Philip had been working non-stop now. Ever since he awoke from the dream that night, after Akiko had forced him to sleep. It was like that time with Wakana but different. Shotaro had stood before him, had noticed him as Philip had called out his name. He had acted unlike Shotaro, more like a child, lost and confused. He had seen the thinness of Shotaro's body, a stick like figure of what he had been. He was dressed in things very similar to what Philip had been wearing when he had first met Shotaro, a white t-shirt and white trousers. Expect the trousers were a deep red colour, and even in the area surrounded by Earth's data Philip could see blood dripping and hitting the data, turning it red, even if Shotaro wasn't seeing it. The t-shirt just flapped around Shotaro, giving indications away on how thin the boy was. Philip had seen the hollowness of Shotaro's face, the bone structure of his face had never been more clear. To be honest, a word that could have described the look of Shotaro's condition was a horrifying mess.
He had called out to Shotaro several times, tried running up to the boy, only to be stopped part way. It was probably unlikely that they would have been able to touch each other anyway, as Shotaro wasn't supposed to be in this place. His partner had started coming over and was just reaching over when he disappeared and Philip had awoken to Akiko shaking him awake. She had been concerned by the fact he had been making noises whilst asleep on the table. He had started working after that. Hard.
Philip knew now that Shotaro was alive, but it didn't look like he was being treated very well nor he would survive for much longer. This was enough to get Philip working non-stop, searching through the Planetary Bookshelves for an answer and using what he could to determine a location. It had all taken a different path however when Terui arrived and revealed that there had been a rise in the number of Memories and there were whispers on the streets of ultimate Memories, ones which cost huge amounts to obtain but had 10 times the power but nothing like that had been seen by Terui who was now working to stop the dopants in place of Shotaro.
When they had met the man upon the cliff, the man had actually brought the Driver and Memories. It was probably a way to ensure maximum grief, if they had happened to believe in that the person whom had been thrown off the cliff was actually Shotaro. Philip bit his lip in anger, the thoughts of being driven around with no control over his own feelings had annoyed him greatly and he was going to make those people that had hurt Shotaro in their initial attack, played with their feelings, destroyed Shotaro's childhood and seemingly was killing Shotaro right now, they were pay. Philip was going to destroy them.
It was the haunting eyes that disturbed Philip the most, what Philip had seen in Shotaro's eyes was not the half-boiled detective but a child. A child who was lost and scared and needing some guidance out what ever dark place he had landed in. Philip didn't recognize the child who had inhabited Shotaro's mind at the moment but he was determined to bring Shotaro back from that state. Hopefully before any permanent damage could occur; mentally or physically.
Philip looked at the papers before him, showing the pattern of where the new Memory uses had been found. He had done research into the period in which they wanted the Memories and where they had achieved their sales from. This enabled him to distinguish any Memories that happened to be from the time his own family had been producing them. Philip looked over at Terui, who looked exhausted and had Akiko fussing over him.
"Any luck Philip?" Terui asked, going to rise from the red armchair, only to be pushed down again by a protective Akiko who went to make some tea. Philip shook his head, grimly. He had told them this morning about how he knew Shotaro was alive and even the Planetary Bookshelves confirmed it.
"Nothing. I have a partnership between the Memories Utopia, Zone and Gene, which involves Shotaro. I have an area where the new Memories are being sold. There is a rumour about these red Memories which we haven't seen yet. The Stag Phone is repaired but any information taken from the attack has been lost. Nothing is linking together." Philip shuffled through the papers as he talked, looking at the respective papers in turn. Terui frowned deeply.
"Maybe," Akiko started before stopping. Philip looked up at Akiko, who shook her head quickly returning to making the teas. Philip slumped against the back of the chair, biting his lip.
A gust of wind blew through the open window, which had been recently repaired from the attack and blew the papers off the desk, scattering them randomly across the floor. Philip and Terui jumped up and grabbed the papers before they could scatter more. One landed by Akiko's foot. Blinking at it, Akiko bent down and picked it up. It was the map indicating the area of where the Memories were being sold. Tracing a random road, she traced it back to the grassland that had once held the Sonozaki family mansion.
"Philip-kun," she started. Philip paused in his paper gathering to look at the girl again. "What happened to the Earth's data stream underneath the mansion?" Philip frowned, gathering the last piece of paper from Akiko's hands looking at it. Terui looked over their shoulders.
"Its entrance was crushed by the mansion and I presume it disappeared when I returned to the Earth. I was linked into that data stream." Philip said looking at Akiko again, wondering what the girl was thinking.
"How did your father find it?"
"The Earth must have called Father to it but he also said he stumbled across it by chance. At the time I was there I could feel several other pulls but it was most certainly the strongest."
"So is there a chance, that there could be other Earth data Streams? Not as strong but other data streams none the less?" Akiko said finally looking away at the map and she saw the quick look of thoughtfulness, followed by a sort of sad joy.
"Aki-chan. You may be a genius," grabbing the map off Akiko and making his way back to the table. "Father didn't just purchase the land on which the mansion stood and the data stream; he owned a large amount around that area as well. He must have thought to keep himself safe and in a business proposition that he would buy the large area encase there were other data streams worth exploring." Philip laid the map on the table and started running a pencil, which he picked up from the table, between the different red dots indicating where the Memories had been bought. "He was excavating a large area expanding far out underneath the land he owned itself. The result of the mansion going could have created a shockwave, opening up new tunnels and closing others. One of those tunnels could have led to a new data stream." Philip started drawing lines in the land of the Sonozaki grounds before circling a small area. "That's where the data stream is." Philip trailed off slowly.
"And that's where Hidari is," Terui said firmly. Philip nodded, he could only hope that Shotaro would be there, the image he saw in his dream coming back to him. They wouldn't reach Shotaro in time if they were wrong. They had to be right.