Day 58: Sun Room (Fourth Shift)

[human_sponge]

Peter's lunch meeting with Tear had gone far better than he could have even expected. It was a good thing that he wasn't the sort of person who judged by age, seeing how the girl had proved herself to be very capable despite the fact that she was only a teenager. Not that Peter would ever admit it out loud, but Tear was a lot more mature than his

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[gargantuanlaugh]

Heh. That had caught Showy's attention well. Now Gant just needed to make sure he spun it in a way that made Badd out into the rotten, no-good asshole he truly was. Of course, it would all be the honest truth. He wouldn't give out false information. It was like journalism. Sometimes you just had to craft a story to make it more newsworthy.

Gant himself was pretty good at setting up evidence just right to make a criminal pay for the full extent of their crimes. They didn't call Gant the Crime Computer for nothing!

"Actually, Badd supplied the answer himself." Gant smiled for the first time, as pleasantly as he could fake. "Thought this place was a fake when he first walked in. Apparently, he comes from a time after I've... paid the piper, back home..." Gant shrugged. He was alive and kicking here, so he didn't much care about sketchy what-ifs back home.

"... So! Seemed to think it wouldn't hurt to tell me anything, being that I wasn't really here in the first place." Gant rolled his eyes. Badd was such a paranoid loon. "And his reasoning made sense. As a detective, he could mess with evidence at crime scenes and, ah, work on taking down elusive criminals with what he found. Worked with a few lawyers too, to get things done. But turns out the tampering only led to the wrong people getting pointed at. And eventually murdered."

[oneman_onekill]

"Uh huh..." Niikura nodded as he listened. Messing with evidence to take down elusive criminals, huh? So far, Badd wasn't sounding too much like the rotten, no-good asshole that Gant was trying to make him out to be; actually, it kind of earned the detective some respect points. Working the system to get things done: now that was what the police were supposed to do! (Okay, tampering with crime scenes was illegal, but since when had he ever cared about the legality of actions taken in the name of justice?) None of this stupid, lazy shit where they just hauled in people who couldn't defend themselves or whom no one cared about just so they could say that they did their duty once in a while.

But ah, of course, there had to be sacrifices. That was why vigilantes needed to work alone. Getting other people involved just created weaknesses. It was hard not to, though. Hazama could attest to that, and so could he, what with all of his school friends.

"Ah, so he 'talked the talk', as they say," Niikura said with a laugh. That was kind of uncharacteristic, unless Badd thought he really had nothing to lose. Which, apparently, had been the way of things. Funny. "Boastin' about how ya never caught his caped avenger self, or somethin' like that? He didn't have anything to do with, y'know, your little slip back in LA, did he?"