BSD x OC

Chapter 34

"As you can see, the fog covers the town for a only a couple of minutes... Before it disappears." Kunikida told the agency, motioning at the video that was playing in the dark room.

"Every time this fog appears, a body is found..." Kunikida said, before looking at the video again, "This time the body was burned to a crisp."

Taking a chip out of his chip bag, Ranpo glanced up at the screen. "That person was an ability user, correct?" He asked, taking a bite from the chip.

Kunikida nodded, switching the slide and showing a picture of the man along with some basic information, mostly regarding his ability. "Correct. He had a fire ability." Kunikida told Ranpo and the rest of the agency.

"Not to mention... This has happened several more times." He told the agency, moving the slide through several more images of people, seemingly ability users who died from supernatural causes.

Kenji squinted at the image, "So they die from their abilities?" He asked looking at the corpse of the fire user, noticing how some parts of his charred body still had embers that hadn't died out yet.

Kunikida nodded, "Correct. Almost 500 ability users have taken their lives because of this. Leading the Special Ability Department to dub this as 'Serial Special Ability User Suicide.'" He informed the agency before pausing. "And speaking of suicide, Ali, Atsushi... Where's Dazai?" He asked.

Ali and Atsushi both looked at each other, before playing rock paper scissors, with Atsushi winning with rock.

Ali and Atsushi both covered their ears as Ali spoke. "He um... He said he found a new tree..." She mumbled, wincing as Kunikida snapped the pen in his hand.

"THAT DAMN BANDAGEHEAD! THIS IS THE TENTH MEETING HE'S SKIPPED!!!" He yelled, causing the entire agency to recoil from the sheer volume of his scream.

While Kunikida was screaming oddly creative insults, Ranpo grabbed a safe from the inside of his coat, stuffing his snacks.

"... Where'd the safe come from? There's no way that could've fit in your coat..." Ali asked, looking at his coat and then at the safe.

Ranpo opened his eyes for a moment, "What's the biggest thing in your bag?" He asked Ali.

"... 50 boxes of pudding." She told Ranpo, which caused him to deadpan.

Ali raised her hand, "And why do we need to know this? I understand that it's just you telling us to be careful, but I don't see how that would warrant an entire meeting." She asked, causing Kunikida to stop himself from trying to create the Death Note with his notebook.

He cleared his throat, throwing the notebook somewhere as he switched the slides. "Yes... Recently I've been informed by the Special Abilities Department that one of the primary suspects for this fog has recently infiltrated Yokohama. They've requested us to investigate him."

The image was a beautiful man, with snow white hair and matching pale skin. His eyes were half lidded, and his pupils were dark, a stark contrast to the rest of his clothing. His eyelashes weren't long, but they weren't short either. With some thin white eyelashes covering parts of his eyes.

Ali looked at Atsushi who seemed to be in a daze as he stared at the picture. "Atsushi?" She asked, brushing some of his hair to the side as she glanced at him. "Are you okay?" She asked, watching how Atsushi rubbed his head.

"Yeah... I just... Thought of something." He murmured, before shaking his head. "It's nothing though." He told her.

Her brow creased by a bit before she returned her attention to Fukuzwa, who was speaking. "The Armed Detective Agency will take on this request, to ensure the safety of our employees or any other ability users who may be endangered in Yokohama." He told the staff room.

"Investigation will begin immediately!" He spoke, causing all of the staff to quickly stand up and scramble to work.

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Ali sighed as she slumped into her bed, after a long day of researching white haired pale men, the closest thing she had found was a guy named Bram, who died almost a hundred years ago.

She and Kyouka both drank some hot coco, before Ali sighed. "Alright Kyouka... Let's brush our teeth now." She told Kyouka, standing up and stretching as Kyouka grumbled and headed to the bathroom with her.

Kyouka and Ali both brushed their teeth with matching bunny themed toothbrushes, with Ali's being yellow and hers being red.

The two yawned as Kyouka made her way to the futon, while Ali made her way to the closet and grabbed a blanket, sleeping on the floor next to Kyouka.

For some reason, that night, Ali was finally able to fall asleep peacefully.

(A/N: Something I noticed while reading the Dead Apple manga, is that Atsushi was sleeping in a closet... A literal closet. My sweet cinnamon roll knew that Kyouka needed her privacy, so he respectfully shoved himself into a cramped closet for her, I love him so much!!!)

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Ali's mind felt foggy as she looked around her, she saw a family of 4 happily walking around, with their youngest happily matching ahead as she grinned.

Her eyes softened for a moment as she took a step forward, but all of  a sudden the dream flickered, with the parents going missing and the floor became a blood red crimson.

Ali froze as she stopped walking, seeing how the last 2 members of the family kept on walking, before the taller one fell onto the ground, leaving the youngest all by themselves.

Her breath was caught in the back of her throat as the world became dark, the light from the beginning gone, and the blood red replaced with a pitch black, with nothing to tell up from down and nothing to tell left to right.

The only thing with light was the youngest, who was sitting all alone by herself, her hands balled up into a fist as her tears dripped to the ground, those tears had images in them, almost as if they were memories.

Those tears were the only light in the darkness.

Ali was about to reach her hand out to the youngest, but she was quickly blown away by a large gust of fog, she covered her face as she squinted, trying to desperately walk forward and towards the youngest.

...

Ali woke up to Kyouka screaming, she immediately ran to Kyouka's side and embraced her. "Kyouka, calm down... Do what we practiced, alright?" She whispered to Kyouka, rhythmically patting her back.

After a couple of deep breaths, Kyouka looked at Ali, "Did... Did you also see the fog?" She asked, causing Ali to nod.

The two immediately stood up, running out of the dorm room. Ali froze as she stared at the neighborhood, which was covered in a thick fog, while Kyouka immediately ran to Atsushi's room.

Ali pulled out her phone, trying to call the agency, only to realize that there wasn't any network on her phone.

She looked at Kyouka, who had easily lockpicked her way into Atsushi's room. "There's no network." She told her, while entering into Atsushi's room.

Atsushi quickly scrambled to make himself look presentable, "You two! Why are you here?!" He asked, quickly jumping to his feet and looking around for any danger.

Ali took Atsushi's hand, leading him outside,  while allowing him to put one of his jackets over her in case she was cold.

"This is the fog we were talking about during the meeting..." She told him, before looking at Kyouka and Atsushi, "We should get to the agency."