Psycho Pass FanFiction ~ The Perfect Society.

Chapter 5: Lost.

     The rest of the afternoon passed rather quickly, or at least for Shinra who had been busy inside her lab. Shinra who appeared to have lost composure for a moment inside that room, gained it all once again before she stepped out that white room with the memory scoop machine. Once she stepped out drones slipped inside to get to cleaning up and disposing of the body. All done with just Sybil's awareness besides Shinra's. With a straight face and dark eyes she watches how the drones rolled inside the white room. After a moment her eyes avert and she approaches the work desk where she finally drops on the chair. Her hands moving over the tablet which made different holographic screens lit up before her, quickly she begun loading up all the images that were gathered from forceful memory scoop.

     Not long before all the images start popping all around the screens, the blank face over her eyes begun to darken into anger. Due to how the images were forced out the person, they were mostly blurry. She got a lot of images; with some being clearer than others but those blurry ones are usually the key ones. Shinra eventually shifts to rest one of her elbows against the desk to support her head with her palm while her free hand kept typing all over the tablet. Scanning each image one by one and simply discarding any memories that were either too blurry or simply incoherent. While those that were clear enough or people could be spotted, she grouped them all together to let the system scan over each and every one for possible recognitions. Come on... I know you're behind all this... Stop hiding... She thought to herself as her eyes carefully went over them, eyebrows furrowing together in both anger as well as focus.

     The more she kept shifting through the pictures, the more she felt anger building up. Even one of her feet begun tapping against the floor under the desk at first slowly but the speed eventually increased just as she kept going through all the gathered memories. Time kept ticking and the stress along with frustration pilling over her shoulders. At some point, Shinra paused to sit up straight and with one of her hands she starts to lightly hit over her tense shoulders. Ended popping on her neck, followed by her shoulders and to finish up with each of her knuckles. You need to relax, or you might miss something important... She reminded herself followed by one heavy and tired sigh. As she leaning back against her chair she tilted her head back enough to face up the ceiling. Taking slow and quiet breaths as her eyes find their way to close up even for a moment. Slowly lifting her right hand to touch gently the bottom lip as her thumb and index finger began tugging slightly on it. After a second or two just messing with her mouth, she drops her hand and once again sits up straight once again while her eyes opened up and faced the screens before her.

     As soon as she managed to relax her mind, her eyes finally focused on the task at hand. The moment she finally stared at all the images scattered around the screen, her eyes grew wide as she quickly reached out to one of the pictures before her. Raised her hand to the holo screen to bring the picture forward over the others and enlarge it further. This one wasn't all that clear so with a few fixes she got the image to get the clearer appearance that could come out from a forced memory scoop. As the technology fixed up the picture slowly before her eyes, she felt her heart drop. With slight trembling hands she began to run a face recognition on the man that was now on the screen. Soon enough the information Sybil had about him popped out, but it was close to none. "A foreigner? Is he the man behind this bombing?" She wondered to herself while she frowned and lowered her hands to the desk. No...something doesn't feels right here. She thought and shakes her head while pushing her hands to her face, before she then pulled away the hairband along with the elastic band holding the ponytail together. Her dark hair flowing down freely all over her shoulders and back while her bangs fell over her face, shadowing her eyes underneath. Shinra gripped to both of her hair objects and squeezed them between her palms that she pressed together making like one fist with both hands. "I refuse to believe that..." She muttered after clicking her tongue in some annoyance and frustration.