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week 1; saturday ( akechi )
[look.
at least belph is polite enough (?) to knock on the door instead of just barging in? open up, akechi.]
at least belph is polite enough (?) to knock on the door instead of just barging in? open up, akechi.]
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[. . . that is, Belph will have to open the door himself, Akechi ain't answering]
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... I'm not here to kill you or anything, for the record.
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You'd be one in a million. What do you want?
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Well, you were just the accomplice in a murder, so can you really blame me for being curious?
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[he's just. quiet for a moment, before he speaks up, voice hoarse]
Do you have a specific question for me, or not?
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... Guess I'll start with, "Why the hell did you drink the cocoa?" It doesn't seem to be doing you a lot of good right now.
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. . . Rapunzel-san had a ridiculous theory. I went along with it.
[he responds blandly]
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[he places a hand over his (still rapidly beating) heart]
It's been like this ever since I threw the teacup into the well.
[hey, remember when he was WIPED after running from the minotaur??]
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... Ah. Well, that sure is inconvenient. [for akechi, that is.] Why did you throw the teacup in the well, anyway? You knew what the well does to people.
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[a sharp look]
How was I supposed to know that it'd backfire on us like this?
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It doesn't matter.
[Ann confessed. he got so worked up his rapidly beating heart and breathlessness caught up with him]
I suppose I continue to be a cautionary tale for those seeking out wishes via the well.
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It isn't a competition.
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Anyway, for my next and unfortunately generic question: why'd you do it?
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I had to.
[ah]
I had no choice. Neither did Takamaki.
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[exactly like Sharpay, from what he managed to discern]
And they'll approach two more next week. It could be you.
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Then, you don't know what happened with Dave?
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[Akechi sure wasn't. whether Ann was or not was up in the air, but. . . he doubted it]
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[better the person who might've chosen to kill of their own will, rather than ones forced into it, maybe.]
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There wasn't much evidence left behind at Strider's crime scene, was there?
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Interesting.
I wonder if there was something unnatural involved in Strider's death?
[now that Belph has him considering Dave's death and not, like, his self-pity, he seems almost. . . back to normal? if "normal" was how he was during his first two weeks in the manor]
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Maybe. He was supposed to be a decent fighter—and armed with the very weapon he was good with—according to his tapestry, but there weren't any signs of him being drugged like Soo-won was.
And yet, his neck was snapped just like that. Do you think a title might've been in play?
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But what sort of gift could kill someone and allow the culprit to get away without leaving behind evidence is beyond me.
[he's a little jealous of Dave's killer now]
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Beats me. If it turns out that it's something obvious we all just missed, I'm going to be pissed.
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[yeah. it wouldn't be the first time he's had to let a murder go unsolved, huh...]
Out of curiosity, why'd you return to the scene of the crime? Trying to destroy any evidence against you?
[it's a genuine question. it's what belph might've done, in his situation.]