While I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting the theory, it only really works if there's evidence to actually back the theory up. Her previous behavior isn't really evidence.
But people still switched to focusing on it as if it was true.
Yep. And now they've pretty much given up on the case because they think it'd be pursuing someone who acted in self-defense. I think it's why people were more nervous to even bring up names that could be tied to it based on injury check too.
[he... sighs.]
... I get that we want to be fair, and I wouldn't want to pursue something that was in self-defense either. But you know... if they just spoke up about it early, we probably could've gotten Kaan-san's case to be our focus.
They probably wouldn't feel safe admitting to it if there isn't another suspect. Since even if they did it in self-defense, if we can't come up with another name, people might vote for them anyway.
Of course, we don't know if that would happen or not, but the idea that it might can be enough to make people hesiate.
The killer robot was still there - I feel like someone would've volunteered the information as long as the other option was still killer robot.
[but. he shakes his head.]
.... but I get the apprehension. It remains that we just don't have an answer, I guess. So we don't know if that person acted again this week because the cause of death didn't really imply a skillset besides agile.
I went to talk to Greed-san today. They said there might be some credit to thinking that Kaan-san and Starphase-san's murder was the same person. If people wanted to solve that one anyway... Maybe what we need to do is solve Starphase-san's.
Ashiya-san, Gojou-san, Law-san, Omi-san, Yi-kun, and Childe-san are our only viable suspects for Starphase-san's, right?
Not getting into some freaky major crossover that maybe Vlad-san could've tried to kill Starphase-san or something.
[that's way more convoluted and he'd rather disprove the first list entirely before trying to figure out a giant yakety sax]
.... all of 'em enough. [and he looks thoughtful about it before counting down on his fingers]
But we can take out Childe-san, on account of his hand. I don't think it was fully healed until morning, right? So I think that even he wouldn't have been able to get ahold of Yi-kun's shovel. I also think Childe-san would've want to go after someone who would've put up a good fight. So while that's true for Starphase-san, it's not true for Kaan-kun.
I think motive does matter, if people aren't being told to kill. So I'd even want to take out people who were close to Starphase-san. So Gojou-san and Law-san are unlikely.
That leaves Ashiya-san, Omi-san, and Yi-kun. Of those three, Omi-san's a civilian and I don't think he'd manage somethign that brutal. So that's Ashiya-san and Yi-kun.
So the ultimate question is if Ashiya-san did it and tried to poorly frame Yi-kun, or if Yi-kun's a liar.
I'm not entirely convinced if the purpose was to actually get us to vote for him. I think if they just wanted to get us to waste time arguing about whether or not he was being framed, it would have worked. Especially since we all knew Shi Qingxuan and him were close, so she would argue on his behalf. It would be a similar situation to what happened with Beauregard and Mollymauk.
Mm. Well, that did take up some time to start - but I think that it did also at least lead us to the clue about Yi-kun's shoes. If the general sentiment that it was someone whose feet were too big....
Then that leaves only Ashiya-san, right?
But, ah, that does mean we'd need to believe Yi-kun's testimony. I think that I do... but that's personal feelings, not evidence.
[and he knows better than to conflate the two by now at least]
I'm actually not completely convinced that someone actually wore the shoes, I feel like there would have been even more tracks if that were the case...?
[ since the shoes were dirty. ]
It wouldn't make sense for them to clean after themselves either, if they were wearing someone else's shoes.
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But people still switched to focusing on it as if it was true.
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[he... sighs.]
... I get that we want to be fair, and I wouldn't want to pursue something that was in self-defense either. But you know... if they just spoke up about it early, we probably could've gotten Kaan-san's case to be our focus.
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Of course, we don't know if that would happen or not, but the idea that it might can be enough to make people hesiate.
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[but. he shakes his head.]
.... but I get the apprehension. It remains that we just don't have an answer, I guess. So we don't know if that person acted again this week because the cause of death didn't really imply a skillset besides agile.
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[ you can fake things rather easily, it just mostly depends on how long you've been covering your tracks. ]
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... I don't wanna say we'll give up there but -
I went to talk to Greed-san today. They said there might be some credit to thinking that Kaan-san and Starphase-san's murder was the same person. If people wanted to solve that one anyway... Maybe what we need to do is solve Starphase-san's.
Ashiya-san, Gojou-san, Law-san, Omi-san, Yi-kun, and Childe-san are our only viable suspects for Starphase-san's, right?
Not getting into some freaky major crossover that maybe Vlad-san could've tried to kill Starphase-san or something.
[that's way more convoluted and he'd rather disprove the first list entirely before trying to figure out a giant yakety sax]
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Out of all of those, who do you normally speak with? What are your impressions?
[ he knows the obvious ones, but ]
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.... all of 'em enough. [and he looks thoughtful about it before counting down on his fingers]
But we can take out Childe-san, on account of his hand. I don't think it was fully healed until morning, right? So I think that even he wouldn't have been able to get ahold of Yi-kun's shovel. I also think Childe-san would've want to go after someone who would've put up a good fight. So while that's true for Starphase-san, it's not true for Kaan-kun.
I think motive does matter, if people aren't being told to kill. So I'd even want to take out people who were close to Starphase-san. So Gojou-san and Law-san are unlikely.
That leaves Ashiya-san, Omi-san, and Yi-kun. Of those three, Omi-san's a civilian and I don't think he'd manage somethign that brutal. So that's Ashiya-san and Yi-kun.
So the ultimate question is if Ashiya-san did it and tried to poorly frame Yi-kun, or if Yi-kun's a liar.
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Mm. Well, that did take up some time to start - but I think that it did also at least lead us to the clue about Yi-kun's shoes. If the general sentiment that it was someone whose feet were too big....
Then that leaves only Ashiya-san, right?
But, ah, that does mean we'd need to believe Yi-kun's testimony. I think that I do... but that's personal feelings, not evidence.
[and he knows better than to conflate the two by now at least]
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[ since the shoes were dirty. ]
It wouldn't make sense for them to clean after themselves either, if they were wearing someone else's shoes.
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So - what do you think the hint means? Not that someone wore them, but just that the murder was orchestrated by someone even larger than Yi-kun?
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... it would be easier if it's someone bigger than him, because that gives us less possible suspects to work with.
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I think we need to eliminate that first, to be honest. If we clear Ashiya-san, we can look at the likelihood of Yi-kun doing it himself.
We still need to look at Luca-san and Vlad-san's deaths too, but we have less certain leads on those.
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I...
I can try...? But...
[that's totally more takeru and shiraishi work]
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I'll handle it.
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[terrible]
If there's anything about Luca-san you need to know, I can help with that!
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Roger that.
I'll see what I can gather and organize about the cases then.