[Well, they could, but in the office there's little things like cameras, recording equipment, fellow Enma who actually care about things like legal rights...
But she does have another solution to Akira's current problem, at least indirectly.]
Well, technically- if it's a bakeneko, of course- it's currently guilty of resisting arrest and assaulting a deputized officer, which certainly won't do it any favors going forward. Much better to cooperate.
[She accompanies the implied threat with a venomous smile, and... well, the bakeneko seems to stop struggling.
Well, that was satisfying. She plucks the now much-less-unruly cat from his hands, and it slumps in defeat.]
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But she does have another solution to Akira's current problem, at least indirectly.]
Well, technically- if it's a bakeneko, of course- it's currently guilty of resisting arrest and assaulting a deputized officer, which certainly won't do it any favors going forward. Much better to cooperate.
[She accompanies the implied threat with a venomous smile, and... well, the bakeneko seems to stop struggling.
Well, that was satisfying. She plucks the now much-less-unruly cat from his hands, and it slumps in defeat.]
That's better.
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... You really know how to handle shit like this, don't you?
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What can I say? I'm a people person.
[Then she lifts the bakuneko none too gently to eye level, the smile getting wider and more unpleasant.]
And that's why you are going to cooperate with us and answer our questions, aren't you?
[The bakuneko gives mewl of protest, but as she keeps staring at it with that slightly-unhinged smile, it finally gives a distinctly un-cat-like nod.]