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[standalonehuman]

Togusa

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Fast-forward because holy shit I got my answer

[standalonehuman]

I can only hope you're right.

[Except for two days later, when Togusa messages him again, forgoing his usual caution.]

It's gone. It's all fucking gone. I am looking at a report I know I wrote, notes I took sitting right across from a teenager in that interrogation room, and any mention of Retrospec is just gone.

good timing bc i got a response about maurice too

[daemonized]

I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but I'm not. How easily they hide their tracks, making any evidence of their existence absolutely disappear.

After all, the same can be said of Maurice. There is no hide nor hair of him to be seen or heard of on campus, and I'd rather not continue my investigations for fear of turning too many heads.

Re: good timing bc i got a response about maurice too

[standalonehuman]

Yeah, I was fine just looking for the privacy statements I took. Too minor, and those vanished altogether.

The art museum incident is still intact, we never mentioned the company, even though all of us were involved. So they're not just wiping the records about us clean altogether.

But an incident that Grell helped me with earlier this month? All the odd parts of the case are still there, any mention of Retrospec? Gone.

Same thing with the incident your brother was involved in, but I can't dig any deeper into that one, that's where I got caught. My favorite talking-to, the 'stop looking into things you're not involved in.'

[daemonized]

And yet, according to the trend, anything mentioning Retrospec /there/ will be missing as well.

I don't think I need to tell you just how frustrating this actually is. What are we to do then? If our evidence keeps disappearing out from under our noses, or if there's never any to be found?

[He's a lawyer. Building a case, even if it's some sort of metaphorical self-satisfaction in trying to unravel the mystery, still requires evidence. There is a dearth of it all around.]

[standalonehuman]

We need a person. This isn't going to stop until we find one of them. I don't think we need to start getting drastic about it. Yet. But now we know better where to focus our efforts.

In the meantime, I still keep going back to the photos. Prompto's on to something. Start taking everything in hard-copy. At least something needs to get disconnected from the tech.

[daemonized]

Then we'll continue our search for a person, despite the fact they seem just as elusive as everything else.

As for photos, you might as well try. I would hope, at least, those are a bit more difficult to whisk away.

[standalonehuman]

I don't know how much I want to spread this around.

We don't have an official investigation because we can't have one, but if people know that any reports are also meaningless, I worry they'll stop reporting anything to us. But is it better to let them think that we can do something that we can't? Frankly, it's accurate for people to lose their faith in us.

[daemonized]

Still, even if it becomes known that the reports are becoming meaningless, the fact that there are officers still willing to help must mean something? In my eyes, it certainly does.

[standalonehuman]

At this point, it's not our willingness I'm questioning. And I doubt it would be what comes to others' minds, either. It's our ability. How much good does it actually do to involve us, if this is the result?

Me, your brother. Matsuoka, Sakakura, Lou, Kadam. Even Kihara, even though he's not field. I know we're in this for the long haul. None of us would back away by choice. So the willingness is what people can count on.

Maybe I really need to talk this over with them.

[daemonized]

I think people will place faith in that willingness, regardless. There are not many avenues others can go to for help, at least not in terms of any real authority. And while your abilities may be limited for now, no one plans on keeping it that way.

You should tell them, I think. They'll have a better perspective on it than I, an outsider.

[standalonehuman]

Thank you. I will do that.

Sorry in advance if your brother comes to vent about this to you, too, then. I know he won't take this any better than I am.

[daemonized]

I've dealt with Fynn in many a capacity over the years. I'd prefer if he comes to vent at me, rather than hold it all in anyway.

Keep me posted with any other developments, Togusa.