Half to Whole: Case Notes

When Lien Twining discovered a guy trapped in the basement of the Horadori Institute of Genetics, he dropped a new case focused on the mysterious and extremely uncooperative "Kubo Uru" directly into ABIS' lap. Detectives Kuranushi Mizuki and Ryuki Kuruto have a lot on their plate now with this ongoing investigation, but this is not their investigation. These are their shared case notes.
Or, in other words, to prevent Half to Whole from having the most bloated word count of any fanfic ever posted to ao3, I decided the appendices and all their myriad updates would be better off in a separate fic in the same series. The word count balloons exponentially with every chapter update for h2w and is not indicative of how much there is to read; it's a consequence of trying to do appendices that update. It's not meant to be read as a standalone, but as a companion to Half to Whole, and it will not make any sense without reading that so read it and see just what happens. Or don't. Who am I to tell [you] what to do?
Well, regardless, the rules are inside.

Notes:

Hello dear reader! Couple of things to note:
1) These case notes update every single time someone from ABIS has a POV scene. Not every chapter, every time a scene is in their POV. There are a lot of these. I think they're fun.
2) Each chapter correlates to one POV scene. I have labelled each chapter for which one, however, I know that my labels do not actually indicate what happened in the plot, so to make things easier, I've loaded each one of these with a return link to the scene it would have been directly under before I realized my word count would go to hell. I've also put a link on the scenes in a fic that have a case note that will do the opposite and transport a reader to the case note they're at. I try to be convenient.
3) These use little emotes to indicate status changes, like NEW and UPDATED etc. They're easy to pick up on.
4) The internal links will not work right if this fic is read in show all chapters mode so just don't even try it. I refuse to learn to count that high to make that work, and also I did all that other shit so that these could be read alongside the actual fic don't be like this okay?
5) This fic will update pretty frequently while I'm playing catch up with myself and then once I'm caught up it will update when H2W does AKA once every 100000000000 years.
Now, workskins aren't obligatory for these, although they make things look more fun and game accurate and also the images are fuckin massive without em fair warning, however for work skin users I have one humble request: please don't fucking read this on mobile in portrait mode. PLEASE. In an ideal world, I'd be able to use an @media query to make these a lot more responsive, and so the 2 column format that's canon to the games would be 1 column only for smaller screens, AKA how literally every website in existence works, but...ao3 doesn't allow for that, so my two columns are permanent no matter how tiny the screens are, and they look fucking atrocious on mobile especially in portrait mode. Mobile and columns do not get along. Again this is why every website in existence doesn't use them on mobile. It's like. Better in landscape mode, I will tolerate landscape mode, but choose love and beauty and DO NOT READ THESE IN PORTRAIT MODE ON MOBILE OKAY????? Also to anyone asking "why not make it just one column then" because it looks so bad without two columns on any device that isn't a smartphone in portrait mode and I chose game accurate ugliness over game inaccurate ugliness.
To anyone not using workskins, although I think it's easy to figure out by simply scrolling, the pagination-esque buttons are tied to character above them, not the one below them. I put this feature in in part so that even people who don't want to use work skins can fast navigate between updated pages and not scroll for 600 years.
The wonderful artists will be credited for their specific contributions every single fuckin chapter I owe them my life, but right out the gate all artwork in this fic is the work of Noa and Dy.

Chapter 1: Chapter 2 Mizuki Scene

Notes:

All art featured this chapter is the work of Noa.

Chapter Text

Case Notes

Persons Records

Persons

🆕"Kubo Uru"

🆕Kuranushi Mizuki

🆕Aiba

🆕Lien Twining

🆕Date Kaname

🆕Kuranushi "Boss" Shizue

🆕Amanoma "Pewter" Fuuta

"Kubo Uru"

Name: くぼ・うるう

Gender: Man?

Age: ~30

Birthday: TBD

Occupation: Not a Horadori Institute Researcher ⟨I would assume that was obvious -Aiba⟩

Likes: TBD

Dislikes: Being Underground

Hobbies: TBD

Skills: TBD

Overview: Claims to have trapped himself in the basement for one day. Gave a fake name, but he resembles Furue Jin.

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Kuranushi Mizuki

Name: 暮主・水晶

Gender: Woman-Lite

Age: 20

Birthday: August 10th, 1999

Occupation: Undercover ABIS Special Agent

Likes: Battle Anime, Fighting Games, Family

Dislikes: Horadori, Nosy People, Puzzle Games

Hobbies: Journaling, Gaming, Keeping Tabs on Mizu

Skills: Kicking Ass, Stealth Missions, Injecting Medication

Overview: A designer baby created at the Horadori Institute, she was raised at Aioen until she was ten years old, when she was taken in by the Chieda family. Boss adopted her four years ago and puts her on top secret missions for ABIS.

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Aiba

Name: アイボゥ

Gender: Female, According to Settings

Age: 5

Birthday: November 9th, 2014

Occupation: Investigation Assistant

Likes: Insects, Spiders, Crustaceans, ¤ÁÔÅ

Dislikes: Anything Perverted

Hobbies: Dancing, Entomology

Skills: Hacking, Fluoroscopy, Voice Imitation, 3D Modelling

Overview: An autonomous robot with advanced AI, known as an AI-ball. Currently, she serves as Mizuki's partner.

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Lien Twining

Name: ライアン・トワイニング

Gender: Man

Age: 22

Birthday: May 18th, 1997

Occupation: Janitor ⟨Maybe I should have…⟩

Likes: Alfree, Yoyagi Park, His Friends

Dislikes: Breaking Into Places/Things, Stealing

Hobbies: Building Model Planes and Spaceships, Piano

Skills: Lockpicking

Overview: A former thief who has taken a position as a janitor at the Horadori Institute. He discovered “Kubo Uru” in the basement thanks to a chance encounter with “Hat Guy.”

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Date Kaname

Name: 伊達・鍵

Gender: Man

Age: 42, physically

Birthday: August 3rd, 1977

Occupation: ABIS Special Agent

Likes: Classic Cars, Speakers, Bone Structure, Family

Dislikes: Ghosts, Hitmen, Little Brats, Mirrors

Hobbies: Collecting Vintage Pornography, Barbeque, Okonomiyaki

Skills: Reaction Time Increases 3.6 Times Under Certain Conditions

Overview: An ABIS Special Agent called by Lien to rescue him and Uru from pursuit by Horadori Institute vehicles. On vacation, so Mizuki can borrow Aiba.

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Kuranushi "Boss" Shizue

Name: 暮主・静枝

Gender: Woman

Age: 43

Birthday: December 21st, 1976

Occupation: Commander of ABIS

Likes: Wine, Anything Shiny and Black, Mizuki

Dislikes: Cleaning Up, Exes, Anyone Above Her Rank

Hobbies: Frequenting Host Clubs, Listening to Boy Bands, Drinking Too Much, Channel Surfing for Hours, Collecting Junk Abandoned Outside Her Apartment ⟨It will be a miracle if she does not delete this -Aiba⟩

Skills: Finding and Exploiting Weaknesses, Blackmail, Lying on the Spot

Overview: Direct superior to all ABIS agents as well as Date's old friend and Mizuki's mother. A raccoon to her core, her lazy demeanor hides a cunning hoarder.

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Amanoma "Pewter" Fuuta

Name: 天乃間・風太

Gender: Man

Age: 37

Birthday: February 1st, 1983

Occupation: ABIS Technician

Likes: Multiples of 16, Chairs, Totoroken, His Watch, The Man Who Gave Him the Watch

Dislikes: Bugs ⟨I have no Father -Aiba⟩, Conservatives, Cyclopes

Hobbies: Modifying Household Appliances, Collecting Doujins, Modding Kusemon

Skills: Building Models ⟨I should introduce him to Lien for real⟩, Imitating Vuvuzelas

Overview: ABIS's one and only engineer. Creator of the Psync Machine and the AI-Ball, his primary job is to maintain both.

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Records

Open Investigation:

🆕Questioning: Lien Twining (1)

Date: February 9th, 2020.
Interrogator: Date Kaname

Subject works as a janitor at the Horadori Institute of Genetics. His shift that morning began at 5:00. At approximately 5:30, an unknown man in a hat, scarf and sunglasses—”Hat Guy”—entered the main laboratory; he claimed to have permission to enter and that he had been “coming here a long time.” “Hat Guy” turned the heel of a statue and entered a music keycode which revealed a set of hidden stairs. He insisted Subject should descend in his stead, as it “cannot wait any longer,” then departed the premises.

At approximately 6:00, Subject descended. After knocking on a metal plate, the Subject heard a scream. He discovered a room on the other side of the plate by lifting it via a series of hidden switches, which opened the door behind it where he encountered “Kubo Uru” (real name unknown). They had not met prior. Subject led “Kubo Uru” out the back door.

Subject followed “Kubo Uru” as he struggled to locate a police station. Describes “Kubo Uru” as shaking and squinting throughout this process. They ducked into a convenience store after Subject spotted Horadori Institute vehicles in pursuit of them, and Subject called Detective Date Kaname for aid.

Note 1: Questioning was done in the presence of “Kubo Uru,” who was asleep.
Note 2: Questioning was carried out in Detective Date's car.

🆕Footage: Car Chase

Recording Date: February 9th, 2020.
Length of Footage: 2:45
Captured by: Detective Assistant Aiba
Passengers List: Date Kaname (Driver), Aiba, Lien Twining, “Kubo Uru”

Depicts four Horadori Institute of Genetics vehicles pursuing Detective Date Kaname.

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