It took him a little while to move over to the bar, and perhaps the fact that the mysterious brown-haired individual had taken a seat next to "The Rising Star" would turn a head or two. He was certainly brazen, that was for sure and he wasn't the type to act without such bold motions.<br/><br/>Smirking a bit, he cocked his head up toward the barkeep and started to flex his hands a bit before sitting back in the chair with a rather formal position for someone who was waiting for a drink. "I don't drink; do you have jasmine tea?"<br/><br/>In spite of his previous display it seemed like he was, in many ways, Rebecca's opposite. He didn't drink or smoke, seemed to be rather stable and sat properly. That didn't explain why he wasn't showing too much fear, though, considering that most people probably would have.<br/><br/>Turning back toward "The Rising Star," the aforementioned mysterious individual offered her a smirk before he started talking. "I hear you're pretty good; think you can get me a tryout with the Waterfront, or are they not taking on new fighters at the moment?"<br/><br/>Well that probably would have gotten a gasp out of some people; one usually didn't mention the name of an underground fighting organization out in public, but then again this bar at least was rather keen to those kinds of things so it may not have mattered too much. They wouldn't have been speaking to the cops on his behalf anytime soon.<br/><br/>"I'm afraid I didn't catch your name," he carried on with, "but I think its Rebecca. Is that right? I've seen you in the pits, and man you rock!" He grinned and tilted his head, seeming completely oblivious to the fact that she probably wasn't exactly the type who wasn't ready to talk with random nameless strangers.<br/><br/>That being said, at least one of those complaints was going to be corrected, "They call me Shikake." It certainly seemed doubtful that was a real name, considering that it was spelled with the kanji for device. Still, for reasons that he hadn't yet divulged that name would have been entirely too apropos should she have known a little more of his background.<br/><br/>While he may have looked relatively normal, he had his own unique back-story that may not have even been completely known to him at the moment. While Rebecca had made quite a name for herself as a fighter, he unfortunately hadn't had the same experience in spite of his own wish to. It was ironic, because what he was perhaps most obsessed with was order.<br/><br/>Recent news reports had been talking about a "Machine Warrior" who was running around town and, well, he was righting wrongs but at the same time he was certainly taking the law into his own hands. Criminals were found dead at crime scenes, and in theory the same individual actually was a criminal in his own right. He was a vigilante that people were having a tough time explaining, considering that he seemed to have an almost mechanical ability to take people down and even possessed some sort of energy wave weapon.<br/><br/>Fortunately for him the outfit that formed around him completely covered him, so there was no way that people would have recognized who he was, but then again someone living that type of double life probably shouldn't have been acting so brazenly and ultimately drawing attention to himself as a result of his motions.<br/><br/>Stranger still was the fact that he was so keen on going into an underground fight club, but he honestly admired them. They were a place to hone one's skills, and they lived on the edge of the law like he did. That might help to explain was he was so attracted to something like this, but for now it seemed like he was content to hide behind his mask of anonymity.<br/><br/>"Hey, are you just gonna stare out into space or something?" His words might very well have helped to jog her memory back to the present, but at the same time he sort of needed that same kind of thing as well. He had actually been aware of one other aspect of her, and he intended to bring that one up as well eventually.<br/><br/>He believed, but may not have been correct in the matter, that she was a debt collector. Again it was something to be admired from his point of view, because every transaction had to be fair. If you borrowed money you had to pay it back, regardless of whom you might have borrowed it from. That was just the way the universe was supposed to work, and he liked the constant idea of good symmetrical order. It just seemed to be the completely right way to live overall.