[ Where's Chika when you want a Trion powerhouse It's just a question born out of the epitome of not knowing any context for Triggers. ... Otherwise it's entirely irrelevant. ]

I am, yeah. I was just wondering... do you have anything to do with the Self-Defense Force?

[ It's so far from being important, but when he mentions Triggers and qualifications and he just leveled a building, that's the leap her mind makes. (Aliens, for some reason, in spite of where they are now, are not her first presumption.)

What does catch her attention, on the other hand, is in watching patterns of things rising up into the sky and falling back down. She'd noticed some of it earlier, but... something in the pattern is jarring enough she's seeing it. Like there's an epicenter?

Too bad she's not aware enough to actually point that out. The section their in is part of a spiral nearing around to where the gravity distortions are both worse and more predictable — following a pattern. It might mean something. Chihiro, for her part, mostly notices it's... there. ]

Things keep rising and falling like a tide... hey, Izumi, do video games have a lot of timed events and stuff?