#meizen

“We have two suspects then.”

“As a reminder, the mirror was broken when we found it. I imagine it used to work just fine before all this, but either way. With Taichi’s smart testing out the mirror fragments and Hanbei’s earlier suggestion on our culprit, its someone who may have had gotten into the school before anyone else without someone seeing them and may have has some side effects from the teleportation.

“Maybe it is just a bad clumsy streak, but you do fit the criteria, Iris. Pluuuuus you said you slipped on something, and not just the air, so.. Being a bit more clear might help.”

Another day, another trial, a third body to add to their growing number. The whirlwind of events has left an air of exhaustion seeping through deep inside. To think she almost thought they could all get away with no more deaths.. Still, there’s a case to solve here no matter how tired she may be at the moment.

Still….Her head tilts to the side to stare at the beloved prince. She jabs a finger in their direction, stern. “You are henceforth banned from the kitchens unless supervised.” Then, to the group as a whole. “‘N the next time one of you guys wants to go ahead and kill someone, can you make sure you try to avoid hurting Miss Iris in the process? This is the second time.” With that said and done, time for the important topic at hand:

“I may help fill in the blank a bit here. Ito-san, Tetsuro-san and I were hanging out in the Game Room for most of the day. I was almost going to be first, but then Menyu-chan came over and warned us about the fire. Around.. 9:45, I believe? When we were making our way up, we heard the same loud noise and decided to check it out.** I almost thought it was Miss Iris who had died, with all that blood on her and everythin’. Looked like something broke on her and she said she slipped when she was trying to see what was going on in the kitchen, assumably. And here we are.”

Which leaves..

Meizen audibly coughs loudly like this was back in her natural element of a library. Maybe all the awkward tension can fade away a bit.

“The only one who outed themself was you, ya know..? But hey, good job on that...!" She gives Nisemono a little clap and everything. Rude ass.  "But you have a point. It's not. Hattori’s room also has a grate, not to mention it was open when I had a look inside."

"Pham-san... You said there was a blanket, right? If we're dealing with someone with some funky magic powers here, then I suppose that means they we're dealing with some sort of shapeshifter. Or just someone with the ability to change sizes. Which means someone had to be split up from the group long enough to snag the shurikens, open up the gate, and crawl to the dining room and kill.**"

A  new pencil in hand, she leans on her podium as she takes notes in her notebook as each person speaks up to what they’ve learned. For a moment, she spares at glance to look up at a certain someone across from her. A brief moment of sympathy crosses her before she turns back to the book, grip on the pencil tightening. Were it not for the laws of this time limit…

“I was in the room earl- no, some hours ago. Just wanted to be useful and get a nice layout of the place so we didn’t end up makin’ a bunch of big dishes but run outta space. Got really busy cooking that I didn’t realize I lost my pencil somewhere, so I just retraced my steps. Otonari-san and Pham-san were present by the time I arrived.”

  She crosses her arms now, giving a stern look over the rest of the class.

  “I don’t think its Pham. Like, sure, I didn’t get to see what happened before cause I was crawling ‘round to look for my pencil, but those two seemed fine when I arrived? I just… heard these weird sounds coming all of a sudden? Sounded really squishy.. Then next thing I know, I hear the chandelier fall and its all dark and I finally crawl out to see Otonari just dead -”