After school

unlike usual, this time all of the member gather at my house, including Akibara, looks like she really wants to be a part of the "Party", after we explaining everything to her, she seems agreed to keep the secrets and Riku makes the "Adventurer Card" for her

this time i entrusted Yuzu to Yuki home and giving excuses that we want to have a meeting about club activity and the other things, her mother doesn't look care about our explanation and just go straight playing with Yuzu...

after that Ume and Kyoko start explaining things, showing us a picture of Misaki, and etc

"so... that's all of the explanation we can give" [Ume] Ume finish explaining

"please help us" [Kyoko]

.......... haaah... Misaki father didn't even bother to search for her, ...tch! this annoys me. as far as i know, looks like her parents are divorced, her mother died when she is at 5 grade, she and her two siblings move into this city and start living with her father, the problem is, her father doesn't care at all about them. the newest things i heard from Ume is that Misaki father brings his new girlfriend to the house, not long after that Misaki is gone...

(......if i met her father, I'm going to make sure he can't have sex anymore) [Nashi]

"basically, Misaki-san whereabout is unknown, and we need to search for her?" [Ryu]... that's surprising for him to be the first one talking, and somehow he starts to talk casually

"Suzuki, i think not only her whereabouts but her fate is unknown either" [Nashi]

"........." [Riku] .... is it just me or Akamine seems quiet?

"yes! , but this still a problem though, we don't have any clue at all about her, even we don't know when is the last time she has been seen" [Julia]

"the last time i seen her will be after we went home from "XxX Cafe" [Kyoko]

.....what kind of cafe is that!?

"hee~ almost 4 days then, i see... this is pretty troublesome, alright then! Nachi! i throw this to you!" [Julia]

"...really, let's see... the location of her house is in the urban area, this place still have many people walking around until morning, considering Misaki attitude, i don't think she will give up without creates some kind of fight, if that's the case, there's a chance she's missing after she moves out from this area, ah... there's a chance she got down instantly, so keep that in mind " [Nashi] i'm explaining things while moving my finger around the map, a real map not my ability

"*whistle* the world just not fair, this man is playing around as much as me, but how does he get that smart!?" [Bando]

"......that's not smart, he just deducting" [Yuki]

"Yup, exactly as Yuki says, now you two is there someplace she likes to hang out? maybe somewhere she goes whenever she wants to be alone?" [Nashi]

"the bridge? she likes to hang around that place" [Kyoko]

"but she goes to the "Living Arcade" all the times too, ah she also likes to go to a warehouse near dockyard, the place where they usually play underground rock band" [Ume]

"Basically there are too many places huh... if that's the case the best case scenario is searching near that area, but let's just skips that, since you two already searches around that right?"

"yes..." [Ume]

"but!, there're chances that we miss something" [Kyoko] oh, she got worked up... looks like i said that a little wrong

"that's not what i mean Kyoko-chan, what i mean rather than looking for a clue the last place she has seen, it's better to look for the most possible place she'll be" [Nashi] .... even though in the process sometimes we need to look at the last place the target is seem

"...basically what Nashi want to say, rather than look backward, he wants us to start looking around the suspicious places" [Kyo]

"yeah... but i think it's pretty good to look the clues at the last place she was seen, maybe something like the last person she's with, or anyone that sees her getting kidnapped" [Nashi]

"if that's the case, wouldn't checking the police call report will be the best?" [Julia] she says this at looks at Yasutake

"yeah, if that's the case that'll be good, but the places she's gone is the places with many people, even though she's a regular after she gets out from that place, not many people will pay attention to her anymore" [Nashi]

"and about the second case, the problem is whether or not Yasutake can do it, i mean we need to sneaking around at police office right? ah... forget about this, if that's the case there should be some police or detective that already aware of this and starts to do the investigation on their own" [Nashi]

"now..... Nashi-kun~ how about that "man"? [Morio]

"that "man" huh... yeah, unlike the case with Akibara sister, this time we don't have a clue about the last place she had been seen, so he will be our best bet" [Nashi] i look at Akibara, she looks pretty serious listening to our conversation, but...

"what man? , hey~ Morio-san~ you're not taking him to a dangerous man again right~?" [Nana] .... she looks angry, crap because of Morio i slip up about that man

"...please don't judge fast, Nashi is the one that introduces him to me" [Morio] it's true.... but don't talk it that way,... Nana-nee is looking at me now

"yeah that's true, and he isn't dangerous at all.... it depends on what you perceive dangerous though, he just informant~ an informant, a good one, he knows everything that's happening in this city even the underworld activity" [Nashi]

"....the problem is the price, depends on how much we pay, we can get the information as much as we want, now the next problem is" [Nashi]

"how much we want to pay him right?" [Julia] ..... she cuts my word, well i just respond to her word by a nod

".....how much money do we have? i have a little bit of pocket exchange" [Kyoko]

"no! you two will stay out of this decision, this might sound mean, but we need to think rationally about spending our money at information and the cost to get her back" [Nashi]

yeah... it just doesn't make any sense to me if the cost is greater than the value... I'm a mean person after all, able to value someone life in money like that

"you... basically, you just saying that her life can be counted my money?" [Ume]

"....that's not wrong but not true either, what i mean is whether or not the money we spent worth of the risk that we can't find her, or the risk she's already dead, and it's not like anyone in here knows about Misaki right? I'm fine with spending a little bit of money, but that just isn't fair to anyone else if they need to spend money too, anyhow you two just stay out of this matter, this one need to be made rational" [Nashi]

"....Kamiya-kun is a little bit...stingy? no..economical right?" [Akibara Rie]

unknown to Nashi, Rie already whispering this to the girl beside her and that's

"u...uhm... sorry.. i don't know much about him either" [Ikuko]

"we just need to pay, the problem will be over?" [Leiko]

"not really... since we need some kind of method to get her back, if she's still in police jurisdiction that'll be the good scenario, but if somehow she's already outside police jurisdiction, let's say a place that isn't located on the map... or something like that, the problem will not over yet" [Nashi]

"the next one will be, how much you guys want to saves her? i just do it since this is my sister request.... seems like Kyo doing the same thing as me" [Nashi] i say this while looking at Kyo, in which he responds with a nod

"ah, if you guys want to skip this request that's fine... just think of this as a quest from Akamine "quest" [Nashi]

"this seems interesting~, and as a party leader, of course, I'm joining in" [Julia]

"..... I'll go, can't let you do stupid things alone" [Yuki]

"since i can't go helping Akibara-senpai sister, this time i will try to do my best" [Ryu]

"Yeah, I'm in" [Leiko] .......somehow i have a feeling that she just stopped listening midway and agrees to whatever we concluded

"Ou! this seems fun too! count both of us in!" [Bando] he says this while circled his hand on Morio neck...

"........what!? oi fucker why are you counting me in?" [Morio]

"...Morio-nii you know, aunty will kill you if you let me go to the dangerous place by myself" [Yuki] i never said we will go to a dangerous place right? that's only possibility

"that's a threat!? ... haah you win Yuki, I'll right I'm in, in one condition, if i have sudden work, i take my leave first" [Morio] ahaha... that's why i said to anyone that only want to join...but he's still got forced to joining huh

"I'm in! it just doesn't feel like to reject the first activity when you join a club!" [Akibara Rie]

".....i...is that so... then I'm in" [Ikuko] .......is these two will be fine?

............. so Nana-nee, Yasutake, and Akamine aren't joining this time, well that's okay we have enough person,

"ah....i think I'm joining, just to make sure you guys don't do anything stupid" [Nana]

"is that so? ah since we don't know whether or not things will get dangerous, you guys can quit anytime" [Nashi]

".......wait Nachi! why are you the one that does all the talk!? that should be me!" [Julia]

"ah! i think I'm joining too! you guys number is 13 right!? that's a bad luck number so makes me the 14!" [Riku] ..... she's back to normal? or not...?

"wha? I'm the one that doesn't want to join then? ........... alright I'm joining to" [Hotsukai] ....dude, if you don't want, don't need to force yourself, he even says that while dropping his shoulder

*exhale* .... even though this isn't their responsibility, either they just naive or what... well this isn't mine either, i wonder if anyone else asking this, will i listen to their request?

"Ahem! alright since all the members agreed to join, this time Ume-chan and Kyoko-chan will be left behind in decision making, I'm just quoting what Nachi says, but he does make a point, ah.. anyhow... we will not give the details to you too, until we decided about what to do next.... i somehow have a feeling if you two know the details both of you will start looking by yourself" [Julia]

that's a long explanation by Julia.... but that does make senses... since i thought that Ume and Kyoko asking for our help, they will try to wait for us to making move, but....

"geh!!" [Ume]

"we aren't!" [Kyoko]

yup these two will definitely do it as soon as they get any kind of information,

"haah~ alright, about the money~ we still have 6.000.000yen left~ you know from the kobold hunt yesterday~" [Julia]

"6million!?" [Akibara] right... she doesn't know

"@@" [Ikuko] ..... this one looks overwhelmed again

"Julia, you take that wrong, the money we give you is to payback the thing that you buy from Suzuki item mall" [Kyo]

"Yup~ and i decides to make this guild money! of course, i will not spend any money after this, and we will start working things around with the "Party" money!" [Julia] ........ then you'll need a treasurer to count all our expenses right?

..... now that i think about this, who gives the money? i mean there's a serial number on them right? it just doesn't make sense to me that........ ah... so from people that have "item mall" or "gacha ability" ..... wait let's skip this for a while

in the end, all of us agrees to spend 2.000.000 for information, this might sound crazy, but never once in my life, i think about spending 2 million to get information that's still vague

anyhow after this, we split into three groups

the first group: Nashi, Bando, Morio, Nana, Kyo > taking the money to meet that "man"

the second group: Julia, Riku, Kyoko, Leiko, Rie > will prepare things, in case the "Party" needs to move, looking for information about missing person on the net

the third group: Yuki, Hotsukai, Ikuko, Ryu, Ume> will circle area round game center, warehouse, bridge to looking for clues

Name Akibara Rie Level 1 (0/100) Life Points 142 Stamina Points 48 Ability Points 0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0/0 Class None STR 24 CON 21 DEX 52 AGI 40 INT 108 WIS 35 CHA 61 LUK 62