My antibiotics have kicked in, my sore throat is gone but I still have an annoying cough that just doesn't seem to be going away. Good news is my nose is no longer runny but I have a busted eardrum so who knows what now. This chapter was hard to write with that constant ringing in my ear but here it is, hope you guys enjoy it.
Ginoza
"Don't do anything reckless Kou." I tell Kougami as I join dad and quickly check what's going on Tsunemori's end. Everything is going good so far but it's too quiet, we've been here for almost an hour now and nothing. Kou seems to be thinking the same thing; he just pulled out his dominator. I do a quick check on my terminal when a loud cracking sound fills the air as I feel dad push me down for cover. I look up towards Kougami only to see him drop to his knees followed by another cracking sound and Kou falls on his back from the impact.
"Kou!" I yell out but he doesn't move. He wore a bulletproof vest right? I didn't see him put it on but he was with Tsunemori during the time she was putting on hers, she wouldn't allow Kou to go out on the field without one wouldn't she? Kougami is a lot of things but he wouldn't be that careless, he knew the severity this operation had.
I take my dominator in my hand, finger ready on the trigger to shoot as I run towards Kou's motionless body. Another cracking sound fills the air as I drop to the ground sliding next to Kou. He got hit right in the chest and another shot to his stomach but I don't see any blood as I quickly feel on his chest and to my relief he was indeed wearing a vest under his suit. He's breathing, just knocked unconscious but right now I wish he was awake.
I look up as I hear footsteps coming closer and there he is only a few feets away. I point my dominator towards him and his crime coefficient registers at a hundred ninety-three and I waste no time to pull the trigger and neither did dad. The paralyzer was a direct hit however he doesn't go down, it had absolutely no effect but I soon recognize the blue jacket that he's wearing. That's one of the inspector's jacket, the fabric is specially made to absorb electricity and since the paralyzer is a weak version of an electric shock it just absorbed it. How in the hell did he even get his hands on one of those? Shit!
I don't get how his crime coefficient is only a hundred ninety-three? It should be way higher, there has to be some sort of mistake. For the amount of people he has killed and not even counting the other crimes he's committed and his crime coefficient isn't higher than that, it just can't be right.
I drop my dominator the ground when he's standing next to me, pointing his gun only a few inches from my head as I lift my hands so he doesn't shoot. The expression on his face and the look in his eyes, he's completely lost it if that was even possible to begin with considering how psychotic he was before. His eyes aren't like they were back then, there's something wild and even menacing to the point of insanity maybe.
"Drop your gun old man or my finger might slip." His voice was cold as I look towards dad. I can see his frustration as if telling me how he was against this plan right from the beginning but he places his dominator on the ground and backs away with his hands up anyway. The only thing that keeps going in my mind is please don't shoot my dad or shoot Kougami again.
Seiho roughly grabs my arm pulling me up to my feet wrapping his arm around my neck as he places the revolver right to my temple as Kunizuka and Kagari arrived dominators pointing towards us when he suddenly points the gun towards them and opens fire before they can move to dodge. Both of them drop to their knees as Seiho pulls me away by force into one of the buildings, shoving me to the ground once inside as he closes the door.
I quickly get up only to get violently turned around shoved against the wall with the cold metal of the gun's barrel under my chin. "You made me angry, you'll find out what happens when you make me angry."
"Torture and rape me? Not like you haven't done that already. You're nothing but a coward that murders others to get a kick." He only glares for a few minutes before putting the gun in its holster attached to his belt and grabs my wrists placing them in a cross position not wasting time securing them with a zip tie horizontal and then a second in a vertical position making any attempts to free my wrists impossible and the more painful to move them.
"Your friend is dead now because you made me angry." He states as he tightens the zip ties even tighter to the point the plastic is digging into my skin and I see a bit of blood staining the white plastic of the first zip tie he used.
He thinks Kougami is dead, he must believe that he wasn't wearing a vest like the others were. Everything he does it's always a way to get into his victim's head. By tying me up he just told me that he's not going to kill me, instead he's going to try and flee taking me along with him. I don't know the extent of Kunizuka and Kagari's injuries but I don't think it can be that serious probably got in the arm or leg I'm not too sure and I don't think dad got shot so my best bet is to make him waste time just long enough to allow the team to corner him and there's also his crime coefficient that I have to figure out how to make it go pass the three hundred mark so the dominator will switch into lethal eliminator, not even the inspector's jacket will protect him from that.
"That's what you wanted from the start wasn't it, just using me as your pawn in your stupid game just so you could murder Kougami." I shoot back at him. A twisted grin forms on his face as he lets go of my wrists, clearly amused in trying to play with my mind by using Kougami to make me feel guilty about his fate that what happened to him was my fault. He thinks he knows me but that's where he's dead wrong, I may not be like Kou but I can play this game of words just fine.
"He was nothing more than a distraction."
He doesn't even try to deny it, he's more proud thinking that Kougami is dead by his own hands than feeling bad for taking a life. His ignorance is something I can use to my advantage I just hope that Kou wakes up from dream land soon cause I don't think the team will be able to handle him as long his crime coefficient doesn't go over the lethal zone. If it comes to that someone will have to take him down by force and quite frankly I don't think anyone on division two is capable to do it, only Kougami comes to mind and maybe dad could stand a chance against him but I'd be more ready to put my money on Kou to do the job.
"A distraction? More like jealousy on your part. You just couldn't handle that he's always been the one that I cared about, it will never be you." I blurt out never breaking eye contact, now I just pray that I can pull this bluff off without him figuring it out.
His twisted grin quickly disappears as he comes closer to me as I look up to meet his gaze, trying not to look away to give him a sense that I'm standing my ground. I can't allow myself to show him fear if I want my bluff to work but so far he believes what I say as he's fuming, his crime coefficient must be climbing I just have to continue pushing his buttons and hope for the best.
"I told you didn't I? You open your legs for me and only me." He tells me as takes a hold of my neck with his right hand but he doesn't squeeze as he glares at me as if trying to create fear. That's what he wants isn't it, it's just like when dad used to talk about serial rapist in the past before the Sibyl system was established. Some couldn't rape their victims as long they didn't scream, screaming was what turned them on and that factor helped save a woman's life because she refused to scream giving enough time for the police to find her so for him it must be fear and just thinking about that just makes him so ridiculous. He's no different than the ones who used to bully me back in school, inflicting pain on others just to make themselves feel better.
"He was better than you were last night and while we're at it, you weren't my first Kou was on the night of our graduation." I almost regret saying that when his giant hand hits me across the face causing me to black out for a few seconds along with my ear ringing as he grabs my arms squeezing as he pushes me against the wall. I'll take his reaction as my bluff is actually believable or his mind has finally taken a walk off the map.
"What? You want to prove me wrong that you're better than he is but you won't because you know you might get interrupted. That's how it is right? You can't get excited if you know you don't have everything under your control." His eyes now filled with rage as I keep on eye contact. If it wasn't for the fact that others are around he'd do it right now I'm sure of it, the way he's looking at me says it all. I wonder how much his crime coefficient has risen, I hope it's in the mid two hundreds the least near three hundred but somehow I doubt it.
"You'll get it soon enough. I'll make you forget about him and make you beg for me." He tells me as he unzips the top of my inspector's jacket and takes my handcuff out of the interior pocket. He cuffs my right wrist and then proceeds to cuff his left. Apparently he's afraid that I'll somehow manage to run off, now with the cuff on my wrist it only puts on more pressure along with the zip ties that are way too tight to begin with.
He starts pulling forcing me to follow as he takes a hold of both wrists with his left hand, no use putting up a fight at this point. I think I stalled for a good ten minutes if not more, now I'm crossing my fingers that it will pay off. I look around as we navigate through the empty building and back outside, I don't see anyone but I'm sure division two must be patrolling the port.
I wonder if dad ever been stuck in a crazy situation similar to this? I feel like an idiot thinking about that right now when what I should be thinking about is surviving but not like I can do much like this anyway. It sounds pathetic but the only chance that I now have is for the team to take him down, I've done what I could the rest is up to them.
The sound of water hitting the dock takes me out of my thoughts, is that what he's thinking about? Fleeing off a boat, he's even more insane if he thinks he can pull that off. I look around as we walk on the pier and just briefly I think I saw dad behind those crates or maybe it was just my eyes playing tricks on me. The constant tugging brings my attention back to Seiho, I just feel like pushing him off the pier but that would be just as bad for me. If it really is dad behind those crates, if he's not doing anything it must mean that his crime coefficient isn't high enough for the dominator to go on eliminator mode. Exactly what kind of a human being is he? It just doesn't make sense that his psycho-pass just isn't rising like it should unless he has some mental illness that causes the Sibyl system to judge him wrongly.
In this day and age, mental illness is actually a rarity since the medical equipments allows doctors to see if the baby will be completely healthy and if it has some form of abnormalities than they can end the pregnancy, in other words an abortion. This practice was done before the Sibyl system was introduced but somehow Hideki got past that and if I assume that Seiho also has something wrong then can they be judge effectively by the Sibyl system?
"Freeze!" Kou's voice fills the air as Seiho quickly gets behind me with his left arm around my neck raising my arms in an awkward angle that only amplified the pain to my wrist. I feel something cold touching my temple when I realize that he must have taken the gun out.
What on earth is Kougami thinking? Wouldn't it have been better to do a surprise attack or something than actually jumping out in the open like that? I look towards the crates and I can't see anyone hiding behind them, if dad was there where did he go?
"There's no escaping, it's over just give up. It's not too late for you to get help." I tell him in a low and calm tone. I don't even know why I even told him that, encouraging him to give himself up and go get mental help that he clearly needs when in the back of my mind I don't even feel like he even deserves it.
"If I can't have you, neither will him…" He removes the gun from my temple as he spoke leaving a bad feeling in my gut.
I see Kou's expression suddenly change as he starts running towards us as I struggle against his hold when a loud crack fills the air followed by something warm and wet hitting the side of my face as I feel a large weight pulling me backwards causing me to fall over the pier into the water. I try to surface but I can't as I keep sinking deeper and deeper, I can't breathe as water starts entering my mouth and I feel my lungs as if someone set them on fire. My vision is getting blurry and all I hear is an endless echo…
Of course I had to end the chapter like that cause it's fun :3
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