Because tomorrow was Thursday, the fifth day of September—the date the "letter" Detective Sparrow had mentioned before his death would arrive. On Wednesday night, after seeing Galina and Tifa off, Shade had kept wondering what exactly that letter would contain.
As his thoughts ran wild, his guesses became increasingly bizarre. In the end, he even wondered whether it might not be a letter at all, but a package that would trigger a Steam Bomb when opened.
Because he had too much on his mind, he had a strange dream after falling asleep on Wednesday night. At the end of the dream, he actually met Mr. Sparrow Hamilton. That Gentleman in the dream did not mention the task he had given Shade, but instead scolded him for keeping a cat in Saint Derain Square and making his home dirty.
"What kind of strange dream was that?"
Shade woke suspiciously, only to discover it was still only five thirty.
He stared wide-eyed at the ceiling in the darkness. After lying there for ten minutes without the slightest hint of sleepiness, he sat up. With autumn arriving, sunrise came later and later, and since the bedroom curtains were drawn, the room was completely dark.
However, perhaps awakened by Shade getting up, the cat curled into a ball beside his pillow alertly opened its eyes. It glanced at Shade, realized it was him, meowed a few times, then fell soundly asleep again.
It was not time for this cat to get up yet.
Since he could not sleep, Shade got up early. After changing into an outfit he did not usually wear, he went straight outside. But he did not go far. Instead, he sat beside the fountain statue of a girl holding up a water jug in the center of Saint Derain Square,