DIE HARD [1st Investigation]

[akudamods]

It's been almost a week since the X-Class Akudama found themselves in Dotonbori, and the days since Bunny and Shark's little announcement have gone on, seemingly falling on deaf ears. But now, as the sun begins to rise and turn the hanging smog red across the sky, it truly seems that blood is in the air. Not a soul is around on the streets... who will be the first to venture out?

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[hunterandhunted]

[What if he had questions? Oh well.

He makes it down to the therapeutic treatment room, and sees that there's not Physicist around. That's annoying. But since she isn't here, that gives him the ability to snoop around to his heart's desire.]

[conways_retribution]

_{[Huh! There were more hilts where that came from. Heck, even his knife's been untouched.]}

[voidseeing]

That's right.

[He'll just be mentally going over this guy's profile in his mind-- yes, he memorized all of them, not that he's going to say so out loud.]

Come here often, or is this the first time?

[controltype]

[Good time to drive around the city then. But first Naoya will take the elevator downstairs to get to the lobby]

[conways_retribution]

I'd say it's my designated smoking spot now. Mostly alone, out of the way, not many people outside our group come here either.

[voidseeing]

[... he may take that too, because a weapon is a weapon.

Hope you don't mind, Jake.]

[fixingtodie]

[Want some shitty coffee to go with that?

Fellow shopper is here to help. Gotta be ready.]

[conways_retribution]

_{[No he doesn't mind! He can't carry more than one melee weapon anyway.]}

[voidseeing]

Can't blame them. The atmosphere leaves something to be desired, unless you're into the whole post-apocalyptic burned-out shell look.

[Don't mind him just sort of walking around the perimeter as he speaks here...]

[pr159]

[ You know what, he already grabbed some from the hospital this morning and drank it on the way over here, but yeah, let's do it. ]

[akudamods]

[Often the best way to find out if something happened is to see people's reactions. The freedom you have is fairly limited -- stumbling upon people who are talking to each other about 'something happened' isn't too difficult. A thin crowd, formed from side to side of the street, is as good an indication as anything else.

The civilians make sure to keep their distance from any X-Classes approaching, no matter if it's from the skies or coming down the street. Excitement, concern, anger, a lot of different emotions course through the crowds. The source of it all? Someone on the sidewalk, lying down. The awkward positioning of the body hints something is wrong -- it's almost painful-looking! No person should lie down in such a position.

...

...no. Not just one person. A bit further away there's a second person. Two X-Classes, two corpses left out there on the street.

Popping out of the ground makes it easy to see who it is. After all, you perhaps have seen these faces several times on the billboards and in the hospital. Fellow criminals, who are now lying lifeless.

People watch Flowey and Akira's every move, stepping as far as they can while also keeping that morbid desire to look, not wanting to miss not even one second of it all, while robots start pushing the civilians away. X-Classes handle any deaths among their number.

Liar --Debbie Brody-- and Sorceror -- Marcille Donato -- are dead.]

[voidseeing]

[Well, hey, now you know your knife is in probably good hands!]

[conways_retribution]

I've been around a lot of death in my past. I guess you could tell by my crimes. _{[He shrugs.]} Town I came from's a shithole too, so... I'm just used to shitholes like this.

[conways_retribution]

_{[Nothing could go wrong with that! In fact, nothing could possibly go wrong today!]}

[your_best_friend]

[* Flowey laughs, incredibly amused. A bit of a shame, though, One of them could've proven useful to him. The other, he only knew the name.]

[* He does try and send a message out to all the other X-Classes via phone saying that they really should come to the Karaoke bar to chill, eat breakfast, and discuss things about the two X-Class corpses.]

[* Finally, he turns to one of the robots.]

You didn't happen to see anything, did you?

[mrfuckwit]

Shit..!

_{[ Akira does catch sight of the spectacle from above while he's flying and he's seen enough murder to know what this is all about.
Robots be damned, Akira is nose diving towards the scene and landing. The kid isn't shy getting up close and personal with the bodies, but he beelines specifically to Marcille first. He's too distracted to notice Flowey first. ]}

Marcille! Oh my God!

[fixingtodie]

[It's a text from her friend... so of course she's coming, even though she's anxious about the corpses part.

But she does try to get a look anyway.]

...did they tell you what happened yet?

Re: BODY DISCOVERY ANNOUNCEMENT

[conways_retribution]

<sub>[....

He steps outside the HQ.]</sub>

Ahhrrrhh. <sub>[He roared into the sky.

What sick fuck could have possibly done that to a kid?]</sub>

KARAOKE BAR - OUTSIDE (11 CLUES)

[akudamods]

KARAOKE BAR - INSIDE (4 CLUES)

[akudamods]

KARAOKE BAR - ROOFTOP (6 CLUES)

[akudamods]

[akudamods]

[He's completely ignored.

You all deal with this. This investigation is none of the city's business.

You're on your own, X-Classes]

TATTOO PARLOR (2 CLUES)

[akudamods]

HOSPITAL PHARMACY (2 CLUES)

[akudamods]

[your_best_friend]

[...Hmm. Oh well.]

No, they won't tell me anything. Please come here as soon as possible. I'm very scared right now.