When she was a child, she wouldn't have found her father's statement threatening. It would merely have been a proclamation of his perfection, of his absolute rule in the courtroom and the way he would bring justice to the fools who dared break the law. Now that she was older and had seen his fall, those words carried far more weight and caused Franziska to set her jaw in an effort to keep emotion from registering on her face. At the very least, this time his ire was pointed toward a deserving subject, but Franziska worried now that he might take the law into his own hands and once again ignore the word of Justice that they were supposedly sworn to uphold.

Which brought Franziska's mind back to the ongoing investigation. Once she fingerprinted tonight, she would need Scruffy as a witness to the interrogation and trial. Making a mental note to call the detective as soon as the shift was over, Franziska returned to the conversation at hand just in time to catch a barely audible wheeze in her father's voice. He was getting ill! This damned place had allowed the great Manfred von Karma to catch a common cold! What blasphemy was this?!

"We traveled together by happenstance last night when the doors threw up all over creation. Prosecutor Klavier Gavin accompanied myself and another man, Ushiromiya Battler, on our journey. I found his concern unwarranted, but the courtesy was not enough to garner punishment," she said dismissively. She'd honestly not thought much of Gavin's silly question beyond noting that he was still alive and not drowned after being tossed out into the torrential rain. However, her father's second question caught her attention and Franziska paused. Relation to a defense attorney? Gavin was related to a defense attorney? "I was unaware he had relaitons to that side of the law. How unfortunate. He was rather intelligent otherwise."