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[attr="class","venomscroll"]There were gray skies overhead, and Detective Ko had found a dead body. She sighed—this was going to be a mess. [break][break]

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It was 8:02 A.M., metropolitan Tokyo, half a mile away from U.A.U., and it was crowded. The body had been here since nighttime, that’s all she knew. She got the call and was on her way within minutes. The body was huge—the man had the quirk of a rhino, clearly, so it was all the more surprising it took this long for anyone to notice and bother calling the police.[break][break]

Perhaps it was because he was so heavy that the body wasn’t even hidden all that well. Left near a dumpster, not even thrown in. He must have weighed hundreds, perhaps over a thousand pounds, so she couldn’t blame whoever killed him for not doing the dirty work. Behind her, voices started to build and mix together.[break][break]

“God damnit,” she muttered, waving over a uniformed officer. “Why aren’t you guys keeping the lookers at bay? Idiot.” Just as she finished berating him, a bystander ran underneath the police tape and snapped a photo of the body before being grabbed by two officers. Detective Ko sighed and turned away from the crowd. It was much easier to deal with the dead body than all of these people.[break][break]

She knelt down and studied the rhino’s face. The officers had already found his identification: Niju Hon. There weren’t many people with rhino quirks, and apparently this one was somewhat famous. But right now, she was noticing something more curious. She pulled out her recording device—old school, but she preferred it.[break][break]

“Blunt force trauma around the neck and head. Rest of the body seemingly unharmed. Will have to wait for M.E. to confirm. Most likely dead for at least 3 hours, based on bruising. Initial cause of death is—” she paused, kneeling closer to Niju’s very dead, yet very expressive face. “Victim’s mouth is open. Foreign substance seems to be present.”[break][break]

She stood up quickly and backed away from the body. “Hey, you!” she pointed at the nearest uniform. “Take a sample of what’s in his mouth.”[break][break]

“Why?” the officer asked.[break][break]

“It’s poison.”[break][break]

After putting on gloves and a mask, he ran off to follow her orders. It would be crucial to run the tests, but Detective Ko already knew enough. This wasn’t just poison, it was venom. Someone’s quirk had made its way into this rhino, and he had died. All she had to do was figure out exactly who did it, and why.[break][break]

She paced around the scene, talking briefly with the officers, gathering information. All the while, she began to notice the commotion building around the scene. This wasn’t normally the hub of the city, but once people heard of a murder, they decided to see it for themselves. Perhaps they thought of themselves as detectives, or maybe one of them did it.

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[attr="class","pinscroll"]There were gray skies overhead, and Detective Ko had found a dead body. She sighed—this was going to be a mess. [break][break]

—[break][break]

It was 8:02 A.M., metropolitan Tokyo, some half dozen blocks from Shinjuku Station, and it was crowded. The body had been here since nighttime, that’s all she knew. She got the call and was on her way within minutes. The body was huge—the man had the quirk of a rhino, clearly, so it was all the more surprising it took this long for anyone to notice and bother calling the police.[break][break]

Perhaps it was because he was so heavy that the body wasn’t even hidden all that well. Left near a dumpster, not even thrown in. He must have weighed hundreds, perhaps over a thousand pounds, so she couldn’t blame whoever killed him for not doing the dirty work. Behind her, voices started to build and mix together.[break][break]

“God damnit,” she muttered, waving over a uniformed officer. “Why aren’t you guys keeping the lookers at bay? Idiot.” Just as she finished berating him, a bystander ran underneath the police tape and snapped a photo of the body before being grabbed by two officers. Detective Ko sighed and turned away from the crowd. It was much easier to deal with the dead body than all of these people.[break][break]

She knelt down and studied the rhino’s face. The officers had already found his identification: Niju Hon. There weren’t many people with rhino quirks, and apparently this one was somewhat famous. But right now, she was noticing something more curious. She pulled out her recording device—old school, but she preferred it.[break][break]

“Blunt force trauma around the neck and head. Rest of the body seemingly unharmed. Will have to wait for M.E. to confirm. Most likely dead for at least 3 hours, based on bruising. Initial cause of death is—” she paused, kneeling closer to Niju’s very dead, yet very expressive face. “Victim’s mouth is open. Foreign substance seems to be present.”[break][break]

She stood up quickly and backed away from the body. “Hey, you!” she pointed at the nearest uniform. “Take a sample of what’s in his mouth.”[break][break]

“Why?” the officer asked.[break][break]

“It’s poison.”[break][break]

After putting on gloves and a mask, he ran off to follow her orders. It would be crucial to run the tests, but Detective Ko already knew enough. This wasn’t just poison, it was venom. Someone’s quirk had made its way into this rhino, and he had died. All she had to do was figure out exactly who did it, and why.[break][break]

She paced around the scene, talking briefly with the officers, gathering information. All the while, she began to notice the commotion building around the scene. This wasn’t normally the hub of the city, but once people heard of a murder, they decided to see it for themselves. Perhaps they thought of themselves as detectives, or maybe one of them did it.