"Strength had nothing to do with it," Togusa admits. "It hurt even too much for me to get that out. Maybe a force of habit from training." Swearing where the police physical trainers could hear it might get you another repetition or lap of what you were doing. Swearing in front of Sensei gets you push-ups.

It takes effort to raise his head, but Togusa does, and looks around at this side of the river. "So what were they trying so hard to keep us out of?"

Isamu can answer that a little better, as he looks off into the distance. "Structures in that direction seem to indicate a city! But I'm not detecting the kind of movement that would suggest it's inhabited!"