Ghostwire: Tokyo - Kk's Investigation Notes

Normally, a ramen shop attracting a line of hungry folks night after night is nothing to write home about. People like a nice hot bowl ramen after work, no mystery there.

Now, if you had a ramen shop with a line full of monsters, that'd be something, though—and that's exactly what we've been hearing rumors about. Some famous joint that had shut down apparently had big old lines of monsters forming for it, so we decided to pay a visit to the site and see what was up.

Dale was keen on going himself, but I'm pretty sure he was just in it for the ramen. Ed came along, too, but he just played a recording of himself giving a big lecture on the history of ramen the whole way there. Weird company aside, three guys heading out for a quick bowl of ramen sure does take me back to my younger days.

We got to the place and found, sure enough, a big line outside packed with beefy-looking monsters. They were all just standing around, though, not going inside, so we spooked them a little and got them to disperse.

When we got inside, the place was thick with the scent of pork belly and... I dunno, humanity? It was like you could almost feel emotions wafting through the air. Turns out the owner had turned into some kind of malevolent specter—but he was still just cooking up a storm.

I asked what the deal was, and he told us that he'd helped his protégé set up his own shop, only for the punk to go and open it right in the same neighborhood and start siphoning off his customer base. The restaurant biz is cutthroat, I tell you.

The owner told us if we ordered a bowl of ramen and ate it, he'd let us purge him. I wasn't a fan of the idea. We barely know what's in normal restaurant food, right? But I took one for the team and went along with it.

It was a... Let's call it a unique experience. Learned a lot about food from the underworld from that meal. Ed better appreciate what I did there, though, I'll tell you that.

On the way back, we stopped to have some actual ramen, and Dale was all over it. Ed refused to touch his until it was ice cold, said something about carbs being better for your body when they're cold. Probably should've introduced him to tsukemen, that would've done the trick. Oh well.