2025-08-28: Call Collect
- Log: Call Collect
- Cast: Jin Shirato, Shinjiro Aragaki
- Where: Shinjuku's red light district, Tokyo
- OOC Date: August 28, 2025
- IC Date: July 02, 2012
- Summary: Jin has Shinjiro's meds... and questions about SEES and his other allies. Shinjiro reluctantly gives up some of what he knows.
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
Jin isn't a fan of doing business in-person. He vastly prefers corresponding with people online -- and under an alias, too. Unfortuately, though, Strega's business relationship with Shinjiro is different. They met in person. And part of it was because he usually had meds to deliver. And he couldn't trust anyone else with this job.
Today, he has those meds. And some questions because Shinjiro owed Strega more than a few favors. Jin glances down at his watch impatiently. He wants to get out of here. If Takaya were here, he'd at least have company, but today... he was playing delivery boy alone. Much to his annoyance.
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
Shinjiro is running low on his meds again. So, when Jin made the call, he's here, at the red light district. He doesn't like it much here - it's out of his way - but pills are important.
People tend to give Shinjiro a wide berth. So when he approaches, he's not hassled by the other people in the red light district. Instead, he steps up to Jin in his little corner of Shinjuku, giving him an appraising look.
"Shirato. Payment's through the usual method." Shinjiro's never made small talk during these. There's a certain amount of guilt involved in doing this at all, and he just wants it over with too. Doesn't mean he won't answer questions, though... a favor owed is a favor paid.
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
"Here." Normally, they'd be stored away in Jin's metal briefcase, but he was ready with it before Shinjiro arrived.
"Speakin' of payment... there's some things that we need to talk about. Like how buddy-buddy you're getting with SEES."
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
Shinjiro grabs the pills, pocketing them once he's given permission to. Though, once Jin brings up payment... the favor calls collect, huh.
"...fine. But if this is to ask me if I'm rejoining them, the answer is no. I'm active again, but not with them... I've just been saving some people from an untimely death is all."
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
"That? I'm not worried about that. You gettin' close to them is actually pretty helpful."
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
"Then what are you worried about?" Shinjiro just cuts to the chase. "As per our usual terms, I'm not going to betray Aki, if that's what you want."
But it says nothing about 'betraying' anyone else...
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
Jin smirks. Of course he wouldn't. And he didn't expect Shinjiro to, anyway. "Nah, I'm just looking for a little information." The way Jin emphasizes that he's not looking for blood types or favorite colors.
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
Shinjro grimaces. Information... intel. "I'm not going to randomly guess. Give me what you want it on and what you want it about specifically."
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
"I just want to know about all your new friends." Jin is intentionally being vague; he wants to see exactly what Shinjiro is offering up before he starts pressing for more.
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
Shinjiro grits his teeth. He knows exactly who Jin's talking about... during the attack on Kaneshiro's Palace, he came with specific people. He decides not to give every piece of intel on them, instead just starting with names and making Jin fish.
"Myunghon Yeo. Shinobu Shimizu. So-young Park." He doesn't mention Umie - he knows she's usually masked so she definitely wouldn't like that, but the others are matters of public information if you look hard enough.
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
Jin starts committing the names to memory. "That's not all of them, is it?" He's heard of at least one of those names and they're definitely not SEES. At least not in name, anyway. "Seems like SEES gets a new member every day. That dorm looks like it's close to bursting."
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
"... You want SEES?" Shinjiro sighs. He misunderstood and slipped more than he intended... Jin's plan worked. "Fuuka Yamagishi. Ririka Kawase. Tyler Gould. Reiya Aomori. Yukari Takeba. Minako and Minato Arisato. Hitomi Mandai. ...Suzume Fukura." That last one stings slightly, given he promised to help her. "I don't know everyone. There's probably names I'm missing."
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
"Well, if you can remember any more names, maybe you can share them the next time you need a refill." That'd be better than financial compensation, anyway.
"What do you know about their Personas?" There were plenty of things he could find out with just a name easily; people shared way too much online. It's the supernatural stuff that he could only find on the dark web and even then, there was no guarantee there was info about them at all.
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
Shinjiro grimaces about remembering more names. Jin's gonna want information from now on...
And then, Personas. He takes a breath. What to do here? "Not much. I haven't fought with most of them. Kawase and Yamagishi are good at information. Takeba can heal. ...The Arisatos can use multiple." He slips that piece of information, knowing that Jin already knew most of that, and hoping it's Enough.
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
Jin mentally files that away too, but he's not satisfied with the answer. "I'd like more than that."
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
Shinjiro grits. What else can he give? He has to have something juicy enough to push Jin off, right? He considers giving up that information from Reiya about the Ergo Labs, but that feels too far... what else? "...their coordination is weak. SEES isn't some happy fun club, it's supposed to be a well-oiled operation. But they fight. I think there's a lot of tension between them, more than there ever was when I was part of it." A singular weakness, one super vague but somewhat useful to feed Jin with.
A pause. "That's all you're gonna get."
<Pose Tracker> Jin Shirato has posed.
"That's more like what I was lookin' for." Jin's not terribly surprised by that. More people, more problems. It's why Jin kept little company. But there were some nuggets of information that he was sure Takaya would be interested in. Like the people who could use multiple Personas. Jin was pretty interested in that, too.
Jin doesn't bother expressing his gratitude, though. "Let me know when you need your next refill," he says instead, turning to leave.
<Pose Tracker> Shinjiro Aragaki has posed.
"...fine," Shinjiro tells Jin, letting him turn to leave. Little does he know he's probably not getting a next refill. Instead, Shinjiro turns on his own heel, moving to get out of Shinjuku.