I. The First Day

[enviousmath]

[The phone begins to ring. If you pick it up a woman's voice can be heard. It sounds frustrated, but oddly keeps a steady tone.]

Hello, 110. I have an incapacitated man, likely in his 30's. He kidnapped me and said that I'm his wife. The address is 1664 Nelson Street. Do you mind picking him up and arresting him? His name...hold on.

[The voice

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[hop_toit_udonge]

I suppose you'll discover the truth soon enough...

[enviousmath]

And what sort of truth am I aiming for?

[hop_toit_udonge]

You are imprisoned.

[enviousmath]

Imprisoned? This is just a house, I can leave whenever I want to now.

[hop_toit_udonge]

You may leave the house. But you can't leave this town.

[enviousmath]

Hm? What you're saying...the town is a prison then?

[hop_toit_udonge]

Precisely.

[enviousmath]

What about the man I tied down. Is he part of this group who imprisoned us?

[hop_toit_udonge]

Not willingly.

[enviousmath]

[Not willingly...]

The way he's acting is rather unnatural, when I add on everything that I did to him.

[hop_toit_udonge]

If they were human, they aren't any longer. Just meat puppets.

[enviousmath]

Puppets...[She turns away from the phone for a fleeting second, just to see the man she tied up in the chair. Does she feel sorry for him? Maybe a little. But for a completely different reason other than why he's there to begin with. So he went under some kind of rehabilitation to act the way he is.] How tragic.

Thank you for your explanation. May I please have your name?

[hop_toit_udonge]

Dr. Eirin Yagokoro.

[enviousmath]

Thank you. I'm sure you've heard a lot of people in this predicament, so taking out the time to inform is very gracious of you. My name is Ushiromiya Kyrie.

[hop_toit_udonge]

Ushiromiya? Part of that family, are you?

[enviousmath]

Yes, I am. [She doesn't think of it as strange. The family is well known in the business world after all.] I hope you don't treat me differently because of it.