Canterlot Academy Trials

Meanwhile, at the Royal Parliament Building, in an underground room hidden by the Royal Tailor's shop…

Several of the King’smen were working to figure out the truth behind the identity of ‘Odu Eransa’ and what he intended to do next.

King Mau had entered the office where his agents were at work. It was essentially a war room with a massive table with documents placed upon it. At the table, several tom cats were investigating the information they had on file. The leader of the operation was a lynx tom in particular.

“Have you found anything?” the king asked the group of agents while sipping from a teacup.

“Yeah, we have actually,” the lynx man spoke up--his ears twitched in the direction of the king. A middle-aged tom with a rather calm, almost stoic voice wearing a black suit akin to his fellow agents at the table. “Our sources have shown that it’s more than likely one of our own former colleagues.”

“...you’re kidding,” Mau muttered in disbelief with a flick of his tail, “A former agent that somehow managed to go AWOL and is trying to stir up trouble in both nations? How is that even possible?”

Another agent, a maple-furred Somali she-cat, would answer, “From what we’ve found, apparently, he’s been on the ‘scenes’ of several crimes around the different regions including Siam and Tabbytown,” she added as she tossed the dossier towards the king’s direction, “We only recently managed to put together just how bad it likely is.”

“...what exactly are we looking at?” the king opened the file and began to skim through it.

The Somali cat woman let out a nervous cat trill. “Rrrr…you’re not going to like what you find, but it’s still something you need to see for yourself, sire.”

King Mau looked through the file and looked at the lines of text that were highlighted by his agents…

“...murder-rape case on Month 6, Day 12, three years ago…solved by Odu.”

“...molestation-battery case on Month 9, Day 8, two years ago…solved by Odu.”

“...second-degree murder-assault case on Month 4, Day 12, one year ago…solved by Odu.”

There were loads of other similar cases strewn about within those timeframes as well. The general gist was that Odu was indeed one of the king’s agents in the past and worked on rather high-profile cases involving different forms of assault and murder.

“I remember him now,” the king replied as he snapped his fingers, “But all this tells me is that he used to work for me at one point. It doesn’t explain anything in regards to what he’s…” His ears flicked as he started to think about the worst possible outcome. “...hold on--wait. Don’t tell me--”

Another she-cat would speak up. A young-looking lioness shades that obscured her eyes. “Before you jump to conclusions, sire, we need you to take a look at something else.”

“Oh?”

His attention was directed to a white-furred Devon Rex tom who could be seen typing on what appeared to be a rather primitive computer that was designed for the sole purpose of holding digital files.

“Oi, mi’lord, take a gander at this, yeh?” the young tom called out while nibbling on a candy stick, speaking in an accent similar to the one found in Trottingham.

King Mau walked over and looked at the computer screen. It was all black with green text used to convey information along with images. In particular, the tom would show the king an image of what appeared to be a tiger Abyssian citizen’s mugshot.

“...and who’s this?” the king asked.

“Right, now look at the name, yeh?” the tom pointed at the top of the screen while suckling on his candy, “It’s the fookin’ same surname, innit?”

King Mau looked and found the mugshot of the individual they were looking at indeed had the same surname as Odu. To be precise, the name of this individual was ‘Alwood Eransa.’

“‘Alwood’? Wait…I remember hearing about that guy in my youth,” the king muttered in a sense of amazed horror as he recalled the news articles that he had heard from when he was younger. His green eyes darted across the computer screen as he read the reasons for why Alwood was convicted. “...now…now I remember,” he muttered as he coughed into his paw, “...this man was arrested for molestation towards his own child.”

“Yeah…and execu’ed,” the white tom cat muttered under his breath, “...but this is probably what’s led Odu down this path. Takin’ his own trauma from bein' a victim of his nonce father out on others.”

“Sickening explanation…but no excuse for doing what he’s doing now,” the king hissed, “We need to inform the Royal Navy immedia--”

The tom interjected, “...one more thing, mi'lord.”

Back to the lynx man who would speak up once more. “Our investigation team has found evidence at that martial arts dojo outside of the city…apparently, Odu
had taken one of the children of the victims of his crimes into his own custody without formal approval.”

“...he what?!”