When everyone believes you're someone else, staying honest starts to look suspicious.
Tone:
Quiet paranoia. Understated melancholy.
Everything looks normal — the air just feels wrong.
Scene 1 — The City Shifts
A week passes since the warehouse.
Sendai moves differently now.
People stop talking when Kenta walks by.
The ramen deliveries come with longer stares and shorter conversations.
Local gossip calls him "Kurage's Heir" — a mix of respect and fear.
Some kids take pictures of the GR86, calling it "The Ghost's Car."
Kenta just drives slower. He doesn't argue anymore.
Kenta (thinking): "It's easier to let stories drive themselves."
Scene 2 — Kaiya's Search
Kaiya can't ignore it anymore.
She starts digging quietly after hours, contacting old data colleagues.
No one knows much — just whispers of something called the Red Harbor Ring.
One contact sends her a file, encrypted and fragmented.
Only one photo survives: a young Teo in a dark suit, surrounded by men whose eyes are half-shadow.
She shuts the screen before Mika can see.
Kaiya (softly): "You promised me this city was clean."
Scene 3 — The Investigators
A pair of detectives visit the shop under the pretense of "road safety checks."
They're polite, too polite — the kind that already know what they're looking for.
They ask about the car, the boy, the night on Mount Kurage.
Kenta answers with complete honesty — which only makes them write faster.
Detective: "Funny thing about silence. The guilty use it. The innocent hide in it."
Kenta: "Guess I'm both, depending on the day."
They leave their card on the counter.
Teo never touches it.
Scene 4 — Father and Son
That night, Kenta finds Teo in the alley, staring at the sea.
No words at first — just the sound of waves hitting the pier.
Kenta: "They think I'm you."
Teo: "They always will. Until they see you lose."
Kenta: "And if I don't?"
Teo: "Then they'll call it fate."
Teo turns away, towel over his shoulder.
Kenta doesn't follow.
He just stands there, caught between pride and resentment — the curse of resembling a ghost.
Scene 5 — The Crossroads
Later that week, Ryo drags Kenta to an abandoned overpass.
A dozen street racers wait — young, reckless, all eyes on him.
They ask if he's really the son of the Oni Titan.
He doesn't answer.
Instead, he gets in the GR86.
Starts the engine.
Drives off without racing a single one of them.
The headlights vanish into the fog — slow, deliberate, almost ceremonial.
Ryo (watching): "He's either the bravest guy here or the only one who gets it."
Scene 6 — The Call
Kaiya receives a message on her old terminal:
"Found your husband's name on an old file.
Codename: The Oni.
Timestamp: 2041.
Sendai."
She closes the terminal, turns toward the dining room.
Teo is cleaning bowls.
Kenta is asleep at the counter.
She watches them both and whispers,
Kaiya: "Every road leads back home."
End of Episode 11 — "The Road Between Names."