"I'm guessing his escape was less than successful," pointed out Haruka due to the current lack of Keitaro.
"Oh?"
Sighing to herself, Naru glared at the ditzy woman. "Don't you think that if he got free, he'd have headed home to us?"
"Ah, that's right. I suppose he'd really want to do something like that."
"You have to be kidding.... Listen, did he say why Keitaro didn't return to us?"
"Actually... no."
"But that's the important part! We must know what happened to him!" Motoko blurted out.
"Sounds like you're very intent on finding out," Mitsune purred.
"Ah... um... Only as we will need to find him. That's it."
"Right."
"It is not that I miss him or anything of that sort!"
The normally squinting girl nodded. "Of course."
"I am glad that we have come to an understanding."
"Why wouldn't we? You're protesting things just like Naru is."
"HEY!" barked both Naru and Motoko.
"In any case," growled Haruka over the rising noise, "our best chance to find out about what is going on is what Mutsumi knows. Do you know just why he didn't tell you about what happened to Keitaro?"
"Oh, yes. You see, he told me that he hadn't seen anything after that," Mutsumi replied, giving a light smile of pleasure.
"Eh?"
"Why not?" asked Motoko.
Mutsumi looked a bit sympathetic towards the memory of the boy she was talking about. "The boat that he was on floated too far away."
"He was on a boat?"
"Yes, he was. But wasn't it lucky that he came into sight just then? It was only an accident, after all."
"An 'accident'?"
"He was looking for a bath house when he wound up on that boat. Luckily, there was all that water around him...."
All of the others groaned and hung their heads.
"What?" Mutsumi asked, blinking several times. "Did I say something wrong?"
"It's not that. But at least we have something to work with. I mean, all we have to do is figure out which boat he was riding on," suggested Naru.
Mitsune shook her head. "Won't work. Japan is a series of islands, remember. Lots of ports all over them."
"And there are many boats within those waters," Motoko pointed out.
"Oh. Right," murmured Naru as her shoulders slumped, while:
(Posted Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:23)
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