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[ Apollo will be hovering around the clock tower, looking pretty visibly twitchy as he waits for Ryuu. ]

[Naruhodou will be there at the appointed time, although he's dressed more like a native today, without the hat. He still wore Asougi's armband, which probably seem strange over a coat, but he didn't care what others think.]

Hey...I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long. [Apollo wasn't the only one who seems a little anxious, his wandering eyes being an indication.] Look, if...if this is about last month, I know there was something funny going on at the time, so I'm not upset, if that's what you're worried about.

[And yet Naruhodou has been given Apollo some space since then.]

[ You don't need magical lie detector powers to notice the wandering eyes! ]

I... I just noticed you haven't really been around... And I, uh, wanted to apologise but I don't exactly know what I'm apologising for because I don't remember what happened. ... So, ugh, I'm sorry for whatever I said or did? Trucy told me I was mean to her, and we ran into each other, didn't we? I can only assume I was the same with you as I was with her. [ You're rambling, Justice. ]

Oh, no I've just been busy. [Which isn't exactly a lie.] And it's ok, really. I know you didn't mean any of it...even if it hurt to hear you say such things.

Ah. [Stop thinking, Naruhodou. He really doesn't need to hear that. He grips the armband.] Sorry, even when I say it's not true, I guess I still remember...and I don't know if you want to know since...since the conversation went to what happened to your friend.

[Naruhodou wasn't exactly holding back to find out the truth from him]

Edited 2016-06-18 06:32 (UTC)

... [ Oh. ] I talked about Clay. [ That makes sense considering the conversation he'd had with Trucy and Athena prior to running into Ryuunosuke. ] I'd just found out something about his death and evidently, it wasn't something I handled well. I'm really sorry.

[He shakes his head.] Please, don't concern yourself over what was said. It's your best friend we're talking about, so...I think it was to be expected, probably.

[His eyes wandered to Apollo's hands, no longer bruised and bloody.] Truthfully, I'm more worried about what you did....you didn't seem to remember at the time when I tried to get the information from you, but....the whole conversation started because I saw your hands. They were bruised and covered in...in blood.

[And that part honestly made him apprehensive.]

[ He motions to a nearby bench, walking over to sit down. ] Trucy thinks that was probably just an old injury opening, I was still pretty beat up when I arrived here. [ A lie. ] It seems most likely that I just fell and that's where the blood came from. [ You're a shit liar, Justice. ]

[...] You gave me the same story last month too.

[He's not falling for that again, Apollo. He'll come and join him on the bench, gaining a bit more confidence as he tries to get the truth out of Apollo again.]

It doesn't take a genius to put two things together. You may not remember it, but you told me the one responsible for his death is here, and when I saw your hands....I had a feeling, that you...you might have taken things into your own hands.

... You can tell you're a lawyer. [ With a deep groan, he buries his head in his hands. ] I don't remember what happened. Trucy was there when I came to and my hands were covered in blood. [ Bobby's surprised expression flashes into his head, but one little lie doesn't hurt, Wright? ]

[He doesn't miss the image of a man passing through his thoughts.]

Is that him? The man you just thought about. [He continues without missing a beat. The evidence is there, so he's going to use it.]

[ ~~motherfucker~~ The air goes dead around them as the colour drains from Apollo's face. Damn telepathy. ] You weren't supposed to see that.

Sorry...it can't be help with this place. [He didn't recognize him, so Apollo still has that over him for now.]

So that's him then, you confronted him and that's how your hands got bruised.

[ His head isn't going to move from his hands for a little while. ] ... That's the logical conclusion, isn't it?

He's hurt pretty badly too, but I can't remember. ... I've never hurt anyone. [ His hands tense in his hair a little, pulling at clumps of hair. ]

...He's still alive, at least. [Except a fish]

If anything you avoided the worse of it, compared to what happened to the others who became possessed during that incident.

I saw that people died, was that at the hands of people who were possessed?

Y...yea, from I've read in the reports and case disputes at least. [He still felt uneasy thinking about it though.]

So far no one is being charged for it...since they weren't themselves at the time.

It's worse than I thought.

... "So far" doesn't mean that they won't though? There were cases Mr Wright defended back home where the defendant had allegedly been possessed at the time and the trial still continued regardless.

Really...? How did he manage to prove they were possessed? [How does the law even handle something like that?]

...I think everyone was more concern about the recovery effort. There are too many cases and incidents that there's not much to be done at this point.

[Sure, they could charge half the population, but it wouldn't get anywhere in the end.]

Edited 2016-07-07 05:08 (UTC)

He had to prove that they weren't possessed, they merely thought they were. ... It's a long story. His assistant was a spirit medium.

That's a small comfort then. ... How many of those cases involved a commander of the Enforcers being injured though? [ Of all the people to (possibly) assault, a law officer was a particularly bad idea. ]

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