CHAPTER 4: Stepping Stones

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Tony sat at Miller's work computer, a notebook in his lap.

Ever since the visit to Cora...He'd been thinking about the address list, his reading...and Unoki.

Miller had already crossed out a handful of the addresses, saying they weren't even owned homes. Or that Yakuza didn't live there...

Tony had spent most of his time researching divination and the Ryoikian Gods, out of personal interest.

He found the gods a lot more fascinating than he should of...but when Miller mentioned to him it was something he was supposed to learn about in school, he had begun reading more articles about them and taking notes.

He had a page on Shizen, the god of nature, open when Daniel appeared in the doorway.

"Miller says grab your weapons, you're heading out on an adventure."

Tony's blue and grey eyes widened. Adventure?

He shut the computer off and threw his notebook in a drawer, heading to his room and changing into street clothes.

He walked out to Millers car in front of the casino...he was smoking a cigar.

"Hey kiddo." He said as Tony walked up.

"Daniel said something about adventure?" he asked, going to the passenger side and mounting over the door into the seat.

Miller chuckled, his cigar dissolving into mist. Then he climbed into the car.

"I think we found our address, my boy." Miller spoke with a smile, putting his seatbelt on and turning on the car.

Tony slipped his seatbelt on...and the two drove off.

The apartment building the two showed up at was quite fancy...

"This the place yeah...?" Tony asked as he got out...looking around at the oddly empty streets for this late at night.

"Yep. One of my guys said he saw a certain yakuza member leaving here last night...hadn't come back all day." Miller replied. Reaching down and grabbing a white fedora to match his suit for the day.

"...right."

Miller led Tony inside, the apartment hallways were well kept and fancy, clearly this place wasn't cheap.

Miller came up to one of the doors, P-05.

"What's the letter stand for?" Tony asked as Miller bent down and looked at the special mechanical lock the door had.

"Penthouse, this apartment complex has penthouses...and they usually require keycards." Mills explained with a smile, fiddling with the scanner...

"...Do we have that keycard? Or like one of those mechanical copies?"

Miller chuckled at Tony's question.

"...Don't need them." He said, pulling his hand back and covering it in a small coating of lava.

Miller suddenly punched the scanner...and Tony heard a click.

"No way that worked!!!" He yelled, trying the door.

The door opened wide.

"Lots of things for you to learn, my boy." Miller said as he walked into the penthouse.

The inside of the penthouse was beautiful, a large skylight in the ceiling which allowed a nice view to Arcers sky, the penthouse was nicely furnished and detailed. Lots of decorations and trinkets were scattered about the 2 floors. The second floor being slightly higher up and having a railing which allowed one to stare down into the living room of the first floor...

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