[Kaoru is in fact the daintiest of flowers and would totally die within .5 seconds if allowed onto a ride, so Peko is a savior here... totally...]

I don't have a good number for it, but it seems almost to have doubled, by my estimate. Just based on the number of people... It's a little strange to see, to be honest. I can still recall the first meeting, back when there were no more than thirty of us.

[The huge boom in number has Kaoru wondering if there's a backup plan for when they inevitably run out of room in the city limits to comfortably house people. On the other hand--]

Disappearances weren't so frequent back then, either.