JK had wondered, however briefly, how long was too far in the past to call in a favour from an old friend. He wasn't sure that she had ever even owed him such a favour, but dismissed that with vague ideas that he'd find a way to repay her at some point in the future. Tomoko was usually good about not keeping score of these things anyway.

He had asked her to meet him somewhere public, just because it was less likely to draw attention to them, and to put her on her guard. She'd had no problem with breaking into Amanogawa's databases as a schoolgirl but even JK had to admit that what he had in mind was on a slightly bigger scale.