Chapter 25 - Boy and Girl
The boy and girl exit from Roppongi station.
The girl drags the boy's hands leading the way towards the tower excitedly. She points at the spider statue and jumps at at the boy playfully, re-enacting as if she was Shelob in Lord of the Rings. At the tower entrance they sneak past the line queueing to go up, a perk that they grinned about; a Sailor Moon exhibit was showing. The boy shakes his head, the girl nods enthusiastically; it was her childhood.
As they wait inside the elevator, the boy wonders; this feels more like a date than looking for a purpose.
The elevator beeps and they get out. The girl spills out and pull the boy through. Through the Sailor Moon exhibit, onto the observation windows. The girl is excited by how large Tokyo is. The boy thinks about how grey tokyo is.
They go around, and then around again. Perhaps they were distracted by the view and didn't notice faces properly. Smiling couples, excited school girls, enthusiastic tourists. The girl's face is falling. It was meant to be right! They should be here! She had a premonition or feeling!
They look around at the surrounds; Tokyo is so large...
The boy looks at the girl's disappointed face. He notices the cafe in front of them .He motions to her and she follows him inside. It would be good to sit down to think.
They sit at a table and wistfully know that they can't order a cake or parfait from the menu. The boy and girl sit silently at the table. As they wait there, they notice the TV hanging in the corner of the room.
Another meteorite hitting Japan, another politician doing something inappropriate, another TV personality visiting a local town to try out local cuisine for an obscure festival. And then they notice two people on TV that they recognise. The boy points at the TV. The girl points at the TV; that's them! Excited they hug each other they have a lead to follow!
Excitedly they rush to the elevators to leave they don't even follow the end of the broadcast. Back to the station and cramming into the subway to the Yoyogi park station.
They sneak past the security point effortlessly and to the production studio. One drawer, second drawer, and they find it. They really should start careers as detectives with the amount of digging through files that they've done in the past few days and their success rate was pretty out of this world. Out of the news article file they find the production notes and the consent forms for what they had just watched;
Tachibana Taki, Miyamizu Mitsuha.
The girl and boy looks at each other. This was it. The girl and boy hug each other, emotionally jumping up and down. When they calm down they look at each other. They would separate here. Behind each name was an address and contact details on where those people were located.
This last leg of the journey they would have to make alone.