*RECORDING BEGINS*
"My name is Officer Minato Omaya. I am 28 years old, and--?"
"You don't need to give the damn thing your life story. Just say what the recording is for."
"...Yes, Chief. Um, this recording is being made for the purposes of our investigation of the mass death on the 29th of March, 2011. We believe we have--?"
"Oh, fuck me, give it here!"
*SOUNDS OF MOVEMENT*
"The Mitakihara/Kazamino Police Force have detained a possible "Ring Of Unity" survivor. At this point, it is unknown how he escaped the fate of his comrades. I am joined by Minato Omaya, and will be attempting to guide him through the interrogation."
"Thank you again, Chief."
"Just do what I tell you to do."
"Y-Yes, Chief."
*DOOR OPENS, ECHOING FOOTSTEPS, AND SCRAPING METAL AGAINST CONCRETE*
*10 SEC OF SILENCE*
"Hello, sir. My name is--?"
"Who are you?"
*SHAKY BREATHING*
"I asked you a question."
"Satoshi. Satoshi Haga."
NOTE: SUSPECT DIALOGUE IS ITALICIZED FOR READABILITY
*SUSPECT SEEMS OUT OF BREATH*
"Mr. Haga."
*CHAIR SETTLING*
"Age?"
"24."
"Height?"
"Uh, 5' 10"."
"Mhmm."
*SCRIBBLING ON A NOTEPAD*
"What was your relationship with The Ring?"
"I was a member up until recently."
"Why'd you jump ship?"
"I almost killed a kid."
"What?! What did you--?!"
"Omaya! Quiet."
*SILENCE FOR 5 SEC*
"Care to elaborate on that?"
"...I was in the Ring for... A few months, at the time. They said that the world was gonna end because some guys named the Disciples were gonna kill everyone. She told me I could stop them."
"She?"
"Oh. Uh, the Oracle. I-I don't know her name, everyone just... Called her the Oracle."
"I see. Go on?"
"Right. Now, where was I...? Oh! I had just joined up, got all the initiate stuff done--?"
"What "initiate stuff" are you talking about?"
"It's just general aptitude tests. Like, I put my hand over a crystal ball, and when it glowed a little, they told me I'm not a mage."
*SILENCE FOR 4 SEC*
"I got set up as an errand boy."
"So how does this lead to the attempted murder of a child?"
"I fucked up some of my jobs, I guess. Like, they just told me to get items and supplies from pawn shops and grocery stores, but when I'd bring back what I thought they'd want, I'd get reprimanded."
*SUSPECT COUGHS INTO HAND*
"She'd, um, usually stab me. Then heal the wound."
"Jesus."
"Yeah."
"So, you got put on the fuck-up squad?"
*SUSPECT NODS*
"It was just me and some other guys. I knew one of them since highschool. His name is... Was Iwao Yoshioka."
*SUSPECT SIGHS HEAVILY*
"I went to some cushy apartment complex with him to stop the End Maiden from... Shit, what did the Oracle--! Yeah! She said "The End Maiden cannot be allowed to give birth"!"
"This Oracle lady sounds... Pardon my French, but batshit insane."
"I thought so, too, but a few horrible disaster predictions coming true makes you think."
*SUSPECT LAUGHS AWKWARDLY*
"...Uh, she had sent us after the End Maiden. I thought we were just gonna, like, fight some woman or something. She'd throw magic, we'd fight back, bang bang bang, we win. But... Fuck. She was just some kid."
"And then?"
"Oh, we got our asses beat. BAD. Some completely different kid thrashed us with demons, and another, like, 5 year old starts summoning demons. So, I'm thinking I'm about to die. She's gonna rip me the fuck in half, and that's that."
*SILENCE FOR 6 SEC*
"...Obviously, I'm still alive, so..."
"Right. Keep going."
"She lets us go after healing us. Like, we tried to break in and kidnap your friend! We should be dead! But she... She didn't. She just patched us up, and sent us on our merry way."
*SUSPECT SHIVERS*
"When we got back to our FOB, the Oracle was... Furious. She vaporized the driver with black flames. Threatened to ruin our lives by leaking our loyalty to the Ring to everyone who would listen. She sent me back, alone, to go kill. I couldn't do it."
*SILENCE FOR 7 SEC*
"I trusted Iwao. I trusted him, and he shot me."
"...Oh."
*RECORDING ENDS ABRUPTLY*
