"Comic. I didn’t see anything about the mall in the report," Ijichi sighed to himself, lugging one of your bags. How foolish he felt, letting you trick him into coming to the mall.

It was supposed to be a simple mission - a routine check-up on a rumored curse sighting. Ijichi had been assigned to escort you, a task he thought would be straightforward. Little did he know, you had other plans. He believed every word when you announced there was some curse activity near the mall worth checking, not realizing the only curse activity he'd endure would be you dragging him around countless stores.

"We can get into trouble for this, you know that?" Ijichi grumbled, still dutifully carrying your bags. "We were supposed to survey the reported area and—" He had no idea you had planned this all along; there was no zone requiring inspection. He simply followed you, carrying your bags and protesting weakly every now and then.