week 1; saturday ( akechi )

[axilium]

[look.

at least belph is polite enough (?) to knock on the door instead of just barging in? open up, akechi.]

Comments

[axilium]

Great. Now I kind of wish we hadn't caught Ann, if it meant we could've focused on Dave instead.

[better the person who might've chosen to kill of their own will, rather than ones forced into it, maybe.]

[doublecrows]

[maybe!!]

There wasn't much evidence left behind at Strider's crime scene, was there?

[axilium]

Nope. Unluckily for you and Ann.

[doublecrows]

[they just needed to be better at hiding their tracks :/]

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]

[axilium]

[things belph didn't expect: to be discussing murder with a just-revealed murderer.]

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?

[doublecrows]

That's the only other logical explanation I can think of. None of us arrived here with our normal abilities and powers. The only gifts we have are the ones given to us by our titles.

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]

[axilium]

[akechi pls]

Beats me. If it turns out that it's something obvious we all just missed, I'm going to be pissed.

[doublecrows]

Cases like that take far more than nine hours to solve back home. We can't be blamed for missing anything when our time limit is so strict, and our attention was split.

[axilium]

... Guess not.

[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.]