-Oxford - Saturday: Part 4-
General Kendi Brown watched the young man Kurt with Gayle King in the interrogation room it had been Kyoko's idea to bring him to the police station. Not that she seemed to have too much faith in the department it seemed to him. He mentally sighed as he stood there with his arms crossed. The young man was repeating basically what he told one police officer, Jia Mianju. His eyes moved towards the so-called report, she was indeed listed as missing which meant even if Kyoko was correct about the man he was covering his tracks in a way.
The biggest issue was that this Susan with no last name really had been living on the streets. His eyes turned slightly towards the door as Kyoko stared down at her feet. In her hand were several missing people files now, images of the girls that had all similarities but none apparently right for what was needed for her. She seemed on the verge of a meltdown as she lifted her eyes some as Kurt's voice echoed into the room.
"She was always going to clubs and bars working under the table, cheap labor enough to maybe grab some food for a couple days. Some of those places had showers... she really liked those places." He ran a hand through his hair. "Bien Fleur seemed to have had a locker room for baths." He sighed as he looked down at his hands. "I should have... done something."
King, "You reported it, you have all the information you have. It is under a higher power that I'm personally looking into this case at this moment." She placed the file down on the table as she opened her laptop. "Let's start with every place she's worked in the last month that you recall her talking about."
Brown eyes turned towards Kyoko's who was once again looking down at her own hand at the files that she hadn't opened since she first read them. "Lady Kyoko, are you alright?" She smiled softly at him before moving forward and putting the files on the small desk as she looked at the recording camera in the room as well as one of the police officers.
"Yes, of course. I'm sorry for troubling you both." Her eyes trailed towards the police officer who looked at the two of them before turning away again. "I know it must be tiring to have to go over such things all over again. How are we on finding the others who made reports?" Her fingers trailed across the files for a moment before looking back towards Brown.
"I have informed Chief Inspector Tyler it seems he has already interviewed one of them." He said stepping forward and pulling out a folder, "One Seiko Ming" he said opening the file before showing the image of the young woman. "Ms. Ming mother died in childbirth it seemed and her father died a year ago, she was a ward of the Empire until her eighteen birthday which was three months ago. It seems she has no other living relatives but a very close foster sister and that was who reported her, the girl was not taken seriously because of her age at first it seems. Being only 11 years of age, the officer in charge stated that it was likely a case where the older girl now having freedom no longer desired to be tied down. As it was reported she moved as of last Wednesday afternoon and gave no forwarding address, leaving behind her cell phone turned off."
"Same officer?" with a single nod of his head she wrapped her arms around herself. They were keeping it quiet for the most part, but it seemed that Jia Mianju had a lot of excuses and reasons for not adding them into the database. Her eyes turned back towards the window, before looking away even as their choices echoed around the room, listing off place after place.
Brown knew just like Kyoko that for the most part this was all pointless but they couldn't let the police department think that they were pulling rank which was more because Kyoko seemed to understand the larger picture. If they make the police look unable to do their job it would only result in the people losing faith in them. Besides she had pointed out and he had to agree, not all of them were creepy like Mianji was or full of themselves as Tyler seemed to be. Actually, Brown had been very disgusted with the man and the treatment he had given to her, as a Lady as someone living in the Palace, he treated her like some sort of outsider. 'Well she is in some ways' he said looking at her as she wrapped her arms around herself once more. 'Yet more than anyone I've come across she fits perfectly... I can understand why Ruto seems to have become so attached to her.'
Her eyes turned towards him taken a deep breath she move towards, "I'll be back."
"Lady Kyoko..." he didn't like the idea that she was going to walk out. The idea of what Ruto alone would do to those who were supposed to be watching her should something happened sent a chill down his spine.
"Don't worry so much General Brown." She said with a smile, one he was quickly learning was her business smile. "It's not as if anything would happen to me here in the police department." Her smile dropped slightly as they turned towards the man in the room who was clearly trying not to pay any attention to the fact that she was there at all. Slowly her eyes turned back towards him "Or are you telling me the police can't be trusted?"
Brown knew exactly what she was doing at the moment and he wasn't pleased with it. His eyes narrowed as he stared down at the girl who had about as much fire inside of her as Leiko did, 'She's going to be a handful even for Ruto' he mentally sighed "Where are you going?"
"Well if you must know, I need to powder my nose"
Brown stared at her slightly confused. Was she even wearing makeup? His eyes scanned over her carefully, seeing as what he had seen her as Marian Walters he was pretty sure Lady Kyoko didn't actually wear makeup and if she did it was so light that no one would notice in the first place. before the police offer coughed slightly. "Excuse me?"
The police officer still in the room coughed sightly, his voice was low but still very clear, "She's going to go to the restroom, sir."
"Oh..." well he supposed if she had to powder her nose that she would likely do it in the bathroom. That shouldn't take to long and he nodded his head "Keep your phone on you at all times." She nodded her head though they both knew it wasn't her phone she was supposed to keep on her. A tracker was under the knot of her ribbon on her dress collar. She smiled once more before opening the door.
As soon as it shut the police officer looked back towards him. "Pretty protective over Lady Kyoko aren't you?"
Brown eyes turned towards the police officer for a moment before looking back towards Kurt behind the glass, "It is my duty to protect the royal family and that includes the nobility found within it." Well at least as General Brown that was his duty.
"Ah... yes right." He chuckled slightly before looking back at the screen. "Is this really going to help us find Alice?"
"It is possible... just as it's possible that the girl is dead." the officer looked at him as if surprised by how honest he was being before nodding it was something that no one was really saying because of Patterson but to have someone else say it didn't make it any easier. "Yet, Lady Kyoko believes that she herself was targetted... and that this is all by this model Heth. So we are trying to see if there is any connection." His eyes darted once more towards the door "How long does it take for one to powder their nose?"
"Ah... um..."
Kyoko had done her best not to pay any mind to those inside the police station, which surprisingly enough most didn't seem to notice her at all. She had felt a few eyes on her but that was about it. 'Guess I'm still pretty invisible to most' which made sense in many ways, seeing as she was, for the most part, a distant family member to the royal family even if they were raising her. The laws that protected her and those like her were set even Cody who was far more known that she didn't have nearly as many people to notice him, that would change in a few months, soon he would debut and the world around him would change that much more. In her mind, this all played into the same thing, the laws, and here in a police station, it seemed even more important that the privacy laws for a minor of the Nobility or Royalty were taken into account even higher than in public eye. Not that she got too much attention at all in the public eye other than when people really knew who she was, as the staff of the hotel and likely that was because they had run into and seen her so many times in the last week. Chances were high had it not been for a member of the staff who had entered that hotel room and taken that picture, she would have just been thought as some nameless nobody.
The thoughts of Ren Tsuruga flooded her mind 'I wonder how he is doing?' she really did feel awful that he had been punished because of her own foolishness and that once again she felt powerless to do anything to help him. That had been part of the reason she had insisted that Roman be sent back home, she could not risk another person who didn't belong in this getting hurt. Why after getting the information that Daiki had spent time finding her she had left without really much of a word. She wanted to protect them all and this really was her battle wasn't it? These people were only targetting these exact women because of her.
Closing the bathroom door she turned on the water in the sink, pulling handfuls of water she splashed it across her face, trying to calm herself down in any way, she knew she was likely ruining the makeup but at the moment she couldn't find the energy to care. Would she ever be able to calm her mind down to not drown in the guilt that was building up around her trying to pull her down? Her eyes turned towards her cell phone, she could reach out once more to her father but she didn't want to worry him any more than she likely already was. Still, she could find comfort in speaking with him and so she grabbed her temp cellphone hoovering over the call button as her head jerked up at the sound of someone entering the bathroom.
"Oh forgive me." Kyoko looked at the blonde with steel-blue eyes before looking away from her.
"It's fine... this isn't the proper place to be making a phone call," she said putting the phone away. Kyoko eyes darted towards the mirror once more, the girl made her feel very uncomfortable but she couldn't place the reason why.
"I make mine in here too, Dad's fellow workers always look after me."
The way she had said word Dad threw her for a just a moment. It was almost as if it was the most disgusting thing in the world but she could not understand how that would at all be possible. Her own father was a wonderful man. So was Robert and Dachi, they all treated their children with a great amount of love and even Kouki with the issues that he and Maria had still spoken of nothing but love. They weren't the same in style, but they all had nothing but love for their children. Even if she didn't know Kuu well if the way he looked at Juliena, the way he had come to help her, the fact he was her father's best friend, all spoke of love. How could such a word then sound so dirty to her ears and make her want to flee?
She leaned against the sink as she stared at Kyoko carefully, "Your makeup is ruined." she said voice held a slight coldness to it.
That was something she wasn't pretending to be super nice anymore. For some reason that calmed Kyoko far more than prior but not enough to trust the woman before her as she dug into her bag.
"Here," she said handing out a smaller bag but Kyoko smiled softly.
"No thank you." Kyoko looked in the mirror clearing her face of the smudge marks before turning back towards her. "If you will excuse me." She took a step around the woman barely noticing the sigh before the world turned dark around her.
General Kendi Brown looked at his watch for a moment, no matter how he thought about it. There was something wrong, it shouldn't take this much time. He moved towards the door opening it only to be staring down at Tyler 'Great' the man looked up at him with a glare.
"We need to talk." His eyes turned towards the officer in the room.
"I need to check on my charge." He kept his voice neutral as he could. Yet he had the sinking feeling something was wrong. That he didn't have much time it was a skill that he knew very well but he also knew he had to play his role carefully. He was not in the same position as Ruto who could dismiss everything. General Kendi Brown was too high of a position and his placement was far too important at the moment for such movements. Not to say he was not a Banshee but an Ankou. 'Double lives are such a pain' he mentally growled as he looked at the man before him.
"That can wait." Brown eyes narrowed as he looked at the man he made it very clear that this would not be something that would wait and Tyler licked his lips before he growled at the officer in the room with them. "Fine. You go see to that child." The officer looked at Brown for a moment before nodding his head once.
There was nothing more than he could say. That officer from his years seemed clear and didn't give him any sort of vibe stating that it would be dangerous. Regardless, he couldn't help but feel that something was not right here and he had to deal with Tyler first was making his annoyance that much higher but he was an Ankou and his own emotions he would keep in check. Holding his cell phone in his hand. "Well, what do you want?"
A/N: At this time and place, the answer is no. Tomi will be taken the place of Sho against Reino. However, please remember this is only "Book One" and we still have a major power in Zakai Ling who hasn't even started to play.