3. It was only later that Hiroko learned the truth, when her teacher played interpreter and demanded an explanation from everyone within a hundred foot radius. A group of Sunderlings had attacked a bank. So like any responsible citizen of Culverton, the boy had set out in search of an Emergent crime-fighter. The likes of Moxie, The Southside Sentry, or The Crime Blotter were nowhere to be seen. But he'd spotted Hiroko. And like most people raised on a diet of manga and anime, he'd naturally mistaken Japanese school attire for some kind of heroic costume.
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