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The God's Clown and the Prince of the Sky
Story07: CONTURBATIO
Somewhere in Paris…
On the road…
The air was cold and snow fell rather lightly and softly since its winter in France, especially Paris. The buildings were covered with white.
The color of crème of buildings clashed with the pure white of snow. Not many people who want to walk in outside today for they prefer to in their home. There, between the buildings which being split by the street, Ellen walked beside Noctis with Link and Marie few feet behind them while Kanda was in front of them. Timcanpy still nestled with comfort above Noctis head. Judged from the way the golem nestled, he wouldn't off from his head in short time. While they were on their way, Ellen noticed that Noctis was staring to the buildings those eyes filled with curiosity again and at the road they walked through. Actually it was understandable because Noctis came from different world and therefore, he came from different civilization and technology. It was the way he took a look at his surrounds had peak her interest.
Ellen didn't know why, but he looks like that he very enjoyed it, everything was new to him and he eager enough to learn things while in here. It curious and wondered her if his homeland really that different with her world.
She encouraged herself to ask the question which disturbed her since then.
"You're like to looking around whether it is building or just a road." Ellen commented as she remembering Noctis did the same thing in the Black Order HQ.
"This place…is reminding me of one place from the part of my country." Noctis answered truthfully.
"You have buildings like these in your country?" Ellen surprised.
"We have but it's just an old city and we're using it as a plaza."
"Old city? Is that meaning that citizens are not using it as a place to stay anymore?"
"Some are still living in there but most of the citizens are choosing to live in the modern part of the country."
"Why?" Ellen couldn't help but feeling curious and intrigued.
"Population increased. That and only the rich ones are staying in the old city because of the expensive taxes and the city's history value."
"Hm…" Ellen nodded in acknowledge.
"Every time I'm looking at these buildings and road, it always reminds me of the old city." Noctis tone went bitter. "The last time I in my home, there was an uproar and I have to involved in order to stop it or else."
Ellen snapped her head at him with shock. "An uproar?" she repeated. "How could it was happening and why you have to be involved, aren't you just a civilian?"
"Let's just say we have some conflicts with other countries and one of them was attacking us." Noctis told her quickly. "And I'm involved because I'm a part from the military service." Noctis lied at that part.
"You are?" Ellen's forehead wrinkled, she obviously wasn't really convinced. "You can't just enter the military due to your age! Just how old are you?"
"21." Noctis answered straightly.
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…
"Eh!?" Ellen silver eyes went as wide as saucer. Seriously?! "You don't look like 21 years old!" She exclaimed. And indeed it was, the young man more like in his late teens than a man in his early twenties.
She thought the young man in the same age as Kanda at maximum. Ellen didn't expect him to be older 5 years than her, even older by a year than Link who was 20 years old this year!
"It is what peoples always say when they ask my age." Noctis said somberly.
"Sorry." Ellen quickly apologized then changing the subject, her face heated a bit. "But then why it happened? The conflict I mean."
"They're targeting our country treasure; something that once all the countries had but lost because of long war." Noctis chose the word carefully.
The faint red color gone from her cheeks as Ellen couldn't help but gasped silently. "That's awful! Then what happened next?"
"I don't know." Noctis shook his head. "I was being sent to here when I'm confronting with the enemy. I don't know if the rest of my friends are managing to defend our country."
Ellen frowned in sympathy at him. She then looked away from him with guilty feeling for asking and reminding him of his country.
"...I'm very sorry." The snow haired Exorcist said after a short pause.
"Huh?" Noctis turned his head at her, obviously not quite heard her.
"I'm very sorry to hear about your country." Ellen repeated more clearly and lifted her head. "It must be a horrible thing for you, your friends, and the citizens. I hope it will be over soon and that peace will come definitely for your country one day."
"…I'm also hope for the same thing."
They went quiet again for certain moment, enjoying the walk on the road with snow fell around them softly. Ellen took a glance to the young man beside her. His dark attire went contrast with the white scenery. He was looking ethereal even by now. His face structure, his eyelashes, even to his eyes color. Just like when she saw him for the first time in that dream. Ellen still a little puzzled about the memory that his eyes back there was flaming spinel color, not calming euclase.
Was the eyes color just her imagination? But when he was angry at the argument with Kanda, she saw a flicker of spinel red and it came alive in his eyes for a brief moment. Ellen frowned thoughtfully and processed this fact slowly until she reached a conclusion. It was similar with the Noah in a way Ellen realized. The different was if Noah eyes were change to gold when they shifted from their human form, Noctis' eyes color changed when he had certain strong emotion such as anger for example. That would explain why his eyes color so completely different in when she met him in the dream and in the reality.
For a reason, Ellen liked both of his eyes colors; perhaps because they radiated an equal elegance and ethereal feelings no matter what color they were. She wondered how such a person would have such kind of ethereal looking even the said person indeed came from the parallel world. At the same time, the silver haired Exorcist also wondered if all the people from parallel world had the same ethereal looking. It was at that moment she was beginning to curious at another thing.
"Noctis?"
"Hm?"
"Now I'm thinking about it, I've been wondering," Ellen began in curious tone. "What is your country and your world looks like?"
Noctis slightly surprised. "My country?"
"Yes. I want to know more since you're describing them entirely different from ours. I'm also come to realize that I know nothing about your world. Can you please tell me what is it like?"
"There are nothing much to tell about." Noctis' forehead wrinkled thoughtfully.
"You can tell me anything you can describe if you want. Like, do you has snow in there, is it four seasons in there or do you have any good foods, anything that you're want." Ellen suggested.
"My country has four seasons so are the other countries, we're in the season of summer recently."
"It's summer in there?"
"It's in the middle of summer to be precisely."
"Ah, I see. That would explained why you're wearing thin clothes when we're found you. It does surely will be hot in there and it will unnecessary to wear thick clothes."
"It's indeed quite hot in there and it's raining a lot. But in that very same season, we're must become careful since we also have many monsters lurking in our world."
"…Monsters?" Ellen bewildered.
"It seems if you're having Akuma in here, it's instead monster in my world. They are usually living in the wild like in the forest and sabana."
"Why must you become more careful in the summer if they're living in the wild?"
"It's the time for the young monsters to grow up and become more aggressive. They will be often entering to the civilization for curiosity or searching food and caused such chaos within."
"Ah…" realization downed to Ellen. That made sense to her at last.
"That and unless we're trespass their territory, they will not disturbing us."
"Aren't you worried about them? I mean, they can attack human, right?"
"They only attack us when we're within their territory so no, they can't as long as we stay away from them." Noctis grimaced a moment later. "However few of them proved to be troublesome when they're entering city or in rage mode, Behemoth is a good example for that."
This made Ellen surprised. "Behemoth is existing in your world for real? I thought it's just a myth. To think it's very much alive in another world..."
"Myth? So in your world, you have Behemoth as a myth?"
"Yes. I'm never considering them to be real. I'm only read about Behemoth from the books or heard it from my father." Ellen answered truthfully.
"You have a father?"
"Had." Ellen smiled sadly. "He's my foster father and he already passed away."
"Oh." Noctis lowered his head. "I'm sorry to hear it."
"It's alright now. It happened years ago." Ellen shook her head in dismissal. Her pink lips stretched into a wide smile filled with the happiness. "Besides, I'm having a new family in the Back Order so I'm not alone to say anymore."
Noctis' lips curved a bit. "…I see…"
Marie chuckled from behind them as he approached them. "It seems you two had a nice talking in there."
"Marie!" Ellen caught in surprise.
Marie smiled widely at the reaction Ellen gave to him. "As much as it's a fun talk, I'm afraid that we have arrived to our destination."
"Eh?" Noctis looked up at the building before them.
The building wasn't any different from the other buildings except that in front of the building, there were men with black uniforms guarded the place.
"What's this building?" Noctis asked quizzically.
"A police station." Link answered informatively.
Noctis flushed in embarrassment. "Oh…"
"You don't have a one in your home?" Marie questioned.
"We have but it's far taller and bigger than this since our police united with army."
"That's quite peculiar." Marie muttered. Noctis coughed few times.
"I understand that you're going to investigate but what are we're doing in here, exactly?"
"Komui told to us that our mission has something to do with Innocence and moreover, some of our friends are said to be taking within the custody in this place." Ellen explained to him.
"Wait, your friends are in here!? Why?" Noctis bewildered.
"That's what I'm also wanted to know by myself. If they're indeed in here, I wonder how they got in here in the first place." Ellen replied in honest and confusion as she shook her head.
"Moyashi." Kanda suddenly called her.
"It's Ellen!" Ellen yelled angrily.
"Are we going to the inside or not?" Kanda grumbled impatiently.
"Easy, Kanda. We're going to enter it." Marie calmed the holder of Mugen. "Now, let's keep going. There's someone who we must meet at first."
"It's the Inspector Galmar that we're going to meet, isn't it?" Ellen said as they climbed the short stairs. Upon gave the explanation about their mission, Komui also told her the name of the inspector.
Noctis flinched when Ellen said the 'inspector' word. He suddenly felt uneasy for some reason.
"…Inspector?" Noctis muttered drily. Marie glanced at the young man questioningly.
"What's wrong?" Marie asked in concern.
Then out of sudden, drove by the disturbing feeling, he opened his mouth spontaneously before he ever able to stopped it.
"He isn't as the same type as just like Levellier, right?"
…
…
They stopped on the front of the big door.
Nobody was giving him an answer.
No one wanted to be more precisely.
Until Marie coughed few times too quickly to break the strange silence that suddenly covered them.
"No, I think he's not. They're perhaps having a same title of inspector but I'm sure Galmar is a nice person."
"I see…" Noctis looked down, hiding his now flushed face from the Exorcist.
"Good. Now let's going to inside, shall we? I think they have waiting for our arrival."
Once again nobody was said anything.
Noctis had an urge to smack himself for asking such a fool question while Ellen had pitying and understanding look beside him.
"You don't have to be ashamed." Ellen stated above whisper, trying to comfort him. "It's kind of natural that everyone also questioned if the entire inspectors are same just like Levellier after they meet him."
"Ellen," Noctis whispered weakly. "Please don't mention it anymore…" he added guiltily.
Ellen grimaced. "I'm sorry."
"…There's no need to, really. This is my fault."
"Noctis…" Ellen sounded disagree.
"I'll be quiet for now." Noctis ended the argument, decided to not make Ellen more worry.
Ellen looked at him with slightly dejected and disagree with his exclaim but she gave up and let him be.
Timcanpy yawned and opened his mouth widely before nestled back on Noctis head.
Meanwhile in the inside of the police station…
"I'm sorry! I'm just can't!"
Inside of the office, there was a huge fighting between the man in his fifty, a police officer and a beautiful lady around twenties with nice dress. The man was Inspector Galmar, the father while the beautiful lady was Emilia Galmar, Galmar's very own daughter. Their argument's topic? The Director's birthday party which was happening to be today and both of them supposed to come. Well, supposedly to be more correctly.
"I'm sorry I have to break my promise, really I am…" the man reasoned. "But this is my job! You'll just have to go to the party on your own!"
"Every single time…! If you don't start thinking about your family soon, I'm going to find a man and walk out just like Mama, Papa!" the lady fumed at the man.
"Wha-What!? You've found a man…!?"
"No, but I'm leaving a soon as I do!" She counter attacked.
"W-WHAAAAT…..!?" He yelled loudly.
"Wow, she has him wrapped around her fingers…" one of the officers commented as they continued to watch between father and daughter's fighting.
A young officer came to the office and gave an unsure salute at Galmar since he saw that his supervisor was in the middle of argument with his daughter.
"Ah, sorry to interrupt but Inspector, there's someone here to see you."
"Oh, Look! Work calls once more, Mr. Workaholic!" she snapped in angry as she started to walk away. "I'll apologize to the Director for you! Just so you know, you're really going to owe me now!"
"Oh, you're sound exactly like your mother…!" Galmar shouted angrily and pointed his finger at her.
Just when he said that, Emilia crashed into someone's. She was a bit surprised and didn't expect it of course.
"Ah! I'm sorry…" The lady was about to apologized when she got a clear look onto who she just crashed. It was a young man in his late teens with dark blue eyes, dark long hair tied into high ponytail, odd black uniform and what catch Emilia attention most of all, good looking.
"Watch where you're going." The long haired young man said coolly.
'Wow, he's beautiful!' Emilia thought as she admired the young man's look.
"Move." Kanda stepped aside from her as his dark blue eyes found the inspector's figure. "Are you Inspector Galmar?"
When the young man did say this, Galmar them replayed what his daughter had said to him and he was freak out a moment later. In the same time, his father instinct kicked him and he pushed his daughter aside to face to face with the young man.
"And who are you?" Galmar asked threateningly as he glared.
"Hm?" Kanda just grunted with the same level threat.
"We heard that our friends are being held in here." A feminine and soft voice had got Galmar's attention to the group of people with similar black uniforms just behind the long haired young man.
The first was a girl around sixteen with pure white hair which reach above her shoulders and grey eyes. She had this weird looking scar across her left eye. She was looking like a nice girl because she gave him a polite smile.
The second was a bald, tall, and big guy with head phones. He also gave a polite smile.
The third was a braided blonde haired young man around his early twenties with dark brown eyes, two dots on his forehead, and looked like a quiet type person.
The last one was a young man, also around his early twenties with dark colored chicken butt hair style, and sky blue eyes with strange and golden colored creature above his head. The creature then straightened from his head before fled and landed on the girl's left shoulder. The girl's smile widened as she patted the creature. He noticed the sky blue eyed young man also did a small smile.
"Do you think we might be allowed to see them?" Marie asked politely.
Galmar was having no idea about who these people were…until he saw the Rose Cross emblem on the girl's and the bald man uniforms. His eyes widened upon seeing this emblem. He knew that emblem well and it couldn't be…
"The Black Order?!" He stared with disbelieved. "But what are you people doing at the place like…?!"
Ellen kept her smile at the middle aged inspector.
Emilia took this chance to pull away from her father. She looked quite annoyed about his act toward her.
"Until when you'll have to keep pushing my head…!? And just who are they?"
As if he just realized that his daughter still in here, he turned at the lady with those hard look. "Emilia, it's better for you to go now."
"That again!?" Emilia fumed.
"Can't you see that I have something to do!?" Galmar said impatiently. "You better go and come to the party by yourself! You're in the way!"
"Urrrgh! FINE…..!" Emilia huffed roughly before she turned her heels and walked away. "I'm going from here! Now will you excuse me, Mr. Workaholic!"
Marie stared at the walked away lady until she was gone from the view before he asked carefully. "Do we interrupt something?"
"No. It's nothing. We're just having an argument between father and daughter." Galmar answered weakly. "Things are being difficult for both of us because of this case."
"That's tough."
"It is."
"Ah, speaking about manner, we haven't introduced ourselves. We're Exorcists from the Black order, just like as you see. My name is Noise Marie," Marie introduced.
"This is Ellen Walker," he gestured at the silver haired girl.
Ellen nodded. "It's nice to meet you."
"Yuu Kanda," the bald man gestured at the dark long haired young man.
Kanda looked away. "Che."
"Link Howard," Marie gestured at the blonde. Link just nodded and didn't say anything.
At last Marie gestured at the sky blue eyed young man.
"And finally, Noctis Caelo."
Noctis greeted quietly. "It's nice to meet you, Sir."
"We're come here to investigate if this occurrence has anything with Innocence." Marie added more.
"Innocence?"
"We'll explain further but before that, can we're looking for our friends?" Marie tilted his head.
"Ah…That's…" Galmar looked quite lost.
"Is there a problem?" Noctis asked warily since the man's gesture was uneasy somehow.
"Well, I don't know how I'm supposed to say but…"
"Huh, what's wrong with him?" Emilia grumbled as she walked from the door and flipped open her umbrella.
'There was an odd feeling about those people just now…' Emilia couldn't help but pondering. 'Was that yellow thing some kind of bird?'
The brown haired lady was too preoccupied with her thought to notice that someone sneaked behind her. It was too late as without warning, two little arms grabbed her...you know, from behind her.
"Emilia, found you~!" A childish voice sing sang. Only to be followed by a loud sound of punch.
WHAAACK!
"Y-You perverted little brat." Emilia stood shakily in anger at the poor boy that now lay unconsciously on the stone floor. Smoke was coming out from the boy's blue haired head where Emilia had just punched him.
Not for a long, a couple of little girls were running toward them in hurry.
"Emilia, we're here to pick you up…!" One girl told the lady.
"You're going to be late for Director's birthday….!" The other girl added.
"Oh my! Is it time already…!?" Emilia yelped.
"Come on quickly!"
"Hurry, hurry...!"
"Oh God," Emilia could feel the headache coming to her. She then went to the blue haired boy's place and helped him stood up although he still suffered the punch's effect.
"Hueee….." The boy whined as Emilia jerked him to stood up.
"Timothy, come on! Don't just laying in there, we must hurry!"
"I'm sorry, but releasing them won't be possible." Galmar stated to the Exorcists as the gate of the jail opened by the other police officers. "Your friends are prime suspects in a case we are investigating recently."
They then entered the corridor. And…
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…
They –excluded Inspector Galmar- devastated to say at least once they escorted by Galmar himself and went to the jail where many people with all same type of strange costumes imprisoned. It was hard to take a different since all of them looked same. And with these it would take a time to find the Exorcists' friends.
"They'll be here in somewhere. I'm afraid you'll have to find them by yourself." Galmar sweat dropped as they walked through the corridor.
"What is all of this?" Ellen stared in incredulous.
"...They are wearing those similar odd costumes. All of them." Noctis glanced with the same incredulous.
"They are." Ellen couldn't help but agreed. "But why?"
"Is this meant to be some kind of Halloween party?" Kanda asked.
"Inspector, who are all these people?" Marie felt so confused than ever.
"Phantom Thief G. The ones we have captured so far."
"'Phantom Thief G'? That criminal who is at large at Paris?"
"So you're caught him and so many too?" Ellen blinked.
"NO…!" A retorted came from the prisoners and made the group had to turned their heads at one jail that containing some prisoners.
"We're not G at all!" The moustache prisoner added.
"We were made into G!" The other continued immediately.
"You've got to believe us, Inspector Galmar! We're all just victims!"
The prisoners shouted many things as they tried to grabbing Galmar's legs in which he then tried to let them go from the prisoners hands.
"Oh, shut up! There's no point playing innocent, you were all caught red handed…!" Galmar shouted.
"No, Inspector! Surely even you must have realized it that what we've been telling you is the truth!" the first man said. "Phantom G is no ordinary man!"
"Hmm? Whatever could you is talking about?" Galmar had this stupid look on his face.
Just as the prisoners went annoyed to the said Inspector the Exorcists began to wondering between themselves.
"I have no idea what's going on." Kanda let out what he had in his mind.
"I think he's even forgotten that we're in here…" Ellen complied and sweat dropped.
Noctis forehead wrinkled in confusion. He felt as if he was missing something in this. There was something which keeping nag in him since he heard those prisoners' story. He couldn't pin point what it was unfortunately. That's when his ears catch mumbled voice from behind him and Ellen. Blinked, he glanced at Ellen –plus Timcanpy if you're counted it- who also had her eyes glanced at him too. They stared at each other with unreadable looks.
"…Do you hear that?"
"If you mean by someone muttering 'Exorcist' from behind, yes, I do." Ellen replied.
Apparently both of them had a same mind as they looked into behind them –and made Timcanpy fly from Ellen's shoulder from the process- to found a group of people with those ridiculous costumes. What made Ellen very surprised was the fact that they were a group of people that she had familiar with.
"Is that you, Exorcists…?" A man with dreadlocks asked one more time with tears behind the round black glasses he wore. "You really come for us~~~!"
"Thank God…!" A man with right side pony thanked.
"You have to gotta get us outta from here…" This time it was the man with spike haired who pleaded.
"Jiji…!? And the Finder squad too!?" Ellen startled.
"Jiji?" Noctis blinked repeatedly. Where was he heard that name before? "You knew them…?"
"Yes, they are our friends from the Black Order. And Jiji was the one who being sent for a mission more than a week ago and from the science department like Johnny."
"Ah…" So that's why he was kind of familiar with that name.
"Hmm? Who's the young lad behind you, Ellen?" Jiji stopped crying for a moment and tilted his head when he noticed the chicken butt haired young man who indeed stood behind her.
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…
"…Eh?" Ellen went blank at the sudden outburst. If you looked more closely, there was a faint brush of pink on her cheeks. Noctis reaction wasn't any better from her as he stared them with incredulous.
"Oh yeah, now that you mention it, this is the first time I see him. Is he the new Exorcist?" the short and spike haired man commented.
"But he doesn't wearing the Exorcist uniform and Rose Cross emblem." The black eyebrows man chimed.
"Is this just me or they're seemed close to each other?" The man with right side pony wondered.
"What!? Is he your boyfriend or something like that?" Jiji exclaimed abruptly.
"No way!"
"She's dating with him!?"
Both Ellen and Noctis blushed so badly at Jiji's sudden accuse that had just been threw at the two of them.
"B-B-Boyfriend…!?" Noctis spluttered uncontrollable.
"No, he isn't my boyfriend…! He's a guest in the Black Order!" The grey eyed young woman half shouted in embarrassed.
"Eh?" Jiji raised an eyebrow, he looked at Noctis. "He's a guest?"
"His name is Noctis. He's staying with us for some reason so we accepting him as a guest." Link decided to step in and helping Ellen to explain to them.
Ellen flushed more as she mumbled out. "He's not my boyfriend and we're not dating."
"Really? How come is…"
BAAAAM!
"And what the hell have you punks doing?" Kanda looked more than ready to beat them to an inch to the death. A medium size dent existed in on the glasses of the jail after he kicked it really hard.
"WAAAAHH, WE'RE SORRY…..!" They cried apologize in unison and hugged to each other like a group of fools. And they cried once more in fear toward the samurai.
"Kanda…" Marie sweat dropped. "You don't have to scare them like that."
"Like I care." Kanda responded darkly.
"The truth is, we don't have a clue what's going on either…" The spike haired man told them.
"We came here because those strange things had been happening to the locals, so we wanted to find out if there was Innocence involved." Jiji continued.
"Komui told us that much and apparently he haven't heard a word from you since then." Kanda pointed out and had his eyes glared sharply like an eagle ready to attack its victim.
"So what's happened?" Marie asked this time.
Jiji was the one who answered for Marie. "We were just carrying out our investigation! But then…"
"Somehow we just found ourselves in these crazy outfits and locked up in this cell….." The four of the Finders knelled in despair and continued to sobs.
"Whaaaaa…?" Ellen, Kanda, and Noctis gave the same reaction.
For real?
"Are you all stupid?" Kanda added more.
"We're apologizing profusely!" Jiji began. "However thanks to this little incident,"
'Little incident?' Was the only line the group of Exorcists had in their minds that they could only think at as they heard it.
"We've become certain on one important thing! The Innocence in question has something to do with Phantom Thief G!" Jiji ended confidently.
"…..." Both Ellen and Kanda stared to him as if he was some kind of weird creature which had just crawled out from the hole for centuries while Noctis looked at him with unsurely and pity.
"D-Don't look at me like that! I may be wearing a ridiculous outfit but I'm being serious in here!"
"So…what makes you think like that?" Ellen sighed quietly.
"This is Bonnaire-neesan. She's the boss of all of us prisoners! She's been in here as a suspect in the G's case for half a year now." Jiji introduced them to a…sissy man with same costume that using them as a cushion.
"So Jiji-san…are these children the Exorcists you were talking about?" He twirled the hair ornament on the head costume. "They're rather cute~."
'Nee-san…!?' The three of them thought as bullets of sweat appeared on their heads.
"'Phantom Thief G' is indeed no mere human. Just as his name suggests, he's a ghost."
This got the Exorcists notice, especially Noctis attention immediately. He frowned when the sissy stated at the part of 'ghost'.
"Why?" was the only question Noctis could think. This was not good at all, really not good. He had this uneasy feeling just now and it began to nag him more fiercely than before.
"Well, there are three things we know about him, Handsome."
Noctis eyebrow twitched once while Ellen had this blank look on her and Kanda eyed him with mix between somehow pity and disgust.
'Handsome….!?' They thought the same line once more.
"First, he's wear an outrageous costume. Second, without fail, he's always sending a note a day before he's committing a crime. And third…" Bonnaire paused a moment. "G has no physical form."
This set an alarm to the euclase eyed young man. The more he listened the more uneasy he was. It might be a lot different with the one he was being familiar at back in home but…
"He has no physical form?" Noctis asked in serious tone. "Are you sure?"
"Very." Bonnaire confirmed. "That's why he's always using the body of other to perform his crimes…" The sissy continued to talk but Noctis held no more attention as he was in his own thought and had a deep frown of thoughtful.
"Noctis?" Ellen eyed him warily. 'Why he has that dark look on his face? And the way he acted and asked at the sissy just now…' Ellen mind then clicked together in one conclusion and it made her surprised none less. 'Is he noticed something?'
"I have a bad feeling about this…" Noctis stated quietly that Ellen and Kanda almost miss it. They were intriguing of what the young man had just said and about to ask when Inspector Galmar's voice boomed angrily from behind them.
"Stop spreading this nonsense, Bonnaire! You're just trying to escape the guilty verdict!" He accused the sissy. He then jerked his thumb to the outside firmly.
"This audience is over. We're leaving, now."
"NOOOO….! DON'T GOOO…..!"
"DON'T LEAVE US HEREEEEE….!"
"YOU'VE GOTTA GET US OUTTA HEREEEE….!"
This action had the imprisoned Jiji and the Finders cried again in despair. They pleaded from the deepest of their heart as they grabbed and held Noctis legs who happened to be the nearest from the group.
"Errr…" Noctis was torn between the sympathy and flurried for them. He glanced pleadingly at Ellen and Kanda for a help.
Seeing this, Kanda snorted while Ellen sighed softly before she smiled in a 'You're so helpless, aren't you?' meaning before she along with Timcanpy pulled Noctis gently by his shoulders from the hands of imprisoned Jiji and the Finders.
"Jiji, stop it, we're not going to leave you in here. We're going to investigate it, so you just have to wait for a while in here." Ellen comforted them.
"Really?" Jiji sobbed.
"Yes, I'll hold onto my word, you don't have to worry. We'll get you out from here once we finished this mission." Ellen then took a look at the young man.
"Thank you…" Noctis muttered quietly.
"No problem." Ellen responded softly. "What do you think?" Ellen looked at the head phone man as the Finders pleading at the back.
"From the sounds of their heartbeats, there's no sign of deception from any of the prisoners." Marie sighed.
"Thief, ghost, whatever it is, if there's Innocence involved, we're just have to retrieve it." Kanda commented uncaringly. "Who even care about these guys?"
"I guess we have to help them." Noctis concluded simply, not completely focused.
"Huh!? What are you talking about?" Galmar shouted harshly. "This is my case and you have no right to….!"
"INSPECTOR!" a voice cut the middle aged man's outburst.
When the Inspector twisted his head to the left and the Exorcists eyes focused at one direction, a young police officer had stood in there near Galmar, gasping and searched for the air while he held a paper in his grasp. His face was pale from something.
"It's a note. Another one." The officer reported urgently.
Galmar bemused by the officer's report. The Exocist, included Ellen was also had a same reaction.
"Here we go…again…"Jiji half whispered.
"We have received another note from Phantom Thief G." The officer gave the note with big letter G to the Inspector.
At that very moment, the puzzles in which Noctis had been trying to put on finally come together as one unity. Then everything suddenly was becoming clear and made sense to him. His mind replayed the prisoners' words in flashes.
"Ghost."
"Has no physical form."
"Somehow we just found ourselves in these crazy outfits and locked up in this cell…"
"That's why he's always using the body of other to perform his crimes…"
"Oh Dear Etro…" Noctis sky blue eyes wide but unseeing as soon as he found out. So that's why he kept thinking about it. It was indeed had used different method but the causes were same after all.
"Noctis?" Ellen was bewildered and worried at the same time at the Noctis' rather odd reaction.
"From all of things that are existing in this universe, why must this one?" His headache was coming without mercy.
This…
This could be proven to be troublesome either for them and the police in the future.
"What have you been talking about?" Link narrowed his eyes.
"I think," Noctis began. "I think I know what kind of method this Phantom Thief G is using."
And this got the audience's attention to him.
"You know…already?" although Ellen a bit hesitant, her interest peaked out at his statement. So she was right after all, he did find out something.
"Or at least I have an idea what kind of way he's using to the prisoners." He added quickly.
"You have an idea?" Galmar repeated cynically. "You can't capture him if you only have an idea! This is our case!"
"At least he's trying to figure out than doing wild goose chase." Kanda interjected.
"WHAT..…!?" Galmar roared.
"Inspector, please calm down!" the same officer tried to calm him down.
"How can you're be so sure? Do you have any proves?" Marie tilted his head a bit.
"I had experienced this before in my homeland." Noctis told them. "Though G is using different kind of method, judged from the causes he made toward the prisoners, perhaps it has something to do with ability to…"
"PARASITE THE VICTIM'S MIND AND CONTROL THEM AS HE WANT, YOU SAIIIID…!?"
Galmar voice echoed through the whole police station once they were out from the jail followed by the sound of a table being hit so hard. Everyone around him was winched at the high volume he used at.
"You don't have to shout that loud, Mr. Galmar…" Noctis reminded drily as he rubbed his ringing ears from the Inspector's loud voice.
"How can I'm not shouting when you told me that ridiculous speculation!"
"It's indeed a speculation but it doesn't stop the possibility for G to have this ability."
"You said that you have experienced this before. How did it happen to be exactly?" Marie tried to confirm if this was true after all.
Noctis let out a deep, long suffering sigh. This would take a while and needed a lot of lies to keeping his secret from everyone. He couldn't suddenly say that he was the prince from his own country, could he? He already lied to them so he couldn't just reveal himself.
"I'm working in military service." Noctis began to telling his lies. "And it's my duty to make sure the safety of my country. You got it until here?"
At the nods the audience, Noctis then continued. "There was one event where this person," He emphasized the sentence. "That has ability to hypnotized random person when they're caught off guard and use them as puppets to do something very dangerous."
"Hypnotized random person? He can do it all by himself?" Ellen repeated carefully.
"His hypnosis technique is the high one, not everyone can messing people's mind and take a full control for them. We always catch the wrong ones at first and he had us confused for a good time."
"Ouch…" Ellen winched in sympathy as Timcanpy showed and gritted his teeth. From the corner of her eyes, Ellen did see that Galmar gritted his teeth but didn't say anything so far.
"I was given order to take care of him by my own since I'm resistant toward hypnosis and illusion. We managed to catch him in the end. Turned out that he's came from another country and he's targeting our very important treasure and want to steal it because of order from someone greedy."
Yup, that was one of the most horrible events he ever had as far as he protecting the Great Crystal in his 21 years of living. There were some attempts to stealing the said crystal from random peoples. The soldiers of the kingdom always catch them easily but what made him incredibly annoyed was they couldn't remember why they were in the palace or inside the Holy Chamber in the first place. What drove him more than ready to kill someone was the fact that they even didn't remember what they did in the palace and how they got it in there!
It left he cranky for while until Ignis came with a plan to trap the real culprit by letting another one stole the crystal. Of course the crystal changed with the imitation at first, no way the King would let them use the real crystal for its huge risks. The puppet came as they expected and stole the imitation and Noctis with his friends waste no time to after him.
In the end, he managed to find the guy who did this and beat him pretty badly. Upon the interrogation, it revealed the man was ordered by 'the bastard' - as Noctis nicknamed him- from Niflheim to get the crystal with all necessary ways. Later, various complex spells were placed in the crystal and the room by King and himself and they strengthen the guards so no one can steal it easily ever after.
"I can understand that it has a similarity with the case but why you're thinking like that?" Marie raised an eyebrow.
"It's the common effect on the prisoners which make me sure." At the look the head phone man was giving at, he added more. "They said they have no recollection or an idea on what they've been doing until it's too late. Hypnosis is has a same effect, once you're out from being hypnotized you have no memory of what you've just do while in trance condition."
"Ah!" Ellen downed with realization once she heard the list. Now that she was thinking about it, it really had a similar effect.
"In case of hypnotism, if you use it accurately and in a wrong way, it can cause the same effects toward the victim. If the culprit wants to, he can erase the memory of the victim about meeting with him."
"No trace at all?" Galmar finally decided to involve in the conversation with frustrate expression. He hated the fact that this case became getting more complicated as he heard them.
"It's no without trace but rather difficult since we will need a person who had a same ability to undo the hypnosis."
"We don't have it at all and moreover this isn't hypnosis at all." Marie shook his head slowly and huffed. "I can't believe it can go this complicate."
"And now you're telling us that we have someone with ability to control the people he's want?" Kanda wrinkled in disdain at the idea. "You've got to be kidding me…"
"I do also not like the idea having person like this, you know…" Noctis told him wryly.
"Is there any way to prevent him from control the victims before he commit his crime again?" Link asked in unusual cautious.
"We still haven't any idea who is this Phantom Thief G is, what he is like, and where he is now, so it'll be difficult to find a way to stop him until he does steal something." Marie pointed out.
"But everyone in this city can become his target anytime, how we are supposed to do?" Ellen was becoming concerned more than ever.
"Can't you do anything like tracking him or something like that?" Kanda narrowed his sapphire eyes at euclase eyed young man.
"I'm maybe resistant toward hypnosis but it's the only thing I can do in this." Noctis shook his head forlornly. Kanda then turned away and scowled in displeasure.
"So what do we do now?" Link asked after a long and uneasy silence.
"Hate to say this but we can only do one thing, if we want to stop this thief." Marie stated.
"I think I'm known what you mean after hearing it." Ellen huffed heavily. "We have to prepare for whatever is coming in the future." Ellen said uneasily before she saw him nodded solemnly.
"No other choice but it's the only option we can take."
"Che. What a troublesome mission." Kanda grumbled quietly.
And everyone was agreeing with him for that day.
Little did they know it was only just a beginning from the barrage of chaos that would befall into them…
Very,
Very soon.
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