☆ WEEK TWO ( TRIAL - DAY ONE )

[raisingproject]

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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Comments

[hawthorned]

So this must mean that either the true killer can naturally carry Miss Eliza's weight easily or that they were transformed at the time.

[mikooon]

Most likely transformed. Even if she went to patrol alone, she'd definitely at least transform first. With heightened physical capabilities, someone else would need to transform as well to fight her, and from then on... not too much of a match, magical girl to magical girl.

[hawthorned]

True.

There's something else to consider, too.. If the killer's intended victim was truly Zack, then the killer must have additionally had some combat experience as Zack made it known to everyone that he was armed with a scythe.

[mikooon]

Either that, or they were reckless.

[She looks at the suspect list.] Honestly, other than you, I doubt I'd discount anyone else from this wonderful lineup.

[zackthekiller]

Mind if I point out that Mia reads and lounges more than she fights?

[mikooon]

[she fookin weird af tho]

I suppose so. Then again, if you already speak with her... I suppose it's always easier to take advantage of someone who would open the door for you if asked!

[Damn... though.]

However, the culprit must've been doing something more suspicious than just knocking on doors if Eliza tried to distract them.

[imitationsoul]

While I won't deny the dangers of a door without identification device intrigue me, there is indeed no reason Eliza would have had to be scared by me visiting a friend.

And I do indeed not have any kind of combat experience - I'd call myself dangerous, but armed fight is nothing I've ever practiced. After watching Zack beat up the training dummy earlier that day, it'd have been nothing but foolish to attack him.

[zackthekiller]

I'm not that stupid, fox lady. If Mia tried anything funny, I'd rip her to shreds!

[mikooon]

Right, right, I know well enough.

[she got first hand experience, man]

I'm not sure what they could've possibly been doing, however. Hmm, did she even distract them at all? Perhaps she'd just left her bow tie to Zack's voice when she left.

[hawthorned]

[She's actually a little surprised by that!] Thank you for those words, Miss Tamamo. I was truly shocked to be named a suspect today.

[She smiles and continues:]
I do think they must have had some training before though, rather than purely being a reckless type. The damage done to Miss Eliza's body was minimal. This killer was cold and calculating. They knew how to end a struggle quickly and efficiently... and in a way that would have prevented Miss Eliza from shouting for help.... and they did so, even when they were caught off guard by Miss Eliza's unexpected intervention. [A pause.] ...I may be reading too deeply into this.

[partyleader]

[Nanami shakes her head.] It's better to read into things as much as possible right now, I think. Whether it's right or wrong, we can get closer to the truth the more we look into things, so there's nothing wrong with that.

I do wonder about the scratches, though... We'll probably be able to look into it better when we do the room searches, but if the killer is someone who didn't act recklessly, I wonder if it might be deliberate...

[hawthorned]

[A nod.] It's possible that they're meant to be red herrings. The scratches were somewhat random, weren't they? Perhaps they were placed that way deliberately so that the killer's height couldn't be determined in some way... The killer was also present at the trial last week and they would know that's something we would look into...

[mikooon]

[Tamamo kind of views Dahlia as a regular ol' prim-and-proper lady with just a few biting words, so congrats Dahlia! Then again, after Dahlia probably survived hearing Tamamo's R Scene (Romance Scene, you perv), she's inclined to give her some leeway. In return, you know.]

Yes, I agree. They must've reacted very quickly. No hesitation, and just a short struggle-- and right for a neck to silence her as well. [Naginatas are actually a little tricky to use if they're not PSYCHED UP FOR MMMMMURDER already and such, so.] I wonder. What could they have been doing to prompt Eliza to distract them in the first place?

[hawthorned]

[SHE'LL TAKE IT!]

It's merely speculative for now, but as Miss Nanami was suggesting... could it possibly be that the killer was leaving the scratches on the walls when Miss Eliza found them? That would certainly be suspicious activity..

[perfectbeing]

[Hmm.]

That makes me wonder. When I examined her body, she was in her normal clothes and not transformed. So if she did transform, she must have deactivated it before she died or it simply deactivated due to her dying? It is difficult to say as we have not directly witnessed anyone die while transformed.

[crossingout]

Do you think that's something that we could possibly ask Fav-san about? In regards to transformations.

Fav!

[perfectbeing]

[With a nod,]

That is the best course of action, yes.

[As pissed as he is at Fav right now...]

Fav, might you be willing to explain the limitations of our transformed states? Would any sort of situation cause it to deactivate without the user purposefully doing so?

[raisingproject]

Death.

[ That's it, that's the answer. ]

[perfectbeing]

[Well then.

That says so much about the last case too, doesn't it.]

In that case, I am inclined to agree that she very well may have gone into this while transformed.

[mikooon]

Neither would I like to bear witness to it.

[Though, it's a point to think on.] Would she really go patrolling, untransformed? She is naive, perhaps, but she is not so utterly braindead [TAMAMO PLS YOUR FRIEND IS DEAD] to not at least use some tools to her advantage. Hence the naginata. Another possibility is if the Magiphone is taken too far away-- such as, all the way to the school when the corpse is in the river-- it may deactivate.

[perfectbeing]

I can't completely disagree. She would not have been able to competently handle that naginata while untransformed- they are quite heavy and large, after all.

As for the cause of a potential deactivation, we may as well get it sorted out for future reference.