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Chasing your Tail
"Detective Rinniko-san, I trust you've seen the front page news this morning."
The young woman froze, startled, at the sound of her co-worker's voice calling out from behind her in the early morning, and she spun around to face him.
"Kohaku-san, you startled me. Please, just call me Rin; it's not as if we haven't known each other for years." she told him with a slight bow. "And yes, sir. I had a feeling that someone was going to go after the Jade Comb after the museum upped their security; they must have had a tip off. Our boys will have the case wrapped up in no time, though."
The senior officer approached then, leaning against the table beside her breakfast, his choppy black hair looking slightly bedraggled, as if he'd dragged his hands through it in frustration. "You're an expert on The Kuma Bandit, aren't you, Detective? I hear you've been following his exploits for years."
She blinked at that seemingly random question, before nodded softly, and sitting back down at the break-room table. "Sit sir, please." And she only continued once he's relaxed into his own seat, loosening his tie. "I guess you could say that I am something of an expert, I've had an interest in his heists since I was a little girl."
Her superior nodded at that. "Good. Then you'll be working directly with Mr. Mizushima-sama when his flight comes in; apparently what the papers did print was enough for The Consultant to hop on a plane to come chasing that phantom menace."
Rin's eyes widened in shock. "Mr. Mizushima-sama is coming to Tokyo? Last I heard, he was chasing the Bandit through Paris. And we don't even have verification that it really was the Kuma Bandit; they've not finished processing the crime scene yet."
"We found a spinning top in the janitors closet, right underneath the loose panel he'd used to crawl through the air ducts." He admitted with a sigh, and before she could open her mouth to question him, he continued. "You're officially the lead investigator on the case, Rinniko-san, and will be Mr. Mizushima-sama's liaison. Keep an eye on him. Keep him out of trouble. He'll be arriving in your office are 11am, sharp."
"But sir..."
"You're the only person we've got on the force who knows enough about The Bandit to keep up with him. I hear he's notorious for trying to leave the police out of the loop, and Kitsune, to boot. So you'll have to watch out around him. Don't accept anything he offers. Don't let him get the upper hand; you know what tricksters they are."
She couldn't stop the brilliant smile from crawling up her face at that. "Yes sir."
Note: Tada