#truthslain

“Saihara-kun!” A brief wave of confusion washed over her features, before he presented her with the two gifts, her confused face melting into one of pure joy as she grinned, eagerly taking both in her hands. “You didn’t have to get me anything...” she reminded him, but it was rude not to open things, right? Unsure of what to open first, she eyed them. The best things came in small packages, right? She’d save that for last then! Instead, she unwrapped the larger one, the array of cute hair pins and otherwise packaged together nicely. 

Next was the smaller one, she’d wait to give her proper thanks afterwards, setting aside the hairpins and quickly but gently opening up the other as she eagerly tore through it to the packaging. She lifted up the lid to reveal two matching music notes, sparkling in the light as she admired them. Kaede wasn’t sure her smile could get any bigger before matching Saihara’s gaze again as he looked on. “Saihara-kun...” Kaede started, moving to briefly encircle her arms around him in a hug, touched by his thoughtfulness and how much he knew of her. Really, she couldn’t be luckier.

“Akamatsu-san? Is this a recurring problem?”

“Well...” Sai, in the meanwhile, was reviewing the documents detailing the case. An attempted murder case that the brothers are almost very close to solving; they had a very ideal suspect in mind who, if found guilty of trying to murder their intended victim: would make all the pieces of this case fit together.

But: motive. That’s what was also getting Sai stuck, too. “Well...same here, probably. I’ve been re-reading the case files, trying to see what the motive would have been for the suspect to attempt killing his neighbor? I mean, everyone else in the neighborhood claimed they got along pretty well...until the apparent argument they got into last night.”

“But...could you really make someone that angry to the point they’d try to kill you?”