Akira sits next to her and nods to Ryuji and Shiho.

Shiho blushes and smiles, hugging Ann, and reaching across to squeeze Akira's hand.

"Good to see you two."

Akira squeezes back, and this time her smile touches her eyes.

"Good to see you too."

"Yeah! We were just talkin' 'bout you two, actually, how great you both are."

Ryuji gives Akira a bit of a sappy grin as well.

"Awww!" Ann smiles and looks over at Ryuji. "Great to hear you two are getting along well." 

"Yeah." Akira gets out her own lunch. "Let's eat."

The less she talks the less conversation she'll have to fake. 

Shiho starts to pick up her chopsticks again, then pauses, looking thoughtfully at Akira for a moment.

"Do we wanna eat on the roof?"

Ann glances over as well. "Yeah, I think so."

Great, now she can't object without it looking weird. 

"Sure," she says. "Works for me."

Ryuji nods, stuffs his lunch back in his back, and stands, wrapping an arm around Akira's shoulders encouragingly.

Shiho gets up as well, leading the way to the stairs.

Akira lets the rest shepherd her along. She's stuck with it now.

Ann gets the door out to the roof when they come to it.

And they all settle into the benches up there.

Shiho gives Akira a concerned look and a handsqueeze.

"Talk to us?"

She sighs and gets our her phone. 

"Groupchat time."

Hey, secure chat client can be downloaded here, let's all get on it. 

She waits for people to get on.

Ann's eyebrows rise, but a moment later she appears in the secure chat.

What's all this about? Something about Mishima...?

Shiho does as well.

Mishima's the one who told me Kamoshida wanted me in his office. He might've seen us that night.

Ryuji joins as well.

wait what?

Yeah, he saw us booking it. It's not proof, but it's been enough to convince him that we're the Thieves. 

He is apparently a huge fan. And has started a fan site to make the phantom thieves more popular.

We have fans???

Huh, cool.

whoa, fans! that's awesome!

Wow. That's... a lot.

almost makes ya wonder if we could do it again

i'm sure there are other bastards who need their hearts stolen

... Yeah, uh, this is a problem. Mishima wants to make us famous, and he knows too much. He could really cause us trouble if he decides to be a nuisance. 

We were going to have a meeting after school but the gist is that I've already gotten two other requests from people I trust to change the hearts of others. Details to be gotten from Boss on one of them this evening. We were going to discuss whether we were going to do them and, if so, which one first.

Mishima taking an interest and deciding to "promote" us is an issue if we're going to operate stealthily and not get caught. The calling card requirement is bad enough, but having fans? The last thing I want is for the people in authority to take an interest. Better to operate quietly if we can.