>>6019955Sumika goes to speak to the lobby clerk - something about calling the operating room to put a L3 agent in the operator role for a trial run. The tall asian woman's explanation for her absence was "preserving the integrity of Stormwatch assets." You guess it has to look good on paper somehow.
Postponing her business for a moment, she walks past you back to the doorway. She leads you through the rain toward her estate. Though you tried beginning to talk in the heavy rain, she hushed you, and kept walking.
Sumika's estate is a residence that went through heavy renovations specifically for the abnormally tall woman. You haven't seen much of Nippon, much less how the people live, but it continues to live up to your every imagining of them. Rather than coming here for training in her especially spacious dojo, she takes you to a room where she had you sit on a floor at a knee-high table with a blanket sticking out over it, and grabbed a drink for you. Some white bottled drink that smelled like nothing but rice and alcohol, served hot. It was easy to drink, at least.
"I am sorry for not taking control of your mission today," Sumika starts with an apology on her end, her speech much slower and heavier than when she is on the radio. "I have so... so little free time. I am not allowed to bring outsiders here to my abode, as well, so I had only just returned. I had hoped Arsi was a suitable replacement, but yet... Did something happen on the mission? Did... you lose someone?"
<span class="mu-b">Select up to two options.</span>
>Lament how poor of a leader you are for letting Yoshimitsu get gnawed on by an aberration for a long time.>Express concern for the treatment you got from Sigrun just now.>Vent how the MNP took your mother away, and made you and Sumika live like peasants, and how you have to kill to hold a child in your arms, and(...)>Let it all out. Complain about all the above, and probably a lot more.>Write-in 