Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20180122052038/@comment-5999656-20180207055926

Lustra eyed Raiden as she strolled reluctantly along. While he looked inoffensive enough himself, seedy fashion sense aside, she didn't like the feeling of the suitcase he kept with him. There was no reason for someone of his age to carry around a piece of luggage, unless there was something dangerous inside. Lustra guessed it was either a weapon or some other high-tech gadget like the ones that students were carrying around nowadays. More than once she had argued for Nozomi to permit her to augment her weapons like they had been back in Beacon - come on, at least some Dust! - but her pleading was for nothing. The VPD didn't trust her at all, and so she was stuck with weapons that literally looked and worked like they came out of an old Mistralian kung fu drama. Which was fine against petty brawlers, but not so much against people with machine guns that leaked lava, or some other crazy combination like that.

"Yeah. I'm basically just extra muscle for Nozomi." Lustra yawned, before resuming her speech. "The fieldwork's fine enough, I guess. It's the precinct that I just can't stand. These buffoons shouldn't be armed, let alone sent out to capture deadly criminals. Course, they're not all bad."

She threw a backwards glance at the mysterious duo that was set to meet the superintendent. The pointed red suit man, and the guy with ugly scars all over his body - both of them positively reeked of trouble, but that had to be expected, right? The door had already shut, so Lustra couldn't make a second assessment. She turned back to Raiden.

"Yeah, I was thinking it was a little weird that someone your age is with the VPD. What's your story? I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours."

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Meanwhile, Nozomi had descended into the basement, where she found herself surrounded by hundreds upon hundreds of stacked cardboard boxes, each containing evidence correlated with a single case that had gone cold. Her eyes alighted on a detective sitting at a desk in the center of the room, and she walked over and gave him a slight tap on the shoulder.

"Hello, detective. Do you think you could point me to all the evidence that has been compiled on the so-called 'Data Thief'?"