<tt class="bbc_tt">"Kyoto Prefecture does have beaches, yes, but it is not clear at the present whether or not we will be heading there.  The trip, after all, lasts only four days due to traveling from Hisashiro."</tt>Aika-sensei reached over.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Here.  Allow me to put down some notes for the upcoming trip."</tt><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Things are strange here.  And not just because the minute you realize a missing person is there, they're gone.</span><br/><br/>The expression - which was probably being controlled, just as it was for Joy - on Aika-sensei's face changed.<tt class="bbc_tt">"Miss Armstrong.  Anzai-sensei, I'm sure, has better ways to spend his time than how you are suggesting."  </tt>Anzai...right.  That was Souji-sensei's last name, now that she remembered it.<span class="bbc_u">A number of the missing people do appear to be like you and Akiba, together in a relationship.  It's not universal, not yet.</span>More scribbling.<span class="bbc_u">Has anything happened between you and Akiba?  I may have...run into a certain situation, though I cannot say for certain, as I only heard it.</span><br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"The first two days, as you are aware, will be spent touring Kyoto's temple complexes and the ancient Heian-era court.  That leaves us our third and fourth days.  The teachers and I are accepting input from the classes going on the trip about how to spend those days.  As an outsider to the country, we thought you might possess some insight into events, locations, or attractions that would otherwise be missed."</tt><span class="bbc_u">Souji, I think, is one of the missing, though his name doesn't sound familiar to me, either.  Everyone here who has a name seems to be among the missing.</span><br/><br/>...now that Aika-sensei had noted it, Joy would realize what she'd said was more or less correct.  Every person in this space with a face and a name to be paired together<em>was</em>someone from the missing persons list; otherwise...there really wasn't anything<em>defining</em>about any of the others.