INVESTIGATION 2

[umbralant]

INVESTIGATION 2

Sometime during the late hours of the night, the clouds rolled in with their load and let loose upon the unsuspecting streets down below. It's the end of another week in Krakow, another week in this unending night and another week where The Lady's motive lay in wait. As the bell tolls seven, the rain continues to soak the city below as fog crowds the air, although it's not nearly as suffocating as the kind found blanketing a large portion of the city.

Are you awake this fine morning? And if you are, just where are you hanging around today?

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[moonfang]

[Zangetsu is done napping and GARBAGE BAG PONCHO HOLLOW returns. If they're going to have to have another dumb trial, he should at least look at the murder scene, right?

What he doesn't expect is there to be snacks everywhere]

... Sweet! Sashimi!

[he's going to pick up one of the less exploded fish and swallow it whole. Evidence? What evidence?]

... blech. Not great. Needs salt. [oh, hey, Ulquiorra is here] What happened to these fish? They look like they blew up.

[p_q]

[Wow, the trash has taken itself out to the... fishy-smelling trash heap over here. He truly is surrounded. Woe etc. Ulquiorra just stares at the bedecked Hollow for a moment -- there's a minor twitch in his expression that could be irritation at being interrupted or at Zangetsu just barging in, but it passes soon enough.

He's already put down the fish again and is cleaning the knife more or less by shaking the blood and fish guts off. It'll receive a thorough cleaning later, but for now...

Well, for now, he could make use of the new tool in front of him. If he really wanted to.]

You certainly become trashier every time I see you. [a brief incline of the head towards the body-tank combo and the bloody wall beyond] The usual games. If you want to know, then figure it out for yourself.

[moonfang]

[Zangetsu finally sees the body, and he frowns] ... Poor kid. [he doesn't think he'd ever talked to her, but she seemed nice enough. What did everyone have against girls...? He spots the holes and runs his fingers over them, frowning again] Why is the wall bleeding?

[p_q]

Hmph. Spare me. She's more than likely responsible for at least some of this mess.

[... is part of his conclusion here, anyway.

He doesn't know the intricacies of who has what -- the three blood users -- just yet, but there's enough clues here to guess at least one of them. He sounds pretty unimpressed, though, on the whole.]

Did you forget which powers were forced on us that quickly?

[moonfang]

Eh? Whadya mean by that? She's dead. How much of this could be her fault?

[he blinks, and then remembers!!]

Oh, that blood ability! So... what, these are some sort of blood bullets? Wicked.

[just out of curiosity... he's going to poke his finger in the bloody wall and taste it. Does it taste fishy?]

[umbralant]

[It sure does, and it also tastes pretty burnt and ashy too, if you're gonna go that far. Because you are also eating ash.]

[moonfang]

[he sticks out his tongue and scrapes it with the back of his hand. Gross. He's taken to carrying a gallon of water tied to his belt so he can use his power when he wants, and he takes a big swig of water. He swishes it and then spits it out. He turns to Ulquiorra and shrugs]

Fish blood. Tastes like it got burnt up, too. Nasty. Any ideas about that one, smarty pants?

[p_q]

A living creature manipulating its own blood will only weaken itself in the long run. That is why the girl is responsible.

[If Zangetsu wants to go see the corpse for himself -- there's probably no need to check the corpse blood itself at this point, but it is still a very pretty, and very not-battleworn corpse.]

This isn't a bad battlefield for any user of Sanguis.

[moonfang]

Poor lil' fishies. They never saw it comin'.... I bet she pulled the blood right out of their little hearts! But... why did it get burnt up...?

.... So, what, she was here practicin' with fish blood and someone offed her?

[it isn't a bad battlefield for him, either -- there's plenty of water to be had.

Just out of curiosity, Zangetsu peeks into the empty aquarium and looks up. What happened to the light in here?]

[umbralant]

[It's more like the lid with the light was just removed rather than anything happening to it! If he looks under the visitor's bench beside the tank, it's just kind of there, face down on the floor.]

[moonfang]

[WELL ISN'T THAT INTERESTING.

time to eat some more dead fish]