<span class="bbc_u">"There were five who stole the Sacred Magatamas.  Two foreigners - a man and a woman - and three of our own people - two men and a woman.  Given their black-scarlet ki, I am certain that they are servants of Mikaboshi - Akuma."</span>That made sense.  The Akuma were the tip of the spear for the Yama Kings, and only Mikaboshi would have been daring enough to try and strike at the Shrine, given the power of the God of Swords.<span class="bbc_u">"Each of them were accompanied by a group of mortal fighters, much like those you disposed of outside.  They'll be the ones holding the Magatamas.  You'll have to defeat them to get them back."</span><br/><br/>The next time the dialogue options appeared, the question Joy had asked was crossed out, like the others...but a second question, bracketed under the first, had appeared in the list.  It made sense to follow this particular line of inquiry, so Aika's 2P cursor pinged that one.<br/><br/><del>&gt;Who took the Magatamas?</del><br/>>> What can you tell us about them?<br/><del>&gt;How did the Yama Kings figure out what we were doing?</del><br/>>Why didn't you use that energy pulse thing earlier?<br/>>What can you tell us about Hisashiro?<br/><del>&gt;Nori, what do you think happened to Genjo?</del><br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">What can you tell us about them?</tt><br/>"What can you tell us about them?"<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">"There were two that I recognized.  You fought the Azure Riders out in the courtyard.  The Akuma who was with them was their leader, Tamatsuki Tobei.  He's young, but he worked his way to the top of the Riders in just a few years, disposing of rivals and old guard alike who stood in his way.  They're a motorcycle gang that runs the streets over in the Residential District. The police have been trying to bring them down, but they're outnumbered and Tobei is strong enough to stop whole teams of cops himself."</span><br/><br/>A pause, and then he continued - loading text, perhaps?<span class="bbc_u">"The other was Yamashita Hiroji, one of the scions of the Yamashita-gumi.  Their clan has been attempting to build a casino over on Inayama Island for a few years, and it's nearing completion.  Why Hiroji ended up an Akuma, I don't know..."</span><br/><br/>More loading.<span class="bbc_u">"The other three, I don't know.  But I can offer you some things I saw and heard while they were here."</span><br/><br/>The picture of a foreign woman - this one also a blonde like Joy - appeared in the FOV.<span class="bbc_u">"This one, they called Reeves, and her men were dressed like foreign soldiers.  Grey-and-black camouflage attire, and they had a patch on it: a shield with a pair of crossed daggers and a crown."</span><br/><br/>The second picture was that of another woman, but she looked Japanese...mostly.<span class="bbc_u">"This one said little, but her men were dressed in the fashion of Chinese <em>tong</em> soldiers, and she knows Snake Style Kung Fu."</span><br/><br/>The third and last was that of a foreign man.<span class="bbc_u">"He was dressed in a nice suit - and spoke in words I heard in one of the Italian trattorias in town.  His men were eclectic, all various peoples and groups."</span><br/><br/>The question answered, the prompts appeared again.<br/><br/><del>&gt;Who took the Magatamas?</del><br/><del>&gt;&gt; What can you tell us about them?</del><br/><del>&gt;How did the Yama Kings figure out what we were doing?</del><br/>>Why didn't you use that energy pulse thing earlier?<br/>>What can you tell us about Hisashiro?<br/><del>&gt;Nori, what do you think happened to Genjo?</del>