“Are you done yelling,” Kaya had said. Well, after all that she went on to say… unfortunately, no.
“ARE YOU KIDDIN' ME?! I didn’ vote fer that Jazzy girl ‘til she got proved th’ killer without a doubt, after Shin tol’ everybody ‘bout her missin’ chunk of hair! I'm NOT sure that Himeno-kun did it withou’ a doubt, so tha’s why I’m stirrin’ up such a fuss! It ain’t th’ same thing at all!!”
“Th’ hell’s yer problem?! Th’ thing’s you 'n’ me can’t find ’re th’ ones that prove yer point, not mine! Wha’ do I got t’ prove?!”
Yona listened to Kuma’s safe theory quietly, by some miracle. It sounded like he had the wrong idea of what was going on, but honestly Yona hadn’t seen the inside of Hinatea’s room, so she couldn’t say for sure. But the last part he said felt like a punch in the gut.
“…Eh? Wha’ th’ hell ’re y’ sayin’ ’execute 'im, nobody cares’?”
“Wha’ th’ hell is wrong with you?! Yer cool with jus’ sending a human bein’ t’ die withou’ settin’ th’ record straight? What is he’s innocent?! If ya wanna know 'who’, I care about th’ 'how’! If ya can’t explain how he even killed her, I ain’t gonna vote an’ send him t' die if ’m not convinced he did it an’ didn’ have no alternatives!Yer a human bein’, too, aren'tcha?! What the hell!”
Alright now that Blow Up #2 against Kuma was over, was it finally time for Yona to chill? Well, she didn’t blow up at Yori. He at least was trying unlike everyone else so far, from Yona’s perspective. And Shion was… kind of on her side, but kind of not…? Mirror shard as a knife, though… that was pretty smart. But Yona cleared out of that bathroom so fast she had no idea if there was a bloody shard around…
Hearing Masuyo speak up, Yona nodded along. That’s right! No one had even attempted to explain how doing all that to Hinatea’s body was possible in the first place!
Yuuki, though not on Yona’s side, was at least attempting to explain how things might’ve happened, so that was cool, she guessed…
And then when Suzume started talking again, Yona’s heart fluttered with excitement. She hadn’t thought of a lot of it that way! Though… to be fair, her hearing with Suzume’s statements did get a little selective when it came to approaching the idea that Hinatea’s killer was a human.
And then there was Aideen. Oh, well. The silence was good while it lasted.
“It's Yona. Fer all yer talk of contributin’, y’ ain’t been contributin' nothin’! Yer jus’ throwin’ everythin’ out like it’s a given! There ain’t no effort there! Heck, y’ can’t even say anythin' new with what y’ were sayin’ t’ me! Yer friend over there already wanted me t’ try t’ prove it was a ghost.”
Yona thrust her thumb out, pointing in Kaya’s direction.
“But, y’ know what?! Fine! I’ll do it!”
“So, like, I ain’t sayin’ th’ doll was movin’ around and could pick up a knife like Chucky or nothin’. Like, y'all say the picture and y'all heard what Himeno-kun said. He said, like, it was an evil spirit tha’ was possessin’ th’ doll. Maybe it could, like, manifess? An’ transform t’ look like Jericho t’ mess wit’ Kudo-san, 'cause she was his friend if I’m rememberin’ right. Bu’ if that’s not a thing… We don’ know where all th’ dead bodies go, do we?! They couldn’t a jus’ vanished…! Like, after all th’ trials an’ stuff, th’ bodies disappeared in Mizu, but we ain’t up in th’ air, we underwater. An’ Jericho’s body wasn’… really affected when he died. Like… he didn’t really have… outside wounds. Maybe Kana possessed his body an’ moved it around from wherever Monobear’s been hidin’ th’ bodies?”
“An’, y'know what? It doesn’ even have t’ be ghosts, there’s lotsa ways it might not a been Himeno-kun! What if Kana-chan was actually a robot?! Jus’ like th’ Monobears! Y'all didn’t even bother sayin’ anything about how there’s been dolls walkin’ around killin’ people th’ whole time! Teddy bears are dolls! How can we know fer sure Kana ain’t?!
An’ y'all keep talkin’ about where black hair came from, bu’ you…”
Yona pointed at Ayano. Who just introduced themself, come on, Yona.
“…Katsuki? If y’ were that long black hair red eye lady who came in at th’ end of last trial, where all yer black hair go?! Couldn’t any of it a been yers? An’ Jericho in the picture had red eyes!”
And then Yona pointed at Masuyo.
“An’ Frankie was in tha’ other corrupt photo thingy tha’ Kana was in, bu’ if y'all ’re insistin’ tha’ it couldn'ta been th’ doll in the picture on Kudo-san’s phone, Frankie’s th’ other one in th’ picture!”
Oh my god, Yona, it’s week 6 you should know their name’s Masuyo, not something you saw on their shirt during the sleepover.
“If she’s been in pictures with Himeno-kun an’ was hangin’ with him, she must be friends with 'im an’ she tol’ us she knows 'bout Kana-chan and she’s a witch or somethin’ maybe she can transfigurate her appearance or somethin’ an’–”
Wait, wait, wait. Yona’s argument was supposed to be that a human didn't kill Hinatea. Was she calling Ayano or Masuyo not human? Suddenly, Yona grimaced and seemed to physically shrink.
That came out as little more than a squeak.
“Um… Um I mean…! Uh… Ghosts, right? How else could, uh… th’ bed get cut right in half like tha’?”
“Uh… Suzume? I didn’ actually… see th’ inside of Kudo-san’s room. Couldja go through everythin’ that was goin’ on in there again, like in a list…?”
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