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The brightly dressed man begins to drag the now headless corpse outside of the shop.
>-1 RESTRAINT TO YOU! 4/9 RESTRAINT LEFT!
[SCHOLAR OF THE CITY] A complete distain towards those who break their rules. Regardless of how petty the crime or how worthless the offense. That is how they keep their order.
[SCHOLAR OF THE CITY] All it might've took was one or two offenses by P-Company to cause L-Corp to hate them.
[UNSTABLE] WAIT, SHOULDN'T THEY BE DEAD THEN? IF THEY GET INTO FIGHTS WITH OTHER COMPANIES OVER NOTHING?
[PERSON OF INTEREST] Perhaps. But they seem to punish those who slighted them first. They seemed more reactive than proactive. P-Corp had to do something to them first.
Hm. Food for thought.
"I'll be honest, this is dense. Even for me." Maruyama interrupts your thought as the three of you eventually arrive at the movie theater. "I'll try to explain the best I can, though."
The movie theater, aside from having some specks of color besides white in the form of the movie posters, is pretty damn small. Probably an independent one. Barely any cars are parked outside, you count about five total, though there's a modest amount of foot traffic heading in and out of the theater. Probably no more than 100 people inside.
"It's a whole lot of legal jargon and, to be quite frank, bullshit. Most corporate papers are like that. Most of it is just R and P-Company trying to arrange a partnership over protecting their facilities or S plus L-Corp arguing over the price of lightbulbs or something." Maruyama flips over to one specific page. "Though one caught my eye."
"<span class="mu-b">Apparently L, P, and S-Corp were working on a project a few years back. Apparently U-Corp and R-Corp were signed on as potential investors but U-Corp backed out. A lot of it is redacted but they talk a lot about "PARADIGM REFRACTION", whatever that means."</span>" Maruyama closes the ledger.
"The thing that rubs me the wrong way is L-Corp talking a lot about the <span class="mu-b">'blossoming potential within the perspectives of humanity'</span> or whatever. Apparently P and S-Corp felt the same and they backed out. Now L-Corp's pissy."
Maruyama shakes his head while chuckling to himself. "Their fault for trying to step into P-Corp's market with the whole 'oh we'll produce energy too!!!' despite P-Corp already having that market." He keeps his tone low to make sure no one overhears him. <<span class="mu-b">"Rather not get killed here. I know what the people here do when they get pissy."</span>>
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] Ah. That was probably P-Corp's main offense with L-Corp. Why is L-Corp interested in PARADIGMs, though?
"Anyways. Mind if I keep this?"
>"Sure." (-LEDGER, Maruyama will call you every day to offer you some more information from the Ledger.)
>"Maybe later. I'll keep it for now." (You might be able to get some more perspectives on it from Alexis, Max, or Gregory.)
Before you can even answer him, Kiara begins dragging the two of you inside of the theater. Welp! Movie time!