10 hours after the Arroyo Riots.
"What's the story?"
"Rockerboy concert got out of hand, things got...messy."
"Forty billion eddies worth of damage, five hundred injured, the statue of Saburo Arasaka sporting permanent googly eyes...Jesus."
"We're lucky nobody died."
"Yeah. ..so...what kicked it off? Was it the music?"
"Kusanagi."
"Kusa...the Oni? Or the Ghost?"
"Neither, though technically the Oni, I suppose. Except he didn't do anything."
"Really? I, uh, no offense but I find that hard to believe."
"No, it's worse than that. With the Oni, at least we know what to expect. No, he was there to watch the concert. So were all the women in his orbit."
"...oh my God. We got lucky."
"Yeah..."