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invisibly; secretly; privately

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trench coat

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suspicious character (person, figure)

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bungler; greenhorn; clumsy; poor hand

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detective; investigator; sleuth; detective work; secret investigation

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deliberately; carefully; thoroughly; without rushing

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lonely (place); remote; in the middle of nowhere

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multi-

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train; electric train

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deep in the mountains; mountain recesses

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shadow; tail; following

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to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off

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to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through

3

to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around

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bad guy; villain; evildoer; scoundrel

1

at the critical moment; when the time comes; when it's most important; when necessary; in an emergency; when push comes to shove

1

eye-witness; witness

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no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it

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to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed

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bustling; busy; crowded; lively (party, voices, etc.); loud; noisy

2

one's home; one's house

1

neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity

1

to kidnap; to abduct; to force to go to (e.g. an event)

1

difficult to ...; hard to ...

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to tag along; to follow; to tail; to leave tracks; to leave footprints

1

trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern

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Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo

4

imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000

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king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)

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Meidaimae Station

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the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket

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Inokashirasen

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to transfer (trains); to change (bus, train); to change (to another ideology, party, company, etc.); to switch (to a different system, method, etc.); to move on to (e.g. a new love interest)

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to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

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just before

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to jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of

10

to become confused (disconcerted, disorganized, disorganised); to be flustered; to panic; to hurry; to rush; to hasten

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suspicious person

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passenger

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platform; home; home base; home plate

1

in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing

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indication; sign; hint; tone (of the market)

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unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; heedlessly; against one's better judgement (judgment)

1

playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together

1

day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date

3

surging crowd; wave of humanity; stampede

1

to overflow; to brim over; to flood

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MacDonald; Macdonald; Mcdonald; McDonald's (fast food chain)

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having a meal (before doing something); fortifying oneself with a meal

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accessory (fashion); jewelry; accessory (audio, car, camera, etc.)

2