【Broken Lantern】Trial

[Exusiai]

【Milk】: "The trial for Ichirō Tsujimoto has officially commenced.
He was a rather established figure, so I've found it much more of a hassle to suppress any media coverage of this particular death.

Of course, I've also taken note that there are certain people that pay no heed to the incident and ignore it all together for questionable matters.
Being unable to at least discern the actions leading up to the victim's death will only make it more difficult when news of this incident eventually reaches public eyes and ears.
As a result, I'll be pre-occupied during this trial in preparation for the worst-case scenarioーhaving to justify the lack of human capability to even discern the cause of death.

The investigators of Division 9 are currently stationed at the following locations:

‣ Sayara View Hotel Entrance 

‣ Room 301 of the International Conference Hall"

[King V]

"I'll preface this by saying I don't know exactly who murdered the victim, but I've found one of the accomplices to the murder. I'm going to accuse Hideji Sato of being an accomplice to this murder."

"The reasoning relies heavily on circumstantial evidence, but I think I have enough here to warrant his arrest and an investigation into his background. You see, I've found the operating location of the walking corpse I mentioned last trial, and in it I found this note where the name Hidehito Sato comes up many times. There were no relatives of Hideji Sato's that had this name, but the walking corpse I mentioned seemed to be mentally unstable, so perhaps he used this as an alias. Regardless, the fact that he chose a name relating himself to Hideji Sato implies that he has some kind of relationship with Hideji Sato, and this is backed up by some evidence I found on a tablet in the same room where he had apparently visited Hideji Sato's social media page very obsessively."

"The next piece of circumstantial evidence comes from hotel room 106, where I found traces of two people who had been staying in that room. Inside the room, there was also an envelope with some room numbers inside. Room 250, room 500, room 320... sound familiar? So far both victims have room numbers that match with the numbers on this paper. Add that with the fact that the walking corpse I encountered seemed to have a high interest in kicking me out of room 320, perhaps because he was planning on setting up some kind of trap to kill the original resident later. The walking corpse was very much linked to the evidence concerning Hideji Sato earlier, and this implies that he has another person working with him originally residing in room 106. This other person is most likely the culprit behind both the murders of residents in rooms 250 and 500, and has the walking corpse and Hideji Sato as accomplices."

"We still have a way to discern the true culprit, from the shoes they left at the previous crime scene. But for now let's remove the accomplices from the equation and arrest Hideji Sato."

[Exusiai]

Unazami: "I don't know any Hidehito or Hideji, but on what grounds, can you say that this Hide-person is a willing accomplice?
Your circumstantial evidence proposes that a Hidehito Sato is involved in the death of this old man with money flowing out of his pores, yet it doesn't mean that this other Hide-person is involved in that old man's death.

If you're acknowledging the existence of a walking corpse and saying that corpse could be Hidehito Sato, then why can't this corpse be the culprit - aru?
Isn't it also possible that this Hidehito chose to be a social media creeper in order to build up his alias or whatsoever?"

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Darumask: "Aside from this supposed 'evidence' that no one else have brought up, I'd like to propose another 'culprit' to the untimely demise of Ichirō Tsujimoto.
The state in which the victim was found in, as well as contextual clues found in his room, suggests that his demise was a result of a suicide attempt.

Disfigured shoulder and arms, an excessive amount of blood loss from the head, and a concave dent in the victim's cranium suggest that the victim had fallen from a drastic heightーhead-first into the pavement.  These injuries are plausible if Ichirō Tsujimoto had fallen from the balcony of his own room, located on the fifth floor of the Sayara View Hotel.
There was also a signed will left on the desk of the victim that transfers all rights and ownership of the victim's possessions to a designated second-party.

These address the possibility of intentional suicide.  In layman terms, I propose that the culprit is Ichirō Tsujimoto, himself."

[King V]

"I'm sure that Arata here can attest to the walking corpse being ruled out. I kept him bound in room 320 after the death of the first victim of room 250 to try and get him to confess to his conspirators. Sadly, he passed out and fell into a comatose state before such a thing could happen, most likely due to all of the injuries he had sustained while I was trying to restrain him. There were many people present throughout the entire ordeal, Mitty here being the most obvious one."

"I think suicide can be easily ruled out as a matter of course. Not only is there evidence suggesting that the murders of both the victim of room 250 and 500 are linked, as presented in hotel room 106, but there is evidence suggesting that these murders are both linked with another murder in a different location. You see, this rich CEO person was attempting to sign a deal with a wealthy landowner, I forget the name but he was featured on some newspapers so I'm sure all of you know who I'm talking about. And in a briefcase that guy with the bear avatar came to me with, we found documents suggesting the two were going to have some very close dealings with one another."

"However, all of these documents were unsigned, most likely due to the fact that one of the parties died recently. And now, also recently, the other party is dead. Don't you think this is too much of a coincidence to ignore?"

"I'm not saying let's convict Hideji Sato for being involved in this case, no no, I'm saying let's arrest him and have him give a testimony to see if he knows anything important about these murders. If he doesn't know anything, then set him free, but I feel like we should give this process a very long and thorough look. We should take as much time as we can to reach out to everyone involved and really dissect their testimonies to get to the full truth. The stakes are too high with this victim being who he is, don't you think there's enough evidence here to warrant a much more thorough investigation."

[Exusiai]

Gin: "Although I'm not fond of either suggestion, as per conduct, we've tallied the votes of this trial.
The majority of participants have concluded that the culprit of this incident is none other than the victim, himself.
I don't see any pressing concern to restrain a corpse, but nonetheless, Division 9 will deal with the crime scene.

This concludes the trial of Ichirō Tsujimoto."