i don' ask questions anymore

First and foremost, the choice for who the victim would be was a throw up between Kosuke and Saori. However, after what Saori did for Kahori, I couldn't really rationalize why she would kill her. I mean, she still could have had Kosuke died before Kahori was given an opportunity to kill him, but otherwise she would go for him before Saori. If Kosuke did die, then Kahori would kill Saori, assuming she killed before Kaoru died. Otherwise, I don't know who she would have killed.

Her reason for killing Kosuke though? It would be easy to make a reason to want to talk to him. His death would've taken place after Nanoka's trial, meaning that Kahori could say that she wanted to talk to him about what had happened in the courtroom.

It never would have been a move of revenge against Shun or Kikuyo. I honestly didn't realize until after how easy it could have been for people to interpret her actions as revenge, but that was never the case.

He was just an "easy" target.

Next comes the means of murder. Obviously Kahori couldn't just rush whoever she planned to kill, since she would be taken down in seconds, especially where Kosuke is quite a bit taller than her. She had to have a plan that would catch him off guard and give her a chance to strike.

She would build a trap. It'd be a very crude, simple one. All she would need is rope (or sturdy twine, in her case), a heavy rock, and a tree. And where has trees?

The park. And where is a better place for them two to talk than the place where the cause of that trial came to fruition? It was Nanoka's place of death, and unknowingly Kikuyo's final resting place, so it couldn't be a more perfect location.

Anyways, the trap would involve the twine thrown over a tree branch with a noose laid flat on the ground. She would have to tie the rock to the twine and then hoist it up and tie it into place in the tree, and then later would have to manually release the rock to drop and pull Kosuke up. This plan really rode on Kosuke getting tripped up in the noose long enough for Kahori to cut the twine and trigger the trap.

But how would she get Kosuke to the park in the first place? Him moving in with Shun made this... a lot harder. If she couldn't speak with him, she'd leave a note requesting for him to meet her in the hall and asking if he would go with her to the park so they could talk. She'd explain that she wouldn't be comfortable meeting in her room, and definitely wouldn't be comfortable meeting in Shun's room, so would he mind going to sit outside at the park and talk for a little while?

Kahori... would essentially use Kosuke's more sympathetic nature against him. There's a good chance this bit would be tweaked a lot, but seeing as this isn't a fully planned murder, I can only write it from my side of it all.

But then they would meet up in the apartments and walk to the park, and they'd likely be chatting the entire time. Kahori's not a very good liar, so she'd probably try to avoid talking about what they were going to do at the park.

They arrive at the park eventually and Kahori walks straight over the noose, making it so Kosuke would think it's safe to walk there. He then would have to be really clumsy and trip with his foot caught in the noose. Kahori grabs the machete she kept stowed away nearby, cuts the rock loose, and watches Kosuke get pulled up by his ankle to dangle from the branch.

By this point I'm going to assume Kosuke is freaking out and Kahori is probably crying, because maybe beating someone with a cane is easy, maybe planning to murder in the heat of the moment is easy, but it's not easy to look at someone's terrified face and know that you plan to kill them just because you thought they were an easy target.

She'd be apologizing to him the entire time, even when she puts two hands on the machete and swings and lodges that thing straight into his throat.

She'd probably hit hard enough that he would die instantly rather than bleeding out/drowning. She'd hopefully hit hard enough, because I'm not sure how well she'd be able to handle knowing she made him suffer in his last moments.

Despite how vicious it sounds, Kosuke's death would be reasonably quick and relatively painless.

So that leaves Kahori with a dead body hanging upside down from a tree. If Kosuke's cards were to... somehow come loose from their pouch... and if Kahori were to see a particular card... She would manipulate his body to look the same.

Anyone know the Hanged Man card? That's essentially what Kosuke would look like when the class found his body, just with cards around him and a gash in his neck.