Take an easy approach on him.

Shiki pondered an extra minute over how she could make him talk. Perhaps easing him up to her and making him a lot more comfortable would be a better approach than directly assaulting him for the answers she wanted. It wasn't her style, but she knew that it worked, and often well. She leaned down, before taking a bottle of water from her coat. Opening the cap, she held it out for him. "Here. Open your mouth and I'll pour some down."

The guy looked at her for a few seconds, confused on the sudden turn she had made. "Is... is this some kind of joke. What's going on here?"

"I'm giving you water. Are you thirst, or not?"

The man glared at her for a few minutes, before opening his lips a bit. Slowly, Shiki poured some water down into his mouth, giving him a good decent amount before closing up the bottle once it was half empty. "Hey, what's your name?" She asked. So far, she had only known him as the large black man. It's fair to at least know his name if she's going to do this.

The man just grumbled, looking up at her and trying to make sense of what was going on. "Really? You think this whole good guy act is going to work now?"

"I could always just beat you up and stab you. I'm sure with someone as low-ranking as you, they wouldn't care to send someone out to save you."

"Tch.. Bitch.." The guy gritted his teeth. He looked away for a few seconds, staring at the floor as Shiki stood there, waiting to see if he was going to answer her or not. After a minute or so, he opened up his lips. "Carter. The name's Carter. Carter Johnson, but the first is good enough."

"Ryougi Shiki. I'm sure you know the order our names are arranged in."

"Yeah, alright. So, Shiki, if that's all good, what are you even doing? What's a girl like you doing going out and investigating a trafficking ring? I'm sure you're not with law enforcement, so already what you're doing is pretty illegal."

"Same with you. I don't mind just beating you to an inch of your life anyways. I have my own reasons for hunting down this trafficking ring, Carter. Namely, I just don't like having thugs and other foreign criminal elements in my home. You could say it's a duty of mines. I'm the heir to a clan around here. I may as well root out some problems before I become the head of my family's clan after all."

"Oho, so I had a local Yakuza princess on my hands, huh? You don't even have any bodyguards or anything. Pretty hard to believe that."

"I don't need any. It's just annoying oversight on my life anyways." After saying so, Shiki turned around, heading to leave the room. "Hey, where you going? Are you just going to leave me here?"