This awesome sense of Umibozu led him to believe that lady with the aura of Kaori was not initially Kaori herself. Instead she was someone related to her, Closely related! Following Saeko's gaze, the girl at the door said in a pleasant voice that was uncharacteristic of Kaori "I am Tachiki Sayuri." And then her gaze turned to the only male present in the room : Umibozu, and she asked " I am sorry for asking this, but where is Mr. City Hunter? He was supposed to meet me here." Saeko looked at the young girl in awe, and asked "How do you know him, and how did you get his address?" Even Umibozu gave a suspicious look at her. The girl understood her situation promptly and answered "I had written XYZ on the message board in Shinjuku station, and he answered to it. It was he who told me to meet here. See, I have the paper too where he gave me this address." Saying this, the girl opened her handbag, and showed a crumpled piece of paper which had Ryo's handwriting on it. Saeko took the paper and carefully went through it. On it was written Ryo's apartment number and the floor he lived in. Saeko had no doubt that the scribble was that of Ryo, No one else had such a messed-up handwriting. She returned the paper back to its owner and showed her the way in. Till now the visitor was at the door, with Umibozu guarding her entry, and Saeko looking over his shoulder at the girl. As the girl came in, her eyes were as if searching something around in the room. And it was not much later that her gaze got fixed on the small table in the room they were in. The small table had a joint photograph of Kaori and Ryo laughing together, on it. The young girl rushed to the table and picked up the photograph. She was literally in tears when she held it close to her bosom. "So you were here all the time, Kaori? And there I was, searching for you all over Japan!" she murmured, and moments later she broke into tears. Saeko could understand nothing, but Umibozu silently went to the kitchen and brought her a glass of water. She gulped it down in a sip and then proceeded towards the stairs shouting at the top of his voice "Kaori!... Ka….o…ri… can you hear me?" As he reached the first floor, the loud and stern voice of Umibozu was heard "You won't find what you're looking for. Both of the persons are not here." The girl rushed down to face him, but he sat there itself with an emotionless face. Saeko spoke next "You already crossed him in the street. Remember the person with the white dress whom you crossed minutes before, when you were hasting towards this apartment?" The girl said nothing, just nodded in approval. Saeko continued "That's him. That's the person who gave you this address. That's City Hunter Saeba Ryo"
For a few moments the girl said nothing, but then she asked the long awaited question "Where is Kaori?"
Saeko too was prepared for this, she too asked "How do you know her? Why is it that the first time I saw you, I could think of no one else but Kaori? Why is so that your face and Kaori's face are so similar?"
The girl said nothing for some time. In between Umibozu had brought a hassock from the pile beside the kitchen door, and motioned for her to come over. She said nothing just went and sat over it, and kept her face down, tears started strolling down her eyes and onto the floor. Umibozu sensed it and was a bit at loss to console this young girl crying for unknown reasons.
Meanwhile in Kabuki-Cho, Miki was aghast with horror and fear. She couldn't even stand straight. Ryo took her right on her left shoulder and helped her to walk to the nearest restaurant. As both of them entered, a girl with red hairs, probably a waiter, came forward and asked "Good morning sir. Good morning Ma'm. What would you like?" Miki ordered for a 2 hot coffee, but Ryo's eyes narrowed. He observed that there were no other female waiters, still this lady seemed familiar in a peculiar way. Ryo could tell it for sure that he knew her, "But how?" he thought. He rose up from his chair and went towards the kitchen. Behind a small parting door, was the kitchen. As expected, a waiter stopped him, "You can't go in, sir. I am sorry" he said politely. Ryo's suspicion was not completely gone, he said unmindfully "Call your manager. I want to meet him." The waiter called someone else and gave him the news, and the other waiter hurriedly disappeared inside. A few minutes later, the manager came rushing. He was a man in mid forties with a neatly combed parted hair and bow-tie, wore perfectly on his neck. As soon he faced Ryo, he exclaimed "Saeba-san! It's you! Tell me how can I help you?" This manager was one of the victims of the yakuza whom Ryo had helped long ago. It seemed that he had that in mind till now. Ryo was lost in thoughts by then. The manager had to call him a number of times "Saeba-San! Hey! …..Saeba-San!" before he regained his senses. He looked at the manager and asked "Hello Muto-san! I had a question in mind that I want to ask the lady-waiter whom I met just now. Could it be too irrelevant if I asked to see her?" The manager had a look of amazement on his face, he laughed for some time and then said "A lady-waiter! Were you dreaming Saeba-San? We have only male crew. All the chef and the waiters here are male. There is not a single female worker here."
Ryo's head went down with the reply he got and he hit his right fist hard in the wall he was leaning against. "Damn it!" he shouted, which brought Miki-san promptly to him.