Darkness.

She was swiftly pushed in to darkness.

What had she been doing before? She forced herself to try to remember.

She pushed for her body to just wake up so that she could see where she was, but it refused to respond.

Different voices and various noises were muffled in her muggy head. What was going on? Where was she?

"Make sure not to hurt her. We'll save that for Kogami to see." A dark voice ordered.

Oh yeah… Kogami… And… That case Division One was working on.

The case file she wasn't supposed to be reading gave her a lead.

Kogami was too furious at her that she couldn't say anything before he took the file away.

Kogami…

Her mind tried to remember where she was and what she had been doing.

She brought Ayaka to the department to show off to their coworkers, and so that Kogami could see her.

He had stopped coming back to her apartment after his shifts so suddenly, he never got to see much of his daughter or Akane. She wanted to surprise him, so she had waited in his quarters for him to get off work.

She had laid Ayaka down on his bed, and became bored. She knew that Kogami kept his case files on a table in his living room, so out of curiosity she began to look through them.

The case on the top was one that he had said they were getting nowhere with. He wouldn't give her any detail, knowing that she would try to go back to work earlier than she should have.

Akane knew that the reason he yelled at her for sticking her nose in it was because he was only concerned for her health.

But she thought she had a lead.

So when she left the department, she left Ayaka on purpose. She was determined to get new information for the case, but it backfired.

"Heart rate stabilized. Brain function is normal." An automated voice spoke as Akane finally came to. She looked around, trying to figure out where she was.

The room was dimly lit, from the monitor of whatever machine it was that was connected to her. She was sitting hunched over in a seated position on a metal bar, with some sort of cage over her head. Her wrists and ankles were restrained, keeping her from being able to move. She felt a dull pain in the back of her head from where her attacker had struck her.

"Is anyone there?" She asked. Her throat and mouth were dry, so she was barely able to speak.

"So you're awake, Inspector." A male voice said from a speaker.

"Who's there?"

"Names are of no importance. All you need to know is that we know who you are, Ms. Tsunemori. We've been watching you."

"Watching me?" Akane questioned, working hard to get out of her mental haze.

"Subject name: Tsunemori Akane." The automated voice sounded again. "Age: 21, blood type: A, occupation: Inspector of the Public Safety Bureau. Subject has given birth to one child, female. Name: Kogami Ayaka, fathered by Kogami Shinya. Relationship status of subject to Kogami Shinya is unknown."

Akane clinched her teeth together. They knew everything, just as they said. How long had they been following her?

"How did you manage to kidnap me without catching the attention of the scanners?" She asked, making sure to take even breaths. She would not panic. As long as she stayed calm and did as she was told, it would give her time to figure out a way to escape.

"Isn't it obvious?" The voice chuckled. "Both of our psycho passes are clear, of course. Why would Sibyl have a reason to interfere? Besides, we didn't kidnap you. You were trespassing, Inspector
Tsunemori."

"Why have you been watching me, specifically?" Akane asked, warily.

"To get to Enforcer Kogami of course."

"Kogami? Why?"

"No one gets away with injuring my son."

"Injure?"

"You'll find out soon enough what I mean." The voice said.

Then, suddenly, the world went black again.
—-

"Have you found her yet?" Kogami asked when he called Ginoza, who had gone out with Kagari and Masaoka to search for Akane on foot. He had stayed behind to monitor the scanners with Karanomori and Kunizuka to see if they could find anything.

Ginoza refused to let him go out, due to the fact that he was the one who had to take care of Ayaka with Akane missing.

"Nothing yet. She wasn't at her apartment, and her friends haven't seen her, either."

"Did you check with her parents? Her grandmother?" Kogami asked, trying to hide his worry.

"Kogami, relax. We're going to find her." Kagari tried to reassure him.

"Yeah, just focus on the scanners and that little baby you got. We can handle the work out here." Masaoka added.

"Fine." Kogami sighed, glancing over to his daughter, who had nuzzled herself against Yayoi's chest.

"But I mean it, contact us as soon as you find any hint of where she might be."

After letting them continue on with their search, Kogami kept his eyes glued to the screen that Karanomori was swiftly working on. He wasn't going to rest until the mother of his child was found.

He clenched his jaw, thinking of all of the different scenarios that could have possibly happened.

Did someone kidnap her?

Rape her? That thought set his blood burning.

The possibility of her being killed was enough to make him lose his sanity.

"Here." Kunizuka said, quickly giving Ayaka back to her father. "Your psycho pass will go up more if you don't take her."

"What do you mean?"

"She's right." Karanomori said, glancing over her shoulder. "You're making a scary face and your body is all tensed up. I can only imagine the thoughts you are having."

They were right.

Kogami sighed, feeling pathetic. He had carelessly let himself rage on the inside. His psycho pass was probably in the elimination range.

"I'm sorry, Aya." He whispered, gently bringing his daughter to his shoulder and clinging to her for comfort. "But I'm not giving up on your mommy, okay?"

Kunizuka stared at the father and daughter, quietly. She had never in her time working with him, seen Kogami look so vulnerable.

"That's it." She suddenly said. "There is only one possible explanation."

"What?" Shion looked to the enforcer to listen what she had to say.

"You said that she was looking through the Togayama case file, right?"

"Yes." Kogami nodded.

"You don't think she could have found a lead, do you?"

Kogami thought about everything that he had collected on the man named Togayama Ichi, hoping to remember anything that had stuck out to him.

"Maybe… It's possible that she could have."

He sat down and took a deep breath. He needed to think as if he were Akane right then. What did she see with what little she read?

"The only thing that was worth going on was the company that he had been hired to design buildings for. There had been rumors that the company was run by a Japanese man that was supposedly leaking info in to other countries. He was also said to have been working on a central access point for those countries to unite near Japan so that they could help people with high crime coefficients leave the country."

"What's the company's name?" Karanomori asked.

"Satori." Kogami answered.

"The company didn't appear to be running anymore, though. That's why the lead was a bust."

"Did you get any proof that the company had really shut down?"

"Ginoza went with the old man to go check it out himself. The office looked as if it hadn't been used in months." He answered. "We just assumed they had gone bankrupt and shut down."

"Maybe Inspector Tsunemori thought you guys missed something and went to take a look herself." Karanomori suggested as she typed away on her tablet.

"Check the scanners near the office."

"Already pulling up the footage of the last two hours, now."

They watched the screen, waiting for Akane to show up on it.

"There." Karanomori said, pausing the video and closing up on the inspector's face. "It shows her going in almost an hour and a half ago. According to what this shows, she should still be in there."

"Ginoza, did you hear her?" Kogami asked over the communicator.

"Yeah, we're heading over there right now."

"Hey, Kogami. You said that the company was called Satori, right?" Karanomori asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"The CEO is named Uryu Genji." She said. "He's Togayama Ichi's father."

He realized what this now meant when he heard this.

If Akane had been kidnapped, Togayama's father probably ordered it to get revenge on Kogami.

He did tear his son's ear off, after all.