Seventh.

[trustwellness]

The past week has been tense, despite everyone's best efforts to lessen the heavy atmosphere of worry and dread; the deadline for the incentive has been creeping ever-nearer, and the potential for consequences to come down – not only on you, but on those who have already suffered and died in the name of this "course" you've all been put through – has been difficult to ignore as time goes by. But whatever one may be feeling about it, the world keeps turning and time moves ever-forward; Friday morning dawns eventually, heralded with the usual ringing of chimes and silence laying heavy over most of the university. Perhaps things have been uneventful; checking the first few floors may imply that, for those of you that are feeling hopeful. Searching lower down, however... Well, things may not be as acceptable as they seem, let's put it that way. >Explore?

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BALLROOM

[trustwellness]

[oyashiromama]

[She doesn't...want to be doing this...

...She should've just--


Hanyuu shakes her head and crouches down. Is there...anyway to examine her without stepping in a the large pool of blood? That's a good opening question.]

[trustwellness]

[The large pool of blood seems to be largely concentrated on her clothes and to the left side of the body; the right side seems to be a bit clearer for you.

...As...seems to be a recurring theme in this round, though, you might want to be wearing shoes. Not that there's anything but blood on the floor, but still. Blood on the floor.]

[oyashiromama]

[It's fine, she's not her vampire girlfriend, she's got shoes.

Hanyuu will start on the right side then, and... Well, first of all she's going to look for any obvious cause of death. Like, you know, how all that blood got outside her body that's always a great place to start.]

[trustwellness]

[Well, first of all, let's have some notes about how the body is arranged so you know what you're looking at.

Orihime is lying on her back, facing upwards, with her hands clasped just below her chest - the way that one commonly associates with a body prepared for burial. She has a few yellow roses clutched in her hands, making it a bit hard to see what's going on with her chest. Not deliberately obscuring anything, from the look of it, just how things ended up.

Her chest seems to be the source of all the blood, though there's a spot on her stomach that seems to have been injured as well - you can just see it beneath where the hem of her shirt was tugged up a little.

What do you want to look at, Hanyuu?]

[oyashiromama]

[Why's she holding roses...? Why does she look like this?

Hanyuu's going to start investigating her chest. That means she's got to move those hands a little, is there anything she'll notice as she does?]

[trustwellness]

[We can get to "why the roses" once setting investigation happens! Until then...

Well, it looks like she's got some cuts on her palms, actually. Not from the roses' thorns, either - more like you'd see from a blade.]

[oyashiromama]

[Are they deep, or shallow?]

[trustwellness]

[They're not too deep, but they're not particularly nice-looking, either. The blade doesn't appear to have been serrated, at least.

She's also got cuts on her fingers as well, same sort of deal - apologies for not mentioning that sooner, apparently I can't read today.]

[oyashiromama]

[NO WORRIES FRIEND okay, with the hands aside (...quite literally), she'll take an uncomfortable look at Orihime's chest, where the blood's coming from. ...That's either slash or a stab, isn't it.]

[trustwellness]

[It looks like a stab wound - it's deep, and it seems to have hit her right in the heart.]

[oyashiromama]

[So you know who's very familiar with stab wounds? Can Hanyuu tell anything about the angle of the wound? Could it betray anything about the height of the culprit?]

[trustwellness]

[Actually, not really - everyone still alive except Elda is taller than Orihime, after all, and most of them are taller by a margin of five inches or more at that. Although it seems like whomever this was either knew what they were doing or got extremely lucky - it's a single stab wound, so the culprit didn't hit her ribs, she died on the first try.]

[oyashiromama]

[Well, she had to try. However, that is very interesting. A direct hit, that's...not easy, not at all.

...She really doesn't want to continue examining this. If there's nothing else to look at around her chest, then Hanyuu will move down to the wound on her stomach.]

[trustwellness]

[It looks like there's bruising, as opposed to an open injury. Kind of like she was hit with something hard, it doesn't look like it came from someone just punching her.]

[oyashiromama]

[How big does it look? Can she get an idea of the size of whatever made that bruise?]

[trustwellness]

[It's hard to tell, because she was hit pretty hard and there's a good amount of blood vessels there. There's a darker spot on it that isn't...huge or anything, so it's not like somebody took a warhammer to her abdomen or something, but otherwise it's difficult to discern.]

[tsugomori]

[ He's in here, right? He'll just take a quick cursory glance around here, to see if anything sticks out. ]

[trustwellness]

[Hey there, Mikazuki.

As was mentioned before, the ballroom looks a bit different today - namely, like someone was trying to decorate.]

[tsugomori]

[ Well, that's strange. What were they trying to decorate with?

... He'll just take a whole walk around the room to make sure he doesn't miss the decorations. ]

[trustwellness]

[Yellow roses! They're placed all around as decorations and while they're very pretty, it does kind of make Orihime's death even more somber, doesn't it?]

[tsugomori]

[ I suppose the icons are not exactly the right sort of thing then for that mood

Anyway, he's done here, and well...is he all set... ]

[trustwellness]

[you're cute mikazuki but try to look more traumatized by this poor girl's untimely death!!

There's actually something else that's off while you're looking around - the piano bench has been knocked over. It looks like it was caught in a scuffle as opposed to someone intentionally knocking it over.]

[tsugomori]

[ Hurtin' on the inside, never on the outside, conceal don't feeeel~

Oh okay. Well, that's probably not too unusual.

Did he miss any other little thing out here while he's looking around here? ]

[trustwellness]

[Nope, that's it! Hanyuu's got the body investigation so she'll get the rest of the evidence. Well done, Mikazuki!]