['There's no target to sink your teeth into here'. Geez, thanks. Way to drive home that feeling of uselessness. His injuries still hurt intensely; it's hard for him to reason out their situation, and the courses of action available to them.]
It might not so impossible. They could be lying about not kidnapping us, and this is how things are outside Japan.
[Maybe someone tampered with his head in the meantime and that's why he can't remember what Gino does, why he can see everyone's Hues; some piece of tech roughly shoved into his brain to do its own partial cymatic scans.
...It's grasping at straws, though. He's read the imPort FAQ, and the welcome guide. He's even looked over the network. People talk about their superpowers all the time, and many of them claimed to have them back in their homes, homes whose names he doesn't even recognize. He can get as conspiracy theory as he wants about all this, but the evidence is against him. As a detective, he can't overlook all that. Eventually, he sighs.]
...Or maybe I just want all this to make more sense than it does, but pretend I'm still arguing for the first option.
[The news about Funahara Yuki is sobering, though. All of that mess, for naught. He wonders if maybe he shouldn't have gone in alone after all, though he doesn't regret telling Tsunemori to stay back when he did. If they'd let everyone know and tried to go through the official channels, though...it might have turned out this way in the end, anyway, when their kidnappers grew angry at being deprived of the plaything they'd wanted. He closes his eyes for a moment while a mild spasm of pain washes over him before addressing the portable information terminal communicator again.]
That's unfortunate. ...But it sounds like her Psycho-Pass is still stable, at the least, so it's one thing to be grateful for.
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It might not so impossible. They could be lying about not kidnapping us, and this is how things are outside Japan.
[Maybe someone tampered with his head in the meantime and that's why he can't remember what Gino does, why he can see everyone's Hues; some piece of tech roughly shoved into his brain to do its own partial cymatic scans.
...It's grasping at straws, though. He's read the imPort FAQ, and the welcome guide. He's even looked over the network. People talk about their superpowers all the time, and many of them claimed to have them back in their homes, homes whose names he doesn't even recognize. He can get as conspiracy theory as he wants about all this, but the evidence is against him. As a detective, he can't overlook all that. Eventually, he sighs.]
...Or maybe I just want all this to make more sense than it does, but pretend I'm still arguing for the first option.
[The news about Funahara Yuki is sobering, though. All of that mess, for naught. He wonders if maybe he shouldn't have gone in alone after all, though he doesn't regret telling Tsunemori to stay back when he did. If they'd let everyone know and tried to go through the official channels, though...it might have turned out this way in the end, anyway, when their kidnappers grew angry at being deprived of the plaything they'd wanted. He closes his eyes for a moment while a mild spasm of pain washes over him before addressing the
portable information terminalcommunicator again.]That's unfortunate. ...But it sounds like her Psycho-Pass is still stable, at the least, so it's one thing to be grateful for.