Chapter 1 Blood Trial #2

[The City [EclipseZwolf]]

Everybody is up and killing each other! Good job!
Not that you guys have any more motivation than some mysterious whispers of prizes to do it.

REGARDLESS, SOMEONE HAS BROKEN OUR EQUALITY AGAIN! Will they be climbing the corporate ladder? Or do I get to kill more people?

Who Killed Seiji?

Lets do it!

BLOOOD TRIAL!

[King V]

I'll be blunt. You humans made this mess, you clean it up.

I have other things I should be doing.

-Nue leaves with a worried look on her face-

[King V]

No progress, huh? I guess I'll kick things off then.

This murder has a key point I would like to point out, and that would be the movement of the body. It's not easy to move a body, and given the number of items that would be required to set up this murder, the pillow, bungee cord, the weapon used to kill the victim, etc, it'd be reasonable to say that a person with a normal carrying weight would've had trouble without some extremely complex movements.

That being said, I believe two of our fellow players have already demonstrated abilities giving them superhuman strength.

Raiden and Lloyd, what do you have to say for yourselves?

[Deleted]

I suppose you bring up an interesting point, Nue.

But I never demonstrated the superhuman strength you're referring to. In fact, I was once pinned under a sofa by Ravan in the first trial and could not do anything other than wiggle my arms while under it.

[Ravan]

You make sense, and I suppose it may be difficult to trust me with this, but my strength isn't something that can be used whenever I please. I'm sorry that I cannot explain any more than that. I am no longer busy with other impending matters however, so I will begin my investigation soon enough and hopefully shed some light on this case.

[King V]

Seeing as nobody is offering a solid defense argument, I will proceed.

The cause of death is likely the wound on the throat, as extensive measures were taken to try and hide it, maybe even a SHSL ability used to heal the wound so that we wouldn't notice.

However, I have yet to find a sharp object that could have been used as the murder weapon. Even if the culprit washed the weapon afterwards to hide traces of its use, there would still be some sign of the weapon being moved. The only options then, are that the missing knife from the Kitchen was used, which is unlikely given that adding 2 more weight to this case would require extensive setup, or that a blood weapon was used.

I propose that the owner of the large kitchen knife speak up so that we can confirm whether it is related to the case or not. If it's not related, we can narrow down the suspects to those with edged blood weapons.

[Kai, Prince of V]

Was I the only one that found the missing kitchen knife in the bathtub?

[King V]

So far this murder seems seamless. The victim was killed in the shower room where the culprit drained them of blood in the bathtub. They were killed with a kitchen knife that was available to anyone, then the culprit used a pillow, found in abundance in the sleeping quarters, and moved the body to the sleeping quarters, where they tied it to the victim using a bungee cord, also found in abundance. Thus, the murder only uses items which were available to everyone.

However, I believe the culprit made a mistake in carrying out this murder. In order for this murder to have been carried out, the victim would've needed to be in the shower room, standing over a bathtub for there to be no trace of blood. Since there is an extremely slim chance that this is the case, the victim was most likely knocked out first. What was the object used to knock them out then?

The victim has a long bruise on the back of their head. Normally this would be indicative of one of the billiard sticks in the lounge used to knock them out, but when I examined them, they were untouched. Which means that the culprit most likely used their blood weapon to knock the victim out.

Akito, your blood weapon is a pair of tonfas, correct? Would that not make you a likely suspect, seeing that using a tonfa to knock someone out creates a long, narrow bruise?