"Id's a waitin' game, mo'fo'. Since 1900s, da's fo' sho'." Neo snickered sardonically to the man who warned him about the health risks of his cigarette habit. While he does not seek death for himself in anyway, he has always put himself in dangerous situations due to bravado and taste for violence. As such, he wasn't a stranger to the various wars that the US had participated in the 20th century and those were one of the reasons why Neo wasn't too worried about cancer developing on his body, aside from the fact that he is an alchemist capable of preventing such from happening.<br/><br/>He then saw an unoccupied motorcycle nearby and inconspicuously approached it. He seated himself on the bike, hot-wired it using his butterfly knife and tend rode away from the town proper immediately.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Rattus and Yukina has been keeping their watch on their own room for about an hour now. Rattus stood vigilantly outside the motel room for an hour already while Yukina was inside, sitting on the sofa. Yukina felt afraid, especially that someone was tailing on them on their first day in Arc Diable. She saw nothing really wrong with them investigating the reasons why truckers avoid the town, and this was only due to Rattus' business interests. For her, it just so happened that they stumbled upon something scary and didn't mean no harm in the first place.<br/><br/>Rattus, however, got more curious when he saw the actual condition of the town. For the businessman, he saw it as his duty to resolve the problem right then and there for two reasons. The first one was what he initially came to the town for: the strange behavior of the transporters towards the town was disrupting his business and he didn't like it. He thought that getting to the root of the problem will make his business flow more smoothly in the future and prevent further disruptions regarding the town.<br/><br/>The second reason, however, was more instinctual in nature. He was appalled and disturbed by the fact that the residents of this town were so afraid for their lives that they can't get themselves to come out of their abodes even in the afternoon. He knew he was a wealthy and immortal man and, even if he didn't have deep connections with the town itself, he thought that it was up to him and his two other colleagues to put an end to the decade-old problem, since they have the capability to do so.<br/><br/>Yet, he has been watching the area for an hour and there was no sign of anyone trailing them at all. At this point, his composure has regressed from a pretend-relaxed one to a more blatant show of being on guard. He figured out that, at this point, whoever was observing them might have already been tipped off that the trio knew they are being watched, so Rattus decided to head back to the motel room in order to relax himself a bit.<br/><br/>Yukina saw him enter the room, so she worriedly asked, "What did you see out there, onii-chan?"<br/><br/>"No sign of unusual activity." He reported directly to her. "And going by the earlier tip given to us, we must keep watching from within the confines of this room instead."<br/><br/>"Does this mean we are safe for now?" she questioned further.<br/><br/>"Not yet." he said. "But you can calm down for now, if you want to. I will keep watch instead. Do you understand?"<br/><br/>She nodded, and went back to bed area to put her swords back to the metal trunk where she got them. Thus, the day ended for the two of them.