The Clock's Second Roar

For transparency's sake:

The Mayor's Office and Sector Security are under investigation by the government for fraud, corruption, faking of documents, overly positive support to 'the freaks of nature' (The monsters), and other supposed crimes. Namely I allowed the Heartland incident to happen.

There's pressure on me to step down to allow the government to insert a 'caretaker' mayor who conveniently agrees with all of the government's positions.

And Leo Corp and Kaiba Corp are about to get microscoped as well.

I can of course keep my job if I deport all the 'foreign children' attending Duel Academia. Same for Mr. Haita if he's willing to arrest the violent murderous gang attacking free speech advocates protesting at the school.

noriko do something soon

So, going over notes from several meetings, and public comments and comments from the staff involved are encouraged, what I'm seeing from the "Sector Security" project is the following:

The project is a Private-Public Partnership under the supervision and control of the Mayor's office with heavy input from the major contributing corporations.

The Top Teams of Leo Corp are best equipped for 'beat cop' and 'investigator' roles, and staff from them will be siphoned and trained into said roles. Mostly due to them having a quasi street cop role and interaction with the public in Maiami and on Leo Corp property.

Kaiba Corp seems best equipped for Anti-Terrorism and SWAT and the like, basically the big guns, but my main concern is I'm not sure how many actual human beings run Kaiba Corp, as the only contact to management I can find is a Ms. Desu Anna, and I'm concerned their cops aren't human and aren't monsters, and has anyone actually seen the Kaiba Brothers in public.

OOPARTS seems best equipped for special investigations into the supernatural and the occult and the flat out strange. But there are panicked notes by Onni citing "do not name the new division SpecInv, if you do, time is a square circle, and I will wake up being 15 again."

Onni seems to be the only one the major players trust to be unbiased in day-to-day operations of managing the new project, with Ms. Mikata as his secretary(?)

Special Consul and Contact to B.E.A.S.T. will be Officer Tenjo Kaito and the special contact to B.E.A.S.T.'s oversight committee will be the Scion of Hyperborea.

Also, there's hurried notes in here about Onni being tired of going on a Milk, Eggs and Meat run for Shiroko, and ending up in a time loop that involves a Lich and some Temple for the 4th time in a row.

Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Shooting the Breeze.

So I'd like public opinion as the (new) Mayor.

As one of my first major acts as mayor, besides keeping up Old Man Domino's "Mayor's Daily Quiz" (since much of the power is held by Kaiba Corp typically) (and I'm not convinced that guy wasn't a ghost or an entity representing the concept of Domino as a whole), I'm planning on defunding the police.

Services will be split between a "Public Aid" Unit of like healthcare and social workers, along with help from SAI for the usual things they cover, and...

SOL's Cyber Security Specialists, Leo Corp's Top Team, Kaiba Corp's Special Ops and OOPARTS, with consolatory help from B.E.A.S.T. as a result of turnover with them, from a permanently staffed officer.

It might not be 100% defunding but.

I went into a meeting and asked them what they planned to do about the tripling to quintupling of Duel Spirit acitivity in the city since Halloween... and I got promptly told that's just Swamp Gas, Weather Balloons and the Sun creating mirages.

I then unfolded my wings and let my eyes go red, and I think I gave the police representative a stroke.

So.

Thoughts?

And yes I'm aware of the issues of highly privatized police forces, but it's either a hodge podge of security forces that DO acknowledge and WILL deal with the problems or a police force that refuses as hard policy to acknowledge Duel Spirits exist.

And yes I am planning on building a city on top of the city in the long run.

I think my office should no longer be a problem.

... And I should probably hire staff to run my business at this point...

... I think I might of signed off on a deal that led to a ton of dominos falling to well.

Massive construction in Domino, starting with TOPS.

While I was half asleep.

And now I'm awake and I'm up to my ass in complaints from environmental groups and anti-gentrification groups.

The lesson here:

Don't make deals half asleep and get more staff who will deal with complaints.

I think I have a problem when I tried to commit going to the SJL a few... weeks? months? ago.

And then time slipped and I didn't notice.

Also, sunlight burns my eyes.

You think your life becomes normal...

Ugh. The outside area of TOPS at the bottom level looks like a bomb went off. 'Cuz someone or something basically smashed Seiya like a rag doll. She seems conscious but ugh. I think I'm going to need Noriko to help with this because she seems like a total utter mess with whatever happened to her.

So, how do you get a special magical dragon, again?

My mouth tastes like Prada.