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hello ! this account is dedicated to writing transcripts for episodes of Tetro Danganronpa, posted on the Tetro Danganronpa OFFICIAL youtube channel. I hope you find them a helpful resource
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A detailed list of content warnings for Tetro Pink
Transcripts for Tetro Blue are being done by @tetro-blue-transcripts
current status: finished transcribing all of tetro pink as of 30th September. I will not be transcribing tetro white
each post will be tagged with the characters that appear in the episode for categorisation purposes. if you are new to Tetro Danganronpa, this may spoil you (such as who lives to participate in a trial, the names of unnamed characters, etc.) so do keep that in mind
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typically don't make posts like these but I'll write this to clear any expectations: for the foreseeable future, I am not going to post any new fancontent for tetro danganronpa, including art or analysis posts and stuff like that. I am deeply disappointed with von's actions and behaviour and I'm no longer comfortable creating for it. here's a google doc detailing ways to financially support the vas, go check it out
thank you, though, for everyone who supported my tetro related projects. you have been very kind and lovely
as an addendum to this post: I will not be transcribing tetro white. I don't know if tetro white will ever be released with the (now deleted, but likely still relevant) announcement of tetro's indefinite hiatus, but I won't be watching it. thank you
and with that, I've finished transcribing every episode of tetro pink !!
thank you for supporting me, I'm super happy that I've been able to help people with this project. I'm also very proud that I've finished this project too. it's been very rewarding all around
as for what I'll do next, firstly, I'll do some housekeeping on the blog. I posted these transcripts remarkably fast, so obviously some mistakes will have fallen through the gaps. I've already spotted a couple posts I scheduled in the wrong order (oops...) + I need check for typos + I need to make sure I've linked everything correctly + etc etc... so quite a bit of time will be spent making sure everything's A-Okay
in the meantime, go check out @tetro-blue-transcripts for your tetro blue needs. and when tetro white comes out in the future, I'll begin transcribing those episodes as well
Reporter: Good evening. I'm Tsutsui Yuma, and tonight we're bringing you a somber update from Sendai. Tragedy struck the city as the community mourns the untimely passing of a young talent.
Yanagi: Hm-?
Reporter: Eighteen-year-old Wada Masanari, a promising voice actor, was found deceased in his apartment earlier this week. Authorities suspect malnutrition as a contributing factor to his demise. Wada's neighbors became concerned after not seeing him for several weeks and contacted local authorities.
Yanagi: Wh-What?
Reporter: Wada Masanari had gained recognition for his work in the voice acting industry, showcasing his talent in various projects, and noted for his variety of impersonations. The young artist's passing has left friends, colleagues, and fans in shock and grief. In the absence of immediate family, close colleagues of Wada Masanari have expressed their gratitude for the outpouring of support. They ask for privacy during this difficult time, as they come to terms with the loss of a cherished individual.
Yanagi: Wh-... wh-what...?
Reporter: As we reflect on the life of Wada Masanari, let us remember the joy he brought to others through his artistic contributions. Mental health and self-care are crucial aspects of a person's well-being, and it's essential that we support one another in times of need.
Yanagi: I-
Reporter: If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues,
Yanagi: [at the same time] F-Fuck, fuck, pick up, pick up, please pick up-
Reporter: please reach out to local resources and professionals who can provide assistance]
Yanagi: [through tears] N-Nakamigawa, c-call me back as soon as you get this, i-it's important. Please.
Yonekura: Rations? How are we on rations? Remember, we're not going to be able to get food here. Or water.
Toranosuke: Regardless, if need be, we can simply pop back over for more rations, isn't that right?
Monomoko: That is correct. You'll be able to come and go from the plane as you please, with my assistance.
Toranosuke: So it won't be an issue.
Kuneyasu: I'm still not sure how good of an idea this is. I mean- we're going to give them the lab? How are we supposed to work?
Yonekura: We're bringing everything we need.
Kuneyasu: But we're not though. We need the lab.
Toranosuke: Seki. What did we talk about?
Kuneyasu: I know, but- Dr. Kan, I'm not going to die for this project. Are we actually going to be able to come back? Whenever?
Monomoko: I assure you, you'll be free to traverse back and forth.
Kuneyasu: Either way, the lab isn't equipped to hold sixteen more students for another month. Its resident rooms are only meant for a couple days of residency.
Toranosuke: I'm sure the students will find ways to make do. As long as we keep them fed and housed, the rest is up to them, is it not?
Yonekura: Exactly.
Kuneyasu: I-
Yonekura: Seki. Enough.
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: ... Can I at least call my wife before we go? She needs to know I'm not coming home tonight, she's gonna be waiting.
Yonekura: I'm sure she'll figure it out. We need to get going. Monomoko.
Monomoko: Yes?
Yonekura: Are you ready to pick up the next session?
Monomoko: I am.
Yonekura: Alright. Let's do the rundown.
Toranosuke: Here you are, my dear.
Yonekura: Right.
[A mouse click. A slideshow of the second session's students are shown. They are a partially white silhouette against a saturated blue background. The background also pans across their full-body sprite from the feet up. Faint text can be seen in the bottom, which details their name, gender, age and ultimate]
Ouno Nanae. Ultimate Contortionist.
Toranosuke: Oh my. That's a fun talent.
Kuneyasu: Ah. So that's what student fourteen was going on about.
Monomoko: My apologies for not putting a stop to that sooner. I was somewhat stunned.
[Mouse click. The next slide]
Yonekura: Ninomiya Youhei. Ultimate Violinist.
Kuneyasu: He certainly doesn't look like a violinist.
Toranosuke: I don't know, I find it a rather interesting contrast. Tlike this one.
The video is an animation set to narration by Sasaki. It opens with her drawn in white lineart against a black background]
red, by sasaki hitomi.
[The background turns red. Her hair and shirt remain black]
I often view myself through the lenses I can only describe as red. Some find red a violent colour. Some find it an omen of death. Some find it beautiful. I'm not sure how l feel about it personally, but for me it always brings to mind a state of innocence. Maybe that's because red makes me think of Little Red Riding Hood. It feels a bit childish to put to paper, but when I think about it, that's probably the connection.
[Sasaki's side profile is drawn from the shoulders up, talking]
Little Red Riding Hood is young. She's naive. She wanders into the forest without understanding that it's home to wolves. She wanders into the forest and strays from its path. She abandons safety in lieu of recklessness. She thinks that safety simply follows her, even away from the dirt roads meant to guide her to comfort and happiness. She's naive, and childish.
[A red forest]
The forest is home to wolves. Everyone knows they're there, but nobody expects them to appear. Nobody expects them to pounce. As long as they simply keep their head down, nobody will ever need to encounter a wolf. Little Red won't need to encounter a wolf. All she needs to do is walk forward, follow the path, and at the end of it, she'll remain unmarred. Pristine. Just as she was when she set foot into the woods.
[An eyeless black wolf with a bloodied maw]
Wolves have teeth like daggers. Little Red is no match for something like that, Wolves are fast, they have claws, they're intelligent, they hunt. Little Red is just a kid. All she has is the path.
[A young Sasaki, drawn in a red dress and short hair]
I'm a believer in the idea that children are better off before they've grown. Before they've seen what the world can do to people. Before they understand that evil exists without reason. Some people simply hurt other people. Maybe it's fun for them. Maybe they gain something from it. Children wander through the world without knowing that. Children wander off the path with no thought to the fact that these woods are home to wolves.
[A young Sasaki, sitting curled up in the bottom left corner, small. Splotches of a brighter shade of red start to take up the screen]
When I see myself as Little Red... perhaps I'm being optimistic.
[The red has completely covered the screen]
To see myself as someone who still has the chance to follow the path,
[The same young Sasaki, against the brighter red]
someone who still has the chance to go back and avoid wandering into the woods.
[An older Sasaki is overlaid on top]
The truth is... their claws are already buried in my back.
[The wolf is overlaid on top]
The truth is... I'm already covered in bite marks.
[The wolf remains]
They go down to the bone.
[A cut to the red background]
They stay there.
[A black silhouette of a hand reaches out to a young Sasaki, dangling in a snare above a ditch]
It almost makes you want to be a wolf, sometimes. It almost makes you violent. The idea that if you had claws, and if you had teeth, and if you could run and stalk and hunt... you'd be able to protect yourself. Defend yourself.
[The young Sasaki is lowered into a ditch. She leaves a few afterimages, before the rope falls in too]
It makes you want to be worse. It makes you want to pull your hood down and run into the treeline,
[A close up shot of young Sasaki]
where it'll be your turn to ruin a life,
[A close up shot of the wolf's bloodied maws]
where it'll be your turn to bite and claw and hurt people, but-
[It cuts to black.
Young Sasaki then appears against the black background]
You're not a wolf. You're Little Red. Remember that.
Kuneyasu: Thank you for coming in today, Mr. Yanagi. Last time we spoke, you were remarkably upbeat and cooperative. Taking a look at you now, I somehow doubt I'm going to get the same energy out of you.
Yanagi: [inhales] ... G-Go to hell.
Kuneyasu: That's about what I expected. If you don't mind, I'd like to jump straight into the interview. Could you please state your full name and occupation for the record?
Yanagi: Y-You-
Kuneyasu: And before you start, l'd like to remind you that the sooner you answer my questions, the sooner we can get you on your way home.
[A beat]
Yanagi: ... M-My name is Yanagi Shigeki.
Kuneyasu: And what is it you do?
Yanagi: I-... wh-what the hell do you want me to say? That I'm a figure skater?
Kuneyasu: That's what I'd anticipated, yes.
Yanagi: Do you genuinely believe I'm going to be able to go back to skating after this?
[A beat]
You're delusional. And stupid.
Kuneyasu: My, that's quite a bit of hostility. I feel l'm being rather polite, all things considered.
Yanagi: Wh-Who even are you?
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid that's not relevant to you right now.
Yanagi: I haven't even earned that? At the very least?
Kuneyasu: It's not really about what you've earned, so much as what I'm willing to share with you. If you don't mind, I'd like it if we kept focused on the interview.
Yanagi: ... J-Just ask your questions.
Kuneyasu: Very well. You've spent the past thirty-six days participating in the killing game- could you describe your experience with that?
[A beat]
Yanagi: ... I-I lost everything.
Kuneyasu: Is that so?
Yanagi: Y-You've effectively killed the person I entered the school as. Congratulations, I'm not a child anymore. I don't know what the hell your goal was, but I'm happy you seem to have gotten whatever the hell you wanted out of all of this. You're absolutely disgusting.
Kuneyasu: So I've been told. When you say that you lost everything, are you referring to Hayashi Mai?
Yanagi: ... Shut the hell up.
Kuneyasu: You seem a bit agitated, so let's move on to the next question. What'll you do first when you get out of here? Any plans?
Yanagi: I'll contact the authorities.
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid that won't be an option for you. As per Dr. Yonekura's instructions, I'm obligated to inform you thats any mention of this game or its staff to anyone outside of your direct surviving student body will be punishable by the death of both yourself and whoever you decide to contact. That includes any police you speak to, yourself, and for safety's sake, your family. I highly doubt you'd wanna do that to them.
Kuneyasu: I've got one question left for you. After that, you can get going on your way.
Yanagi: Spit it out.
Kuneyasu: Throughout the game, you've expressed a fairly strong distaste for other men. Particularly men that are aggressive or violent. Having you here though, I can't help but notice that you're rather agressive yourself. Not to mention the multitude of violent outbursts we've witnessed from you during the game's run. How do you justify that to yourself?
It seems I've hit a sore spot. My apologies.
Yanagi: ... G-Go fuck yourself...
Kuneyasu: Well, if you're not willing to comment any further, Dr. Tatematsu will escort you back to the lobby. There, you can collect your thing, and we'll have you on your way. Does that sound good?
Yanagi: Go fuck yourself!
Kuneyasu: I see. Well, with that in mind, I'm going to go ahead and end our recording, Mr. Yanagi. Thank you for speaking with me today, and- well, I feel it. goes without saying, but... thank you for your participation in our session one killing game. You certainly kept things interesting for us. We're wishing you the best on your path forward.
Kuneyasu: Thank you for coming in today, Ms, Tamba. I've been eager to speak with you. We didn't get to have much of a conversation the last time you were in here.
Tamba: I... wh-what are you talking about? I've never been in here before, I- who are you?
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid you won't be able to recall it. I'd like to jump right into our interview, if you don't mind. Last time we spoke, you were a bit combative, so I'd like to make sure I get my questions in while I can.
Tamba: ... R-Right...
Kuneyasu: Could you please state your-
Tamba: Wh-Where are we?
Kuneyasu: Hm-?
Tamba: Th-This isn't the school, I-... where are we?
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid I can't disclose that information.
Tamba: Then... c-can you tell me who you are?
Kuneyasu: Me? Ah- Well-
I'm afraid I can't disclose that information either.
Tamba: Wh-What do I call you?
Kuneyasu: Ms. Tamba, please state your name and occupation for the record.
Tamba: I-I want to know your name.
[A beat. Kuneyasu sighs]
Kuneyasu: ...My-... if I tell you, will you cooperate?
Tamba: ... Y-Yeah, I-I will.
Kuneyasu: My name is Dr. Kuneyasu. That's all you need to know.
Tamba: ... I-I'm Tamba.
Kuneyasu: Could I get your full name?
Tamba: T-... Tamba Ruiko. I-I'm a gymnast.
Kuneyasu: I have to say, you're certainly much easier to speak to when you're not screaming that at me from across the room.
Tamba: ... God... wh-what the hell is the matter with me...?
Kuneyasu: Hm-?
Tamba: I... I-l hurt so many people...
Kuneyasu: You've been participating in the killing game for about thirty-six days now, Ms. Tamba. Could you describe your experience with the game?
Tamba: I-... I-l was a coward... I-I'm only here because I trampled everyone else...
Kuneyasu: I see. And do you take issue with that strategy?
Tamba: ... F-Fuck... I'm- I-I'm a coward...
Kuneyasu: I see.
What are your plans for after you get home, Ms. Tamba? Anything in mind?
Tamba: I-... I-I wanna see my mom...
Kuneyasu: I understand your relationship with your parents is somewhat strained, is it not?
Tamba: I-I don't care...
Kuneyasu: Well Ms. Tamba, I've only got one more question for you before we send you back. If you could replace one survivor with one of your late classmates, who would you pick?
Tamba: If I could replace someone? I-I-...
... I-I-I wanna say I'd replace myself with Mai, but... I-I think she'd want me to pick Toshi... and-... l-l mean, if I picked Toshi, then... I-I don't think we'd have lost Hasegawa either...
Kuneyasu: It's interesting that you bring up Hasegawa. I understand that the group's opinion of him is likely somewhat soured at the moment.
Tamba: ... H-He's right though. We should be dead.
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: Well, Ms. Tamba, I'm afraid were out of time. Dr. Tatematsu is going to escort you back to the lobby now. You'll have the chance to collect your things, and then you'll be sent home.
Nothing else to add?
[A beat]
Well, in that case, Im going to go ahead and end the recording here.
Kuneyasu: Thank you for coming in today, Mr. Hiroaki. I have to say, out of everyone I'm speaking to today, I think your demeanour has changed the most between our first interview and this one.
Hiroaki: Our first interview? Who the hell are you?
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid it would be a bit pointless to try and explain, I'd rather just jump right into the interview, if you don't mind. You're a personal favourite student of mine, so I'm a bit eager to pick your brain.
Hiroaki: I- Favourite student? Wh-What the hell are you talking about?
Kuneyasu: Could you please state your name and occupation for the record?
Hiroaki: What the hell's the point? You already know.
Kuneyasu: I do, but for any other staff who might be listening to this recording with a little less familiarity, it'd be helpful if you introduced yourself.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: ... When we're done with this, I get to go home, right?
Kuneyasu: You do.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: M-M-My- [shaky breathing] M- [inhales] M-My name is Hiroaki Nakamigawa, I'm a designer.
Kuneyasu: And what is it you design?
Hiroaki: Menswear.
Kuneyasu: I see. And you designed the outfit you're wearing right now, yes?
Hiroaki: Yeah.
Kuneyasu: Mr. Hiroaki, I have to note, you're much less talkative today than you were the first time we spoke.
Hiroaki: I-I-...
[A beat]
I-... I-I just- want to go home. I-I don't want to be here anymore.
Kuneyasu: You've been participating in the killing game for about thirty-six days now. Could you describe your experience with that?
Hiroaki: I-It... i-it-it was like hell.
Kuneyasu: In what regard?
Hiroaki: Th-Th... That was the worst shit you could have possibly put another person through. What was the point?
[A beat]
I-... [shaky breathing] D-Do I even get to know what that was for?
[A beat]
Figures.
Kuneyasu: What are your plans for when you get home? From the killing game, I mean. What'll you do first?
Hiroaki: I...
[A beat]
F-F-Find a way to talk to Takeshi.
Kuneyasu: You two seem to have gotten rather close.
Hiroaki: Yeah.
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: Well, with that in mind, I've only really got one question left for you before we send you on your way. You've changed a lot over the course of the game, so l'm curious to know- do you consider yourself a good person, or a bad person?
[A beat]
Mr. Hiroaki?
Hiroaki: I'm thinking.
[A beat]
... l dunno if I was ever a good person.
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: I don't have any further questions for you, I'm afraid. None that would fit within our time limit, at least. With that, I'm going to have to let you go. Dr. Tatematsu will escort you back to the lobby and help you collect your things. After that, you're free to go home.
Hiroaki: ...Th-There's no way it's that simple.
Kuneyasu: It is. You're going to walk right out the front door.
Hiroaki: There's no way it's that simple.
Kuneyasu: It is. I promise.
I'm going to end the recording now, Mr. Hiroaki. This'll actually be the first time in thirty-six days that you're not being recorded. Fun.
Kuneyasu: Thank you for coming in today, Mr. Ojima. Before we start, I have to note, you're looking a lot less engaged than the first time we spoke.
[A beat]
I know you're here, Ojima.
Ojima: So? I wasn't trying to make you think I wasn't. I just don't want to talk to you.
Kuneyasu: Why is that?
Ojima: Because why the hell would I?
[A beat]
Kuneyasu: Do you have any recollection of the first time we spoke, Mr. Ojima?
Ojima: No.
Kuneyasu: It seems you're not feeling particularly talkative today. In that case, we can jump straight to questioning. I'll try not to waste your time.
Could you please state your name and occupation for the record?
Ojima: You already know my name and occupation.
Kuneyasu: Regardless, I-
Ojima: You know my name and occupation, you know my address, you know my date of birth, you know my blood type, you know everything you could possible know about me. How is that not enough? What else could you possibly still wanna hear? You've stripped every shred of privacy or dignity I had left. What do you want?
Kuneyasu: Your name and occupation, mainly.
[A beat]
Ojima: ... My name is Ojima Takeshi. I'm an illustrator for children's books.
Kuneyasu: Now that wasn't so hard, was it?
Ojima: Shut up.
Kuneyasu: Well Mr. Ojima, you've been in the school for a total of thirty-six days now. How are you feeling about that?
Ojima: I'm amazed by how long you can make thirty-six days feel.
Kuneyasu: Couldn't agree more, quite frankly, Could you tell me a bit about your experience with the game?
Ojima: Fuck off.
Kuneyasu: Oh my.
Ojima: What the hell are you gaining from this? Any of this? I don't want to talk about the game. I want to go home. You said we were done.
Kuneyasu: You seem to be one of the only surviving participants that didn't lose anyone particularly close to you. Would you say that's correct?
Ojima: No, I wouldn't. What the hell's your metric for measuring that? I was close with plenty of the people who died.
Kuneyasu: Such as?
Ojima: I don't know, all of them? After the shit you fucking put us through together? Yeah. I was close with all of them.
Kuneyasu: It seems you have fairly lax standards on what constitutes a close relationship.
Ojima: Whatever.
Kuneyasu: What are your plans for after the game, Ojima?
Ojima: Go to the police.
Kuneyasu: I'm afraid that won't be an option.
Ojima: Oh yeah?
Kuneyasu: As per Dr. Yonekura's instructions, I'm obligated to inform you that any mention of this game or its staff to anyone outside of your direct surviving student body will be punishable by the death of both yourself and whoever you decide to contact.
As you stated earlier; we do know your address. We know everything about you. That extends to after the game ase well. For the sake of yourself and those around you, we politely ask that you refrain from discussing the game ever again.
Ojima: ... But I can still talk to the other students?
Kuneyasu: You can.
Ojima: Then... that's my plan for after the game, I guess. Find everyone. Masanari's from Sendai, right? Can't be that hard.
Kuneyasu: Sendai's a rather densely populated area.
Ojima: Are you gonna argue with every answer I give you? Just wrap it up already.
Kuneyasu: Alright, well, I've only got one final question for you, as it so happens. It's one you've already answered, but I'm interested in hearing your perspective on it now.
Ojima: Yeah?
Kuneyasu: Mr. Ojima, how do you cope with stress?
Ojima: ... I don't. I just ignore it.
Kuneyasu: I see. Well, in that case, I suppose we can wrap things up here Dr. Tatematsu will escort you back to the lobby. From there, you can collect your things and head home.
Ojima: Whatever. I believe it when I'm home.
Kuneyasu: I assure you, that'll be shortly. Thank you for your time. It was a pleasure speaking with you again.
Kuneyasu: Thank you for coming in today, Mr. Wada. You're looking a bit different since the last time we saw you.
Wada: I.. wh-what..? Where-Wh-Who are you?
Kuneyasu: Could you please state your name and occupation for the record?
[A beat]
Mr. Wada?
Wada: Wh-Who are you?
Kuneyasu: Your name and occupation for the record, Mr. Wada. The sooner you answer my questions, the sooner you can leave.
[A beat]
Wada: My...
[A beat]
M-M-My name is Wada Masanari... I-I-I-I'm... I'm a voice actor...
Kuneyasu: Nothing new in that regard, then. Could you tell me a bit about your experience with the game?
Wada: I... what? My experience with the game? What do you want me to say? I-...
[Wada takes several shaky breaths]
... F-Fuck, I... I just want to go... I-
[Wada takes several shaky breaths]
I... should- I-l should've died... [cries] I-I should have died, I shouldn't be here... Isono should've been here... Manami should've been here...
[Wada cries]
Kuneyasu: [as Wada cries] What are your plans for after the game, Wada? When you get home, I mean.
Wada: ... I-I don't... I-I don't care anymore... just-... I wanna leave...
Kuneyasu: [as Wada cries] Noted, noted...well, with that in mind, I've only got one question left for you. I'll keep it brief with this one- if you could play the game again, what would you have done differently?
Wada: ... I-I'd have killed myself... so Sasaki could sleep...
Kuneyasu: [as Wada cries] Well, I believe that's all I had left to ask you. You can go ahead and grab your bag. Dr. Tatematsu will escort you back to the lobby. From there, you'll be taken straight home.
Wada: You're lying...
Kuneyasu: [as Wada cries] I'm not lying. You can go home now.
Dr. Tatematsu? We're done in here, if you don't mind.
Yonekura: [over the intercom] Attention student body.
Hiroaki: What-?
Yonekura: [over the intercom] You have successfully completed five trials, As promised, this means that your game has come to an end. Please gather your things and prepare to leave the building. You'll be going home shortly.
Wada: I... really...?
[The announcement ending tone plays]
We're... We're going home. We're done.
[A beat]
Ojima: [tearing up] G-God! Fucking finally!
Wada: We're going home!
Ojima: There's-There's no way, right? L-Like- w-we shouldn't get excited, right?
Wada: I-I mean, they haven't lied to us yet, so...
Ojima: ... God...
[Ojima and Wada break down into tears]
Tamba: H-Hiroaki, I-
Hiroaki: I'm sorry.
Tamba: Huh-?
Hiroaki: I-I-I-...
[Tamba and Hiroaki break down into tears. The four of them sob for several seconds]
Tamba: I-I'm... I'm sorry too... I-I'm so sorry...
Yonekura: Dr. Yonekura Haruka, session one, log one fifteen.
Today's log is going to be a fairly important one, because it's my final log of session one.
Today, on day thirty-six, in the early morning hours, student fourteen murdered student five. What made this case particularly interesting was the fact that student fourteen had actually been planning out this murder for over a week. This would mark the first instance of a student planning out their killing that far in advance.
It would be admirable, if it weren't for the fact that he failed, but... unfortunately, that failure was quite far out of his control.
As a reward during the school's Defence Game, student fourteen gained access to the school's blueprints. This allowed him to utilize the school's staff passages and navigate throughout the building without being spotted. This made for a fairly perfect murder, even with student six having access to the school security cameras.
Student fourteen engineered a death trap of sorts under the third floor, with student five then falling through the floor and impaling herself. All student fourteen had to do was collect her from the staff passage, dump her in the pool, and return to the medbay to secure his alibi.
The plan was perfect. More than that, when the trial was coming to a head, the student body was entirely convinced that student thirteen was the killer. They were ready to vote. And then... they were met with some interference.
The most important trial of the entire game. The final trial. Monomoko chose the final trial to interfere and drop hints. Unbelievable. The entire experiment's practically ruined now.
[Yonekura sighs]
If nothing else, we can still collect data from the previous four weeks, but… regardless. It's incredibly annoying.
What's more annoying is that student fourteen seemed to be completely aware of his environment. He spoke to the observers. He listed off the names of other students, students that were not part of his control group. It was incredibly aggravating to watch, and Monomoko wasn't nearly quick enough about shutting him down. I had to get on the PA myself, despite the fact that I would much rather have had the students be unaware of my existence.
Well, no need to waste any more time, especially how long that trial ran for. We've had enough stalling for one day. Let's take a look at Dr. Kan's review of the execution. Let's see where my hard-earned budget is going.
[Yonekura clears throat and sorts through papers]
"Bonus Round.
Student fourteen was strapped to a large metal mechanism in the shape of an X. Each of student fourteen's limbs was strapped to one leg of this X, keeping them permanently outstretched, with his head strapped in place.
The student was positioned completely upright during this time, placing some of his own weight on his secured legs. A screen inside student fourteen's execution chamber lit up, displaying a random spinner with six different possible outcomes. At student fourteen's prompt, the spinner would stop. Four of these outcomes corresponded directly to student fourteen's limbs.
In the event that one of these outcomes was landed upon, the corresponding limb's section of the mechanism would turn sharply, causing the limb to twist. While this initially caused little damage, as student fourteen continued to spin the wheel, these twists began to add up, twisting his limbs at incredibly painful angles."
God, that's so gratuitous.
"The remaining two outcomes on the wheel would allow student fourteen to answer a trivia question. If he answered his question correctly, it would reverse one tick of the mechanism's twisting."
If anything, I feel that would just be more painful - going back and forth like that. I'd rather just have my limbs twisted off and die quicker. But I suppose Kan was relying on the natural instinct to stay alive. Frankly, l'd felt that student fourteen no longer possessed that.
"Student fourteen continued to spin the wheel, dealing irreparable damage to his body in the process as his limbs continued to reach their limit, one by one. Student fourteen soon became completely hysterical and incomprehensible, unable to answer further questions due to his pain levels.
After each limb had reached full rotation, student fourteen entered the bonus round, in which he was asked one final question. When student fourteen was unable to provide a clear answer, the part of the mechanism holding his head in place violently twisted, killing him instantly."
Well, I'm not actually sure which execution was more painful to read. It was either that, or student ten's death. What a way to go out.
On the bright side, that's the last execution I'll have to read for some time. I'm not going to spend much longer dwelling on it though. My staff are gathered just outside my office at the moment to discuss our plans for tomorrow. We've got a lot to do now, now that we're switching locations.
The lab's being prepped as we speak.
That's something I should probably be checking on right now, actually. Then... I-I suppose that's all I have left to say. This session has been... interesting. In session two, I'll definitely be making some changes to the way things are run. I just hope we get cleaner results this time around.
Dr. Yonekura Haruka, session one, log one fifteen...
Monomoko: Welcome back. You may resume the trial whenever you'd like.
Hiroaki: Right, okay, where were we?
Yanagi: We were about to go over the past week's events.
Hiroaki: Right. There's a lot to unpack. For starters, obviously, Wada's food going missing. Plus my reward turning up, plus Tamba's weird note.
Tamba: Hayashi's weird notes too. She got a lot more of them than I did.
Yanagi: If we're going to mention Mai's notes, we also need to mention all the traps they were attached to. The gasoline, the explosive?
Ojima: The caltrops.
Tamba: What about that time that Hasegawa was like, super high?
Hiroaki: What about all those times Takeshi was drunk?
Ojima: I don't even know how that happened. Still don't remember a thing.
Hasegawa: What about when Yanagi got sick?
Tamba: Oh yeah, for sure. He was super sick.
Yanagi: As was Nakamigawa. Much sicker than I was, at that.
Hiroaki: Well yeah, until I stopped drinking the coffee.
Yanagi: What?
Hiroaki: Exactly what I said. I was sick as hell every day. Throwing up, breaking out in hives, exhausted- until I stopped drinking the coffee.
Hasegawa: Wh-What are you talking about?
Hiroaki: Well I realised that even after I had cut everything out of my diet to see if it would help, I was still drinking coffee. It was literally the only thing left in my body that wasn't water. So l stopped drinking coffee. Started feeling better real fast.
Yanagi: But I mean- you've been drinking coffee the entire time we've been here, haven't you? Why would you only now start reacting to it?
Hasegawa: I-I thought you didn't like coffee.
Ojima: He doesn't like most coffee. Honestly, what he drinks is barely even coffee anymore.
Hasegawa: Well... how do you take it?
Tamba: Doesn't he usually put a ton of crap in it? Like milk and sugar and caramel and stuff? He's practically baking a cake every morning.
Hiroaki: It's the only thing that makes that swill palatable. I need it to wake me up in the morning, that doesn't mean I have to like it raw.
Ojima: Nobody calls it raw. They call it black.
Hiroaki: It's raw. It's gross.
Yanagi: But you're not allergic to any of that, are you?
Hiroaki: Nope. None of it.
Ojima: Then... is there any chance you accidentally started using soy milk?
Tamba: Why would that matter?
Hasegawa: H-He's allergic to soy.
Hiroaki: There's no chance in hell. I check the bottle every single time. The bottles look way too similar, so l always check. I'd know if I was using soy milk.
Hasegawa: And you didn't change anything else about your diet, right? Just the coffee?
Hiroaki: I mean, by that point, there was nothing left to change. I stopped eating because I couldn't keep anything down. Plus, I was trying to figure out what was making me sick. So, yeah. Just the coffee. As soon as I cut it out, I was fine.
Wada: I-I mean... should we completely rule out the idea that he just mixed up the bottles though...?
Yanagi: I think that for the sake of the investigation, we should assume everything was intentional until otherwise proven. I don't want crucial evidence falling through the cracks just because we decided to offer the benefit of the doubt.
Ojima: So you think we should assume someone made him sick on purpose.
Tamba: So we need to think deviously! How would they poison his coffee?!
Ojima: Well, I mean... you hate him, right? How would you poison his coffee?
Tamba: Wh- I didn't!
Ojima: I know, but like- hypothetically.
Tamba: Well... if it's only hypothetical, then yeah, I like this question! I'd grab something from the chem lab! Ooh, or from the medical bay! Then I'd just slip it in the milk or the caramel or something! Oh- Or, even easier! I'd just swap the milk in the two bottles!
Yanagi: What?
Tamba: Yeah! I'd pour the regular milk into the soy milk bottle, and the soy milk into the regular milk bottle! That way, he'd think he's drinking regular milk. But it'd really be soy milk!
Ojima: There's... no way it's that simple, right?
Hasegawa: I-I mean, it would go pretty easily undetected, right? i he's only using that milk for coffee, and he's adding like five other things, it would cover up the difference in taste pretty easily.
Hiroaki: Do they even taste that different?
Yanagi: It's plausible, if nothing else. It would certainly explain why his symptoms looked so much like an allergic reaction.
Hiroaki: Honestly? Yeah. It makes sense. Pretty telling that Tamba's the one that thought of it though.
Tamba: I-It was a hypothetical! That's not admissible in a court of law!
Ojima: I don't think any of this would be admissible in a court of law.
Yanagi: Who could have swapped the bottles around though?
Hasegawa: A-Anyone. Literally anyone. We need a more specific example to tackle. What else was going on this week?
Yanagi: Well... what about Masanari's stash?
Wada: H-Huh?
Yanagi: Has anyone been in your room as of late?
Wada: I mean... um... I don't actually know how long my stuff has been missing for, but... Ojima's been by, I-I guess. And Hasegawa.
Hasegawa: Right.
Ojima: Yeah.
Hasegawa: But-But I promise I didn't take anything. I mean, you were there when I left, so- you would have seen me take stuff either way.
Ojima: Same.
Wada: Then... I... h-how long's it been missing for..?
Tamba: I mean, if it's been missing for a really long time, could someone have used another fake key? Like, before the 2D printer got melted?
Hiroaki: 3D printer. Every printer is 2D.
Ojima: I mean, except for a 3D printer.
Hiroaki: Shut up.
Hasegawa: I mean, w-we know the killer's been prepping since before the fire, so... i-it's definitely not out of the question...
Yanagi: Which once again means that anyone could have taken it.
Ojima: Is it really as general as the milk though? I mean, I can tell you right now, I'd have no idea how to make a key with that thing.
Tamba: Honestly, yeah.
Yanagi: Regardless, it opens up the possibility. We need something more specific. What else do we have left to work with?
Tamba: Well, um... what about when you got sick?
Hiroaki: That's right. You've been sick for like a while now, right? How often?
Yanagi: God, practically every day. It's been unrelenting.
Ojima: Have you been eating anything weird?
Yanagi: Not that I can think of. Besides, we've all been eating the food in the fridge, right? So if it were that, you'd be sick as well.
Tamba: Well he's definitely not faking it. I should know. I was there while he was puking.
Hiroaki: Eugh. You're so tactless.
Tamba: Tactless? How do you comfort a vomiting person with tact?
Hiroaki: Wh-Whatever, just- Shigeki. Do you feel sick now?
Yanagi: I... actually, I don't. Shockingly.
Hiroaki: Perfect, that helps us narrow down the cause. What's different about today?
Yanagi: Well I was locked inside the medbay, for starters.
Hiroaki: Okay, so what did you miss doing while you were in the medbay?
Yanagi: I mean... I haven't eaten anything yet, but again, we've ruled that out.
Hiroaki: Right, okay, so what else?
Yanagi: I haven't had any water either, but I feel like that falls under the same net.
Hiroaki: So what else?
Yanagi: I mean... I-l haven't been able to exercise, I suppose? I haven't taken my painkillers either.
Hasegawa: H-Hold on, that might be something.
Yanagi: You think?
Hasegawa: I-it's something that only you were doing, taking painkillers from the medbay, I-I mean. So it makes sense that only you would be affected.
Hiroaki: Plus, if you didn't take them today, and you're suddenly not feeling sick, that's a pretty good sign.
Tamba: Why was he taking painkillers anyway?
Yanagi: For my concussion.
Hasegawa: Well, I-I mean- how soon after taking them did you typically start feeling sick?
Yanagi: Actually... not long after at all. Sometimes I would even go as far as to take a second dose if I felt that I hadn't kept the first one down for long enough to be effective.
Hiroaki: I- Don't do that.
Hasegawa: And it was mainly just the throwing up, right?
Yanagi: That... would be correct, if not somewhat crass.
Hasegawa: Then is it possible that his painkillers had been swapped out with emetics?
Wada: E-Emetics?
Hiroaki: Drugs that make you vom.
Tamba: I mean, we did have them in the medbay, I know that much. They looked pretty much the same as some of the painkillers too- just little white pills.
Ojima: But what would be the point of poisoning Shigeki? I'm not really following why they'd wanna go after so many different people.
Wada: They were probably just trying to mess up as many of us as they could. I-If none of us were feeling well or thinking straight, it would probably make the entire trial a whole lot easier for them.
Yanagi: And much more difficult for us.
Hasegawa: I-I hate to say it, but um- e-either way, anyone could have swapped the pills out, so... what else have we got?
Tamba: Can we talk about my note?!
Hiroaki: When did we stop talking about your note? I feel like that's all I've been hearing about for like a week now.
Hasegawa: Well- I-I mean- a-at the very least, your note had to have been printed before Watari died, right? We've established that. That's way too long for us to be able to grab anyone's alibis.
Yanagi: But what about Mai's notes?
Hasegawa: Actually, th-that's not a bad point. Mai's notes- were they typed or hand-written?
Yanagi: Hand-written, for sure.
Hasegawa: Then that means they were probably written after Watari died. O-Otherwise, it's safe to assume they'd just keep using the printer.
Hiroaki: That makes it easier to narrow down a suspect, at the very least.
Wada: Does it?
Ojima: I mean, with Mai's notes in play, it kind of seems like an open-and-shut case. Can't we just compare everyone's handwriting?
Hiroaki: Do you have a sample of everyone's handwriting?
Ojima: Well, no, but like-
Hiroaki: And do we have any of Mai's notes?
[A beat]
Ojima: Then... the notes are a dead end too? H-How can there be so many dead ends?
Tamba: What else do we have to work with? What else was weird about this week?
Wada: Um- Nakamigawa's reward getting returned.
Hasegawa: Ah- R-Right, I-I almost forgot about that.
Tamba: Who knew about his reward though?
Yanagi: After his fight with Harada? I think just about everyone knew about it.
Hiroaki: I- Ngh- Whatever, just- This is so dumb. it's another dead end, why are we harping on this?
Ojima: Hey, you're okay.
Yanagi: But with that in mind, from what I recall, the entire point of contention was that Harada didn't have Nagawa's reward. So how did it turn up again? I'm not sure how someone would have known where to find it.
Tamba: W-Wait, does that mean that the killer was planning this whole thing from way back in week two?! Are they the one that stole Hiroaki's reward from Harada in the first place?!
Hasegawa: N-No, there's no way. I mean, their plan involved sending Mai to the student cafe, right? We had no idea the student cafe was even here until a couple weeks ago.
Hiroaki: Well yeah, but who's to say that they didn't just change their plans at the last minute when they found a more suitable location?
Wada: I-It... kind of seems like there'd be way too many variables to plan out a murder that far in advance. I mean, wh-what if their target died?
Yanagi: That's a good point, I suppose...
Tamba: So maybe the killer didn't steal Hiroaki's reward from Harada. Maybe they just knew where to find it after someone else stole it from Harada.
Yanagi: But who would steal from Harada's room?
[A beat]
Hiroaki: ... Fuck's sake.
Tamba: The phantom thief of Nagoya!
Wada: Don't say it like that.
Ojima: Hanano...
Hasegawa: [sighs] O-Okazaki. Of course it would be Okazaki.
Yanagi: Well if we figured it out that quickly, it's safe to assume the killer could have as well.
Hasegawa: Th-Then it's another thing that anyone could have done. Another dead end. Perfect.
Hiroaki: Actually, I'm not so sure it's a total dead end. I feel like I'm noticing a bit of a pattern here.
Yanagi: What do you mean?
Hiroaki: I mean that as we've established, a ton of planning went into this thing. A plan with this many steps? Put into play that far in advance? That's pretty meticulous. It'd have to be someone pretty clever, right? Pretty meticulous themselves.
[A beat]
Hasegawa: Wh-What are you implying?!
Hiroaki: I'm just saying. This whole thing's pretty well thought-out. A lot more thought-out than someone like Wada or Tamba could handle. Credit where credit is due, you're about as clever as you are boring. If anyone was gonna come up with a plan like this, it'd be you.
Hasegawa: B-But-But I had no idea that half of this stuff was even happening! Besides, I-
Tamba: Wait, didn't Hasegawa get poisoned too though?
Hasegawa: I-I did! And besides, we already agreed that the door bombs were set up in the middle of the night! S-So... it couldn't have been me! I was locked in the medbay with Yanagi!
Yanagi: He didn't leave once. I can attest to that. Regardless of how plausible it sounds, it's just not possible.
Hasegawa: E-Exactly!
Yanagi: We tried everything to get that door open. There's no way he would have been able to just open and walk out, not even while I was asleep. Either way, it was still sealed when I woke up in the morning.
Wada: Then... yeah.
Hiroaki: I-
... God dammit, those were my two prime suspects. You're telling me this was a Wada plan? A Tamba plan?
Tamba: I-it wasn't a Wada or a Tamba plan! We didn't do anything!
Wada: But... doesn't this mean we're back to square one again? We... We haven't figured anything new, d-do we even have anything left to talk about?
Hiroaki: We haven't completely blown through our list of weird shit yet. Let's talk about Takeshi getting drunk.
Ojima: Huh-?
Hiroaki: How many times this week was Takeshi completely plastered? Like, three? What was he even drinking?
Ojima: No idea. I don't even remember getting drunk. Only being drunk.
Hiroaki: I vividly remember you being drunk.
Ojima: But how'd it even happen?
Tamba: Should you be the one asking that? I feel like you should know.
Yanagi: Well, simple enough, let's just think of everything in the school that could possibly get you drunk.
Hasegawa: Could it have been Hiroaki's bottle of acetone?
Hiroaki: My nail polish remover? That's alcoholic?
Hasegawa: I-It is, yeah.
Hiroaki: Well either way, he definitely wasn't drinking. I-I'd have noticed it disappearing, I use it all the time.
Hasegawa: Then… wh-what about the rubbing alcohol from the medbay? Or the mouthwash from the storage room?
Wada: R-Rubbing alcohol's pretty dangerous to drink.
Hasegawa: It is, but it'd work.
Hiroaki: Well for one thing, I know it's not mouthwash.
Yanagi: How?
Hiroaki: Because when he was drunk off his ass the other day talking about how he'd never drink mouthwash and then immediately said he drank mouthwash, I went and checked our mouthwash supply. He didn't drink any mouthwash.
Hasegawa: Then we can rule that out, at least.
Yanagi: The rubbing alcohol seems quite a bit more plausible.
Tamba: Wada and I couldn't find anything in his bag though. We dumped the whole thing out.
Ojima: I- you dumped out my bag?
Wada: Yeah, s-sorry. We were in a hurry.
Tamba: Point is, there was nothing in it. No booze, I mean. Completely clean.
Hasegawa: W-Well- O-Okay, um- here's a question then. Did anyone actually see Ojima drinking anything?
Hiroaki: What do you mean?
Hasegawa: Like- whatever he drank, when he actually drank it, did anyone see him drink it?
[A beat]
Then he only ever drank when he was alone. Th-That means that he was either drinking it himself willingly, and it has nothing to do with the case, o-or someone was force-feeding him while he was dissociated.
Hiroaki: What?
Ojima: Seriously?
Hiroaki: [through gritted teeth] Someone did what?
Ojima: I- No, I would have noticed, I-
Hiroaki: Well- I mean, h-hold on, would you? Because you've been spacing out hard lately.
Ojima: I-I have?
Hiroaki: Yeah, harder than usual. Would you have noticed?
Ojima: [distressed] I-... I would have noticed. I would have.
Hiroaki: Eh- Takeshi-
Hasegawa: I-I mean... for what it's worth, you didn't notice when you were, um... grabbing my arm the other day.
Ojima: I- But- B-But that's different! I would have noticed if someone was force-feeding me booze while I was blacked out!
Tamba: I dunno, I kinda feel like you wouldn't. I mean, we've all seen how hard you space out sometimes. It took us forever to wake you up during Loyalty Game.
Ojima: But-
Wada: N-Not to mention the fact that you didn't even wake up during the fire...
[A beat]
Ojima: I-I... I don't know what's wrong with me... I-I...
Hiroaki: Takeshi...?
Ojima: [distressed] E-Ever since I hurt Ken, I-I've been trying to stay grounded, I've really been trying. I've really been trying.
Hiroaki: I-I know, but are you-
Ojima: [distressed] But it just makes it worse every time I break. I try so hard to stay grounded and- then I slip and just- I-I'm gone. I can't come back.
[Ojima's breathing goes shaky]
I-I don't know what the hell's wrong with me...
[Ojima breaks down into tears]
Hiroaki: [as Ojima cries] ... H-Hey, c-c'mon. Pull it together.
[Ojima cries]
Takeshi. We need you here.
[A beat]
Ojima: I-I'm here...
Hiroaki: Okay, just-... breathe.
... At the very least, this is an actual lead. Someone would have had to come into actual physical contact with him. This isn't leaving something outside a door or switching bottles around in the kitchen, it's direct contact.
Tamba: That's awfully bold of them.
Hasegawa: W-Well- hold on, w-we should make absolutely sure first. Just to be clear, they had to have force-fed him? They couldn't have convinced him or coerced him into drinking it himself?
Hiroaki: I seriously doubt it. You can't really give him tasks or anything while he's checked out like that. You can drag him around, sure, but you can't like, give him commands. He just hangs out. That's all it is.
Tamba: [sighs in relief] That means nobody could command him to kill someone.
Wada: I-It's not like he's a robot or something, he's just spaced out.
Yanagi: Regardless, even if it does confirm that someone had to come into direct contact with him, we still don't know who that person is. It isn't really much of a lead at all, in practice.
Tamba: What? I thought it was obvious who it was.
Hasegawa: Huh?
Tamba: I mean, it's Hiroaki, right?
Hiroaki: Wh- Excuse me?!
Ojima: Of course not!
Wada: I-I mean... Nagawa would definitely know Ojima's reflexes a lot better than we would...
Tamba: Plus, he's with him like, all the time.
Hiroaki: I- Wh-
Yanagi: It would certainly make some degree of sense.
Hiroaki: I-...
Ojima: Wh-What the hell are you talking about?!
Hasegawa: Well-
Ojima: W-Well nothing! Are you serious?! How could you even imply that?! He wouldn't do that to me! Not to mention what you're insinuating- what, you think he killed Mai?! Are you kidding me?!
Hiroaki: Takeshi!
Ojima: No! Nakamigawa, listen to what they're saying, it's ridiculous.
Hasegawa: I-I mean, i-in fairness, Hiroaki was... pretty strongly against drunk Ojima.
Tamba: Or so he says. It could have pretty easily just been an act.
Wada: Right...
Tamba: I'm just saying, Hiroaki's the one that's around him all the time. If anyone was gonna force him to get drunk while he was zoned out, it'd be the guy who's always around him. He'd always have the perfect opening.
Ojima: That doesn't make any sense though! If he was the one poisoning me- if he was the one that killed Mai- wouldn't that also mean that he was the one that stole from Masanari? And wrote Ruiko's note? And, y'know, more importantly, poisoned himself?! Why would he do that?!
Hasegawa: Ojima, relax.
Ojima: I-... [sighs] I-I'm just saying, it doesn't make sense.
Hasegawa: W-Well, I mean... do we know that all the sabotages came from the same person?
[A beat. Tamba groans in frustration]
Yanagi: It can't be multiple people, can it?
Wada: Wh-Why does this have to be so complicated...?
Tamba: Come on!
Hasegawa: Well- I mean- it's just- it's possible, isn't it?
Tamba: There's no way. No way! What are the odds that two people would be planning a super complicated sabotage-fuelled murder at the same time?!
Hiroaki: I-I mean, surprisingly high, aren't they? Whoever the killer is, they were planning their kill at the same time Watari was planning hers. So I mean, it's already happened once.
Hasegawa: I'm certainly not saying... We should automatically assume there were multiple saboteurs, but... I-l don't think we should entirely rule it out.
Tamba: Okay, well I mean, here's another question then. How did Hasegawa get high? He doesn't zone out. He'd remember it happening.
Hasegawa: H-Huh? Well I mean-... Honestly, I-l don't remember it at all. I was feeling fine all morning, and then... no idea. Completely out of it.
Yanagi: A-And it only happened the one time, right?
Hasegawa: A-As far as I know, yeah.
Hiroaki: Then... what? That's weird though.
Tamba: How do you mean?
Hiroaki: Well I mean like- one time? A few days ago? How does that impact him in the investigation and trial? It wouldn't, right?
Hasegawa: Th-That's a good point, actually.
Tamba: Then why'd they even bother?
Hasegawa: Well... m-maybe there was something else the killer didn't want me to be around for. What else was going on while I was um- o-out of commission?
Yanagi: Most of us were completely bound to the medbay, if I recall. I know l was, at the very least.
Hiroaki: Takeshi and I were down too.
Ojima: Right... that sounds familiar.
Tamba: Mai was watching you guys for a while, but then she said she had to check on something and passed you guys off onto me.
Hiroaki: Sounds like she was checking on something a lot this week.
Yanagi: That's typically code for her notes.
Tamba: Yeah, I was gonna say. She was probably following one of her notes.
Ojima: Then... maybe the killer just wanted to make sure she was completely alone.
Hiroaki: For what though?
Wada: Maybe they wanted to meet with her?
Yanagi: She was the only person unaccounted for though. All of the rest of us were in the dining room.
Hasegawa: He's right, it can't be that.
Ojima: I mean, if we were all out of commission, i-it definitely seems like the killer wanted to get her alone. I just don't understand why they'd want her alone if not to meet with her.
Hiroaki: Well maybe it was Mai who wanted Mai alone.
[A beat]
Hasegawa: A-As... As much as I hate to say it... there are too many weird connections to Mai to completely rule out the idea that she may have been involved in the plan.
Yanagi: H-How would that make any sense? Why would she be involved in her own murder plot?
Ojima: Well- I mean- maybe she wasn't involved intentionally. Could they have coerced her into it? Or like- tricked her, I mean?
Tamba: Ooh, or maybe she had some kind of ulterior plan! One that got interrupted or something!
Hiroaki: Or maybe she was planning to kill someone.
Yanagi: Excuse me?!
Hiroaki: Maybe this was her plan the entire time. I ruled her out initially, because she's dead, but- Mai's pretty bright. She's definitely in the short list of people that could have actually come up with a plan like this.
Yanagi: Except she didn't!
Hiroaki: Unless she did, of course.
Yanagi: Is it not enough for you that she's- that she's dead?! Can you shut up for once?!
Tamba: Shigeki.
Let's just rule it out so we can move on.
Yanagi: Kh-... What evidence do you have to even imply that Mai knew anything more than we do?
Hasegawa: Well... I-I mean... she knew how to navigate around the cameras.
[A beat]
L-Look, just- I wanna rule this out if we can, okay? B-But- we can't ignore evidence just because we don't like it.
Yanagi: She didn't kill herself.
Hasegawa: Right, b-but-
Yanagi: And she certainly didn't plan to kill anyone else!
Hiroaki: I mean, in fairness, if anyone here managed to overpower Mai, I'll be impressed.
Yanagi: Shut up Nakamigawa!
Hiroaki: God, can you just let us talk without losing your shit every five minutes?! You don't even have to contribute, just let us figure this out!
Yanagi: You-!
Hiroaki: What were you saying, Ken? She knew how to navigate around the cameras?
Hasegawa: R-Right. Going through the sewing room floor, getting all the way down to the pool without being spotted- she knew how to navigate around the cameras. So if nothing else, that's one thing she knew that we didn't.
Hiroaki: What else've we got?
Hasegawa: Well, I-I mean... she left Wada and Tamba all alone in the stairwell, right? Even though Tamba had a broken leg. They were completely vulnerable. F-For Mai to do that, sh-she'd have to have a pretty good reason.
Tamba: Like what?
Ojima: That note must have been pretty important.
Hiroaki: If there even was a note.
Yanagi: Now you're just being blatantly ridiculous, of course there was a note, she'd been following them all goddamn week.
Hasegawa: Mai being involved would also explain how she got down to the pool from the third floor at all. I mean- I-I don't think any of us could have carried her, but- she definitely could have walked.
Yanagi: You're completely discrediting the idea that she was simply killed in the pool in the first place! Nobody would have needed to carry her if they'd already killed her in the pool room!
Hasegawa: I-I mean- well- yeah, that's definitely possible, but-but-but we don't really have any evidence to suggest that's the case.
Yanagi: Well we certainly don't have any evidence to prove she died anywhere else!
Hasegawa: Y-You're right, you're right. W-We don't know where she died. She could have died in the pool room, she could have died upstairs, we don't know.
Hiroaki: Of all the times for us to not use luminol.
Tamba: Do we even have any luminol left after Hasegawa's little... romp?
Ojima: Romp?
Tamba: I-I dunno, I was tryna be tactful.
Wada: Um- C-Can I add something?
Hiroaki: What's up?
Wada: Mm- Well... Mai definitely knew what we had in the arsenal, right? Since she's the one who itemised it? Plus, she set off that explosive in the library the other day, so... she definitely knew we had bombs in there.
Hasegawa: So you're suggesting she set up the door bombs.
Wada: I'm... saying it's possible.
Ojima: Well we know she knew how to do it. She's the one that explained Hanano's door trap during that trial. She could have probably rigged up something similar.
Yanagi: Th-That was a completely different type of trap! You're just making wild jumps in logic now!
Hiroaki: More importantly, Mai's the only person who was completely unaccounted for all night.
Yanagi: I- Are you serious?! What the hell are you expecting her to do, testify?!
Hiroaki: Shigeki. Nobody saw her.
Yanagi: Wh-Why are you doing this to her?! What the hell is your problem?! She fought so hard to keep us safe, I- why the hell are you dragging her name through the mud like this?! She's dead! What more do you want from her?! She would never do this to any of you! To me!
Hiroaki: Well this is sounding awfully familiar. Ask Hama how he feels about that logic.
Ojima: Nakamigawa.
Yanagi: Shut up!
Ojima: I- wait, so- hold on, you guys think she killed herself?
Hasegawa: H-Honestly? N-No, I can't see her doing that, not Mai. I feel like if her goal was to commit suicide and get us all out of here, she'd have done it with a lot less complication. She'd have gone with something simple, something we'd figure out right away. If she had killed herself with the hope that we'd get to leave quickly, she wouldn't have made a case of it.
Wada: Then-... maybe it wasn't about saving us. Maybe she was trying to get one specific person free.
Ojima: I... still feel like Mai wouldn't do something like that.
Hasegawa: W-Well I mean- who was she close with?
[A beat]
Yanagi: D-Don't even start.
Tamba: H-Hold on, he wouldn't.
Yanagi: Don't even start! I was locked in the medbay all night! I was sealed in the dark with nine rotting corpses all night! What the hell do you think I could have possibly done?! I couldn't go anywhere! I had nothing to do with her death!
Hiroaki: I mean, it wouldn't really matter that you were locked in the medbay all night if you and Mai had planned something out in advance. Some stupid trap scenario like Okazaki and Tsuno or Watari and Hama.
Ojima: I'm... not sure those are great comparisons.
Hiroaki: I'm just saying. We've proven repeatedly now that you don't need to be with someone to kill them.
Yanagi: Have you already forgotten about the door bombs?!
Hiroaki: Not at all. But Mai could have planted them, right? Even if you were locked up.
Yanagi: Except that she didn't! And she wouldn't! Mai is a good person, she-
Hiroaki: Was. She was a good person.
Yanagi: I... y-you-
Hiroaki: Nonono, no, go on, continue making an ass of yourself, it's making you look real innocent. Very compelling when you absolutely lose your shit like that.
Yanagi: I-I-I-
Ojima: But- Wait, th-that still doesn't make sense. Even if she just wanted Shigeki to escape and didn't care about the rest of us, she could have just killed herself, right? If she killed herself in some simple way that was easy to figure out, we all could have just gone home, Shigeki included.
Hiroaki: Alright, so maybe it wasn't that simple then. Maybe she wanted exclusively Yanagi to get out of here alive. Maybe she didn't want the rest of us getting out of here at all.
Yanagi: Do you even hear yourself?! Why the hell would she want that?!
Hiroaki: Well, maybe she knew something the rest of us didn't.
Yanagi: I-... Wh-What?! She wanted everyone to make it out of here alive. What could she have possibly known that would change that?
Hiroaki: She had everyone's student files sitting in her room, didn't she? Maybe she read something she didn't like.
Ojima: Do you really think she'd be that petty?
Hiroaki: I dunno, maybe it was something particularly bad. Maybe she had a grudge against one of us. Thought we deserved to go.
Hasegawa: But I mean- s-surely something that bad would have been brought up during one of the truth games, right? I don't think the rabbit would let us keep something like that a secret for the entire game.
Tamba: Good point. If you've got some sort of deep dark secret, they'll prooobably make you confess it.
Yanagi: Regardless, Mai never even read those files. Your theory makes no sense. What the hell do you even think happened?
Hiroaki: Glad you asked. Here's how it all went down. So a week ago, before Watari died, Mai went up to Shigeki with a plan. She-
Yanagi: Oh no no no, don't even start!
Tamba: Yeah, seriously.
Hiroaki: You literally asked what I thought happened.
Yanagi: Regardless, your theory is already garbage! I can tell that much from the very first sentence!
Hiroaki: Oh yeah? How?
Yanagi: Because I wasn't involved! And neither was Mai! I was the one insisting very vocally that she stop following the notes around! Why the hell would I do that if I'm the one writing them?! Or if she was the one writing them?!
Wada: I... Kind of agree with Shigeki, honestly. I mean, I know how the evidence looks like, but- like... I-I... I-I just can't see Mai going along with a plan that ends in her dying. I don't see how she'd agree to that.
Hasegawa: Well... what if she didn't know about that part?
Yanagi: What?
Hasegawa: What if she thought it was just an escape plan? She went through the steps, thinking she was contributing towards an escape, and at the last minute... the plan changed.
Hiroaki: Huh. That's a bit more believable, actually. She certainly was hell-bent on escape.
Yanagi: She-... that didn't happen.
Hiroaki: So if someone will generously allow me to speak, I'd like to go over what I think actually happened to Mai.
Yanagi: I-I...
Hiroaki: So, a week ago, before Watari dies, they come up with this plan. Maybe Mai's a a bit sceptical, maybe Shigeki's a bit sceptical, but just to be sure they've got the time to think it over, they put a specific date on the first note- Tamba's note- just to be sure they have to go through with it. Or just to buy themselves a few days to think about this first. It doesn't really matter. Point is, Yanagi starts pumping out notes for Hayashi, as per the plan. Then, they start constantly arguing about the notes to cover up the fact that Yanagi wrote them, as per the plan.
Yanagi: Enough prattle. What do you think actually happened?
Hiroaki: I think that last night, when Tamba fell, Hayashi sent you to the medbay just like she was supposed to. I think you sealed yourself and Hasegawa inside, just like you were supposed to. Then, she-...
Yanagi: Well?
Hiroaki: Um- eh- w-well-...
Yanagi: You have no idea.
Hiroaki: I-I-I do! I'm just thinking about it!
Yanagi: You don't even know how she died! You don't even know how you think I managed to kill her!
Hiroaki: I do!
Yanagi: Then explain it!
Hiroaki: There's gotta be something I'm missing, something that makes sense, just- I'm- I-I mean- I-I'm just not seeing how you went about actually killing her from inside the medbay.
Yanagi: I didn't! Because that's ridiculous and impossible!
Ojima: I... think he might be right about this one. Even if Mai was mobile all night and set the door bombs up herself, she'd still need another mobile person to actually, y'know. Off her.
Yanagi: Exactly! Not that she even set the bombs in the first place, but your theory holds zero water!
Hiroaki: Okay, okay, just-...
... Huh.
Yanagi: What?
Hiroaki: Relax, you're off the hook.
Wada: Huh? Wh-What do you mean?
Tamba: Did you figure something out?
Hiroaki: Well, I mean, we know it can't be Shigeki or Hasegawa, because they were locked in the medbay, We know it can't be me or Ojima, because we were each other's alibis. By that logic, it has to be either Wada or Tamba, and quite frankly, looking at the state of Wada, I highly doubt he had the strength to do much of anything at all last night.
[A beat. Tamba's face darkens with dread]
Tamba: I-... wh-what are you saying?
Hiroaki: I'm saying we've circled back. You're in the hot seat again.
Tamba: But- I- Wh-What?!
Hasegawa: I mean...what he's saying does make a certain degree of sense...
Tamba: But it couldn't have been me! I-I was in the laundry room all night!
Hiroaki: According to your word, and zero evidence.
Tamba: But I really was!
Wada: B-But- I mean- Tamba was injured. She still is injured. I-I dunno if she could have killed someone when she can barely even walk.
Tamba: Y-Yeah! Exactly! Especially someone as strong as Mai! I-I couldn't!
Ojima: It... does seem kind of far-fetched.
Hasegawa: I-I mean... Tamba's been pretty openly desperate to escape. I-I don't think it's completely unthinkable that she might have chose to kill someone.
Ojima: But Mai?
Hiroaki: Yeah. Mai. Why wouldn't it be Mai? She's a perfect target.
Tamba: Oh, yeah, cuz nothing screams perfect target like a girl who's practically three times my size and build!
Hiroaki: It's not about strength. Strength wouldn't matter here. She trusted you completely. She would have let her guard down around you. You would have had the perfect opportunity, an opportunity none of the rest of us would have had.
Hiroaki: Okay, before we start falling down another rabbit hole of that god awful "she would never" defence, I just wanna take this moment to quickly remind everyone that Tamba was the only person in this entire building with access to the pool, and ask you guys how in the hell do you think Mai could have gotten inside any other way?
[A beat]
Exactly.
[A beat]
Tamba: I... I-I didn't do anything... how could you say that?
Hiroaki: You-
Tamba: I didn't do anything! L-Listen to me! I wouldn't hurt her! I didn't do anything!
Hiroaki: Do I need to explain it? Why do I always have to explain it?
Yanagi: B-Because it doesn't make any sense.
Hiroaki: Come on, you don't even believe that anymore. Why are you still saying it?
Ojima: Um... I-I'd find it helpful if you explained it, yeah.
Hiroaki: Perfect, so here's what happened. Tamba decided that Mai was her easiest way out of here. Mai trusted her, Mai was desperate to get everyone out of here, and that made Mai super easy to manipulate. She typed up a little threat, printed it out, and then hid it for herself and Mai to find together. When Mai saw that Tamba was being threatened, she went on high alert. After all, she was supposed to be protecting Tamba, right? So of course she'd get all paranoid when someone explicitly said they were gonna murder her. Which was Tamba's goal. Put Mai on edge.
Tamba: I-It wasn't! I didn't!
Hiroaki: With Mai where Tamba wanted her, she started writing more notes. Notes to keep Mai distracted. Notes to keep her busy while Tamba was working in the background. Getting Takeshi drunk, stealing Wada's stash, swapping the milk bottles- which, before anyone says she's not smart enough for any of that, keep in mind, that last one was quite literally her idea.
Tamba: B-Because it was a hypothetical!
Hiroaki: Anyway, she's tampering in the background while Mai's chasing notes on the main stage. She keeps following these stupid notes around for days, and finally, last night, they lead her up to the fire zone. Y'know, the one place in the school where there are no functioning cameras. She confessed that she had been the one leaving the notes behind- I mean, honestly, who knows what she told Mai? Maybe she told her she was a traitor or a mole or something. The important part is, for whatever reason, Mai felt like this little mission was a secret. Like Tamba had to do it this way, and Mai had to trust her.
Tamba: You… y-you've got it all wrong.
Hiroaki: If you don't have anything important to add, stop interrupting.
Tamba: I-Important? Important?! Are you serious?! You're accusing me of murder! Y-You-
Hiroaki: [firmly] As I was saying.
[A beat]
... As I was saying, after that, she was on easy street. All she had to do was lure Mai downstairs to the pool, stab her, and shove her in. Case closed.
Wada: B-But that still doesn't explain how Mai would have known about the cameras.
Hasegawa: I-I was thinking the same thing.
Hiroaki: Then how about this? Tamba's completely lying about her defence reward. She actually didn't have access to the pool. She got something else completely.
Ojima: I-... what?
Wada: Yeah, what?
Ojima: Doesn't your entire theory hinge on her having access to the pool?
Hasegawa: ... No, it doesn't, actually. His theory only hinges on one of the two of them having access to the pool. If Mai had access to the pool, then... Tamba wouldn't need it.
[A beat]
Tamba: I... I.. l didn't...!
Hiroaki: We never did find out who the third person to claim a reward was. What if it was Mai?
Yanagi: Th-There's no way in hell it was Mai. She wouldn't do something that reckless.
Hiroaki: Who knows what she would or wouldn't do this week? Tamba's life was on the line. She was paranoid. If she thought it could keep Tamba safe, who's to say she wouldn't do it?
Tamba: You don't even know what you're talking about! S-Stop! It didn't happen!
Hiroaki: Hasegawa.
Hasegawa: Huh?
Hiroaki: You never did find those blueprints you were looking for, did you?
Hasegawa: The... The school layout? No, I didn't.
Hiroaki: Well, what if that's because they were never in the archive?
Hasegawa: ... You think that was Tamba's real reward.
Tamba: Wh-What?!
Hiroaki: Bingo.
Hasegawa: If Tamba had the school blueprints, sh-she'd know where all the cameras were. She'd know how to avoid them. More than that, she'd know how to direct Mai around them.
Tamba: B-But I didn't get the blueprints! I'm telling the truth! I-I swear I am! I got the night key! I promise I did!
Hiroaki: So where is it then?
Tamba: I... h-huh?
Hiroaki: The key. Where is it?
Tamba: I-It's in my pocket, I-!
O-... O-Oh god... Oh god, oh god, wh-where is it?
Hiroaki: Rich.
Tamba: Where is it?! I-I had it! It must have fallen out when I jumped in the pool, I-I- I swear l had it!
Hasegawa: E-Either way, having it really wouldn't be proof of anything. It would be pretty easy to just take it off of Mai's body after she'd already died.
Tamba: But I didn't! I already had it! Because I'm telling the truth!
Hiroaki: For what it's worth, I've gotta point out that Mai and Tamba were the only two people that didn't get poisoned. Or starved. They only got notes. No physical sabotage at all. Probably Tamba's a massive coward and didn't wanna go through the trouble of putting herself through a little pain even if it meant her alibi would be way more solid.
Tamba: How is it my fault that I never got poisoned?!
Hiroaki: I dunno, because you were the one poisoning people?
Tamba: But-But how could I have possibly known that Yanagi and Hasegawa would end up in the medbay?! How could I have known that?!
Ojima: Ah- That's a good point, actually.
Hiroaki: No it's not, it's a terrible point. She could have just lucked out. She probably had a completely different plan in place for how to get them in the medbay. I just so happened to push her down the stairs and make it easy for her.
Tamba: E-Easy?! You think pushing me down the stairs and breaking my leg made my night easy?!
Ojima: But- I-I mean- I hate to sound rude, but... is Ruiko even... bright enough to plan out a murder this complicated? I-I mean, you said it yourself, right? You accused Ken just because the murder plan seemed too smart.
Hiroaki: That was before I thought about it a bit more critically. I mean, it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to write a couple notes and swap a couple pills around. I'm sure she could have pulled it off if she decided to really grind those two remaining brain cells together as hard as she could.
Ojima: Nakamigawa.
Hiroaki: What I'm saying is, it wouldn't take a genius. Besides, Mai probably did the bulk of the thinking once they actually put their heads together.
[A beat]
Yanagi: I... T-Tamba...?
Tamba: ... I-I didn't do anything... I swear I didn't do anything, I-I-... l would never hurt her, I- didn't even know we had blueprints, I-I... I didn't do anything...
Wada: W-Wait wait wait wait wait, hold on- we're not voting yet, right? I-I'm not ready to vote yet, I still have a million questions.
Hiroaki: Alright, then let's clear them up. Hit me.
Wada: W-Well- I mean, for starters, where did the arsenal supplies go? We never actually figured out where they were.
Hiroaki: Easy. Mai was strong enough to carry them. Maybe not all at once, obviously, but she could carry them in a couple trips. Her and Tamba had both been through every investigation up 'til now, they'd know which rooms get checked and which rooms don't. All they'd need to do is dump the arsenal stock in a room that never gets investigated. Problem solved.
Wada: B-But why? What was the point of that?
Hiroaki: If I had to guess, Tamba probably thought it would be a good way to cover up the weapon.
Wada: What was the weapon?
Hiroaki: Well, think about it like this. Had to be a blade, had to be from the arsenal, had to be long enough to go through her entire torso. By that logic?
Ojima: I-It has to be a sword.
Hiroaki: Ding ding ding! Sword.
Wada: Th-Then... wh-what, did she just agree to die? Because it was part of Tamba's plan?
Hiroaki: Ehhhhh, judging by those gashes on her hands, I doubt it. Like we said before, those are the kinds of cuts you get from grabbing a blade. My guess is that Tamba probably stabbed her through the back, Mai was in shock and grabbed the sword that had just popped out of her stomach- oh, hey, Tamba, that makes you a literal backstabber! Cute!
Ojima: Nakamigawa.
Tamba: I-I'm telling you, I didn't do anything!
[Tears start running down Tamba's face]
Wada: [as Tamba cries] I-If she stabbed Mai in the pool room, wh-where was all the blood? We know that Mai was lying in her own blood at some point, because- her top and her pants were both soaked in it. Blood doesn't drip up.
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] Well that one's easy. Mai gets stabbed, Tamba pulls the sword back out, Mai hits the ground. Lies in her own blood for a bit before Tamba just rolls her on in. Boom. Body in the pool. Then all she'd need to do is clean up with the pool water, which would be easy, There's drains in the floor, how much easier could it get?
Wada: [as Tamba cries] B-But I never saw Tamba and Mai together on the cameras. N-Not once. I never saw Mai at all after she went upstairs.
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] I mean, you didn't see Tamba go into the laundry room either, so l dunno how rock solid your witness testimony is either way.
Wada: [as Tamba cries] I- huh?
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] I'm just saying, you clearly missed a few things. Besides, if Tamba had the blueprints, she'd know where the blindspots would be on the security cameras. It would be pretty easy for her and Mai to navigate downstairs without being caught.
Wada: [as Tamba cries] I... b-but... would Mai really punish all of us to get a reward? That-... that doesn't sound like her at all.
Hasegawa: [as Tamba cries] E-Especially not after Loyalty Game, sh-she was pretty hell-bent on taking on everyone's punishments, just so we wouldn't have to take them.
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] If Mai felt like that key could help her protect us, then maybe it was worth the trade for her.
Wada: [as Tamba cries] B-But- why would she kill Mai of all people? They were friends, right?
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] Because Mai trusted her. That's really all it comes down to. Mai trusted her, so Mai wouldn't find her suspicious. Mai trusted her, so Mai wouldn't question her. Mai trusted her, so Mai wouldn't have expected it when Tamba stabbed her in the back. She'd be willing to do things that seemed crazy suspicious- like moving the entire arsenal to a completely random room- just to help out Tamba, who she thought was helping us all escape. And, y'know, maybe it had something to do with Hayashi's sole voter reward, but l highly doubt that.
Wada: [as Tamba cries] But- I-I mean- Do we have anything that isn't just entirely circumstantial?
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] Well, aside from Tamba admitting the night key exists and that it's the only way to get into the pool at night, plus her and Mai not showing up on the cameras at all, she completely flubbed your investigation.
Wada: [as Tamba cries] Wh-What do you mean?
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] Why were you guys investigating the drama room?
Wada: [as Tamba cries] I-... w-wait, no, what do you mean?
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] It's an easy question. Why were you investigating the drama room?
Wada: [as Tamba cries] Because it was right across from the AV room, s-so I mean- it was right there, so we-
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] Whose idea was it?
Wada: [as Tamba cries] ... T-Tamba's...
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] So it was Tamba's idea to investigate a completely irrelevant room while we were already on halved time- I wonder why she'd do something like that. Oh, yeah, wait, it's because she had a bomb rigged to the door. She wanted to make sure you found at least one of those bombs. Half her plan would be completely pointless if you didn't even end up finding any bombs. If you guys were right across from the drama room, it would be a quick and easy pick for a room to blow you up with.
Tamba: You... Y-You can't do this... I didn't do anything... you're gonna get us all killed...
Hiroaki: Then prove you're innocent. Right now. Give me anything to prove you didn't do it.
[A beat]
... l'm done with this. Can we wrap it up already?
Ojima: ... Y-Yeah, wrap it up.
Tamba: Y-You believe him?!
[A beat]
I-... d-do you all... believe him...?
[A beat]
You... Y-You can't...
Hiroaki: ... A week ago, Tamba decided she was gonna kill her best friend. So she typed up a fake note, planted it to get Mai all paranoid and protective, then put the rest of her plan into motion.
Tamba: You can't do this...
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] She poisoned everyone in the building except for herself and Mai- well, and Wada, I guess, but he was an easy shot. She stole Wada's food stash, got Ojima totally wasted, got Hasegawa high, gave me my reward back just to fuck with me, poisoned Yanagi- she wanted to make sure we'd be completely incompetent and exhausted and useless come trial time. And, I mean, to her credit, it certainly helped her out.
Tamba: I-I didn't...
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] She spent the entire past week leaving notes everywhere for Mai to find. Notes that would rile her up, keep her on edge. Not to mention the traps. She was trying to get Mai on high alert, trying to get her paranoid, trying to get her desperate to escape. That way, when she read Tamba's final note, calling her up to the third floor, she'd be more willing to comply. Especially if it promised escape.
Tamba: I-I didn't do any of this!
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] When Wada, Mai and Tamba are all alone, Mai breaks away to go follow her note. She can't exactly hang around, she has places to be. When Tamba realises that Mai'll just leave if Tamba never shows up to the meeting, she splits them off from Wada, leaves him on his own, and heads upstairs to go meet with Mai. Once she got there, she explained everything- well, everything she had made up, at least. She told her this was all over an escape plan. She told her that if she complied, we could all get out together. Exactly what Mai wanted to hear, especially since she was already paranoid, so she went along with it. She did whatever Tamba asked her to do. She trusted her, after all.
Tamba: Sh-Shut up, shut up, shut up...
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] She and Mai rigged up the door traps, they cleared out the arsenal, all while using Tamba's blueprints to sneak around and avoid the cameras. A pretty powerful reward, honestly. And since she was planning to get us all killed anyway, it's no wonder she cut our investigation time in half just to get it. Once they were done setting everything up, they went down to the pool and used Mai's key to get in. I dunno how Mai couldn't have found it suspicious that Tamba had a sword, so maybe she didn't carry it down with her. Maybe she had already planted it there earlier. I mean, we weren't supposed to go in the pool anyway, so it's not like anyone would have noticed it and raised any alarms.
Tamba: I-I didn't do anything! Stop listening to him!
Hiroaki: [as Tamba cries] Then, all she needed to do was stab Mai, dump her in the pool and hide the sword with the rest of the arsenal supplies. After that, she could go fuck off to wherever she wanted. Her work was done.
Tamba: I was in the laundry room all night! I didn't do any of this! Listen to me! If you listen to him, a-and you vote for me, we're all going to die! I promise you!
Hiroaki: I'm ready to vote.
Tamba: I'm not! Y-You're making a mistake! You're making a giant, giant mistake! W-We're all gonna die if you vote for me! I swear! I-I didn't do anything!
Ojima: ... I-l'm ready to vote too.
Hasegawa: I... y-yeah...
Tamba: You... Y-You can't... I didn't-...
[A long beat]
Monomoko: ... Are you absolutely sure that you're ready to vote now?
[A beat]
Hiroaki: I- What?
Monomoko: Are you absolutely sure that you're ready to vote? Are you sure you don't want to discuss the matter any further?
Hiroaki: ... Hold on, why would we?
[A beat]
Why would we?
Ojima: Wait-
Hiroaki: It's never said that before, we've got it wrong.
Hasegawa: What?
Tamba: I-I told you! I'm innocent! I swear! I-I didn't do anything! I didn't hurt Mai!
Yanagi: Then- What, w-we got everything wrong?!
Hiroaki: H-How though?!
Wada: But-But we can't be wrong! It all made sense! And- And I-I- she- i-if we're wrong, that means we're back at square one! Again! We can't be!
Hiroaki: N-Nonononono, it's not square one. If anything, this is good. It's a hint. We can work with this. We just need to backtrack to where it stops making sense. We need to take everything Tamba says as a fact. She's the only person here who has to be innocent.
Tamba: I... y-you're going to listen to me?
Hiroaki: Y-Yes, just- let's work backwards. What can you tell us?
Tamba: I... I-I didn't get the blueprints, I swear I didn't. I got the night key. Th-That's all I got. I got the night key, a-and I spent the entire night in the laundry room. I had no idea where the cameras were, I-I-I didn't even know we had cameras.
Monomoko: If a student were to receive the school's blueprints as their reward, that student would be incredibly lucky. The blueprints show every aspect of the school.
Ojima: Are there rooms we don't know about?
Wada: Rooms... I dunno about rooms, but... O-Okazaki mentioned-...
Hiroaki: Fuck, you're kidding me.
Wada: Way back in the first week.
Hiroaki: Way back in the first trial!
Tamba: Th-The secret passage?!
Wada: She-She was saying that they probably used some kind of secret passage to set up the games in the gym, right?
Hiroaki: I- S-So- If a student had the blueprints, they'd know where the secret passages are.
Yanagi: That would explain where the entire arsenal went!
Hiroaki: Shit, you're right, they could have just tucked everything into a passage! We'd never know! We didn't even know we had passages!
Yanagi: Not to mention how Mai got all the way from the third floor to the basement without being detected!
Hiroaki: Takeshi and I are still innocent. We were together all night. Wada has to be innocent too, because if he knew about the passages, he would have used those to access the arsenal instead of just going through the regular door and making himself look suspicious. Tamba has to be innocent, we already know that, so-
[A beat. Yanagi's face darkens with anger]
Yanagi: ... Y-You...
Hasegawa: H-Hold on a minute.
Yanagi: YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
Ojima: Woah-!
Hiroaki: Shigeki-!
[Yanagi struggles against Ojima and Hiroaki]
Ojima: G-Got him-
Yanagi: YOU KILLED HER! YOU FUCKING KILLED HER!
Tamba: [as Yanagi struggles] W-Wait! Hold on, we still need to figure this out first! Why would Hasegawa kill her?!
Yanagi: I-If it's either me or him, THEN IT'S HIM. BECAUSE I DIDN'T FUCKING KILL HER.
Hasegawa: But I-I couldn't have killed her! I never found the blueprints! I didn't have them!
Yanagi: You took the FUCKING reward! You were the third person! You- You piece of shit, you- YOU KILLED HER!
Hasegawa: I-I didn't! I swear I didn't! I-I can prove it!
Yanagi: Nobody else would have spent weeks planning this shit, nobody else but- WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi struggles] Y-Yanagi, listen to me! There's no way I could have carried her all the way from the third floor to the basement! I-I-I wouldn't have been able to carry her two steps!
Tamba: [as Yanagi struggles] Could there have been an elevator in the passages?
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi struggles] It doesn't matter though! I-I wouldn't have been able to carry her into an elevator either!
Hiroaki: [as Yanagi struggles] Well- is there anything in the school that someone could use to transport a body? Something easy to manoeuvre?
Yanagi: ... Th-The gurneys...
Hasegawa: ... Y-Yanagi, wait.
Yanagi: You... i-it was pitch black... I would have never noticed one missing...
Hasegawa: Wait-
Yanagi: You were the one who closed the fucking door! You closed it as soon as we got there! Why the hell would you close it?! It was pitch fucking black! Why the hell would you close it?!
Hasegawa: I-It's not like that, I just wasn't thinking, I-I-
Yanagi: YOU CLOSED IT BECAUSE YOU SEALED IT!
Ojima: N-Nakamigawa-
Hiroaki: I've got him-
Yanagi: I NEVER WOULD HAVE SEEN THE GODDAMN GURNEY MISSING! I NEVER WOULD HAVE SEEN YOU MISSING!
Wada: You mean... he snuck out of the medbay right there in front of you?
Tamba: Probably while he was sleeping...
Wada: [as Yanagi struggles] B-But- I mean- would the passage even connect to the medbay? How could we know?
Hiroaki: Well if it's the passage that the staff use to set up the auditorium games, then at the very least, it has to connect to the auditorium. The auditorium, the medbay and the pool are all on the east wall. S-So yeah. It probably does connect. It probably runs all the way down the wall.
Tamba: N-Not to mention the fact that the bodies get sent there after the executions. The staff've gotta have a way in.
Wada: Then... it definitely...
Yanagi: HOW COULD YOU?! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO HER?!
Hasegawa: I-I didn't! I-I mean- I- I-I still would have had to have lifted her onto the gurney. th-there's no way I could do that!
Hiroaki: Well I don't want him to elbow my damn skull in-
Ojima: H-How could Mai have ended up on the gurney without Ken having to lift her?
Wada: Could she have?
Tamba: I mean, it's Hasegawa, I'm sure he could have found a way to lift her regardless, right? With like, leverage or something? Pulleys?
Wada: I-...
Yanagi: HASEGAWA!
Wada: I... I know what happened...
Ojima: Yeah?
Wada: [as Yanagi struggles] I mean, the last place we saw her go was the resource room, right? But when we checked it, we couldn't investigate, because- the floor was too badly damaged.
Tamba: Y-You don't think she...
Hiroaki: What, she fell through the floor?!
Hasegawa: Th-Then how could it possibly be my fault?! I-I couldn't have made her fall through the floor!
Ojima: If she fell onto the gurney-
Tamba: That wouldn't have killed her though.
Wada: There's nothing under the resource room, right? A-As far as we know, l mean. Like, if you go down to the second floor, you can't get under the resource room, s-so... that's probably part of the passages too. If I had to guess, th-they just run through all the crawl spaces. Plus the perimeter, if the auditorium and medbay are both connected.
Hiroaki: But- Ah-! But when Yanagi fell through the floor, wasn't it just a crawlspace?!
Wada: The pocket he fell in was pretty small. That part probably was just a crawlspace. B-But the part Mai fell through... that was probably a passage. I-If Hasegawa knew where the passages ran, h-he could make sure to direct Mai to a weak point, a-and I mean, gravity would do the rest. He'd just need to have the gurney ready.
Tamba: I mean, wh-when I was up there with him, h-he-... he said he could walk on the floor just fine because he knew where the weak points were...
Hasegawa: B-But falling on the gurney wouldn't have killed her either way! A-And regardless of that, I-I didn't do anything!
Hiroaki: So what if he just pushed the sword through the gurney?
I mean, again, it's not exactly rocket science. Push the sword through the gurney, lower the gurney to the floor to keep it in place, you've basically created a spike pit. She'd fall, impale herself, boom. Dead.
[A beat]
Tamba: ... H-Hasegawa...?
[Hasegawa's face darkens]
Hasegawa, say something...
Hasegawa: [exhausted] ... E-Everything you have on me is circumstantial, none of it makes any sense...
Hiroaki: Okay, so prove yourself innocent then. Prove you didn't do it.
Hasegawa: You can't ask me to prove a negative... God, th-this entire trial is just-... this is so stupid...
Tamba: Wada, Hasegawa was one of the people that went into your room, right? S-So, I mean... he could have stolen your food stash.
Wada: I- but- I- I-I was watching him, he-
... When I left... the bookbag...
Tamba: If anyone in here would know what Ojima could get drunk off of, it would be Hasegawa, right...?
Hiroaki: Hey, speaking of which- Takeshi, do you actually remember grabbing his arm? Like, do you remember it happening? At all? Or did he just tell you it happened?
Ojima: I-... Wh-What the hell?
Hiroaki: He read all of our files. Of course he'd know the fastest ways to fuck us up.
Ojima: A-Are you serious?! I've been- th-this whole time, I- you mean I didn't even fucking touch him?!
Hasegawa: What the hell would I gain from locking myself in a pitch black room with my closest friend's rotting corpse? Why would I do that? Th-That's stupid.
Hiroaki: I mean, you weren't above literally bloodletting yourself just to light up your room, so l'd say we're probably past the threshold of unsettling behaviour as far as you go. You're not exactly above doing insane shit for the cause.
Hasegawa: Th-... This is stupid... y-you're so stupid... this entire trial is stupid...
Wada: Let's go over what happened.
Yanagi: I... h-how could you do that to her...?
Wada: A week ago, Hasegawa typed up a threatening note for Tamba, and left it for her to find in the locker rooms. He wanted to make Hayashi feel paranoid, a-and... make her more determined to find an escape route. We... all know how Hayashi gets when she starts thinking about escape, so... he was probably trying to get in her head, a-and... make her more willing to do something reckless. Once he had made her paranoid, he moved on to the rest of us.
Hasegawa: This is stupid...
Wada: He stole my stuff... so that I'd be starving and exhausted by the time we had to investigate. He convinced Ojima that he was hurting people so that O-Ojima would try and force himself to stop zoning out, a-and when Ojima did zone out, he took the opportunity to get him drunk. I-It kept Ojima out of the picture, and it kept Nakamigawa focused on Ojima. He poisoned Yanagi with emetics so that he'd be sick all time, he poisoned Hiroaki's coffee so that he'd be sick all the time, he set traps all around the school so that Mai would keep running into them and get more and more paranoid- oh, and he gave Nakamigawa's reward back. That one kind of explains itself, but a-as a bonus, it... probably made Ojima and Nakamigawa start fighting again, I-I guess. That probably helped keep them both occupied.
[Yanagi looks downwards]
Hiroaki: R-Right...
Wada: During Defence Game, he got the school blueprints, and then he could actually plan out how Mai was gonna die. He realised that the only camera that would get in his way was the pool camera, s-so he broke it. Then, he used the staff passages to bring a gurney upstairs to the passage under the resource room. He grabbed a sword from the arsenal, pushed it through the bottom of the gurney, and left it there as a trap. All he had to do was wait for Mai to fall, a-and that'd be it.
I'm... honestly not really sure what happened with the medbay... all I can think of is that he had a completely different plan to seal himself and Yanagi inside. If I had to guess, it probably involved either injuring... Yanagi or himself. That would give him an excuse to go to the medbay, a-and... I mean, from there, all he'd need to do is seal the door. There's no way wood glue would have dried fast enough, so... it probably was superglue, like he said. I guess he kind of lucked out when Nakamigawa pushed Tamba down the stairs, cuz I mean... it made things pretty convenient, right? Nobody could blame him for that, so... nobody could connect it to him.
Wh-When the guys never came back, Mai went to go follow her last note, which... took her upstairs to the resource centre. From there, i-it all went according to plan, I guess. She walked right where he told her to walk, she fell through the floor, and-... and she um... died. She fell on the sword, it went through her stomach, a-and um... it probably wasn't instant. That's probably where all the cuts on her hand came from. She probably tried to save herself, a-at first.
Yanagi: G-God... Mai...
Wada: When Yanagi fell asleep, Hasegawa slipped out through the passage, went upstairs and collected her. He wheeled the gurney back down to the pool, left her there, a-and then just... I mean, he probably just left the sword and the gurney in the passages, honestly. From there, all he would need to do was rig up the door bombs and hide the arsenal supplies in the staff passage. After that, he could head back to the medbay, a-and i-it would be like he never left.
[A beat]
S-So... yeah, that's what I think happened. I-I guess.
[A beat]
Tamba: ... H-Hasegawa...?
[A beat]
Hasegawa: Ōno Nanae.
Wada: Huh?
Hasegawa: Ninomiya Yōhei.
Ojima: ... What is he-
Hasegawa: Kumada Erina.
[The announcement tone plays]
Yonekura: [over the intercom] Monomoko! Finish this already! Enough!
Monomoko: It's time to vote. Now.
Tamba: Who was that?!
Ojima: Hello?!
Hasegawa: Ikeda Daiki.
Hiroaki: What the hell is he talking about? Who?
Yonekura: [over the intercom] Monomoko, shut it down.
Hasegawa: Denden Misao.
Monomoko: I said, it's time to vote.
Hasegawa: Tsukigata Hideyuki.
[The alarm blares, causing Tamba to yelp]
Monomoko: Vote.
[A beat]
Yanagi: H-How... How could you fucking do this to her...?
Hasegawa: ... You'll never get it.
Monomoko: The class has voted for Hasegawa Ken, the Ultimate Quiz Show Champion, to be executed. This conclusion was correct. As a result, Hasegawa Ken will be punished with death.
Yanagi: G-God-...!
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi cries] Ultimate Quiz Show Champion... that's not so bad, actually. Not our exact wording, but we got pretty close.
Yanagi: SHUT UP!
Ojima: Shigeki!
Hasegawa: Gh-!
Hiroaki: Don't.
Yanagi: WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO HER?! HOW CAN YOU STAND HERE LOOKING LIKE YOU DON'T GIVE A SHIT AFTER WHAT YOU PUT HER THROUGH?! AFTER WHAT YOU PUT ALL OF US THROUGH?!
Hasegawa: [strained] L-Let-... Let go...
Yanagi: YOU'RE COMPLETELY FUCKED IN THE HEAD!
Ojima: Sh-Shigeki, let go of him.
Yanagi: What... Wh-What the hell is... wrong with you...
[Yanagi cries]
Hasegawa: ... I guess I owe you that.
Yanagi: P-Please... I need to know why... please...
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi cries] ... When Isono died, this... this was all still really new, a-and I felt like it was my fault. She asked me to protect her, and-and she was dead by the end of the week. Doesn't really seem like I did a great job.
Hiroaki: What does Isono have to do with-
Hasegawa: That was my first sign... that I was a worthless person.
[A beat]
A-And then... when Kamimura died...
[Hasegawa chuckles]
Tamba: K-Ken...?
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi cries] Well, I mean, th-that's about as pathetic as it gets, right? I was the only person in this entire building who only had one friend, a-and I couldn't even keep that one friend safe. For a month. For one... month. And-A-And well, I mean, I felt like that one was my fault too. Wouldn't you? If it had been someone you loved, wouldn't you feel like that?
B-But then I realised... it wasn't my fault. I mean- not all my fault, at least. It was still my fault, yeah, but... it was everyone else's fault too.
Yanagi: H-How... How the hell was it our fault that Kamimura died?! How the hell was it your fault that Kamimura died?! It was Okazaki's fault that Kamimura died, no one else had anything to fucking do with it!
Monomoko: [as Yanagi cries] Enough. It's time to proceed.
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi cries] Because you're all terrible people. Awful, a-awful people. Everyone in this building. You're completely selfish. The only thing you care about is keeping yourselves alive. As long as you walk out of here alive, it doesn't matter, right?
Hiroaki: [as Yanagi cries] Well what do you want us to do? Die?
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi cries] All of you deserve to die. Every single one of you. Th-That's all I wanted to get out of this. I don't care whether I live or not. There's no point anymore.
Ojima: [as Yanagi cries] I... what? But- I mean- don't you have a family at home? Don't you have a life? Wh-What the hell are you talking about?
Hasegawa: [as Yanagi cries] It doesn't matter anymore. None of it does. You're completely naive if you think you can just go back to your life after this.
... You know, a lot of people don't understand what real horror is.
Hiroaki: What...?
Hasegawa: Knowing. That's what real horror is. U-Understanding, just for a second, and then having that understanding ripped away. Having... everything, for just a second. F-For just a second, I-...
... I-I really did have everything, didn't I?
Yanagi: Y-You're.. unforgivable...
Hasegawa: That's fine. I-I don't need you to forgive me. If Kamimura can forgive me, that's enough.
Yanagi: C-Completely unforgivable...
Hasegawa: I-I just need this to end.
Yanagi: F-Fuck you.
Monomoko: Enough. I've made myself incredibly clear multiple times now. It's time to bring the trial to a close.
Hasegawa: I hope they enjoyed the show.
Hiroaki: What?
Tamba: I- Wh-Who are you talking to?! Who were those names?!
Monomoko: Without further ado.
Hasegawa: You're the most fucked up part about this entire thing. All of you. Go die.
Hasegawa: Um-M-Masanari passed out in the elevator, we need help.
Monomoko: Being unconscious during the trial is not against any school rules. Please take your places at your podiums.
Tamba: But-
Monomoko: It's time for the trial to begin.
Tamba: ... H-Here, I'll keep an eye on him at my podium.
Hasegawa: R-Right...
Hiroaki: There. Can we start now?
Tamba: I guess so.
Hiroaki: Then here's my first question- why the hell are you alive?
Tamba: Wh- Huh?!
Ojima: Nakamigawa.
Hiroaki: You were supposed to die, right? But you didn't. Hayashi did. So why the hell are you still here? You should be dead.
Tamba: D-Do not blame her death on me.
Ojima: Nakamigawa, seriously, we're two seconds in, don't start.
Hiroaki: Seriously? I'm just saying that if Tamba had died instead, Hayashi would still be here, and we actually like Hayashi! So I think it would have been a pretty damn good trade-off! Instead, we lost Hayashi, and we got stuck with- what, Tamba?! You seriously think Tamba of all people deserves to get out of here more than Mai?!
Ojima: Enough! God! That doesn't mean it's Ruiko's fault!
Hasegawa: You... seem a bit worked up, did something happen during the investigation?
Hiroaki: Oh shut up. Stop acting like you're so fucking smart, psychoanalyzing me or some shit. You're not.
Tamba: Kh- You're such a prick! We've barely even started the trial, what are you even mad about?!
Hiroaki: I'm mad because you're here and Mai's gone.
Hasegawa: H-Hold on, let's not start fighting.
Tamba: We're all upset that she's gone! But we're supposed to be a team!
Hiroaki: Were we a team when you all threw your punishments on her?
Tamba: Were we a team when you pushed me down the stairs?!
Hasegawa: H-Hold on a minute.
Hiroaki: Oh, here we fucking go! Did you forget that you pushed me first?! Did you forget that you told me l should-
Yanagi: For FUCK'S SAKE! ENOUGH! Can we focus?! We barely have any evidence, we're already fighting, we're down a student and-and Mai is dead! Are you all forgetting that?! CAN YOU SHUT UP AND FOCUS?!
[A beat]
Wada: Ngh...
Tamba: Ah- W-Wada, hey, are you awake?
Wada; I-I'm... really not feeling well...
Tamba: Here, easy, easy.
Hasegawa: Um- Wh-What do we do?
Monomoko: The trial will proceed as normal.
Hasegawa: I-... r-right...
Yanagi: Then let's get started. What are we talking about first?
Hiroaki: You're surprisingly gung-ho considering the circumstances
Yanagi: Because I don't want to waste any time. Let's just get this over with.
Wada: I-I... T-Tamba, um- can you talk about the body...?
Tamba: Oh, uh- Yeah! Of course! We-
Hasegawa: H-Hold on, a-actually, um- before we get to the body, can you guys start from the very beginning? Yanagi and I still don't really have a full picture of what happened.
Tamba: The beginning? Like where?
Hasegawa: Going from just before the body discovery would be fine, I-I guess.
Ojima: I can explain that. I was there when we found it.
Yanagi: Perfect. Explain.
Ojima: Right, um- It was pretty early in the morning. Masanari and I were looking for you two, and for Mai, since you'd all kind of gone missing. We went down to the basement, and Masanari noticed that the pool doors were open, which didn't make sense, because the morning announcement hadn't gone off yet.
Hasegawa: So they should have been locked.
Ojima: Right, exactly. We figured we'd see what was going on, so... um... we went in.
Wada: ... M-Mai was in the pool.
Ojima: I... right. She was floating in the pool, face-down. We started freaking out a bit, a-and we were gonna look for something to pull her out with, but um-... Masanari fainted, so,..
A-After that, Nakamigawa and Ruiko showed up. Nakamigawa took Masanari off my hands, and I was gonna grab something to pull Mai out with, but um- Ruiko jumped in the water.
Hasegawa: W-With your broken leg?!
Tamba: I-I wasn't really thinking.
Ojima: I helped her pull Mai out. We started investigating after that.
Hasegawa: Right, okay... and just to be a hundred percent certain, she was face-down?
Tamba: Right.
Hasegawa: R-Right...
Hiroaki: So what were you guys doing all morning then? Just trapped in the medbay?
Hasegawa: Right, th-the door wouldn't open.
Yanagi: I woke up to the body discovery announcement and started trying to get the door open, but nobody could hear us.
Hasegawa: S-Since you were probably off investigating.
Yanagi: Nobody found us until later on in the day, so we couldn't do much.
Hasegawa: W-We couldn't even do anything in the medbay. It was pitch black.
Ojima: Right, there was no power...
Yanagi: Christ, th-the smell of that place...
Hasegawa: We were completely locked in from last night to this morning, w-we don't even know what you guys found.
Hiroaki: Then we should start talking about our investigation finds, no?
Yanagi: That seems like as good a starting place as any.
Hiroaki: Then we'll go first.
Ojima: Right.
Hiroaki: I figured that any killer with half a brain cell would have wanted to check out the arsenal, at the very least. I mean, there were guns and shit in there, right? If I was going to kill someone, I'd at least do some window-shopping in there. So we went upstairs to see if we could find anything.
Ojima: But when we got there, the arsenal was completely empty.
Hiroaki: Completely empty. Someone had literally cleared out the entire place. There wasn't anything left.
Hasegawa: B-But how is that even possible?
Hiroaki: No idea, but just to be sure, I have to ask- did anyone find any of the arsenal supplies during their investigation? Anything like guns? Swords? Bullets? Poison? Any of that shit?
[sighs] Great, so that means they're in a room we didn't check.
Yanagi: Where did you check?
Hiroaki: We checked all the first floor labs, since they all would've been big enough. They've gotta be in some stupid room like the main office or something, somewhere we wouldn't think to check, somewhere we'd never get around to. There's no inconspicuous way to hide that many weapons.
Hasegawa: I... d-do you really think they would just dump them in some random room like that though? That their entire plan would hinge on us just not checking there? D-Doesn't that seem a little risky?
Wada: W-Well... what if... that's what the door bombs were for? To keep us from investigating random rooms? I-If some of the rooms had bombs in them... we'd have to be a lot more careful about which rooms we checked, r-right? A-And... I mean... we kind of were.
Hiroaki: The bombs were definitely there to keep us from investigating. if nothing else, but... hm. That's not a bad theory. Wonder if that might be it.
Tamba: Wait, what? How can you be sure that's what the bombs were for?
Hasegawa: I-It makes sense, actually. It's against the rules to kill more than two people, right? So if the bombs had been meant to kill us, th-the killer would be putting themselves at serious risk. What if two more people died? They'd automatically lose.
Tamba: So then... they were just to scare us?
Hasegawa: Probably. That's likely why they were non-fatal.
Hiroaki: Exactly.
Tamba: B-But we still got hurt! Wada cut his forehead!
Hiroaki: But he didn't die.
Wada: Th-That... might have just been a fluke. I don't think they were really meant to kill us either.
Hasegawa: But- I-I mean- were the bombs from the arsenal?
Hiroaki: That's what I was wondering too, so l went to go check the library bomb from the other day. Matched up just fine.
Tamba: So they were from the arsenal then.
Hiroaki: Looks like it.
Hasegawa: Wh-Which means that the killer definitely accessed the arsenal.
Hiroaki: Right. So we can probably rule out the idea that Monomoko cleared the arsenal out or something. The killer was definitely using the supplies, so I think it's safe to say they're the one who cleared everything out.
Tamba: Then... a-anyone who went to the arsenal last night is suspicious, right.
Tamba: D-During the investigation! Wada was showing me the security camera footage and the cameras caught him going into the arsenal in the middle of the night!
Hiroaki: Security camera footage?!
Hasegawa: Wait, yeah, wh-what?!
Yanagi: You two have security camera footage?!
Wada: I-I... got it as my reward for Defence Game, I-I-
Hiroaki: And you didn't think to mention that?!
Hasegawa: Probably because it caught him going into the arsenal.
Wada: I-it's not that! was going to bring it up, o-of course I-I- was going to bring it up, just- I-I didn't do anything in the arsenal! Tamba saw the footage, she knows I wasn't carrying anything when I left!
Ojima: I... don't really think Masanari could carry all that stuff out of the arsenal, even if he wanted to. He's a bit tiny.
Hasegawa: I-It's a lot of stuff. If wasn't carrying anything when he left, that's... probably a good sign for him.
Wada: A-And I wasn't! I really wasn't! Tamba, please tell them I wasn't.
Tamba: Well... yeah, that part's definitely true. He wasn't carrying anything when he left. B-But it's definitely still suspicious, right? I mean, we didn't see anyone else go into the arsenal. He was the only one.
Wada: Tamba! Why are you throwing me under the bus?!
Tamba: I-I'm just telling them what I saw!
Ojima: Well- Hold on- is it possible that the killer cleared out the arsenal before last night? I mean, did you guys check that far back on the footage?
Wada: N-No, we... only went as far as last night.
Tamba: And nobody else went into the arsenal.
Wada: B-But there's no way someone cleared it out before last night, because i-it was still full when I went in.
Hasegawa: Um- if you don't mind me asking, what were you doing in the arsenal in the first place?
Wada: I-I... um... I-I... just wanted to make sure everything was still there. That... stuff is really dangerous... so... y-yeah.
Ojima: But there's no way that's possible then. I mean, the stuff couldn't have just disappeared. If Masanari's the only one who went in, then where did everything go?
Hasegawa: W-Well, I-I mean... did you see that it was gone?
Ojima: What?
Hasegawa: With your own eyes, I mean. Did you see that it was gone, or did Hiroaki just tell you it was gone?
Hiroaki: I- Excuse me?
Ojima: No no, I definitely saw it. I went inside.
Hiroaki: Do you seriously think I'd try to trick him like that?! He was here for the entire investigation, he didn't even zone out once! Of course he saw it!
Ojima: R-Right.
Hiroaki: It was completely empty, top to bottom. There was nothing left.
Wada: Then... what...?
Ojima: What's up?
Wada; I-I just- I don't understand what's wrong with the cameras.
Hiroaki: Can we talk about those cameras a bit more, actually? You got them as your reward?
Wada: R-Right, for... Defense Game. I got access to the school security cameras.
Ojima: I didn't even know we had school security cameras.
Wada: B-But-B-But they're not working. I thought they'd be worth the trade-off, b-because they'd show us something important, but- b-but- but there's so much missing. Why didn't we catch someone else going into the arsenal? Why didn't we catch Hayashi dying?
Hiroaki: Did you get any footage from the pool?
Wada: N-No, because the pool cam was completely unreachable, a-and I don't know why. We didn't even catch her going down to the pool. W-We're missing a ton of footage.
Hiroaki: Okay, okay, just- what did you catch? Where was the last place you picked up Mai?
Wada: I... w-we... we saw her heading upstairs. Towards the resource room.
Hiroaki: What...?
Wada: B-B-But we never saw her come back down. I don't understand how she got to the pool.
Tamba: Yeah, she definitely would have had to pass in front of the cameras again, that hallway is a dead end.
Hiroaki: And you never picked her up again? Anywhere else in the school? At all?
Hasegawa: I- W-Wait, hold on, I'm more concerned with why the pool camera was unreachable. It was completely shut off?
Yanagi: C-Can we please focus on one thing at a time? This debate is all over the place. We need to organise this. Hasegawa and I still don't even know what happened during the investigation.
Hiroaki: Then let's get back on topic. We'll come back to the arsenal after.
Yanagi: R-Right... where did you two investigate next?
Hiroaki: After we checked the arsenal, we wanted to see if we could find the missing supplies, so we went to go check all the rooms that were big enough to hold them, starting with the first floor labs. Thing is, when we tried to check the engineering lab, the door exploded.
Hasegawa: R-Right, th-the door bombs... c-could you guys elaborate on those a bit?
Tamba: A bunch of the rooms were rigged with door bombs. I dunno if it was random or if those rooms were important or what, but yeah. When we'd open the door, they'd explode.
Hiroaki: Anyway, we didn't find anything in the labs. Not the arsenal supplies, at least.
Ojima: We checked the woodshop for anything they could have used as a weapon, but... there wasn't really anything that matched up with the wound.
Hasegawa: What did the wound look like? I- haven't really heard much about it.
Yanagi: Let's finish the investigation recap first. Please.
Hasegawa: Um- R-Right, but- it's all important, isn't it..?
Hiroaki: Honestly, our investigation kind of ends there. W-We checked out the pool balcony and the student cafe like Ken told us to, but we didn't find anything. We actually didn't find much in the way of evidence at all. Anywhere.
Yanagi: Then we need to hear from Tamba and Masanari.
Wada: R-Right, um... where do we start?
Tamba: With the body, I guess.
Wada: R-Right, well- I-I mean- first off, she was in the pool, face-down. You know that already, but um- she had a pretty big wound on her stomach.
Hasegawa: Vertical or horizontal?
Wada: Um... which one goes up and down?
Hiroaki: Vertical.
Wada: Then, y-yeah, vertical. I-it was thin, I-like a knife, b-but um- it was too big to be a knife.
Tamba: It was really deep too. It went all the way through her.
Hasegawa: R-Right, was there anything else?
Wada: There was some blood soaked into the back of her clothes. She was mostly clean, since she had been in the pool, but um- her back was still exposed, so I guess it just didn't get the chance to wash out.
Tamba: We checked her mouth to see if there was any blood, since that's what she and Kamimura always did, but... nothing. She did have some pretty nasty cuts on her hands though.
Wada: Oh yeah, definitely. They were pretty deep. A-All the blood had washed out of them, so um... we... got a pretty graphic look at them, yeah.
Hasegawa: [as Hiroaki gags] And were those ones vertical too?
Wada: N-No, those ones were horizontal. They went all the way across her palms. Like um-... You know where the two big lines are? A-At the top of your hands, just under your fingers? Right there.
Hasegawa: Right...
Hiroaki: Did she fight back then? Those seem like the kinds of cuts you'd get from like- y-you know, grabbing a blade. Maybe she put up a fight.
Wada: Well, I-I mean- the confusing part is that we didn't find any evidence in the pool room at all. No blood, no weapon, nothing. I-If she died there, shouldn't there be something?
Hasegawa: W-Well- do we know she died there? I-I mean, who's to say she didn't die somewhere else?
Ojima: If there's no evidence at all, isn't that even more reason to think she didn't die there?
Wada: I mean-... [sighs] I- I- Maybe, but I mean-... she had to have died there, right? There's no way anyone could have lifted her. She's way bigger than us. Nobody here could've carried her.
Ojima: Nobody at all? What about like, Shigeki or Ruiko or something? They're athletes.
Hiroaki: Tamba needed your help to pull Mai out of the pool though. Plus, Shigeki's only got one working hand.
Tamba: B-Besides, we're not weightlifters or anything! We're both pretty lithe.
Yanagi: I-Indeed...
Wada: That's... yeah, um... that makes sense...
Tamba: You feeling okay?
Wada: Y-Yeah, yeah, um-... sorry, sorry.
Tamba: Are you gonna pass out again?
Wada: I'm just- feeling kind of light-headed, I um... I- might just sit for a bit...
Hasegawa: Y-You're really not looking well today. Did something happen? Are you hurt?
Wada: N-No, um- no, I-I'm just... tired.
Tamba: Here, steady.
Ojima: You can probably just sit on the floor for a bit, I doubt that's against the rules.
Wada: Right...
[A beat]
Wh-Why are you staring at me?
Hiroaki: When was the last time you ate?
[A beat]
Wada: I... um...
Hiroaki: Yeah? Go on.
[A beat]
Wada: M-Maybe around... when... Watari died?
Ojima: What?!
Hasegawa: A-A week ago?!
Tamba: Wada!
Yanagi: Masanari...
Wada: I-I-I'm sorry, I just- I wasn't hungry, so-
Hiroaki: There's no way you weren't hungry.
Tamba: Can we go grab him something? Is that allowed?
Monomoko: I'm afraid that leaving the trial grounds during a trial is strictly prohibited. I'll have to ask you to remain at your podiums.
Yanagi: I- wh-why haven't you been eating?
Hiroaki: Seriously, a whole week? That's way too long.
Hasegawa: I-It's definitely not good for you...
Wada: I-I didn't have anything! Someone took the food from my room!
Hiroaki: From your room?
Tamba: He had a snack stash under his bed, remember?
Hiroaki: Honestly I completely forgot.
Wada: It's been missing, I- M-Mai was gonna help me find it, I had nothing to eat, I-I couldn't-
Hiroaki: Oh nonononononono, that's not an excuse. You had a whole kitchen. Plus the storage room. You could have eaten. Your bed hoard isn't the end-all-be-all of food.
Hasegawa: Well- I mean- where did it go though? Who took it?
Wada: I-I have... no idea...
Hasegawa: Did anyone find any signs of it during the investigation?
Hiroaki: It's probably in someone's dorm room.
Ojima: Yeah, um- we... didn't actually check anyone's dorms this time around, now that I think about it.
Hiroaki: That's because checking the dorms is a giant waste of time. It's never helped us and it takes like, the entire investigation. All we ever find in the dorms are a bunch of red herrings.
Hasegawa: I-... That's... not entirely true, since we found Okazaki's printed room key in the dorms... a-and Okazaki's saw... and Okazaki's knife...
Hiroaki: Well yeah, but most of the time they're completely useless.
Hasegawa: E-Except they're not completely useless, I- why did you guys not check the dorm rooms?
Tamba: I'm actually with him on this one, there's no way we would have had time to check all the dorms.
Hiroaki: And whose fault is that?
Ojima: Don't start.
Hasegawa: O-Okay, but like- one dorm? Hayashi's dorm? Or like, even just the dorms of every student that's still alive?
Wada: B-But we weren't allowed in our dorm rooms anyway, right? So... there wouldn't be anything there either way.
Hasegawa: The rabbit said we weren't allowed in our dorm rooms until the next killing. After they killed Hayashi, they could use the dorm rooms as much as they wanted.
Tamba: Listen, we did the best we could! At least the rest of us actually investigated! You've got a lot of nerve to judge our investigation when you didn't find any evidence at all!
Hasegawa: I-I was locked in the medbay though!
Hiroaki: I mean, we'd've had more time if someone didn't get our investigation cut in half.
Tamba: You cannot seriously be harping on this right now.
Hiroaki: Harping?! You call that harping?! Oh, I'll show you harping!
Tamba: Yeah?! Go on! Show me harping!
Hiroaki: You made an executive decision on the group's behalf to fuck us all over for your own benefit! You sentenced us all to death- including yourself- just for some bullshit reward that we still don't even know about, and it turns out, you didn't even need it! Because Hayashi died anyway!
Tamba: Just shut up! God!
Hiroaki: Oh, yeah, great comeback Tamba, real smart!
Tamba: You would have done the exact same thing in my position! I know you would! Everyone knows you would! Because you're selfish!
Hiroaki: So then you admit that it was selfish of you!
Tamba: No! It wasn't! I did it because-b-because I was scared! Because somebody told me they were gonna kill me!
Hiroaki: Oh, so that's unthinkable, but when you tell me that I should kill myself, that's totally fine!
Tamba: You know what?! Yeah! It is! Because the fact that you even tried to kill yourself and yet you're still here is just- do you know how fucked up that is?!
Ojima: We're not talking about this.
Tamba: You know who wanted to escape?! You know who wanted to go home? Isono! Sasaki! Chiba! Harada! Kamimura! Tsuno! Oka-
Hiroaki: Oh don't even go there, shut the hell up.
Tamba: If you, the guy who didn't even wanna be here anymore, had just killed yourself when you wanted to kill yourself, we could have gotten a free fucking round at the very least!
Hiroaki: What the fuck is wrong with your head?! There's no way you'd be saying that shit if it had been Kamimura trying to-
Ojima: Enough! Both of you!
Tamba: I needed my reward to be safe, I needed my reward because I wanna live! Sorry that you can't grasp that!
Hiroaki: You didn't even need it! You weren't in danger either way! Clearly! Since Hayashi's the one who ended up dead!
Tamba: Yeah, because I wasn't around!
Hiroaki: Then you admit that it's your fault!
Tamba: I- wh- th-that's not what I-l
Hiroaki: Where even were you last night?!
Tamba: Where were you last night?!
Hiroaki: On the balcony! With Takeshi! Who can back up my testimony and prove I was there! Your turn!
Tamba: I- um-w-well I mean- what about Wada?! Why are we all so quick to move on from him going to the arsenal in the middle of the night?!
Ojima: It's suspicious, but it's not what we're talking about right now. Where were you?
Hasegawa: Tamba, um-... I-I have a question, if you don't mind. What was your reward?
[A beat]
Tamba: Um... I-l mean... does it matter, since the game's nearly over anyway?
Hasegawa: It does.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: God, enough of this, just answer the damn question already! You're wasting our fucking time!
Ojima: N-Nakamigawa!
Yanagi: Tamba- Nakamigawa, stay over there.
Hiroaki: I- Eh- Seriously? I wasn't going to hit her or anything, God.
Yanagi: Then stay over there. You've caused her enough damage.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: Oh, this is rich, this is so fucking rich- where was this whole protective knight shtick when she pushed me down the stairs?! Huh?! Oh I think you're forgetting that all I did was fight back!
Yanagi: That's not fighting back! She never actually pushed you down the stairs!
Hiroaki: Because I caught myself! I did the exact same thing to her that she did to me! The only difference is that she actually fell!
Yanagi: That's a massive difference!
Hasegawa: G-God...
Hiroaki: You're such a shallow moron. It's genuinely unbearable.
Yanagi: Excuse me?!
Hiroaki: Yeah! Mad? I'm right! When it's Tamba getting hurt, despite the fact that she's been a miserable fucking monster all goddamn week, you're practically on your knees trying to defend her! Oh, but when I'm the one she's been fucking with for like seven days straight, you couldn't care less! Because- B-Because what, because I'm not a girl?! Because I'm Hiroaki?! What's your take?! Because I genuinely can't fucking tell!
Hasegawa: H-Hey! Excuse me!
... C-Can we please get back to the trial...? There are a few things I still wanna clear up before we go any further...
Hiroaki: ... Fine. Go ahead.
Hasegawa: R-Right, um... Tamba and Wada, why did you two never come back to open the medbay door? W-We were waiting for you.
Tamba: Right, w-well um- We went up to the art room to look for the alcohol, like you said. We set off a door bomb while we were up there, but we went in anyway, and um- yeah. Nothing. We couldn't find a single thing in Ojima's bag. So we figured that if we couldn't find anything there, we would go down to the kitchen and grab a big knife to pop the door open with, but-but then we remembered we still had to check the security footage a-and we were running out of time, so we booked it upstairs. W-We kind of had to cut you loose. Sorry.
Hiroaki: I'm still confused on why the medbay door wouldn't open in the first place.
Ojima: I mean, it probably just got stuck, right?
Hasegawa: Th-There's no way it was just stuck. We tried everything to get it open. We were pounding on that door for hours. We did everything short of breaking it down. It was definitely sealed.
Ojima: Sealed?
Hasegawa: Yeah, with wood glue or superglue or something like that.
Yanagi: But why would someone superglue the door?
Tamba: To lock you in, probably.
Hasegawa: H-Honestly, yeah. That's the only option I can think of. Someone did it to trap us inside.
Yanagi: So you think it was on purpose then.
Hasegawa: I-I do. I'm not sure if it was to lock us specifically inside, b-but it was definitely intentional, if nothing else. Maybe we just got hit at random.
Yanagi: But how would anyone even know we'd be in the medbay? It's not like Tamba's injury was a scheduled event. Not to mention the fairly uninviting state of the place. How could they have expected us to go there?
Hiroaki: Well that's a pretty easy question. Who sent you to the medbay?
Yanagi: I-... M-Mai...?
Hiroaki: Ding ding. There you go. That's who could have predicted you'd end up in the medbay.
Yanagi: Wh-What are you implying?!
Wada: But- that still doesn't make sense, right? We couldn't have known that Tamba was going to break her leg.
Tamba: Are you seriously trying to say that Hayashi was the one who glued the doors?! You're throwing her under the bus at her own murder trial?!
Hiroaki: Does anything else make sense? She sent them to the medbay, If the person who sent them to the medbay is the same person who glued the doors, then she glued the doors.
Ojima: But- I mean- We don't know that whoever sent them to the medbay also glued the doors. That's just a guess.
Hiroaki: God, this better not be another fucked up convoluted suicide. If she's pulling a Watari, I'll be mad.
Yanagi: She's not! You're being completely ridiculous right now! I can't even begin to grasp what you're suggesting! Mai didn't kill herself! It had to have been someone else who sealed the doors!
Hiroaki: Actually, the more I think about it, the less outrageous it gets. She sent you to the medbay, yeah? So she definitely knew that's where you went. But when you never came back, she never came to look for you. Weird.
Yanagi: B-Because she was occupied with Tamba!
Ojima: What would Mai even gain from locking them in the medbay though? That doesn't really benefit her, does it?
Hiroaki: Unless Mai was cooking up a little murder plan of her own.
[A beat]
Yanagi: Sh-Shut up!
Hiroaki: Here we go again.
Yanagi: What are you even talking about?! Mai wouldn't kill anyone! She would never do that!
Hiroaki: Again, not a defence, just a character witness testimony.
Yanagi: You've met her! Do you seriously think she would do something like that?!
Hiroaki: I've met her, I don't know her. And frankly, if you guys treated me how you treated her during Loyalty Game, I'd be pretty eager to kill you too.
Yanagi: Well Mai's not like you! She wouldn't hurt any of us!
Hiroaki: Didn't she slap Wada across the face in our first week here?
Yanagi: I-I-
Hiroaki: And she practically threw Okazaki after she found out what she did to Wada.
Yanagi: You-!
Hiroaki: Not that any of that's relevant, but I'm just saying. She would hurt us, so that defence... doesn't really make any sense.
Yanagi: She didn't do anything! We're wasting time on this, i-it's pointless! Let's just move on already!
Hiroaki: I'd rather not be executed, so regardless of whether or not you buy it, I feel like we should discuss it at the very least. Once it's discussed, we can rule it out and move on. Then she'll be completely vindicated.
Yanagi: B-But we don't have to discuss it! We don't have to vindicate her! We already know that she's innocent!
Hiroaki: God, how many times do we need to rehash this?! That's how a trial works! We need to rule out every conceivable possibility! You think we ever would have gotten past Watari's trial if we didn't think outside the box?! You think we'd have gotten past Chiba's?! Beyond a reasonable doubt! That's the tagline! We need to exhaust every avenue!
Yanagi: Who would she even have killed?! Who was her target?! How would us being locked in the medbay contribute to that in any way?!
Hasegawa: I- mean, I-l definitely agree that it's worth discussing, but I...I have to admit, I-I'm kind of lost too. If it was her murder plan, how did she end up dead? I-I don't think there's anyone in the school that could actually overpower her in a fight.
Hiroaki: Okay, see? Totally valid question! Totally valid concern! This is why we're discussing it! So we can pursue the idea and rule it out!
Wada: Then... I-I guess... we should figure out where Mai went last night. After Tamba got hurt. I mean, where'd she go next?
Hiroaki: Well, skater boy? Where'd she go?
Yanagi: I-I- U-Um...
Hiroaki: Well?
Yanagi: I-I mean, I didn't actually see her again after that. The last time I really spoke to her was-... i-in the student cafe. After that, we ran to go help Tamba, and then... I didn't see her again.
Ojima: The student cafe? What was she doing in there?
Yanagi: I-It's... kind of hard to explain.
Wada: Was it about the notes?
Hiroaki: The ones she interrogated us over?
Yanagi: Th-That...would be the case, yes. She was following them.
Hiroaki: Still?!
Hasegawa: Could you explain the notes a bit? I-I haven't really been following that... um... saga.
Yanagi: She had been receiving notes for a few days now, telling her to go to various rooms or do various things that would help us escape. It was the notes that led her to activating that explosive in the library, it was the notes that had her setting off all those bucket traps above the doors, it was the notes that brought her up to the student cafe, but-... I don't actually know where the next one told her to go.
Tamba: What?! But that's important! I bet she was following a note when she got killed! You don't have any idea?!
Yanagi: Genuinely, I-I don't. Typically she'd tell me, but- we didn't really get the chance to discuss it.
Wada: Then... maybe she was sent up to the fourth floor west wing? That's where the cameras caught her last. I-It would make sense if that was the last place she went.
Hasegawa: Well- I mean, what did the note actually say?
[A beat]
We-... We don't have it? We can't just check?
Tamba: Um...
[A beat]
Hasegawa: Did you guys at least look for it? I- You looked for it, right?
You checked her pockets?
[A beat]
That's- [sighs] I-... That seems like it was probably an extremely crucial clue, so-... so I think it probably should have been kind of pertinent to check her pockets.
Tamba: W-We're not actual detectives!
Hiroaki: No, but if he could think of it, we could have thought of it too.
Ojima: That... might be optimistic.
Hasegawa: I-It's fine, just-... let's move on.
Wada: Note or no note, I-I'm pretty sure she went upstairs. That's the last place we caught her on camera, heading up towards the resource centre.
Hasegawa: But if the last place she went to was the resource centre, h-how did her body end up in the pool?
Wada: I mean... that part, I'm not too sure about.
Ojima: Well she can teleport, right?
Hiroaki: The rabbit teleported her. Mai can't actually teleport.
Hasegawa: I think we can rule that possibility out regardless.
Tamba: I mean, can we? We know that Mai had a pension for destroying the school. Is it totally out of the question to think that she thought she'd found an escape route, started trying to bust her way out, and got teleported by the rabbit again?
Hiroaki: Monomoko teleported her out of the school last time. Why would she just teleport her to the pool this time?
Hasegawa: I-It does raise the question though- what happens if Monomoko kills a student? How do we vote?
Monomoko: In the event that I take the life of a student, a trial will not be held. I can assure you of that.
Hasegawa: O-Okay, then... we just need to figure out how Mai could have gone from the resource centre to the pool undetected.
Wada: Well, we never actually saw her go into the resource centre, just towards it.
Tamba: Then is it possible that she actually didn't go to the resource centre? Maybe she walked straight past it!
Ojima: What other rooms are over there though?
Hiroaki: The supply closet, the home ec room, and the sewing room. Or, I mean, what's left of it, anyway.
Hasegawa: And did you guys check any of those rooms?
Wada: I-I mean... we tried to check the resource centre, but... the floor was practically gone. It's really falling apart up there. It wouldn't have been safe.
Tamba: We didn't think to check the other three though. Either way, the sewing room's entire floor is missing, so it's not like we could have done much investigating.
Yanagi: You made the right call. It's not safe up there.
Hiroaki: Psh, you'd certainly know.
Yanagi: Which cameras did you two actually check? Why weren't you able to check the resource centre cameras?
Wada: They were too damaged from the fire. A lot of the cameras on the third and fourth floor were like that. Completely out of commission.
Tamba: Can confirm.
Wada: We... We were running really low on time, so um... we only really got the chance to check out the rooms we needed to check out. Plus anywhere we spotted Hayashi, which was... pretty much just the west wing.
Yanagi: Then is it possible she went to the home-ec room instead?
Hiroaki: The hell would she do that for?
Tamba: Well, I mean, what would she go to the resource room for?
Hasegawa: N-Nono, hold on, that makes sense. The home-ec room connects to the sewing room, right? A-And like Tamba said, the sewing room floor is completely gone. If Mai had gone to the sewing room, sh-she would have been able to drop down to the computer lab on the third floor without getting spotted at all. If the cameras in the fire zone really were damaged, she wouldn't have been picked up.
Wada: But... why would she want to do that?
Hasegawa: I'm honestly not really... sure? The only thing I can think of is that she didn't want to be spotted.
Tamba: What? By who? By us? By the cameras?
Hasegawa: I-I-I mean, i-if it were about the cameras, she'd have to have known about the cameras in the first place.
Wada: B-But I never told anyone about the cameras. Tamba was the only person I told, and... that was after Mai had already died.
Tamba: W-Well, I mean... the pool camera was broken, right? Somebody broke it? So someone would have had to have known about the cameras. If the pool camera's broken, then... is that proof Mai knew about it?
Yanagi: I-If you're implying that Mai knew about the pool camera and destroyed it herself, I feel the need to point out that that doesn't make any sense.
Tamba: Doesn't it though? If she knew about the camera, she could break it.
Yanagi: Why would she break the camera at the scene of her own death?!
Hiroaki: I mean, either way, she couldn't have, right? I mean how would she have even known about the cameras? Wada didn't tell anyone.
Ojima: Unless, he's lying.
Wada: I-I... huh?
Yanagi: M-Masanari...
Wada: I-I'm not! I-I mean- I-I didn't! Wh-What?! I- wh- I didn't tell her anything!
Hiroaki: Can you prove it though? Because I can't think of any other way she'd know about the cameras. Nobody else could have told her, right? You were the only person who knew?
Ojima: Couldn't she have just spotted them on her own?
Hiroaki: We've been here for over a month. Have you spotted any cameras?
Ojima: I mean, good point, I guess...
Hasegawa: I-I mean, at the very least, Mai knew something we didn't. I can't think of any other reason why she'd be so willing to follow those notes around. She was always so careful and cautious and- well, I mean, i-in the early days of being here, at least. But- still, I-I don't see why she would have followed those notes without a good reason.
Wada: I- Wait- So- Do you guys think I killed her?!
Hiroaki: I mean, I don't think you didn't kill her.
Wada: What?!
Hiroaki: Why were you in the arsenal last night? Easy question.
Wada: I already told you!
Hiroaki: Okay, let me make it even easier. Why were you actually in the arsenal last night?
Wada: I already told you though!
Hasegawa: H-Hey, easy, let's just- Wada, can you give us a full testimony? Just to clear up the timeline?
Wada: I... a full testimony...? Where should I testify from?
Hasegawa: From when Tamba fell to the body discovery.
Wada: Um-... right, I... A-After Hasegawa and Shigeki ran down to the medbay, I-... went off with Ojima to find Nakamigawa. B-But-B-But Ojima wanted to talk to him alone, so... he went to go find him by himself, so... so I went back to the stairs. Where Mai and Tamba were.
Tamba: Right
Wada: I... sat there with them for a bit, but... then Mai said she had to check on something, and told us to wait there. So um- so l waited there. But- she never came back.
Tamba: And we definitely waited for a while.
Wada: Y-Yeah. Nobody was coming back though. Not Mai, not Ojima and Nakamigawa, not Hasegawa and Shigeki, a-and I-I mean- Tamba's leg was really hurting, so- I went to see if I could find anything to splint it with, just to make sure it stayed like... steady or whatever.
Ojima: Sorry for not coming back, by the way. W-We um- We figured that between the five of you, you probably had it handled.
Wada; I-It's fine. But um- yeah. I went to the drama room, cuz... I know they've got like, throw pillows and stuff in there. So I got some of those, plus some sweaters from the costume cabinet to tie them up with, plus some rulers from the classrooms. The drama room's actually where we found the crutches, too. Pretty nifty supply.
Tamba: He's no orthopaedic surgeon, but he got the job done.
Wada; Right. Um- I'm- no... whatever-she-said, but- I got the job done. Anyway, after that, Tamba said she wanted to go look for Mai. I offered to come, but- she wanted to be alone, so... yeah. We split up.
Hiroaki: And then?
Wada: Um...
Hiroaki: Well?
[A beat]
Wada, seriously, this is life or death.
Wada: I-I-I just- i-it sounds bad.
Hiroaki: What do you mean it sounds bad?
Wada: I-I-I-l just- I don't want to incriminate myself. I-I didn't do anything, but-... i-it sounds bad.
Hasegawa: W-Wada, whatever you say, or whatever you did, we promise to look at the entire situation objectively. We don't want you to be guilty. We just want to figure out what happened.
Wada: I...
... I went to the arsenal to get a gun.
Tamba: What?!
Ojima: For what?!
Hiroaki: Oh boy.
Yanagi: M-Masanari, why would you need that?
Wada: J-Just a small one! L-Like a little handgun, for self-defence! I-I was alone, and everyone was off separately, and- a-and I was stressed, and- I-I didn't know how else to keep myself safe, cuz- cuz I'm not good at fighting or anything like that, so- I was... never going to use it, I promise, I-I-! It was just to scare people off, if someone tried to attack me, I- [inhales] I don't even know how to load it!
Hasegawa: Wh-What happened next?
Wada: I-I just shoved it in my pocket and went to the AV room. I figured I was the only person who really comes around the AV room anymore, so... i-it would... probably be safe. I hid out in the darkroom until morning. I mean, I fell asleep for a little bit, but... l was up pretty much all night.
Hasegawa: And then?
Wada: Um... when I woke up, I-I couldn't get back to sleep, and I kept thinking about how weird it was that everyone went missing after leaving Tamba, so... I went to go find Ojima. I figured I'd check the balcony, since... he spends a lot of time up there, so... I-I mean... I didn't wanna look for everyone alone, so I woke him up and asked if he'd come look with me.
Ojima: Yep. That definitely happened.
Wada: W-We figured we'd start in the basement and work our way up, so... we went downstairs to start investigating, b-but-but we noticed the pool door was open. The morning announcement hadn't gone off yet, so it should have still been locked. We went inside to check it out, a-and... there was Mai.
Hiroaki: Hrm... I mean, l guess that all checks out. Kind of.
Hasegawa: Well- W-Wait, hold on, does it? Wada, you weren't allowed in the basement, right? That was your dare. You couldn't go back into the basement until the next killing took place.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: Huh!
Wada: W-Wait!
Hiroaki: That's a very interesting point, Hasegawa!
Wada: I-I just forgot! I swear!
Yanagi: I-it has to be a misunderstanding, he wouldn't-
Hiroaki: He wasn't allowed in the basement until the next murder took place. That was the rule. So if he knew he could go into the basement, he knew Mai was dead.
Wada: It's not like that! I-I had no idea! I just forgot I wasn't allowed to go down there!
Tamba: How could you possibly forget that?! It was like, your only dare!
Wada: I-I don't know, I don't know, I-I just- I just forgot, I swear-
Hiroaki: That's really not a defence. Think about it. You know Mai's dead in the pool, so you know you can go downstairs without issue. You bring Takeshi with you so the body discovery announcement will activate. You lead him straight to the pool, because you know she's in there, and then you pretend to be all shocked when you find her.
Wada: But I didn't!
Hiroaki: It's adding up pretty nicely now I think. I mean, you were there when Mai was investigating and explaining Okazaki's door trap, right? No wonder you'd know how to set your own bomb traps on the doors- and don't try to play dumb on that one either, we know you've got engineering skills, we were all there when you took apart the shake light.
Wada: Nakamigawa, seriously, I just forgot! I didn't know she was dead! I swear, I forgot!
Hiroaki: You knew how to set the bombs, you knew you were allowed to go to the basement, you were the only person who went to the arsenal in the middle of the night, you were the only person who knew about the cameras.
Wada: I... I-I-
Hiroaki: So that's why the pool camera ended up broken. Not sure how we didn't realise it sooner. Of course you'd be the one to break it- it's like you said, right? You didn't tell a single other person about the cameras. You-
Wada: I FORGOT!
[Wada begins hyperventilating]
I forgot, I forgot, I promise, I can't, I can't I can't I cant- can't think anymore I can't do this anymore, I'm tired, I'm tired, I-I can't- I'm starving, I'm exhausted, and I-a-and I'm scared, and I can't think anymore, I can't, I-I didn't, I just- I forgot, I promise, I forgot, I just- I p- I promise I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything bad, I just forgot, I just- I wasn't thinking, I wasn't thinking I wasn't thinking I thought I- Fuck, I- I didn't do anything bad,
[Wada hyperventilates]
Hasegawa: W-Wada, you-
Wada: I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! I didn't do anything! I didn't... I-I didn't do anything bad... I-I'm a good kid, I didn't do anything, I just- I didn't hurt anyone, I'm so tired, I'm so hungry, I'm tired, I'm just- [crying] Fuck, please, I didn't do anything... I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I'm a good kid, I didn't mean to hurt anyone, I just forgot, I didn't do anything bad, I didn't do anything bad, I didn't hurt anyone, I just- I'm so sorry, I didn't hurt anyone, I didn't-
[Wada sobs]
I didn't tell Mai about the cameras... I didn't... I don't... know how she found out... I didn't tell her... I didn't mean to go into the basement... I for- I forgot...
Hasegawa: I-I think we should go over everyone else's testimonies.That would give us a better idea of the timeline.
Hiroaki: Um... right, yeah. I'll go first.
Hasegawa: Right.
Hiroaki: After Tamba and I-... argued, I... needed to calm down. So I went upstairs to the balcony to clear my head a bit. I was up there alone for a little while, and then Takeshi showed up and we talked for a bit, I dunno how long. I fell asleep at some point. Didn't wake up until the body discovery, didn't leave once.
Ojima: He's right. As far as I know, at least. I fell asleep a little bit after he did, and I left in the morning before he woke up. At the very least, while I was with him, he didn't go anywhere.
Hasegawa: I- mean- y-you can't really be each other's alibis if you both fell asleep though.
Hiroaki: Well what the hell do you want me to say? That's my alibi. That's where I was. I can't exactly change it.
Hasegawa: I-I know, but I'm just saying, it's not exactly air-tight. Just to clarify though, um- Ojima, could we hear your testimony? For the same timeframe.
Ojima: Right, um... well, I mean, it's like Masanari and Nakamigawa said, mostly. A-After Ruiko fell, Masanari and I left to go find Nakamigawa. We looked around for a little while, but... after a bit of searching, I realised he was probably up on the balcony, and I figured he didn't want to talk to anyone else, so I told Masanari I'd go alone.
Hiroaki: And yet you still came up.
Ojima: Well I-I mean- I don't count though, right?
Hiroaki: Not in your own mind, apparently.
Hasegawa: Can we please get back to your testimony?
Ojima: Ah- R-Right, sorry. I went upstairs to the balcony, and Nakamigawa was there, so we talked for a bit. After a while, he fell asleep, and um... well, honestly, I didn't know everyone else was missing yet, so I just kind of... stayed. I wasn't awake too much longer after he was.
Hasegawa: Right, that lines up.
Ojima: Masanari came and woke me up in the early morning hours and told me he wanted to go look for the others, but he was worried about being alone, so... I went with him. It's like he said, we agreed to start in the basement and work our way up, but... we found Mai pretty quickly, so we stopped there.
Tamba: If we all have to testify, then you have to testify too Hasegawa.
Hasegawa: I- But- I-I literally couldn't have gone anywhere, we were locked in the medbay.
Tamba: Still! You need to have a testimony!
[A beat]
Hasegawa: I... seriously...?
Yanagi: If it'll ease her suspicions, let's just get it over with.
Hasegawa: A-Alright, well um- [sighs] after you hurt your leg, Mai told us to run down to the medbay and grab some supplies, So... we went downstairs. The door to the medbay swings shut automatically unless you prop it open, so um- we ran in, and it closed behind us. We couldn't really see anything though, since the power was out, and the smell was... r-really, really strong, so... we tried to open the door, just to get some light and some air.
Yanagi: But it was stuck.
Hasegawa: Right, it wouldn't open.
Yanagi: I kept yelling and banging on it for a while, trying to get everyone's attention, but nobody came. Hasegawa wasn't feeling well, and it was getting late, so we eventually gave up. Hasegawa fell asleep at some point, and I fell asleep fairly soon after.
Hasegawa: I-I didn't wake up until the next morning when Yanagi started pounding on the door again.
Yanagi: R-Right. Wh-When the... body discovery announcement went off.
Hasegawa: The door didn't actually open again until it was time to gather at the elevator.
Tamba: How did it open though?
Hasegawa: We have no idea, it just... wasn't stuck anymore.
Monomoko: Allow me to clarify.
Ojima: Huh-?
Monomoko: The door was shut rather firmly. It was decided that it would be unfair to punish you for not attending the trial whilst also not enabling you to attend freely. As such, I opened the door myself. Otherwise, it would have remained stuck, and you would not have been able to participate.
Hasegawa: That... clears up a lot.
Yanagi: You couldn't have opened it at the start of the investigation? Is it not imperative that we be allowed to investigate?!
Monomoko: If the door had been locked, I would have unlocked it, as per the investigation guidelines. However, if the door was only physically sealed, it falls outside of my jurisdiction.
Hiroaki: Okay, so now that that's out of the way, Tamba. Testimony.
Tamba: H-Huh?!
Hiroaki: You made Shigeki and Hasegawa testify, so now it's your turn. Testimony. Go.
Tamba: Um... I mean... sure, that's fine. It's not really all that exciting though. After everyone ran off, Hayashi and I just kinda sat there waiting on the stairs. Wada came back after a little while. It's like he said though- after a bit, Hayashi said she had to go check on something and told us to wait there. We sat around for a bit, but she never came back, and my leg was really hurting, so... Wada went to go grab some stuff from the drama room for me.
Ojima: Speaking of, those crutches look kind of big on you.
Tamba: A bit, yeah, but they're better than nothing, y'know? Anyway, um- after we got me all patched up, I wanted to go look for Mai. Wada wanted to come with me, but um-... I-I don't know, I was kind of worried to pair off with someone. It was fine on the stairs, cuz everyone knew where I was, but-... heading off to a different part of the school alone with someone seemed dangerous.
Hiroaki: Because you're a paranoid idiot.
Tamba: Because I was thinking about my own safety!
Ojima: Nakamigawa. Just let her testify.
Tamba: ... A-Anyway, yeah. I went looking for Mai, but I couldn't find her, so... I-I just hung out in the art room for the rest of the night.
Yanagi: Right... I think we can piece together a timeline from that. It would have gone down something like this after the night game, Tamba and Nakamigawa got into an argument in the stairwell. Somehow, Tamba ended up injured at the bottom of the staircase.
Tamba: Because he pushed me.
Hiroaki: I-
Yanagi: Regardless of what happened, everyone heard Tamba screaming, so we ran to come see what was going on. While everyone was rushing to Tamba, Nakamigawa ran away.
Hiroaki: ... Whatever.
Yanagi: Mai sent myself and Hasegawa to go retrieve medical supplies, while Ojima and Masanari left to go find Nakamigawa. Mai stayed behind. Soon into their search, Ojima and Masanari split up. Masanari returned to Mai and Tamba, while Ojima went upstairs to the balcony to speak with Nakamigawa. Meanwhile, myself and Hasegawa had become trapped in the medbay.
Hasegawa: Th-This all sounds right so far.
Yanagi: When nobody came back to Tamba's post, Mai said she had to check on something, told Tamba and Masanari to wait in the stairwell, and left.
Wada: Right, she went upstairs.
Yanagi: Right. Upstairs. She never came back, so instead, Masanari tended to Tamba's injuries, and then the two of them split up. Tamba left to go look for Mai, and Wada headed to the arsenal to grab a self-defence weapon.
Tamba: Right.
Yanagi: After that, Masanari went to the AV room for the night. Tamba searched around for Mai, but couldn't find her, so she set up camp in the art room for the night. Everyone went to sleep around this point in time. In the early morning hours, Masanari woke up, retrieved Ojima, and the two discovered Mai in the pool.
Hiroaki: So then what the hell was Mai doing during all this?
Tamba: Well... whatever she was doing, Wada's right, she definitely went upstairs. So it had to be up there.
Ojima: Then is it possible that that's when she went up to the resource room? Er- computer lab? Wherever it was she went.
Hiroaki: Okay, well here's another possibility. Somebody's lying. Because someone has to have killed Mai. It can't be Shigeki or Hasegawa, because they were locked in all night. It can't be me or Takeshi, because we were each other's alibis all night. That means it has to be either Wada or Tamba. So one of them is lying.
Tamba: Wh- B-But I'm not lying! After Wada and I split up, I-
Hiroaki: No, hold on. Don't. I wanna ask a question first.
Tamba: But-
Hiroaki: Wada, you said you got Tamba's crutches from the drama room, right? From props or costumes or whatever?
Wada: Um... right.
Hiroaki: So when you went in to get the crutches, did a door bomb go off?
Wada: N-No? Definitely not, the door just opened like normal.
Hiroaki: But when you investigated the drama room today, the door exploded, right?
Wada: Right, y-you saw.
Hiroaki: Good, we agree. So by that logic, that we both agree is sound, the door bombs have to have been set in the middle of the night, right? After you went through the door to get the crutches, but before you went through the door to investigate.
Wada: I- y-yeah, that makes sense.
Hiroaki: Right. It does make sense. So by that logic, that we both agree makes sense, the bombs would have had to be set by someone who was mobile at night. So even if you don't buy our testimony, Yanagi and Hasegawa are cleared. If you do buy our testimony, then it has to be either you or Tamba.
Wada: B-But-
Hiroaki: Which leads into my question for Tamba.
Tamba: Y-Yeah?
Hiroaki: You were in the art room, right? All night?
Tamba: Um-
Hiroaki: Which means you would have seen someone setting up the door trap, yeah?
Tamba: I... m-must have been asleep or something...
Hiroaki: Or, alternatively, you weren't in the art room at all.
Tamba: I-I was! I swear I was!
Hiroaki: Then what did you see?
Tamba: I-... u-um...
Hiroaki: Yeah? Yeah?
[A beat]
Tamba: F-Fine! I wasn't in the art room!
Yanagi: G-God, Tamba, tell me you didn't...
Tamba: I didn't! I really, really didn't! Th-That's the only thing I lied about!
Hiroaki: Alright, so where were you then?
Tamba: I... I-I was in the garden. I went upstairs looking for Hayashi, but I couldn't find her, a-and then... I was too tired from moving around on the crutches to go all the way back downstairs. S-So I just... stayed in the garden for the night.
Ojima: I- Hold on, there's no way that's true. You got to the body right away after the body discovery played. There's no way you were five floors up.
Hiroaki: For fuck's sake, can you just give an actual testimony without lying?! It's not that hard! Just tell us where you were already!
Tamba: I-I can't!
Hiroaki: Why?!
Tamba: Because it would make me look really, really bad! I-It'd make me look like I killed her!
Hiroaki: Well did you kill her?!
Tamba: No!
Hiroaki: Then just give us your damn testimony already! You're making this shit so much harder than it needs to be for no reason!
yam: T-Tamba, please. If you're innocent, you'll be exonerated through due process. W-We just need to know where you were.
[A beat]
Please, just... t-testify one more time. Truthfully.
[A beat]
Tamba: I... r-right...
... After Wada and I split up, I-I-I went down to the basement. I spent the night in the laundry room.
Hasegawa: I-... wait, what? The laundry room's locked at night, isn't it?
Tamba: I-I know.
Hiroaki: And you got in anyway?
Tamba: My... M-My reward for the Defence Game was a master key for every room in the school that locks at night. The laundry room, the auditorium, everything.
Hasegawa: The pool.
Tamba: ... A-And the pool, y-yeah.
[A beat]
Hiroaki: You fucking killed her! You absolutely fucking killed her!
Tamba: I-I didn't! I swear I didn't!
Hiroaki: You did! You fucking killed her!
Tamba: Hiroaki!
Hiroaki: Nobody else could have opened the pool! Except you! You had a key!
Tamba: I only used it to get into the laundry room though! I-I swear! I have no idea how she got in the pool!
Ojima: I-Is there any other way someone could have gotten in? Could someone have broken the lock?
Hasegawa: They punish us for breaking locks though...
Hiroaki: Nobody broke the fucking lock, why are we dodging around like this?! It was Tamba! It was obviously Tamba!
Tamba: You just want it to be me because you hate me!
Hiroaki: God, you're so self-absorbed! Why the hell would I want it to be you?! I don't care who it is! I just want us to get out of here! It's not about picking the killer I'd want the most! It's about facts! You're the only person who could have broken into the pool in the middle of the night! Not to mention the fact that you were alone the whole time! If it has to be either you or Wada, then it's you!
Hasegawa: Just- H-Hold on a minute, should we really be jumping to conclusions like this?
Wada: I-I mean, could Hayashi have broken the lock? I know we... get punished for breaking things, but that didn't exactly stop her before.
Ojima: After last time, there's no way she'd try it again.
Tamba: D-Definitely not...
Yanagi: We've talked about our alibis extensively, but we've hardly talked about Hayashi at all. I still don't even understand what happened to her.
Hiroaki: Why are we just brushing over this?!
Hasegawa: W-We're not, but... we need more info. It's a big decision, we can't just vote on one piece of evidence.
Tamba: Y-Yeah!
Hasegawa: Let's look at the state of the body. Th-That might help clear some things up. If we can figure out what happened after she went upstairs, it'll probably tell us a lot.
Ojima: Good thinking.
Hasegawa: Um- W-Wada, i-if you wouldn't mind telling us what you guys found...?
Tamba: Why Wada?! I investigated the body too!
Hiroaki: Because nobody trusts you. Let him talk.
Tamba: Tch- Shut up!
[A beat]
Hasegawa: Um- Wada?
Yanagi: Masanari?
Wada: H-Huh? U-Um-...
Right, we... what?
Hiroaki: Tell us about the body.
Wada: I... right, um... she...
Yanagi: Are you feeling alright?
Wada: Yeah, s'just... sorry, um...
Hasegawa: He's totally out of it...
Yanagi: Tamba may need to do the talking after all.
Tamba: I can talk! I swear! I'll tell the truth this time! All of it!
Hiroaki: Go on then.
Tamba: Okay, so um- first off, her back. She had blood soaked into the back of her clothes. It was kind of hard to tell, cuz she wears all black, but yeah. We didn't notice until we actually touched her clothes and my hands came up all bloody.
[Hiroaki gags]
Ojima: Relax. You were fine when you saw Masanari's head wound, right? Get over it.
Hiroaki: Th-Th-That was d-different, I-I- ngh- the adrenaline was carrying me.
Tamba: She had a wound going all the way through her abdomen and out her back. Vertical, like Wada said. From like, just above her navel, up her torso. Plus, she had those gashes on her hands, exactly where Wada said. I think we're probably right in thinking that she tried to fight back.
Hiroaki: G-God, c-can we speed this up already?
Tamba: Y-You're the one who was just saying we should talk about the body!
Hiroaki: B-Because I didn't think we'd be rehashing the same points we already went over like twenty minutes ago!
Tamba: Sorry for being detailed! The stakes are kind of high!
Hiroaki: I-I just want to get this over with already!
Tamba: Oh, right, cuz every extra minute we spend solving Mai's murder is cutting into your shooting-up-in-the-bathroom time.
Hiroaki: Kh- Fuck off! Are you serious?! I'm not- that's- H-How is that relevant?! To anything?! Sorry that you don't have any sense of urgency in figuring out who killed your best friend! Probably cuz you were too busy- oh, I dunno, stabbing her to death?! Lucky fucking her- she doesn't have to put up with you anymore!
Tamba: H-How could you say something like that?! What the fuck is wrong with your head?!
Hiroaki: What the fuck is wrong with you, Tamba?!
Tamba: What's wrong with me?! Right now?! Oh, I dunno, maybe the fact that my leg is broken?! That you went crazy and pushed me down a flight of stairs and ruined my athletic career for the REST OF MY FUCKING LIFE?!
Hiroaki: You've know what?! Good! I'm glad I ruined your fucking career! I'm glad I ruined the rest of your fucking life! I hope it's a real rough hour for you until you get executed! I hope you fucking die here!
Ojima: Nakamigawa! What the hell?!
Tamba: I-
Ojima: Rui, I- God- I-I'm so sorry, h-he didn't mean that, h-he just- he's not feeling well right now.
Tamba: Not feeling well? That's what we're calling it? He's a junkie! He wants to rush us through this so he can go down a bottle of pills or shoot up in a toilet stall or something! He's not feeling well because he's gone two minutes without-
Hiroaki: God, just shut the fuck up already! How are you still talking?!
Hasegawa: I- But- W-Wait, how did Nakamigawa even get um-... medication i-in the first place?
Hiroaki: Just fucking drop it, none of this has anything to do with the case. Fucking Christ.
Wada: I-It... was his reward. For the Confession Game. He lost it weeks ago though.
Hasegawa: Then... how'd he get it back?
Hiroaki: I-I-...
[A beat]
... Someone dropped it off at my dorm a few nights ago, okay?
Hasegawa: Who?
Hiroaki: I don't know. It was sitting in front of my door when I got back to my room.
Hasegawa: I- right...
Ojima: ... Can we please stay focused on the trial? Just- Bouncing around topics like this is making it hard for me to concentrate.
Tamba: We don't have anything left to talk about though. There's no evidence left.
Yanagi: So what are you suggesting?
Ojima: There has to be something we can talk about. What, w-would you rather us just give up and die?
Tamba: I-I'm not saying that! I'm just saying I have no idea where to go from here. We don't know where Mai went, Wada's barely even coherent right now, Hiroaki's totally losing it, Yanagi and Hasegawa have nothing to contribute to the trial because they didn't investigate, what are we supposed to do? We're at a dead end. We're screwed.
Yanagi: Then... wait.
Tamba: Hm?
Yanagi: Is it possible that all of those points are intentional?
Tamba: Intentional? What do you mean?
Yanagi: I mean, is it possible those obstacles were engineered to make the trial more difficult for us?
Hasegawa: I-I was thinking the same thing, honestly.
Tamba: I'm lost.
Hasegawa: He's suggesting that someone stole Wada's food stash, returned Hiroaki's reward and sealed the medbay door specifically to mess with us and ruin our debate.
Tamba: What? No way. Nobody would think that far ahead.
Hiroaki: Well it certainly takes some of the suspicion off of you, at the very least.
Hasegawa: I mean... wh-when you think about it... the killer's probably been planning this whole thing since before Watari even died.
Tamba: What? No way.
Yanagi: How could you know that?
Hasegawa: Well- I mean- T-Tamba's note was typed, right? That's been bothering me all week now. Ive been checking every room I can think of, but the computer lab was definitely the only room in the school you could print from. That means that if her note... was typed and printed, it had to have been typed and printed over a week ago. B-Before the computer lab burned down.
Tamba: I... A-A whole week ago?!
Yanagi: They've been planning for that long?!
Hiroaki: There's no way.
Wada: I-it'd... definitely be smart of them.
Ojima: A lot of killers got caught because of flaws in their plans. If someone took a whole week to plan out their murder, i-it'd definitely help iron out the kinks.
Hasegawa: Exactly...
Yanagi: Th-Then... that means...
Hasegawa: It means we need to rethink anything and everything weird that's been happening up until Mai died.
Tamba: Over the whole week?
Hiroaki: Doesn't really narrow it down. There's been a lot of weird shit going on this week.
Hasegawa: Th-Then we need to look at all of it.
Tamba: Wada?
Hiroaki: Hey. Masanari.
Wada: I... just...give me a minute...
Tamba: H-Here, sit for a sec.
Yanagi: There's nothing we can get him?
Monomoko: I'm afraid not.
Tamba: Th-Then can we like, take a ten minute break? Just to like, reset a bit?
Monomoko: You're welcome to do whatever you'd like with your trial time.
