Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20180122052038/@comment-25389303-20180207180714

Raiden's eyes narrowed slightly when Lustra mentioned his age. Considering his twentieth birthday was coming up in a couple of months he wouldn't have thought himself particularly out of place, since a lot of officers-in-training would already be working alongside the full-time staff in the force. But he doubted she meant anything of it, so decided to overlook the comment.

"Well, I was in my second year at Beacon when the academy fell, and my team disappeared before I could regroup with them. After that I offered my services as an information broker, specialising in identifying and monitoring the movements of people in and out of the city. Eventually one of my old professors found out about it and..."

His face creased in a haunted expression when one particularly painful memory sprung up. "Well, he didn't particularly approve of how I was doing my job, and 'convinced' me to track people down for the VPD instead. I'd much rather find out where my team is but...I've got a job to do, I suppose..."

The suitcase in his hand suddenly rattled loudly as he walked, seemingly protesting against his words.

"Quiet!" he hissed, and the case quickly ceased its quaking.

"Anyway, I've never been a particularly good fighter, so I rarely apprehend people myself. Hopefully our thief isn't as strong as they are stealthy," he continued, pretending nothing happened.

"So, how about you? The people here seem to dislike you almost as much as you seem to loathe them."



"Oh! Detective Nozomi! Sorry, you startled me...sure, give me a moment..."

The man quickly typed something into the computer in front of him, a few seconds later stood from his desk.

"Numbers 374 through to 377," he said, leading the detective down the many isles of boxes until he eventually stopped and retrieved a stack of four particularly large and worryingly unsteady containers. He set them down at an unused table. "I actually followed that case a while back. Quite baffling - the way the thief only stole a single item each time. Never understood why they did that..."

The detective shrugged indifferently, indicating that he didn't really want to think about it again. "I'll sign the evidence out for you if you're going to take it away. I'd say don't lose anything, but most of the reports are just the same story over and over again. You'll want to go to forensics if you want the more interesting stuff."