Dammit, keibu! KID growled. He wanted answers, but the inspector wouldn’t give him any! There has to be some way…
Ah! Perfect! He coughed, changing his voice as he dialed again. The voice would be good- he just hoped everything else would fit.
“Nakamori, this is Superintendent Hakuba. I’ve been trying to contact my son, but I can’t reach him. Do you know where he is?”
The inspector was much more cordial and startled upon hearing that voice. Oh shit. The Superintendent General! “We’re trying to find him right now, sir, don’t worry… we have cleanup and rescue crews combing the building, but we think he might be under the debris…"
It wasn’t good news at all, but at least Nakamori was being up front about it.
"There’s a good chance that he’s managed to get out and we just haven’t seen him, but we’re doing everything that we can to comb through. We’re working on the south end of the building right now, sir, and we’ll give you updates the moment we have them."
As the crews worked, the concrete shifted. Metal rebars bent and moaned under the stress of being moved with so much weight on top of them.
Hakuba was dimly aware that he was in danger and that it was difficult to breathe, but he could not muster the strength to do anything about it. Nothing at all…
…so dark…