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Gaap laughed maniacally as the blue truth sped towards her, up until the moment the tip touched her forehead. In a bright flash, the illusion of Gaap shattered, and Jessica Ushiromiya sat in the chair, gazing out at the audience with dead eyes.
A slight grin played on the edge of her lips. "It was fun, actually. Do you want to know how I did it?" Without waiting for a response, she began.
"I started planning this a little over two years ago, but most of my true preparations didn't begin until about six months prior, when I got that old pervert, Doctor Nanjo, to agree to burn down the storage shed while I was away on a school holiday so that I would have a solid alibi. He'd been lusting after me for a while, so I told him that if he helped me have "a little rebellion against my overbearing parents" he might get a chance to play. I'd already spent the prior month sneaking out all the various equipment I'd need with no one the wiser, and with the shed burned no one would think to look for it all."
"Next, the day before the conference. I told Kumasawa I'd bought some small ice cream treats for the other cousins, and I'd want her help in surprising them with them. I knew she could sneak Gohda's key, so it was easy to arrange a plan to get her into the fridge. She was the first to die, of course. I'd run off by then, saying I'd forgotten to pack my things, when in reality I went to the kitchen and waited for her to excuse herself, complaining of an aching back. We entered the fridge, I snapped her neck, stuffed her in the meat freezer, sliced her open like one of her beloved mackerel, and placed the dessert back on top so no one would think anything of it. Then I left, locked up, and left the key on the counter before heading over to the guesthouse."
"I'd told Nanjo that tonight would be the night, if he'd help me get away from everyone. So he left his door unlocked, called the cousins' room, played a recording of my father in case someone else answered, and that got me a reason to leave. I almost got spotted by Shannon, Kanon, and Kyrie, but I managed to slip into his room without them noticing. He, of course, locked the door and pretended to snore so that everyone would think he was asleep. Then, for obvious reasons, it was quite easy to get him spread-eagled, bound and gagged by his sheets to the bed. Luckily he had a blanket to stop the blood spray. I don't think he realized anything was wrong until the kitchen knife I'd pilfered earlier punctured his gut. Once he was dead, I unlocked and left through the door while the cousins' door was still locked."
"At that point I knew I was pressed for time. Genji always had to 'tend to Kinzo,' at this time. Yes, as you probably guessed, Kinzo was already long dead, but the servants, Krauss, Natsuhi, and I knew the truth, so Gohda didn't have any hesitation about letting me in with him 'for a friendly chat' when he went into Kinzo's study."
"Now this one I'm proud of. After I gutted him, I took some of the old fishing line that I'd taken from the shed - you know, the really strong stuff that's good for deep sea fishing? - looped two lengths around his ankles, up around the neck of one of Grandfather's suits of armor, and through the handles on the windows. Then I weighted those ends with tennis balls. Then I had three more lengths of line. Two went around the loops around his feet, and the longest was looped around his torso. Then I climbed out the window, along the ledge, and down a drainpipe. There I waited in the bushes for lover-boy and Shannon to appear and call out to Gohda. I yanked on the torso string, causing him to topple. His feet came through, causing the pulley system I'd rigged using the armor to start. The armor started to tilt as the windows started to close. When the windows shut, the halberd on the armor pushed down the locks on the top of them, the line snapped, and the tennis balls dropped and rolled away, pulling the lines down among the mess on the floor. Meanwhile I pulled all three lengths I had, getting the lines off of Gohda, before running off to hide in the entrance hall of the house."
"Predictably, one of the two went to warn the grownups, and when the group ran out to look at the body I joined them, so Shannon thought I'd been with them and they thought I'd been with Shannon."
"Later on in the parlor I saw Genji pocket Gohda's key while he was kneeling beside him, making the next one so much easier. Everyone split up. I said I was going to the guesthouse, but in reality I went to the servants' quarters. After all, someone was going to need to wake up Kumasawa. When Kanon and Shannon entered, I slit Shannon's throat from behind and shoved Kanon back. He tripped and hit his head on the table, so killing him was easier than I'd hoped. Then I locked the door and waited for my next victim. When Genji came in he immediately ran to check on Shannon and Kanon, allowing me to catch him by surprise. I got him in the gut when he turned to find out what the noise behind him was. To top it off I drew a 6 with his own finger, just like I'd drawn numbers at all the other murders, hoping to confuse the order of death. I took Gohda's key from Genji's pocket and locked the door before heading to the guesthouse. There I helped discover Nanjo's corpse, and saw little creepy Maria take the key from his stomach. I imagine she gave the key to Hideyoshi later. Seriously, I did the world a favor taking her out."
"I was worried about how I was going to continue, but then Maria had her stomach issues, and after that everything fell into place. The men acted predictably with a little bit of reverse psychology from me, and I was able to do what I pleased. I got Rudolf first. I'd taken the VIP room key from the pile earlier, and caught up with him on the way to his room, saying that I'd heard a noise and wanted his protection. Once there I knocked him out with a golf club I'd hidden under the bed, stuck him in the tub, and slit his wrist so that he'd bleed out into a bucket. Then I left him for the time being, taking his key with me. I got into his room, set the chain, left the door unlocked, and clambered out the window. I had to pick up Kinzo. I knew where he had been buried, but unbeknownst to anyone I'd dug him up and chopped him up a little bit before. So I snagged him and headed down to the basement through the barred door which I'd left unlocked. There, much to my surprise, was George. Luckily he was just as surprised as me, so I got a chance to take him out with my trusty golf club. Ironic, really, since it was his trusty golf club when he was younger. Scared by my close call, I locked the door to the mansion and retreated out of the cellar, using the thin handle of the club to hold the bar open enough so that I could shut the door at a point where the bar would naturally fall and lock."
"Of course, that was when I realized that I still had a bag full of Kinzo beside me in the rain, and I'd just locked the furnace room. I was really glad then that I'd chopped him up at that point, because I realized that Krauss would be in his room, since there was only one thing that he would be going for at a time like this, and his room was directly above the furnace. My goals were aligned."
"He let me in, since I was his daughter, which was his downfall. While his back was turned I stabbed him with the golf club (the handle of which I had sharpened. Golf clubs, who knew, right?) I left him by the door to bleed while I quickly dumped Kinzo's body down the vent, which Krauss had already helpfully unscrewed. With that done I propped his body up against the door at an angle, hooked his pocketwatch around the deadbolt, and shut the door. I heard him fall and I heard the deadbolt get pulled shut, so my plan seemed to work well. It was time to check on Rudolf. I managed to narrowly avoid being seen by the group that was going out to the guesthouse for whatever reason, but it let me know that only Eva and Natsuhi were in the parlor."
"Rudolf had long since bled out at this point, so I left his body in the tub and took the bucket of blood, along with a sump pump I had originally found while clearing out the storage shed. I opened the door to his room, braced the tube on top of the chain, fed it into the middle of the room, and started pumping. I was worried when the blood splashed a bit up onto the wall, but then I realized that it acted as a seal on the unlocked window, so after that I just let it happen. It only took about a minute. Then I pulled the tube back in, shut the door, locked it with Rudolf's key, and returned to the VIP room. There I stashed the bucket, the pump, and put his key back in his pocket before leaving."
"Then I got lucky. I saw Natsuhi going up the stairs, presumably to get her headache medicine from her room, so I figured Eva was on her own in the parlor. I ran to the kitchen, got the champagne ice bucket as well as the special champagne that the family had been saving. I'd drugged it a few weeks prior, of course, since there was no way it would be had before the conference. Finally a couple glasses and a trusty kitchen knife secreted on my person, and I was ready to go."
"Eva let me in, of course, and even helped me with the stuff since I said I thought it might help to loosen everyone up. After she'd set it down, I pulled out the knife, pointed it at her, ordered her to pour a couple drinks, and drink both of them. She was out like a light remarkably quickly. I was checking the door the whole time. I was planning to have to take out Natsuhi too, even though she wasn't on my list, but she must have been having one of her little semi-delusional depressions, because she never showed. I placed my poor unconscious aunt face-down in the bucket of icewater. She almost woke up, and unconsciously thrashed a bit, but it was incredibly easy to hold her down. Then I simply...left. I went back to guarding Rosa and Maria, and I assume Natsuhi went back to the parlor. I was confused for a while later as to why she lied and said she'd fallen asleep, but thinking back on it I probably would have lied too rather than admit to Hideyoshi that I'd left his wife unguarded while he was in that state."
"That just left Battler, Rosa, Maria, and myself on my list. Aunt Kyrie was kind enough to mention the chapel as well, where I'd long before stashed my final weapons, the first being ammo for an unfortunately-unusable harpoon gun that I'd found. It was just a matter of knocking out Natsuhi and Hideyoshi while we were searching, then coming across Rosa and Maria while they were near the front of the chapel. I used Maria as a hostage to get Rosa to do what I wanted, and then killed her with the harpoons. I killed Maria the same way, then stuck them up together. It was kind of like using really big nails, but a lot bloodier."
"The final weapon? One of Grandfather's rifles, which I'd saved. The epitaph was done, but my job was not. A bullet for Battler, and a bullet for me. The cursed Ushiromiya bloodline had to end. None must know."
"Jessica Ushiromiya is the culprit."
She finished, and all expression drained from her face once more. She sat there in the chair, like a marionette without a puppeteer, a lone stage light shining down on her.
The theater was silent.
THE END.
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