DeSpAiR CaRnIvAl

Step right up, bastards and bears, to the carnival of despair! [A DanganRonpa OC RP Group. Not Accepting Applications!]

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Hey there guys! Hagakure-Mod here! Can't you believe it? After all this time, Despair Carnival has finally reached it's end. It was quite a ride, I think, and I enjoyed modding a group with such great people participating in it! You were all wonderful! And I hope you all enjoyed this group too.

I will be cleaning up the trial transcripts for trial 3, and 4, and 5, and hopefully posting them soon!

Now, I would like to say, that perhaps in the future we will have a round two. I don't know how it will work at all yet, but as I have learned something through modding this group, I will take that with me as I go to create the second round with Komaeda-Mod and Chihiro-Mod. I don't know when it will open up, but there are plans.

Thank you all for joining and watching, and I hope you all have had an amazing time!

~Hagakure-Mod

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Well... Now It's Over...

You, the survivors, walk out from the trial tent, tired, but not defeated. This game is done.

You walk to the main gate of this carnival, seeing them open automatically.

You had heard that the outside world was almost filled with despair. How interesting... despair...

You all were going to fix it.

Shizuko Takahashi, Super High School Level Day Dreamer

Ai Hasako, Super High School Level Fire Performer

Aria Rumiko, Super High School Level Rock Star

Takano Makiri, Super High School Level Opera Singer

Zacharie Morison, Super High School Level Band Member

Seiko Retumi, Super High School Level Dance Instructor

You all can be the new beacon of hope. Try to rebuild the despair covered world.

And with that, the six walk out of the carnival.

Good luck out there, you all will need it.

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MASTERMIND YAMI MICHIKO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY

(TW: Character Death, guns, sharks, rockets, and knives)

Now commencing execution:

★ The Most Beautiful-Loving Death Of All Time ★

The set is quiet, there is a moment of darkness before multicoloured lights turn on, shining on Yami. She stands there with a confident smile on her face. The place she’s standing it, its where Minori died. Holes open up in the wall, and the cameras began to fire their shots. Unlike last time, she manages to dodge them all until they shut off.

She laughs as Monobear then drags her off to tie her to a rocket. Wait, doesn’t this seem similar to a certain pyrotechnic?

Before there is a chance to think about it, she’s fired up into the air, screaming the whole way. Before the fireworks go off, she manages to untie herself, falling down onto a stage below with a large thud.

Yami waves excitedly at the crowd of monobears, until one points a gun at her. ‘Pop!’ A little flag only appears unlike when it happened to Kenji. She bows as she exits the stage, only to climb up onto another platform.

A tank raises out of the ground, two sharks swimming around in it. If you look close enough, you can see blood on their teeth from a recent kill. Oh no - are those the same who devoured Mayu? They are. The platform Yami stands on, folds up, causing her to fall into the water below with a splash! Seconds after she falls in, the glass shatters, causing the water and sharks to spill out.

Yami then smiles as she is finally lead to a large wooden cross. A monobear doesn’t even wait for her to be ready, nailing her hands and feet to the religious symbol. A flashing sign appears above it reading "HIT THE BULLSEYE."

Suddenly, she’s spinning! The cross spins around and around, a crowd of monobears holding tools a mortician would use. They throw them at Yami, ultimately missing each time. The objects evolve from simple tools to weapons such as swords and axes until the bullseye is hit - a knife stabs through her heart. The cross stops spinning and all the bears cheer, only to get crushed by falling gravestones.

Yami’s body then falls from the cross, only to land in a coffin, the lid slamming shut.

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THE TRIAL STARTS NOW. BE THERE OR BE SQUARED YOU NERDS.

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THE TRIAL STARTS IN 30 MINUTES! THIS ONE WILL BE ONE HELL OF A TRIAL, SO IF YOU CAN MAKE IT, MAKE IT!!

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Is there anything in the lion cage (aside from Luke) and the surrounding area?

There seems to be nothing of importance in any of this area.

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A BODY HAS BEEN FOUND

AFTER A SHORT PERIOD OF INVESTIGATION A TRIAL WILL BE HELD

(TW: Character Death, Drowning)

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Trial Two Cleaned Transcript

Ah! And I already have trial number two cleaned! This one was much shorter than the first one, and it does include a break, so be aware of that while your reading!

Monobear: "Hey there bastards! How're you all doing? Good? I hope so! Because it's time to commence the trial of GERMAIN TOSHIKO NOW!"

Takano Makiri: "Poor Germain... That sweet boy."

Kumagai Mayu: "Germain... He seemed so gentle.."

Zacharie Morison: "Yeah, hes dead now"

Shizuko Takahashi: "....I th-think we all know that al-already..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I'm aware of that, thank ya."

Yami Michiko: "It's quite obvious."

Takano Makiri: "Well, does anyone have any ideas on who might of done it? Did anyone find anything weird?"

Yami Michiko: "Hmmm. From what I saw, his room was quite a mess, wasn't it~?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Uh... Well, all I know is the skates belonged to Germain himself, I think. He won them at one of the stalls I'm hangin' around. But that's no help at all..."

Takano Makiri: "There was some weird black poweder on the ground. Was that his too?"

Yami Michiko: "Actually, I had a suspicion that the skates were the weapon."

Shizuko Takahashi: "It w-was gunpowder, right? I th-think that's what the file said."

Takano Makiri: "Who would have gunpowder?"

Yami Michiko: "Why is there even gunpowder here?"

Kumagai Mayu: "What was it even... Used for?"

Seiko: "Was anything with gunpowder given as a prize?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "M-maybe....it was on one of th-the people who work with fire?"

Takano Makiri: "That would be the fire preformer and the pyrotechnic, right?"

Zacharie Morison: "Damn someone just dropped a buncha gunpowder?"

Yami Michiko: "That's clumsy."

Ai: "My work mainly has to due with fuel. Not with gunpowder."

Kumagai Mayu: "I don't think anyone won gunpowder.. I was hangin' round the games stalls for ages and the closest prize I saw is sparklers, which isn't really close at all..."

Aria Rumiko: "U-Um... C-Can we maybe go over the evidence a bit? I-It could possibly lead us to something... Before we make wild accusations...”

Shizuko Takahashi: "Y-yeah, that might be the b-best idea..."

Aria Rumiko: "W-Where did the roller skates come from? D-Does anyone have an explanation?"

Yami Michiko: "Apparently he owned them."

Takano Makiri: "Mayu-chan already explained that... Pleae pay attention."

Aria Rumiko: "D-Did she? S-Sorry... I wasn't paying a-attention... My head's kind of... In the clouds right now..."

Takano Makiri: "This is bad time to day dream..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Hm? D-did someone say d-daydream?"

Aria Rumiko: "I-I'm so sorry!"

Takano Makiri: "The gunpowder on the other hand..."

Aria Rumiko: "D-Do we know what was used to hit Germain in the head?"

Yami Michiko: "Like I stated earlier. I suspect it was the rollerskates."

Takano Makiri: "There isn't another apparent weapon, unless they beat him to death with their hands or feet."

Kumagai Mayu: "Where could the powder have come from? I don't think it was a prize, so someone must've either brought it with them, or possibly found it somewhere... Is there anythin' at all in the carnival that it could be taken from? Probably not..."

Seiko: "We'll the people who have gunpowder possible didn't lock their tents."

Zacharie Morison: "Yeah but what could that help ifin someone stole it?"

Yami Michiko: "Hmm."

Kumagai Mayu: "Ah, of course, that could also bw true. But I thought last trial we all agreed ta? Never mind. I must've  overlooked that possibility."

Yami Michiko: "I feel as if the gunpowder was a third wheel~"

Shizuko Takahashi: "A r-red herring, maybe?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Ta throw us off? Yeah, maybe."

Yami Michiko: "The skates were used to kill him, but the gunpowder is an odd thing, isn't it?"

Aria Rumiko: "It makes sense that it might be a red herring... The gunpowder... It's just out of place..."

Yami Michiko: "I would suggest it may have been stuck to someone's clothing, but that is a little off."

Zacharie Morison twirls his cane absentmindedly

Takano Makiri: "Either that or they were framing someone."

Shizuko Takahashi: ".....like last time....."

Kumagai Mayu: ".."

Aria Rumiko sighs

Yami Michiko: "What is it with you people and framing others?"

Aria Rumiko: "I-It's a basic method t-to try and get away with murder..."

Kumagai Mayu: "They wanna go home."

Yami Michiko: "So does everyone else."

Yami Michiko: "If they end up winning though, what happens to us?"

Ai Hasako: "Well, look at the past losers."

Shizuko Takahashi: "H-how about we get back on t-topic?"

Yami Michiko: "Fine."

Kumagai Mayu: "Ah, yeah, sorry!"

Aria Rumiko: "Wh-What other evidence c-can we discuss...?"

Yami Michiko: "Did anyone find any other evidence?"

Ai Hasako: "I thought it would be more fun to not do an investigation."

Yami Michiko: "Wow."

Takano Makiri: "How is that fun?!"

Aria Rumiko: "Hasako-san... W-Why wouldn't you want to investigate... Uuu... Our lives are on the line here..."

Ai Hasako: "It makes it harder for me. If we go complaining about what I do, we will never finish this trial."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I investigated as much as I could b-but I didn't find much..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I seem ta remember there was a blood trail in his tent where he was dragged.. And uh, some kind of... Footprints? Outside, that is. Unfortunately that's about all I found."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-there was a blood t-trail going to Retumi-kun's t-tent..."

Aria Rumiko: "H-Huh?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Yes, it seemed that was where the bloody footprints led.."

Yami Michiko: "Did anyone go into their tent~?"

Seiko: "Those weren't mine!"

Aria Rumiko: "C-Can we prove they weren't Seiko's?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "W-we could check if the sh-shoe pattern in the blood matches his, maybe...?"

Kumagai Mayu: "It does seem a little too obvious... Then again, it would've been difficult to clean up that blood... Shall we compare shoes? Only- I don't quite remember the shape of the prints, I'm sorry..."

Aria Rumiko: "P-Perhaps somebody took a picture of the prints? Did anyone? I-It would help us compare..."

Seiko: "Were they leading out of the tent or in?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "I th-think into."

Aria Rumiko: "Into it if I remember c-correctly..."

Seiko: "But wouldn't footprints leave the tent too? Unless they cleaned their shoes or took them on inside."

Aria Rumiko: "T-Then it's obvious the shoes were cleaned while inside..."

Ai Hasako: "With what?"

Takano Makiri: "Did anyone look in the tent?"

Zacharie Morison: "I didn't"

Kumagai Mayu: "I did- not for long, though. And uh-  Seiko, there was a letter in there addressed to ya.. It wasn't opened, I thought it might be important?"

Aria Rumiko: "I... I don't know..."

Seiko: "Did…. you read it?"

Aria Rumiko: "W-What did it say?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I didn't read it- It's stupid, I know, but I felt I didn't have the right ta do that without permission. I have it here, though. S-should I read it now?"

 Seiko: "Don't bother, it only talks about the car crash."

Aria Rumiko: "I-If that's the case... R-Read it anyways. I-I'm sorry.... B-But we have to make sure y-you're telling the truth...."

Shizuko Takahashi: "I-if it's the motive letter th-then that shouldn't be neccesary..."

Yami Michiko suddenly looks very uncomfortable

Kumagai Mayu: "Oh, it's one of those motives. I'm so sorry, I didn't realise! Uh... C-can someone else read it? I'm sorry, I don't feel I should..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "W-well....I'm only guessing, ehe..."

Yami Michiko: "I'll p-pass on reading it."

Aria Rumiko: "I-Is something wrong, Michiko-san?"

Seiko: "It's  that not fun to read. Heh…"

Zacharie Morison: "Can I?"

Kumagai Mayu: "If it really is, we should leave it... They were targeted to be painful, and hurting people won't help us..."

Seiko stares at the ground

Takano Makiri: "But all of our lives are at risk..."

Aria Rumiko: "U-Unfortunately, Kumagai-san... E-Even if it is... W-we have to make sure..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Uh, well... Just check if it is a motive. If it is, don't read it all out loud, 'Kay?"

Seiko: "Aren't they all motives? I would never kill because of this. It's too much disrespect to him..."

Aria Rumiko sighs

Takano Makiri : "It's probably a motive. Do you confirm it's yours?"

Yami Michiko: "It has his name on it, doesn't it?"

Aria Rumiko: "C-Can I ask why Ms. Michiko suddenly started acting... Strange when the note was mentioned?"

Takano Makiri: "Prehaps she doesn't like mentioning the motive? It was painful for all of us."

Kumagai Mayu: "Maybe because her motive upset her? I felt a little tense at that moment, too."

Zacharie Morison: "I know that motive hit home hard for me, maybe she just doesnt wanna talk bout it"

Yami Michiko: "Can we not talk about this."

Aria Rumiko: "I-I guess.... B-But this is Yami we're talking about... S-She's never been known to act so... Y'know...."

Yami Michiko: "T-Teehe.. I just don't like the subject of c-car crashes. There is no need to suspect me at all."

Takano Makiri: "When were car crashes brought up...?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "......of c-course..."

Kumagai Mayu: "O-oh. Sorry, Yami."

Yami Michiko: "Don't worry. You didn't know."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I s-suppose..."

Seiko: "Who does like talking about car crashes.. they're horrible… unfortunate..."

Yami Michiko: "Agreed."

Kumagai Mayu: "A-ah... Shall we change the subject?"

Yami Michiko: "Please."

Ai Hasako: "Michiko, what did you do with your motive letter?"

Yami Michiko: "I ripped it into tiny pieces of paper so that no one including myself would ever have to read it again."

Seiko rubs the back of his head "Could I have my motive letter.. please."

Takano Makiri: "Retumi-san, did you already know what would be on the letter?"

Ai Hasako: "Hmp, that concludes a suspicion I had."

Kumagai Mayu: "Of course... Here..."

Seiko: "Um…  technically no… I had a feeling."

Takano Makiri: "Is it something really bad?"

Seiko: "What suspicion?"

Ai Hasako: "The motive letter motivated someone to kill someone else to make sure their scar stayed a secret."

Yami Michiko: "Did you suspect me for a moment then?"

Zacharie Morison: "I know I really liked this motive"

Yami Michiko laughs

Shizuko Takahashi: "....i think it's safe to r-rule you out as a s-supect, then..."

Yami Michiko: "If you actually suspected me, I think I'll have to reconsider my trust in you. I thought I told you~ I don't wish death upon people, and I don't kill people."

Aria Rumiko: "..."

Takano Makiri: "None of us want to kill people, but it keeps happening."

Monobear yawns.

Monobear: "You all are too calm!! Where's the fear? The excitement?"

Seiko: "Of course theres fear! Someones dead!"

Zacharie Morison: "There's other feelings too!"

Kumagai Mayu: "Um... Does anyone know what Germain himself's motive was? It probably isn't important, I just thought maybe... Like last time, the victim's motive could be important?"

Monobear: "You all have several liars among you, and you are just dismissing things without a second glance!"

Monobear: "How bo~ring~"

Ai Hasako: "I'd have to agree with the bear."

Seiko: "You know he's just getting us to turn on each other!"

Zacharie Morison: "Don't agree with the bear!"

Takano Makiri : "Well we need to turn on one of us or all die..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "But...we c-can't exactly completely trust each other when one of u-us is a murderer..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Seiko... Can I glance at the letter? I won't read it all, I just need ta make sure what it is, that's all. I-I'm sorry..."

Aria Rumiko: "P-Please, Seiko... S-So we... Can rule you out as t-the culprit..."

Seiko: "It's…  just as painful as anyone else's… aren't there other ways to prove it wasn't me?"

Aria Rumiko: "N-No..."

Aria Rumiko: "P... Please.... Retumi-kun..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Just let me check it. I don't have ta look at it in depth, if it is a motive..."

Seiko: "Please don't it's… painful to hear."

Yami Michiko covers her ears. Ain't listening to this

Aria Rumiko frowns, a clear look of nervousness on her face.

Takano Makiri : Takano Makiri  leans toward Retumi to listen.

Aria Rumiko: "P-Please..."

Dear Seiko Retumi,

It started when you were three. You were screaming because you were hungry, and your father couldn't take it anymore. The first one was holding your little hand over the stove. The burns weren't that severe and healed completely. No matter how many times he apologized, he never meant it. The second time he figured to do it somewhere less visible. The second time he heated one of the kitchen knives over the stove. This scar is on the upper left side of your back. This burn stayed, where no neighbors saw, and he realized you had stopped speaking against him and crying. So as time went on he got more creative. Irons, silverware, anything that would leave a print. Anything that would satisfy him.

Kumagai Mayu: "O-oh!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-that's...."

Kumagai Mayu: "I am... So sorry, Seiko!"

Zacharie Morison: "Oh man thats cool!"

Yami Michiko: "Disgusting."

Aria Rumiko: "No.... No... S-Seiko.... I'm... I'M SORRY!"

Monobear: "Now I ask myself, 'what does that have to do with an auto accident'..."

Not Seiko: "It…."

*Kumagai shudders and looks like she might cry*

Takano Makiri : "I'm so sorry, Retumi-san. I didn't think it would be like that..."

Aria Rumiko: "N-Ngh..."

Aria Rumiko: "I-In.... *sniff* any case... D-Does this prove Seiko's innocence?"

Seiko: "I suppose… it doesn't."

Kumagai Mayu: "I shouldn't have taken it! It was yours!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "It only...reinforces s-suspicions..."

Yami Michiko: "So you lied?"

Kumagai Mayu: "W-wait... What is.. Then why..."

Yami Michiko: "You don't fucking joke about those sorts of things you idiot."

Seiko: "Wait… I well…"

Seiko: "It was't a joke. I would never JOKE about these things. They are not jokes."

Aria Rumiko: "S-Seiko Retumi... D-Did you kill Germain?"

Kumagai Mayu: "S-Seiko?"

 Aria Rumiko: "..."

Seiko: "No!"

Seiko: "I barely even knew him! How could I?!"

Takano Makiri : "It's easier to kill strangers."

Ai Hasako: "Wouldn't that make it easier?"

Zacharie Morison: "Easily!"

Aria Rumiko: "N-Not knowing somebody... Doesn't make a difference..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Nnnghhh..." *shudders again*

Seiko: "Nothing should make killing easy!"

Zacharie Morison: "You would be surprised!"

Yami Michiko laughs

Takano Makiri : "Self defense, does... Years of hate too..."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I don't know any more..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "M-maybe we should g-go over all the evidence b-before making a-any decisions."

Seiko: "What I said my letter was… has nothing do  with whether i killed Germain or not."

(The culprit of this round then had to leave, so we stopped for this day, and continued the next day.)

-BREAK-

Monobear: "Hey there everyone! You ready for Round Two?!"

Takano Makiri : "Mrrr..."

Monobear: "Now to recap: You found gunpowder on the ground, thinking it was a red herring, and then found a blood trail leading to Retumi's tent! In there, you found an unopened motive letter behind his bed, perhaps even other things, and then in trial you learned that he lied straight through his teeth to hide the motive! Who knows how much he'd been lying! But is Seiko the true culprit? Or did someone frame him? Who knows! Let us find out in Part Two!"

Takano Makiri : "I think maybe we should start thinking about who would have gunpowder. We should investigate them too."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Hasako-san al-already said she doesn't use g-gunpowder, so that would only l-leave Spledida-san."

Kumagai Mayu: "Maybe the pyrotechnician would? Ellie, right?"

Takano Makiri : "Agreed. Spledida-san, did you bring gunpowder with you?"

Ellie: "Eh...? Well I mean...yeah!! I always have gunpowder on me!!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "Could somebody have taken it from ya? Did ya maybe leave your tent unlocked?"

Ellie: "Hmmm...Well, I didn't have my belt that night, if that's what ya meant!! That's where I keep all my pyrotechnic stuff!!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "Ah! There was a belt in Seiko's tent!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Wh-where did you last have i-it?"

Ellie: "Uuuuuh...I don't remember! But eh, what did the belt in his tent look like, huh?"

Kumagai Mayu: "It had... Well, I don't know any technical terms so this is a useless description, but it had things hangin' off it. Some looked like they were missin'. Uh... They looked kinda professional things?"

Ai Hasako: "Studs? I'm not sure how much a belt would actually help. Unless there was a struggle, of course."

Takano Makiri : "If he stole the belt, he could have planted the gunpowder."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Or...maybe the k-killer put it th-there after walking to his t-tent. Their shoes w-were bloody and l-left a trail, and they p-put the belt there to make it l-look like he stole it.....maybe?"

Takano Makiri : "Maybe..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I don't think Seiko did it... It's too obvious, like the last one... Surely he would have moved the belt, to hide it?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Yeah, i think h-he's innocent."

Takano Makiri : "Maybe the pyrotechnic, then? If she accidentally spilled some, and then did that to cover up her trail."

Shizuko Takahashi: "E-either way, it looks like s-someone's being framed again....uuu..."

Kumagai Mayu: ".."

Takano Makiri : "Of course, that's what people do."

Ai Hasako: "Well, we have to figure out a suspect. It'd either be Spledida or Retumi, as far as we know. The blood tracks do seem a bit weird, though."

Shizuko Takahashi: "It was p-probably from the blood that c-came from Toshiko-kun's wound."

Zach: "What a delicious turn of events."

Takano Makiri : "Delicious? Odd phrasing..."

Kumagai Mayu: "...Delicious?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Delicious...th-that's..."

Zach: "I could use mouthwaterin' ifn you like that better"

Takano Makiri : "Why would murder make you hungry?"

Kumagai Mayu: "... I am gonna ignore that. So, Ellie, what was your belt like? As in, what was on it?"

Zach: "Not really hungry just a- hey lets finish this trial before gettin into my adjictive choice!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Can you t-tell us if the pouches were cloth too?"

Ellie: "Hmmm...? It was white with a buncha pockets on it! Didn't have much sticking out, but it had used and unused matches in it, gunpowder, tiny firecrackers, stuff like that!!!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "W-were the pockets c-cloth? If they were...th-then maybe they got snagged and ripped and sp-spilled out the gunpowder, and left the f-fabric there!"

Ellie: "Eh...I had little rags in there too..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Sounds like the one I saw. So either... Somebody stole it, or... Yeah. Did ya wear it around, or leave it anywhere it coulda been stolen?"

Ellie: "...I usually got it on me!! Sometimes I leave it lying around when I don't like wearin' it for too long..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "And you're s-sure you don't remember when you lost it?"

Ellie: "Nooooooope...don't remember at all!!!"

Takano Makiri : "Ellie-san, are you certian. Because at the moment you are the most suspicous..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Sorry ta keep pesterin' ya, Ellie, but when is the last time ya actually remember havin' it?"

Ellie: "Sometime before that night, I guess..."

Kumagai Mayu: ".." *she rubs the bridge of her nose in frustration*

Takano Makiri : "Damn it, can't you be clearer?!"

Ellie: "!!! C-calm down...!!! I dunno when!!! I lost it the night before he died, okay!?"

Takano Makiri : "Do you have anything to prove you were not the killer?"

Ellie: "Hmmm...? Well...no, but does that other guy that had my belt have anythin' to prove it ain't him...?"

Takano Makiri : "If it was him, why wouldn't he just leave the belt there?"

Ellie: "I dunno, I ain't the one who did it, I dunno how a killers mind works."

Takano Makiri : "It would be easy for him leave it there. Why would he go back to his tent? And there were rags in the belt. Why would he not use the rags inside the tent?"

Ellie: "Maybe he didn't know about 'em? There's a lotta pockets! I keep everythin' pretty orgagnized, believe it or not!"

Takano Makiri : "If he found the gunpowder, he could have found the rags."

Ai Hasako: "Why would he have the belt, again?"

Ellie: "Eeeeeh details, details!! It ain't hard ta miss 'em!!! They stick ta the side of the belt or whatevah"

Kumagai Mayu: "Ellie right now ya have ta be the main suspect. If ya can just try and remember more clearly...? I don't wanna suspect ya. Just please- be clearer when ya speak! All our lives are at stake!"

Ellie: "I lost it, I dunno what else ya want from me...it ain't hard ta take a belt from me!! I would lose my head if it weren't attached ta my shoulders!! Framin' me...simple thing ta do!"

Ai Hasako: "And you would leave your door open, too?"

Ellie: "...Possibly, ya"

Ai Hasako: "And you possibly left it open the night he was murdered, too?"

Takano Makiri : "Damn it Ellie! Lock your tent! EVERYONE LOCK YOUR FUCKING TENTS!"

Kumagai Mayu: "I thought we all promised not ta do that. It's for all our safety!"

Ellie: "STOP FUCKIN' YELLIN' AT ME!!!" U-uh...yeah...I don't always lock my tent...didn't think it would matter..."

Zach: "AH please dont yell"

Kumagai Mayu: "It did last trial..."

Ai Hasako: "Why wouldn't he return the belt back to your tent if it was unlocked?"

Ellie: "...I dunno!!! Ask him or somethin'...I dunno nothin'!!"

Takano Makiri : "Sorry... I'll be quieter... I just want everyone to be safe..."

Ai Hasako: "Are you lying?"

Ellie: "Why would I lie, huh? I'm pretty bad at lyin', no point in lyin'"

Zach: "Well you ain't a truther from the sounds a it"

Takano Makiri : "People lie to save their own asses."

Ai Hasako: "It already seems like you're cracking under pressure, anyways."

Ellie: "...Crackin'? I never...cracked..."

Ai Hasako: "You haven't done a very good job at keeping a cool head. You're so /forgetful/ after all. How much of this is a front to throw off suspicion?"

Ellie: "Well, if it was a front ta do that, it don't seem ta be workin' very well, huh? I ain't lyin' and I'm just naturally forgetful...I dunno what else ya want me ta say..."

Takano Makiri : "Give us a reason not to believe you are the killer. You seem like a sweet girl. I wouldn't want to see you are a bad person..."

Ellie: "Eeeeeh...? 'Course I'm sweet~!!! I wouldn't kill someone for...what was the motive again?...I forgot!! Hehe..."

Kumagai Mayu: "It's probably a false lead, as we said they probably cleaned it off, but- maybe someone still has some traces of blood left on the bottom of their shoes? That is, if the crime was hurried... But they could have stepped in it durin' the investigation... Forget it. I'm sorry, I can't think of anythin'. I just- don't wanna believe any of us- never mind."

Ai Hasako: "The motive of scars. Was there bloody footsteps leading out of the victim's tent?"

Ellie: "...Scars...?"

Ai Hasako: "Emotional scars, physical scars. It would have been revealed in a few days, anyways."

Kumagai Mayu: "Physical and mental scars, yes. Surely you can't have forgotten? They were so painful."

Takano Makiri : "Ellie-san, may I ask about your scars?"

Ellie: "Eh? I don't got no...scars...?"

Kumagai Mayu: "What was in your envelope, then?"

Takano Makiri : "No burns? I would think you have those."

Ellie: "...I'm careful when I work..."

Takano Makiri : "Ellie-san, you have some scars. Everyone does. Don't lie."

Ellie: "...Do ya care 'bout what they are exactly? How they got there and everythin'? Or just if I've gottem?"

Takano Makiri : "I just want to know. How easily you will admit them tells me whether you would kill for them or not."

Ellie: "I've got a few burn scars on my arms...well I mean, more than a few...eh, whatevah...do ya need...t-ta know anythin' else?!?"

Takano Makiri : "I need to know more."

Ai Hasako: "How careful are you with your work, again?"

Ellie: "I'm very careful at work!!! I didn't...y-ya don't need ta know more!!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "Ellie, it is not just your life at stake here, but all of ours."

Kumagai Mayu: "I am so sorry, but we need ta know more"

Ellie: "I.TOLD.YA....augh!!! Just shaddup, all of ya!!! I DIDN'T DO IT I DIDN'T DO IT I DIDN'T DO IT!!!"

Takano Makiri : "Ellie-san, calm down!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "C-can you prove you d-didn't?"

Ellie: "I TOLD YA I DIDN'T!!! W-who would kill over s-stupid burn scars, huh!?!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "....the m-motive was more than j-just physical ones..."

Takano Makiri : "You, from the sound of this."

Ai Hasako: "Hmp, it doesn't look good for you, Splendida. We could just vote now, you know."

Monobear: "Did someeeeone say voting time??"

Ellie: "Spledida, first of all"

Shizuko Takahashi: "As m-much as I hate to d-do this again....it l-looks like it is..."

Ellie: "If ya gotta vote me, at least get my name right, huh?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I don't want- I mean- p-please say somethin' ta prove your innocence... I don't want it ta be ya ... "

Ai Hasako: "But it just sounds so splendid. Especially when I win."

Kumagai Mayu: "nobody wins."

Ellie: "...don't...make jokes at a time like this huh...after all...'our lives are at stake'..."

Zach mutters 'steak'

Kumagai Mayu: "There are no winners, only losers. We're all still stuck here, with the killin' goin' on."

Shizuko Takahashi: Shizuko Takahashi shudders

Ai Hasako: "I see it like this: Spledida is a loser at either choice we make. We get it wrong, we all die. We get it right, she dies."

Ellie: "...get off your high horse, huh? No fun in figurin' out a murder when ya don't even know how it went down~"

Kumagai Mayu: ".. Ellie-san..." *sighs quietly*

Ai Hasako: "I only care about winning, which makes the rest of us live. Why don't you tell us what was the murder weapon, then?"

Ellie: "Pair a rollerskates, wasn't that obvious? A winner like ya should always know the answers...never know when they'll get ya a prize of two~"

Ai Hasako: "Or the skates were put in the pool of blood, and the body leaned against the bed."

Ellie: "Augh, no, skates were the weapon, hun..."

Ai Hasako: "How do you know?"

Ellie: "...Are ya serious...?"

Ai Hasako: "Yes, tell me how this person was killed."

Ellie: "Germain, or whatevah his name was...got bashed in the head a buncha times with rollerskates...then was moved so he'd lean against the bed...ain't too hard ta figure out..."

Ai Hasako: "But why move him? What purpose would that help?"

Ellie: "...Maybe...there was some guilt...leavin' someone ya brutally murdered on the floor like that… Maybe...t-they didn't mean ta kill 'em in the first place..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "S-such a drastic drop in c-confidence in your answ-wers..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Ohh..." *she murmurs unhappily, eyes dropping*

Ai Hasako: "So, would you feel guilty about it?"

Ellie: "...'Course I would...they didn't...do anythin'...I...I didn't...m-m-mean to..."

Ai Hasako: "I think that answers all of my questions. Should we vote, now?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "H-how about we just r-recap everything, first?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "So there's n-no doubt, that is."

Ellie: "...Do ya want me ta explain everythin' or somethin'? I can tell ya everythin'...not like I care a-anymore..."

Ai Hasako: "That would help."

Ellie: "Alrightie, well...I was talkin' ta Germain before he died that night...went ta talk ta him in his tent...no harm done, huh? Well...we brought up somethin'...I would rather forget...parents...I was upset and he...he tried ta comfort me...? I think that's what that was, anyway...he reached for my arms and...w-well...physical and emotional scars were kinda a thing I've been dealin' with...I panicked as he went towards me...and I grabbed the first thing I saw...pair of rollerskates...bashed him on the noggin' a few times too many...and I...I felt s-s-so bad...he didn't...mean ta do anythin' bad...s-so I tried ta move him on t-the bed...but...I wasn't strong enough...then i hid my belt in Seiko's room and went ta my own..."

Kumagai Mayu: "E-Ellie... I am so sorry!"

Zach: "Oh my god"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-that's....awful..."

Ai Hasako: "Well, we have a confession and we can vote. And to you, Spledida, better luck next time. And don't feel guilty, you could have won."

Takano Makiri : "I'm sorry it ended up like that..."

Monobear: "Now it's time to vote! Get votin'!"

Ai Hasako: "Spledida."

Takano Makiri : "Ai-san! This isn't a game! Don't treat it like one. ...But I vote for Ellie, I am sorry..."

Monobear: "Two!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "....S-sorry....Spledida-san..."

Monobear: "Three!"

 Kumagai Mayu: "Nobody can win! Unless we all get out, safe-- but I am so sorry, Ellie... I vote for you..."

Monobear: "Fooourr!!"

Zach: "Sorry, Ellie, baby! You should learn ta kill better next time!

Monobear: "Five!"

Monobear: "NOW TIME TO COMMENCE THE EXECUTION OF ELLIE SPLEDIDA!"

GOING OUT WITH A BANG.

  Millions of shining stars lit up the night sky almost as if to show their excitement for such an occasion. The scene was set on a tall hill aligned with fireworks waiting to be set off, and at the very top was none other than Ellie herself, strapped onto the largest firework known to mankind. As the camera quickly pans out, Monobear suddenly pops into frame at the very bottom of the hill with a Fourth of July hat sitting on his head. By now, we see that there’s a long piece of rope that connects to the large firework at the very top, and Monobear is clearly interested by it. Taking out a lighter, he begins to burn one end up the rope until it falls out of his hands and begin climbing the hill as a fairly fast pace.

  The camera moves back to where Ellie is at the top of the hill. At first, all we can see is the light of the flame getting closer with a side/back-shot of the firework, but once it is at a deadly distance, the camera turns to the girl’s face as she stares up into the sky….. With a sweet smile plastered on her lips.

  And then

  She’s off!

  The rocket lets out a loud hiss moments before launching into the air. Even though there was an enormous amount of sparks trailing behind her (along with a bunch of mini-fireworks), nothing could beat the shining smile Ellie had in her face just seconds before the explosion.

There was a loud explosion, followed by a bunch of mini ones, and while all the other fireworks popped and showed off their extravagant colors in the background, the screen was filled with the faces of the murderer and victim that the large firework had created. While the two images continued to sink down in the sky, the camera zooms out one more time to the bottom of the hill where a bunch of Monobears were sitting on blankets, enjoying the light show above.

Zach covers his ears "God damn it!"

Kamary holds her arms. "I'm sorry for pushing you, Ellie-san. I'm sorry." She began to cry.

Kumagai Mayu: "I-I- I'M SORRY, ELLIE!" The voices in Kumagai's head are louder than ever before, screaming about how much of a failure she has been. "I broke my promise. I said I'd get us all out. I barely even tried!!!" she covers her ears to block out the mocking laughter, murmuring 'shut up, shut up!'

Zach: "Wasted... all gone..."

Ai Hasako: "Hmp, I'll take Spledida's card in the morning, maybe put off a few fire works for her." She muttered, before taking a bow. "I'll be in my tent, if any of you need me."

Kamary as soon as she noticed Mayu's tears, she skittered over to her friend and wrapped her in a hug. "Oh no, sweetie! This isn't your fault."

Shizuko Takahashi: "...g-goodnight, everyone."

Shizuko Takahashi walks out of the tent

Zach: "Man, I can smell the burn flesh from here, thats pretty bad"

Kumagai Mayu: "Takano?" The voices fled at the sound of a familiar one, one she knew was real. "T-thank you..." She hugged her tightly, then whispered very quietly so only she could hear. "Will ya make them stop? They won't stop- I can't make them stop remindin' me..."

Kamary: "Oh no, sweetie. That's survivor's guilt." Takano wasn't sure on that one, but she would try to help her friend. She stroked Kumagai's hair. She whispered softly in returned. "I can't make them stop, but I'll stay with you until they do, okay?"

Zach: "Okay i'm gonna... just find my own way out... you two have your moment..."

Kumagai Mayu: "Mm'kay." She clung to the taller girl like a small child, worn out yet again. But she couldn't stop worrying if she was breaking- or broken. A broken girl couldn't fix anything. "Thank ya. They go away a little when I can hear ya. I guess it's 'cause I trust ya. Please stay with me." She began to murmur sleepily, still sounding a little tearful. "Nobody here is a bad person, though. 'Cept Monobear..."

Kamary: "Can we please stay with in my tent with me tonight? I... I don't think either of us should be alone." Takano gestured for them to leave so they could talk privately.

Kumagai Mayu: "Y-yes. I think that would be best. I don't want ta leave ya alone... And I also don't wanna be alone... I trust ya. I can tell ya anythin' right?" She sighed a little, then attempted a smile. "And... Ya can tell me anythin'. At all."

Kamary: "Yes, I can tell you anything, and you can tell me anything." But, certains would be kept hidden until Mayu was in a better state of mind. She wrapped her arms around the other girl's waste and walked her out of the tent.

[despaircarnival]

Ai decides to see if she can open one of the closed coffins with her hands.

They all seem to be able to open. When you open on, you see Travis Torabisu’s body laying there, wounds still present on him, but his body very well prepared for the coffin. It seems he's been laying there for a while.

[despaircarnival]

Ai searches around the church for anything out of the ordinary!

A church in a carnival, how strange, isn’t it? Why would there be one here?

But searching around, you found a passage way that opens up to lead to a room. In this room, you see a room of coffins. There are 9 closed coffins, several open ones with no bodies in them, and a few more open coffins with the bodies of the people sitting in the church earlier on. How interesting…

[despaircarnival]

TRIAL 1 CLEANED TRANSCRIPT

After a long while, I have finally finished cleaning the first trial. This was by far the longest, and you can tell it gets a bit forced to end by the end of the trial, but that was mainly because many people couldn't stay on anymore, and of the such. I will be getting to cleaning the future transcripts soon. They will most likely arrive post endgame.

Monobear: "Hello bastards! How's it hangin'? I know how it was hangin'! But you don't! Time to figure you who killed Travis Torabisu! Go!"

Germain Toshiko: "Th-that's really mean Monobear... Why would you say something like that? S-so... What do we know about his death...? Other than he was hung..."

Takano Makiri: "There's no way it could be a suicide, right? If it was, there would be an overturned chair and there wouldn't be scars."

Minori Takara: "Very well. So, let us look over what evidence we have, shall we? Exactly. So it must have been one of us..."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I don't think it was suicide..."

Kumagai Mayu: "And he seemed to have been attacked beforehand, judging by his cuts..."

Aria Rumiko: "Oh! Um... From investigating the body, I um... Found that there were no wounds underneath his clothes... If that helps..."

Hitomi: "I do wonder how he could have gotten up there. He must have had help since I saw no chair."

Shizuko Takahashi: "M-maybe he stood on the b-bed?"

Minori Takara: "But would he really allow someone to help him up like that if it meant his death?"

Takano Makiri "No way, not from where he was hung. He'd have swung too much."

Kenji: "The cuts are a little funny... Not like laughable funny! Odd funny."

Aria Rumiko: "Yeah! It... It had to be murder, right? There were no overturned chairs... Or anything along those lines..."

Germain Toshiko: "But if he was forced into the hanging how did they even get him into the rope?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "D-does that mean it w-was a tall person that k-killed him-?!"

Minori Takara: "It's possible. Or maybe someone shorter whom had used something to reach. A chair, perhaps."

Seiko Retumi: "Were the cuts sign of a struggle?"

Takano Makiri: "No, a living person could have taken a chair there and removed it after

Kumagai Mayu: "But where would they hide the chair?"

Kenji: "I'm just wonderin' why there's a cut on his wrist and all."

Takano Makiri: "Their own room, maybe?"

 Hitomi: "Well, the wounds were done before death because the blood flow would have stopped, so we can assume he was dead after he got the cuts. The room though looked pretty clean but his body on the other hand..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "!!!! O-or....maybe the n-noose was already pre-pared, with one e-end hanging down. Once i-it was around his n-neck they pulled it and it l-lifted him up-!!"

Aria Rumiko: "According to Monobear, the cuts weren't a sign of struggle... Right?"

Germain Toshiko: "Does anyone know what would have created the cuts?"

Hitomi: "Then, I wonder how did they get there. Monobear claimed his death took part during the night hours."

Kumagai Mayu: "They found a pair of sunglasses with blood on them... It was probably them."

Aria Rumiko: "Those glasses seem to be the answer..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "The gl-glasses belonged to him, th-though..."

Aria Rumiko: "Um... I hate to point fingers... But... Can Kumagai-san please explain why Travis's sleeve was found outside of her tent...?"

Zacharie Morison: "Hehe, some good ol' slicin' n' dicin'? The choice is a lil' weird though"

Minori Takara: "Perhaps they managed to snatch them out of his posession as they attacked...?"

Germain Toshiko: "Were the cuts fresh...? Like just done?"

Ai Hasako: "How do we know he owns them?"

Takano Makiri: "Didn't Kumagai and Travis have a romantic relationship? Maybe that's why..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I dunno! I certainly didn't put it there! And if I was a killer, surely I would have hidden it..."

Yami Michiko: "Isn't it a little too early to be making romantic relationships~?"

Kumagai Mayu: "No. It isn't."

Yami Michiko: "It's only been a few days."

Zacharie Morison: "Ah Yami ya breakin my heart"

Takano Makiri: "You only need to know a guy for a few minutes to bed him .Hehe~"

Monobear: "It's never too early for romance, take it from the bear."

Shizuko Takahashi: "The evide-dence doesn't like y-you then, Kumagai-san...since the r-rope was also yours..."

Aria Rumiko: "I-Isn't it possible th-that Kumagai-san killed Travis? Even if she did have feelings for him... Could that have just been fake?"

Minori Takara: "Uhuhuhu, a bit of a pickle, wouldn't you agree, Mayu-san? Best start explaining, yes?"

Yami Michiko: "Ew fake feelings."

Kenji: "Wow, I've missed out on a lot. It's almost like we were told to kill eachother yesterday! And now, there's romance and a dead body. Who would have thought?"

Yami Michiko: "It's like an awful soap opera."

Shizuko Takahashi: "N-no, she couldn't h-have!! Not with the way she w-was crying afterwards!! I'm n-not good at r-reading people, but that d-despair couldn't have been faked!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "My feelings weren't fake! Someone must have taken the rope while I was asleep... But I would never kill Travis, I l-loved him!"

Yami Michiko: "Oh~!"

Kenji:"Aw, that's not too nice. Give the guy a break! He's kind of dead."

Shizuko Takahashi: "You didn't s-see her then."

Aria Rumiko: "I-I'm good at reading people... A-And it's really not hard t-to fake your feelings..."

Takano Makiri: "As an actress, I will confirm that such despair could have been faked."

Yami Michiko: "Looks like you can't hang around your love any longer."

 Kumagai Mayu: "As I have told ya before, I can't act at all..."

 Hitomi: "He would have been an easier target if he trusted her but I am curious. Does anyone have an alibi for that night? Anyone see anyone else during the night?"

Yami Michiko: *giggles*

Zacharie Morison: "Ah Yami thats cold"

 Minori Takara: "I suppose I haven't either. Shame, too, I know fake tears when I see them. Many a time in the movies and actor has faked their-- ...Michiko-san. Please."

Takano Makiri: "I did. I hugged her even, but anything can be faked."

Aria Rumiko: "C-Could you p-please explain what y-you were doing a-around the time Travis was murdered, Kumagai?"

Kumagai Mayu: "It was night! I was sleepin'! In my tent!"

Aria Rumiko: "C-Can you prove that, though?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Oh and if we're pointin' fingers, what was that about a meetin' with him, Minori?"

Kenji: "I was out, but I didn't see anyone around! Too preoccupied with all the carnival stuff, I guess."

Aria Rumiko: "Kumagai-san! I... I was questioning you... P-Please try not to change subject randomly..."

Minori Takara: "Ah, yes, I figured that this would come up eventually. I had merely notced his, er, newfound posessions of other's items and wished to ask him about it. Mere curiosity, is all. It is no big deal."

Takano Makiri: "No, Kumagai is right, we should ask about that as well. We can't focus only on her."

Shizuko Takahashi: "M-maybe we should all g-give our alibis..."

Aria Rumiko: "W-Well... O-Okay then..."

Kumagai Mayu: "No. I can't prove it, I was alone. A-fuckin'-sleep, like a normal person. How should I prove that?"

Kenji: "Whoa, a meeting? Do tell! I wasn't invited to a meeting. Someone should have given me a memo."

Takano Makiri: "I would like to learn more about this meet as well. Oh, and I was asleep as well."

Shizuko Takahashi: "I w-was kn-knitting in my tent, since I d-don't sleep well."

Zacharie Morison: "I was jamming on the saxaphone all night, I couldn't a done it"

Kumagai Mayu: "So did ya meet with him before he... Passed away, then? Or was it scheduled for after, and ya missed it?"

Minori Takara: "I was asleep as well, but, anyone could say that, yes? No real way to prove it."

Aria Rumiko: "I have proof... I was playing g-guitar... Anyone who h-heard me... Can prove that f-for me..."

Germain Toshiko: "I was a-asleep. I think. Y-yeah."

Minori Takara: "Oh, it was before his time came up. Not certain how long before, exactly."

Hitomi: "I have no alibi."

Germain Toshiko: "Why do you say you don't have an alibi?"

Takano Makiri : "What exactly did you talk about."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-that's...a kind of uns-sure answer, Toshiko-kun..."

Aria Rumiko: "Hitomi... What were you doing around the time of the m-murder?"

Germain Toshiko: "W-well I don't really remember! I think that I was asleep, but I might have had a dream about doing carnival games and I don't know which is which!"

Germain Toshiko: "Or maybe I had a dream about sleeping..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "......it's a l-little suspicious..."

Hitomi: "I believe I was going over some of my observations or I was asleep. I just stated I have no alibi because it can't be proven of course. No reason to draw it out."

Takano Makiri: "Either one sounds like you were sleeping, Germain-san."

Germain Toshiko: "I-I understand that..."

Germain Toshiko: "Oh yeah... So then I w-was sleeping..."

Kenji: "I was just wandering around! I just can't get any beauty sleep around here."

Minori Takara: "Very well. It appears numerous of us have no alibis, in that case."

Yami Michiko: "I have an alibi if that helps~"

Yami Michiko: "Or, someone has mine."

Germain Toshiko: "It would clear suspicion off you then.."

Yami Michiko: "Teehe, I'm completely innocent."

Zacharie Morison: "That's not a alibi, darlin'"

Kenji: "It's pretty hard to get some shut eye around here."

Aria Rumiko: "S-So... C-Can we maybe sort out our suspicions?"

Germain Toshiko: "I think that it would benefit everyone... Y-yeah I agree."

Ai Hasako: "I did talk to Michiko before hand, to confirm things. She is rather innocent."

Seiko Retumi: "What did you conform?"

Takano Makiri: "I think in the future, we should be more careful about hwere we are as night..."

Hitomi: "If alibis aren't the way to go, I say we back track and figure out how he was murdered."

Aria Rumiko: "O-Okay! I-If Anyone has any suspicions, please speak up!"

Kenji: "Aw shucks. Can't we have a little freedom, ma'am?"

Zacharie Morison: "I still suspect that girl that smells like sea salt"

Minori Takara: "Very well. Naturally, my suspicions lie on Mayu-san -- no offense, dear, the evidence has merely stacked against you a bit. This isn't to say it was you, naturally, merely a... hypothesis, you could say."

Takano Makiri: "Kumagai-san. You are a sailor correct? Aren't sailors famous for their knots? I'm afriad for now my suspions lay with you. I could never tie a knot strong enough to keep him up..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I was in love with Travis. We had spent some time together, and when he was about ta leave, he asked me ta look after the jump rope because he said he was disorganized. I put it in my drawer, and went ta sleep. That's all I know! Surely if I was the killer, I wouldn't have left all this evidence against me lyin' about! Obviously I've been framed!"

Germain Toshiko: "I... I think that I suspect K-Kumagi too... I-I'm sorry!"

Minori Takara: "Ah? Who's to say such affections weren't fake? Perhaps you are much better an actress than you have lead on."

Kenji: "Say, is it normal to be so fond of a rope?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-the pr-proof does seem to p-point towards you....I don't want to th-think it was you, but what else i-is there...?"

Yami Michiko: "Where did the jump rope come from again?"

Seiko Retumi: "You're in love with him? Don't lovers normally meet at night. Based I stereotype I suppose"

Ai Hasako: "I won the jump rope in a game. Simple as that."

Takano Makiri: "I don't think he loved her back. So sad..."

Germain Toshiko: "If you put the jump rope in your room, then how did someone get it? Did they sneak in?"

Zacharie Morison: "Travis gave the rope to lil' sailor girl over here over here, baby"

Minori Takara: "Ahh, unrequited love. Tragic. Perhaps she killed him in order to get back? Ahaha, I'm joking, I'm joking."

 Kumagai Mayu: "We met in the evenin', then he left! I didn't see him again until... Until.... T-the mornin', when we all found him.."

sailor jimmies: "Unless! He is a masochist! That would explain the rope!-... Wait, no i'm thinking about something else."

Kumagai Mayu: "No, he loved me too, I'm sure of it!"

Germain Toshiko: "Kumagi had it...? That just furthers your suspicion if that's true."

Zacharie Morison: "Lets not torture the poor girl over her dead meat man"

Aria Rumiko: "S-So... If... If Hasako-san had the rope... H-How did Travis get it? And then h-how did it get to Kumagai?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-that's such a cruel way to talk a-about him..."

Kenji: "Did anyone have access to her tent?"

Kumagai Mayu: "He said he wanted me ta look after it because he was disorganized... He didn't say why it was so important and I didn't ask, I just... Put it in my drawer."

Takano Makiri: "It's not hard to break into a tent, hun."

Ai Hasako: "I traded it for a lighter that he had. I'm not quite sure on who knew who he had the jump rope, but Mayu would be a suspicion."

Kenji: "That rope had to be kept somewhere safe, right? I'm no detective, but she couldn't have left it lyin' around to be stolen."

Kumagai Mayu: "I just put it in a drawer! I didn't think it'd be used for... That!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-that means they also w-would've had to have s-seen her put it away or she t-told them it was th-there..."

Aria Rumiko: "C-Could it be a case of Kumagai leaving h-her tent unlocked?

Takano Makiri (Kamary): "From now on, everyone lock their tents at night."

Kenji: "I... got nothing!"

Yami Michiko: "Done."

Aria Rumiko: "I-If it's the case of Kumagai-san leaving her tent unlocked... Then the person who broke into it would have to have KNOWN that Kumagai had the rope... Right?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I thought we were all friends... I never thought anyone would kill! I thought we could all find a way out together... And Travis thought so too! So no, I didn't lock it."

Seiko Retumi: "How would they know her tent would be unlocked?"

Germain Toshiko: "It could have been blind luck?"

Zacharie Morison: "I didn't do anything"

Germain Toshiko: "I-I-I didn't mean it like that! I'm sorry Zach!"

Aria Rumiko: "M-Maybe they were just like, checking to see who left their tents locked and unlocked?"

Aria Rumiko: "And they happened to find that Kumagai's was unlocked?"

Germain Toshiko: "Th-th-th-th-that's what I meant!"

Seiko Retumi: "So are you suggesting they were going on a killing spree?"

Takano Makiri: "Minori-san, did you not discuss items with him? Would you not know where the rope was?"

Ai Hasako: "Wouldn't one of us have heard that?"

Kumagai Mayu: "B-but they must have chosen my tent for the rope... Right?"

Aria Rumiko: "If it's the case of what I'm suggesting... T-then... Travis's murder may have been impulsive..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Sh-should we look at wh-whose tents are near hers? M-maybe someone noticed sh-she didn't lock it wh-when they turned in f-for the night..."

Minori Takara: "Ah? Yes, I did discuss the items with Travis-kun."

Germain Toshiko: "Did anyone else know you had the jump rope then?"

Kumagai Mayu: "What time was the meetin'?"

Minori Takara: "I... I am afraid I do not remember that well, it seems so long ago, given the circumstances."

Kumagai Mayu: "Surely if ya arranged a meetin', you'd know exactly what time it was meant to be at so ya could turn up on time? Then again, I s'pose it is plausible you forgot..."

Kenji: "But the killer wanted the jump rope, right? If they just wanted to kill someone they would have just killed her while she was sound asleep. Sounds like they were on a mission!"

Aria Rumiko: "M-Minori's tent is close to Kumagai-san's tent!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "I-it's not very close..."

Zacharie Morison: "You guys might be... jumping to conclusions"

Yami Michiko: "What."

Kumagai Mayu: "Why Travis, though? HE WAS A GOOD PERSON! He never did anythin' wrong!"

Takano Makiri: "No, they could have kept her alive to frame her."

Yami Michiko: "They are really hanging on to what they believe in, aren't they~?"

Aria Rumiko: "I-It would have also been a big risk on the culprit's part... If... If Kumagai-san had awoken... The culprit's plan would have been... ruined..."

Kenji: "He seemed like a good fella! I wouldn't wanna do him any harm. Poor kid..."

Kumagai Mayu: "W-who would do that? I-I thought I was friends with everyone here I'd met.."

Takano Makiri: "She looks like the sound sleeper type to me."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I didn't think that anyone here would murder either..."

Ai Hasako: "Well, there was the poster."

Aria Rumiko: "M-Minori-san... D-Do you have anything to prove your innocence...?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I am. I sleep through anythin'- oh God, why didn't I wake up? I promised him I'd protect him if I could.."

Minori Takara: "Ah, you folks cannot be so sure. You know how it is in the movies, yes? The ones that appear the most innocent looking often turn out to be the most dangerous, yes?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Th-those horrid things..."

Minori Takara: "Ah, no, I'm afraid I do not."

Yami Michiko: "Movies aren't really the best at portraying characters."

Kenji: "Ya know, it must have been tough on the kid after the motive and all... And then being killed like that!"

Hitomi: "It was more than likely the mastermind's plan all along for us to kill. Just one of us fell into the traps and now we have to find them."

 Takano Makiri: "Minori-san, what was on your poster?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "L-let's stay focused on the main pr-problem right now..."

Aria Rumiko: "D-Do you guys think that anyone else will b-be killed after this? I-I don't want a repeat of this.... Oh... I'm getting off track, aren't I?"

Minori Takara: "...I... I do not wish to speak of it, Takano-san."

Kumagai Mayu: "He was upset by his motive and so was I... In the afternoon he came ta my tent and we comforted eachother... He was gone before evenin'"

Yami Michiko: "I feel as if this whole thing has gone off track to be honest."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I hate to talk about it... B-But how about everyone st-state what was on their poster? I-It may help us f-find the culprit..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "B-but the sleeve was outside y-your tent. Th-that must mean he w-was attacked there."

Takano Makiri: "Or it was lest there to frame her. But, yes posters..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I didn't hear anythin'... Maybe he came to see me in the night and got attacked! oh god, and I slept through it..."

Takano Makiri: "My poster had nothing. I don't have any friends, family or attatchment to the outside world. It just made me feel lonely."

Yami Michiko: "Oh those dreadfully photoshopped things.."

Germain Toshiko: "My poster... D-do we really need to talk about it?"

Shizuko Takahashi: ".......my poster h-had my Mama and Papa on it.....and th-they....they w-w-w-were...................I'm sorry."

Zacharie Morison: "I didn't even know what was on mine!"

Kenji: "Sorry, miss. That's not something I wanna share with the class. Heh, maybe another time..."

Kumagai Mayu: "My poster had my parents dead, m-my sister mutilated and my brother dyin'... And my boat burnin'...."

Minori Takara: "I... I would rather not share mine, either, if that is fine."

Seiko Retumi: "My poster was of my best friend… and there was this car. It looked like it was going really fast…"

Yami Michiko: "Teehe. There was a very false looking scene of my family looking horribly beat up."

Kumagai Mayu: "I-it's all too-"

Aria Rumiko: "M-Mine was a picture of my f-father and 3 siblings... A-And their bodies were s-so... M-mangled...."

Germain Toshiko: *Germain was shaking* "It's... It's all so horrible..."

Ai Hasako: "My parents, that's it."

Kenji: "Interesting... It's pretty sad, huh?"

Yami Michiko: "I can't believe you fools fell for those pictures to be real~ It's obviously fake.."

Minori Takara: *Minori idly twirling their ponytail around their finger and humming to themselves as if to not completley freak out over their poster.*

Germain Toshiko: "They looked so real though! We can't know if they are fake or not!"

Seiko Retumi: "But they were convincing enough to make someone kill. That was the danger of them."

Aria Rumiko: "Michiko-san! Even if they a-are f-fake... It's... It's still t-too much for me to handle..."

Zacharie Morison: "That's a little harsh, Yami darlin'"

Kumagai Mayu: *stifles a sob* "Obviously someone did... And k-killed... Travis..."

Aria Rumiko: "S-So... Maybe th-this isn't how we'll f-find the culprit..."

Hitomi: "My parents and all their medical tools and work were destroyed in mine. I just don't know if this is what we should be focusing on. All the motives should have effected us all equally if the mastermind did his psychology work correctly. Regardless of what was it that was the motive for murder."

Yami Michiko: *Yami sighs.* "My mindset saved me from bursting into tears and gaining an awful stutter so."

Aria Rumiko: "...I... I return to my original suspicion of Minori Takara being the culprit...."

 Kumagai Mayu: "S-shut the Hell up!"

Kenji: "Hah..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Takara-san, d-did you know Kumagai-san's t-tent was unlocked?"

Minori Takara: "I did not."

Takano Makiri: "I've switched my suspicions over to Minori-san as well. I can't read them. It's annoying."

Hitomi: "I propose we set aside suspicious and look at what we do indeed have and then figure out what that says about the culprit. We need to narrow it down before we point figures. That would be the reasonable choice, wouldn't it?"

Yami Michiko: "That's a little harsh don't you think~?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Alright....wh-who knew Torabisu-kun owned the gl-glasses?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I did."

Kenji: "I didn't."

Aria Rumiko: "W-We can't exactly just t-trust words with this... I-It's pretty easy to lie about something l-like this..."

Minori Takara: "Precisely."

Kumagai Mayu: "We talked about them. He said they were so sharp they hurt to carry around. He couldn't remember where he got them."

Takano Makiri: "I didn't either."

Hitomi: "When I proposed this option, I meant going back to look at the crime scene. We need to stay with facts. Track down what happened to the body exactly. Such as why was he cut and his sleeved ripped off? How was he hung exactly? Hanging someone says something about our culprit too, let me remind you. It's usually a quick death."

Aria Rumiko: "Wh-what about the wounds on his hand? They were there before Travis died, according to Monobear..."

Takano Makiri: "I have a question. Who foudn that sleeve and was there blood on it? Wasn't the wrist it came from cut. It should be bloody..."

Kumagai Mayu: "I dunno who found it, but it was clean... Hmm..."

Takano Makiri: "That probably means the sleeve came off before he was cut."

Yami Michiko: "Or it was washed."

Aria Rumiko: "Ah! B-But according to M-Monobear there were no signs of struggle... Y-Yet... The cut sleeve and wounds seem to say otherwise..."

Ai Hasako: "Maybe he was asleep when he died? It is also possible he cut himself before death."

Seiko Retumi: ""Wouldn't it be a natural reaction of the body when it's being suffocated to wake up?"

Zacharie Morison: "And flail your arms! Maybe earnin those cuts"

Takano Makiri: "Maybe they drugged him?"

Aria Rumiko: "Was Travis drugged?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "W-who would even b-be able to get someth-thing to drug him with?"

Zacharie Morison: "I don't think we even have that kinda stuff here."

Aria Rumiko: "I-Is there anyone here who specializes in like, Medicine o-or something?'

Zacharie Morison: "We woulda found /something/ at the crime scene? Monoringmater, can we have a toxocolagy report?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Not me. Anyway if he was drugged, surely a simple overdose would be quicker and leave less evidence?"

Hitomi: "I know some general knowledge about medicine from the trials but nothing too advance."

Monobear: "You spoiled kids! I gave you a perfectly good Monobear file! Why would you need a toxocolagy report?!"

Aria Rumiko: "B-Because... The Monobear file wasn't s-specific enough..."

Hitomi: "Ah, so he wasn't drugged then from that reaction of yours."

Kenji: "Oh, monobear. You joker, you."

Zacharie Morison: "Cause I can't read the Monofile"

Minori Takara: "Ahaha... I'm certain if he was drugged, it would've been mentioned in the file, yes?"

Monobear: "I can't just tell you everything now, can't I? That would ruin the suprize!! ….Okayy, no there were no drugs in his system! Happy?"

Minori Takara: "Very, thank you."

Aria Rumiko: "T-Thank you, Monobear..."

Zacharie Morison: "Ah, the meat is untained"

Takano Makiri: "Thank you, Bear-san."

Yami Michiko: "Pardon?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Meat?!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "M-morison-kun-!!"

Seiko Retumi: "If he wasn't drugged, then maybe he's a heavy sleeper?"

Takano Makiri "...Zach, did you just call him meat?"

Zacharie Morison: "Uh, no."

Kumagai Mayu: "His e-eyes were open, though..."

Minori Takara: "Meat...? Zach-kun, that's hardly a thing to call a fallen comrade."

Yami Michiko: "Teehe, he isn't meat. He is a body that will be sent to the heavenly father once I'm done with it."

Kenji: "Well, that was unsettling, sir."

Zacharie Morison: "You wish, sister"

Aria Rumiko: "Hm... I-If he wasn't drugged? T-Then did Monobear make a mistake? Maybe the wounds were from him trying to defend himself..."

Yami Michiko: "Oh?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "L-let's get back on track!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "He isn't meat, or a body. He. Is. Travis. A person."

Yami Michiko: "How fast can you run without that cane~?"

Zacharie Morison: "I'll talk to you /after/, kay?"

Aria Rumiko: "A-Ah! I... I have an idea on how Travis might have got the cuts? It's a bit far-fetched, but I-it might work!"

Kenji: "We're all ears!"

Minori Takara: "Yes, please share with the class, Rumiko-san."

Kumagai Mayu: "What is it, Aria-san?"

Aria Rumiko: "What if... What if Travis tried to use the sharp end of the glasses to defend himself, but the culprit got them from him and cut him with it? I-Is that a possibility?"

Ai Hasako: "That would be counting on the fact that he didn't actually hit them."

Takano Makiri: "Would that mean they have cuts of their own?"

Kenji: "Why didn't he give us a shout? I mean, if I was getting attacked... I'd yell for help."

Aria Rumiko: "M-Maybe? S-So I-is my theory a possibility?"

Hitomi: "There were no other wounds found on him, right? It's unlikely he was knocked uncnscious and then hung ?"

Kenji: "Are there any bumps or bruises?"

Ai Hasako: "Aside from the ones on his face?"

Yami Michiko: "I don't think so.."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Wouldn't the m-monobear file have told us i-if there was, th-though...?"

Kenji: "I didn't get quite a good look at the body, but I think it would have been in the file do-hickey if he had gotten knocked out."

Zacharie Morison: "Maybe from me smacking him down like a pinata"

Yami Michiko:*Yami giggles*

Aria Rumiko: "This... This is confusing... M-Maybe... He was suffocated with a pillow? And while he was unconscious he was hung? If that were the case... There wouldn't be any wounds... But... There would also be blood on the pillows... So maybe not..."

Kumagai Mayu: "..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "W-wait........was Torabisu-kun's t-tent locked?"

Monobear: "Ohh, yeahh, I forgot to mention that he diiiidddd pass out.  My bad!"

Aria Rumiko: "A-Ah!"

Yami Michiko: "Well aren't you reliable."

Minori Takara: "...Well. There's that."

Zacharie Morison: "Silly ol' bear"

Shizuko Takahashi: "S-such an import-tant thing to forg-get-!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "W-who could have-"

Kenji: "Eh, that's not funny. Trust me, kid. I know funny. Lets contain ourselves until the trial is over, okay? Unless that's too much for ya."

Aria Rumiko: "S-So... We know from that... That he was rendered unconscious somehow..."

Hitomi: "So a theory, he was unconscious before he was hung."

Seiko Retumi: "The killer must have planned this out well. If they were able too knock him unconscious without him fighting back"

Ai Hasako: "Maybe he didn't want to."

Kenji: "We still have no proof that he was down for the count, before being hung. I'm telling ya' this doesn't add up at all."

Minori Takara: "Yes... a lot of this seems rather confusing."

Shizuko Takahashi: "I-I still wanna kn-know if his tent was l-locked or not..."

Monobear: "Does that even matter! I wanna know who the killer is! Although.... I do know who the killer is... but whatever!!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "I-it does matter, r-right? Th-the person would've had to ha-have known how to get in if it w-was locked."

Seiko Retumi: Okay, before we figure how how it could have been done. We should consider our main suspects, their alibis and the evidence against them"

Aria Rumiko: "Hm... Does anyone have any suspicions on anyone besides Minori and Kumagai?

Kumagai Mayu: "I'm sorry, but I think it was Minori-san. If they had that meetin' with him, they'd know I had the rope."

Kenji: "Hey, fluffy! Don't get your cotton into a knot. We're working with what you gave us, man. You're messing with my mellow!"

Aria Rumiko: "Uuu... G-Guys? We've been going at this f-for almost an hour... And we really don't have much... W-We have to start taking this more seriously..."

Minori Takara: "We've been doing the best we possibly can, Rumiko-san. You cannot possibly solve a murder such as this in merely ten minutes, yes?"

Takano Makiri: "We are taking this seriously! It's just there's not enough information to be sure..."

Zacharie Morison: "Maybe we should have in-ve-sti-gated more~ I could have really been a help in this situation, after all."

Yami Michiko: "Really now~?"

Aria Rumiko: "I-I know... S-Sorry! I'm just... Just..."

Kenji: "Well gee, why didn't you in-ve-sti-gate then?" You've got all the talk, but no walk."

Zacharie Morison: "I can't really do much on that front, ya know, being blind and all"

Yami Michiko: "Do you have heightened senses though? I heard blind people tend to have them."

Ai Hasako: "Please, we're getting off-topic. The only thing I can offer is that three people knew about the jump rope, four if what Mayu says is true."

Takano Makiri: "Who all knew again?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Me- obviously."

Shizuko Takahashi: "I d-did. K-Kumagai-san told me d-during the investigation th-though."

Kenji: "Are there any other goodies from the crime scene? There has to be more than this."

Hitomi: "I spoke with Ai Hasako at the crime scene about the jump rope if that is any help."

Kenji: "We know plenty about the jump rope. Sadly, it's not giving us any answers."

Yami Michiko: "I found his poster if that helps."

Kumagai Mayu: "T-that motive was pretty weird, though. Everyone else got a picture of a beaten up or dead family, and he got a missin' poster?"

Hitomi: "Was the jump rope's own publically known or only a certian people knew of this before the murder?"

Kenji: "Now we're getting somewhere! What's this about the poster?"

Yami Michiko: "It is rather strange if you do think about it~ Does that mean he didn't have a family? Or perhaps some unfortunate event occurred to him before he came here~?"

Kumagai Mayu: "He told me they were always away... Seemed a little tense when I asked about them, though."

Aria Rumiko: "C-Could Travis have been the victim of a kidnapping at one point? Or did he run away?"

Yami Michiko: "Hmm..."

Kenji: "Maybe... he's missing? I don't know... I'm not a detective!"

Yami Michiko: "If a child is kidnapped and returned, parents turn to become rather overprotective~ If they were gone often though.."

Hitomi: "Maybe his parents aren't his real parents, at least biologically speaking."

Aria Rumiko: "Y-You mean Travis was adopted?"

Yami Michiko: "Oh my. What kind souls! Taking possession of a lost child!"

Kumagai Mayu: "H-he also said his- father, I think- came from a not-so-nice area... If that helps..."

Takano Makiri: "Maybe the person on the poster was his twin or brother instead?"

Aria Rumiko: "Hey Kumagai-san? Could you tell us everything you know about Travis's past? It may help us..."

 Zacharie Morison: "His motive was his lil bro went missin?"

Ai Hasako: "I apologize for interrupting, but how exactly would that help?"

Hitomi: She let out a small sigh and closed. "I wonder if it matters so much what was on HIS poster but more on the fact that it was shredded and thrown away."

Yami Michiko: "How could he have found his brother when we are trapped in this forsaken carnival anyway?"

Hitomi: "Unless of course, our culprit did that himself then that doesn't matter."

Aria Rumiko: "Well... This poster just seems odd... I feel like we might be able to learn something if Kumagai tells us..."

Kenji: "Why would they do that? It seems silly to me."

Kumagai Mayu: "One of his parents, I think it was his father, came from a bad area. He and his mother were always away, and Travis used to solve crimes alone... I'm sorry! That's all I know..."

Minori Takara: "Hm... perhaps the poster isn't of much significance, then...?"

Aria Rumiko: "So... That doesn't really help..."

Zacharie Morison: "How is this helpin' us again?"

Takano Makiri: "Wait a minute... Does this mean that it's possible Travis-san was the one trying to kill the murderer?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Even that might be wrong... I'm not too smart, and my memory isn't great.."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Y-yeah....and it b-backfired on him?"

Minori Takara: "Perhaps... or maybe they thought he was. And they retaliated, and killed Travis."

Kumagai Mayu: "Travis would never ever even consider that!!!!!"

Kenji: "I'm lost again!"

Hitomi: "Question, does everyone else still have their poster?"

Aria Rumiko: "I... I have mine..."

Shizuko Takahashi: ".....I've g-got mine...."

Minori Takara: "I... still have mine, yes."

Takano Makiri: "I have mine as well."

Kenji: "Yep. In pretty good condition too!"

Kumagai Mayu: "I tore mine up."

Hitomi: "I have mine as well."

Seiko Retumi: "I think it's behind my bed crumpled into a ball"

Zacharie Morison: "Mine's still on my wall, don't even know what’s on it"

 Yami Michiko: "I have mine."

Hitomi: "Then my next question is for Minori Takara, who initiated the meeting between you and the victim?"

Minori Takara: "I did. Why do you ask?"

Kenji: "What kind of meeting was this? Hmmm?"

Minori Takara: "Ah, I was merely asking him about his possession of other items, is all. Just curious."

Kumagai Mayu: "Was it mornin', afternoon, evenin', or night? Seein' as ya somehow don't remember the exact time?"

Minori Takara: "About night time, I believe."

Kenji: "Well, sounds good to me!"

Hitomi: "How did the meeting go? There were no conflicts, were there? While I'm on that subject, no one had quarrels with the victim, did they?"

Minori Takara: "No conflicts whatsoever. I had nothing against him, personally, nor do I have anything against any of you."

Aria Rumiko: "I didn't... I barely even knew Travis..."

Kenji: "Was he looking okay? He wasn't too upset or anything was he?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I didn't... We were, uh- friends..."

Aria Rumiko: Minori... Did Travis attempt to attack you during your meeting at all?"

Minori Takara: "Not at all. It all went smoothly."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Wh-where did you meet?"

Ai Hasako: "May I be reminded how we knew that a meeting was supposed to take place?"

Minori Takara: "His tent, I believe."

Aria Rumiko: "There was a note about it in Travis's journal if I remember correctly"

Ai Hasako: "And was the same journal where he written down that Mayu had the rope?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Y-yeah."

Ai Hasako: "Does anyone remember what order they were written in?"

Aria Rumiko: I-I'm completely lost...

Monobear: "The rope deal was written on the page before the meeting!"

Ai Hasako: "So, he wrote it before the meeting was taken place. So, we have evidence of a lair."

Takano Makiri: "How so?

Minori Takara: "Do we, now?"

Ai Hasako: "Torabisu gave the rope away before the meeting was had with Takara. There would be no way she knew about it unless she killed him with it or saw Mayu with it."

Minori Takara stifles laughter at "she"

Takano Makiri: "Or he showed them his note book."

Minori Takara: "Certainly. Either or could be a possibility. We won't know for certain, not unless we hear it right from the horse's mouth, so to say, yes?"

Ai Hasako sticks tongue out.

Aria Rumiko: "S-So does this mean that Minori really IS our culprit?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "It's been an h-hour...and we're barely an-anywhere, uuuuu..."

Kumagai Mayu: "So did ya really see me with it...? Or overhear our conversation or somethin'? Only you know, Minori..."

Minori Takara: "Ah, I'd just seen you with it, I suppose."

Kumagai Mayu: "You suppose?"

Ai Hasako: "I think we have our culprit, unless Takara can lie a bit more."

Minori Takara: "Ah? How are you so certain I did it?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "B-but how d-does the proof po-point to Takara-san?!"

Kenji: "Are you sure there wasn't any conflict?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I'm not. But I am certain I didn't, and you are the only other suspect."

Hitomi: "I want to make sure we have everything clear. Can we hypothesize how this death happened then?"

Monobear yawns

Minori Takara: "How do we know you aren't lying, Mayu-san?"

Monobear: "Did you figure out the killer yet?"

Minori Takara: "Patience, bear. Please."

Monobear: "You guys are taking /so/ looonnnggg"

Hitomi: "These things take time. You sound just like the goverment. But, let's retrace everything and see if we have all the loose ends tied up. I don't want to go off an assumption."

Yami Michiko: "Can I go to bed?"

Kumagai Mayu: "I have told you, you don't. My whole innocence is based on the fact that I loved him! So if anyone is too blind to know that my feelings are true- besides, you are the one dodging all the questions you're asked- and surely if I had done it, I would cover up my tracks better? It's too obvious. I am not that stupid."

Ai Hasako: "I already have my mind made up."

Minori Takara: "Ah ah ah. We can't be so certain you really /did/ love him. Perhaps it was merely an act, and you were relying on the fact that you appeared to have loved him in order to prevent yourself from looking guilty. I am not saying it /was/ you -- this is merely a hunch, a guess."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I'm not really sensing anything bad about Kumagai... I... I think we should trust her..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Uuuu....I don't w-wanna think either of y-you guys did it..."

Takano Makiri: "The evidence pointing to Kumagai-san is too obvious. She's right. She is not stupid and I am sorry for suspecting her before."

Aria Rumiko: "W-wait! Have we discussed the possibility that Minori might have murdered Travis during the meeting?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Well then, what happened during this meetin'? We should keep goin' until we're sure- I want to catch the real culprit- for Travis."

Kumagai Mayu: "And thank ya for trusting me, you two. I promise your faith isn't in vain.."

Hitomi nodded. "We can't leave any questions unanswered otherwise we'll let the culprit escape."

Aria Rumiko: "Minori. Please explain what happened during the meeting with Travis"

Minori Takara: "Ah, nothing much. We merely discussed what I had set up the meeting with him for, is all."

Aria Rumiko: "But can you PROVE that's all that happened?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Could we have a little more detail than that? Your life is at stake here, Minori-san."

Minori Takara: "I... Hah, I suppose I cannot. The only ones present were myself and Travis-kun."

Minori Takara: "What more detail could I possibly go into?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Well 'nothing much' is pretty damn vague..."

Minori Takara: "I suppose. But nothing of interest happened, really, nothing to go into detail for, really."

Yami Michiko: "Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring."

Kenji: "Well, i'm interested! You're kind of beating around the bush, doll. If you're innocent, go ahead and tell!"

Zacharie Morison: "Yami, sweetie, be nice"

Kumagai Mayu: "What exactly did ya learn, then? I don't care if it's borin', just say.""

Yami Michiko: "Don't tell me you aren't getting bored yourself~?"

Minori Takara: "Hah... I have already said, we merely talked. That is all."

Minori Takara: "As for what I have learned, I merely found out about his item exchanges between the other students around here, I believe."

Kumagai Mayu: "Which are?"

Minori Takara: "Ah... this meeting seems so long ago, give me a moment to remember, if you'd please..."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I think it's perfectly clear who the culprit is now... Since they refuse to tell the truth..."

Takara: "How... How do you know this isn't the truth...?"

Monobear: "Does that mean you know who it issss???"

Monobear: "BECAUSE THAT MEANS IT WOULD BE TIME TO VOTE...!"

Monobear: "Unless you aren't ready yet..."

Hitomi: "Please, do remember the emotions cloud judgement so be careful what you assume without proper evidence."

Kumagai Mayu: *bites lip so hard it bleeds a little* "I think so.."

Aria Rumiko: "I... I... It's... Strange, really. But Minori is just being too vague. She's hiding something, obviously."

Shizuko Takahashi: "B-but I can't v-vote for Takara-san-!!"

Kumagai Mayu: "It looks like they are hidin' somethin', though!"

Takano Makiri: "Shizuko-chan, please be strong. It is the murderer or all of us, and the evidence point to them."

Minori Takara: "Ah... I suppose it does. Curse my horribly ambiguous nature."

Shizuko Takahashi: "........."

Aria Rumiko: "So... D-Do you admit that you murdered Travis Torabisu, t-then?"

Kumagai Mayu: "And whoever killed Travis needs to be punished... Travis was a good person..."

Yami Michiko: "God punishes all sinners."

Hitomi: "Can we please, before we go about a vote, just back track and hypothesize what exactly happened?"

Yami Michiko: "Unless you beg for forgiveness... you can't be redeemed."

Yami Michiko giggles

Zacharie Morison: "You seemed like a nice dude n' all, but..."

Ai Hasako: "I could provide a theory on how it happened."

Yami Michiko: "Go then."

Minori Takara: "Ah? Do tell, Hasako-san."

Ai Hasako: "Takara went to the meeting, as she said. Torabisu might of cut himself beforehand, leaving his sleeve by Mayu's tent. Obviously, an easy way to frame Mayu came up with no help at all. After Takara gets into Mayu's tent, a jump rope would have been easily noticeable. Instead of taking Mayu's life, an obvious way the crime on the sailor would be to kill Torabisu and leave scott-free."

Minori Takara: "Ah... say no more, Hasako-san. I believe it's clear now..."

Takano Makiri: "Then you admit it?"

Shizuko Takahashi: "Y-you....don't m-mean you did it, r-right...?"

Kumagai Mayu: "Y-ya mean...?"

Minori Takara chuckles slightly, albeit somewhat bitterly. they ain't even mad.

Kenji: "Oh boy..."

Hitomi: "Is it impossible to ask why?"

Minori Takara: "Well done. You've caught me."

Aria Rumiko: "Oh my god... M-Minori-san..."

Yami Michiko: "Aw what a shame."

Minori Takara: "Ah... why, why, why, the lovely why question..."

Monobear: "OKAY YOU BASTARDS! IT'S TIME TO VOTE! TOOK LONG ENOUGH!"

Kumagai Mayu: *composure snaps* "You fucking BASTARD!! What the Hell did he ever do ta ya? You deserve to die! I..." *sobs, covering face*

Shizuko Takahashi: "N-NO-!! Y-you-?!?!"

Yami Michiko: "I thought you were a good person."

Aria Rumiko: "Why... Why did you do it, Minori san?" Aria asked with tears in her eyes.

Yami Michiko you never even guessed my name in the end :")

Kumagai Mayu: "T-Travis...."

Minori Takara: "...I... I didn't wish to do this, to be clear. Travis-kun had mentioned, giving one of his obtained items to his brother. I... I had taken this the wrong way, I suppose... thought he was going to..."

Minori Takara: "...So, I... well, you can guess from here. Clearly, I must have watched too many movies if I was to be so paranoid, yes? At... at the very least, that was part of it..."

Shizuko Takahashi: "S-so you were just t-trying to protect o-one of us, m-maybe?"

Monobear: ALRIGHT! TIME TO GO TAKARA! TIME FOR YOUUUUURRRR EXECUTIONN!!!!

Kumagai Mayu: "B-but... You still k-killed him.."

Zacharie Morison: "Oh, even more death!"

Yami Michiko: "Execution?"

Takano Makiri: "Thank you for being honest. Goodbye."

Shizuko Takahashi: "N-n-n-n-no!! You c-can't kill T-takara-san!

Yami Michiko eye twitch

Minori Takara: "...Hm. Very well, then. It was a pleasure knowing you all, for as little time as I did."

Kenji: "What a shame... This happened all too fast."

Kumagai Mayu: "Exe-cution... I f-forgot..."

Ai Hasako: "Takara lost, it's only fair. Maybe you could try better next time."

Shizuko Takahashi: "B-but-!"

Zacharie Morison: "Holla at me from the spirit world!"

Minori Takara: "Takahashi-san, please..."

Aria Rumiko: "M-Monobear! Please wait! Please... Stop this at once!"

Minori Takara pats her on the head.

Yami Michiko: "Ah Minori. I suppose I can tell you my name if you want. You never guessed in the end, did you~?"

Monobear: "YEP! AN EXECUTION!

Zacharie Morison: "No do it mono my man!"

Minori Takara: "...Hm. Guess I didn't."

Hitomi: "Hm, I see. If that's the answer, I suppose I can be satsified with it." Hitomi's eyes turned the bear now, observing him closely.

Yami Michiko: Yami Michiko walks over to Minori and whispers her name in their ear.

Minori Takara has been found guilty!

Commencing Execution...

“Freeze Frame”

A few minutes pass, and Minori is dropped into a room that... is entirely blank, and white. It was rather... odd, entirely empty aside from a few lights like the ones you’d find on movie sets.

They looked around, doing their damndest to keep up their composure, although given they were just about to meet their end, it was quite difficult. Humming something to themselves, they eventually noticed a small hole in the wall and went to investigate.

The hole widened, and Minori backed away. Other holes had begun to appear on the wall, widening in the same way the most recently discovered one had been found. Slowly, video cameras had begun to emerge from the holes, and Minori froze right there, any composure they had yet to lose flying right out the window.

Before they could really react, a loud ringing sound -- sounding reminiscent to a gunshot, almost -- fired out. Minori stumbled backwards slightly, a small fuschia stain growing in their left shoulder. And then it hits you -- these are no video cameras.

One by one, shots fired out into the area. Minori was hardly bothering to avoid them -- they were too horribly petrified by the video cameras just being there. What was their deal, anyways? It hardly mattered -- the shots were coming in faster and faster, harder and harder, storming the poor being of ambiguous gender from every side.

Eventually, it had finished, and the small, bullet ridden corpse collapsed to the ground.

Minori Takara, the SHSL Filmmaker, has been executed.

Kumagai Mayu: "Minori-san!!!!!!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "..................M-minori....."

Aria Rumiko: "N-No... N-No!"

Kumagai Mayu: "P-please.... N-no...."

Kenji: "..."

Takano Makiri: "How repulisve..." Takano looks away from the scene and tries to hide the smile on her lips. It's not repulsive at all. No, it's beautiful.

Yami Michiko screams

Kumagai Mayu: *buries face in hands*

Aria Rumiko breaks down into tears

Yami Michiko: "THAT IS THE IMPROPER USE OF A BODY!"

Shizuko Takahashi: ".............I'm going to bed now."

Shizuko Takahashi: "Goodnight everyone."

Zach: "DAMN IT NO"

Kumagai turns and runs away, not saying anything more, sobbing audibly.

Yami Michiko: "HOW DARE YOU TREAT A BODY IN SUCH A STATE!"

Yami Michiko: "I DEMAND IMMEDIATE POSSESION OF IT."

Zach: "I WAS GOING TO USE THAT AND YOU MADE IT FULL OF LEAD

 Ai Hasako gives a bow. "Looks like our game is done."

Shizuko Takahashi: "SHUT UP!"

Shizuko Takahashi: "MINORI'S BODY ISNT AN OBJECT TO BE USED!'

 Hitomi appeared only slightly bothered by it. She did her best to hold it back as she observed the bear and the students. Emotions clouded facts and facts were made up science. Regardles, she shifted a hand above her mouth, horrified.

Zach covers his ears

Yami Michiko: "LEAD IS SO HARD TO GET OUT OF A BODY!"

Aria Rumiko: "C-CAN WE JUST STOP THIS?!"

Travis's dead portrait just stands there, a reminder that even when all was done, he still was dead.

Yami Michiko: Yami Michiko sticks her hand through that wire fence, trying to reach out. Talk about desperate.

Aria Rumiko: "M-M-Minori-san... May have been a murderer... B-BUT THEY WERE STILL A PERSON! You all are treating them like they were an object or something!"

Ai Hasako: "Takara lost, we won. That's all that matters."

Yami Michiko: "You little shit. Don't you understand? I need to make them beautiful!"

Zach: "What about Travis' body? Where is that?!"

Kumagai Mayu: *turns at the door, face streaked with tears.* "The rest of us NEED ta work together... Ta get out safe... So no more lives are lost..."

Travis's notebook is still in Kumagai's pocket, the only thing left of him besides the shades, of course.

Shizuko Takahashi: ".................goodnight." *she kind of just. curls up on the floor*

Takano Makiri: Takano walks over to Kumagai and offers her a handkercheif.

Kumagai Mayu: "WE ALL NEED TO FIND A WAY TA HONOUR THEM AND GET HOME... We can make it out... If we stay together..." Gratefully taking the handkerchief, she leaned on Takano's shoulder, shaking.

Zach: "Come on, someone just fill in the blind guy, are they really dead?"

Ai Hasako: "That's against the rules, you know." She walks over and pats Shizuko.

Yami Michiko: "Say a prayer to the heavenly father that they may be in the beautiful afterlife."

Takano Makiri: Takano affectionately strokes the other girl's hair. "Yes, I hoep there are no more murders. We will make it out in the end, but we should still be more careful."

Yami Michiko: Yami Michiko attempts to climb the fence a little

Aria Rumiko: Aria Rumiko walks over to Kumagai, and hugs her.

Aria Rumiko: "Kumagai-san... W-We can do the carnival game things tomorrow... It's... It's been a long night. But I made that promise to you, and I intend to keep it."

Kenji gave a crooked smile. "Hey... Lets keep our chins up everyone. Things are going to be just fine! It's not too bad here! Sure, someone was just killed... but that's just karma for being a murderer, right?" He said this in a calm voice, trying to sound as reassuring as possible.

Kumagai Mayu: Nods tiredly, mumbling incoherently about saving everyone. "We should lock our tents... Nobody should go out at night... We can... See our families..."

Yami Michiko: "Yeah, whatever. I expect to see that corpse in my tent by tomorrow morning!"

Yami Michiko: Yami Michiko marches out to obtain the other dead body before Zach.

Takano nodded. "Would you like me to walk you back to your tent? You're in a horrible state, good miss."

Zach: "Oh HELL no, sister." He runs after Yami, "That body is MINE"

Aria Rumiko yawns

Aria Rumiko: "It's... Um... Been a long trial... I... Um... I'm gonna go back to my tent..."

Kumagai Mayu: "T-thanks, that would be very sweet..." Half-smiling, she gave the girl a grateful look before walking with her.

Ai Hasako: "They failed, why fight over a body? Anyways, I'll be taking my leave. Don't do anything rash." Getting up, she did exactly.

Shizuko Takahashi: "..................i'm going to my tent."

 Takano wrapped her arm around the other girl's waist and headed out of the tent. "No need to thank me. I am sure you would do the same for me if I were in your shoes."

Kenji: He muttered quietly to himself before turning on his heel and exiting.

Hitomi nodded as well. "I have a lot of observations to go over. Sleep would do bes before processing them. I'll take my leave. Excuse me."

Kumagai Mayu: "I would... You're my friend... But you didn't have to, spoke thank you still." Eyes shut, she stumbled along to her tent.

TRIAL 1: END

[despaircarnival]

CLUES 5-2...?

Where did the bodies go? From the church? Who moved them? Why now?

This will be a very important trial. Keep that in mind and look over all details. All of them.

[despaircarnival]

What does the note in the Bible say?

On one page, it says ‘Sorry’ repeatedly.

On the next page, it says ‘I can’t take this anymore! I’m sorry! I’m leaving it up to you to stop this! Goodbye!’

[despaircarnival]

Ai searches the water for any clues.

There seems to be nothing of importance.

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Zach, after finishing eating Yami's leg, takes her veil and keeps it for memory.

Zach has obtained Yami’s veil.

[despaircarnival]

Zach rips a leg off the body while no one is there and takes it to be prepared by the food cart

Have fun.

[despaircarnival]

Shizuko takes a look in the church. Anything there?

There is… nothing! Nothing at all actually! There are no dead bodies that you all saw earlier!

…Where did they go?