cowledcrusader | Fourth Night [Action/Voice, Backdated to April 12th]

[Action]

[Naoya and Dilandau are safely behind bars in the tunnels, secured and locked away with no weapons.   And right now he made sure to take every key to the prisons and secure the entrance with a padlock of his own. It should be strong enough to hold anyone attempting to break them out for now.

First thing's first. He needs to track down the woman named Yuzu that Naoya spoke to. She did not sympathize with him, but knows of him and his weapon system.  Possessing Dilandau's COMP, he will actively seek her out for questioning and follow up on any leads he can.]

[Voice]

[After speaking with Yuzu and following up where the leads take him, Batman will reluctantly open a voice communication. Someone has to make the announcement.   He's not much of a talker and he's never been good with people. But it needs to be done.]

Attention, citizens of Luceti. Dilandau and Naoya have been detained in the murder of Kohaku, a fellow citizen of Luceti.   They will remain in custody until such a time that the people of this village agree on a just punishment or until they are properly tried by a court of law.   That is all.

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So the government didn't intervene and let the city tear itself apart. What was he hoping to gain from all of these demons being summoned?

He wanted to make Hero a demon overlord.

[and she's completely serious]

[...That doesn't make sense. At all. Why... why would he want to do... Wait. His target was an angel here. And he deals with demons on a regular basis. Is he dealing with an agent of Hell itself? Couldn't be.]

...Why? What was so special about your friend that made Naoya target him for that?

I don't know. But somehow, it had to be Hero. There are a bunch of demons with the name 'Bel' and they're fighting to see who gets to be king... one of them attacked us, and when Hero beat him he got his power. But Naoya seemed to know that was going to happen.

Sounds like he had plenty of experience dealing with these demons directly. What happened to Hero? Did he become the Overlord like Naoya desired, or did he resist?

Well... he hadn't decided what to do yet.

I see. And Naoya... he's still looking for another demon overlord?

I told you, it had to be Hero. Naoya, the angels... everything gets shoved on him.

[A truly focused obsession, it seems. Not unlike many criminals in Gotham. Time to switch back to the issue of the COMP.]

These devices. Clearly they're capable of doing more than summoning demons if they function in Luceti. Dilandau claimed they gave him magic.

Yeah. You can "crack" the skills demons use and then use them yourself.

... So they're a conduit to tap into demonic power for humans to access.

That's pretty much it.

Are there any known side effects from using that power?

Not that I know... [...] That woman said learning to summon here would break our world, though. If she teaches Naoya...

[she trails off. Batman can make the connection.]

It would mean armageddon for your world.

...Right now, Naoya won't be summoning anything. His COMP is no longer a factor.

[And hopefully she will too.]

You're keeping it, then?

[as far as she knows, the one on the table between them is one of the only three in Luceti...]

No.

[He opens a compartment on his utility belt and produces the other COMP, which literally has a hole through the top screen as though someone threw a shuriken at it. He sets that one on the table as well. It... pretty much looks totaled because of that.]

[She's more concerned by its existence.] Two of them?

You didn't know he had more than one?

No, well... Unless he took Hero's before he left, but it doesn't look like his, either.

...So he's manufacturing new ones. Who else knows about these devices?

Just me and Atsuro... well, I've told a couple of friends. I don't know who Atsuro's told.

What does Atsuro know about all of this?

Oh... Sorry, I thought you would've heard about him already. [because he's Batman. Though it makes more sense why he decided to talk to her, now.] He's a friend who was with me and Hero in the lockdown. He's a huge computer nerd too so if you want to know about how the COMPs actually work you should probably ask him.

[Now he's getting somewhere. And in Batman's defense, Atsuro's ace at filtering. But he'll nod at Yuzu in return.]

Keep yours hidden at all times. The last thing we need is for something like that to fall in the wrong hands.

You may want to learn a new way to defend yourself. If Naoya designed something like this, he meant it to benefit himself.

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