Disclaimer: I do not own Psycho-Pass or the characters.

Rated M

Summary: With Ginoza missing and his life on the line the team must race to find him before time runs out. Rated M for coarse language, sexual themes, rape, violence and gore..

Each chapter will be named after the character's POV.

Kougami

I would have given anything to have a day off today. It's just one of those days you know that you should have stayed in bed and do nothing. Kagari must be thinking pretty much the same thing as I am, since we started our shift this morning he's been fighting with his computer none stop. The damn thing either freezes every ten to twenty minutes or just shuts down by itself.

That particular computer has always been a piece of junk deserving nothing more than to go in the trash but the technicians keep insisting that the thing is still in great shape. Sasayama used to say that computer was haunted by a ghost, either he was being serious or just enjoyed trying to freak Gino out was never really certain but anyway that thing has never worked properly to begin with and chances are it won't ever.

"Will you stop abusing the machine? Just call the technician to come fix it Kagari."

"Yeah yeah Kunizuka. I say wreck the piece of shit, that way I'd finally get a new one that actually works." He says as he gives the computer's box another kick.

"Gino will kill you." I say as I give my report a final revision before sending it to Gino but I won't know if it will be approved until he gets here. I check the time, eight forty-five and he's not even here yet… Akane should be here soon too; maybe he decided to have breakfast with her this morning.

"Nah Gino will nag but we all know in the back of his head he'll be like fuck yeah!" Kagari quickly replies as he sends a quick message for a technician to come fix his computer before turning his attention to his game as usual.

"Good morning!" Akane's voice quickly caught my attention, always cheerful no matter what happens. Her eyes quickly scan the room before setting her gaze upon me. "Mr. Ginoza isn't here?"

"No we haven't seen him. I figured you two decided to have breakfast together or something." I answer back as I send in my report.

She puts her things on her workspace before sending a call but nothing. I know Gino; he's not the type to come in late without notifying that he would be. He has to be extremely sick to take a sick day and from yesterday he showed absolutely no signs that he was coming down with something. Actually he was fine… I quickly glance towards pops; he's been quiet all morning. I can tell that he's concerned and I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't, it's just not like him.

"Again nothing…" Akane voices out with a low tone.

"Wouldn't he have notified the chief if he couldn't come in or something?" Kagari asks, his earlier enthusiast has faded.

"If that would have been the case Akane would have been notified immediately and she hasn't so no, chances are that the chief has no idea that Gino isn't even here yet." I reply back, looking at Akane who is still just standing there in front of the door thinking about what she should do. Being the inspector, it's her call to decide; either way whatever she will decide, we'll follow.

"Isn't it obvious, we go knock on the good inspector's door. It won't hurt to go check what's going on and besides even if there was a stress level today, unit one is not even the unit on call." Pops states as he puts his jacket on.

"It wouldn't hurt I guess." She says. I can tell she feels uneasy, being a rookie inspector can't say that I blame her.

One thing about being an enforcer that is always hard to get used to is the paddy wagon. Sitting in complete darkness with the other enforcers and the moment you get to see the light of day is the moment you are no longer viewed as a human being but nothing more than a hunting dog.

After I became a latent criminal, Gino accepted for having me as a replacement for Sasayama and he chose Kagari himself to fill the empty gap we had. Why Kagari? He never told me, not that I ever expected him to do so considering my status but at first it was an odd feeling not having the person you've been the closest to not tell you nothing as if you no longer exist. I understand why, he's worked hard to get to where he is I'd hate to see Gino fall like I did. Pops would never forgive me if I'd allow that to happen, he would allow himself to die if it meant that Gino could continue walking the path that he's currently on. Being an enforcer, I know how this life is and it's the last thing I want to see Gino become. Its fine if it's me, I can bare it…

The paddy waggon comes to a stop, the doors opens allowing the light to flow in as my eyes quickly adjust from being in the dark a little too long. I get out followed by the others as I look at the building that Gino lives in. It's a quiet neighborhood near a large park, the perfect place for him.

"I wonder which condo is Mr. Ginoza's?" Akane asks as she checks the location's structure.

"Shin Chiyoda-ku, Hitotsubashi four seventy-six-D" I say as I walk to the building Akane quickly following behind. As usual the place is quiet with nothing much going on.

"How can Gino live here? I mean there's no action, I'd lose my mind living here." Kagari voice out.

"It's nice…" Kunizuka states in a neutral tone.

"Exactly it's girly." He replies mockingly.

"This is it." I say ignoring Kagari and Kunizuka's small argument as I knock on the door.

"Doesn't look like Mr. Ginoza is home. Where do you think he could have gone Mr. Kougami?" Akane asks as she gives Gino another quick call but nothing.

"Do you hear that?" I ask.

Akane closes her wrist hologram as she listens for possible sounds. "Hear what? I don't hear anything."

"Exactly, where the hell is Dime?"

"Dime?"

I ignored Akane's confusion, something isn't right. I know something is wrong and I know pops has that same feeling. I think he's had a bad feeling all morning, the subconscious telling you that something isn't right but you just can't put your finger on it. I quickly back up and kick the door as hard as I could leaving Akane shocked that I just busted open Gino's door and I wasted no time entering the condo. Nothing seems out of place, everything is where I remembered. It's almost unbelievable how he hasn't changed a thing in here. I quickly look around, scanning the room for anything suspicious as the others enter.

"Mr. Kougami! Mr. Ginoza is probably not even here!" I could sense the frustration and concern in her voice as she spoke but she's missing the big picture.

"Dime isn't here but his leash is right there so he should have been barking the moment I knocked on that door and yet he's not here." I point out, the leash hanging on the hook right next to the door and his harness is also there so again it's impossible that Gino went for a walk with Dime without it.

"Maybe Gino decided not to use a leash." Kunizuka says as she searches around for anything odd.

"Dime is a Siberian Husky; Gino wouldn't be foolish enough to go on a walk with Dime without putting him on a leash and more importantly without the harness. Something's not right here." I state as I walk into his living area, inspecting everything I can see.

Everything shows that he came home after work, his MWPSB bracelet is on the side table at the entrance and his jacket on the hook next to the door just like he always does. Everything shows that he came home but no signs that he actually left the condo and yet its dead quiet in here. The noise alone would have been enough to wake the sickest person out of bed and right now it's not the case.

"The mystery is solved." Pops' voice takes me out of my thoughts as I quickly join him in the kitchen and there he is lying in a pool of blood, Gino's faithful dog. Kagari quickly goes into the hall and comes back in short breath saying that there isn't anyone here. Whatever happened here, Dime fought and lost, and Gino's gone.

"Ms. Kunizuka go get the Forensic Bots. Maybe they can help us figure out exactly what happened here. Mr. Kougami and Mr. Masaoka I need both of you to search for clues as to where Ginoza could be and what happened here." Akane quickly orders.

By the looks of the blood and stiffness of Dime's corps, it's safe to assume that it's been dead for over seven hours and if that's the case all of this must have happened late last night or early morning at best. The thing is before I busted the door down there wasn't any forced entry so how did this criminal enter in here? The windows are intact; everything is as it should be nothing out of place, no signs of a struggle…

"Did you find anything Mr. Kougami?" Akane's question takes me out of my thoughts, she's doing her best to keep calm but I can tell she's anxious.

"Nothing is out of place and there aren't any signs of a struggle." I state as I keep looking around.

"Could it be possible that whoever did this is someone that Mr. Ginoza knows? Anyway I just finished speaking with the chief; she's greatly disturbed about Mr. Ginoza's disappearance. Our priority is to find and locate Mr. Ginoza however I must know something Mr. Kougami. The chief as recommended me that I should remove Mr. Masaoka from this case. Why?" Why doesn't that surprise me from the chief?

"You still haven't figured that out yet? Pops is Gino's old man." I blurt out. I thought she would have figured that one out by now. You look at Gino and it's just the spitting image of pops but younger.

"I had no idea… Asking Masaoka to remove himself from this case would be-"

"If you told pops that he could not be part of this case he'd find a way to be in it. It would not matter if it was against the law or not but if you're worried that his personal feelings might cloud his judgement, don't be." Pops would be the last person I'd fear that he'll let personal feelings disturb him in his work, no matter what he'll get the job done that's without a doubt.

"Kou I think we found something." Kagari's shout made Akane jump in surprise, I guess she's on edge and I don't blame her. Every investigation we've done so far, Gino was the one doing most of the technical work, she simply observed or just tagged along with the enforcers. Right now she's found herself having to lead four enforcers on her on, good thing we're not like most enforcers.

"What did you find?" I ask as we joined the others in the living area carefully stepping so we don't step on the forensic drones.

"When it comes to solving crimes, detectives would become famous depending on their success rate in the past. In this day and age, the number of inspectors has greatly dropped so there aren't many to acknowledge." I feel another story of the past before getting to the point but with Pops, it never leads to a good thing though. "In the past many detectives would find themselves victims of numerous crimes and we've stumbled on a bad one. We're dealing with a sociopath."

"A sociopath, like a serial killer?" Akane asks.

"It's a game, how long it will last, will be up to us and him." He says as he gives a nudge to follow him towards Gino's bedroom and goes straight to the bed removing the sheet revealing four words written in blood 'let's play a game'.

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