Sorry for not posting, not going to make any dumb excuses, just can't figure out what to post.
The timeskip sort of threw me for a loop; I don't know how much time has passed since we're in another time and place now. Did we ever actually go to the mall? Did Josef ever buy replacement clothes? Did anything cool happen at the mall? I was hoping we could have a cool first encounter with a criminal at the mall or something, but then everything got skipped.
I still don't really know how Josef should act around his sparring partner. they haven't really got past the awkward meet-new-people stage yet.