"I guess... It feels more like..." She paused, struggling to find the right words. Japanese was still a pretty new language for her, though her lessons with Niijima, her senpai, definitely helped a lot. "Like... they're missing something. Light of some kind. Maybe it's just me."
Despite being in a coffee shop, Sylvia had never been much of a coffee fan herself. Instead, she had a cup of hot cocoa, her counter to the temperate, humid rain outside. They really did call it the 'rainy season' for a reason in Japan, didn't they? Back home, the weather was a roulette spin. Predictions tended to vary wildly. It was nice having a change of pace like this.
For a moment, she'd forgotten where she was and had just hit up the nearest stranger. She was still getting used to etiquette in Japan, and most people tended to ignore her whenever she tried to strike up a conversation, but this man-- or perhaps boy, as he seemed only a little older than her-- actually responded, to her surprise.
"Help, and fix... Yeah, I guess that's... right?" She wanted to say 'accurate,' but the word escaped her. "I'm like that too. I know in my mind that they're strangers... but..." She trailed off, not sure how to finish the sentence, but she wasn't sure it was even necessary. With a nervous smile, she tried to brush off her own sentence. "Well, that's just me, though. You don't need to worry about that. Sorry..."
The television was playing beside the two, depicting a news channel. They spoke so fast and so fluently, Sylvia couldn't quite catch everything they were saying, but she could sort of piece together the idea from what she could grasp.
"And now to our latest story; police caution teens to be very careful when wandering the streets of Shibuya. A student from some kind of name High School in some kind of name District has been caught trafficking drugs by police. When questioned, the student claimed to have been blackmailed and threatened. This case is currently under investigation by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."
"I've heard how dangerous Shibuya is lately... It's scary, isn't it? Please stay safe, too."