☆ WEEK TWO ( TRIAL - DAY ONE )

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Trial Day #1

Saturday, Week 2

Victim

Suspects

Rise and shine, sleepyheads. At exactly 8 AM, characters will be automatically teleported to a place rather familiar to them. In fact, it seems that they were sent home! Congratulations, everyone, you've made it to the Good End-- for like, ten minutes, before they're immediately, once again, whisked away to the familiar courtrooms of last week, a world similar to the one they see in their magical phones. Soon enough, Fav, floating in front of a ginormous tree speaks up, grinning.

"April Fool's, pon~!" Because of course it would be a joke to actually send people home. "Don't worry, that joke doesn't cost any mana, so you don't have to worry about the mana drain, pon. As our apology, we'd like to offer you something else in return, pon."

And that offering is a pie in everyone's faces, no exception. "Anyway, jokes aside, today's trial is for the murder of Eliza Owens, otherwise known as Mystic Mirage, pon. You will have a break for dinner and sleep and then the trial will continue tomorrow morning! If you have any questions in regards to this trial, please feel free to let me know, and I'll try to answer it to the best of my abilities, pon! Of course, you're not allowed to ask me who the culprit is, because that would be unfair. So make sure to find the culprit and execute them properly, pon! You wouldn't want to kill an innocent person, would you?"

And now, on their magical phones, characters will finally be able to find the autopsy report as the discussion begins. At 8 PM, everyone will be dismissed to have dinner and go back to their rooms.

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ALIBIS

[raisingproject]

Whereabouts - Thursday and Friday

On the phones of the suspects a new button reading alibis is shown, along with an option to give your alibi, whether it's verbal or by text.

[imitationsoul]

[ After some time of wiping pie off her face and subsequently off her hands, muttering comments like 'eugh, icky', Miach is finally ready to give her alibi. ]

At the presumed time of death, I was in the north apartment complex within my home. Thanks to the middle school, I finally have gained access to a lot of books, so I was reading. I went to sleep sometime between 11pm and midnight.

I woke back up around 9am and had breakfast in my own room, eating things I had brought over from the store previously. I didn't leave until Zack notified us of Eliza's death, at which point I headed straight down to the crimescene.

I was alone for all of this time, so nobody can confirm this alibi. It's inconvenient.

[selfloving]

You were on the Inn roof too, correct? What time did you leave?

[If they saw each other on the way back to the apartments, it's better than nothing support for the two of them who live on the other side of town.]

[imitationsoul]

I don't carry a watch with me, so I can't give specifics, but it must have been sometime around 9, give or take.

[zackthekiller]

Look, she visited me while I was attacking a training dummy on the roof, so unless she went downstairs and killed Eliza without me noticing, it probably wasn't her.

I also know Mia well enough to give you guys a reason why she probably isn't the killer. Like most people here, she doesn't like this whole murder game business. She also didn't like the way her world was run, so she was rebelling against it. So, now, she's rebelling against Fav's game by not trying to kill anyone.

That's what you told me, right Mia?

[imitationsoul]

Zack is completely right. I don't care to play along with any of this.

[hawthorned]

Forgive me for expressing doubt, Miss Miach, but for the sake of thoroughness....

I doubt that any of us "care to play along." However, it's likely that the incentive behind the murder of Miss Eliza was in part related to having a wish granted. If you truly hate the society of your world so much, it would be tempting to use that wish to change it, wouldn't it?

[imitationsoul]

That would imply I trusted in Kyuubey's wish-granting promises in the first place. I don't.

But even if I did, then there is nothing I would wish on that world but ruin. And even that wouldn't be satisfying without me there to watch it. No, I severed my connections to it. Everything and everyone that tied me down is gone already.

[selfloving]

This is a question worth asking, but not just of her.

I prose we discuss at length the incentive provided by this week's "motive."

[selfloving]

What the hell? …I’m not saying anything until this is taken care of.

[This alibi won’t be entered until a good 15 minutes post-pieing:]

Very well:

On Thursday, I surveyed the impurity with Szayelaporro Granz. We recorded its position and made other observations. This was before Eliza regained that pet of hers because I spotted her on my way to a late afternoon showing. I was completing a task with one of those exceptionally strange townspeople. Regrettably, we watched the entire thing.

That evening, I saw someone swinging a weapon at another body on the Sakura Inn roof, but it was merely Zack. Indulging in some therapeutic violence, no doubt. Afterward, I returned to Apartment #30 in the northern complex. I am trying to learn the lingua franca of Town A using books in the middle school, so I…admit to burning the candle at both ends.

…I date and number everything; though I suppose that could be forged, I’ve done that since the day I arrived.

I didn’t return to the Inn until Friday morning. I saw the blood trail and followed it to second floor, where I encountered Zack Foster and Edna.

That’s all. Accusing me is the real joke.

[zackthekiller]

Yep, I saw her while I was attacking a training dummy.

I am so glad I didn't make the suspect list this time.

[Don't jinx it, Zack.]

[selfloving]

That's right. It was rather late when I left...

I wonder why they omitted you. Perhaps it was your closeness that made it unbelievable.

[hawthorned]

On Thursday afternoon, I was aiming to complete the pie task and first ran into Mr. Granz in the apartments. Not too long after, I found Miss Edna in the middle of completing the same task, and decided to join her. Afterwards, I simply returned to my room on the first floor of the Sakura Inn and remained there until dinner time. I went to the corner shop, had a bite to eat and went for a walk around the park. I returned to my room at around 8 and went to sleep at approximately 10. Then on Friday morning, I opened my door and found a blood trail that led to Zack's room on the second floor of the inn. Mr. Granz was also there, but we parted ways and he took the trail that led outside. ....And that's what I did with my time.

[theotherother]

[He's just going to try and get the pie off his face before he starts talking.]

First of all, fuck you and your stupid joke, Fav.

[Seriously, what the fuck was that? This is the worst April Fool's Day ever.]

I spent the night in my room, like I pretty much do every night. Drinking, trying to find something that isn't garbage on TV, giving up and going the fuck to sleep.

[selfloving]

[That's...Something.]

What was on television?

[No comment on his language this time, if only because things are too serious and also because fuck Fav.]

[theotherother]

The same magical girl crap that's always on television? I can't keep any of that shit straight, so I don't know which one's which.

[It's all the same to him anyway, everything's sparkly and there's talking animals and no one seems to have to deal with Fav's crap.]

After about three channels in a row of that, I gave up and turned the damn thing off.

[hawthorned]

I do hate to say it, Mr. Kaine, but that isn't very specific....

[theotherother]

You think I don't know that?

[He's not mad at her, just annoyed at the whole thing.]

[selfloving]

[She chuckles through her teeth, making a hissing sound.]

If you were going to commit this precise an execution, I'd hope you'd give your whereabouts some more thought...

[It might even make him less suspicious, if he can't be more specific than that.]

[theotherother]

Believe me, I wish I could give a better alibi. Wasn't exactly expecting to wake up and see my face on that list.

[Yesterday and today can both go to hell as far as he's concerned.]

Maybe I'll start keeping track of whatever crap I don't feel like watching or drink with the door open in case this happens again.

[perfectbeing]

[Ugh, how tedious it is that he has to contribute to alibis this week.]

I spent a good deal of my time on Thursday investigating the impurity that manifested in the apartments. Both One and Dahlia can confirm this, as I spoke with both of them on separate occasions that day. When I finished up with that, I returned to the inn around evening time. I ordered room service, spent some time in the bath house, then retired for my room for the remainder of the night.

As for Friday, I left my roomafter 9AM and immediately ran into Dahlia, who was investigating the blood trail in the hallway. We spoke for some time before splitting paths, her going upstairs and I going down and outside. Not long after, I received a request from Zack to examine Eliza's body, which can be seen on the network. I activated my magical form and went to the river immediately. That is where I spent the remainder of the investigation.

[selfloving]

I do recall you not having the kindest things to say about that girl...Eliza...on Thursday when we met...

[perfectbeing]

I said she was naive, and that it was ridiculous of her to get worked up over the death of someone that she only knew for two weeks. What of it? I don't see that as a reason to want to kill her.

[selfloving]

I implied nothing of the sort.

But that sort of behavior was on your mind. You also questioned whether it was worth it or not to act on the killing game at all. I found it curious at the time...that's all.

[perfectbeing]

[There's a slight pause here.]

Oh? Care to tell me why you found it curious?