One day, the Dekarangers were being called together. The reason remained unknown. What was certain however is that it was urgent, and someone's life may be at stake.

When all six of them had arrived, Doggy began: "It's good to have you all here now, especially you, Sen-Chan."

Sen was a little surprised: "M... Me? How so?"

Doggy did not answer. Instead he pressed a few buttons on his keyboard, after which some surveillance footage was shown on the screen behind him.

From a bird's eye view, everyone could easily recognize a jewelry store. A woman walked in, holding up a gun, telling the sales manager to give her everything they have, and judging from the footage that included the money in the counter. None of the six detectives saw this as any real problem, for SPD anyways. This was a case for the regular police. But that changed when they saw who the woman really was. Somebody whom Sen knew best: the android girl Flora.

"No..." he was startled, "She couldn't... That's not possible!"

"That's exactly what I told her supervisors." Doggy replied, "But then they told me there's no mistaking it. They found her fingerprints on several places, and as you can see here, she even accidentally drops her license here. And this is only one of many crimes.

Sen didn't know what to say, nor what to think. So Ban decides to talk for him: "What kind of crimes?"

"Space ship-theft, bank robbery, and multiple murder-attempts."

Sen got up in fury: "I refuse to believe that Flora did any of that!"

"Sen-chan! Calm do..." Umeko couldn't seem to bear watching him like this.

"Don't tell me to calm down!"

"Then I order you to do so!" Doggy intervened.

This came quite as a shock. Nobody's ever seen Sen this angry before, or even angry at all. Trying to sound calm, he asked: "Is there any way I can help her?"

"There's not much you can do." Doggy sounded sad, "Or much anyone can do, for that matter."

"What does that mean!?"

"Since she's an android, there's no need for her to be judged. However, since Sen gave her a heart, she is considered to be a person, like anyone else. Therefor the highest court is not sure whether to judge over her as a person, or a robot. There was never any law on this."

Sen couldn't believe he was hearing this: "There has to be some kind of rule on this. It can't be the first time that..."

"Sen-chan!" Ban interrupted him, "Didn't you hear what Boss just said? There's nothing you can do!"

"What's happening to Flora now?" Jasmine asked.

Doggy answered: "After seeing this footage, she refuses to talk now. She demands to see Sen, and nobody else."

Sen was happy to hear this: "Then what am I waiting for? I'll..."

"It's not that simple." Doggy interrupted, "Because you two have a special bond, you might compromise the investigation."

"Compromise? But they..."

"It hurts me even more than it hurts you. As a matter of fact, I wasn't even supposed to tell you about this, but my instinct told me I should."

Hoji, being the one to remain calm most of the time, started: "So... what will you do now?"

Sen replied, first in a low whisper, then pretty loud: "There's got to be a way to help her. There's definitely a way to help her!"

Sen got up and left the room, as fast as he had never done before.

Umeko seemed to be rather taken at this. Never has she expected such behavior from him. She got up as well: "I... I better go with him. He might er... need my help."

Thinking of an ulterior motive, Tetsu remarked, as he swayed his index finger: "Nonsense!"

This remark was pointless though, as Umeko had already left before Tetsu even pronounced the second syllable of that word.