Well, if you got the chance to go back in time to experience something that was lost - even something as minor as a nostalgic food place - wouldn't you be pleased?
[Because in some ways that is what they're doing here - time travelling back to the ramen shop of his memories.
There's the vague shapes of customers, cognitions only, when Shrike opens the door. There were always customers, after all, even if just the few regulars. A booming voice calls out WELCOME, but that too is just a part of the cognitive reconstruction - the chef behind the ramen bar isn't a real person.
Still, the atmosphere seems more lively than most places filled with the unpeople of this Tokyo.]
shows up two months later with... ramen apparently
[Because in some ways that is what they're doing here - time travelling back to the ramen shop of his memories.
There's the vague shapes of customers, cognitions only, when Shrike opens the door. There were always customers, after all, even if just the few regulars. A booming voice calls out WELCOME, but that too is just a part of the cognitive reconstruction - the chef behind the ramen bar isn't a real person.
Still, the atmosphere seems more lively than most places filled with the unpeople of this Tokyo.]