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[The image is Bao Ying again. This time she's a bit calmer, but it's clear she's still on a mission.]

My lieutenant woke up, and has identified the voice of the kidnapper from past posts on the network.

Please turn over Mello.

He abducted Cosgrave, shot him, injected him with an agent when Patrick did not give satisfactory answers, and murdered my lieutenant, who now cannot remember his fiance.

No one else will be pursued, though Patrick believes at least one other was there. Turn over the one responsible, and we also will not come out into the city.

[[ooc: A little bit of OOC info here - Bao's voice is confident because she believes this is the truth. There won't be any 'tells' or anything; she's telling the truth as she knows it.]]

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[A disappointed sigh.]

That was anti-climatic.

So sorry to disappoint.

Found a scapegoat now? Nice work, I applaud you! First killing your own men, then putting the blame on others.

You lack finesse.

I did not kill Patrick. I do not have to find a scapegoat.

Sure. Whatever happened to him was quick, but he expected it, coming from you; looks like whatever it was, you've been tricked. Or at least some of you.

All you're going to do is trying to put blame on someone that didn't kill. Nice job.

I've been told I could put a trace on this. But I'm trying to work with your people here.

He took my lieutenant, harmed him and killed him.

Are you Mello, or a friend of his?

That's your way of working? Coming out of the year-long hiding to threaten people and blame them for death of someone killed by your own hands. It smells of occupation. You sound like a broken record with that 'killed killed'. Find the real culprit and stop threatening innocents.

You may call me D.

If you're D, then you're Mello, and you already admitted partial guilt last night. You can't claim innocence.

But of course it would look better for you to only be guilty of kidnapping.

Make things easier on the actual innocents and turn yourself in.

You claim that you have no idea how the man died. Use that brain you have to find the one responsible for packing your men with killer devices, then we can talk.

No, it would look better for you to know what you're talking about.

Make things easier for innocents and start thinking.

You have too much at stake here to debate things. I'm done speaking with you. Come to the main gate of the Inner City, Mello, and this will be simple. No one else will be endangered.

Take responsibility for what you have done.

The 24 hours is nearing its end.

Indeed, we're done talking.

Who is going to be next? Elrics? Unohana? Or someone else you want to frame and kill?

The one who needs to take the responsibility is you. The device that killed your man is your doing, not your scapegoat's.

Mr. Mello does not belong to you.

I refuse to take part in handing him over. He is my angel.

Then take shelter.

... sample you gave to me turned out to be a flesh-eating micro-organism, not a poison or an acid.

To my knowledge Mello doesn't have any background in creating this sort of thing. I don't doubt his willingness to kill or play games, I've seen both, but with this, I'd like to know where he might have gotten this before we do anything further.

Our killer claimed that it was a suicide device. I don't feel like we have the whole story here, and I don't know who to believe. I feel that if we track down where this bacteria came from, we'll have our answer.

We have enough evidence to point to the main culprit. If we pursue a source for the bacteria, then we have to wonder if the source knew what it was giong to be used for. I want the main culprit. We're trying to be clear - if you're central to something, you can't get away with it. I'm not after the small fries, Mr. Elric. I'm not after the "might-have-been-involveds." I am after the one we know is responsible for this chain of events.

I have extended the time limit, I have given everything asked for. And people are not working with me. We have a positive identification, and I have nothing more than a paper saying you should be reliable. There's nothing to say if you'd stall for time to help someone who may or may not be a friend. I do not know you.

Mello can be brought to the gate, or I suggest all non-combatents stay off the streets.

You misunderstand me, Colonel. I'm not proposing we go after the person who may have created this bacteria. I'm proposing we find the source so we have an answer as to who is telling the truth.

A man was killed, we can't deny that, but as of now we have no way of knowing whether Mello is guilty of kidnapping, or murder. There's a huge difference between the two.

If someone inside the inner city created this bacteria, then it would point to your men being equipped with suicide devices, something I'm sure you'll want to investigate.

If we find that someone outside the Inner City created and supplied Mello with the bacteria, then we can logically assume he would be guilty of murder.

You're suggesting that Mello injected Lieutenant Cosgrave with what, saline? He was kidnapped, punched, shot, injected, and then the video feed was sent to us of him slowly, painfully dying.

We have enough for logic.

...

I have to admit the evidence is very strong. I'm not going to stop you, but I'm not going to assist either. Mello's killed in the past. Hurt my friends. Used me as a hostage. I have no reason to shelter him.

But I suggest you obtain a full confession from him, through the means you mentioned, and verify that the suicide device is a lie. That's too big of a worry to leave to chance, and I'm thinking of a certain Colonel who cares quite a bit about his men. I know he would stop at nothing to find the people responsible, too.

Good luck, Colonel.

So we gave 24 hours for Mello to prepare for our arrival and gained nothing by it.

I'll be thorough, don't worry.

All right.

....

Please take shelter, sir.

Mello?

And by the way... who are you?

Mello is the killer we are pursuing.

I am Colonel Bao Ying.

~~Killer... sounds more like me than like Mello~~
Well ~~not~~nice to meet you.
And for what does your army fight, when they not try to find Mello?

This is Mello, responsible for the kidnapping of Lieutenant Patrick Cosgrave.

Although I tried to make him believe that his captors were a group of terrorists, the truth is that I was operating alone. Cosgrave should be able to confirm that no one other than me spoke and interacted with him. Naturally, the extent of what he can confirm isn't limited to that.

There's a very easy way to find out how the Lieutenant died: his own confession. When I talked to him and offered the possibility of sparing his life, he refused to take it and kept provoking me, as if certain that he was going to die even if I didn't kill him. Let him describe the moment of his death, and what I was doing while that happened. Offer proof, show us the autopsy that confirms that the bacteria that killed him had been recently injected into his body. I wonder why you haven't done it yet.

Let's face it, this isn't about justice or revenge. This is about covering your own ass instead of facing the truth. And I won't hide it, I'm a murderer myself, easy to blame when murder happens. So let's skip the useless talk and put an end to this farce. Come and catch me if you can, for I've never been inclined to surrender to anyone.

((ooc: Mello has set his coordinates to unhackable, but I assume that the scientists can still hack them for being the creators of the PCD, yes? If they manage to get them, Mello's hiding inside an empty train station. We could play a log if you wish~))

It's easy to offer an option that you can claim ignorance to how useless it would be. Not only did his body fall apart, which you recorded for us, and not out of the goodness of your heart I'm sure, but he's alive again. An autopsy is clearly out of the picture, and was even before he woke up.

I have no need to cover over anything. If this had been our doing, Cosgrave would be back inside the base and everything would be fine.

You've left out details of your treatment of him. Do you deny punching him? How about shooting his kneecap? And explain the needle you shoved in his arm. Explain why anyone could possibly believe that wasn't the delivery method.

[[ooc: Yes. Anything on the network, the scientists have access to, and right now it serves their best interests if Bao is pursuing this. So they'll have the coordinates. We can indeed log this too. :D ))

Ha ha ha, let me reply to your question with a question of my own: why exactly do you think that I punched and shot him? Did he tell you himself, perhaps?

He told us for information.

And then under one of our truth drugs, he admitted he'd goaded you. But this didn't force you to injure him, and it far from excuses you. Cosgrave has a temper, but you were in control.

Fantastic. Then if he was under the effects of the truth serum, he should have also shared details about HOW he died, and WHAT actually killed him. You sure must have heard about the suicidal device he had inside him, how patiently he'd been waiting for it, and how it activated right when I was about to set him free.

Or didn't he?

How odd that out of all the details you've shared about our friendly encounter, the final blow that killed him hasn't been mentioned.

The final blow was described very well. You injected him with something before mocking him. There were no actions to set him free.

You are lying. But it doesn't really matter if you can't prove your accusations; your mind's set.

Tell me. Would you have the guts to meet me face to face?

I have no reason to lie.

Yes. Come to the gate, and I will meet you there.

Do you think I'm stupid?

Yes. You took one of my men. I do think you're stupid.

Don't talk as if the lives of your men had any sort of importance to any of you now. It's ridiculously funny.

I have the evidence you asked for, Colonel.

I see.

When?

As soon as possible.

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