Final Investigation

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[It's been about 24 hours since CT was killed. Blaze has made no other moves, and his robots are mysteriously absent.

In fact, it's almost too quiet.

But then there's a note in Pyrrha's PIP that...she didn't write.]

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[empathiser]

... [Right. That's why it's so quiet. They'd kinda... blended into the background, like the sound of traffic, or birdsong. But when they're gone...]

Yeah. Did he call them all back, or did something happen to them...?

[induality]

The power seems fine, so it's not like some kind of system malfunction...

[Yeah Fukawa, you pretend you know anything about how a Technology works.]

They may be gathered all in one place. They might even be shut off if they're not wandering...

[empathiser]

[If that's the case, if they found where that place was... maybe they could get rid of them, somehow. Pull the power, something.

Wishful thinking.]

They've been around non-stop for the past few weeks, then Blaze has a meltdown and they all suddenly vanish...?

[That doesn't bode well.]

[induality]

If he's the one controlling them, then maybe... he's not in a position to do that right now.

[...it could mean a few different things, really.]

[empathiser]

Or he wants us to think security's lax so that he can have an excuse to lash out at us when try and take advantage of it.

[You were thinkin' it, Fukawa.]

[induality]

[You know she was.]

If that's the case, then he's probably expecting one of us to act out-- the person he's looking for, no doubt.

[empathiser]

This infamous "It".

[He doesn't want to think if any of them could be a shapeshifter in disguise, but the possibility had been brought up last week, and it felt even more like an elephant in the room than before.]

We still don't know anything about them, other than that Blaze will do anything to kill them.

[induality]

We don't even know why. What did "It" do to make him so mad? Did he bring us all here just to find this person?

[empathiser]

He implied it was... loss. Of people he cared for.

[If he sounds slightly sardonic, can you blame him? Thanks to this mess, they've all gained and lost people they cared about, not even counting people they'd already lost and had to re-remember losing.]

But was short on the details, surprise, surprise.