"No worries," Akira replied.  "The lunch crowd should be coming along in a few minutes..."  The two fighters left Akira and his cart, heading down the street.  "Maybe.  But we'll probably not get close enough-"  Just then, Aika's speech blanked for a moment, and after:<br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">"She'll be gathering whoever she has left at Solo Mio, in hopes of wearing us down before we get to her."</tt>After Aika said it, her mouth moved for a moment more, and then she started talking again.  "Bleh.  I had no idea the game could do that."  Apparently, if a dialogue had been programmed into the game, said dialogue could interrupt their own speech.  "I'm slightly more interested in the Sky-Fire Protector."  Aika paused, to see if the game had any more surprises for her.  When it didn't, she went on.<br/><br/>"If we can find her, get her on our side, it might help to even the odds when we siege the trattoria.  Or, barring that, have someone at the Shrine to help defend it in case of another attack."  They had made enough waves in the District, if not the city, at this point to elicit attention; if it was known they were staying at the Shrine, the gangs might launch an attack on it to try and drive them out of Hisashiro.