“Correct. Hopefully, our investigation from earlier will have panned out and will be able to find her.”   Aika blushed a little bit when Ichiro was mentioned. "Maybe he will be; maybe he won’t be. That’s not really important now."  She was trying to play it cool - talking about the blonde racer clearly provoked a reaction.  “Our next opportunity will be tomorrow morning. We can go check on the store then.”  Tonight, they would see if their work had finally paid off. If it had, then they would have one more person on hand to fight back the gangs.  That reminded her; they had more information on some other people who could help out. Well, just one but she knew there would be more. And the more allies they had, the more they might be able to do in the city.  She knew it was taking the long way through the game, but if it helped them to get out, so much the better.<br/><br/>There was also the question of sidequests; in her opinion, they had already run across two - one dealt with the chop shop, the other was related to this Lagoon club. If she had to guess, there would be one sidequest per area. What the other three looked like, she had no idea. "Yes, the motorcycles will make things interesting. I have no idea what they will actually do in game, but I hope it’s nothing big."<br/><br/>Eventually, the time for training ended, and they hit the block labeled Night.  Which meant it was time to go to the races…