The towel was gone, she was completely naked!

The sudden sense of dread this contact had given her was confirmed true as she looked down at herself and realized with a garbled, horrified gasp that her towel was gone, and she was now completely naked.

Futaba's mighty mind came to an immediate halt, and even her lungs seemed to become paralyzed. It took a few moments for the gears in her head to start turning again, rapidly making the connection. As soon as it did, Futaba dropped to her knees with a squeak, her legs squeeze tightly together, and her hands clamped over her chest. Her face burned a bright cherry red.

"Eh... heheh," she let out a nervous little laugh as her mind reeled, trying to determine just at what point of her traipsing about outside did she lose her towel. Despite herself, she had no real idea. All she knew was that when she left, she had a towel and now she doesn't. Did anyone see her? She felt her breathing pick up.

She frantically shook her head, trying to get that thought out of her mind. After all, surely, she would know if someone did, right? No one would see her running around naked without having a big reaction to it or trying to get her attention or something, right?

"It's fine," Futaba told herself. "It's fine, fiiine, it's fiiiiine. There's nothing to worry about..." She grew silent. The only noise in the laundromat was the sound of her clothes bumping into the walls of the washing machine.

Futaba tightly closed her eyes and clamped her hands tighter to her body, trying to shut out the sounds of the machine and think over her options. Of course, she could just wait out the timer for her clothes to finish, though with the size of the load she put in it would be quite a while still. Or she could try peeking her head out of the laundromat and trying to see if she spotted her towel nearby, but... that was risky.

If someone saw her poke her head out and thought she was suspicious, then they might investigate. And even if she did happen to see her towel out in the street, would she even be able to bring herself to get it? She would have to run out into the street naked to do that. Anyone could see her. Worse than that, images of Joker and Sojiro popped into her head, one of them could see her. She felt her whole body burn a bright red at the thought. She didn't know if she could live that down. And the odds for one of them to see her were scary, she knew. La Blanc's door was basically one big window, and if the towel wasn't right outside the laundromat, then she would have to run past LeBlanc. All it would take is one of them looking out the door at the right moment, and they would get an eyeful of her. That is, of course, unless she wanted to take a detour... the only other way she could leave the laundromat would take her to the much more public main road, basically guaranteeing that people will see her, but it would get her around having to pass LeBlanc. Could she bring herself to do either of those things?