having lived | hideki
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The first piece of evidence he finds, is something that he discovers immediately on his way into the room. He does a more thorough investigation of the evidence – if you can even call doing something as simple as following a trail a “thorough investigation” – while he speaks.
“Patronizing you? I was being sarcastic.”
The trail leads from the machines to the entrance way – it wouldn’t real make much sense for it to be the other way around (unless the blood wasn’t Clive’s like he immediately assumed it was.) Maybe Farenton was attacked while he was distracted by the slot machines…? He can’t really say for sure, considering his investigation only started a short while ago.
His previous investigations have all been based on hunches and educated first guesses, and it seems as though now is no different.
When Yukiko changed the subject, it became difficult to catch her strings of thought as she ran them by him, as she spoke tangent after tangent. Yukiko needed to slow down so he could process what she was trying to say, but that went unspoken. Whatever, he’s just a person who makes coffee, what does he know, right? It doesn’t really seem like she wanted his input anyway, she likely just wanted to talk aloud.
He just clings to one part of what she said and replies to that – “so perhaps he interrupted the culprit in the disposal of evidence.”
“In that case, there could still be evidence in the… kitchen. The body discovery and the time of death don’t really have that big of a gap, right?”
He double checked Takashi’s time of death on the Monofile – and found that they found the body only four minutes after his murder. Clive’s time of death and body discovery weren’t too far apart, but Takashi’s were much closer together.
“Maybe they didn’t have enough time to dispose of the evidence completely after… ah, dealing with Takashi…”
Whether or not that was so – the state of the kitchen, including the body laying dead on the counter-top (or was it the stove?), gave him a feeling of dread with just the thought of returning.
“Oh, uh, I didn’t notice ELLA’s absence for the first discovery, but they were standing there idly around the time we found Takashi. I guess they should be questioned at some point…”
All these connections seemed to suggest they – or at least one of pair – would have to return, despite his internal dismay of the idea.
“Pay out? I don’t have a clue, I’ve never been here before now. Why does that matter?”
It was just their luck, wasn’t it? Here they were, just wanting to get a refill of tea, when suddenly the kitchen manages to become both a crime scene and a potential fire hazard. A rather curious crime scene, from what they had examined, but still one that prevented them from inquiring a beverage for the investigation.
And, when they had decided to travel to the entertainment district to try and acquire something from the bar, what did they come across but another body. Perhaps it was Clive they could blame for the particularly sour luck they had, his death having released all of the poor fortune he possessed and spreading it across the group. Hopefully, that wouldn’t extend to the case at hand.
The sound of voices within the casino alerted them to Yukiko and Hideki’s presence. They did not pay it much mind while they were examining Clive, well until their name came up in conversation. Lovely, what were the chances that their absence made them a murder suspect? Obviously rather high, might as well give that alibi now.
They move into the entrance of the casino, adjusting their glasses and examining the scene around them.
...Ah, so the usual set of main investigators then? That is certainly fine. I heard my name, shall I go over the reason for my absence? But while we are doing that, I will have to ask what has been discovered so far regarding this scene, and specifically for Yukiko, if anything has been found yet that could be the cause of Clive’s brain hemorrhage.













