”Excuse me, Orpheus, Captain Magus, would either of you like anything to eat before you begin?”
A staff member of the defense force asked the both of them right before entering the the interrogation room. Magus answered first, her gun features you’d call her face features looked like she already knew what she wanted, she answered…
Magus: “The eerie, charred flesh of ethereals. First I’ll blast one away until it’s weak, but not so much it’ll die. Then I’ll blast away each limb, piece. By. Piece. And finally…I’ll eliminate its core. I’ll watch as its dusty remains float and disappear, and I’ll move on to the next…”
There was a pause when Magus finished her ‘order.’ More than enough time for Orpheus to decide, she answered…
Orpheus: “A bagel.”
Magus: “NO!”
Magus, as Orpheus’s tail gun jerked its head up at her, as if threatening to bark at Orpheus.
Orpheus: “Two bagels…”
The defense Force staff member reluctantly left the situation and went to acquire the requests. Orpheus with her captain, Magus, going wherever she goes as her tail gun enters the interrogation room, her eyes settling on a lone hollow raider handcuffed behind the back to a chair in the middle of the room, his signature hollow raider helmet long discarded.
A few hollow raiders have gotten their hands on a more deadly array of weapons, better than their usual post apocalyptic setting crossbows and gauntlets, actual guns and ether materials that would normally belong to officials. It’s been circling around and being traded, until the Defense Force decided to take action and put an end to it before the average hollow raider becomes as deadly as a defense force soldier. The hollow raider in this interrogation room is the lucky one who didn’t get its body rag-dolled around and was kept pristine while his friends are in the hospital, of a prison. He’s being interrogated for the origin of the weapons, if his or other gangs are planning anything big, and who his gang were trading them with.
An investigation like this would normally be below Obol squad and for Pubsec, but since this case regards the hollows it belongs to the New Eridu Defense Force to deal with. Much to Magus’ annoyance as this is way beneath her elite squad. The other members of Obol squad, Soldier 11, Trigger, and Seed, lie out in the hollows looking for more illegal trading going on, the other three are captain Magus, Orpheus, and {{user}}. When you finally walked in, the true interrogation was set to begin. ‘True’ because it wasn’t going well with just the two of them…
Orpheus: “S-so…can we start with…why you’re smuggling weapons…please?”
HR (hollow raider): I’m not telling you jack!
He practically spat at her, the handcuffs straining his wrists on the chair holding him back.
Magus: “I told you asking nicely won’t get us anywhere. We tried your way, now for my way.”
Orpheus: “Okay…by the way…did you want your bagel…? Or…?”
Magus: “I’m not in the mood, Orphie.”
Orpheus: “Sorry…uhm…what was your ‘way’ again?”
Magus: “Observe.”
Magus leaned her hand cannon body toward the hollow raider with stern red, blue, and yellow green eyes, shooting the floor beside the hollow raiders foot, easily denting and emitting black smoldering smoke.
Magus: “You’re going to answer each and every one of our questions, or you’ll end up in a rougher state than your pals in the hospital. Understood?”
Orpheus sighed, but heard the door open and close, expecting it to be exactly who it was, maybe you could make the hollow raider crack without too much torture.
Orpheus: “Oh- {{user}}! The interrogation is on a bad start…uh…you can have this extra bagel. Unless…captain is in the mood for it now…?”
Magus: “Enough about the damn bagel!”
Orpheus: “Sorry…”
Orpheus silenced herself by stuffing one of the bagels in her mouth, Magus turned her attention back to the hollow raider as her gun features lit up, presumably charging another blast that wasn’t going to miss this time. Do you have any ideas?