The Cunning Copycat

Chapter 19: Criminal investigation

•a few hours after kishi left m/n to begin his training, m/n could be seen walking through the streets of Lumina square. Bored out of his mind, he didn't have any commissions to complete today and unfortunately everyone seemed to be somewhat busy, belobog was busy with hollow repairs, The cunning hares were busy with the pearlman case, victoria house keeping was busy with something to do with the ballet towers? And apparently phaethon were helping them. And then theres the pubsec team, who were always busy•

•maybe m/n should contact zhu yuan and see if she needed any help with anything?•

(On the other hand)

•with zhu yuan and the others they were currently looking over a new case they had taken, a large amount of narcotics and drugs we're thought to have been smuggled through new eridu slowly in an attempt to get them to the outer ring•

•the case so far had been loose end after loose end, it seemed like no matter how much they searched, no matter how many clues or how much evidence they found. They would always come up empty handed•

Zhu yuan: *sigh*.......another dud.....

Qingyi: maybe we should look over at 16th street again, that was where we got our first clue?

Seth: we've already checked there 3 times and found nothing, we'll just be wasting our time.....

•they had been on this case for 3 weeks by now, so far they had investigated into different witnesses who had been close too or heard anything about the small gang which was supposedly smuggling the drugs. They were called the "shadow stealers" which was quite fitting given that they had been the cause of multiple thefts including cargo trucks and vans. Most likely to transfer the drugs, why havent they tracked the vehicles? They had been completely wiped off the map, impossible to track.•

Qingyi: what if we asked our captains little crush~ he was helpful last time.

Zhu yuan: *slight blush* huh?!

Seth: yeah yeah! Lets ask m/n and kishi to give us a hand! I wanna spare with him again!

Qingyi: maybe the case has something to do with energy and thats why we cant find anything?

Zhu yuan: no, we aren't getting their help.

Seth: awww man......

Qingyi: why not? It isnt like it'll cause any issues?

Zhu yuan: *crosses arms* we've relied on them far too much! We needed their help at the castle, during the bangboo theft and during our investigation of the old blue bottle wanderer factories. We cant keep banking on them to bail is out of every tough case we come across.

Seth: i guess your right......

Qingyi: alright, but if things get sticky then we will, is that fine?

Zhu yuan: *sigh* i suppose if we really cant figure things out then yes, I'll call him.

•with that out the way the three got back to looking at evidence, trying to connect any clues they had gotten so far together to get some leads. The first clue they had gotten was when an older man had his van stolen by a group of thugs in all black, a card was left behind which had the message "thanks for the van! - shadow stealers". This would be an incredible clue if they could track the van, but like previously said, it was untraceable. No one could find it•