002: Accident [accidental video // action closed to outskirts of new bark]
[for all intents and purposes, video feed comes on to reveal static, followed by... well, nothing, really. There's also the audio feed, though, and apart from background music, you'll hear muffled commands from Light.]
Euphrates, use Tackle! [it's not like he's got much of a choice apart from that, really...]
[a series of 'Karp, karp' noises ( Read more... )
Euphrates, use Tackle! [it's not like he's got much of a choice apart from that, really...]
[a series of 'Karp, karp' noises ( Read more... )
So the fish here can survive outside water...[Yup, he hasn't been here long.]
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I suspect you might not get terribly much out of him, then, considering his secretive nature and overall personality.
Putting him aside, though, what is your objective in trying to find out about this matter? It wouldn't get you home any sooner, I suspect. [though, yes, he does recognize that Clive is the curious type.]
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Yes, you could say that in a way I'm trying to find my way home. [Though depending on what he finds, Clive might not want to go back.] Almost everyone I've met is from some version of the future, so it's difficult to tell whether anyone is being truthful. I wonder sometimes if this is some sort of large-scale social experiment or illicit testing of hallucinogenic substance by some third party. [He's been all sorts of paranoid ever since he got here, he just usually hides it well. And he really hates experiments.]
Forgive me, but I maintained a certain level of disbelief at whatever anyone has said, since there's such little to be certain of here. Since Ryuuzaki and yourself are from the same world, I was hoping to be able to fact-check some basic things and see if your versions of the future actually hold up.
But, please don't let my theories bother you--until I find any conclusive evidence, they're probably not worth thinking about.
[On the other hand, if there is ( ... )
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[Just gonna listen for the time - and inwardly thinking to himself that Clive is just a spot too paranoid for his own good.]
Oh? I see. [that's all he'll offer as a response.]
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I understand completely if you think my theories are completely nonsensical. As odd as it may sound, these sort of odd occurrences are not uncommon in my world, and they occur usually a side effect of something else going on.
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That's interesting to note. We've had our own share of strange occurrences at home, to be honest.
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Oh? How so?
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I assume you mean people who don't fit the usual profile of heart attack victims, then. Was this all concentrated in one place?
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No. But the victims all have one thing in common - They are all criminals in one form or another.
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Huh...that's a good thing to hear, I suppose. [Better than what he expected, then.]
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A good thing to hear? It's obvious, from the fact that they're dying in massive numbers like this, that something's up. We're talking mass murder here, Clive.
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So you think their deaths may be a cover-up for something else then?
[That would make sense, Light didn't mention anything stopping the murderer from targeting normal civilians. And in retrospect his initial reaction was pretty myopic; not all people who targeted criminals were vigilantes, after all. It's just that it sounded too much like something Clive would have preferred to happen.]
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That's also a plausible idea, but there had been no evidence to support such an idea, so probably not.
[he pauses, contemplating the idea, before something else occurs to him. He probably shouldn't reveal any more than he should.]
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Yes, without proof, there really isn't much there besides speculation, is there. [He guesses it may be futile to pursue this line of reasoning, since the possibility of finding evidence in this world is pretty darn small.]
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