Believe it when it's said that<em>no one</em>was more embarrassed at the open action than Aika had been, even if the crowd had been<em>very</em>appreciative of the effort.  She stood on the side as the second set of races got started, while Joy worked the crowd looking for information.  Once she had it, she returned to the queen stand, and stood in close.  The Muay Thai fighter would be able to tell the comment about the show she put on was a little off-putting, but that might have just been as easily chalked up to the rather vivid memory Aika had of the experience.  "Oh, uhm...yeah."  God, she felt so hot, and she wasn't sure it was the outside.  Joy's volunterring of information, though, gave her something to focus on, something she eagerly took advantage of.<br/><br/>"You know...the chop shop sounds like a sidequest for us to do, something to chase down for a reward at the end of the whole thing...but the question is what?  We don't really need a car for anything..."  All their traveling in the game was handled via those blackout bits where they suddenly found themselves walking down the street towards their destination, and while Inayama was, well, an island, there was a bridge that connected it to the mainland.  "There has to be something.  We probably just don't have enough information yet to find out what that something is."  They were going to need more information before they could figure that out, most likely.  They could fire theories back and forth, but they would be just that.  "Whatever it offers up, we'll need to find this girl.  As it stands, she's our best lead into what the shop might hold for us."  Aika had noted that Joy had picked up both the Soul Stealers, as well as the girl - Honda Kyoko - as RUMORS from her work.  That made four - Yamashita, the shop, the Soul Stealers, and now one of the few cops in the city trying to do something about the gangs running the place.<br/><br/>In the meantime...wait.  The cars were still out on the second circuit.  Then why?  Another pop-up had appeared, offering to them some options for while, presumably, the second set resolved itself.<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">&gt;INVESTIGATE<br/>&gt;CHAT<br/>&gt;LOOK<br/>&gt;FAVOR</tt><br/><br/>"...'Look'?"  That sounded strange to her.  The other three options were familiar ones from before, but this was new.  What in the world could this mean?  "Any idea what that one stands for?"  There were ideas she had, of course, but Aika was kind of stumped as to why such a mundane option was included here.  Unless there was something specific they could<tt class="bbc_tt">LOOK</tt>for?  There was something else, too - they discovered that they<em>both</em>could select it as an option, with the neat 1P and 2P icons stacked right next to each other.  "I think we've gotten enough RUMORS tonight...so either we need to look into them, or we need to...well..."  It was just<em>too</em>weird and out of place not to take a look at it, and Aika wanted to see what it would do.  Maybe it was some sort of 'pass the time' prompt, if they ever ran out of stuff to do.  If it was, then they would learn they could ignore it in the near future...and that was worth something, yes?