>>19327
Kinzo's key was not used during the murder. Lion did not kill Kinzo.
Lion did not kill Genji. Furthermore, Lion died before Genji did.
Lion did not commit suicide.

>>19338

Very well, how about this?

Genji killed Kinzo in the early morning, taking him out through the door of the study, locking it behind them. He drags Kinzo with the rope to the roses.

Genji tries to kill Lion, and gets into a struggle. He succeeds in killing Lion, but not before Lion gave him a concussion with the rock that fell beside him.

Genji tried to flee, but eventually collapsed and died from the wound that Lion gave him.

>>19358
Genji's key was not used during the murder of Kinzo.

Lion was not murdered.

Genji was murdered, and, furthermore, he died instantly.

>>19367

Krauss is the culprit.

He was invited in to the study that night, killed Kinzo, and dragged his body to the rose bushes, allowing the auto-lock to lock the door behind him.

Lion died from an illness, while Genji was assisting him, in his weakened state, to get to Kuwadorian. Genji dropped Lion, getting the blood on the forehead and the rocks.

Krauss chased after and killed Genji with the bloody rock before calling Natsuhi down to meet him.

"Why, she's obviously referring to the culprit. It all fits too perfectly. The motive, the opportunity. Why, nobody even suspected her when she simply kept to herself.

Add some red contacts and hair dye, and any of you same-face students would look identical to one another.

Of course, you'd need quite a bit of computer knowledge to be able to pull this off. Files on websites, obituaries, the works. And she did it all right under our noses.

Heck, I bet she's hiding in here as we speak."

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>>19438

Miyako smiled at Karma as he spoke. As he finished, she turned as if looking around the room, but let her eyes fall on each of the other students. In her hand, she held out the red contact.

"He's right. Here I hold a red contact. Out of our group, there is only one who has red eyes. So there is only one person who could be impersonated by using red contacts. A person whose body has not been discovered. Kuu Dere."

"There is another way that every crime could have occurred without having Ryusei as a culprit, but only as an accomplice. In the death of Sota! Haruto! You said that Sota did not leave the room as far as you were aware. That indicates a time you are not sure of, because you were not watching the room. During that time, Kuu walked in wearing the raincoat, stabbed Sota, and then got Ryusei to carry the body to the second floor with the raincoat while she returned to outside the room. As for Oka, who bought us here as a hunter and ended up being hunted, it happened as I said for Ryusei, but instead Kuu is the one who set the mechanism, and Ryusei only orchestrated the viewing. Of course, Ryusei still had the critical piece of capturing Oka after her fake kidnapping and locking her away, while convincing her that he was Budo. Nevertheless, he did not kill him. The person impersonating Kuu killed them both."

She walked to the center of the library, holding her arms wide and looking to the sky as if asking the stars that hung above the ceiling out of sight. "But then! Who could have been impersonating her? After all, we've accounted for everyone's whereabouts who could

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Clapping echoes in the room. And then laughter, a girl's laughter. Out from a storage cabinet appears, Kuu... no... it isn't Kuu, as is evident by her two different eye colors. She is holding a gun.

"Correct." She smirks as she points the gun at the group. "Now you all get to die though, a little different than I planned but it works. I wanted Budo to take the fall for everyone's deaths."

Budo is in shock. "W... why?"

"Why do you think! You just dumped me like yesterday's trash."

"I didn't cheat on you!" Budo defends himself.

"I know that." Soul-chan answers. "I know that Sota was lying to me. He was punished for it. But it doesn't change the facts. After I 'died,' you just moved on with Oka. You are a bastard."

She laughs. "I don't care anymore. Because you are going to die here. You are all going to die here."

Surprisingly Ryusei is the one who starts walking up to Soul-chan. "It's over Soul-chan. The game is over."

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~Court Case of Ryusei Koki~

"Mr. Koki, what is your defense for your actions you've committed. The crimes you've committed." The lawyer questions Ryusei.

Ryusei chuckles. "I've committed no crime. I didn't harm anyone."

"Aiding a murderer is also a crime!"

His face darkens a little. "I did it simply because, it was a game. In a game you play your best to win. So I simply did the best I could, to win. I did it to create fun, because without fun, it can't be a game."

The court ruled Ryusei as being psychotic and gave him a 10 year sentence.

~~~ Ryusei's cell ~~~

Ryusei sat on his bed staring at the wall of the cell.

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>>19301

"Like why a master of bare-hand combat was attacking you with a knife, when he could have just beaten you up with his fists exclusively, and arguably been more effective and with less evidence?" Frowning, she looked at the windowsill one more time. "Hmm. No wear marks of a rope or similar. Interesting..."

She turned and faced him, leaning against a non-bloody spot on the windowsill casually. Showing the knife in her hand to him, even offering it to him to inspect, she tried to search her own memory of the video to verify his response. "Was this the knife, by the way? The one he used on you?"

~~~ Karma ~~~

You open the door into the shower room and head inside. You look around the room, but you don't see anyone, the door to the gym seems slightly open. The shower is still running.

~~~ Miyako ~~~

"I egged him on. That isn't the kind of thing that would make me look like the victim. Eventually I broke him, enough that he took out a pocket knife. So no, it wasn't that knife."

>>19308

"Day in and day out for a long time? They must have been some powerful words. He does have a strong temper though. Still, if all you did was talk and he escalated to violence, he was in the wrong."

She takes one last look around the room, seeing if there was any evidence as to who might have been waiting in the room for Sota to arrive.

After that final check, she turned to Haruto. "Thanks for humoring me. I think we should work our way towards the gym, next. See if we can meet up with the others. I know you and Budo don't see eye to eye, but it's probably best to have a lot of people around."

As she got ready to head out, she asked, "As we walk, can you tell me about what you said to Budo that made him so mad?"

~~~ Karma ~~~

You hear someone enter the locker room and call out for you, it is Midori. You come out of the shower room and explain to her that Budo is missing.

She goes into a panic and runs off to look for him. You follow right behind her.

~~~ Miyako ~~~

Haruto suddenly gets angry. "This may sound strange, but Budo isn't that violent of a person normally, so don't go calling him one." He frowns. "And it isn't that we don't see eye to eye... alright..."

You two begin walking toward the door leading to the gym building.

"It wasn't that hard. I just kept bringing up his dead girlfriend. The reason he was going after me was about that in the first place, so adding more and more fuel to the fire was easy."

Haruto doesn't seem to happy, wasn't this his goal in the first place?

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>>19200
BGM: Lamentation

You awoke three days later, having to hear what happened from Masato.

The police arrived at the scene but could do very little with the storm. Ichiro had gone out and braved the weather saying he knew the area better then anyone and found you on a ledge halfway down the ravine. He was not able to find Shizuka however.

The police were able to confirm afterwards that Saeko died from suffocation, later testing the pillow case found suggests it was most likely the murder weapon. Heihachiro died from the stab wound likely caused by the stick found on the roof of the Yamada house. Eiji the father who you never asked his name died from the stab wounds you found him with. After that however, not much was figured out. With the prime investigator and suspect missing it came to a standstill with the storm. Most of the evidence - what little there was - got covered up. The hardest part is that the only villagers who seemed to know anything hushed up about it.

After the storm had cleared and you had been evacuated out of the village they continued to search for the ravine but by the time they had found it she would have been certainly dead. The search effort for the body continued for a few weeks before being canceled, in hope some light would come in the summer.

You sat in the hospital hearing all the news trying to piece things together. Masato brought Yuuichi to talk with you and you were able to figure out why he asked you if you had a girlfriend. He heard Saeko talking about it with Shizuka when he had wandered out due to sleepwalking and hurt his feet. From the evidence you presume what he actually had heard was her talking about Shinjo, one of the men on the list. The police looked into the individuals on said list and found there had been potential arranged marriage meetings planned between Shizuka and them.

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>>19201
"I don't hold anyone responsible. And neither should you."

>>19202
With a mix of confusion and outburst you duck out of sight before they can pester you any further.

The air of spring coming through the slightly opened window, you drive off prepared to move on from this incident.

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THE END

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"...Yeah it is finished. No problems."

A man with an eye patch holds a phone loosely by his head as he sits in a dark basement. A small light flickering in the corner.

"Necessary? ... No, I wouldn't say so. He can still be used at least."

He flips through some papers while listening whatever response from the other line.

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