Exam 3

[lockdownmods]

Exam 3.

[ Once again, the exam begins with the desks arranged in a perfect circle; one desk for each person that's participating in the program. There are nameplates for everyone, and they have been bolted to each of the desks, facing the inside of the circle...

...including the deceased. Their chairs have been placed on top of their desks, signifying that they will not be needed. Above of their desks are holograms of their portraits from their profiles, grayed out and bloodstained.

Today Han is absent-- only Megumi is present at the front of the classroom. ]


Today you are responsible for finding the culprit responsible for the death of Maya Fey, the Apprentice Falsely Accused.

Your exam begins now.

Victim.






Suspects.



[ The physical evidence tray sits in the middle of the circle of desks; you all have the Evidence app on your tablets to access photo evidence. ]

Examination START.

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[covertizer]

[ Alright, alright, keep your protective crush instinct under control dad. ]

Hopefully not. We'll see.

... What if, hypothetically speaking, the killer wasn't sure they'd struck a killing blow first time around?

[destroythefuture]

How could anyone not notice stabbing here didn't kill her? You'd have to be blind to not notice she's dead after like three stabs.

[He's pretty sure it doesn't take so many stabs to kill anyone. To him, it's likely the first or second stab killed her]

I bet the killer hated her or something.

[sendintheclown]

Maybe they just really liked stabbing!

[covertizer]

Right.

You'd have to be blind.

[ He doesn't want to put that option out there, but ... they have to look at everything. ]

[destroythefuture]

I know, right?

[The Bowler Hat Guy's glad other people are catching onto his suspicions]

[covertizer]

Delivering 28 stab wounds is overkill. Which would be helpful if you couldn't be sure you'd killed someone in the first place.

[ ... ]

Still, this is a working theory. There's a lot of other things to look into.

[whatsmytalentagain]

...

[He looks at Alex...]

[pathofconquest]

[MMMMMMMMMMMM.]

[devotingly]

B-but... 28 times?! And besides, you’re not even focussing on the fact that they first knocked her out, and then proceeded to stab her! And then dragged her from the music room to the garden, and then buried her well enough to cover her completely! That doesn’t seem like the work of a blind person to me!

[covertizer]

...

Hey Megumi? How soon after a person dies do the effects of the motive wear off again?

[newhire]

As soon as they've died, the effects would have been removed.

[12d3]

Didn't... uh.. d-didn't someone say somethin' about accomp.. oh, I've forgotten the word.

[sendintheclown]

Accomplice!

[swordsinternally]

It's accomplices.

[ Shirou's the one who said it, so he'll repeat the word -- pretty slowly, in fact, so that he can get the enunciation. ]

[whatsmytalentagain]

He's... Considering this info actually.

Hey, if I'm not mistaken, the murderer earns the incentive when the crime is committed. Wouldn't that mean they regained their sight after Maya finally died?

[newhire]

That is correct.

[Just so u know.]

[donotlick]

She was knocked out from behind. Really doubt a blind person could just sneak up on somebody like that.

[ He's backing you up, Waver, wow!! ]

The killer chased her between two buildings, going by the evidence. I don't doubt Alex was doing okay blind, but there's no goddamn way a kid who couldn't see could've caught up to someone who could.

[whatsmytalentagain]

Unless they had an accomplice helping them out.

[lovedanime]

Have to be blind...

[HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM]

The stabs weren't precisely in the heart...

[donotlick]

Could be.

Though damn, if Maya couldn't fight off a blind killer, that's... Kinda sad, actually.

[donotlick]

[ He can't and he won't! ]

Then it'd still be overkill to go for it that hard. A knife to the heart'll kill anyone instantly. Going overboard like that usually means the killer was in a highly emotional state and probably lost track of what they were doing. They would've just kept stabbing away until they could calm themselves down.

For the record, that still rules out Connor.

[ Calm down, Hank!! ]

[covertizer]

You're thinking about this too narrowly. [ Wow, that's said with conviction to the literal cop. ]

Forget Connor-san is one of the suspects for a minute here. If it's not because you're emotional - why else would someone stab her that many times?

You're either hiding something or making sure she's dead.

[donotlick]

[ It's hard to focus when your buddy-cop is on trial, ok?? ]

28 times is still goddamn overkill. Blood loss would've kicked in after like 5 or 6. You don't have to go this hard to make sure she was dead -- so yeah, maybe the stabbing was done to hide something. Or maybe they were having a goddamn panic attack.

[covertizer]

Or they couldn't see and had to stab her that many times because it's overkill.

[ Layers upon layers to this one, huh? ]

[donotlick]

They would've been able to see as soon as she was dead.

I'm no medical examiner, but we all know Maya was dead way before stab #28.