Kagari had been screaming with laughter for the past five minutes. Well, not entirely, if he did, then he probably would be dying on the floor from oxygen deficiency. But in between his screams of laughter, he would gasp and point at Yayoi, try to say something, and resume laughing again.

His two female colleagues patiently waited for him to calm down.

Red-faced and teary-eyed, Kagari picked up the Dare Box again to confirm Yayoi's dare.

End every conversation with a sexual innuendo. 5 points.

"But really, Kunicchi. Can you really manage every conversation?" he chuckled.

Yayoi gave him a nonchalant look and reached over to whisper into his ear. "Don't challenge me, Kagari," she warned softly. "I can be quite creative when making sex-in-your-endo."

Of course, Akane obliviously sat there wondering why Kagari jumped back two tables. The Dare Box was passed around again and Akane read out her dare.

Let another player choose who you give the silent treatment to. 1 point.

"Ehhh?"

"Gino-san! We have to choose Gino-san!" Kagari declared, still two tables away.

"Then at least give him back his plants. If he doesn't water them soon, they'll shrivel up and die, you know." Yayoi chided. "And I'd rather choose Kougami, it would be quite an interesting development from yesterday."

Akane shook her head in horror. "What if we have fieldwork today though? Am I just not going to say anything if Kougami-san or Ginoza-san requests backup?"

"You can figure something out, you're a smart girl, Akane-chan!" Kagari encouraged whilst he poked through the bookshelf to find the plants. "But Kunicchin! Kou-chan'll be really boring about it! He's already used to Gino-san throwing a hissy fit. What difference would it make with Akane-chan?"

Yayoi folded her arms across her chest.

"If we really do have fieldwork today, we at least need the Inspectors to be able to interact with eachother," she said firmly.

This only earned exasperation from Kagari. "Okay, fine! Kou-chan it is."

"Don't sound so disappointed, Kougami has a sense of humour too," Yayoi assured. She took the dare box out of Akane's hands and tossed it to Kagari.

Ask a colleague for the time and then shout out 'it worked!' And start celebrating. 1 point.

"Well then," Kagari said with a toothy grin. "I think both of you ladies can guess who my prey is today."

Not long after lunch, Unit 1 were assigned to catching an arsonist caught in the act by a drone. Psycho-Pass skyrocketed, the newly latent criminal had escaped near a deserted port facility.

They arrived relatively near the area and had already began to unload the Dominators. Akane however, noticed there were a few boxes brought next to the weapon cart.

"Eh, what are these for?"

"Swimming gear," Masaoka replied. "Though we managed to catch the criminal red-handed at the crime-scene, it's still pre-meditated and the fact she came here might be due to her having prepared a means of escape."

"On water...?" Akane gulped.

She received a nod.

"In case of emergency, Nobuchika ordered some gear. We've got life-jackets, scuba equipment and rebreather sets," he listed off.

Kagari then decided to appear and rummage through one of the boxes. "And that's our there's-no-kill-like-overkill Inspector Gino we all know and love," he praised. "He really brought everything to do with water."

A little nervous about the idea, Akane peered over Kagari's shoulder to see what was inside. "Um, if it isn't too much trouble, I'd like to take a life-jacket with me, just in case."

"What? Akane-chan scared of having a splash?" Kagari teased, but when he saw her pale face he jerked a thumb towards the police van. "Only diving gear are in these boxes. There should be a couple more inside."

Akane hurried over to take them but felt the weight almost throw her arms onto the floor. She checked inside and triumphantly pulled out a compressed life-jacket.

"Need a hand, Inspector?"

Akane looked up to see Kougami. She was about to speak up but sharply turned her head away instead and bit down on her lip.

"The instruction manual isn't very well-explained in my opinion, but I've worn one before so I could quickly give you a crash course in case if you have to use it," he offered.

No answer was given on Akane's half.

Kougami blinked in confusion.

"Tsunemori?"

She continued to ignore him and studied the manual.

Having observed the entire scene, Kagari snickered in the background but was cut off when Yayoi bopped him on the head with her Dominator.

Ginoza frowned her at her.

"Kunizuka, the Dominator is a weapon, not a toy," he lectured. "Use it carefully!"

"Don't worry, Inspector. I promise I'll be gentle with you at least," Yayoi deadpanned.

Ginoza froze.

"Wh-What...?"

She brushed past him and readied herself to enter the facility. She then bopped Kagari on the head again when he started cackling.

They had split into two groups with Ginoza teaming up with Kagari and Yayoi. There were no modes of transport waiting along the jetty so they opted to creep inside an old boat rental building.

Instead of finding the criminal, they found her hideout instead. Whilst Ginoza inspected the home-made alcohol distillery and rows of molotov cocktails, Kagari shadowed him with a carefully placed smile arranged on his face.

"Say, Gino-san, what time is it?" Kagari abruptly asked.

Ginoza frowned at the question. "01:32pm. Why?"

"Yosha!" Kagari fistpumped the air and a large grin broke out. "It worked!"

"What worked?" Ginoza immediately asked.

Yayoi finally looked up from the latent criminal's laptop she was hacking. "I found something."

"What worked, Kagari?"

Kagari was quick to join Yayoi to get a look at a series of videos. Each of them were a blurry, unprofessionally recorded clips of someone experimentally burning insects trapped in jars to small animals.

"She must really like burning stuff down if she's made ten videos of this crap," Kagari commented.

"What worked, Kagari?!"

"She likes it hot and slow," Yayoi said flatly.

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but shut up, Kunizuka."

Meanwhilst, Akane was leading Enforcer Kougami and Masaoka to a field of abandoned cargo-handling equipment. She was a little ahead of them, climbing up a man-controlled crane to see if the criminal was hiding inside.

Masaoka took it as an opportunity to speak with Kougami privately.

"Hey Kou, what happened between you and ojou-chan?" he asked with an easygoing smile. "I noticed that she was giving you the cold shoulder earlier."

Kougami studied a battered forklift truck.

"I don't really know," he replied with a casual shrug. "But to be honest, she's been a little spontaneous nowadays."

He thought he spotted something behind the gas pedal and stretched an arm inside.

"No kidding," Masaoka agreed. "It was just a few days ago when she asked me out on a date."

Kougami slipped and hit his head on the wheel.

"She what?"

"I think this area is clean, shall we look somewhere else?"

"Oi, tottsan. Did you-"

"Kou! Over there!"

Kougami dropped the subject the instant he saw the target move from the corner of his eye. Akane had to be called down from the crane and the three of them gave chase.

"This is Hound 3, target's moving towards the jetty," Kougami messaged to Shepherd 1.

Kagari and Ginoza had left the building during the time, leaving Yayoi to serve as an ambush in case the criminal returned.

"Bingo! There's nowhere to hide there!" Kagari chirped.

However, when they took a shortcut towards her supposed location, they found the entire area silent and empty.

"Target not here. Where is she?" Ginoza barked. "Anyone, report!"

"This is Hound 2," Kunizuka called in. "I can spot her heading to a cargo-loading area. Pursue?"

"Pursue," Ginoza confirmed. "But give directions first."

"The area itself is quite large to cover, I'd advise splitting up," she added. "Turn East from the boat rental, if you keep straight you'll be able to do a back-attack-"

"Oh do shut up, Kunizuka," he groaned and began to jog.

Akane led her accompanied Enforcers towards the same location but from the opposite side Ginoza was entering, hoping to box the target in. However, the cargo-loading area itself was a massive maze of rusty crates, creating narrow winding paths around them.

"We should split up," Kougami suggested. "This'll take forever if we go in a group."

Masaoka nodded his head and Akane gave no reaction.

Wow, she felt like an asshole.

They parted and took different directions, creeping round corners with Dominators out and ready.

Akane jogged down a long stretch of road before hearing a faint scraping noise. She darted into the next path with her weapon held out in front of her, only to find the same weapon hovering in front of her face.

Kougami lowered his gun, hearing Sibyl's voice warning him that his actions would be logged.

"Kougami-san, behind you!" Akane blurted, lifting her weapon above his head.

Kougami jerked his head round just in time to see the latent criminal standing on top of one of the crates, poised to throw a Molotov cocktail. His arm became a blur as he aimed the Dominator at her, taking in a reading.

Crime Coefficient 180 - an Enforcement for target - please aim carefully

A teal light blossomed from the tip of the gun and spat itself out at the wide-eyed target. She dropped the bottle and hastily rolled down from the other side of the crate.

Ginoza was surprised to see the target suddenly drop in front of him, but he snapped back to work and pointed the Dominator at her head. Before the scan was made though, she launched her leg up and kicked his arm, stunning it temporarily. Before Ginoza could react properly, she grabbed the front of his jacket and threw him against the crate wall.

"Agh!" Ginoza gave a sharp hiss in pain when his head slammed against the harsh metal. Lifelessly, he slid onto the floor with a stinging sensation prickling his forehead.

A shadow loomed over the target just as she was about to run away.

Kougami had taken a running jump at the crate and managed to clamber over the top in one swoop. He crashed into her and fixed her arms behind her back with the Dominator pressed against her neck.

Meanwhilst, Akane had to run the long way round because not everyone in the police force is a ninja.

The moment she saw the arsonist tackled to the floor she shouted out "Don't shoot! Restrain target only!"

The remaining Enforcers came running in from the opposite direction. Kagari's eyebrows furrowed and he waved his Dominator about in mock-anger.

"Akane-chan! Fail!" he announced. "One point deducted!"

Fail? Point deducted? Ginoza pondered on the words for a second, but with the next wave of the fire roaring inside his skull, he let it slide and let Yayoi examine him for any injuries.

She noticed there was a graze behind his hair and took a medical pack from a drone. She began to dab the blood away with an alcohol-soaked cotton swab as gently as she could, but it did nothing to stop him letting out a grunt of discontent at the sharp, new pain.

"Strange," she commented, dabbing diligently. "I always imagined Inspector to be more of a screamer than a moaner-"

"Shut up, Kunizuka."

In conclusion, the latent criminal was caught with minimal collateral damage. The only injured person was Inspector Ginoza but that was nothing new.

They began loading all the boxes of unneeded swimming gear back into the police van whilst Ginoza grumbled at his apparent 'bad karma.'

With his foul temper mixed with Akane's current awkwardness with Kougami, the entire scenario was a little uncomfortable. Asides from Kagari, no one was really talking, they filled the stale silence with the shuffling noises of boxes.

"Well, good work everyone!" Akane cheered, trying to lighten the mood.

"Business before pleasure," Yayoi prompted.

"I SAID SHUT UP, KUNIZUKA!"

Kunidzuka Yayoi- 18 points

Shuusei Kagari- 13 points

Tsunemori Akane- 18 points (1 point deducted)

Gino is distressed.

Thanks from the sev'nth of march for the sexual innuendo dare and Animelover01268 for the 'it worked!' dare, all of you reviewers are such wonderful geniuses.

Pie.