Disclaimer: I do not own Psycho-Pass or the characters.
Rated M
Summary: Another night, another case that takes a sudden turn for the worst. (I hate writing up summaries they always suck).Rated M for coarse language, gore, violence, mentions of rape.
Each chapter will be named after the character's POV.
Ginoza
I'm starting to regret having accepted into getting that game Kagari wanted so badly for the last two weeks, all I'm hearing since he started playing is gun fire, screams and some sort of moaning that I have no idea what it is and quite frankly knowing the type of games he plays I don't want to know but he's worked hard so once in a while it doesn't hurt to reward him for it. As inspectors it's also our job to reward our enforcers once in a while for the work that they do. It's not necessary or an obligation it just keeps morals up and actually in turn gets them to perform better in the field but still to think that those games used to be the hottest things in the past. I honestly don't get how Kagari can even enjoy playing those things since he gets to experience the real thing when he's out in the field first hand and yet he can't get enough of them.
"Hey Gino what would it take for me to get you to play for one hour?" He asks never taking his eyes off the screen of his game console. What would it take? I would have to be in my coffin and even then I still wouldn't even touch a button.
"Seeing a body splatter into pink slush on the job is enough for me so no." I answer as I keep working on my report and inspecting the one that inspector Tsunemori sent me earlier at the same time. I must say that she's getting better at writing up her reports which is good; it helps to prove to the chief that she will keep getting better with more experience which she will get with time.
"Come on Gino live a little. Years ago people would play these kinds of games all the time and nothing bad ever happened you know." I look at him over my screen and the very reason why these things are not recommended in this day and age is for the exact reason that they cloud a person's hue. For someone who is already a latent criminal it wouldn't matter but still, these types of games have been linked to raise aggression and violence among teenagers in the past.
"I'd debate on that. In the year early two thousand there was a case after a nineteen year old got high on a drug nicknamed at the time 'meow meow', stabbed his own mother and then proceeded to cut off his genitals." I tell him but not like it actually bothered him at all instead he found it more amusing than anything else.
"Seriously? Where did that happened?" Kagari asks as he tries to control his laughter but in a poor manner which resulted in Kunizuka hitting him on the head with the book she was reading.
"In England and that was nothing. In the United States they had a problem with people getting high on a drug called bath salt. All reports of incidents related to the drug were all the same, the individual attacked and ate their victims alive. They had to be shot down for them to stop." I add as I return my attention back to my screen and continue working on finalising my report.
"That's some Resident Evil shit right there… So there was a drug that made you go so crazy to the point you actually ate other people like a zombie? Yeah that's messed up but still Gino this game is awesome, Silent Hill is definitely a master piece." Unbelievable he thinks it's actually funny that such a situation was even a problem in the past; he simply compares it to another game. I'm afraid that Kagari will always be stuck in the game world fantasy… By the sounds of that so called game I wouldn't call that Silent Hill a master piece, more like a concoction from hell would be more suitable.
"Silent Hill… Sounds familiar wasn't that based on a real place?" Kougami asks as he closes his computer after submitting his report as I quickly inspect it when it pops up on my screen and like always it's perfectly written.
Now that Kougami mentioned it I think I read about a town that had been called Silent Hill for some sort of reason that I can't really remember why but if I'm not mistaken it was somewhere in the United States. If there ever was a country that could use the Sibyl system it surely would be that one without a doubt. From what I've read from text books back in school that country has never had a century without some form of violence, the country itself was built on slavery and wars basically.
Now thanks to the Sibyl system we are practically shielded from what happens over there unless you know where to look on the net that is. If you know where to go in the Commu-Fields, you can learn from some people that the country is not a place you'd want to live in. Last week when I went on it there was a member that was saying how some guy just entered an elementary school with a loaded gun and killed dozens of children and teachers and it would seem that it is pretty common thing to happen, just there alone should be a wakeup call for the government that there is a serious problem.
"Yes. A matter of fact the place itself was based on a real town called Centralia, Pennsylvania in the United States where it was dubbed Silent Hill for its ghost town appearance." Masaoka quickly answered Kougami's question. "The town's people were forced to evacuate after the coal mine caught on fire in nineteen sixty-two after firefighter had set fire to the landfill and the fire wasn't properly extinguished which caused the flames to enter the mine and it's been burning ever since." He adds.
I quickly do the math and the total of years since then is unbelievable. "It's been a hundred and fifty years already and it's still burning? How is that even possible?" I ask as I finish writing my own report and have approved the ones of the enforcers; all is good and ready to send to the chief.
"No one knows, many have tried to extinguish it for years since it started but all attempts failed and the more the fire burned underground the more you could see it on the surface. The roads and properties would collapse caused by sink holes that just suddenly appeared releasing toxic gas." I send my report to the chief as I listen to dad's story; he always seems to enjoy telling these kinds of things from the past and quite honestly it's intriguing to think that such things actually are currently happening on the planet is unbelievable. "They say where the ground broke, steam would come out of it and the heat was so hot you could cook an egg and even set a match on fire by simply touching the asphalt. Scientists have been studying this incident for years and have been keeping an eye on the fire below and every time they would do a reading to evaluate the fire they would always get the same results year after year. It never calmed but it keeps spreading little by little. As long there is coal to burn it will never go out-"
"Please change the subject all of this ghost town talks is really creeping me out." Tsunemori voices out when the alarm of an area stress level goes off. So much for having a calm night…
"You've got to be fucking kidding me" Kagari voices out as I quickly brief the team about the current situation. Can't say that I'm too thrilled about it either but this case fell on division one to carry out so we have no other choice.
The target we're after is Izumo Shibada; he's a thirty-five year old male and was flagged by a street scanner when he was caught attacking a woman and ended up killing her. He then proceeded in kidnapping the woman's ten years old daughter to flee from the drones and was able to make it into this abandoned facility. Needless to say that we can't send it any drones into the building, since the place has never gotten any relay points set in so we'll have to go in ourselves…
"We'll have to split up into two groups but I advise you to move with extreme caution. He already murdered someone; he can easily do it again and from his hue color it's safe to assume that it wasn't his first crime either. It's midnight blue so expect his aggression to be extremely high." I state before we head off into separate directions, Tsunemori will take the back entrance while we take the front and hopefully we'll be able to corner the guy and save that little girl from any more harm.
Kunizuka and Kagari head in first as I follow closely behind, this place used to be an old weapons factory during world war two but it was closed down in the beginning of the twenty first century and it's been abandoned ever since. Being said it's the perfect place for latent criminals to hide into and another reason why these old buildings that no longer serve any purpose in today's society should be torn down, they just serve now as to make our jobs even harder when chasing down criminals.
So far so good but this building is in very bad condition and a few times we've had to turn around and fine another path to take due to the ceiling having collapse sometime in the past and is now blocking the way. The only good thing so far is that there doesn't seem to be any homeless people using this building as a shelter but it's infested with rats and a few times Kunizuka and Kagari were forced to shoot a few of them or they would have attacked us.
"Ah man this place gives me the creeps." Kagari voices out as he holds his dominator closer to his chest, ready to fire if need be. "This is like a game I played; Resident Evil, all is quiet walking in a dark hall and a zombie will suddenly jump out of nowhere and try to-"
"Alright Kagari we get the idea." I quickly tell him, cutting his story short.
I remember all too well that game of his; he constantly played it after he would finish writing his report with the volume on high. I didn't have to see it to imagine what was going on, not a game I'd want to play and apparently a few movies were even made based on those said games in the past, not something I'd want to watch on my free time. This job is already goring enough as it is, as to why anyone would want to entertain themselves with more gore is beyond me.
The hall we've just taken is dark, I can barely see anything. I take out a flash light as Kunizuka and Kagari held up their dominators ready to shoot as I do my best to give them as much lighting as possible. I will never be able to say it enough but this place is a total dump and it needs to be demolished. The smell is just as bad, it matches well with how it looks that's for sure.
A loud noise suddenly fills the air followed by a crash as the ceiling just gave in in front of me. I use my arm to cover my nose and mouth as dust fills the hall and a back a way a few steps as to avoid the falling debris; it takes a few minutes before all the debris has fallen and the dust to subside.
"Kunizuka! Kagari! Are you both alright?"
"Yeah were fine." Kagari quickly answered as I get a sense of relief that they didn't get crushed under that, even if they are hunting dogs that's not a way for anyone to die.
"Are you injured inspector?" Kunizuka asks.
"No I'm alright." I answer as I quickly inspect the damage of the collapsed ceiling as I point the flashlight up to get a better look. There's no way to get through that debris, I'm cut off from my enforcers. Shit…
"Kunizuka and Kagari listen up, keep on going if you find Shibada shoot him on sight, no need to warn him; I'll find another path to reach the both of you. If you find inspector Tsunemori I want you to stay with her." I order as I open my terminal to call inspector Tsunemori.
"Understood." Kunizuka acknowledges as I hear footsteps going further.
"Don't worry Gino, we won't run off." Kagari carefreely replies and I'd be lying if the thought didn't cross my mind. If they wanted this would be their perfect chance to make a break for it and I would have to give an explanation to the top brass of what exactly went wrong in the investigation to allow such a thing to have happened on my watch. In the end it wouldn't even matter that I could have died crushed under the falling debris, all that would matter would be that I actually had failed to control my enforcers.
Tsunemori was quick to pick up and I waste no time giving her the current situation as I also advise that the three be even more cautious when navigating through the building. If she is to meet Kagari and Kunizuka, she is to keep them under her watch until I can rejoin the group. I then proceed to call Shion for information about the building, unfortunately there wasn't any data on the building's layouts so she can't help to guide me through and like she said even if she had the layouts considering how bad this place has gotten it would probably be useless anyway. I'll have to go by gut feeling alone with the knowledge that more parts of the ceiling can cave in at any given time.
Being alone in this place makes it even more disturbing, there are puddles of water everywhere and a few times I hear the sounds of metal screeching and at those moments I'm certain that the ceiling will collapse again but to my relief nothing happens. The walls bare signs of old graffiti, in the past this place must have been used as an old hang out for delinquent kids, the things written on these walls are not very holy and certain things I don't even know what it means.
I manage to get back to the entrance without much trouble and of course it's pouring outside which isn't good, the added weight of water on the roof could be enough to cause the roof to cave in at any given minute… I just hope nothing happens on Tsunemori's end, it's just our luck lately that all of division one's cases end up being a pain, the only good thing about this is that it help to form her experience but a single mistake is enough to be fatal. The only thing that helps calm my anxiety is that she's with Kougami and Masaoka, they'll make sure everything is alright on her end, I trust their judgement without a fault.
Footsteps catches my attention as I quickly turn around, finger ready to pull the dominator's trigger only to come face to face with Masaoka. I can't believe that man; he just abandoned Tsunemori to come looking for me, he has to be out of his mind.
"You left your post; your duty was to be with inspector Tsunemori." I tell him but he just shrugs with a guilty smile just like he always does when I reprimand him of his actions.
"The inspector got worried that you were on your own in here and besides she's not alone." Yeah Kougami is with her and I trust his judgement to keep her safe. He'd fight until his last breath to protect her and get the job done so I guess it will be fine until we rejoin them.
"Let's just hurry to regroup; I'll let you lead the way." I tell him. I had first planed on going outside and enter from the back entrance but since dad is here we'll be able to retract his steps and save us some time. I start looking around as I follow him through what used to be the facility's warehouse, everything is just too quiet for my liking, I would have thought that we would have heard a child cry or scream by now and yet nothing so far…
"Inspector you might want to see this." His voice was low as he spoke. I quickly joined him and just as I feared the little girl dead lying in a pool of her own blood. Her eyes are wide open and her clothes have been ripped up, my guesses this beast raped her and then killed her in cold blood… Wait a minute wasn't the girl he kidnap had blond hair instead of brown? I quickly open my terminal, checking the for the picture that had been taken during the flag checked and exactly as I thought, this isn't the girl Shibada kidnapped…
A rush of pain suddenly fills my body as I drop my dominator to the ground. I look down to see a blade inside me as it gets pulled out tainted in fresh blood. My eyes jump up to meet dads eyes as he shoves me to the ground and waste little time getting on top of me, insert the knife in my stomach again causing another jolt of pain and then another and each time it just takes my breath away, the pain is unbearable and all I can do is stare into his eyes that are now cold… I no longer know this man in front of me… I try to form words to say but nothing comes out and the more I try to talk, stronger the pain in my stomach intensifies. My vision is getting blurry; I don't know anymore how many times he stabbed me in my stomach, all I know is the noise of the knife being dropped to the floor followed by rushes of pain to my head. My vision is getting all hazy as it turns to black and all I hear are muffled sounds as if they are far away and all that consumes me is the pain… Tsunemori… Kou are they? Dad… Why…
My new Psycho-Pass fanfic. Review tell me what you think and toodles.
