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[Oh, Togusa just went from kind of sleepy to very awake as he sits up to answer this.]

Keep doing what you're doing. Primary info, are there any other family members in danger? Starting to get dates of specific incidents would be a help, but don't push too hard.

He says since he was five or six years old, and I think he's now sixteen. He says it happens once or twice every couple of months, whenever his father 'doesn't get his way' at work or at home. His mother seems to get hit more often than he does. He said he's willing to testify, but English is his mother's second language. His father is rather famous, so I don't know what we can do, but I promised him we will at least keep his mother safe.

Yeah, let's talk about how little I give a crap who somebody is if they're hitting a woman. Fame isn't going to protect him.
What is his mother's first language? Remind the son that we employ translators for, actually, exactly this reason. Crimes go unreported among ESL communities too often already, language is not a barrier to giving testimony. We'll make it work.

I would assume Japanese. The boy's name is Shouto Todoroki.

Todoroki? I know him.

Okay. Tell him to bring his mother direct to me or Officer Tenmyouji, the both of us are bi-lingual. I’ve got him here with me, so I can get him up on the situation.

Understood. I'll let him know. He says making sure his mother is safe is the most important thing to him.

Tell him I'll send somebody past the house for the next few nights. Just a patrol past. However long it takes for us to get this done. Somebody will be keeping an eye out while he's gone.

Don't ask him this next bit. He has fire abilities, doesn't he? I made one too many jokes about somebody shooting fire, I seem to remember he spoke up.

I will. I'm sure he'll appreciate that. He does. Both fire and ice. I was considering asking him to use his fire abilities to lure the monsters, but that seems rather cruel now...

Hell. That puts a time limit on us to get this done quickly, then. Correctly, but also quickly. Give a teenager the ability to take matters into his own hands, nobody's allowed to be surprised if he decides to. We get this done right, it won't even come up as a question.

I don't get the impression that he is someone who would go too far. But I can see him at least using those powers to protect his mother.

Our job is to solve this situation before we, or before he, finds out if he's someone who would or not.

Good work. I mean it.

From here, your job is to get all of you out of there safely. Do what you can to alleviate his worries, keep it from being a distraction now, and we'll take care of it when we're back in the city.

Understood. I've been getting everyone's powers and skills so we can plan more effectively. As long as I can stop them from eating every suspicious animal we come across, we should be fine.

[cleo ritter: the mom friend.]

.........
Wait. Time out. Where even are you guys?

Our group is in a quite lovely fishing village. I hope I'm right and we can come back here.

North. Seven hours by bus north. It's freezing, the people are cagey at best, and I have been trying to stop the rest of this team from eating a fish with arms. Unsuccessfully. There's auroras here, so we must have gone very far north...

There is a lot to respond to here.

Nope, I can't get past the fish with arms. That's my sticking point. Why?

Update: there's also a moose. Not a moose with arms. Just a regular moose. Do mooses live around Recolle?

I think so?

So. But, you are at least close to another city, it's not just out in the middle of nowhere?

~~[Please don't eat the moose it probably has spongiform encephalitis.]~~

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