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「Toshizo pulled the gloves on but didn't go inside the house with Steel. He noted a lot of blood smears here and there. If that was someone's idea of cleaning, they'd have to do a better job of it... until he noticed that it seemed like the smears wern't just accidents, it was someone walking... away from the house, almost oblivious to everything...not really caring where they were seen going. No, it wasn't the foot prints of the killer. The murderer would have been more careful. Perhaps the steps led to the caller? But then why didn't they just stay there?
Question upon question floated through his mind. He stared unseeing at the smears, then decided that he'd follow em, just to see if they lead anywhere. Anything hunch was good in a case like this. He snapped back to reality and then walked into the house after Steel. Inside, there was only a few splatters of blood here and there, but then when it came to the actual scene of the crime, it was a different story.
The entire room was bathed in blood. He held his jacket sleeve up to his nose and found Steel kneeling beside a body, regulation medical mask covering the bottom of his face. Toshizo stepped forward to enter the room, but a black strap snagged the bottom of his shoe. Damn stilletto heels... but the case caught his eye. He grabbed the strap and picked it up, almost dragged back down by the weight. Toshizo pulled it up again, this time anticipating the fall of the weight. It was extreamly heavy. He looked at Steel. "Hey, I gotta go... You can handle the sweep here by yourself?" Steel nodded. "Why did you touch the case!? What are you doing with it, what happens if it was part of the murder?" Toshizo nodded and turned from the room with the case slung over his shoulder. "No, the case has nothing to do with this I'm sure... Now, was there anything unusual about the caller? Did the operator mention anything strange about them, an accent perhaps?"
Steel looked at Toshizo perplexed. "H-how do you know this? B-but erm, yes. the caller had a thick accent, I don't remember what it was. It wasn't British, something else... like, French or something, no, not that...I don't remember what it was exact-" "Russian, wasn't it?" Steel nodded enthusiastically. "That's what it was! But wait, how did you-" Toshizo cut him off. "As the Chief of Police, it's my privalige to know these things, Steel... and if I were you, I'd start learning to get my thoughts straight. I want exact answers, from you in the future... Be glad that you've been faithful til now, or after that mishap right there, I'd have you kicked off." He was walking out now, down the hall, following the speckles of blood on the floor.
So, he was here. The case confirmed it, and the call did too. The Russian wasn't this sloppy, he knew that. He'd delt with the man before, business only, buying a gun or two from him, but that was it. What was the weapons specialist doing here? Why would Vektor, of all people, make a call to the police, the very people who were hunting him down. He shook the thoughts from his head. It might be him to make the kill, it might not have been, but if Toshizo had to bet on anything, he'd bet his money that Vektor was the one who could tell him who really did this. The next thought that came, was how the hell was he going to find Vektor? Without so much as a hint to where to begin looking, he decided that his best bet would be to follow the bloody foot prints... and fast. There was rain on the air again. It would wash away all traces of the blood. Toshizo went into Steel's car and dug through the compartment, pulling out a heavy flashlight. He clicked it on and hit the hilt a few times to test the batteries. The light didn't flicker, so that meant that the power would last as long as he needed. He hitched the straps on his shoulders firmly and began to follow the trail.
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The trail wasn't easy to follow. The blood was brighter in some places, in othes, only a small glimmer of red was left. They were getting fainter, probrably because the blood was now drying on the man. How much futher would he have to go? With the flashlight as his guide, he wandred through the back alley ways. Pretty quickly though, after the foot prints were becomming scarce, he realized that another thing would prove useful. Apparently, Vektor was in some bad sort of daze. There was also blood smeers on the brick wall of the buildings, from the body or Vektor, he didn't know. Thunder was already threatening high up in the sky, and that meant that rain was sure to follow. Damn it all. He continued down the alleyways, the trail getting fainter and fainter, until it just stopped. He walked a few alley ways over, then a few down. Nothing. He went back to where he saw the last few bloody marks on the ground. He looked up at where they were headed and there was a door. Why didn't he just look at the door originally? It was made of heavy metal, and yup, there it was. There was blood on the handle of the door too. Toshizo reached out with his gloved hand. He turned the flashlight off and held it in his hand, ready to beat anyone who would stop him over the head.
Surprizingly, it just opened up to an office sort of room. There was a desk, a few peices of a gun here and there, and some paper strewn about. He took another step forward, but slipped on the floor. He fell down hard, the case making a crashing noise as it came in contact with the ground. Toshiro quickly sat up and rubbed his back where he fell on the case. What the hell had he slipped on? His hand had slipped into some of the liqued as he fell, so he raised it. In the dim light of the room, he could see that it was thick and had a dark rich color. Toshizo looked at his hand and stared at it. There was no mistaking it, he had handled too many cases to not know what it was.」
If the world were p e r f e c t, we wouldn't be alive, now would we?
Because I'm pretty sure I've [********] this w o r l d up and it's done the same to me.
Of course I can also do the same to you
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