Your detective, enters the nightclub scene!
Putting a single foot through the arched doorway, I push past the velvet curtains that lead into Club Percheron!
[SFX:Whoosh]
What was that?
The moment I put my foot past the arched doorway, that part of my foot feels a little... tingly! So does my entire body when I step through it! Looking back, there's nothing different about the doorway that I just stepped through from any other doorway, so what gives?!
The moment I step through, I am assaulted by the full bst of the crowd's exotic dancing energy...! It feels like EVERYONE is having a party here, and only I, your detective, am here to solve mysteries! Under the sparkling silver lights of the gigantic disco ball above, purple-shadowed bodies move their curvaceous bodies in tandem with other equally skimpily dressed bodies, gyrating against each other with the sway of...
Stoppu!
Stoppu!!!
Nandayo kore!
So this is...
This is... this is...
This is... a nightclub...!
I put a single hand with wide-spread fingers across both my eyes to shield myself from the sinuous impacto that this infernal scene is having on my senses! My other detective's arm tries to brush through the crowd, but for once, the detective's authority fails me! These party-goers are just too busy partying to care...!
"Come on... Come on, get lost...! I need to... I need to find Rufti...!"
I said those words out for real. But nobody seems to be listening! It wasn't bad enough that my eyes are assaulted by all this sinful dancing, the entire room reverberates with dark electro music yered with real epic orchestra, projected for the entire room to hear!
The slow, building, drumbeats are accompanied by the riffs of a single, rapid synth note that glides from one ear to the next, building up the early tension in this nightclub! The night is still young, and the haunting choral chanting at the front of this nightclub seems so out-of-pce, and yet at home, right here in the Percheron Nightclub! Escating beats pound in the hearts of everyone in the nightclub, your detective is all too affected by the mounting OH DESIRE in the beats!
This arrangement seems really familiar.
Where have I heard it before?
W-why is my body starting to move by itself!
Stop it!
Yamero! Yamerooooooo!!!
Without any warning, I am swept up by the sudden uptick in the broadcasted beat's energy! My small and cute body is pressed between wildly moving bodies in this nightclub, and despite my ranting and raving, I am still passed around like a little salmon through the purple-tinted masses until I am finally ejected from the other end of the mass of humans and non-humans alike!
"Puah...! W-what is this?! How am I supposed to solve a mystery like this?!"
I am pounding my cute little fists on the ground, kneeling on all fours.
Forget clues, I can barely even think straight in the midst of all this din and bad lighting!
Even turning on my [Detective's Vision] is going to be a waste of menne, that's my instinct talking!
If a clue suddenly walked up to me now, there's no way that I would be able to make anything of it!
"Patron of mine...? Would you... like a drink somewhere private?
Turning my head to the source of the whispering, I gre angrily at one of the many partially-dressed, bare-backed courtesans that litter the nightclub. With a wave of my hand, I dismiss her with callous disregard!
No, I would NOT like a drink! If I have one single drop of alcohol, I'll lose my [Detective's Authority]! How many times will I ever have such advantageous ground of having the [Narrator's Power], [Detective's Authority] and a Full-Access card in hand?!
My mind is clear, my eyes are a bzing ocean!
All conspiracies will turn into mysteries tonight...!
Or my name is not Ayano Sane!
If I had to guess, the whole reason this mystery is being held in a nightclub...
... is because of >you!
Before me is a human-sized [Dispy Orb] projection. Unlike [Observation Orbs], [Dispy Orbs] project images outwards, holographic enough to make you think they are real, but if you put your hand through them like I am doing now, the illusion parts ways without harm. A total rip-off of Sxlid Visixn, I know, Light Xnd Mxgic Industries, eat your heart out!
Just like how I am putting a fist through the discomfitingly rge chest of the host of this insane party...
Trabul Twins: "La-Roux"...!
The costumed fiend wearing the bck-gold cape that just covers the upper part of her shoulders smiles in static as I put my hand right through her heart! Take that! Take that!! Get penetrated on! Get penetrated on! You're always ughing, mocking me! But tonight, your detective is at maximum power! No mystery will elude me, just you wait!
Ah.
Just in case. For the slower ones among us.
La-Roux is Madi-san.
I can say that in red, so that means its true, right?
It should be really obvious to anyone who has read this far.
This is red that requires no evidence!
I refuse to eborate!
Your detective pulls her hand out and grip tiny fingers to crush La-Roux's narrow little heart, just like how I will crush the conspiracy side tonight! The projection of Madi-Totally-Not-'La-Roux'-san smiles back in flittering Livx2D animation, like the smug biichii she is!
The [Dispy Orb] flickers, and in a swirling transition, the projection dispys the image of different host for tonight's show, her name sprawled at the bottom in golden, cursive text:
"Yasumino", Doktah.This is where I furrow my brows a bit. Even through the din of the nightclub, my mind is still as a water-mirror's edge. Madi-san, Annalie and I know of the name Doktah. We met this person in [Conditorri Cafe], but she never took off her hoodie, so I never got a good look at her face before.
Now that she's projected on the screen for all to see, I finally can gaze upon her dull green eyes, with whites showing at the bottom. Despite her somewhat tired eyes, her bright orange twin-tails give her an energetic look, like she is much younger than she dresses. There is a supermodel's quality to her poise, and she really rocks that jacket business-dy look with bck gloves.
W-what?!
I am NOT thirsting over her!
(You) are the one who needs to get her head out the gutter!
[SFX:Spping!]
I give both sides of my head a good sp to snap me out of this moment of weakness. Its not my fault I like people who seem intellectual and look like they are into the same interests as me! Unlike you, Madi-san!
As the detective turns her head to the top of the loft she can now only see the underside of, she does NOT notice a rge, bck, goat-headed shadow locking her in its sights, making fast and forward movements towards her!
Now is the moment, ehehehe!
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