A short while latter, Youichi has successfully stomped his way to the area in front of the station. It could have been an even shorter while, but stomping isn’t exactly an efficient mode of walking…but it’s kinda obligatory for a yanki reacting to a challenge, so Youichi had to live with the fact that it would take him longer.
But he got there, and as you can see, the station is in the manga-shaded part of the city, not the anime-shaded one. But I guess that’s a normal state of underdevelopment for the area surrounding a train station…
What this part of town doesn’t feature, though, are three Mexicans takling shit about Youichi. There’s a group of three Scotsmen there, also completely new to the plot, but they couldn’t possibly be the same guys. Scotsmen and Mexicans are pretty easy to tell apart – all Mexicans wear sombreros and ponchos, and all Scotsmen wear kilts and bonnie bonnets, and carry bagpipes.*
And the mysterious purple-haired yanki had explicitly described the shit-talkers as Mexicans. And had they been Scotsmen, he wouldn’t have been able to make out that they were talking shit, anyway – when an angry Scotsman talks, nobody understands shit, irrespective of whether he’s talking shit or not.
What this part of town does feature, however, is Youichi’s date. Since, you know, Youichi ended up rolling up at exactly the right place at exactly the right time. What a coincidence! Especially coincidental because it involved such a lot of new characters to bring it about. But brung about it was.
More on Monday.
* Yeah, I don’t leave my flat a lot. How did you know?