Take Responsibility.

[transmittable]

This week isn't a good week - for anyone, it seems. The death doesn't seem to have gone over particularly well with anyone, whether captive or captor; it's difficult to say, for the time being, what will ultimately come of it - and how well the case will be solved, given that this is yet another hit to your number. There are so few of you now. Even so, there are still things to be done and processes to be carried out; the allotted time for investigation comes and goes, leaving only the sound of the courtroom doors sliding open again in their wake. The fluorescent overhead lights of the operating theater illuminate the room as soon as the first person enters, their light bright and steady; the seats on the upper level remain unoccupied where they're surrounding the podium circle in the center of the room. Danny and Ryoji's greyed-out portraits have joined those indicating the absence of the deceased, the podiums they rest upon draped in black as they watch the proceedings through unseeing eyes. The public-address system crackles back to life once everyone has found their place in the circle; the Transmitter can be heard throughout the room shortly thereafter. She's at least a little more composed, but her words shake. "Amiable's...gone. Figure out what happened, and- and do what you have to. For his sake. Good... Good luck." Nine Patients remain. However many leave here today is up to you.

Comments

[crywiththesaints]

It could be an aspect of their own religion. Or something from their own world, such as how the Key where I'm from is often said to use ribbons of aurora, though that's got nothing to do with religion. Given Mochizuki's preoccupation with love, the idea of the red string comes to mind, but ah, he disliked fate, didn't he?

[arebetter]

... Red string of love?

[crywiththesaints]

A silly little story that two people who are destined to be together are connected by red thread. This was a ribbon, not a thread, regardless.

[arebetter]

... Well, couldn't make a tribute out of thread, if that was the point. But wouldn't it be more directly tied to him, then, somehow?

[crywiththesaints]

Or left after he was dead.

[arebetter]

Or that. Regardless, I think that the killer left it there is probably important. I mean they might have gone to the trouble of making it, for... whatever reason.

[preciousking]

All that means is it's pointless to discuss it. There's no way to know what everyone here believes.

[ Not gonna touch the Ryoji stuff because he doesn't feel like it. ]

[ossifragant]

....No, I think it's important.

Because it points to Ryoji being a likely candidate for making a tribute.

Sakura, do you think it's possible the string could have a romantic aspect to it?

[crywiththesaints]

Do you think he would, if he ran into the chapel to escape? Ah, but yes, if it had anything to do with that story, it was about people destined to be together.

[ossifragant]

Then it could have been a sign of the connection between Ryoji and Misty.

Maybe he had it on him, and it fell off?

[georgeous]

It might have been intended to be tied around the unicorn as a present wrapping.

[ossifragant]

Definitely a possibility.

[crywiththesaints]

How, when he died before reaching the altar? Unless you suppose he threw it.

[ossifragant]

I meant more that the killer removed it.

[preciousking]

[ Just sorta looks at her. ]

[crywiththesaints]

Even when I say something is ridiculous, you're judging it? Really now.

[preciousking]

That's not it.

[cthulwho]

[...

...he thinks he gets it. He's looking toward Mikoto now too.]

[crywiththesaints]

Oh? In that case, what do you think happened?

[preciousking]

That's the wrong question.

Since I've asked everyone else up to this point—did you kill him?

[crywiththesaints]

That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. All this about a ribbon?

[georgeous]

[ Tilting his head, over on his place in the peanut gallery. That's not an answer. ]

[ossifragant]

[And now she's getting Greed looking in her direction, too.]

[dangerousfool]

Wait, why do you think she did it? I don't get it.

[Please explain so the less intelligent patients here can understand, Mikoto]

[positivespin]

[ She's been quietly observing this whole time, but she still can't quite piece together a picture of the culprit based on the evidence they gave. Ugh. ]

So far, it is pretty set that whatever happened started in workshop and ended in chapel... Ribbon have useful properties, but doubting the ribbon itself is important here. QQ would be more interested in trying to figure out anything gun-related.

[ Might as well as someone who she trusts for their opinion before going further. ]

Hey, Mikoto. What do you think? ...Or who?