[School Repeat Investigation Log]

[sweetdeath]

Who: Tsuzuki Asato and all other planned participants!
Where: The school from the April 5th ayakashi attack
When: April 18th
What: Log for Tsuzuki's planned school investigation. There are still questions he'd like to see answered. Here is where they'll go work it out!
Warnings: None at the moment; will update if this changes!

[It's a normal-looking Monday morning at the school... so normal that it's as if the events of a week and a half ago never happened. It seems like there are more students here than before, and the rest of the teachers have returned from their sick leave and can be seen in the classrooms or keeping order in the halls.

The school year is winding swiftly down towards its end, as the last of the Near Shore cherry blossoms fall and tulips bloom in the flowerbeds on the school grounds.

But what really did happen here? And why?

There are a few new faces here, ready to find out....]

Comments

[herbalsupplements]

[Fortunately, wards are one of the reasons Kurama's here instead of tagging along with the others who went back to the school. His senses are on high alert, but all he notices are a few spots radiating power out back, with more and smaller spots scattered about inside.]

No wards, either, but he is collecting power. I'll go empty his rain barrels.

[He blinks out of existence and then in again, crouched under a window visible from where Nagi and Omi are still standing; from here he can also see part of the backyard, and more importantly one of the so-called rain barrels. It's a set of markings on the grass itself, drawing in power but never seeming to grow any stronger. Fascinating.

It shouldn't take much effort to deal with, so he tosses Nagi and Omi a thumbs-up and then moves further into the backyard to get a better look.]

[oneblackcat]

[After collaborating with Kurama for their mission plan, Omi transports with him and Nagi to the principal's house. Some of the tasks on their agenda were ones only Kurama could handle, so it made sense for them to split up. He watches Kurama teleport to the side of the house, and from there give them the OK and slip further towards the backyard.

Omi takes hold of Nagi's forearm to teleport them to the back door. It's less conspicuous there. It will be up to Nagi to unlock the door so that they can enter the house without creating a disturbance.]

[cyberfly]

[ Collecting power? Interesting. That's not exactly how Nagi's power works, but it sounds like a handy thing. If Nagi could store his psion energy to use for one big concentrated burst, he could find a use for that.

He nods at Omi when they arrive with a flash at the back door. He proceeds to feel out the lock on the other side. It's a flip deadbolt, easily maneuvered. If a key was necessary, he would have had to concentrate harder to get the locking mechanism aligned just so. The door unlocks but he doesn't open it until he gets Omi's queue. ]

[herbalsupplements]

[While Nagi and Omi move to handle the door, Kurama handles the rain barrels. The energy moving through the marked patches of grass means there's no room for his own energy, but there's so much more grass in the yard that that's hardly a problem. He reaches out, concentrating to coordinate hundreds of blades of grass, and then in one instant turns them all into sharp, slicing blades that sever the marked grass neatly from its roots.

The principal still has more such collectors inside, but they all have a much lower capacity than his grass circles, so he should be weakening already.]

Yard's clear.

[oneblackcat]

[Based on the absence of indoor lighting coming out the window, it's probably safe to say the room they're slipping in through is currently empty, but Omi uses a mirror to check anyway. Once Kurama gives the clear on the yard, Omi nods to Nagi as the go-ahead to open the door.]

Point of entry is clear. We're going in.

[cyberfly]

[ Nagi nods back and gently tugs the knob. The door falls open and he enters quickly, his feet falling silently on the floor. He clears the back hallway and kitchen, staying as close to the walls as possible, so as not to be seen. Though they are generally invisible to Near Shore residents, you never know what kind of powers this principal has.

He pauses at the entrance to the living room, as he hears a shuffling on the other side of the wall. He's here. Nagi glances at Omi to make sure he's caught on to the sound, too. ]

[herbalsupplements]

[Most of the remaining energy collectors seem to be in other parts of the house, so Kurama slinks off in the other direction to the area with the next greatest concentration: a small office, normal-looking but for a scattering of dolls and small rocks all marked with the sigil he'd seen in the yard.

Easy enough. Kurama pulls a rose from his hair and circles the room, methodically stabbing every instance of the sigil with a magically reinforced stem. Each blow makes their target a little bit weaker still.]

[oneblackcat]

[Omi follows Nagi inside just as quietly. With how little noise they're making, it's easy to catch the hints of activity on the other side of the wall. He has to wonder if the principal can feel the loss of the energy reserves. If so, the element of surprise may already be gone, although none of the sounds suggest he's in a state of alarm...

Either way, they should stay put for now and wait for Kurama to finish disabling the magic reserves.]

[cyberfly]

[ They wait in total silence, calmly waiting for the moment to move, a subtle verbal cue from Kurama that it is safe to move in. And when he gives the signal, it'll be as easy as pinching a vessel on the man's throat and waiting for the stopped blood flow to knock him unconscious. Nagi can easily do this without even touching him, and it'll be over in a minute. ]

[herbalsupplements]

[To be quite frank, if the principal didn't notice them the instant Kurama took out his yard, he's unlikely to notice the loss of the smaller collectors Kurama's destroying now. He's finished the office, though, cutting their target off from more than 90% of his power, so Kurama pokes his head out the office door and whispers his update to the others.]

Office clear.

[If his estimates of the principal's power are correct, Omi and Nagi should be able to strike now with little trouble. Kurama's still going to teleport upstairs to start breaking most of the remaining collectors, just to be safe.]

[oneblackcat]

[Omi was including the reserves in the yard in his thought-- there's no discrepancy in the logic.

Hearing the clear of the office, Omi nods to Nagi and whispers.]

Go for it.

[cyberfly]

[ That's all he needs to hear. Nagi peers around the door frame so he can have a visual on the principal. He aims for the throat and squeezes. The guy gives a hollow suck of breath but can't quite make a sound. It's a delicate thing. You can't squeeze too hard, or you might break something.

After a minute, the principal blacks out and crumples to the floor. ]

We're securing him now.

[ He says into the comm. Nagi pulls out the zipties and steps into the room to tie the guy up. ]

[herbalsupplements]

[Kurama pulls out his phone to take pictures of a few remaining glyph-covered dolls and stones, then makes short work of destroying the last of them and bringing his part of the job to an end.]

His magic is as disconnected as I can make it. We shouldn't have to worry about further jello attacks.