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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.
Thinking back on it you recall some of the things about the estate may have suggested abuse. The doors actively locked even within the household, the only thing of note in her room were tools and worn down toys (if you can call them that), the strict attitude between the parents and her. There were probably others but they escape you at the moment.
The Yamada's had disappeared almost as soon as they had arrived at the village, probably hiding from the company again. Koji was able to help you and Masato get away from the press with his father's connections, at least for now. After you returned it became clear that Koji had wanted to try and protect Shizuka, as he put it "seeing her in the village earlier... I could tell she was responsible", or so he said. The Fukushima couple left the house they had in that area of the village and the other villagers seemed to try and help confuse the press about who exactly was involved. The only ones unaccounted for were Isao and Lee, two people not from the village to begin with. It was almost like the whole area just up an vanished over night.
The matter of the individuals didn't concern the press at least. Now with two incidents under your belt it was no longer the murders themselves, be it Rokkenjima or Nisekawa, but the fact one man had played major roles in both that drew the attention of the press.
As you left the hospital about to get taken in by Koji's connections and say good bye to the press for a long time, you were swarmed one last time and asked a final bout of questions.
"Mr. Goldbar, who do you hold responsible for the Nisekawa Incident?"
"Have you caught wind of a new case and heading there now?"
"Are you actually the mastermind behind these crimes?"
You only have time to answer one before ducking into the car.
Last edited at 16/03/01(Tue)09:37:36
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