["Not that there wouldn't be", HE SAYS, LIKE A FOOL, NOT KNOWING MDZS LORE.
He waits until Pennyworth pounces and then LAUNCHES TOWARD HIM, SHAKING THE WEED MADLY. Counterattack. The weed strikes back... He laughs, dirt all over his front and smeared across one cheek, but looking very satisfied.]
--Depends on how the spirit was destroyed. Something that's been annihilated or knocked out of the reincarnation cycle can't be brought back to be interrogated, or brought back at all. [rip mxy] Sometimes, spirits disappear and no one can contact them because no one knows where to look. [rip wwx] Other times, a body is so traumatized on the way to death that the spirit itself shatters into pieces. [rip nmj and xxc] At least in that case, you can collect the scraps, but there's no guarantee you can put them back together.
[He finally sits upright, patting some of the dirt off of himself. Nasty.]
Still, even if the spirit of the deceased is gone, there are likely others around that witnessed what happened.
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He waits until Pennyworth pounces and then LAUNCHES TOWARD HIM, SHAKING THE WEED MADLY. Counterattack. The weed strikes back... He laughs, dirt all over his front and smeared across one cheek, but looking very satisfied.]
--Depends on how the spirit was destroyed. Something that's been annihilated or knocked out of the reincarnation cycle can't be brought back to be interrogated, or brought back at all. [rip mxy] Sometimes, spirits disappear and no one can contact them because no one knows where to look. [rip wwx] Other times, a body is so traumatized on the way to death that the spirit itself shatters into pieces. [rip nmj and xxc] At least in that case, you can collect the scraps, but there's no guarantee you can put them back together.
[He finally sits upright, patting some of the dirt off of himself. Nasty.]
Still, even if the spirit of the deceased is gone, there are likely others around that witnessed what happened.