Another Wet Nightmare

Jamie can’t help but, cringe back when Haruna suddenly attacked Yuji. His hand moving to his mouth to cover it in shock. Getting secondhand embarrassment isn’t exactly…easy for him as he more so lives off of schadenfreude, but something about her speech really made him, wish she hadn’t said it for her own sake? It’s a hard feeling to explain in terms of Jamie mental process but, yeah it’s not a good feeling either way. The way Yuji speaks sends chills down his spine that quickly pulls him out of his embarrassment. Yuji Matsumoto speaking illy of Haruna was the last thing he expected- though in a way it doesn’t shock him all that much? Everyone does have a breaking point, Haruna just happened to get to his, sadly enough

[walks in to the mm reveal like 2 months late with starbucks] oops.

He is…useless. As always. He retrieved the journal and that’s what matters!!!! So yeah he’s just listening since he barely has anything to contribute. He does kinda like the fact that Haruna never commented further to him, though he figures it’s because she had other matters to take care of. She is, after all, being accused of being the mastermind as well, just to a lesser degree.

But now he knows what’s in the journal! It sure is a journey. Confirming his own theories and giving new information as well, hm. Jamie looks to Yuji, looking to see his reaction. How predictable.

“Matsumoto-san, you’re making yourself more suspicious by the moment. You could at least be nonchalant about it like people were in the past trials.”

Thanks Jamie. You, once again, were useless and should stop talking. He pauses, trying to remember the simulation they’re all talking about.

“Fan-san, you were the only one that was…hmmm…recognizable, in that one I believe. I don’t recall if there were other bodies but you were the only one we could see the face of at the least.”

Jamie had made his way back to his podium once Ryan got the book open, and he just, like he always does, listens to everyone speak. He does take his attention to the fight between Michiko and Masashi for a bit, intrigued by the conversation. He’s not even taking sides because hey, he likes how both of them are suddenly acting so.

Then comes Haruna and Tadashi, and he sighs a little before going back to smiling, just kinda, tilting his head.

“Sasaki-san, you can add your own evidence but don’t discredit other evidence without having seen it first. It doesn’t help the image Matsuo-shi has of you and in fact makes him seem more right about you.”

His eyes close, the smile staying on his face.

“I haven’t read the notebook myself but I’d believe them when they say EBULLIENCE-shi can’t be the mastermind if that’s what they say the notebook provides. So again, until you have heard it, don’t speak against it.”

Jamie, last minute, would’ve put in a vote for Tadashi after all but i’m a FOOL who forgot again to vote. He just watched the heavy debate quietly before- his attention was taken to the newly announced ‘Shoji’s’ and EBULLIENCE’s new look, or rather, would it be her old look and it was her new look that was removed? Either way, he seems to be…intrigued by this new information.

“I see…so that’s why you two were so against having her name out in the open from investigation. It’s because you didn’t want anyone to know you’re related! What a display~!”

Man! This is definitely a turn of events! And with the announcement of Tadashi being the right culprit. Man. What a turn of events. Turns out his theory was right, it just had something unexpected thrown into the pit with it. His grin just, stays. That Jamie Fenn Smile™ has made it’s permanent way back onto him once again. And as if that wasn’t enough excitement for the writer, Tadashi just going off on everyone and /admitting/ he wanted to kill Haruna is just, holy FUCK he’s having the time of his life here. To think it just took surprise after surprise to get Jamie so enthusiastically fired up.

He does dig into his bag again, putting his keycard away and pulling out the notebook, going over to Ryan’s podium to hand over the notebook.

“Here you are.”

The smile disappears for a second.

“Let’s make sure this trial goes well so no else has to die, hm?”

He groans a little when Haruna singles him out, but goes ahead with the check. If you pay attention you can see him acting as if this was infringing on his time (which, it isn’t, what else would you do during a trial???). But once she leaves him be, he just goes back to leaning onto the podium, head in hand.

When people started to ask, Jamie digs in his bag, pulling out his keycard and going to scroll through it. Once he finds Ai’s texts, he shows the others.

“i fucked up” “bhind vending on my floor” “cld u get it” “the book” “th” “thing we found” “bye”

“I’m sure it’s her given the fact she would be the only one who knew where the book was and also the fact it was sent right before she died.”

“The texts were asking me to pick up the notebook on her floor, as well as saying she ‘fucked up’ before ending it with 'bye.’ I thought something seemed off with it but I didn’t want to ask, that would’ve been rude. But I guess now I know what that meant.”

He shrugs a little. Just giving a thumbs up to Tadashi.

“Yeah I figured since she said it was the stuff we found, but I was curious to know if she put anything else in it.”

He takes his attention to Haruna as she starts talking, just sighing a bit as he listens and looks around the room to judge other reactions.

“It would do to add onto stated information rather than state you found it, thanks. By the way you could’ve just asked me to open Kimoto-san’s door, I was in there.”

Jamie seems to pause after that, kinda making a face at no one in particular but himself. But he goes back to his usual demeanor soon after. He didn’t mean to come off as rude but perhaps it’s best to leave what’s said alone, if she chooses to comment on it he’ll deal with the consequences then. Once he’s done speaking, he just goes quiet to listen. He eyes Yuji as he goes on.

“So she died just a few minutes after texting me…”

He guess that makes sense, given the 'I fucked up’ and 'bye’ messages she sent him. Alibis sounds like a good thing to do though.

“Well I feel like I’m off the hook considering she wouldn’t text her murderer what she sent me. But I’ll just say I don’t think I left the hotel at all today so. I don’t have reasons to kill either of them, seeing as Kimoto-san and Oichi-san had joined me in investigating this past week I’d like to keep her alive. Matsuo-shi I’ve never had a one-on-one conversation with so I don’t have any reason for that either.”

Shrugs. He’s not super into doing the check it seems. Just one final look to Haruna.

Well, he’s here? He’s made his way into the trial room and over to his podium before leaning over immediately to rest his head in his hand. He’s got a bag around his shoulder this time around, and…is he wearing heels? Jamie??? Jamie just watches as everyone piles in and when talking actually happens, he listens to what people have to say.

“If…you say you went at 6pm, I have reason to believe you were attacked first as well. Seeing as I received some…concerning texts from Kimoto-san at around 8:20pm.”

He pauses, seeming to think for a moment.

“I’m not bringing a whole lot to the table here, sorry. I didn’t do too much intensive investigating with the crime scenes.”

He takes his attention to Yuji, nodding at him.

“I…admit I didn’t do as many as I planned to, I only stopped in Kimoto’s room, but as I told you in our text exchange, the only thing off that I could see was that her underwear drawer was open and messy, as if she was digging in it for something. If anyone else looked in there in the past, they’d probably be able to tell if there were any other differences came up.”

He moves to dig in his bag, pulling out a black notebook with “PROPERTY OF #_____” on it. There’s a number lock on it.