The coffee beans return...?!

[honest_cop]

[Dojima's minding his own business, wandering over towards the ramen stand to get himself something to eat. He walks through the main court of the mall, not really thinking of anything, when

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/snrk /SNRK

[adachy_baby]

[Adachi, as per usual, doesn't really have anything to do here. No random objects to trip over, and no luck finding a door that leads back to his Inaba. Not that he's putting too much effort into getting back THERE any time soon.

So, to kill some time, he's taking a little walk around the mall in the vague hopes that something interesting will be happening somew---hey is that Dojima?

He's about to walk over to the man, before he notices he's staring upwards at something on the second floor of the mall. Slowly, he looks up to see just what has caught Dojima's attention, and he too stops dead. But for different reasons.

Before anyone can spot him, he dashes behind one of the decorative plants scattered around the mall and proceeds to laugh himself half-sick as silently as possible at the sight of Dojima staring at the artfully posed coffee bags they disposed of the other day. He's not stupid - he knew exactly where that door had led, and exactly what would happen to those coffee bags eventually

laughing at the demise of the poor coffee beans, you monster!!

[honest_cop]

[Dojima thought he heard something - he turns around, but there's no one there. Strange. He looks back up at the coffee bags.

They look way too much like murder victims for his comfort. ...But it's not like you can murder coffee! What kind of sick joke is this place trying to pull on him anyway? The cogs of Dojima's mind spin madly.]

Those bitches had it comin'.

[adachy_baby]

[Adachi doesn't want to move until he's entirely calmed down. He knows that if he so much as cracks a grin around Dojima right now, Dojima'd never let it go and that's too much hassle for him to bother with right now.

Instead, he takes a few deep breaths and closes his eyes to sort himself out enough so he can plaster the appropriate 'shocked and panicked detective' face on when he does eventually talk to Dojima.

Plus, it gives Dojima a little more time to stew and work himself up into a bit of a freak out.]

and you just had to rope the unwitting Dojima into it, didn't you

[honest_cop]

[Dojima walks up the stairs to the second floor to get a better look at the coffee. If it was anything like the previous victims, there'd be nothing like fingerprints, no clues as to -

No, stop, these were not victims. It was coffee.

There had to be an explanation for this. The chances that somebody had found the coffee from the portal and tossed it up here were ridiculously slim. Nobody had seen Dojima and Adachi toss the coffee into the portal. So how the hell did it get from point A to point B? Dojima circled around to eye the two bags that had landed side by side. He was missing something crucial here. Something important that could lead to this case -

- this was getting ridiculous.]

[magatamas_r_us]

MORE COFFEE!!!

*The all too-enthusiastic cry comes for a strange... person in a striped robe with the hood over the upper half of... his? her? face like a mask.*

... but it's so high.

[honest_cop]

[Dojima's rather taken aback by the appearance of the... strange-looking, occasionally-spasming person before him, but considering the odd stuff he's seen before around here, it's not the strangest.]

Stay away from the coffee! It's dangerous!

[magatamas_r_us]

*The person turns toward him, surprised.* Why? I know I turned into a girl after drinking it, but I'm sure it was the sugar...

[honest_cop]

Then you got lucky. At least some of this batch has some mind-altering effects, and until I can find out for sure which of the bunch is tainted, nobody's touching any of it.

[demifemme]

*A hugely pregnant tattooed woman in nothing but a long skirt is looking up blankly at a bag of coffee balancing on the railing of the fifth floor. That's... surprisingly tame, for the mall.*

[honest_cop]

[Between the tattoos, the toplessness, and the obvious pregnancy, Dojima really doesn't know what to say.]

...Hello, ma'am.

[demifemme]

*Shura acknowledges the greeting with a nod, then does a double-take at the man.* ... wow.

[honest_cop]

...What is it?

[bathhouse_boss]

*Satake's doing stamina exercises by walking around the mall. Can't let all that carefully-built endurance go to waste! ...Hm? Is that coffee he smells? Satake comes to a stop a little ways away from Dojima, looking up at the hanging coffee bags. He's not sure what to make of them.*

This mall just gets crazier and crazier the longer I stay.

[honest_cop]

You're preaching to the choir, here.

[bathhouse_boss]

*Satake glances over at the other man. Oh, look, another adult. Not that the teenagers here aren't oddly-mature anyway...*

Yeah? How long've you been stuck here?

[honest_cop]

I don't know. It's hard to follow the passage of time here. A few months maybe?

You look like a new face. I guess I should introduce myself - Dojima Ryotaro.

[shirogane_heir]

Naoto wasn't feeling well, but she still needed to eat. With that in mind she was walking along looking for what was growing to become her usual meal haunts when... Coffee beans had shadows? Who knew!

"Good day."

[honest_cop]

[Oh, great. Just when his mood couldn't get any better.]

Shirogane. It's been a while since I've seen your face around here.

[shirogane_heir]

"As pleasant as ever I see." She replied with a faint shrug. "So to what do I owe the pleasure of this arrangement?" She asked gesturing towards the coffee bean bags. "Working on theories?"

[honest_cop]

[Dojima winces. This isn't going to look good.] I hate to say it, but it's probably my fault. I was trying to get rid of this drugged coffee by throwing it out one of those world portals, but it just ended up back here. [He waves a hand at the bags.]