Episode 2Your Angle's Wrong!

12 min 10 sec8 scenes

On her second day, with a pager that still won't ring, an ace who can't dance Para Para falls flat in front of the One-Oh-Nine, wins the street back with a short-video dance from the future, and still drops to last in the rankings. That night Chinatsu lays down a single piece of evidence.

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Episode 3How to Wait in LineI… I don't know where I was.

"...Go. It's night."

Knows everything up to the episode you heard

Ren's Status

As of Episode 2

Ren's Status

StageThe one who only pressed a number into my hand

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How he sees youAmamiya Ruka of Honeybee. Outside Ichimarukyu he never once looked her way. Yet his bike was waiting again at the corner across the street.

With his back to me, his thumb stopped on the pager for one beat, and there's still no answer to 0840.

Relationships

How they see Amamiya

TachibanaHead of Mugen, the team that runs Shibuya's back alleys.
TeradaMugen's number two, nicknamed Machine Gun Makoto.
ChinatsuHoneybee's sharp tongue.
Cold Where were you that day?

How this episode begins

Opening of the script

I stood there till the whole line was gone, the pink pager sitting in my palm. The screen just stayed dark.

After midnight, I had a new problem. I didn't know where Ruka lived. …That's when I got really scared. In this time, there wasn't one single place for me to go.

KondoBack again, Amamiya Ruka? This time of night, kid?

AmamiyaUm… I don't know where I live. Pretty funny, huh?

KondoNothing funny about it. Sleep on that bench. And don't touch the machine in the corner.

AmamiyaThat sticker next to the machine? It's got silver stars around the edge. None of the other machines have that.

KondoWho knows. Old machines all have their stories. Okay, lights out.

The dream came again that night. The alley in the rain. The cracked silver-gray screen. And again, no date.

KondoUp you get, kid. Something noisy's out front.

The green screen snapped on…