"I have", he answered Yusuke as they were seated, Akira calmly smoothing out his clothes as he sat down. "I take it you have as well?" That would explain him knowing the place. And of course he wouldn't sound as if he were pleading with the gods of fate to be kind to him otherwise, right?

"I hear there are other cities that they house imPorts in, but this one is the biggest." He's also heard it was a fairly good neighborhood, but he was still unsure. America was very different from Japan, and maybe teens shouldn't be wandering the streets at night here.