☆ WEEK FIVE ( INVESTIGATION )

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Magical Girl Raising Project

Friday, Week 5

13 REMAIN...?

It's been almost two weeks without murder. And everything seems to be fine today, in both the inn and the apartments; there's no dents in walls, no blood running up and down the stairs, nothing-- at least, on the inside. However, for those who still stick in the inn? Basically, those whose name isn't Miach, you might find something a little out of place immediately outside the inn...

> Investigate?

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This is the investigation post for week five. In your top levels, please state the time (by hour or half hour) as well as your location.

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[perfectbeing]

[Hello, fellow mean girls. Szayel's come over from the east side of town, doing a cursory search of the general walkways. The tracks weren't exactly hard to miss. So what's going on in here-

Ah.]

Back to business, is it?

[Szayel that's not how you react to another of the group getting killed...but it's not exactly surprising with him.]

[imitationsoul]

[ Miach will look up from her position crouching next to the body and nod in greeting. ]

This was very clean work, so there's probably not much to dissect here either, but it never hurts to be careful.

[ Because she knows you wanted an autopsy - and so did she, really. ]

[perfectbeing]

Oh, is that right?

[He almost looks disappointed?! Szayel why.]

Well, I don't mind providing a different set of eyes if you're after a second opinion. [What is this phrasing.] What have you found thus far?

[imitationsoul]

A clean stab through the heart with the knife still on the scene. I haven't found any other injuries yet, but I also haven't undressed her.

Oh, and she was making finger guns as she died.

[ She lets that hang in the air for a moment, to give room to all its dumbness. ]

Makes me wonder if she was close to her killer and joking with them. Then again, she was such that she'd joke with anyone, probably.

[perfectbeing]

She- [wh] I'm sorry, she what?

[He's going to get hung up on that, wow. But he can obviously see it for himself so Miach doesn't need to repeat it.]

We can at least consider that her meeting with someone in this room was not a complete surprise to her.

Shall we check for other injuries?

[Despite the impending suspect announcement, he'll let Miach do the poking if she wants. He's right here, after all. It's not like she can do anything funny now.]

[hawthorned]

[She'll interupt here.]

No, it appears there was a gun on the scene.

[She'll point to the two dents on the wall opposite from Eruna here.]

[perfectbeing]

Ah. At least that is marginally less ridiculous.

[Marginally.]

A gun, though... Interesting. I have not seen any around town.

[imitationsoul]

So we propose it isn't finger guns but the shape her hands were left in after the gun was removed....?

At least the presence of guns explains the choice of location, however, given that even a gunshot would be muffled by these soundproof booths.

[hawthorned]

There was a toy gun that was being sold in the item shop, but I don't know who purchased it... and I couldn't say if that's the same gun that was used here.

[She pauses.]

It may be worth looking to see if Miss Eruna was also shot when you check her body more thoroughly.

[imitationsoul]

Is there anything anyone wants to check on the body in it's original position then? Because if not, I'll remove the clothes and see.

[ She's just going to ignore this suspect announcement unless one of the other two brings it up, really. ]

[hawthorned]

I believe it would be fine to move her at this point.

[She'll help Miach with Eruna's clothes (are they her usual clothes?) and actually check to see if she can find Eruna's phone in the proces just to see if there are any private messages. Are there any additional injuries other than the stab wound to her heart that couldn't be visualized over her clothes?]

[raisingproject]

[Yes. Also her phone is on her but there's no private messages on it. Also there's no other injuries.]

[hawthorned]

[He's talking to the mean girls here, neither one of them are likely going to think that's an inappropriate way of addressing the situation. ...In fact:]

Good that you're here, Mr. Granz. It seems Miss Eruna's been stabbed in the heart, and her killer wandered off to the hospital afterwards in search of bandages and ointment.

[perfectbeing]

[You get him, Dahlia.

Also, that's definitely going to make him raise an eyebrow.]

Really? Could that mean we have an injured culprit on our hands? That could potentially make this trial rather short.

[hawthorned]

Potentially. But I wouldn't be surprised if this one dragged on as usual as well. As there didn't seem to be any sign of them actively bleeding as they approached the hospital, it's also possible that they didn't need the bandages and ointment and were simply hoping to frame Zack.

[A beat.] That seems to be a fairly common thing to do around here.

[perfectbeing]

He makes it far too easy to do so.

[Suddenly it's Let's Roast Zack time rather than investigation time.]

But fair enough. It is at least one of many possibilities to consider. A wound does not have to be dripping profusely enough to drip everywhere one hundred percent of the time, after all.

[hawthorned]

[They can do both.... they're good at multitasking.]

True... so is your plan to have all suspects strip at the trial, Mr. Granz?

[Is she joking or not.... hard to tell.]

[perfectbeing]

[Hmm.]

That may not be necessary. But I do advise keeping the possibility of an injury in mind.

[imitationsoul]

[ Miach releases a breath in her corner there. ]

If this necessity arises, I'd prefer we did it with a smaller group of onlookers than the whole trial.

[ Like listen, she doesn't even mind being naked in front of people, but stripping for general examination like a display...? Yeah no, thanks. ]

[hawthorned]

[Have a giggle, Miach.]

If it comes to that, I'm sure we can arrange something to preserve your modesty.