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| UserShadow7989 | Aug 16 2012, 03:17 PM Post #21 |
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"I wouldn't mind exchanging information some time, either." The teen seemed to perk up at the mention of someone else investigating it. "I'm still trying to organize my notes and my thoughts on the matter, but I think I could be of some help with all the legwork I've done." There was a hint of pride in her voice at that. Some immature part of her mind reveled in doing just what her father did for a living. Noriko glanced over to Ryoichi with the beginnings of a smile. It was oddly refreshing to meet someone who wasn't as obsessed with the park as most of the people she'd run into lately. "I think distancing yourself from this isn't a half bad idea. Obsessing over stuff like this is unhealthy." She nodded to herself, only for something else the boy said to give her pause. "Wait... Yuzuki?" The teen grinned. "Purple hair, student council president, perpetually and contagiously cheery?" With a slight chuckle, she turned so she could address the two boys at once. "Be right back. I wanna show you something." Spinning on her heel, she dodged her way between students and other obstacles in a dash back to where she was sitting, showing surprising speed and grace in the movements. The girl collected the various notes spread out around her spot and stuffed them back into her bag with care, then carefully removed the item she had run back for. Noriko skipped back to the two boys, her whole trip having taken ultimately little time. She flashed a grin and tilted the now familiar hat sitting atop her head, shifting the weight of her backpack ever so slightly. "Yuzuki-chan gave me this hat and said I had to keep it safe and with me at all times. Placed it on my head and said 'I ordain you to be the Prime Investigator for this mystery of Ruwashi Park', calling it my badge of office." The teen didn't bother hiding her mirth at the idea. |
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| Your Empress, Pokeh | Aug 16 2012, 05:42 PM Post #22 |
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"Notes huh?" Hibiki had an interested expression on his face. "I think I'd be pretty happy to see your notes. I'm sure they're pretty impressive if they're coming from a detective like you. Mine are probably a fair more... wishy washy." He chuckled. All the outward flattery made him sick. She seemed pretty confident in herself though. Maybe flattering her ego would be the best way to get to her? "The stu-co president huh..." Hibiki said, holding a hand to his chin. Rumor had it that the pres. was kind of completely insane. Apparently they had formed some stupid organization called L.O.L.I.C.O.N or something. Quite the name that was. And then Noriko ran off to go get... something. Hibiki glanced over at Ryoichi and shrugged. Girls were weird sometimes. The girl wasn't gone for very long before she came back with a... detective hat. Well, well, she was a regular Sherlock wasn't she? More like She-lock though really. "Ooh, very stylish." Hibiki smiled with a small clap. "It seems our stu-co pres. has a good eye for talent. Have you gotten a Watson to tag along with you yet?" |
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| FirebreathFishslap | Aug 19 2012, 12:53 AM Post #23 |
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Oh, it sounded like Noriko already knew Yuzuki. Then again, Yuzuki had managed to win the position of student council president, so she was probably really well known at their school. Ryoichi did't really know, though. He'd never really paid attention to these kind of things. Noriko ran off before Ryoichi could say anything else, and he stood there silently until she came back. That was Yuzuki's detective hat... "If Yuzu-chan gave you that hat, she probably trusts that you'll be able to figure this out," Ryoichi said hesitantly. So Noriko was probably going to be a Persona user, then. That was the only reason he could think Yuzuki would do that. She understood how important it was that the truth be hidden. Probably. He honestly didn't know what his cousin was thinking most of the time. "As far as information goes, I don't think I've got much I can offer, but I can maybe help tie things together a bit more?" Ryoichi offered. "I know some things about what happened there, so..." |
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| UserShadow7989 | Aug 20 2012, 04:54 PM Post #24 |
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Noriko bowed dramatically in response to the applause, obviously amused. "In all seriousness, my notes are probably less impressive than you think. I tend to jot down anything that comes to mind about something as quickly as I can, so it ends up being hard for others to use." She gently ran a hand along the rim of her hat as she spoke, making sure that it wasn't in danger of falling. "I... no Watson yet, no." The teen felt flattered at the indirect comparison to Holmes, even if she didn't know if it was intentional or not. Look at me, letting myself get buttered up like a breakfast roll. I need some self control. Ryoichi's comment seemed to snap her out of her embarrassment, mirth draining from her features and allowing her to settle into a more business-like persona. "She said as much herself, and I intend to do her proud." Noriko considered the offer Ryoichi made carefully. She knew straight from the horse's mouth that Yuzuki was involved in some way with other incidents, but didn't want to risk letting that fact slip. The cafeteria as a whole was a poor place to discuss anything in private, for that matter. It would be hard to get him to answer anything, assuming he knew his cousin's secret to begin with. "I... do have a few questions about the park incident, though I'm not sure if this is the right place or time to ask most of them." She slipped a hand underneath the borrowed hat and pulled out a notepad and pencil. "One angle I've been looking into lately is the rumors. Even as crazy as they are, there are some recurring themes to them that I've noticed." Yuzuki had recommended she pay attention to them, and it was connected to what had stumped her for a while. "Do you have any idea what might have sparked some of the rumors? The common ones seem to revolve around things not being what they seem- government conspiracies, a film production gone wrong, magic, aliens, super powers, what have you." She felt like an idiot for even asking, but Yuzuki didn't seem to be lying about the rumors being key. Part of her wanted to see the boy's reaction, as well. |
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| Your Empress, Pokeh | Aug 20 2012, 08:24 PM Post #25 |
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"Hehe," Hibiki chuckled, watching an amused Noriko taking a bow. Yuzuki sounded like she knew more about the incident than he'd first been led to believe. Or at least Noriko and Ryoichi thought so. He smiled as Noriko pulled out her notepad, asking Ryoichi some questions about the rumors themselves. "Rumors almost always have some truth to them at the core. The problem isn't so much in finding someone who knows the truth, but getting the truth out of them." He glanced over at Ryoichi. "Hehe, but what do I know?" Of course, Hibiki found himself to be pretty good at getting the truth out from other students. Most other students were also dumb shits unfortunately. Whoever was covering up this business with the super powers was doing a relatively good job of it. That wasn't going to be enough to stop him in his search though. "The answer's probably hiding in plain sight as usual." |
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| FirebreathFishslap | Aug 22 2012, 09:51 PM Post #26 |
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"Haha, plain sight, yeah," Ryoichi said nervously in response to Hibiki. Ohhhh, this had been a horrible offer to make. He couldn't exactly get out of this non-suspiciously, either. Not without getting exposed as being one of those horrible Persona users too. Well, he couldn't back out of this now. He considered the explanations that Noriko brought up, and tapped the side of his chin with his finger. "Well... those are all humans, right? If it was a gas explosion, they wouldn't have mentioned 'monsters' or 'super powers'. And guns tend to be really visible and loud, at least if the movies are right, so they couldn't have just shot people. Film production would explain some of the 'magic', but these days special effects are added later, I think. And there probably would have been really visible machines they used for that. Plus the park would have been closed off." He fiddled with his tie some more. "So whoever blew up the park had to have been capable of doing it without any machines... I don't know how strong small explosives can be, but I don't think they're strong enough to do that amount of damage." |
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| UserShadow7989 | Aug 24 2012, 10:54 AM Post #27 |
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"Plain sight..." Noriko sighed, remembering Rio and Yuzuki. "Yeah, that's the problem I've been running into, too. No matter what angle I try to think of, there's always some quality that discredits the idea. The complete lack of shrapnel, let alone anything larger, proves it couldn't have been a bomb or the like. Pressurized air in large enough quantities to do that sort of damage would have required massive, easily spotted machinery." The teen scratched above her ear using the metal part of her pencil. "One thing I was toying with was that an animatronic monster was used, letting the ones responsible hide whatever equipment inside of it, but that doesn't work either. There would have been tracks of some sort- tires, treads- and it requires foresight that, frankly, there are no signs of in this attack. There's nothing to gain from attacking the park. Even if you argue terrorism or the like, it was only chance that the park had that many people that day- a shopping mall or the like would have been the better choice in that case." Not to mention Yuzuki had outright told her there was no point, but she couldn't say that out loud. "That means it was spontaneous, a whim. That's the rub- even in Nagashima, someone carrying around something capable of THAT for no reason is far fetched, not to mention you can't carry something that, as far as I can tell, doesn't exist." She rocked back and forth on her feet, thinking. "Another angle I wanted to think about was the helicopter, but I'm pretty sure that the kind that appeared near the scene wouldn't have had the ability to do what it did- and if that was the case, why rumors about aliens and monsters? People would just say some wacko on a helicopter unloaded on some poor, unsuspecting people." She sat down on a nearby bench, conveniently vacated after the recent fight. "So, you're right. It had to have been done in a way that made it look like people were conjuring fire or what have you, but still had enough wallop to blast a giant crater into the ground, while being easy enough to carry and leaving so little evidence that it could be hidden right away- if any at all." Noriko rubbed her temples, looking more than a little lost. "There's no such thing as magic, but that might as well be. I don't know of anything that could possibly do that." She looked over to Ryuichi, tired of thinking in circles. "Do you have any ideas? Leads, possibilities? Something I might be missing?" Asking for a hint normally wasn't her style, but she needed what she could get. |
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| Your Empress, Pokeh | Aug 26 2012, 09:01 PM Post #28 |
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Hibiki Smiled. "It's almost like the perfect crime isn't it. We can't seem to trace the criminals at all despite the fact that there were plenty of eye witnesses at the scene. Literal hiding in plain sight in that case. Sounds like you're quickly eliminating all possibilities." He sighed, looking over at Ryoichi as well. If anything, the other boy had at least given this some thought. Some good thought. Of course, Hibiki didn't want to say out loud that he did think it was magic people. Had to keep up reasonable intelligent appearances around certain students. "It's possible it was two warring parties that encountered each other that day. Something like gang violence. They don't usually care about who else gets injured in events like that. Yakuza maybe. Or perhaps those ninjas I've been hearing about." He glanced back at Ryoichi with Noriko. The kid did seem to have some surprising insight. Chances were he was going to forget all of it later anyways. "When you get rid of all the possibilities there's only the 'impossible' left right?" |
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| FirebreathFishslap | Aug 31 2012, 08:19 AM Post #29 |
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Ryoichi nodded at Hibiki's assessment. They really had gotten rid of all of the possibilities at this point. There wasn't really anything else he could hint toward. "Yakuza and ninja are usually in larger groups, though... I mean, maybe it was the ninja, but that sounds pretty impossible too," Ryoichi said. "But this whole situation is just impossible to begin with... It may be better to look at it like the impossible was possible... maybe then you could figure it out." |
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| UserShadow7989 | Sep 1 2012, 01:06 AM Post #30 |
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'Once you've eliminated the possible, whatever is left, however implausible, must be true.' Noriko ceased her rocking, lips pulled taught in a scowl. Hibiki and Ryoichi's words caused the Sherlock Holmes quote to echo in her head. "Impossible is impossible. It means it can't happen. If it was aliens or magic or whatever, why now? Why is it that none of that has had a genuine, indisputable appearance in recorded history until this point?" Then again... was there really any way to confirm it was impossible? New species of animals were discovered every day. Technology had marched on, and made leaps and bounds in recent years. Noriko began grinding her teeth, forcing the doubts away. "If you accept the impossible, the entire basis of deductive reasoning- and criminal investigation- falls apart. Who's to say Joe Mchackenslash didn't take an axe to some poor shmuck's head?" Her tone dripped with venom. "Sure, it has his fingerprints on it, he has a motive, he confessed to it, and he was the only with the victim at the time of death as confirmed by the video of him doing the deed, but on the other hand, maybe magic pixies did it!" There was that word again. Magic. Magic wouldn't leave any evidence or require complex equipment, and it would be available on command. Someone capable of it could do what they did in the park on a whim. It fit Yuzuki's hint of the solution being nonsensical from a logical standpoint, certainly, but that was the whole problem. A quiet snap broke the teen from her rant. Glancing down at her hand, she identified two halves of what had once been a whole pencil, and realized that she had crossed the line. Noriko sighed, taking a moment to clear her head before looking back at the boys. "I'm sorry, that was uncalled for. You're both just trying to help." She placed the broken pieces of her writing implement in her pocket, stuffing her notepad under her borrowed hat. "I know you can never say for certain that something is impossible, but I can't accept the suggestion that there's no logical explanation to this." |
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