[He's nodding, and ... being pretty tentative - see what of this makes sense, gets shot down, etc.; after all, Kaito actually has more information than he does.]
Hm. As far as I could tell, whoever they are, they don't exist to an unnerving extent - it's hard to do much research without risking flagging myself, but the home that you led the police to during Blue Birthday belonged to someone that was suspected of things, but certainly not capable of anything international; as far as I know, he hasn't been heard from since - I think they're keeping hands in other organizations in some places. Nakamori-keibu's noticed something's up, and I think some of the more experienced task force members, but nobody is stupid enough to talk about it with the situation in its current state; I don't think anyone but maybe Nakamori has a real guess how bad, but the ones that have a clue know it's bad enough to play stupid. Outside of their appearances around you, they seem to exist in negative space as far as investigation goes - unless you're unlucky enough to directly run into them, it's the void of explanation and evidence that sticks out; normal mafia groups don't work like that - they rely too much on territories and intimidation value to be total phantoms.
The only guess I've had on the gem is that it must fall in the same special category of logic and reason as Koizumi - there are gems that change colors and show reactions in different lighting, but for most of them, they react to moonlight the same as artificial light. Distinctive, but not special enough to kill for. It also did seem like most of the more major heists and ones they showed up at were stones with legends about curses and strange histories..and for people like them to be so lethal about it, they must think there's a solid reason to trust whatever this one's supposed to do.
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Date: 2010-08-17 07:20 pm (UTC)Hm. As far as I could tell, whoever they are, they don't exist to an unnerving extent - it's hard to do much research without risking flagging myself, but the home that you led the police to during Blue Birthday belonged to someone that was suspected of things, but certainly not capable of anything international; as far as I know, he hasn't been heard from since - I think they're keeping hands in other organizations in some places. Nakamori-keibu's noticed something's up, and I think some of the more experienced task force members, but nobody is stupid enough to talk about it with the situation in its current state; I don't think anyone but maybe Nakamori has a real guess how bad, but the ones that have a clue know it's bad enough to play stupid.
Outside of their appearances around you, they seem to exist in negative space as far as investigation goes - unless you're unlucky enough to directly run into them, it's the void of explanation and evidence that sticks out; normal mafia groups don't work like that - they rely too much on territories and intimidation value to be total phantoms.
The only guess I've had on the gem is that it must fall in the same special category of logic and reason as Koizumi - there are gems that change colors and show reactions in different lighting, but for most of them, they react to moonlight the same as artificial light. Distinctive, but not special enough to kill for. It also did seem like most of the more major heists and ones they showed up at were stones with legends about curses and strange histories..and for people like them to be so lethal about it, they must think there's a solid reason to trust whatever this one's supposed to do.