The female newcomer took out a lunchbox from her bag and offered it to Kyosuke, much to his delight. Salad, chicken curry, egg rolls and a cream puff. Been a while since he last saw food that didn't come from a can. Quickly, he accepted the offer and started eating. Even though he was ravenous, he still maintained enough sense to save some for later: something he's picked up ever since.
""Don't worry. I wouldn't try to poison myself. You can have as much as you need but something tells me food is limited. I'll ask you some questions after you eat. Is that fair?"
Kyosuke nodded as he chewed an egg roll. Satisfied, he gave her back her lunchbox with some food leftover for later. It was only now that he noticed that she carried a weapon of sorts with her. A shinai. He recognized it after spending time cleaning the dojo used by the kendo club back at school.
"Fair enough. Thank you." It was no stretch to say the Kyosuke finally felt rejuvenated after that meal. For one, he was finally able to talk straight. "Sad to say my good fortune is your terrible luck at play. Since you're here...means you're trapped like I am."
He looked up at her eyes to see if she was following. "Just to clear things up, I don't know how to get out of this place. Otherwise, I wouldn't be starving right here. I also don't know what it is that causes "those things" to appear at night. And I don't know how you or I ended up here either."
"What I do know is that there's no more food left in this hotel. Already used it all up it seems. We've still got water and if we suddenly become strapped for it, we can always melt the snow. There is a supermarket up ahead where we can gather supplies but, it is quite far off and I can't seem to make it there before nightfall. Oh, and when night comes? The streets are no longer safe. Best thing to do is just hole up in a locked room and sleep."
Kyosuke divulged much of what he knows even before he heard her questions. He thought it would be the things she would ask him about later on. "And you? Do you remember how you got here?"
The odd woman felt some amusement upon seeing the young man's shocked expression. He looked as if he was really trying hard to analyze his current situation, and about her mention of him apparently looking for "someone". After a while, his grip on his weapon loosened upon hearing about the bridge from her.
"I...I see. By chance, did you see anyone else aside from me here?"
"Hmm...I guess there was that crotchety old dude...no wait. Yeah, he's already gone so I don't think so." She made an odd gesture of someone who looked like they were deep in thought as they tried recalling some data from the inner confines of their memory.
"Oh, yeah! Now that you mention it, I recall seeing another young man, probably around your age, wandering about. He's been here for quite a while though so I'm not sure if he's the one you're referring to...?" She answered him like even she wasn't sure what she was talking about.
"Ah, and there was a lady who came by just last night I think."