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Chapter One:
A dear with a little too much yan.
Sitting in front of me are two people, the blonde Jack Atlus and the young Brave Gretchen. I am currently looking in through the security cameras in the famous Hemo Hotel in Romania. The room they are sitting in is a dull and dimly lit one that reminds me of the interrogation rooms we use back home
"So you're Brave Gretchen?" The blonde with a faint accent asks the woman sitting opposite him.
"Yep!" The woman chirps with a smile of much too long teeth.
"Where were you during the murder of your boyfriend Dragan Godwin?" The blonde asks the woman.
He isn't very good at this. The suspects will dance circles around him. Why was he even hired? Why was I? I was visiting from Japan and him from Australia and some woman grabs us and drags us into this mess. Everyone in the building looks strange, from the young boy with a bright red braid to the old man that looks like he is only forty to the young woman with silver hair. The woman being interrogated by Atlus has a strange appearance of bright red and orange hair and green eyes with pupils that are far too small to belong to any human I've ever known.
"Everywhere!" Ms. Gretchen grins.
She leans into Atlus and smiles as wide as she can before biting into his cheek. He slaps her away and I notice that there are clearly defined bite marks in his face.
"Don't do this." The woman implores.
Atlus trembles in his seat before regaining some sort of composure. He stares into the green orbs with his own violet ones and grins back.
"Alright no more tip-toeing. I know what you get up to ma'am. You probably killed him out of jealousy." Atlus prods the conversation.
"Killed whom?" The ditzy woman asks.
"Dragan Godwin." Atlus replies with a sigh.
"D-Dragan." She sobs.
The woman grabs Atlus's shirt and pulls herself into him.
"You remind me of him! So obnoxious and pretentious and violent and rough! You even have violet eyes! Could you be my love reborn? Perhaps God has graced me with a replacement! I won't let you go this time!" She cries.
Atlus shakes free,"Stop that."
"No!" Ms. Gretchen sticks her tongue out and pouts.
Atlus stares at her across the table and sighs again.
"Tetsu could ya help me down here?" He asks me.
I open the door and walk in, "Hello Ms. Gretchen. I heard that you like vampires."
"Yes I do! Dragan was kinda like one ya know!" Ms. Gretchen smiles.
"Well the deceased died of exsanguination through two holes in his neck, that seems suspicious."
"Well, ya know it could have been another species."
"You're nuts." Atlus interjects.
Ms. Gretchen runs a hand through her hair, a hand with a silver ring, "I hate that you people always blame vampires. The only two rouges are the Tenors. The misanthrope and the boy tyrant are far too violent to rule." The woman mentions.
I glare at her and sigh loudly, "We know you get jealous easily. We know that Dragan Godwin's attentions wandered easily; all the current evidence points to you."
The woman grins and shows me all her teeth and her elongated canines, "You don't know anything yet!" She laughs.
"All I know is that he was going to leave you!" Atlus screams.
"Well he was indeed but I still couldn't have done it." Ms. Gretchen smiles, "I couldn't have because, because, I'm not really a vampire." She cries.
"That's bull! Vampires don't exist! We believe that you may have been wearing fake teeth!" Atlus screams back.
The suspect begins to sob, "Dragan! Dragan! I'm sorry I couldn't save you! I've never been strong enough; I'll never be strong enough, good enough! I should have killed everyone that hurt you before they did this! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Ms. Gretchen cries.
Atlus stands up and leaves the room. I sit and look at the woman sobbing in front of me, "Please don't cry ma'am. It won't help. I know you did it, all the evidence points to you."
"I couldn't have!" She assures me.
"Give me a real reason this time."
"I-I" the woman stutters.
A ring echoes through the small room. I pick up my phone and flip it open.
"Hello. My name is YuuseiFudo; I am the forensics expert on the case. Are you Tetsu Ushio?" A deep voice asks.
"Yes I am. Do you want something?" I ask back.
"Yes, I wanted to tell you that the teeth that pierced the neck of the victim are real. We may have a very dangerous case on our hands." Fudo says.
Atlus walks back in.
"What did the little nerd say?" The blonde asks me.
"The teeth are real." I reply.
Atlus flings the door open and walks into the hall where the other suspects are standing, whispering.
"Hey you freaks! Show us your damn teeth!" He screams.
The hall has red carpeting and six chairs in it. In one is a tanned man with black hair and blue eyes and the other five are empty though many people in the crowd are eyeing them up.
They all smile wide. Each one of them has long and sharp teeth; from the little boy with two slender fangs to the old man with a mouth full of razors.
"Well is this some sort of meeting for vampire fetishists?" Atlus asks the crowd.
A woman in the back with silver hair smirks and walks up to Atlus.
"No, it's a meeting for nobels." She says with a touch of an eastern European accent. "The Tenors are the only vampires here. Me and my twin brother Harald are beast-men, the Godwin brothers are daemons, Divine Sayer is unknown, Jean and Andore are fey and I believe that Brave Gretchen is a human."
I blink. Atlus laughs loudly.
"And you expect me to believe that? Where's the proof?" He asks.
"Are the teeth not enough?" The woman asks.
"Would you like to see more pathetic humans?" A tall man with black hair smiles.
"Placido no! They'll take you away again." A little boy with red hair pouts.
Mikage, the federal agent on the case, walks in and sighs. The short-ish woman has bright blue hair and large yellow eyes and is wearing a gray suit and appears to not carry firearms. She is quite peculiar.
"I leave three humans to solve a case and they discover magic!" She says delighted. "Know my boss as to allow humans to be agents. Please don't faint anyone. I need you to help me."
I nod as does Atlus.
"So you're telling us magic's real?" Atlus asks Mikage.
"Yes. We have hid it for too long and so in order to prove that you are worthy you must solve this case. Figure out who the culprit is, how they did it and why and then we will never hid form humans again." She replies.
Placido Tenor sneers.
"I would rather someone of my kind be here than the human scum. I refuse to be questioned by such inferior beings." He pouts.
"Shut up." A red-haired man orders. "You have no right to keep us here a second longer. We all know it was Gretchen, she's insane."
"No I am sorry it was not. Brave Gretchen is human and the teeth were real." A tanned man corrects while shoving up his glasses.
The man turns to me.
"Glad to see you in person Tetsu Ushio." The man says.
This is going to be quite the case. I walk back into the room where the woman is sobbing.
"Due to light shone on the true nature of this case you are dismissed. Please stay in the hall for further questioning because I don't think we have a station to take you to." I tell her.
She walks off.
"Could Lucciano Tenor please come in?" Mikage asks.
The young boy with red hair grabs his brother's hand before walking in.
"He stays with me." The boy states,
The two sit down.