It’s a good thing that Togusa went into the cop subject without further prompting. Malik had been getting low key frustrated about the micromachines, asking about them for an ulterior motive, but that went pretty much nowhere as far as he was concerned. Still neat, and still worth noting, but not what he specifically was interested in.

“So it’s similar, but in reverse. Past you had the surprise brought to him, and current you walked right into it.” Though that was through no fault of his own.

“But Special Forces being alone seems like a bad idea for that reason. I don’t know the place that he comes from, but not everyone likes cops. Special ones are more of a threat.”