Trial 3 - Albert

[King V]

"Well, 'lady who's been doing well in the trials'... you are correct that the salt barrier is only a deterrent. But don't you find it strange that the culprit would also carry a light source with them to spot the salt barrier, given how much other stuff there is to carry, along with the possibility that the culprit might have had to drop everything they were holding to carry Albert? I don't know if Ynes checked for tampering before smashing the salt barrier, but if there was anything wrong with it, I'd be more inclined to believe the shards were placed beforehand."

"It's also strange that the culprit would enter prince 5's room twice... you would think that with good planning, and knowing there were traps at the entrance, they would minimize the likelihood of being caught as much as possible and only enter prince 5's room once, the time that they killed Albert. At the very least, we can rule out the culprit planting the shards prior to me triggering the trap for the first time before trial 2, since nobody would have known that any traps existed back then.."

"I think I know the issue with the shard matching the wound... it's that we haven't found all of the shards. As Hu Tao stated before, one of the fancy shards doesn't match with any others, so it's likely that there is a shard pile that we failed to find. One of the shards we're missing from that shard pile must be the true murder weapon. Since I thoroughly searched through prince 5's room, and several locations with other shards, the missing shards probably aren't hidden with the current shards that we have."

[Satori]

May 19, 2023 18:04:40 GMT -8 Daiwa Scarlet said:

"Certain issues have been pointed out, so I'll amend my theory with Kaede either sneaked past the prince hallway or Prince Tubeppa in the dark with her ability or passed after the lights had returned and Otoshin moved away. Either way, the lights were back on by the time she used the secret passage to run to the shop."

"If I had gone through our secret passage. Carmilla would have noticed me passing through her room right after the lights back came on and the only time Carmilla had seen me in her room since the blackout happened was after I had left the shop and headed back to her room where I met with Carmilla, Junko (KoD) and Ynes and did the whole movie thing in the theatre. As for me passing through Prince Tubeppa's room. It is possible I could have gone past Tubeppa using my ability to get to the shop and I have no defense against that.

"However. If I had done the murder. I had to have had prior knowledge on when and where Otoshin was setting up the cameras and how they actually worked to know when they would stop recording and I have not touched a single camera at all."

[Daiwa Scarlet]

May 19, 2023 18:18:24 GMT -8 Satori said:

Hu Tao hums, “That is quite different from the impression she gave off when we last spoke. It seemed she was more disappointed about everything, which means she had hopes for your crew at some point. I suppose your statement that she no longer cares might also be true, for better or worse.”