This is a No-Brainer Investigation! [Investigation Topic]

While Maria had been grateful of the option of having a free ride, she doubted her coffin could fit inside their cruisers nor would they be able to find suitable harness to tie onto the roof. She didn't want to make too much trouble for the law enforcement. It went without saying that she would be one of the few that had to get to Sunlake Palms on foot. The nun finally arrived at the place with sunlight beaming in the air. Her blank expression carefully surveyed the area soon spying upon the familiar yellow tape which warranted a belief that she was at the right spot. And when the rest of her group arrived, she gave a nod towards them in greeting.

Maria also silently nodded at the male who was here instead of Claire. Her expression continued to be empty, not betraying any look of surprise on her features. But it warranted a curiosity where exactly the veteran went off to. "A pleasure to meet you, sir. I'm Maria."

She would continue to have her lips sealed shut as the rest introduced themselves. Maria only adjusted the strap hanging off her shoulder from slight discomfort of her burden. As soon as introductions were over, she followed the guide. Along the way, the nun listened to him speak and was already trying to digest the information from his lips. "You and Claire seem to suggest there were previous victims. What is their state as of this moment?"

Maria remembered this Terrorist had the ability to manipulate the mind somehow. It was a troublesome ability and it warranted much caution and they needed to be prepared. But it seemed this man had a personal concern. Normally she wouldn't bother obliging, but there was something... odd about her senior. She also remembered how the veteran glared at her back then. So how is this person related to her?


The last question was probably the question her fellow Cadets were thinking about this whole time.

While the offer to be taken by car to the place they were suppose to investigate was there, Haru decided to keep walking alongside Maria preferring her company over that of a law enforcer at the moment.  The pair would eventually arrive around the same time to the scene. As he came to a rest slightly beside Maria, his strange colored eyes would scan the area they were in taking note of what was around them before they settled on the yellow tape that marked off the area that was there. As he was wondering what may be on the other side, another joined them. This one was a female he had remembered vaguely seeing at the morning assembly, but since then hadn’t seen the young woman.

She said her name was Shiina…Hmm. Alright. He could remember that. He would take the name and marked it to memory along with the fact that she and Maria had met before.

Not exactly familiar with the woman, Haru figured he would introduced himself, but he decide to save the introduction until after the young man that greeted them spoke. To Sera’s question, he would nod.

“Hai. My name is Hatsu. A pleasure to meet you both,” he would say introducing himself by his short name rather than his full name for the time being. He wasn’t being deceitful with this, but rather using what was more effective in the case, so the short name would have to do.  After this, he would fall silent to listen to what was being said, his eyes drifting over to Shiina as she pulled out a pen and notepad seemingly quite prepared for the investigation.

While he did not jot anything down physically, he took note of things mentally. When they began to move, he followed the group as the young man took them behind the tape and to the scene of the crime. Looking around the area as he listened to what was being said, he would eventually look back at the other.

“So she likes to stay in the area...a resident here, maybe? You said she was a young girl wearing a Cheshire Cat Mask, do we know around what age the girl is and does the mask always stay the same? Also how many times has this particular Terrorist struck here?” he would ask the questions. Perhaps there were too many at once, but he had spaced them out well enough so it wasn’t just one big ramble in the end. As for that last part, Haru would shift his weight slightly to the left as he looked off to the side, thinking.

“I recall having misgivings about her earlier, but found them perhaps misplaced. She seemed normal enough and said she was going to the police station before meeting us here. Outside of that was just the oddness of her pulling at her shirt constantly like she was hot or something…though the temperature in the room didn’t bother me much. Then again it is probably trivial,” he would say before his eyes slid back over to the other. “Why? Has she been acting strange around you?” he would ask his tone remaining calm, soft and level the whole time. He would fall silent after this to listen to any input from the others that may come.

Since Athena was hanging out with Noah earlier it only made sense to walk back to Sunlake Palms with him, not to mention she would rather work than have her dad give her a ride to her first investigation assignment. When they arrived she could only recognize two people, the first one being Hastu, or Faces, or Phantom, or however he called himself these days. As for the second one it was a girl Athena knew thanks to her career and not her status as cadet,  Kyotsu-Shi was after all a famous idol. Even though she was slightly late she had arrived soon enough to hear the conversation and the introductions the other cadets had.


With the introductions done she was ready to begin working on solving this peculiar mystery, the fact she was living in Sunlake Palms gave her an extra reason to want this terrorist out of the streets. "Do we have any insight on the reason she's doing this? So far the only information we have received is that she has the ability to control the minds of others." Athena wondered if she was trying to rally the people against the government or something within that line, it wouldn't seem impossible by terrorist standards. "As for Claire, I'm afraid I can' answer that. I don't know her well enough to determinate if she's behaving differently than normal." This question raised her suspicions but what she would only presume Noah asked. Athena held her breath waiting for Sera's answer, if this terrorist was able to break the will of someone as experienced as Claire did they really stood a chance against her?