requested my help. [Another sip of tea.] The local Inaba police weren't very happy. A hot shot kid, just here to play his games... that's what they thought of me at the time, I'm sure.

[It's strange, being able to talk about that sort of thing openly. Before, not being taken seriously because of her age (and gender) had been deeply troubling. Now, she's almost able to laugh about it.] Of course, it wasn't their fault that they couldn't make any headway on the murders, not really. There were things at play that even I couldn't have expected.

[The other world. Personas. Shadows. And that one of the detectives investigating it...]