[Video] [Fourth entry, July 26th]

[weaktobullets]

[The video feed clicks on to show an angle of the floor of what looks to be some empty building. It's obviously well into the darkness- into that awkward late-night/early-morning area, probably an hour or two before the morning sirens. A man off-screen can be heard breathing heavily, as though to catch his breath, but a second speaks.]

I feel like

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[gaveherwings]

[Well. That's...inconvenient. Of all the people Shinjiro could be out with, it had to be a coworker. And on a night he's working at Skye and not free to jet down to the labs, no less.

But Yosuke knows him well enough, and owes him for spotted acts of grace or two, to keep side work private.

And its Lucky he's taken to carrying certain equipment on his person. Can run a very quick patch-test, in the back service stairwell.]

Tissue sample, if you would. I'm curious about how it would respond to ultraviolet exposure.

Where are the two of you?

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[weaktobullets]

Sector nine, in some abandoned building.

What part do you want, and how and when do you want me to get it there? Also, we gonna get paid for this?

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[gaveherwings]

Come around the north facing side of Skye Medical, use the service door around the corner from the ER. I'll meet you there, as soon as you can get down here. Tell me when you're close.

I'd like a small skin sample, and a blood sample, as well as one of the barbed ends.

What would you find a fair price?

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[weaktobullets]

Right. What Sector's that in again?

I'll do what I can. And it took us a bit to take it down. Couple hundred, at least, if the samples are good.

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[gaveherwings]

4th. Yosuke knows, he works there.

I don't have that in cash, not at the moment. I can get three hundred to you within a few days, if you can give me at least an hour of solid work with it before the sirens go off. Or in the morning once the banks open, if you can wait.

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[weaktobullets]

Sounds good.

I can wait, and it's a deal. I'll be there soon as I can.

[Action?]

[gaveherwings]

[Splendid. Now to get his UV flashlight and a microscope ready, clear off his office desk for quick darkroom operations, race to finish his doctor's rounds and coax a supervisor into letting him clock out an hour early...and wait around for the 'here for pickup' buzz.]

[hell yeah action-Yosuke'll tag in next]

[weaktobullets]

[The main issue Shinji had found was that he was a little adverse to tossing the whole damn dog over his shoulder and carrying it that many blocks. Mostly because it wasn't dead. And having the monster wake up and decide to wrap those ropes around his neck was not really high on his to-do list. But, all Daedalus had asked for was skin, blood, and some ropes.

Tying a rope around it's throat tourniquet-style and making use of his axe was an easy enough solution to that, at least. He had followed Yosuke to the medical center, ducking around monsters the whole way.]

Three hundred better be a decent amount of damn canada-dollars, [He growled in annoyance, glancing to Yosuke as they approached the back door.] That's, what. Like 20,000 yen?

[outbursting]

[Yosuke would occasionally slam his hand against his face as he watched what it was that they were doing. What the hell were they doing? They were walking around with the head of the creature that they killed -- you know, he could not even doing. He continuously sighed and stared at Shinjiro with a bemused expression, before just saying nothing.]

I don't know, man. At this point, I'm just horrified about you being Conan the Barbarian and we're giving meat to our cave dweller friends.

[weaktobullets]

Fuck you, you'd rather the damn thing wake up when we're halfway there?

[He rolled his eyes, finally checking the map on his NV and finding the place and sending the message to Daedalus that they were nearby, as he had been told.]

I don't want the damn thing choking me.

[gaveherwings]

Knock twice on the service door, and I'll let you inside.

[Came the quick reply. Daedalus waited by the service stairwell fire door with an empty trashbag, assuming the worst for however they'd intended to transport the monster, and having disabled the alarm.

They. So Yosuke hadn't been ditched. Well. That either meant this could go doubly smooth, or require a little awkward sidelining explanation about his work with the FP-shells.]

[outbursting]

I guess that makes sort of sense... and hey, where are we?

[More than a little confused since he had been too busy staring at Shinjiro than paying attention to where they were walking. He grabbed onto his shoulders, giving them a light shake.]

This isn't going to end in some snuff film starring us and the head?! Is it?! IS IT!?

[weaktobullets]

[Shinji had been fine, checking his NV, until Yosuke grabbed him,. His shoulders tensed, hackles raised as he kicked back with a foot for the other man's shin.]

Don't touch me. [A short glare and he tucked the phone away, approaching the door to knock twice and step back, his other hand still tangled in the matted fur of the dog-beast.]

We're getting our damn bounty, hell. The guy said to meet him here. Just wait a second.

[gaveherwings]

[It was a door built to keep the darkness out, and so it took a bit of a hard push to open up, ushering the two quickly inside, the man holding the creature first (familiar?) and the second-]

Yosuke Hanamura. If I'd only known this was the sort of thing you did on your nights off, we might have made arrangements sooner. Come in quietly. [He smiled, speaking in a low voice and pulling the door shut tight behind them. He held out the garbage bag quickly, before the dripping head (a whole HEAD?!) left evidence on the floor.

The other man, the one he'd coordinated with...where had he seen him before? OH! Weeks ago, in a drug store, very briefly.]

Thank you very much for your time.

I'm going to get as much done with this as I can tonight, but I can get you cash as early as first siren, when the ATMs open up across the street.

[outbursting]

[His hand came to slap himself once more on the forehead. The area was becoming quite red. It just sounded like such a bad idea, and he slid behind Shinjiro when the door actually opened up. Like the healer-fighter should be out front before the tank. Please. Rookie mistake.]

Ah?! Oh, it's just you, Doctor Yumeno. [Still, this was more than a little surprising, but at least he was pretty sure they wouldn't end up on any news feed. His shoulders dropped as he glared at Shinjiro before hurrying in. He covered his face about the head -- not sure what to say so just let it speak for itself.]

It's no problem on my end.

And actually, you can just pay him. I'm pretty good!

[weaktobullets]

[A brow lifted as he noticed the person holding out the bag-- It was that doctor he'd talked to.. what, the day after he'd gotten there? Still, a shoulder rolled and he dropped the monster's head in. (at least the guy had a brain sample too this way. Whatever.]

I ain't in a hurry. Need to be goin' back soon anyway. [So that Mitsuru could stop fretting and get the bitching at him over with and he could see if Aki was still up and still pissed. Whatever.] I can come by sometime tomorrow to pick it up. You gonna be here?

[He glanced at Yosuke as the two spoke-- Maybe the kid was a better connection to have than he had previously thought.] You sure you're good with doing it for free?