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]

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.

[devotingly]

[ oh...

waver sits back down, obviously pissed off ]

[covertizer]

[ Akira sighs. ]

I'm not saying that's the only option here. We just have consider it. But there's another side to it - if you flip that theory around. If you know someone was blind, maybe there's a logic to making your kill as messy as possible to draw attention to the blind person.

After all, if you've still got perfect vision, no one would suspect that you'd have trouble with... well... [ Stabbing Maya to death. ]

[devotingly]

I’m pretty sure that the first hit with the guitar was meant to knock her out. In other words, it means that they wanted to immobilize her or maybe even make sure that she didn’t feel pain.

[ he’s gonna give himself a headache with how hard he’s thinking. as long as alex isn’t a suspect— ]

The stabs were done for show. There’s no other logical explanation.

[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. ]

[12d3]

Accomplices.

[2-D repeats it, and gives Shirou a smile.]

Thank you!

[swordsinternally]

You're welcome.

[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.]

[whatsmytalentagain]

... Well, there you go.

[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.

[donotlick]

Then we'd be killing the both of them, or what? If the "accomplice" could see, then they would be the killer, not our 'supposed' blind person.

Do we have any actual evidence that points to this being a two-person job? Or are you guys just jumping to it because of a single piece of evidence?

[12d3]

....I just thought the word sounded important.

[covertizer]

... Have we looked into the stuff sensei found? There's a lot there that seems completely random, but there's blood on it so it's got to be involved.

[donotlick]

Who the fuck is "sensei"?