Case Clothed || Touma || Trial 1.2 || ATTN: Everyone, but mostly Zenjirou, Takumi, Mao, and Yumi
Touma sighed. “Just stop.”
“One of the reasons I explained the circumstances of my missing skirt was to see if you’d echo the same story… Neither of you did. You had an opportunity to say the shirt was stolen, but instead, you’re trying to insist the shirt doesn’t belong to Takumi. It does. When Minori-chan said the shirt was ‘pretty big’… they weren’t specific enough. The shirt was not just long, but… large as well.” She looked to Takumi. “No offense, but… The only person who would own a shirt that large is you Shirayuki-san.” “It’s worth noting, I also thought of the fact that the shirt could have been taken from the Big’n’tall section of the apparel shop. Nothing has been taken from that section… Meaning whoever did this had to have access to Shirayuki-san and Okasan-san’s room. Had they attempted to argue that the shirt was STOLEN from their room, which my explanation would have prompted, I’d be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but since instead they chose to deny that the shirt belonged to them in the first place…” “I submit Shirayuki-san, and Okasan-san as the suspects for the murder of Himura-san, and Oshiro-san.” “Now to figure out which one.” Touma looked between the two. “Since you brought up the foot smear. Did you notice anything odd about it? Like the fact that it’s deeper in the middle than elsewhere? If it were an overly large footprint to begin with, wouldn’t it have been more uniform in depth rather than looking stomped out, and smeared over?” “And before someone suggests that either Oshiro-san, or Himura-san left the smear… The reason I know that either Shirayuki or Okasan were involved in this murder is that the shirt was soaked in pond water… One of them had to have been at the pond.” Touma took a deep breath before looking to Mao. “That’s not necessary… I’m fairly certain I have that one figured out as well.” Touma nodded. “There was something odd about the skirt, did anyone catch it? That the acid stain was along the ENTIRETY of the bottom?” “Now… How could that happen? For most of us to get anything on the bottom of the skirt, we’d have to either sit, thus getting acid on the rear, or kneel, thus getting acid on the knees. Either way, your legs would get in the way, and prevent the acid from following the entirety of the bottom of the skirt. Meaning that whoever wore it, had to be short enough for it to drag the floor while standing. Now… This originally being Mao’s skirt, it doesn’t drag the ground when SHE wears it… Especially when wearing heels.” Touma held up the heels. “So… Who’s short enough for it to have dragged the ground while also wearing heels?” Touma’s eyes settled on Yumi. “There’s only one person here shorter than Mao-chan. Okawa-san. The lack of burns can be explained away by the fact she’s the vessel of The Merciful, and thus capable of healing… Also by the fact that the skirt would have protected her legs since it was more of a dress for her.”
