Cornered beast

My teeth clattered in fury as I stared at my screen. That fucking Chika... SHE'S TRYING TO SWEEP EVERYTHING UP NICELY INTO SOME FEEL-GOOD SLOP! I hate that shit! Our goal here at Ruma Mill is to ruin lives, not make everyone feel all warm n' fuzzy! This confirms Chester's theory; Baldo IS Chika!

Even better, I was able to get my hands on security footage from the barbershop she got shaved at. There's just one problem; the angle's shit! It's one of those typical overhead angles covering the whole shop, and with Chika for some reason having pink hair here, it won't work. It won't fucking work, dammit!

It's sick irony, I tell ya. Real, unaltered truth, yet thanks to Chika getting the jump on me and staging shit, me posting this would just backfire. Fucking Mariya. If she didn't call for that presser under Chika's name, I could've gotten this shit out first! Now it's too late!

That's it, screw Chika. She's got too solid a fortress to penetrate. I'll go for all or nothing by targeting Subject Doe! I take him down, Chika comes crumbling after.

Doe, Doe, DOE, AHG! How am I gonna find anything when all I got is a generic placeholder name!?

"M- Madmmph," Kasuga trembled as she wheeled in, sporting double casts on her legs and a face covered in bandages.

"This is all theatrics, right? Better be, because I'm in a really bad mood, and hearing my top servant's got TWO broken legs and a busted face would REALLY piss me off!"

Tears began oozin' outta Kasuga's eyes. "I'm sommph Madmmph Bummph!"

"... FUCK!"

SLAM!

As my keyboard jumped into the air, a search ended up going through. To try and soothe my rage, I directed my sights to the screen, and the first search result was...

"From over a decade ago... 'High School student grievously injured in game'?" 

Finally, a lead. Zane Doe... This guy's actually named, Doe... And he's got basketball bona fides, or had em at least. Problem is this alone won't do jack. I ain't gonna report that Chika's fallen for some guy from rehab, that could garner sympathy for the two! I only want sympathy to be gathered when it's at the expense of putting someone else down! 

But with a name, I can try digging a bit. Let's search, "Zane Doe". 

The first thing that popped up... "Jane Doe". Specify "Zane Doe" and... a bunch of links to sns pages. I can't go digging through all this shit! "Zane Doe basketball"! The article from before naturally popped up, but so too did another, and this one was headlined...

"'High school athlete injured during game in vile antisemitic attack from opponent'? No... NO... Aha.... BAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS IS PERFECT!"

I ain't got a mirror in front of me, but I can tell I've got a mean grin on my face as I clicked on the article and dissected it with a fine-tooth comb. It wasn't much different from the first article, except for the fact it revealed Zane's got ties to a politician who's said some... Oo, sugar-coated candy for folks like me, and more importantly, that he's Jewish. Ruining this guy will be easy as butter. 

I spun my screen round to Kasuga. "Subject Doe... Real name, Zane Doe. Rising basketball star in high school, forced into retirement after an injury. But none of this matters. This guy's the nephew of some infamous city councilwoman, one who's said enough controversial shit to give us a full year of daily articles." 

Kasuga pulled back the bandages covering her mouth. "Can we make it work? We've had cases in the past where we tried using a controversial family member to try and bring someone down, but failed." 

"That's just the icing. Kasuga, this guy's a Jew. EVERYBODY hates the Jews. And, I remember reading about how for marriage, they force their brides to shave their heads. Oh Kasuga, the headline just spreads itself before us!"

A grin just as mean as mine began forming on Kasuga's face. 

"You get it now. With this, Chika Tetsu is finished."

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Another day in the basement, another day patrolling the internet for me, Chester the chad. That being said, my mind is still dominated by Chika. Seeing the official press release from her mixes me. My mind is telling me she's fabricating this, or rather, the exact timing of her baldness, but my heart's telling me it's real, and that she went and did this on the fly for Mariya.

Everyone else seems to be on board with my heart, but my mind won't let the issue rest. I wish it would. I just want to accept that Chika really went bald for Mariya, that there isn't some kind of cover-up.

Ping!

A new post from Ruma Mill! And it's... 

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Interrupted from my daily workplace abuse by my phone pinging, I was alerted to a new sns message on my phone. Between going through the papers or reading the message, I read the message. 

"'Chika Tetsu...' WHAT!?" 

No, no, no! This has to be fake! It can't be real! 

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'Chika Tetsu's secret conversion to Judaism EXPOSED!'?  Sorry, but how is this something worthy of my time? This reeks of yet another desperate attempt by Ruma Mill to try and smear Chika. And even if true, so what? I care not what religious faith Chika adheres to. Chika is Chika. 

That being said, the mention of a secret relationship does... irk me deep within. Logically, the feelings are most likely that of jealousy, yet even then, I also knew deep down she'd probably fall for someone other than me. All I am is a law student, not a certified lawyer. Damn the education system. If it weren't for it, I'd have been Chika's lawyer and husband long ago! 

Ah, but why am I even getting flustered? This is from Ruma Mill. They're full of nothing but lies. 

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Our great Chika Tetsu partaking in a change of spiritual faith? Then we as her lambs shall wait with ease for her new revelations. All Chika does and decrees is holy, no matter what the world masses say. She is our shepherd, we are her lambs. Only her words may command us, yet no matter what they be, we follow without question! 

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We sure have an article on our hands, but I've noticed a few big flaws with it. It's clearly basing itself completely off of my theory that Baldo is Chika, but when it shows the evidence, my eyes don't deceive me; editing software's been used. 

If the blatant use of taking Chika's official photos and putting a color filter on the capes wasn't enough, the security cam footage from the barbershop is even worse. I can clearly see the filter used on "Chika's" hair, and while she is wearing the same outfit as Baldo and Mariya, and traveling with Subject Doe, it could just be a coincidence. 

I've seen this trope so many times. This girl came in with Subject Doe, and got shaved. They parted ways, but then Mariya showed up, confusing Subject Doe into making him think she was the girl he had been with. Hmm, hmm, it all makes sense. The time and true trope is always right. 

Sorry Ruma Mill, but when you want to be convincing, never use editing software. 

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What... the... FUCK!? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!? CHESTER THE CHAD IS TURNING ON ME!? CALLING ME OUT FOR USING EDITING SOFTWARE!? THE HELL!?  You were the one who jumped on instantly to the Chika "cocaine" photo, and that was pretty much a manipulated photo... in a different sense. 

Ugh, I knew I shouldn't have tried editing things, but if I didn't, nothing would stick! Chika's got pink hair in the original, and is wearing a different colored cape than what she's wearing in her official photos! What kind of sick irony is this, huh!? I find genuine truth, yet no one will believe me if I post it, so I edit it to help enhance it's truthiness, but I still get blowback! Fuck Chester. People were beginning to buy into it, but then he caught on to the editing. 

Some are buying into it, but problem is, most of them are getting dismissed because of how racist their posts are. FUCK! I thought this would be the majority, not the minority!

Ping!

A DM? Yes, this is it! If I can't win the masses normally, I'll just orchestrate something! And if one of these racists becomes a useful idiot, then I can expose Chika's ties to Doe! We'll stage an attack on him in a train station, with the colluder doing all the dirty work, and us, the filming! Then regardless of who dies, we get content... THE FUCK!?

The DM... It's a notice of a strike, TWO strikes! One from Chika's agency for slander, and the other from the site, claiming... "INCITEMENT OF HATE SPEECH!? YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?"

Ping!

What is it- NO! A VIOLATION FOR HAVING MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS!? Th- That means... MY ACCOUNT GETS DELETED! FINE! I STILL GOT THE HARD-LINK SITE-

Oi... This has to be bullshit.... IT HAS TO BE! MY SITE'S BEEN HACKED! SAME FOR ALL MY OTHER ONES! FUCK... FUCK.... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKK!