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Okay, okay...

[He's trying to calm down, because Kido wouldn't lie about Rei being okay. He wants to be there when she wakes up, and that won't be possible.]

T-they said that there was a witness and he saw me set off fireworks in the store room and that I drew the Vassago symbol on the floor and lit it on fire too!

[Apparently, he's part of this cult, as claimed by the shopkeeper.]

[ She can imagine Toki doing these things, while at the same time believing he wouldn't, not as he is now, and not with Rei there who would maybe play with fireworks indoors but never in a store nor purposely light property on fire. ]

How are you supposed to draw the Vassago symbol if you can't see... [ I mean. He could memorize it and draw it, but the whole thing is just weird to pin on a blind man. ]

I'll talk to this witness of theirs if I can, and see if they just somehow made a mistake. They must have seen somebody different. [ She looks over her shoulder at the guards standing at the doorway that give some semblance of privacy while at the same time reminding her she has none and they will listen to everything. It's just as well. ]

Anyways, that's the gist of what I heard too. But the witness who called in didn't say anything about blood. They definitely would have mentioned it if they saw you and Rei... What did you tell the police about that? You're both covered in it.

I know, right!? I don't even know what it looks like!

[He'd never seen the graffiti to begin with, as it was around the time wedding preparations. The police didn't tell him the name of the witness, or which store it was. Even if they did, Toki wouldn't know it was the same store he'd been accused of vandalizing with Terry.

At the mention of blood, Toki's voice is quieter and he grips Kido's hands tightly.]

I...

[Are they close enough to hear? Probably. He can't talk about what happened at the shrine dungeon. It was just a vague "training" excuse for being there. Rei will have to give Kido the details. Toki made a stupid claim when questioned about the blood, because he was panicking.]

I told them I didn't know how it got there.

[It's likely been attributed to a cult sacrifice in the notes.]

[ That is the single most suspicious thing anybody can say, even if it's the truth, because blood doesn't just show up out of nowhere and Kido finds herself glancing over at her shoulder to where Rei is next door- the guards turn too, when they see her glance, and she immediately regrets doing that, anxiously rubbing her thumbs on Toki's hands to help herself shake it off. ]

Maybe Rei saw. I'll need to get her home before they harass her about it... Neither you nor her are hurt, so you can imagine what that looks like.

[ With the lack of injury, it doesn't look like their blood, so if they're covered in it, it must be somebody else's. They do not need more false murder charges against them. ]

I know. I'm sorry. It just came out.

[There is no way this place has DNA testing either.]

Bring her home, Neechan.

[Rei doesn't need to wake up in the police station.]

It's not your fault. I would've said the same thing, probably... There's no good way to justify it.

[ There's probably some rudimentary forensics lab with DNA testing, but why go through all that trouble when these two punks are probably guilty? Maybe Kido can pressure them into doing the tests, but for now, she does have to bring Rei home first. ]

Will you be okay staying just a while? I'll bring Rei home, and then I'll talk to the police, but I don't know how long it'll take to convince them. I haven't had much luck with Seto and Jiro either.

I'll be okay.

[It's better to comply with the police at this point, as the Persona users are already detested. It will just further the opinion that they're all murderers if he tries to escape or something.

He'll cry as soon as Kido leaves, though.]

[ How are we going to get Toki out of this one... I'll think about it. For now, Kido gives his hands one last squeeze before letting him go. ]

Alright. I'll be back in a couple of hours- before morning, for sure. I'll be here. Try and get some sleep if you can.

[ It's going to be a sleepless night for her, though. The police probably don't want to talk to her a dead o'clock in the morning, but too bad. She's not going to wait the full 9 hours for everybody to sleep before trying to get Toki out; she wants him out as soon as possible, all her efforts to no avail. ]

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