5.7 - Shock

Shock

Scene 1 [Maru’s Hideout]
Maru: Regular attacks just aren’t cutting it. The Prince has increased security, and, with how common they are now, the people are getting used to it. We need a new strategy.

Scene 2 [Canon’s Apartment]
[Enter Koiki]
Atsura: Bad things always happen when he walks in.
Koiki: Maru’s made a threat and published it in the paper!
Atsura: See?
Canon: What’s the threat?
Koiki: He says there’s gonna be a surprise at the harbor, and then food prices are gonna go up later.
Canon: He’s targeting the storage silos. I don’t know what he intends to do at the harbor though. It seems that the threat involving the silos will occur later, so I think we’ll have time to check out the harbor.

Scene 3 [The Harbor]
[Enter Atsura]
Atsura: The police won’t let anyone get any closer to the harbor.
Canon: Understandable. I wonder what Maru’s going to try…
[Moments later, people are rushing past them in a panic. As they get past, Canon sees what they’re running from. A warship is speeding towards the harbor. Canon turns and runs. The warship slams into the harbor, wrecking a lot of it.]
Civilian: If the Prince can’t stop him, even after he announced his attack, how can we ever be safe?!
Canon: This is exactly what he wants… Atsura! Koiki! We’re going to the silos, now!

Scene 4 [The Storage Silos]
[Enter Canon, Atsura, and Koiki]
Canon: Chief Soto.
Soto: Canon. Or is it Eru?
Canon: … it’s Eru, in this case.
Soto: So you made the same deduction I did?
Canon: Looks like it.
Soto: What do you think his strategy will be?
Canon: Hm… *looks up at the silos, which, in his mind, turn into dominos* I have an idea…

Scene 5 [Same, but Later]
Maru: *sets explosives at the base of a silo, which explode and knock it over*
Soto: Exactly as you predicted!
Canon: Now our preparations should come into effect…
[The storage silo Maru knocks over explodes.]
Soto: It was a risky strategy, placing explosives in the silo.
Canon: Not as risky as it seems, since the bombs would only go off if there were explosions nearby.
Soto: Either way, it worked. The people will start to regain a bit of hope, since we thwarted him.
Canon: But, we lost a silo. And he still hit the harbor. Something has to be done.

Scene 6 [The Throne-room]
Irakura: Something has to be done.