Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:RailgunSS3 Chapter6 (section)

===Part 3===

“Can’t we get him to talk?”

“Inoue Kasha has worked as a front line Anti-Skill officer for a while, so he knows all the ways we gather data and try to rattle people. That was his specialty, after all.”

Two adults were discussing that.

Of course, their voices did not reach the other side of the thick glass.

The actual questioning was being held in the adjacent room. The people in there could not see the people here. Through the glass, two men were seated on opposite sides of a table. The chairs and table would be bolted to the floor. As an interrogation room, they could not leave anything there the suspect could use as a weapon.

And.

A honey blonde girl cut by behind the Anti-Skill Officers observing the adjacent room with stern looks on their faces. Except she could have strutted by in front of them and neither of them would have noticed her.

She tilted her head in front of the machinery, placed a white-gloved finger on her slender chin, and finally flicked off a few switches with a pause between each one to check what she was doing.

She had switched off all the audio and visual recording.

With her preparations complete, she reached for the knob to the adjacent room.

Shokuhou Misaki.

She used Mental Out, strongest of the purely psychological powers.

When she opened the door, the voice within reached her directly.

“Inoue, this is the end for you. Stalling in hopes of a plea deal will only leave a bad impression on the lay judges. Do you want to cause trouble for your innocent family?”

“Hi, Mr. Suspect☆ Can you see me?”

Of the two men seated across each other at the bolted-down table, the girl stood behind the Anti-Skill officer who looked close to tears.

And she looked past that proper officer’s head to face the suspect.

Inoue Kasha.

The organization’s hitman finally showed some abnormalities in his perspiration and heartrate.

He quickly tried to stand up from his chair, but it was too late.

He was not strapped down, but he could not move. Not his hands, not his legs, not anything.

It only took the click of TV remote.

The #5 Queen brought her empty hand’s finger to her lips.

“He reacted to that. Try using his family to shake him further. But going too far could make him regain his cool, so keep a proper distance.”

An off-base instruction reached the Anti-Skill officer’s ear via short-range radio, but Shokuhou did not care.

She laughed and pulled another TV remote from the bag hanging over her shoulder.

“Tell – me – eeeeverything. You get no secret-keeping ability here. Nothing remains hidden.”

The diligent Anti-Skill officer did not look back her way.

He did not even notice her.

Only Inoue Kasha trembled while unable to get up from his seat.

“Ah, ah…!!”

“Just to be clear, I am not in the mood to play nice today.”