romance and murder go so well together

[capyper]

[ If the colorful posters from Tuesday weren't enough, Yato has redoubled his efforts for today and slapped these up all over the place:



We are admittedly not entirely sure what the heck the catgirl is there for, but she's there. Anyway, in the dining hall this evening, Aqua and Yato have set things up for a group dinner!! All the food is being put on one table; the rest of the room is for mingling and is colorfully decorated in a way that suggests that Yato went wild in the art room at some point and decided what we all really need in our lives is more color and more glitter!!

There's also this piece of paper with everybody's names on it in pairs, and sets of questions (red tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet). That's right, your mystery game is speed-dating and Yato is here to be your cupid for the evening!! ]

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[ratingspoint]

No.

[HE SAYS, WITH UTMOST CONFIDENCE, LIKE THAT ISN'T AT ALL FUCKING WEIRD.]

[sleepingkogoro]

[...that is all Mouri wanted to hear. It's perfect, this is just what he had thought! The truth is clear, he can see it now]

For a long while I have been wondering about you. I felt there was something I wasn't seeing yet, something I didn't understand, but now! I can see the truth! There's no truth that can stay hidden from the great detective Kogoro Mouri!

[Well he sure got into the role he had in his head. Mouri points dramatically, this is his show and he is the star. Good thing he has practice on that, product of his fame. At least he has the decency not to make a scene, everything is said with a normal level of voice]

Your life, the cousins, the strange feeling there's more of a story other than the Alphys-san, it all comes together. Mettaton-san! You are not a robot, are you? No, you are something different. You are a vessel!

The only thing created in a laboratory was your body. Your personality, your identity, everything that makes you the person you are, it is not something Alphys-san created.

[There! Jackpot! But then...he kept going]

She imbued a robot body with the memories of somebody who is now deceased. I don't know the exact circumstances, but my personal theory is that at the moment of the death she managed to save the mind of the deceased monster, giving it new life through a robot body.

[Not so sketchy, it is decent. If Mouri stops now he can be proud of himse-]

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if somehow it wasn't a monster life at all! If it was actually a human life what was saved that would explain why you were given an humanoid body, because that's the closest you could be to being back alive again!

[...now that is a stretch. Mouri doesn't see it as such, though, he's still smirking]

That is all the truth I now see. Am I right?

[ratingspoint]

[...Wow.

Just...give him a moment to process that before you get the most enthusiastic and utterly brief round of applause from him.]

So close! You came so close, darling - but in a tragic turn of events, you snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!

You were on the right track! But in the end, that's not it.

[sleepingkogoro]

...what?

[Well he is deflating. The show is over]

W-What could I get wrong?! I was completely sure I had solved it...

[ratingspoint]

I'll give you a couple of hints, since you were so close with your original guess -

One, I'm not a dead person. Not now, and not ever.

And two, I've been telling the truth when I say that I'm not human. I never have been, either.

[sleepingkogoro]

Okay, maybe I really am wrong about the human part, b-but if you're not dead then how could Alphys-san...

[He's stuck]

Damn iiiiit. This isn't as simple as I thought it was. There's something I'm missing here, damn it!

[He does notice Mettaton doesn't protest to the vessel part, though. There's some comfort on knowing he got that right, but if he doesn't know exactly what Mettaton contains then he may as well know nothing. Oh well.

He tried]

I'll have to think more about it later.