Downtown, Emiri was walking by herself. She just exited a shop, having bought some supplies for the Dino-house. But as she left, she heard a sound. Panicking, she turned to look. But all she saw was some random stranger, who was clumsy enough to knock over a food stand. At worst, it caused an argument between him and the shop-keeper, but nothing worse. Relieved, Emiri walked away.
Once she arrived at the Dino-house, she couldn't help herself: "I can't take it anymore!"
Everyone looked at her, just as she shouted: "I keep looking over my shoulder! I freak at every little sound I hear! I..."
"Calm down." Yukito tried to sooth her.
"This isn't like you, Emiri." Ryouga started, "We've fought monsters before, we have beaten Dezmozorya before,..."
"But they didn't know who we are, where we hide or any of our secrets." Emiri said, "Doyle knows everything about us! And he's been gone in hiding even while he was with us, only to pop up when we didn't expect him!"
"She's right." Yatsudewani stated, "Even I'm afraid of him."
"But we haven't heard from him in a while by now." Asuka said, "Could it be that he was just momentarily angry, but is now more afraid of us?"
"If it were any other person, I would agree." Nakadai concurred, "However, we're talking about someone who in his "momentary" anger killed a man."
"I can't believe you can be so nonchalant about that!" Emiri exclaimed.
"I'm just staying objective here." Nakadai said, "I don't want to become too emotional like you are."
"Why you..." Emiri was about to attack him, but Yukito stopped her.
"If you attack him now, we won't have to wait for Doyle to attack us." he reasoned with her.
Emiri was about to scream at him, but she reluctantly realized he was right, so she calmed down.
This was when Mahoro entered the room.
"How's Mikoto?" Asuka asked her.
"She's fine." Mahoro said, "Mai is looking after her."
"And how's Ranru?" Ryouga asked.
Mahoro said nothing, which was enough of an answer.
"Time was that she'd find comfort when she's around machines." Ryouga said, "But I'm afraid that we'll need something as complicated as a time machine to at all even hope to bring her comfort."
"Yes." Asuka agreed, "She and Doyle were very close. How does she recover from that? I know I couldn't recover from something like that."
While they were talking, there was some unusual activity going on outside. Somebody found a camera, hidden from public view. This find answered a lot of questions to the person, and helped him make up his next move.
