Jessica likes to head down to the boardwalk at the time of month when the Sleeper squids wash on shore. She helps where she can, but she's rarely there to meet the newcomers herself. Rather it serves as a reminder that renewal comes even to this dark, dangerous world. She could use that reminder, after everything that's happened to her recently.

It'd hardly been a month since Battler Ushiromiya returned to the waves that she seem him once again in the crowd, slurping down noodles without a care in the world. She stops, staring in disbelief at the image of her cousin, of really one of the first true friends she had, unsure if he's real, if the stress she's gone through lately, or some exposure to corruption has gotten to her of if he really—

She makes her way toward him, uncertain at first but quickly breaking into one of her toothy, carefree grins. "Oi, Battler! Where've you been!? We're gonna have to put a nametag on you if you keep getting lost!"