Saki pulled off the road. She turned just in time to see Ai go flying off her bike. "Wrong brakes!"
"WHAAAAAAA!" she screamed as she crashed into a bicycle rack they had stopped in front of. "Oof!" she exclaimed as she hit the ground with a thud. Her bike slid to a stop several feet away from her.
Junko stopped her bike without going flying and turned it off. "Please be careful, Ai!"
She got up, snapping her joints back to where they were supposed to be. "I'm alright." She dusted herself off. "Why'd we stop?"
"I just wanted to check on you guys," Saki explained. "See what you're thinking. Y'know, since this is all pretty new to you."
She grinned from ear to ear. "That was great! I loved every second of it!"
She gave a thumbs up. "Good to hear! What about you, Junko?"
She smiled. "I also think it was very fun."
She nodded. "Good, good." She looked up at both of them. "Well, that wasn't the only reason we stopped. We need to talk."
Ai and Junko looked at each other.
Now, first order of business." She looked down at her feet. "I think Dorami… might be gone."
The idols raised their eyebrows.
"So, we're what's left of Dorami." She looked up. "We'll have to recruit more members."
"How do we do that?" Ai asked.
She put her hand to her chin. "Typically, they would come to us, but I don't know what kind of freaks want to join a crew of zombies."
"Well, I think that would make the people who do join us even more threatening," Ai said.
"Which brings us to our second issue. When should we stop disguising ourselves as zombies?"
"I think we should wait until we have more members," Ai answered.
"Well I think we should stop now that we've finally got bikes," Junko said.
Saki looked between the two. Crap, they don't agree? "Okay, this is really important, guys, so we should probably agree…"
"I'm sick of these glasses. They're digging into my ears!" Junko complained.
"But we still have business to do as humans," Ai protested.
"Like what?"
"Well, I think we should modify our bikes. If we don't, I think we'll be found out by… uh, Saki, what was their name again?"
"Who?" Saki asked.
"The enemy gang."
"Korosuke."
"I think we'll be found out by Korosuke."
"Hmm, you have a point," Junko muttered. "You're right. We should remain disguised for the time being."
Saki stared at them blankly. They just made up just like that? What the hell? "A-alright, um, that settles it. We'll mod our bikes and maybe do a bit more as humans before we embrace being zombies." She turned her bike back on. "Then let's keep moving."
"Where are we going?" she asked.
"Back to Karatsu."
"Why? Isn't that where Shades is?" Ai asked.
"I have unfinished business." Saki took off.
Junko was quick to follow.
"Agh, no," Ai whispered to herself as she pulled her bike back up. She got on and rode after the two girls.
The three rode up the mountain's twists and turns slowly so as to avoid crashing. Saki's mind was blank. She slowed once she reached the parking lot. Instead of braking, she just let herself slow to an eventual stop before turning off her bike.
Junko and Ai pulled up behind her, braking normally.
She put down the kickstand, untied her sleeve, and got off the bike silently. She took off her glasses and put them in her pocket.
The two others looked at one another, confused. They turned off their bikes and got off as well. They stared at Saki, who was making her way towards a fence at the edge of the parking lot.
She walked slowly towards the fence, each step more slowly than the last. When she finally reached it, she knelt next to it and inspected it. Though the entire fence was quite aged and looked monotonous, there was a segment where one could easily tell the wood had been replaced if they looked at it closely enough.
"Where are we?" Ai asked, walking up behind her.
There was no response. She stood up and looked over the edge of the cliff the fence was on. There was nothing noticeably off about the foliage at the bottom, but it seemed less thick than the foliage around it. She fell to her knees, letting the bright lights of the city blind her through the fence's holes.
"Saki? Are you okay?" She put a hand on her shoulder.
Saki shuddered in response to the sudden contact, but didn't do anything to stop it.
Ai sat down beside her. Junko did the same on Saki's other side. They both looked out to where she was looking.
She knelt, staring into the lights of Karatsu, for what felt like an eternity. After what felt like hours had passed, she finally spoke. "This place… is very important to Dorami."
They both looked at her.
"This is the place where we would challenge Korosuke most of the time." She looked up at the sky. "We would settle feuds by driving towards this railing, and the person who chickened out first would lose." She smiled for a second, before letting her lips back into a frown. "It's now very important to Dorami for a different reason." She looked down into the trees below. "Twenty-one years ago, I drove through this railing and died when my bike exploded after it hit the ground."
Ai and Junko gasped and looked down to where Saki was looking.
"When I died, I left behind the one person I cared about the most. The one person who I needed the most." A tear rolled down her cheek. "I miss her so much."
"Saki…" Ai whispered.
She looked back up at the sky. "And now… I have a second chance. We can get to biking once I fix the mess I made." She turned to Ai. "So, yeah. I'm okay."
She smiled.
Saki kept staring. She reached out in front of her, putting her hand on her face. "Oh, there you are. Jeez, I've been wearing those sunglasses too long. That was super bright. I can't see anything. Our eyes aren't super bright compared to the city."
She laughed. "Here." She stood up and pulled Saki up with her, guiding her to her bike. "Sit down and put your sunglasses back on. They'll help your eyes readjust."
Junko walked over, wiping tears from her face.
"How are you planning on finding this person?" she asked.
"I don't know. But I will."
Junko sniffled.
Saki furrowed her brows. "Junko, are you crying?"
"W-well, perhaps a little…"
She smiled. "Thanks guys, it's good to have ya."