Naomasa hates it when the cases involve sorcerers.

But he hates it even more when they involve ghosts.

The sorcery community is messy, it has laws that are very different from them, and it has existed for many, many centuries. In fact, it's been around before quirks even existed. It's an open secret between officers, they have a code for it, people talk about it. They even have sighted officers. For example, Tamakawa is sighted. Not naturally, but he wouldn't say what made him sighted. Not every officers knew about it, of course, and not all heroes do either.

For example they had to tell Kamui Woods about it all after he'd came across a rather confusing ghoul attack and contacted an intermediary in the area so they'll get a combatant (combat specialist) to get rid of it. Rogue ghouls are invisible, powerful, illogical and a danger to the public, they are fragments of dead spirits that lingered and had no sanity or consciousness to speak of. Generally, a pain.

"Well... if that's what you're asking, no." The woman answers with a nonchalant hum, "I don't see any ghouls or onis around the area."

Two weeks ago a woman reported a break in at her house, officers are sent, evidence are gathered, and they pointed towards a rogue ghoul or oni. Personally he would rather it be a ghoul, because Yokai communities are even worse to deal with. There aren't many sorcerers in the area, and Naomasa tries his best to keep track of them because these sorcerers don't have a damn register system and it's a pain when one of them ended up working for villains or taking sides.

"I did see a rather old Kitsune the other day though, he seems to be an elementalist." The woman hums.

"So, Yokai?" He asks.

"Well there are no Yokai communities around here, but..." She smiles and peers at him, "Detective, you are going to meet someone very, very powerful and very, very unique." She said mysteriously and taps at her temple, "I am a seer, after all."

"Great. So... will this person be related to the case?" He asks.

"Who knows?" The woman shrugs, "Now I'll see you again, maybe next month. But I have to work on preventing my client's accidental possible impending death in twelve days."

She shuts the door in his face. Naomasa groans and mutters under his breath:

"Seers are mysterious bastard."

(True to the seer's words, The next day, he meets Yagi Toshinori.)

In the end, they gave up and contacted a Sorcerer detective and had him assist the team. The detective'd took one look at the crime scene, sighed, and told them to call up a local combatant to take care of it. He handed them the updated list of contact, told them to contact a novice, and hopped into a rune circle, leaving them with a ton of paperwork.

He'd hesitantly called the only one in the area who offered free service (well the payment was stated as 'free as long as reasonable'), and dialed the number.

"Hello?" He asked, clearing his throat," am I talking to Kimura Akemi?"

"... Yeah I'm Akemi, what's up?"

"This is detective Tsukauchi Naomasa from the MPD" He said, "There has been a ghoul spotted in your area, are you aware of it?"

There was a beat of silence, then from the other side of the line, Kimura Akemi yelled.

"TENKI-SAN THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"

Akemi really, really hates ghouls. And the one she is tangling with right now? Ugh.

She's been fighting it for about five minutes and it's starting to get to her. Akemi kept hopping around with her wrap gate circles and blacking it with shields, but it's not really working that well. The detective is lucky that he contacted her this early, because any later and this thing would've been visible to non-sighted people and it would've wreaked the neighborhood.

Their screeches are horrible and loud and they scrape in her ears. She throws up a rune circle with aura and with the blood runes on her left arm, unleashed a flurry of glowing runes, which all slammed into the ghoul, sending it to kingdom come.

"Done?" Tenki pokes his head out from the other side of the alley, "I'm gonna drop the illusion, 'Kay?."

"Yeah."

The mist dropped and the man drifted back in, humming as he peered at the burnt remainants of the ghoul. "So... that's the thing that was terrorizing the house?"

"Yeah." Akemi grunts, "This is all your fault."

"Hey, you were the one who took the exams yourself!"

"You're the one who convinced me." Akemi pouts, "I didn't know I'd be a Novice?! I didn't even think I'll be good enough to take jobs! Now random people out there have my number just because of it!" She grumbles and pulls out her phone, quickly dialing in a number. "Hey, Detective?"

"Ah, Kimura." The detective's voice came through. "I trust that you've taken care of the situation?"

"Blasted it to kingdom come." She replies, rolling her shoulder, "I'm over at the conbini next to Aldera Middle school, you're going to need the samples or scene and stuff, right? Be quick though, there isn't much left of the thing."

"I'll head over as soon as I could."

"Thanks Sherlock, get me a bar of chocolate on the way please, I'm exhausted." She sighs, and hisses a little as she notices a long, rather deep cut that wasn't there last she checked, and groans. "Dammit, I have to hang up, need to take care of the cut bye."

"Hey wait-"

She hangs up and works to heal her arm, only to bandage it up when she couldn't.

Ten minutes later a police car parks outside the alley, a middle-aged man steps off the car, Akemi waves with a sheepish smile, and grins.

"You got my chocolate?" She raised an eyebrow.

The detective stared at her for a moment, and lets out a chain of curses.

(Five minutes later Akemi found herself sitting on a bench as the detective helped her deal with the many scratches on her arms, munching on a chocolate bar)