Empress Endangered! Come On, Type Highway!

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

"Not surprised this kinda thing happened. Cute girls walking around alone in this town are usually easy pickings." Ken shook his head, again showing off his physique without really meaning to, as droplets of moisture shook from his hair.

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

Naoko blushed again and looked away. "Um... thanks for helping me back there... if you hadn't shown up..."

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

Ken finally noticed, and tilted his head a bit. "Am I...missing something?"

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

"N-Nothing! It's nothing at all!!" she exclaimed, turning away.

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

"...Why do women always do that? It just makes men that much more curious." Ken commented, sighing.

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

"I'm not doing anything!" she exclaimed, hiding her face with her hands. "You're just imagining things, clearly!"

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

Ken sighed. "Either way, I need to get back to my site. If you'd like, I'll give you my number in case another of those monsters shows up."

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

"Um... Sure... I don't have my phone on me, though. Do you have anything you can write it down on?"

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

Ken pulled a small notepad out of his back pocket, and quickly wrote down the number of his cell phone. "A lot of the older workers don't like digital memos."

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

Naoko smiled. "I bet..." she said, taking the slip of paper and pocketing it. "Maybe we'll see each other again?" she asked him.

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

"Who knows. Maybe so. Especially if that guy had friends."

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

Naoko nodded. "Right. Well... I'll see you someday," she told him, smiling before walking into the toy store that she was going to shop in earlier, leaving Ken alone with his belt...

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

Ken started to walk off, heading back to the site. As he reached the storefront, the owner rushed out, holding what appeared to be one of his products, a high-end body pillow. "Sir, I'd like to thank you for your work today. Here, it's my most popular product, designed on the popular anime Z-Cune Aoi." Confused, Ken decided to accept the gift, putting it away in the trunk of the Rush Roader before returning to his work.

[Naoko, Empress of Japan]

And Naoko walked back to the palace with a really expensive DX mecha. Now for an obligatory eyecatch!

OOO

A few days later, Ken would receive a call from what was labeled on his caller ID as "Tokyo Imp. Pal."

[Tetsuken Setsuna]

Ken looked at his phone as it rang, curious. "Hm, not sure what this stands for." Shrugging, he answered the phone, with a traditional Japanese "Moshi moshi?"