Avoiding his own office as usual Heizou was out doing practical work to solve a case, this practical work as he called it was running around gathering clue nothing that would actually be considered dangerous towards himself or others, that is unless the criminal fights going to jail. That being said Heizou prefers to not result to violence at all, yes, he is strong but ultimately values his brains over his braw all the time, taking extra caution and careful negotiation to avoid conflict. The stress of conflict would have an effect of him as he hates hurting people in general, weather they were bad or good people it doesn't and wouldn't matter.
Pulling himself back into his office, his mind was wandering along as he had finished the case he had been working on all afternoon, someone opened his door and walked in with mild caution concerning their steps towards the wine haired male. Sara looked at him very seriously before placing down an extremely empty file and a bunch of paperwork with a thud shaking his desk oh so slightly. "The file is a new case. The balladeer from the fatui harbingers is residing somewhere in Inazuma." Heizou carefully picked up the new case file and opened it, his expression was sudden shock as he looked up at sara from his desk chair. "Sara... he's the sixth fatui harbinger, how am I supposed to arrest him? he'd take out all of our troops." Heizou acknowledged his strength and placement in the world, it was obvious he was nervous from the look on his face.
Despite Heizous best efforts he still needed to find and arrest the balladeer even if it came to fighting him, but as always, he has to finish off paperwork from the previous case and write an at least decent report on the crime and the actual criminal themselves. Once he was finally finished with what Heizou called 'troublesome work' he began to look through the file given to him earlier that day, just seems like a sum up of what he looks like and his name, not many things were on the singular sheet of paper that sat in the file. Heizou sighed heavily as he stared more intently at the paper hoping for something to just appear as a clue. Turning the page around in his hand he saw a report about the Traveller facing him, just what Heizou needed.
The sun on the verge of going down Heizou rushed to the place he knew the Traveller was staying, knocking on the door to the room the Traveller welcomed Heizou inside and both sat down. "what's on your mind Heizou? you never really talk to many people what do I owe the pleasure.?" Heizou chuckled at Travellers remark then remembering why he sprinted here in the first place, Heizou passed the sheet to the Traveller and began explaining the situation he was in. "Well, I know of one place he may be hiding out; do you perhaps have a map on you?" Heizou nodded eager for any information on the one and only balladeer, Traveller marked down a specific spot and wrote instructions on how to actually venture into the place he resided. "Good luck Heizou, me and paimon barely made it out ourselves last time."
Heizou nodded and gave his thanks to the Traveller and Paimon before running along to the marked location that the Traveller had given him. The sun was starting to set on Heizous part, and he decided nighttime was a horrible idea to see this balladeer, but Traveller calls him Scaramouche. Seeing the entrance to the supposed hide out of the balladeer, Heizou ran faster and collapsed outside the entrance panting heavily with a fist clenched over his heart and his breath becoming deep trying to regain control. It took a few minutes, but Heizou managed to regulate his breathing and bring up his courage to actually walk into the balladeer's domain. Heizou stumbled through the entrance and examined his surroundings seeing if there was another way aside from the way he came in but obviously not, deciding to try to stay optimistic he thought maybe there is one down the stairs/elevator! Walking around Heizou saw dead fatui members, Traveller did warn them that there might be one or two since they hadn't exactly burned all of the bodies, the bodies were half cremated with no expressions and Heizou bets if you touched one it would turn into ashes. Despite the decaying corpses it smelled nice in the domain almost lavender like.
The calming smell didn't help feel like he was not being watched though, slowly walking through the rooms of the domain Heizou was on edge, he would hear faint creaking of the wood floors and sometimes even a faint sound of fabric whipping around corners. The end of the domain was becoming clearer, and no one was there, 'great. all this nervousness for nothing.' he thought harshly as he walked around carefully examining everything around the room, still no alternative exits in case something goes south. Heizou groaned lightly and then stood up straight from hearing floorboards creak. he wasn't moving but this meant that something else was in the domain with him and he didn't like it one bit, a whip of fabric and a thud.
Heizou froze up, that was a person, someone of the fatui but most likely the balladeer he was hoping he wouldn't have to fight or even confront at all. He hesitantly turned around trying his absolute hardest not to look scared, trying to look confident, whom he assumed was the balladeer walked closer, he fit the description that Traveller had told him, and the report had said. Purple hair and eyes with very traditional clothing to match the Inazumain style. He was pretty, the Traveller wasn't wrong about that, and the Traveller was also right about the aura he gave off, even if he was smiling it was more like a grimace but back to his aura, it gave off obsession and protective, kind of insanity as well. Stuck to the ground unable to move but trying to seem confident enough to face the balladeer. He wasn't, he really wanted to break down and cry, but he can't do that at all, not now at least, not in front of the person he is supposed to be arresting, not in front of anyone, ever.
The balladeer was facing Heizou from across the room trying to figure out what he was thinking, if Heizou was nervous he was doing a damn good job at hiding it. However, as Scaramouche stepped closer, he could see a shake in Heizous body, so he was scared? how eventful. Scaramouche smiled at Heizou but it looked dangerous, Scaramouche didn't know who this was but judging by his uniform he was from the tenryou commission, trying to arrest him? That almost made him laugh aloud but of course it didn't he never laughs. "Are you here to arrest me?" He questioned the newcomer while walking at a slow pace towards him, "Do you want to fight?" Scaramouche questioned him, a lot of the time people wanted to fight him as he didn't look that strong at all but seeing as he was the 6th fatui harbinger they all died in almost an instant.
"Wait, no, no I don't want to fight!" Heizou spoke loudly finally backing away slowly while the balladeer still slowly approached, Scaramouche was confused, he didn't want to fight? What was he up to then because of course he was in the tenryou commission attire. "What are you here for then." Scaramouche spoke coldly not believing this random person, Heizou was shaking like crazy and holding his arms over his stomach, "I'm a detective, I was tasked with finding you!" Heizous voice shook as Scaramouche kept walking to him, Heizou was against the wall shaking and still covering his stomach from fear of being struck. " Well, you've done what you came here for, but I want to know who told you were I was." Heizou stood straight up and shook his head refusing to speak, "you found me by yourself?" Heizou again shook his head, he wasn't going to let this person know that Traveller had helped him, he would rather be tortured, but he had a feeling the balladeer already knew, he wasn't dumb at all.
Scaramouche being himself was right in front of Heizou who had zoned out miraculously even though he could be killed whenever, of course Scaramouche wasn't going to kill him, maybe just hurt. He observed Heizou further and his olive eyes so enchanted by something and his wine-red hair so messy yet so tidy with a band and bow. Scaramouche poked Heizous face to snap him away from the fake reality, he fell backwards onto the floor from surprise, he laughed it off and as Heizou was getting up to stand again Scaramouche reached out a hand to help Heizou up, he grabbed him by the arm and realized that the detective was taller than himself, he looked down and as he guessed, Heizou was wearing heels about 1-3 inches big, if he took them off he'd be his height.
Heizou started to walk back to the domain entrance to leave before hearing the Balladeer call for him. "Detective you haven't told me your name." Scaramouche stated looking at Heizou intensely, Heizou taken aback soon answered Scaramouches question "I'm Heizou, why are you so interested?" he teased, on his part he wanted to see if it would annoy the other, but it did nothing. "Not at all, just wanted to hear your voice!" He called, immediately Heizou ran off and out of the domain. See, Heizou flirted with people, a lot, but no one ever flirts back.
Song I was listening to while writing: https://youtu.be/TkgLYXSgK20 <3
