"You just want another crack at my gun," Togusa quips, but it's good-natured. Shooting with Fynn? Always fun.
"Shiiiimatta," even if you don't know the translation, that was definitely a swear word.
"All right, so remember when we went poking around down there? I tried to see if I could get to the center of town, and no dice. It was as if space looped in on itself when I should have been underneath City Hall. Looked like I was walking outside, and then I took one step too far, got back where I started."
[Fynn can't help but laugh some. He would be lying if he claimed not to be intrigued with Togusa's Mateba. That's one classy weapon.]
"Heh? Is that Japanese for 'Oh shit', Toga?" [Yep, that definitely sounds like the Japanese equivalent to that typical American swear.]
"The Retrospec goons don't want us getting too close to their main headquarters, so they use special technology to keep their little maze rats at bay. However, what transpired at the convention was something of an controlled accident from what I can tell."
"Probably judging from what transpired, that's what I think."
[Put on your tinfoil hat, Togusa. It's conspiracy time!]
"Do you remember the projector at the convention? The one that summoned the monsters? Well, it has a Retrospect logo on it, didn't it? Bright cyan blue if I remember correctly."
"That's what you were doing there when I ran into you. I wondered why you were precisely in the center of all the danger. Thought you were just lucky."
"So, all right. Kaiba's booth, but Retrospec's projector. Their tech, not his?"
"Exactly. I started digging up information about Seto Kaiba's involvement in the disaster. This man doesn't have much of a record and he has folks vouching for his innocence."
[One of those people vouching for Kaiba happens to be the man's alleged boyfriend, Fai.]
"I wouldn't be surprised if Retrospec's booth at the convention was just a means of surveillance. They wanted to see what would happen with their own eyes, guaranteed."
"And, conveniently, Mister Kaiba is one of the people who nobody can find right now. Okay. So they did whatever started this, but it got out of control. Used Kaiba's public event as a platform, and then it didn't stop. So they're calling on us to fix it. Alternative assets, as the app said."
"Do we go so far as to say that everyone's disappearance is also an accident? Kaiba, Dante, Kihara, everybody. Had a couple of people asking me about their kids."
"You catch on quick, Toga! That's everything I've managed to figure out so far."
"It has to have been all an 'accident' in the sense of an experiment gone wrong. I don't doubt that the Retrogoons are taking notes about us as we speak."
A long sigh sounds through the phone. "I'm getting more and more sympathetic to the individual employees and more and more pissed at the actual corporation here. What the hell are they doing?"
"Since I've got their tech right here, I guess it's time to start looking for logs down here. Something that can prove that they started this. What do you need? What would prove you right?"
[Fynn cannot help but feel somewhat sympathetic towards his colleague.]
"Forgive me for being the bearer of bad news and all that but I honestly think the truth behind this bizarre experiment is a long ways off."
[Even though Togusa can't see it, Fynn is trying to cheer him with a smile. He's aware of how stressful this situation is but at least Togusa isn't alone in this venture anymore. He has a wide cast of characters helping him, especially Fynn. The Izunia wasn't joking about bring Retrospec to justice. He's taken his oath to heart here.]
"I would definitely solid written proof that everything here is Retrospec's doing. Every notable oddity that ever happened upon the app, more of those odd profile cards you sent me last time, and also physical documentations of their work. I need phone records, financial, anything that could incriminate them in the court of law. Hell, I already started to take pictures of anything and everything bearing their logo along with their underground power facility at the University."
"All right. We can do this. I'll get you whatever I can from down here. Let's not get so lost in the big picture that we don't lose sight of the smaller steps."
"We can do this right." Togusa sounds significantly more confident as he stands back up.
"Thanks. I guess one of us is going to have to write all this up for the people missing the party, hunh?"
[from an 'unknown' number (the flip phone he got from Retrospec, which he has his friends numbers programmed into b/c why not? he just didn't think he'd ever have to use it like this...)]
its tatsuo/main phone died/dont know whats going on back home/hope ur ok/have a confession/i helped cover ur desk in cat memes/buy u a drink when i get back
Hey um, hate to bother you but about eleven of us got pushed through a portal and wound up in some doctor's office that looks like a basement, we're fine but can you help get us out of here?
Ok down here are: me, Dave Strider, Carmen Sandiego, Elizabeth something? Shouto, Juzo, Souji, the guy who ran the convention, Lucy something, Yato, and Penelope.
We're all okay! But we kind of haven't eaten all week. There's water!
I hope this works I'd using voice dictionary I just needed to give you an uptake Ivan become a peacock you should see my fail herds they are pretty green and blue stop recording stop dictation stop end period exclamation point question mark siri what are you doing
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