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Hazama, Harumi

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The sight of the much larger girl running after her did little to soothe her beating heart, with her shouting only serving to make Harumi even more desperate to get away. Indeed her words did not reach Harumi through her fears, only the fact that she was shouting.

It seemed her heart was drumming in her ears as she saw a figure in the distance, one she was familiar with. A fellow worker, and cafe part timer, someone who was Level 4. Someone with ability far beyond her own. Someone who was offering to help. A divine intervention in Harumi's eyes, and something she wasn't about to waste.

"P...please help!" Was all she could utter, as she sped past the girl.

Harumi wasn't about to stop running soon, not with that woman pursuing her, and certainly not until she reached safety.

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Ill be posting soon, after I go for my afternoon walk. ^^;

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She probably wouldn't have bolted if people left her camera alone ;w;

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Hazama, Harumi

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"Geh."

Jerked backwards by the rough hand grabbing her collar, Harumi could do nothing but squirm as more and more people came in. To think that her ruse failed. She could, perhaps, try to convince them she was undercover, as Judgement members did hide their armbands when trying not to attract attention, but as of right now, none of them was in any condition to accept more input for her. Even a true Judgement member pulling out their armband would perhaps be viewed as a fake still. She did take offense to the comment about selling her pictures off though. She was in this primarily for the story, though money was hard to come by, so no one could fault her for trying to make some more on the side.

She was so very close to escaping too.

Harumi jumped slightly as one of them started calling Antiskill, but the remarks about snatching her camera and equipment was what set her off. Trying to take away her camera? Her very life? It was as important as, no, more important than her own life to her. With a fluid motion, she put her camera in her bag, and pulled out thin leather gloves, wearing them quickly in a swift practiced motion. With a twisting motion, she escaped the boy's grasp during the brief moment he was occupied with speaking to the 'beatnik'.

She ran not towards where the exit was, but away from it, where there were less of them. One of the things she was confident of was her physical fitness after all; she has done this before, and it was very likely she could simply outrun them all. The road they were in wasn't a dead end, of that she was sure. If it was, they would have met the perpetrator as they came back out.

Tch, I'll remember this.

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Hazama, Harumi
@NarayanK@HereComesTheSnow@banjoanjo

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Faced with sudden newcomers, who was probably wondering who she was and what she was doing there, Harumi spoke the first thing that came to her mind.

"Shut up, you're all noisy."

She shut off the light on her phone. There didn't seem to be anything else to find, plus these three idiots was ruining her concentration.

"Don't come any closer, you will contaminate the crime scene." She sighed, shaking her head. "Geez, there's always someone barging in on Judgement business."

Adjusting her bag, she walked nonchalantly towards the alley's exit, passing by the three.

"I'm going to record my findings, so call Antiskill first. Oh and go home! Its too dangerous out here, theres no telling if the perpetrator is still here."

Harumi walked confidently forwards, her calm facade betrayed only by the rapid beating of her heart and the slight shaking of her hands. A ruse worked better if it had truth mixed into it, and technically, she did not lie at all when she spoke. She did not need to convince them she was from Judgement after all, all she needed to do was make them hesitate long enough for her to run away. The dim lighting of the alley will make her harder to recognize as well. Harumi did not want to get in trouble with Judgement again, nor did she want to lose this story.

The newcomers coming in also raised new questions. Who was the perpetrator, and how did he escape in such a short amount of time? She wanted to stay longer, but if there were people here, Judgement would come soon. And that did not bode well for her camera.

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Ill put up something soon

@Crimmy That depends on Fiddle. If theyre ok with that, then im ok with that. ^^;

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@banjoanjo

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

ill wait for one more, then ill post again. ^^;

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Theres that post. Hopefully I got nothing wrong. ^^;

A Certain Variegated Pseudepigraphum [Toaru/Raildex RPG]

Hazama, Harumi

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There was only the faint whir of her camera working, and the click of the trigger, as she silently took pictures of the corpse from multiple angles. Brief flashes of light illuminated the alley as she continued taking pictures.

"Unknown woman, of undiscernable age, young from the looks of her body and dress."

Her eyes darted back and forth between details, trying to take in everything, even though she felt repulsed by the idea that she was standing right next to a corpse, and examining it in detail to boot. The hand that went up to her recorder clipped onto her collar was shaking slightly. She had been pursuing a different lead when a strange sound caught her attention. Something like this was not was she prepared for.

"Legs from the knees down are twisted badly, rotated? Likely an ESPer, no blood, no bones breaking skin."

Harumi paused for a moment.

"No blood around the dead body." she added.

She brought up her watch. Harumi had been trying to stalk the boy someone mentioned was cheating, following him all the way to this district in fancier than normal getup. She certainly could not tell he was trying to dress up, because she certainly did not stalk him for days before. There was a glimpse of a girl coming up to him, and them leaving together, but she had lost them. That was when she heard the noise and went to investigate, heart beating in anticipation for something really steamy. Instead, she found a dead body, AND now she can't go to either Anti-Skill, or Judgement.Both would raise too many questions about why she was there, what she was doing, and why there was two memory cards for her camera filled with nothing but pictures of that boy.

"Recently died around this time," she murmured into the recorder, jotting down the exact time on a notepad she produced out of a pocket. Harumi was sure she died around the time the strange noise caught Harumi's attention.

"One arm gone, stump remains. No visible cause of death. No blood, no visible wounds." Her face contorted slightly, feeling torn between regret at not being able to examine the corpse closer without tampering with the crime scene, and disgust at the prospect of that.

Reining in her desire to vomit, she took out her phone and turned on the small flashlight function on it, searching around for more things she could link to the scene. Screw that cheating boy, this one was going to make her page explode.