Psycho Pass: Out of Control

Coliseum, Round 1

 Closing his eyes, Shinya Kogami settled back into the plush sofa cushions and rested his head on a throw pillow. With a deep breath, he grinned and breathed in the faint scent of Akane's perfume from the fabric. It was early morning, and her Tokyo apartment was dark except for the night light that he had left on in the kitchen. The Enforcer exhaled and swept his arms back behind his head. Despite the familiarity of his surroundings, he was restless and unsettled.

Freshly showered and dressed for work, he had spent an hour pacing the livingroom, but could not shake the uncanny feeling that he was in danger. The potent sense of gloom and doom darkened his every thought, keeping him from sleep and from the warmth of being by Akane's side. Aggravated with himself, Kogami sat up on the sofa and scowled at the shadows.

Activating his wristcom, Kogami scrolled through a selected holofeed in an attempt to alleviate his suspicions. He intently studied the blurry images of a dark, ambiguous figure, who had tripped the cymatic scanners in a dozen or more areas of the city. Before MWPSB personnel could arrive on the scene, however, the perp would vanish from the scene, bypassing surveillance and without tripping any other scanners.

Division 1's system analyst, Shion Karanomori, had identified that the individual was using an intricate, military-grade cyber tech to distort the picture, making it nearly impossible to identify him. Presented with a challenge, Shion was undeterred and swore to unmask the perpetrator as a matter of honor and pride.

Staring boldly into the camera, the suspect was playing a tactical cat and mouse game with the Ministry of Welfare's Public Safety Bureau. With every random appearance, he taunted the CID and dared them to play along with his willful game. Only the perp's actions were not random. Though facial recognition was not possible, Kogami recognized the man from his posture, the way he carried himself, and the presence of attitude exuding from him.

He activated a separate file and read the information as it scrolled across the screen. Kogami was convinced the man in the images was none other than James "Jaimie" Grigori—the bodyguard of Chimari Roninn, the CEO of a powerful mental care conglomerate, with close ties to the government. She was also the younger sister of former MWPSB Inspector Masato Roninn.

Reading the last name in the file made Kogami's mouth go dry and sent a chill down his spine. During his tenure with the MWPSB, Roninn's Division 5 held one of the highest success ratios of solved cases. His achievement, however, came at a terrible cost: the lives of Enforcers, a record number, who died in the line of duty or who were murdered. The latter were killed by Roninn himself or on his orders to further his ambitions.

In a sting operation that nearly cost his own life, Kogami brought Roninn down in disgrace. Despite the considerable family fortune, their assets and resources, the fallen Inspector was sentenced to life in an isolation cell for his crimes. Before being carried away to a facility, one ironically owned and funded by his family, Roninn had these words for Kogami: "The wolf knows not that he is a wolf, until the sheep reject him, and the shepherd tells him so. You will be brought to heel. See you soon, Shinya."

Even though he had been locked away for months, but Kogami could not shake the feeling that the crazed man had already reached beyond the glass of his isolation cell into the outside world using his sister as an extension of his madness.

Roninn's reach was clearly proven at the Gotemba Equestrian Center during the National Dressage Qualifier when his sister Chimari and her bodyguard introduced themselves through an chance accident on the highway that took his little sister's pony out of competition. When that was not enough of a disruption, Chimari ordered her pilot to land her private helicopter beside a riding ring full of small children on ponies. Thankfully, Mi-Yeon was riding the unflinching stallion, Touch the Sky, who proceeded to perform despite the chaos.