Trial #4

[Deleted]

I have a culprit in mind...

Satori, I think you're the culprit!

Do you admit to being the culprit? Answer the question!

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

I am of like minds with Kaito. Your actions have been and are extremely suspicious and lead me to consider you the only plausible suspect.
So what say you Satori?

[Satori]

So it seems I've been put on the spotlight as I expected. Very well. Allow to state my piece.

I was in the 2nd floor bedroom at the time of the murder and heard 4 shots coming from the hallway. I didn't check out what was going on there as I felt it was too dangerous for me go out. By the time the body was discovered, I couldn't leave the room without looking suspicious and I was found by Fatogami shortly afterwards.

Now I'm aware this obviously makes me the most likely suspect since I was just a room away from where the murder took place but contrary to popular belief...I DID NOT COMMIT THIS MURDER!

[Pokedude12]

So I've been working on a list of people who are probably innocent...

Shings, Senny, Sirry, Rinny, and myself are all dead, so we couldn't do it.
Togs and Mimi triggered the DBA. Plus I knew where they were just before I died.
Kite was in his room at the time too.

Aki, Naegs, and Nana were pretty inactive for most of the whole thing too, so...

Then that leaves Chairs, Sats, Riri, Polly, and Hero left as potential suspects...

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

So.....Satori....
You expect me to believe that you hid during the murder and didn't leave. Then when I arrived and found you, you just stayed there. I left you there and continued to investigate. There had already been a body discovery announcement and the investigation phase declared. I came back way later, checked on you again, still there, still no movement. At this point I was suspecting you fairly heavily, so I went and got Kaito kid just in case things got hairy and came to retrieve you.

And you fought us. We tried to get you out from under the bed and you resisted us with all your might. Maybe from Hagakure if he thought aliens were about could I accept such actions, but coming from the one who has the servant who like human skulls? The only reason I can see you fighting is that you had something you didn't want us to see.

So explain it, the bucket, the plushie, the knife, and why you fought back.

[Hereiss Aelori]

Allow me to share my findings. I examined the body in great detail, and it seems that Hagakure was stabbed both in the leg and the chest by differently sized sharp objects. The flesh around the wounds looked jagged... I can only assume this means the objects used were not extremely sharp.

I believe this was both an attempt to cover up the bullet wounds Hagakure received prior, and to confuse us as to what the cause of death was. If we assume the bullets killed Hagakure, he was likely shot somewhere fatal, most likely the head or the chest. However, it is equally likely that the culprit simply shot 4 times to make it seem like he was killed by the bullets and killed him by stabbing instead.

Investigating further, I found the remains of some lamps in the 3rd and 4th floor hallways. I would have regarded this as simply the doing of whoever has been breaking the lights lately, but I noticed that there were 2 lamps broken at every hallway. Furthermore, the remains of one of the lamps was warm, indicating that it had been broken recently, most likely right after the murder.

This leads me to believe that the culprit smashed the lamps on their way upstairs in order to make it more difficult to find them. The culprit was most likely hiding somewhere on the 4th floor and simply waited for the trial to begin.

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

I hope you have some more evidence to back up your theory than that Kirigiri. I myself did discover that there were two lamps broken on the third floor. 

I haven't mentioned this yet, but I searched every nook and cranny I could see from the second floor up. If you claim the culprit was hiding you better have a **** good hiding spot in mind.

[Hereiss Aelori]

Are you certain you searched everywhere, Fatogami? As I recall, there was a hidden room on the 4th floor which nobody had found while I was exploring.

And if you assume that the culprit was not hiding anywhere on the 3rd or 4th floors, then why would they break the lamps in those hallways?

If the culprit was able to see in the dark, they would have broken all the lights in the rooms on the 3rd and 4th floor. I can only assume that the reason the lamps were broken is because the culprit did not want anyone to follow them. They took advantage of everyone's fear of the dark and created an opening to escape. However, they did not break the lights in the 3rd and 4th floor rooms because they would have required light to see where they would be hiding.

This is the only viable explanation for the broken lamps and lack of broken lights.

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

I went through every room one by one as I climbed up the floors. The hidden room on the fourth floor, the music room, was open when I arrived to investigate, as such I searched that room too. I went through the rooms in their entirety and I was SPECIFICALLY looking for people hiding since I knew the murderer couldn't have gotten back downstairs.

I said it once and I will say it again, unless you have an incredible hiding spot in mind that the culprit used I will not accept any theory that involves the killer hiding in the upper floors.

[Hereiss Aelori]

Honestly, I don't know why you are so disprove the existence of a hiding spot, but one most definitely exists.

I am reluctant to reveal this, but...

VERBAL BULLET - TEMPERANCE

Using the Temperance arcana, I am able to confirm that there was indeed a murderous intent in the upper floors. However, when I went to investigate further, I found that the murderous intent was somehow on the floor above the 4th floor... additionally, I could detect another murderous intent on the lower floors after journeying upward.

I believe the culprit utilized the commotion in the music room to escape from their hiding place and blend in with the crowd below.

[Satori]

Well I resisted because you guys knocked me out first and feeling that I was in danger, I had the right to defend myself. Though if you had just asked me kindly to examine me then I would have complied without resistance.

I had a bucket to carry my stuff, a knife to defend myself and a plushie because its very precious to me (It was an Orin plushie! ^_^)

Oh and I would also like to mention that earlier in the day, Fatogami tried to trap me in my room by sealing my door with glue and duct tape for no reason in an attempt to starve me to death. Of course I managed to escape and hid out somewhere in the mansion as I felt my life was in danger and also gave me another reason to resist you guys as I did.

So Fatogami. What do you have to say about that?

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

Floors above the fourth? That's absurd for one of us to have managed to have gotten up there without anyone else finding out.
Fine, if we move along on the pretense of a murderer being able to access the fifth floor I cannot proclaim there was nowhere to hide.



Starve you out Satori? How in the actual f*** would I accomplish that? You just had to bang on the door to get somebodies attention. If you had paid ANY attention you would have noticed I left plenty of room for noise and air to pass through. Last I checked you cut your way out with a knife anyway. A harmless prank that was your own fault really. After all you attacked me earlier that same day and robbed me of The Hermit. Why in the world would I attack a person who at the time I knew had 3 arcanas, but now I know you have SIX of the **** things. Its a fight that would be impossible to win and I am no fool to try my luck on those odds.

Sure. You didn't look like a rapid dog under that bed and any movement I made totally wasn't met by complete aggression.

[The Viscount]

I should mention, Hagakure, I've been in my room the past day or so. I couldn't have committed the murder. Plus, the murder was performed with a handgun, and, well, I've not been in either the newly opened dormitories or the fourth floor, I don't think. I have no clue where the handgun came from. Does anyone know where it did, anyways?

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

There were three pistols in extra player room 16, though all of them are now missing.

[Hereiss Aelori]

There is something I'm concerned about other than the supposed 5th floor... the murderer shot 4 times at Hagakure, then moved to cover up the crime with additional wounds... but why bother? Why would the culprit do this when it was already obvious that a gun was used in the murder?

It would do the culprit no good to inflict additional wounds, they would have to clean up the blood on themselves afterwards, so why would they do it? There must be something about the placement of the bullet wounds that they do not want us to discover...