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Who: Izuku and you
When: July 26th on
Where: Various
What: Catchall

A. [Izuku can be found in the library fairly often, after all, he's volunteered to take over, since there were suddenly far, far fewer of the library goblins than there used to be. Usually, he's near the front entrance, looking through books, scowling a bit and then putting them back.]

Have you seen anything about the history of the Heavens here?

B. [That's usually though. Sometimes he's sitting next to a stack of books and passed out instead. At least he's getting sleep somewhere.]

C. [He doesn't just keep to the Far Shore though. He's the one that goes out and gets groceries for his temple, so he can be found throughout the week considering the merits of branded or unbranded products.

With a lot of coupons. Look, just because they're hard to see doesn't mean he's going to walk out without legitimately paying for those groceries.]

What do you think of the unbranded bread?

D. [If, for whatever reason, you're at a beach. A very particular beach. A beach that seems to be covered in garbage- Izuku is there. Izuku is there and he's moving the garbage around like it's no problem. The garbage that includes carsh, heavy microwaves, refrigerators- he's not fussed.]

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[Listen- he's in the area after a few seconds, long enough for Ken to have finished shoving his nose into the scene. It even looks like he might almost have hustled a little bit, although he slows once the group is in sight.]

Anything else you're picking up on the trail, Ken?

[Ken, when he sees Chikusa is still a few steps behind him, turns back to the small crowd in front of him for a moment, scrutinizing them.] Who're you guys, anyway?

[Not that there's much time for answers or introductions in any case; Chikusa wasn't that far behind. And as soon as he arrives, and directs his question to Ken, Ken seems to lose interest in getting an answer anyway.]

There's gunpowder, byon. She's the one who shot the gun. [He says this authoritatively.] And I think she hit somebody, 'cause I smell other blood than hers... [He lowers his head, sniffing at the blood pool, then prowls around the body until he hits the unfamiliar, different blood.

When he sees it leads away from the body, he grins.] She died here, byon! This blood's from the other one! [And without even a moment's hesitation, he's swapping cartridges - Wolf for Cheetah - with his appearance changing to match. As long as he can see the blood, he reasons, he doesn't need the sharpest nose in his repertoire; he can prioritize for speed.

Of course...good luck to the others keeping up with him when he takes off, at frankly alarming speed.]

[Lavi knew that Chikusa could be somewhat counted on when it comes to the murders. Really, Ken is just an added bonus, especially since the other seems to be...some sort of mutant, he guesses.

Or something.

He listens, head tilted to the side, as he listens to Ken talk. From what he's saying is something they can truly confirm now, but then he watches in mild fascination as Ken seems to shift appearances. So he can change from wolf to cheetah? Lavi feels himself jerking to follow Ken when the other runs off, instinct kicking in as he goes to run after him.]

[Given Ken departs from his question almost immediately after asking it, Shun doesn't bother answering, instead just listening intently as he reads the scents of the scene. Honestly, it's lucky as hell these two happened to be nearby if he's this attuned to following smells, and for the first time in a while, new determination that they might actually track down the killer this time flares in him.

While Shun doesn't know what the swapping cartridges signifies, he can see the faint traces of what appears to be cheetah-like features appearing, and clicks to what that means with enough time to be ready to have to keep up. As soon as Ken takes off, he's following - while Shun's speed certainly isn't superhuman, it's impressive for normal human levels, and he figures right now it's fine if he just keeps Ken in sight rather than even attempting to actively keep up with him anyway.]

[Izuku starts running the moment that Ken takes off. They have a chance to find the murderer and bring them to justice. He's not letting that slip out of his hands. The faster they go, the more likely they'll be able to find them.

He only spares a moment to make a mental note of Ken's quirk. Switches between animal features? He's never seen anything quite like that before.

Izuku, however, can get to superhuman speeds and keep that up for a long time. So he's actually keeping up with Ken just fine.]

[So, uh, have fun keeping up with Ken's cheetah Channel, everyone, Chikusa thinks he'd rather lay right down here and literally expire right next to Scully's own corpse.]

[...Okay. Not quite. However, Chikusa does very notably stay behind in contrast to everyone else taking off running. Lavi's phone will buzz a few seconds after with the reason why.]

Investigating the scene, getting samples, etc. Make Shun pick me up if you actually stay in place for more than 5 min

[Izuku is a surprise; of all the people who might've been able to keep pace with him in the group, he's the one Ken would have suspected the least, and he gets a very baffled sidelong look from Ken as they run. But beyond that, Ken seems to accept it readily enough, and then just focuses on running.

In a few places, the blood trail tapers off enough - or the bleeding is widely spaced enough - that it's not easily visible. Fortunately for the less fleet-footed trackers, Ken pauses at these points, switching channels - sometimes to Wolf, sometimes to Boar; it seems to be random - to sniff his way around the scene, until he finds the trail again. Then it's back to Cheetah Channel, and off he bolts again.

Soon enough, considering the speed Ken is going, they reach a temple, and Ken runs all the way up to the shrine before skidding to a stop. He switches channels back to Wolf again, prowling around the shrine, and eventually growls in frustration.] Dammit, he must've teleported away! The scent just stops, byon!

[He can feel his phone vibrate in his pocket, reasoning that it might be Chikusa since he noticed that the other hadn't come along with them.

As they arrive at the temple, Lavi breathes a bit as he looks around.]

He teleported? [Explains why Ken has stopped and let out a frustrated growl.

Straightening, Lavi cups his chin in thought.] Might've escaped to the Near Shore then. [And he can hope that the trail is fresh there. He peers over at Shun and Izuku.]

Should we try?

[It's useful to have the brief changes so they actually have time to catch up decently before taking off again, though by the time they stop, Shun doesn't seem like he's exerted himself much, at least. Or maybe he's just concealing it, since it's kind of hard to tell with him sometimes.

It makes sense that they would have teleported back at the first opportunity they had, and though Shun grimaces a bit, he nods at Lavi's suggestion.]

Might as well. It could be the only good chance we get to catch them, so unless anyone recognises this shrine and can tell where they would've ended up, it's the only way we'd be able to follow.

[Izuku doesn't even look like he's been running. He doesn't even look winded, but he does look as stressed as ever about this entire situation.]

We don't have anything to lose here. This shrine is probably connected to somewhere on the Near Shore... If they've come this far to teleport- this probably goes to their god's shrine.

[He grabs everybody's hands and teleports them down. He'd be more embarrassed if he wasn't so stressed. The moment they're all there he drops their hands.]

Do you still have a trail?

[Ken shakes himself off convulsively after they've teleported, as though to reorient himself, and then sniffs the air again.] Yeah, I can smell him! [Ken's nose is good enough to be able to discern the murderer as male.

He glances around for a moment, then pauses, frowning.] ...wait, where's the kappa?

[Ken is literally only realizing Chikusa isn't with them now.]

[At the mention of Chikusa, Lavi remembers his cellphone.

He's quick to pull it out, reading the text message that was sent to him before he glances at Ken.]

He decided to stay behind to investigate the scene more. Said to send Shun [A glance at Shun] to go and fetch him if we ended up staying for more than five minutes.

[Shun gives Lavi a rather flat, unimpressed glance back at the passed-on request, but a moment later he sighs somewhat irritably. There's no time to argue the point...and if he's being honest, he has his suspicions as to why Chikusa requested him specifically.]

Figures. Fine then. But for now we need to focus on following the trail. [Hopefully with the matter of where exactly Chikusa is cleared up, Ken will be more willing to head on.]

[He'd be more worried about that if they weren't on the trail right now. Besides, it seems cleared up for now.]

It sounds like it's been sorted out.

[Ken looks warily between the three guys he realizes he doesn't know at all, and considers the absence of the one person he does trust. In the end, he does reluctantly go back to scenting the air, but it's still clear that there's some definite unease without his partner there to give guidance.]

It's this way, byon. [And, after this announcement, he takes off again. The blood trail isn't quite as visually clear anymore, so he's still in Wolf Channel rather than having switched to Cheetah; as a result, he's still fast, but much easier for a human pair of legs to follow. He's keeping his nose close to the ground, running on all fours; with no visual trail left, he has to go by the lingering scent of the blood. Luckily, blood's a pretty easy scent for him to follow.

Soon enough, he's skidding to a stop in front of a convenience store. He sniffs at the door only momentarily - either not noticing or not caring about the CLOSED sign - and then immediately stands upright and tries the door. Upon confirming that it's locked, Ken kicks hard at the door lock, trying to break it.

Subtlety is not in Ken's nature.]

[It's not hard to miss the uneasiness that comes from Ken and Lavi does have half the mind to get Chikusa on the phone if it means easing him for a bit. After all, Ken's their best chance of getting any sort of lead.

But Ken seems to be getting back on track, so he decides to put the thought aside in order to follow him again.

When they arrive at the convenience store, he raises an eyebrow at Ken kicking at the door. If the door doesn't seem like it'll break down soon, he's going over to help kick the door down.]

[As uneasy as Ken seems, as long as he isn't actively complaining about it, Shun's focusing on the task ahead of them. Once they end up in front of a locked door, though, Shun's reaction is exactly as bad as Ken's - as soon as he finishes kicking at the lock, Shun follows up and drives another brutal kick into the poor, innocent door.

If all of them do it then it's got to break sometime, right? Shun can do this breaking down doors thing all day.]

[For gods sake, Izuku and Shun are both gods. Once again, Izuku just teleports them across the doorway-- and immediately feels a sense of regret when there's another dead person on this trail.]

[Ken sniffs briefly at the corpse, wrinkles his nose, and moves away; he can tell one kind of blood from another easily enough, but it's a pretty strong scent. Better not to wallow in it when he needs his sense of smell sharp.

The blood from their quarry is plenty visible in here still, and Ken hardly even needs to follow the trail to track it to the back door. This gets kicked open - maybe Ken's huffy he didn't get to have the fun of breaking down the first door, or maybe he doesn't know any other way to open one; he didn't even check to see if this one was locked - before darting back out into the city.

There's another brief stint of running, and the others may see where they're headed before even Ken does, considering Ken's got his head so close to the ground and seems to be running more on smell than sight. A bus station. Ken skids to a stop when he reaches it, hurriedly sniffs all around - he knows what a bus station means, and he's immediately alarmed by the possibilities - before he growls and kick the bench.]

Dammit, I can't track him now! Even if I could track one specific bus by smell, there must be half a dozen of 'em that come through here and I dunno which one of 'em he got on! Why'd he have to take a bus, byon?!

[So the murderer has killed someone on the Near Shore again. The information is tucked away into Lavi's mind as he takes a cursory glance around the room. It doesn't necessarily seem too bad aside from the corpse and--

There are a few things missing that Lavi manages to notice before Ken moves back out into the city again.

With how fast he moves, the redhead follows after him again until they reach the bus station. Seeing it alone is enough to make him frown and he waits for Izuku and Shun to catch up before he speaks up.]

Any one of you familiar enough the bus routes? We can still manage to figure out where he's gone from here.

[Modern transportation is still something to get used to, so he looks over at Shun and Izuku.]

[Though the dead body in the store gets a passing grimace from Shun, he can't really afford to linger on it right now with how quickly they move on. Much like he doesn't have time to crab at Izuku for not just letting them kick the first door down.

Bus stops aren't exactly Shun's forte nowadays, but at Lavi's suggestion, he starts scanning the area around them. It's not exactly a surprise Ken lost the scent here, but he is right to say they have a shot at picking it up again.]

There might be a map or a timetable around here that says which buses come through here. That'll at least narrow it down so we can check the stops along those routes.

[This isn't the sort of thing he expects any of them are going to know off the top of their heads, but even if they only have a slim chance, they need to take it.]

[They need to find the culprit before they can worry about the dead person, but... there's still a sinking feeling in his gut.

He's not apologizing for kicking the door, it's faster to teleport.

There might be a map or timetable around, but there's also the far more reliable method of checking the times via his phone.]

There's a few different buses. We can teleport along each of their routes and see if the trail is on any of them.

[At a roadblock like this, Ken would normally consult with Chikusa to think of a solution. And, generally, he doesn't trust other people without a good reason. But Chikusa seems to trust these guys enough to let Ken go on without him, and they are presenting him with a solution to a problem that he hadn't considered...so, Ken supposes, they're functional enough substitutes. Plus the teleporting is handy.

He glances between the three of them. Maybe he'd better give them some kind of idea of what he needs...he might not trust them completely, but if not communicating with them means losing the killer, then he'll play nice.] We gotta hurry if I wanna still be able to follow the scent, byon. You can't see the blood anymore, and the more the air moves where this guy's been, the harder it'll be to follow a scent trail. So whatever you guys wanna do, we gotta do it fast, byon.

Teleporting it is then. Rather not waste time.

[He gives Izuku a nod. The faster they'd be able to find the guy, the better. Who knows how much of a headstart the murderer has gotten.]

By the time we even traced one route on foot, the scent would probably be gone. Teleporting is definitely a better idea.

[He nods to Izuku, since he's the one with the information about the stops.] I can step in if you need it, but you've got the information, so it might as well be you who takes us.

[As long as it's quick. Shun doesn't want to lose this guy either.]

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I'm so sorry it took me forever to get back to this

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