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

[ossifragant]

[Greed waits no time addressing the group.]

I don't know who did this, but I have one question. Why the hell would you go after the kid, and not the guy who is already dying? Didn't think you could take on someone like me, is that it?

[arebetter]

[ Pizzazz, this week's Resident Corpsetoucher (soon to be the name of her side project band), speaks up first, or at least close to first. ]

I don't know how many shots got fired, but two bullets ended up in him. One in his shoulder, one in his chest. The one on his shoulder hit from the back, the one at his... heart, that was from the front. And part of his scarf was torn off.

[preciousking]

They might not have.

[georgeous]

One more bullet hit the wall in the halls at about five feet height. It seems to have been fired from the workshop's direction.

[preciousking]

[ Considers this! ]

Notice anything else?

[dangerousfool]

Okay, um, I found some stuff? And it looks like this stuff will be important, so just...take a look.

[And indeed, Wheatley brought a couple objects to the trial. He shows the caliper]

I have this thing. It's a...I don't know what this is. But look how banged it is, someone must have used it to hit stuff. And I found this unicorn too. [He shows the wooden unicorn] Ryoji must have made it, because he's the first person who mentioned unicorns last time, so it must have been him.

And also, he may have been killed at the workshop, because it was a mess. There must have been a fight in there.

That's all I found.

[georgeous]

The fight didn't end at the workshop, it just transferred over to the chapel. One gunshot was definitely fired from the workshop into the hallway.

... a unicorn though. Seems like a gift for her? But why now?

[arebetter]

Like what?

[preciousking]

[ The unicorn he bypasses because he doesn't care about it, but the tool he picks up and looks at! ]

Did you find blood in there?

[dangerousfool]

Where did they get a gun? I haven't seen anything like that anywhere.

[Well, the vending machine is a possibility, he guesses]

[arebetter]

... she didn't give me an exact date, but the Transmitter mentioned her birthday might be coming up soon. If I had to guess, that's why.

[preciousking]

Dunno. Figured I'd ask after the last trial.

[dangerousfool]

No, no blood at all. Weird, right? Because when humans get shot, there's a lot of blood spilled.

[arebetter]

Same place the gun from last week fucking came from, I guess? Because access to guns is just what we needed.

[georgeous]

Ryoji wasn't human.

[arebetter]

I mean he also had giant fuckoff wings, that was definitely a thing, but I have no way to reasonably interpret that.

[ossifragant]

I don't know why now, but when I went to investigate Ryoji's room, I found a mostly eaten sandwich, and some notes. I don't think most of them are relevant to this, but what I did find was something with this Sunday's date on it and, "This Sunday? Need to finish it!" written on it.

Maybe it was referring to the unicorn.

[He has the notes with him, but that's the only thing that struck him as important.]

[ossifragant]

Ryoji was the avatar of death. I doubt he bled.

[dangerousfool]

Oh. Right.

[Wheatley tilts his head]

It's hard not to think of him as a human? Because he looked like one and all. So...would Ryoji bleed?

[preciousking]

... Yeah, there is.

That means he wasn't killed in there. [ Which George already said but w/e. ]

[arebetter]

That... sounds like a birthday date to me. Yep.

[georgeous]

Well, was there blood found on the corpse? If not, then we have the answer.

[ossifragant]

....Yeah. It does, doesn't it?

[preciousking]

Bullshit powers. [ He shrugs usefully as he provides this explanation. ]

Might as well ask about the wings anyway, just in case. You never know what shit's useful.

[crywiththesaints]

It's possible; you are one of the strongest. Do you know why Mochizuki was out in the first place? Was he lured specifically?