Take Responsibility.

[kingmakereffect]

For the third time, those elevator doors at the end of the first-floor corridor open up at the end of the allotted investigation period; the ride down is, as ever, smooth and quick-moving. You're down by five. When the doors slide open, the podium circle still stands in stark contrast to that now-familiar black void of a courtroom, and once again, it's changed to reflect your losses – Caren and Mion have joined those with podiums draped in black, their framed greyscale profile portraits staring out at the rest of you. (The portrait of Pearl hasn't been removed from her room, but it seems the Kingmaker has replaced it with another; either way, her photograph is in the courtroom along with the rest.) As before, the Kingmaker waits until everyone is settled at their podiums before he speaks; he still isn't visible, but he can clearly be heard, his voice coming from everywhere and nowhere all at once. "Capable has been taken from you. I'll confirm one thing for you so no one will waste time asking – the killer wasn't me. Looks like the guilty decided to take a shot at Rule Seven after all – and whether they succeed or not is up to you." Twenty-two Survivors remain. We'll see how many the group has lost at the end of the day.

Comments

[garudynamic]

Okay, okay! Here's what all I think we know? Mion was attacked probably while playing cards and hit on the head. Then stabbed Do we know what she was hit on the head with?

Once she was knocked out she was bled out, and the scene was cleaned up with the blanket and possibly in the sink. Once she was bled out she was taken to the closet and hung so we'd assume she hung herself to avoid the incentive.

Also: all of this was done in a very short period of time since the blood was still wet.

Am I missing anything?

[capyper]

I think you're wrong about something. I don't think she was attacked while playing cards.

[garudynamic]

Yeah, there wasn't enough blood there.

[capyper]

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but... the bloodstains weren't near the cards, right?

So that means the bloodstains weren't there before Mion died.

[garudynamic]

Point... then I have no idea the order of this played out. It's a mess.

[capyper]

Think harder! You're in the prime of your youth, you can't go wasting your brain cells already!

[captainobnoxious]

What if he didn't have any to start with?

[capyper]

... You said it, not me!

[ Buuuuut he's also not defending Yosuke's honor here sorry Yosuke ]

[ratingspoint]

...Staging, then. Is that what you're saying? The scene in the game room was set up after the fact.

[capyper]

I wouldn't go that far, necessarily, but I guess it's a possibility? I'm just saying it sounds like the way people seem to think things happened doesn't seem like it's in the right order.

[ratingspoint]

...Wait. If she was hit and stabbed while playing cards, why was all the blood in the art room? Wouldn't it have been in the game room?

Unless she was knocked out and then carried into the art room, in which case. Well. Why. I mean, who does that.

[garudynamic]

To use the sink maybe?

[captainobnoxious]

Maybe they thought she was dead with the hit to the head and when they realized she wasn't they bled her out instead. I'm thinking she might've ran to the art room to hide if it started in the game room.

[pokexplorer]

If she went out of her way to run down to the second floor to hide, she may as well have gone all the way down to her room. She would have at least been able to safely lock herself inside.

Granted, her key appears to missing, so that may not have been an option...

[captainobnoxious]

Maaaan, I've gotta say, I already miss when we could cut someone and it'd be over with. This is a lot of thinking.

[happysweets]

It's like Cherry said before. It's someone who knew what they were doing...but Misa-Misa's stumped. None of the clues are coming together...

1/2

[captainobnoxious]

We've got almost everything we need, but it's just not connect right, so we're still missing something and that something is something that needs to be found soon or I'm gonna raid every one of you for your high class candies, honestly!

[captainobnoxious]

[...]

Except you, Misa. You can keep yours.

[happysweets]

Oh thank goodness! How can we narrow it down, though? There must be some way to make what we're looking for easier...