Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25389303-20161009134004/@comment-25389303-20161119152856

That should be enough," Raiden decided, typing in the details into the search conditions and then pressing 'enter'. Immediately all of the other monitors began playing their recordings at 20-times speed, with white squares popping up on peoples' faces as the system scanned. While it did that, Raiden reopened the report file and, after searching for the wireless signals in the room, sent it to Nobel's Scroll.

"I doubt your friend would appreciate you looking at it, but here you go," Raiden said as he sent the file. "And I should warn you, these scanners are a pretty time-consuming process. It could be weeks before I find any---"

His words were cut off by a sudden dinging sound, and the monitors stopped their searching to display a large green tick on their screens, indicating that they had found what they were looking for. The speed at which they had found their supposed target left him speechless - either the system had made a mistake, or this Decadere Diaboli had made his presence blatantly obvious to the cameras recently.

"Hold on, hold on, hold on...let me bring this up..." Raiden quickly said, as he selected the video file. Instantly the monitors began playing a 30-second clip one of the cameras had found, in surprisingly striking detail. The date in the top-right corner indicated that video had been recorded only several hours ago.

The seemed to be positioned outside a building of some kind, only just above head height, and pointed outwards so that it faced what was clearly a busy Vale street. However, there was no mistaking a figure positioned directly in front of the camera in plain view, staring up at it with his head tilted slightly to the side. His appearance had changed since Nobel had last seen him - his hair was longer, with it partially combed so that it fell over the right side of his face in a long blade, and his eyes were both open and clear, revealing their natural icy-blue colour. His usual patchwork gear were also gone - replaced by a mixture of pure white and cream-coloured smart clothes. Around his neck, though, was a long multi-coloured patchwork scarf that hid the bottom of his face, as well as a large golden spiked amulet. Despite the changes, though, it was clearly Diaboli.

The young crime boss continued staring at the camera. No sound was being recorded, but it was apparent that if it was, he would have been completely silent. After several seconds of nothing, he suddenly began making a series of hand gestures in rapid succession. After around ten seconds of signalling, he stopped and turned as a new figure came into view - a girl around a similar age to Blanc. She began shouting at Diaboli, who just regarded her silently, before grabbing his arm and pulling him away from view. Just as he moved out of frame, however, Diaboli glanced up at the camera and made a 'peace' sign with his hand.

Then the recording ended.