𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐒 // 𝑻𝑾𝑶𝑬 //

| 𝐬𝐢𝐱

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"It's been fifty-four hours and we still haven't gotten anything out of her?"

The NSP's unit chief stands on the darker side of the one-way privacy glass, arms crossed over his chest as he observes while yet another one of his finest agents fails to break through their captive's deafening silence.

"No, Chief Han," the police captain sits in front of the observation room's desk computer and types away on the keyboard as he says, "the most we've gotten out of her is a request for a cup of ice water."

On the other side of the glass, the agent slams his fists down on the steel table after shouting obscenities at her in a desperate attempt to intimidate her into speaking. The young woman seated across from him simply leans further back on her chair. She doesn't even bother to blink in response.

Not yet weary, however, but she's definitely bored.

"How is it possible that you haven't been able to identify her?" At the man's silence, the chief turns to him in exasperation, "Captain Seok!"

"Yes, Chief Han, let me explain. I already have a team of analysts in Forensics running her fingerprints and blood DNA samples through the system files."

Captain Seok is aware that he's been put on the spot and ridiculed, but with the news of the awaiting press conference that Chief Han would need to attend in just a few hours, he finds comfort in knowing the lack of information they have on her isn't detrimental to him alone. If he's to go down because of this one crazy bitch, the NSP's unit chief will also be dragged to hell with him.

It's why they didn't give the order of execution, when that probably would've saved them from being under constant derision from news reporting outlets for the past two days. Instead, Unit Chief Han personally battled it out with the Deputy Commissioner in a meeting this morning so they would keep her alive. Because an assassin like her, capable of a massacre of that scale, was not some member of a pesky organized-crime gang.

Both Chief Han and Captain Seok are certain that she comes from a major crime organization. Her diligent silence even after almost two days of arduous torture she's suffered is proof enough.

They just needed a few more hours with her in the interrogation room, so they could prove exactly the kind of monster she is to the rest of their nation.

"Just received a notice from Forensics, Chief." The police captain stands from the desk computer and steps over to wait by the working printer. He takes two sheets of paper, keeping one as he turns and hands the other to the chief, "It took this long to identify her, since all our government's records state her as someone who is dead."

Reading from the paperwork in his hand, Chief Han draws his eyes across the young woman's name and glances up at him in an utter mix of fear and astonishment. Captain Seok recognizes her at last, cursing under his breath at the late realization as he steps away from the chief and closer to the young woman they have prisoner behind that one-way mirror glass.

The Girl of a Thousand Evils. More than a monster, more than an assassin or a secret mercenary, she is a Corvo.

Inside the interrogation room, Koo Sooyoung tilts her head to the side and catches his eyes through the glass window. Captain Seok looks away, chills piercing his skin before he turns to the intercom system and presses a button that allows only the agent on the other side to hear him.

"Listen up Agent Lee, your time is done so come out now. I'll be going in."

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