Exam 5

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Exam 5.

[ 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.

Han is no longer here to watch over you. And yet at the desk, a beautiful vase of flowers sits by his name plate. It is Oswald who stands at that desk, though Vivienne watches him intently from the side of the room with a sharp gaze. But his eyes are frozen on those delicate flowers. With his knuckles white, he grips the desk as one, and then several more tears fall.

Vivienne waits, but he doesn't speak. So ultimately she's forced to do it herself. ]

...Professor Han was... a good man. It's truly unfortunate that he won't be able to finish the semester with you all I know... he would have wanted to. In... his absence, I will... do my best to support you in his place, the way he would have wanted to.

[It's hard for her too. This is... it's just sad. It's all just... sad. But they have to press forward.


Today we're here to find the person who is responsible for the death of Waver Velvet, the Apprentice of Magecraft.

...Take your time. The evidence you need is all here.

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]

...

[ Hm. ]

You weren't tasered, were you?

[lovedanime]

...!

That would... be very plausible...

[covertizer]

I found a taser in the hallway, prongs out, like the one we found in last week's case. Can you show me where that something that was done to you happened? Like... your back, your side?

[ He's looking for a taser mark. ]

[lovedanime]

[He puts his hand around his sternum. There's not an immediately visible mark... but he does have his uniform jacket buttoned up over this area.]

[covertizer]

Are you okay with unbuttoning your shirt? If there's a mark, we'll know for sure.

[lovedanime]

You're... right.

[Mitarai is not about to put on a pleasant expression when he does this, but he takes off the jacket, and then unbuttons his uniform shirt, and there's a taser mark to the great shock of all the onlookers. There is not a syringe mark here.]

[covertizer]

Thanks, Mitarai.

[ So that's that. ]

So... you were tasered in the doorway of the lab, and... then what happened? Something went down in the lab itself, given blood was found on one of the tables there, and the scuff marks Osomatsu-san submitted.

[lovedanime]

Osomatsu found the mark on the back of my head, so I think I must have run into that table.

[covertizer]

[ ... ]

Before or after you were tasered?

[ mITARAI... ]

[lovedanime]

After the tasering... I mean, if it were before, it wouldn't be as blurry in the first place...

[covertizer]

So... you stumbled, misjudged, and smacked your head on the desk. Which was probably why I found you unconscious, and why the doctor wanted to check your head.

[lovedanime]

...

You're completely right...

[DESPONDENT...]

I should have... brought something else to the door or something... I'm not strong enough on my own... I couldn't... Uwah...

[covertizer]

Even if you were being cautious, you couldn't have expected someone to taser you like that.