The first thing that you notice upon your Friday arrival at Narita airport is how busy it is. You've experienced Japanese crowding before, having been stationed at Kadena and having been to Tokyo. But this is ridiculous, did you come at a busy time? While a bit uncomfortable it does work to your advantage, the number of people allows your foreign features to blend into the crowd of travelers like an M&M in a bowl of skittles as you make your way out of the air terminal.
The rising suns has just become bright enough for the light poles to switch off as you exit the terminal. You proceed to the parking lot to look for the vehicle that has been given to you for the duration of our stay. Walking to the area described in the EMail takes a few. Finding the actual vehicle does not, The black Chevy Suburban has an obvious presence among the comparatively tiny cars.
Big American, Black suit, sunglasses and a black SUV, The whole thing just screams 'Secret Agent'.
With your luggage in the back you turn the ignition, the vehicle rumbles to life in response and you take off into the hell that is the traffic of Japan. With your previous experience here you avoid any major fumbles and arrive at your destination fully intact. The two story house stands in a state of disrepair, amidst some trees and overgrowth. Its location is not too far outside of Chiba itself, with the nearest neighbor being a five minute walk down the road. Hopefully enough to keep your Agent activities hidden. From past conversations with friends as long as you keep to yourself, your foreigner status should keep anyone from trying to get nosy.
Having to put some actual muscle into turning the lock, the door opens with a groan at enough volume to wake the dead, and as light enters through the opening, you are delighted to see that the outside is the only bad part of the house. It may have taken some months for Gaius to get back to you after the meeting, and more for some 'spook training'. But you are finally here, doing your duty for your country. Just a lot differently this time.
After you unpack your things and the equipment left here for you. Some weapons, body armour and communication equipment. You get to work setting everything up so that you may communicate with your Agency securely. You shoot a quick text to your superior, a man you only know as Mr. Sho, or Sho-san in the local language. telling him you have arrived and are 'settling in'. It takes you until noon to get everything set up interior wise, giving you plenty of time to do other things for the day.
You decide that before going out that you should put on an outfit that doesn't scream American Secret Agent. Opting to go with jeans sunglasses and a JoJo shirt for a tourist appearance. Checking the documents available to you, you select a few locations with suspected paranormal activity: An abandoned house in the woods, a rundown shrine, an active shrine, and a city block with reported unusual nightly occurrences. With the locations memorized you make your way out to each destination.
The abandoned house something straight out of a horror movie, the distinctly Victorian theme also stand out amongst the country with its decaying wood and colors washed away by time. You watch for anything at a distance in your vehicle. Among your observations are a pair of ancient looking broken tombstones. After an hour of absolutely nothing you decide against invoking any horror tropes by entering, so you leave towards the next location.
The rundown shrine is much the same as the house in that you don't see much, but you do decide to walk around the grounds as you can't see much from the dirt road do to all the growth. Nothing sticks out about the place from a quick look over, but one thing does become apparent as you walk through the place. The thick layers of dust and cobwebs are disturbed in places. In one room there are clear footprints in the veritable sea of dust, you can't pinpoint where the come from, but they end very suddenly in the center of the room. As you walk down the stone steps to your vehicle, it feels as if someone is watching you the whole time. The feeling only stops when you leave sigh of the place.
The other shrine though, is the opposite. It being a somewhat popular tourist spot so you blend in well amongst the small crowd. You do your best to look for anything out of the ordinary; but you are not able to go beyond a surface look as to not look suspicious yourself. You do learn some interesting things though, the shrine was built sometime in the warring states era and has a set of samurai armor on display in one of the buildings.
At your final spot for the day you get some local food from one of the many restaurants which had some tourists in it. You take a window seat and observe the restaurant and the street it's on. Nothing stands out the whole time you are there, the area appears to be a normal tourist trap. You finish your meal and slip into the ally's, a few minutes of looking through and you find nothing except for two restaurant employees taking a cigarette break and talking about a gas explosion that supposedly happened two weeks ago. As you make your way back home you decide that coming back at night might be a good idea for catching any magical activity, all the fun stuff happens at night.
When you arrive back, you put on your suit. Along with the most compact body armor you have and your pistol, A suppressed SIG P226 loaded with 9mm subsonic rounds. As you wait for the sun to full disappear you look over more intel. It seems some students at Sobu hIgh school have been reporting strange things happening, in particular some students report strange lapses in memory, along with feeling of dread in certain parts of the school. At the docks however workers are seeing strange lights at night near the warehouses.
When darkness finally settle across the city, you move out to your first destination.
[X] The abandoned house
[X] The rundown shrine
[X] The normal shrine
[X] The tourist trap
[X] The High School
[X] The Docks