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Four people were found dead this week.

With that many down, it's difficult to ignore the drop in your numbers - you've gone from just under two-thirds to exactly half of your original number in one day. And given the way things tend to work around here, there are going to be even fewer of you left by the time the day is over.

Is it wearing you down yet?

Even if it is, the investigation period comes and goes, as it always does, and those doors in the center of the second corridor slide open for the sixth time in as many weeks. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater fill the room with light, bright and steady, as soon as the first person walks in; as always, those seats surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room remain unsettlingly unoccupied. Six more have joined the ranks of the deceased this time, their absence glaringly obvious; Nozomi, Krauser, McGillis, Corrin, Rose and Rin have all had their absences acknowledged in the usual way, their greyed-out portraits set atop their black-swathed podiums, observing the proceedings with unseeing eyes.

Once everyone has found their place in the circle, the public-address system crackles its way back on; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter.

"Composed, Sororal, Gracious, and Courageous... They've all been killed. ...You guys know what to do. The number of victims doesn't, uh, change that. Put together your evidence, find whoever's responsible for these deaths. You know what'll happen if you can't.

Good luck."

Fifteen Patients remain. We'll see how many leave at the end of the day.

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Yes.

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I think whoever attacked her must've had some level of combat experience, then.

Given what's been told of the state of the scene, she must have put up one hell of a fight with her killer.

Edited 2017-07-15 16:58 (UTC)

Mm.

[Yep Sakura's sure Rin did]

The taser was likely hers, yes? You did show her how to use it.

I did teach her how to use it. I was hoping that it would have... prevented this from happening.

Sakura...was this hers as well?

[He produces the Blueberry Solid Gold bracelet.]

It was hanging on a nail in the wall. By one of the bars.

[...]

I gave that to her as a gift.

[....he will walk over to return it.]

[He can put it on her podium if he wishes. Sakura isn't... going to move, frankly. Her voice is robotic when she talks again]

You said it was hanging somewhere?

On a nail in the wall. Next to the bars.

[The pull-up bars, though that use didn't strike him since he would rip it out of the wall. Asgore unclasps his cape to drape it around her shoulders instead, like a big soft comforter.]

[It's a small comfort but... Sakura does at least pull it more fully over her shoulders, though she still isn't looking at him. In fact, she's looking lost in thought]

But why would it be hanging? Tohsaka-senpai wore it around her wrist. [Y'know, since. Bracelet]

If she were training, maybe she'd take it off to not let it get in the way.

But training at this time...? Unlikely.

She could've taken it off to fight, too. Like taking off your earrings.

But why hang it all the way up there? Throwing it at ground or attacker sounds easier.

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yourpiecenow - 2017-07-15 18:16 (UTC) - Expand

... People do that?

[What]

yourpiecenow - 2017-07-15 18:14 (UTC) - Expand

imaginex - 2017-07-15 18:18 (UTC) - Expand

That said, she did frequent the gym, didn't she? She probably took it off to workout. What if she went to retrieve it because she had forgotten it earlier and found trouble instead?

[A nod because that's what she's thinking here]

... If she was in the middle of a fight, that'd make even less sense. She wouldn't have time to worry about it.

Training does sound most likely. Though I doubt she was doing it at that time of night.

They have to be. Besides Rose, all the dead people were pretty fucking strong. [rose is EMOTIONALLY strong which doesn't protect you from swords.]

[Exactly, which is why the girl should've stayed in her room, goddamnit-- actually]

... I can't imagine why Rose-san would've been out by herself. Was she lured to the greenhouse?

Well, she trusted people, for some stupid fucking reason. Anyone could have done that.

It's true that she was overly kind to everyone and trustful, at that.

Edited 2017-07-15 17:22 (UTC)

Maybe she wanted to pick flowers. [ At night. Alone. On Thursday. ] Didn't somebody find somethin' like that near her?

They did, but I have a hard time imagining Rose-san doing something that... unwise.

[For some flowers? She better have not gotten killed over some flowers]

Maybe. If she was headin' to Rin's room, she might've wanted to give her a gift as thanks for letting her stay over. [ As one does. ]

No idea if that's right or not, but I can't think of another reason for her being there.

She must have been.

She liked everyone, didn't she? If it was someone she trusted, it would have been easy to lure her out, even on a Thursday night.