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✖︎ “Dominator Portable Psychological Diagnosis and Suppression System has been activated. User authentication: Inspector Tsunemori Akane. Affiliation: Public Safety Bureau, Criminal Investigation Department. Dominator usage approval confirmed. You are a valid user. The current enforcement mode is: Lethal Eliminator. Please aim carefully and eliminate the target.”
It was pouring. Victoria had been lost in her own thought, unaware of the proximity between her and the Dominator. Her walk slows to a stop the longer it dredges on, only fully catching her attention when it has identified its mode. Her first instinct was to rake through the downpour to look for any other possible suspect - anyone else that could have been read aside from herself.
Of course, she was entirely alone, just her and the Inspection and Enforcement officer. The street was completely abandoned, each law-abiding citizen and family-oriented person huddled behind closed doors to bypass the weather. Gathering her breath, Victoria turns to face which direction the animated voice had originated. Her hood blocks a good portion of her sight, her right eye the only one to fully adhere to the Dominator’s possessor. The agent was small - not only in size but in fortitude. They stare at each other in doe-eyed silence, the pitter patter of rain the only buffer between them.
Victoria can’t find where to begin. Her entire career, all of her hard work laid upon her frail and damp shoulders. The hood which covers her hair drips cold water upon her forehead. Think.
“That thing… did it say ‘eliminate’?”
A bug in the Dominator? Those words, Sibyl’s words, wee the ones only she was supposed to hear. Suspicions rose further; a very potent latent criminal, perhaps with advanced hearing, or a way to slip past the Dominator’s structure in order to hack into its channels. Despite the rain slipping past her lashes and into her eyes, Akane remained resilient in her posture, although she was shaking from the cold and from the lethal appearance of the Dominator’s eliminator mode. Akane had never used this mode on anyone, and she wasn’t planning to now, despite the lack of confidence she was currently holding in being able to convince herself otherwise.
“Please put your hands where I can see them, Victoria-san. I don’t want to use this Dominator on you.” Akane had managed to convince Kagari to allow her to talk to the latent criminal first before pulling the trigger. Ignoring Kagari’s snarky comment on the woman’s question, Akane decided to bypass an answer. Cutting to the chase was ideal, stalling wouldn’t do any of them good. “You can’t outrun Sibyl’s judgment. We have evidence of your crimes. Turn yourself in now, and I can negotiate your treatment for you. If rehabilitation goes well, your life won’t be in danger anymore.”
She knew Kagari had no problem pulling the trigger. But respecting the Inspector’s orders was what an Enforcer had to do. So, her orange-haired companion remained still, his Dominator pointed at the ground. However, he was alert as well, ready to come to Akane’s defense should the latent criminal decide to strike out at her. The brunette was hoping for the best possible outcome, but if push came to shove...
... Would she pull the trigger to the Lethal Eliminator mode for the first time?