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Conference room.

[sengokus]

[huh.

mineo will eventually make it back then, with two bottles of water. he'll offer one out to takeru.]

.... I thought Lenore-san cursed Aoi-san and Shi-san to keep us from looking at Law-san.

She said she didn't... but I wonder if it's someone Law-san confided in just to keep us from looking at him.

[just to explain where he went but - ]

You okay?

[dotcom]

[ he'll take it. ]

Harrowhark thought maybe it was Aoi, but she still had her power.

[sengokus]

[he looks thoughtful]

I did show her how to make ramen....

[so. not impossible?]

But that's still pretty... Why....?

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The idea was that maybe she made Shi Qingxuan obsessed with fighting her, but...

[ he sighs. ]

I don't know. But it doesn't really make sense if the body was moved. There's no way she would have been able to do it.

[sengokus]

[yea takeru could hold her down so]

... definitely not. And I don't know who would've helped her. Not Gojou-san, since he wasn't involved at all.

[dotcom]

[ he sighs. ]

At least we caught Law, but it also bugs me that we couldn't even confirm if Douman actually did kill or not.

[sengokus]

[looking annoyed]

... tell me about it.

But -

Well, even if people were saying that the telescope was similar to how Starphase-san died... Ashiya-san was our suspect for that too, right?

[so that'd match]

[dotcom]

Possibly.

[ ... ]

Well, hopefully it was them, since that means that's one less killer on the loose. But we should also just be prepared in case it wasn't.

[sengokus]

[ . . . he nods and sighs.]

... I'm gonna see if Law-san will trust me with who else knew about his murder. If one of them owns up to what happened to Shi-san and Aoi-san... then that means that Ashiya-san almost definitely was the one to kill Omi-san, right?

[just gotta get through alternative explanations. he unscrews the water bottle to take a drink]

But... yeah. I don't think we can use Molly and Harrow-san's trick again.

[dotcom]

Nope. See, sometimes it's good to keep things a secret though, right?

[ since he knows mineo was questioning their need for secrecy with checking hands. ]

[sengokus]

[he waves a hand, wrinkling his nose]

I trusted you all, don't give me too much grief.

[he obeyed!!]

[dotcom]

[ he pats him

and then pauses. ]

Have you cooled down? I know you were upset over White.

[sengokus]

[he leans into the touch and then

freezes for so many reasons]

... you're asking about me?

[WHAT??????????????????????????????]

[dotcom]

... I can stop?

[ he will happily drop the subject with no problems???? ]

[sengokus]

No!

[HE SAYS THIS SO QUICKLY but he looks so confused?????]

But -

[he had fucking cactus needles in his hand last week and was even more upset about luca's murder and takeru never once asked him how he was????? but even though he's pouting he's clearly happy.... fucking hate this. this friendship is also stockholm syndrome]

.... I'm alright. [just chooses to answer because what if takeru stops being nice to him....] It was just - pretty tiring today. I didn't realize how many resources we had at the station...

[DENTAL RECORDS]

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Hm... I supposed the police is good for something, I guess.

[ their resources

he'll take a sip of the water. ]

Your friend's a moron.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . he nods.]

.... overeager and reckless.

[ . . . sips his water and looks away.]

Maybe it's why I can't be too mad...

[it's like

a fucking mirror]

[dotcom]

No? You can still be mad. It's still fucking stupid.

[ takeru's opinion on white is already like

dirt level

but still ]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

I don't think I stay mad as long as you do in general, Takeru....

[dotcom]

[ he is trying to decide whether to be offended or not ]

[sengokus]

[he laughs, just a little]

.... I didn't say it was a bad thing.

[a beat]

.... are you okay? Over what Harrow-san said today.

[he knows how angry takeru looked, but also assumed that it was at least something easier to get over since it was just a poorly phrased joke]

[dotcom]

I'm fine. Shouldn't the concern be on you? You reacted poorly.

[ just shoves the attention off of himself ]

[sengokus]

Yeah, so did you?

[shoves it back onto takeru]

One at a time here. I asked first.

[dotcom]

I have a similar sense of humor to her [ aka they both are mean to people in the same way ] so I know she wasn't trying to be too shitty.