<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Trust</span></strong></span></div><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a5/4a/d0/a54ad0c78fe6f6ed9893fe8a6eb846e1.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Date Toshiro<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021, 9:30 AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>SOPHE Headquarters, Oei's Office<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Matsumoto Oei<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong><br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>As pictured.<br/><hr/>There were two exceedingly powerful factors lending themselves to the wide smile that spread across Toshiro's face. The first of course was that he would finally be able to exercise his immense innate and learned talents in service to both demons and humanity through the observation and experimentation on the afflicted individual that was the subject of Project Violet. While it would be ungrateful of him to call the opportunities SOPHE had given him up until this point a waste of his efforts, the significance of his last better half of a decade paled in comparison to what he might achieve in even a few months as the research lead on so monumental an effort.<br/><br/>The second factor, while nowhere near as tremendous as involvement with the Project, still bore noting. Not only was Director Matsumoto offering him a vast budget towards conducting his own independent research, but she also seemed largely uninterested in the details of these endeavors so long as Toshiro provided constant updates on his newly assigned primary field of research. He had no intention of grossly abusing this financial freedom in pursuits that would be utterly without interest to SOPHE, but it did mean it would allow for him to pursue avenues of experimentation that his previous supervisors at the organization had previously dismissed as,<em>'Unnecessarily risky,' 'Colossally wasteful,'</em>and<em>'Absurdly foolish.'</em>All of these terms, among others, had been used separately on multiple occasions to describe Toshiro's more innovative research methods, and together nearly just as often.<br/><br/>Even with his head swimming in excitement for the immediate future, he couldn't help but notice Director Matsumoto's face fall somewhat at his mention of the Project's subject as a victim. Before he could inquire as to what he had said that might have dampened her spirits, she offered her final stipulation for Toshiro's promotion to lead researcher on Project Violet: that he would have to do things that might not sit well with him. Given the often morally hazy existence that SOPHE needed in dealing with demons, Toshiro had little doubt that the magnitude of the moral quandaries the director would have him navigate would exist far beyond on the realm of the somewhat dubious. Staring into Matsumoto's eyes for a moment in consideration as to what actions he could possibly be asked to commit that might make the arrangement untenable, he silently bowed his head in submission before replying, “As long as SOPHE is making the world a more peaceful place, then what I'm going to be comfortable with will be a far second concern to what needs to be done. So, when do I get started?”<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Scene End</span></strong></span></div>