Ch 18 - Finding Carina

[First Day of Looking for Carina]

The next day we slowly wake up in each other's embrace, go on to have a delicious 3-star breakfast provided by the hotel ­– which is truly delicious and always makes me happy that I came into this world – and take long showers that we were sorely missing in that small boat.

We then get ready for the day by wearing some gray cloaks over our clothes and preparing our weapons, or at least in Porche-Chans case; all I needed to prepare were my fists.

As Porche-chan is preparing her weapons I look at myself in the mirror and what greets me is a handsome face of a Japanese looking man with green eyes and a good amount of hair on his head. (Hehe, bet most of you forgot mc doesn't have official appearance yet, anyways he basically looks like Saizo Kirigakure from Brave 10, image here)

I quickly look over if everything looks fine, and as it does, I turn back to Porche-chan to see that she's just about done.

We then walk out and separate in different directions like it's an everyday thing.

Porche is going to check the entertainment district while I'm going to check the slums and the darker side of the island for any clues about her whereabouts.

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[A few Hours Later]

I was once again sitting in bed in the hotel room with Porche hugging my left side as we were detailing what we both did the whole day to each other (in order to be on the same page).

Apparently Porche went all around the entertainment sector trying to find any clues about Carina and keeping an eye out for any conspicuous individual.

She visited many high-end bars, restaurants, theater houses, high-end pleasure houses, and even a large casino…she had no luck.

As she is telling me all about her day, she is also discreetly complaining with her tone that due to being on the lookout for her target and quickly searching many establishments, she wasn't really able to enjoy any one of those things, except perhaps the restaurants.

Well maybe not too discreetly since she is openly pouting quite heavily.

Unfortunately, I couldn't oblige her, because we are on a tight schedule to find Carina and get out of dodge safely and without causing too big of a ruckus.

I then also report my findings to her and this time luckily, I did find a clue, not a very good one, but people where reporting that they saw a conspicuously sexy purple haired woman walking towards the east end of the island a few days ago, one that looked eerily similar to Carina. (People are perverts who rather pay attention to some eye candy walking by then pay attention to what they need to survive)

This doesn't give us much because the East end of the island is the biggest and most populated region, but it gives us a starting point and that's something.

[Second Day of looking for Carina]

We once again repeat the process of yesterday's morning routine, and once again split up, but this time in the East end in order to find any clues.

I head towards the Industrial area, while Porche heads towards the large markets in order to discreetly ask around.

This time when it was time to report our findings, unfortunately neither of us found anything, so we simply marked those places off for future reference and went to sleep cuddling.

[Third Day of looking for Carina]

Once again, we do the same thing except this time Porche and I enjoy an early morning massage that the hotel scheduled for us; and with that relaxing experience we each go out on our search much happier than what should be expected of us, and luckily when Porche was teasingly asking a marine cadet if he knew anything, she finally got a major clue.

He reported that the marines suspect that Carina is hiding out in one of the more secluded clubs in the party district but have not had the time to confirm it because apparently the marines whose job it is to do raids in these types of situations have been sent on a 1-week training exercise with the local military in order to "improve" their teamwork and efficiency.

When I heard this, I found this to be very fishy, and apparently so did Porche, so she asked the cadet about this and he said that it was apparently just a coincidence, because that training session was planned out months before, so all of the marines were basically forced to show up to it.

When I hear this I come up with two plausible situations, one: Carina merely used this exact time in order to carry out her robbery and simply got caught in the process and now she's wanted, or two: she has secretly been collaborating with some official in the government in order to set this up, then carry out the heist, but unfortunately something went wrong along the way or maybe she was backstabbed by her collaborator and now she finds herself wanted.

Either one of these situations is very plausible according to everything we know about the circumstances.

With this final clue we are ready to finally interact with our upcoming new member, and that night we sleep much more comfortably than any of the previous nights.

[Last Day of Looking for Carina]

This is the fourth day that we have been searching all day for any possible leads, and we finally have a location on hand.

In the morning we once again have breakfast, but this time we are much quicker about everything since we don't want to take any undue risks and cause us to lose her trail.

We quickly walk out of the hotel front doors but this time we don't separate but walk together to the apparent place where Carina is staying at.

As we open the doors to the more locally known club the first thing that we hear as we enter is a beautiful melodic voice in the air, and as we trail the voice to the source, the first thing that we see is surprisingly a 16-year-old Carina right in center stage singing a song like its none of her business that people are looking for her all over the island.

With this we both look at each other gob smacked and with surprise written all over our faces.

Either way, we have now found our next companion, Carina.