by GameMaster Sun Sep 02, 2018 5:20 pm
Tetsu goes over to check out the body and can't seem to find it. At least, not the body of the thug. Instead, where the body was, he finds Yuki hacked up to pieces by axe wounds and her yoyo is still in her hand, which she apparently used to defend herself with, but in vain. Dead on the floor, he realizes she looks nothing like his ex-wife, just an unknown young girl in a high-school uniform.
In fact, as he looks around, he realizes he is not in his old apartment, but in a room at some kind of love hotel (a type of hotel that charges by the hour and specializes in the privacy of its guests). A search of the body reveals a couple of slap patches, coated in some kind of drug and suddenly things begin to become clear for Tetsu. Everything was so strange because none of what he had seen was real. It was all a hallucination and now he was alone in a hotel room with a dead young human girl who could be half his age. The fact that he is also not human only makes this whole situation worse as he knows from experience that the Desian courts look disproportionately unfavorably against metahumans.
A quick glance out the window reveals he is still in the Kinza district and the clock on his commlink reads about 2 hours after he left the club. This is not a slum where a dead body will be ignored. A young girl hacked to death in a hotel room will be noticed and the police will come. Tetsu can imagine that whoever set him up for his son would love to see him put in jail for murder. They may even let it slip among the inmates that Tetsu was an ex-cop. Ex-cops rarely live long enough to finish their sentences.
Tetsu had better figure something out quickly if he is going to get out of this mess...