Working With Phantoms

Spatial Unawareness

August 26th

Rosana's POV

Rosana was out and about in Shibuya with Haru, who Rosana had been getting a funny feeling about ever since she had revealed her knowledge of The Bodacious Babes and The Phantom Thieves. During the slightly uneventful day, she had been running around in the mall with her puffy-haired friend and purchasing objects that could be useless but also could have a use, according to Boudica, who had been constantly wanting to check out more and more things in the mall.

"So, Rosana-chan, I never knew that you were a fan of all of these Japanese things. I mean, this purse does look nice, thank you for that."

"Oh, de nada, it's fine."

Rosana had just bought a new purse for Haru after hearing her complain about how her dad had 'accidentally' misplaced the previous one, which Haru had described as having an incredibly goth look to it. The new purse was a deep magenta with small green gems lining it, of which were made not from, as Boudica had noted, actual rock that had been subjected to constant pressure and heat, but instead the old reliable, plastic.

"Hey, what does 'de nada' mean?"

"Oh, it's Spanish for 'you're welcome.'"

"Ooh, can you teach me some Spanish?"

"Uh, not right now, but certainly some other time. Maybe, I could join you in your gardening escapades and stuff."

"Oh, that would be great. It's hard to lift all of those mulch bags by myself."

"Uh, doesn't the school supply you with those, like, wheeled things?"

"Carts?"

"No, like, the flat ones, uh, the ones you see in a hardware store."

"Oh, no, they said they would, but they don't."

"Wow, that sucks."

"Yeah, I agree. Also, I didn't wanna ruin your whole deal, but where are you getting this money?"

"My allowance, and a gift from Sheila."

"Sheila gifted you cold, hard cash?"

"Yeah, she's pretty nice. Her dad, uh, I don't know him that well, but he works for that bank that my parents use, and he offered them a loan free of interest."

"Wow, how generous. By the way, how have your parents been doing?"

"Oh, amazingly. Papa's been clean from, well, y'know, for half a year now, and mama's found a job at a bookstore."

"That's great! Weren't you guys related to that big gangster guy that I heard about over the news?"

"Peter Fourete? Yeah, that's the dude."

"Ah, I see. Anyways, well, thank you very much, again, for the purse."

"Oh, you're welcome."

"You're repeating yourself..."

"Hush, I'm trying my best!"

Haru nodded and looked around.

"Hey, what time is it?"

"Uh... 1, do you have somewhere to go?"

"No, I was just wondering. Should we go find lunch somewhere?"

"Yeah, sounds good."

The pair then walked around the mall until they found the food court, where several restaurants, most notably chains, as Rosana observed, were located.