Shedding Tears

[srwu_npc]

[1]

"Tsubasa-chan - so in the end you really did sing it. Knowing well what happened to Kanade, and what could happen to you."

Tsubasa was hauled off, in dire need of emergency medical care - alive, if barely. Such is the price you have to pay for singing the Swan Song, and in the end she was still lucky.

Now Ryoko is using a window to look over the Relic user - who is lying down in another room unconscious, connected to all kinds of life support systems.

[2]

"Tsubasa..."

Commander Kazanari looks serious. But there is nothing more he can do for Tsubasa at the moment, and there are other matters at hand too.

"So this is the identity of the girl who wore Nehushtan, huh."

He looks at the screen - and his brow furrows further.

"Chris Yukine. One of the potential Relic users. When her parents died in South America, she was abducted by a gang and forced into child labor. The Division managed to rescue her - but she disappeared mysteriously two years ago."

"And now she appears again. Her actions, and what happened to her... as an adult, all of it is my fault."

In which his account name is proven.

[in_over_his_head]

1) [Post Mission]
[To say the attempted delivery of Durandal had ran into complications was an understatement. Noise everywhere. Noise being summoned by a girl with supernatural abilities similar to Hibiki and Tsubasa. Loni showing up. Tsubasa using her Swan Song and then ending up like this. And it can't be forgotten that everyone came close to dying several times over throughout.]

.........

[Calvin himself found himself having several repeated close brushes with death, saved only by dumb luck or the intervention of others. Primarily Theo and Tsubasa. So there he sits in his office, face set in a tight grimace as he chugged mug after mug of coffee while trying to work on his investigation.]

2)
[Outdoors at Alhambra, the Thirteenth Genoace Team and Calvin are standing by a hole. Calvin soon chucks a familiar looking stone into the hole like it did him great injustice. It simply dropped with a dull thud, undamaged. It was then Calvin proceeded to empty a gas can into the hole.]



"Inspector?.... Calvin? Just want to be sure here. You're sure that the Cave Dwelling Old Librarian Lady with the Skeleton Fish Helpers said we had to do this?"

[Calvin lowers his head as the can finally lets out a gurgle as it was finally emptied. He thought back to the Archive and the conversation with its keeper.]

( Expository Flashback under the cut )

[He chucks the can aside, letting it bounce off a wall with a plastic clunk before taking out several matches, lighting one up... then tossing the entire box in along with the lit one. As it all bursts into flames he gives the others a look of irritation.]

She said to set it on fire! SO THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING! SETTING IT ON FIRE!

[The stress from everything's been getting to him... if this doesn't turn up a lead he's going to be tremendously disappointed.]

So the fire extinguishers and camera better be ready or so help me....