"Tch." Levi and I both said in unison as we listened to Commander Erwin and Nick Fuji interrogate some Toria hoon inside a room. Considering they were the major players of this game between the MP and Corps, it was decided that they would do the interrogations. Decided by them of course. Since they were our superiors, Levi and I had no right to object. After eavesdropping for the third time that day, the two elites finally got tired of us. They both exited the recent interrogation and finally sent us a look.

"Levi, why don't you show Officer Hazura the location of the new hideout that you found. I'm sure Officer Hazura can take over the case from there." Suggested Erwin. Levi sent his older friend a quick glare before pushing himself off the wall.

"Come with me." he gruffly instructed and headed off down the hall. I sighed in reply and followed, shoving my hands into my pockets. We walked in silence, exiting the Survey Corps and entering the Wall Rose streets. Levi began leading me down to the south-west of the area and the number of people present started to decrease.

"You know, you don't have to act so glum." I muttered. "It's already hard enough working around you."

"Tch. This is exactly why I'm acting 'glum' then."

"What? To make my life harder than it already is?"

"You can take it that way if you want." Levi then began to walk faster, pulling ahead of me. "To make you realise how much you belong to the Corps…" he breathed.

I faltered in my step and gritted my teeth.

"I know that."

"So the last time I saw the Toria hoon last night was scampering into the thick black door there, to the left of the tavern. I didn't go inside myself obviously because I would get caught."

"Thanks for pointing that out." I replied and cocked my head in thought. Now that a location of another hideout was found, what was the next step? Surely, the mastermind would have been notified by now and put some more security on his remaining warehouses. I guess we'll have to keep an extra eye on the left over warehouses and trace back who's hiring the extra security.

"If you stare at that door any harder, you'll be thinking out loud." Warned Levi, watching me from a distance. I smirked back at him.

"And that is a problem for you…why?"

The side of his mouth tipped up in a smile before he quickly turned his back to me. "I'd prefer the MP to not indulge me in their thoughts."

"Then it's a good thing you're not working on this case then." I sighed in annoyance at the ambiguity of what to do and turned to join Levi in heading back.

"I guess if you put it like that. I'm not into the politic shit that the MP live by."

I laughed. "They don't all live like that, Levi. I mean, look at Fuji. He's a perfectly fine Inspector."

"They? You're one of them, Hazura."

I stumbled in my footsteps at the realisation of the mistake.

"I guess I still feel like part of the Corps." I murmured and continued my steps. Levi watched me pull ahead of him and I could feel his frown on my back.

"We don't have the resources to keep a pair of eyes on every warehouse that has a history of missing equipment." Fuji spelled out, running his fingers through his hair. I leaned back in my wooden chair in Fuji's office and glanced out the window. We were back in Wall Sina, Military Police headquarters.

"I know that but that is basically what we have to do. We have to somehow trace the increased security back to its owner."

"Specifically, we trace the security back to their bosses and then the bosses back to the mastermind and MP corrupts."

"You don't have to rub it in, Fuji. I'm trying to wrap my head around how we can follow the li-"

"-wait." Fuji held out a hand, pausing me in my speech. "Follow."

I sent him a strange look, raising an eyebrow. "You having an epiphany over there?"

"Shhh." I waved his hand erratically and gathered his thoughts. I waited, rolling my eyes.

"We don't have to raid the security or anything. We choose one, follow the guy and link him to a corrupt officer. And eventually find the ring."

"And how do we link this to the secret hideout of the Toria members?"

"Well we have proof that the Toria are the distributors on the black market so if we link a security hired for the robbery, we can link the MP ring to the Toria gang."

I paused in my thoughts. "Nice. That could work."

"And you could play hide-and-seek with the Toria gang." Suggested Fuji. I gave him a flat look.

"I take that compliment back."

"You know the Rose area well enough. You're an expert in 3DMG and close combat. You know where that Toria hideout is." He slowly ticked off the reasons.

"And you will be…?"

"In the MP offices here, trying to see who upped their numbers of officers for use. You know, political shit. Unless you want to swap?"

I shuddered and shook my head. "No thanks."

So now here I was, watching from the shadows as an extra MP officer headed home for the day. Nightfall had come early, thanks to the clouds of rain threatening to open upon us. As he hurried through the streets, I stalked him from the rooftops, careful not to step on any loose tiles. If I got caught in my MP uniform, game over. As expected, the officer headed straight to the hidden gang room, oblivious to me following. Once he entered through the door though, it was out of my hands. I sighed, now bored and decided to find a wandering Toria member to stalk. If I could witness a Toria member entering the same place as the MP officer, then that was the ultimate confirmation.