(when they arrive, it's nothing more than just...the bare bones. Lots of debris, lots of ashes. The reason why the city decided not to clean it up, or even bulldoze it? They looked at it as a possible arson case, and they intended to solve it one day.)
(Catherine starts to tear up, but she wipes her face...)
Victoria: Mom, are you all right?
Catherine: Y-yeah...I will be.
Andreus: Oh, my God...
Joel: D-damn...Cath. I never knew that...
Dana: No one did. No one knew how bad the fire really was...
Catherine: ...except for me. And my family, as I told them the story.
Kelsey: (to the entire Grayson family) Catherine, guys, we'll be here if you need us!
(the family nods solemnly...)
Catherine: Let's get started, guys. We'll need to split up. If you find anything, let me know.
Alyx: Right.
(and so they split up: Catherine goes with Kotohime and Alyx, Spirit!Rika, Michael, and Ryan are in another team, Victoria, Joel, and Kelsey are in the third team, Dana, Chad, and Andreus are in the final team...they head off and search for clues)
Kotohime: *looks around, poking around in burnt bookshelves and similar* Uhm...exactly what are we looking for?
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Kris: (@Jack) How are you doing?
And it's so easy when you're evil... This is the life for me, the Devil tips his hat to me...
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Vivian: No need to worry about your back yet again.
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EXCELLENT. TRULY, EXCELLENT.
Jack: -to Kris- "I'm doing well."
-to Vivian- "Oh, right. Completely forgot. Silly me." ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Catherine: Something that'll link Golomois to the crime...
(she then starts to look through the ashes)
Alyx: ...I never knew how big your house looked. :/
Catherine: You should have seen it when it wasn't engulfed in...
(her voice falters. She shakes her head and continues to search)
-Kotohime gives Catherine a comforting pat on her back, then resumes searching as well.-
Kotohime: If there was forensic evidence here, it may have been lost in time. But if he really was behind this, he should have left magical residue behind or something.
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(Catherine nods, and she smiles at Kotohime)
Catherine: T-true...
(then Alyx feels something)
Alyx: ?
Kotohime: Alyx? What is it?
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(Alyx dusts off...a tiny sword fragment)
Alyx: ...nearly stabbed myself with it. Gotta be careful.
(Catherine calls everyone aside)
Chad: ...you guys really think his sword caused the fire?
Alyx: It's a possibility. Or it could be possible that a scuffle was going on. We don't know.
Kotohime: What kind of blade is that? Do we know someone who can identify it?
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Kris: ...Hmm...
-He looks at everyone in the lobby.-
And it's so easy when you're evil... This is the life for me, the Devil tips his hat to me...
Catherine: We do need to take it to someone, we don't know what it belongs to. First, though, we'll have to see if there are any more clues.
(she continues to go through the ashes...)
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Kotohime: ...Catherine? Does the house have a cellars? It may have been spared the wrath of the flames.
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Catherine: ...actually, yeah, we do have a cellar. Now that I think about it more...
(she carefully goes through the wreckage, and she finds the doors. She removes the pillars by slashing them with her Ebony Sword of Devouring, opens it up, and she coughs as the ashes and dust flies by. Somehow, there are some cobwebs here and there as a result of it never being opened for many years...a likely miss for the previous investigators, since the pillars made it pretty easy to cover the doors)
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Kotohime: Oh my...dusty but this place may hold what we seek...
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(Catherine nods...and Spirit!Rika shows up)
Spirit!Rika: I don't know how dusty this is...obviously, very dusty...but I'll take the lead. I'll let you guys know if I find anything, 'k?
Catherine: If you're sure...
(Spirit!Rika nods, and she flies into the cellar)
Ryan: I'll remove the cobwebs. (takes out his morpher) TITANIUM POWER! (morphs into the Titanium Ranger, his Titanium Laser at the ready)
Joel: We'll shine a light for you guys. (he and the other Rangers, sans Ryan, take out flashlights, and they shine a light onto the path)
(Ryan uses the laser's Axe Mode to slash through the cobwebs, and the group follows)
(...meanwhile, Spirit!Rika's looking for clues...)
-Enter-
Are you not entertained?
-Kotohime follows behind the cobweb-clearers and looks for anything that might be a clue.-
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Vivian:-Unblanks-
Oh, hey Luca, Martin, Garcie...um...all you cats.
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(Catherine also tries, as well as the entire group. Spirit!Rika then looks at something...)
Spirit!Rika: What is it?
Michael: You found something, Rika?
Spirit!Rika: I think so.
(Catherine looks over...)
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Kris: Hi Luca...
And it's so easy when you're evil... This is the life for me, the Devil tips his hat to me...
Kotohime: ...what is that?
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Vivian: Oh. Yeah, I find a good dose of denial helps.
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