"I apologise for earlier. We just wanted to make sure you were truly ajin. " Satou explained, and offered them dome warm green tea.

Jiro sipped it slowly. "...yeah. We all are except for Noro. " he jabbed his thumb at Noro, who was chugging down the tea like no tomorrow. "b-but he's willing to help us!! He helped me get here!! " Jiro quickly added in case Satou pulled out a weapon from anywhere.

Satou instead just raised his eyebrows, his smile never faltering. "why, then he is of course, welcome here. "

Yuri was staring at her ghost, which was wandering around the sitting area, looking out windows and trying to touch the doors. He's almost too friendly. Yuri thought as she looked back at Satou.

Satou sat back in his chair. "We aim to create a world where ajins can live in peace, away from accusing eyes from the humans. Why shouldn't we be able to live as freely as normal humans?" he clenched his fist. "Instead, they treat us like animals, using us to conduct their silly little experiments-"

Jiro froze up. Nakano and Yuri looked confused. Experiments..? Does Jiro know something about it that we don't?

Noro glared at Satou. "...He's not comfortable with that topic. Change it. " he growled.

The elderly man chuckled. "That just would make him all the more willing to fight for his rights. Won't it? " Then, he took a sip of his tea before continuing, "I will offer you refuge and basic necessities here. But you four must help me with my plans. "

"What pl-" Yuri began, before Nakano abruptly cut off. "AW YEAH!! THATS A DEAL, MR SATOU! " He grinned. Yuri stared at him in shock, but couldn't do anything as Satou continued.

"Very well. I trust you all will do your job well, just as I intend to treat you. " Satou stood up. "And don't worry about being exposed- everyone is an Ajin here. " he said as he walked towards a door at the back and opened it. In a room were lots of people, no- ajins. At least 40 of them some were sitting on the floor chatting. Others were on laptops, and a few were cleaning shot guns.

"...guns? " Yuri pointed at the weapons and asked.

"Those are for self defence, In case the government comes. " Tanaka quickly said, walking forward to deposit his own gun and exchange a few words with a male. In fact, most of the ajins were male. There were only about 5 females in the room. Noro hid his gun in his pocket, masking it under his hand.

Yuri looked to see where her ghost was now, only to find out it was gone. Guess it's time ran out. She thought. Maybe later she'd go summon it again outside.

Tanaka returned shortly with small packets of rice and chicken for them. The food was cold, but it was still food. Yuri ate hers in silence as she watched Nakano and Noro chat about their back stories.

This is all too good to be true... Right?