⠀ ⠀ [ Kanrai - Kamurocho , 2006 ] "Stories of Kamuro" - 2/?
Having followed their instructions, both Elliot and Kyle are seated in a private corner to themselves. A small stove sat on the table between them with a pan.
"Doesn't this concern you?" Elliot asks as he looks to Kyle- who's rather excited to be eating somewhere so posh. In all their time in Tokyo, they've been sleeping in the cheapest capsule hotels, with food only bought from convenience stores and vending machines. "I mean, you just met this man and suddenly you're putting your full trust in him. What if he's finding a way to scam us again?"
Kyle is sitting opposite him, excitedly looking around at all the other tables. His stomach felt like a pit, he was so hungry and seeing everyone else around him eat only made him feel hungrier.
"Nah, I don't think there's any need to be worried." Kyle smiles. "This high ranking mate is taking us under his wing, we're doing a couple of jobs for him and then we can get out of here and back home to Australia. Nothing fishy about that."
"But he gave us these pins... the lady at the front looked nervous when we showed them to her." Elliot speaks as he gets himself comfortable. In fact, it wasn't just the lady who immediately became uncomfortable upon seeing the pin- but everyone else around them who noticed their pin. It's all making Elliot that little bit uncomfortable.
"I mean, aren't they some kind of crime family? I mean- they have to be right? They took what little money we had with us and are now making us earn it back so we can head back home."
"Come on Elliot." Kyle speaks softly, trying to reassure his best friend. "It's just three jobs. Get them done, then we're out of here. On a plane, flying over the ocean and then back on home soil."
"We don't even know what the jobs are." Elliot sighs, dropping his head into his hands. "We could be tasked with killing someone. I couldn't do that."
A lady approaches them with a bowl of tripe, placing it down next to the pair. She's really cautious around them, makign sure she doesn't get in their way. Kyle is a little repulsed by the look of the tripe, but he can see it's food that isn't just onigiri or cup noodles and that excites him. He can feel his stomach rumbling at the sight of the food.
"Look, I doubt that." Kyle mumbles, picking up his chopsticks excitedly. Effortlessly, he takes some of the tripe and throws it into their heated pan, hearing it sizzle the second it makes contact. "I don't expect they'd get a couple of foreigners to do that."
Elliot doesn't seem comfortable with any of this. Instead, he feels scared that this is all going to go terribly wrong in a matter of weeks. He never thought a trip out to Tokyo would land them both in so much trouble.
"Look, let's not worry about this now. Let's eat!" Kyle excitedly speaks, picking up some of the tripe out from the pan. He holds a piece between his chopsticks, raising it for a second.
"Itadakimasu!"