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And once the allotted time for investigating comes to a close, those elevator doors slide open at the end of the first-floor corridor, offering another of those fast, smooth rides down to that black void of a courtroom

Twelve out of the original twenty-seven are dead; there are four less of you present for this trial than there were last week.

That's incredibly obvious as soon as the doors slide open and the podium circle comes into view where it's encircling that dark pit in the center of the room; Norman, the King, Tarrlok, and Lynne have joined the deceased, photographs in greyscale watching the proceedings from their podiums draped in black.

Of course and as always, the Kingmaker is watching too; he waits until everyone is settled at their podiums to begin speaking, though it's still impossible to tell exactly where his voice is coming from.

"Assured and Perceiving have been taken from you. You guys are really getting excited, aren't you? Two people dead in one night... Whether the guilty party succeeds or not, though, is up to the rest of you."

Fifteen Survivors remain. However many will be down by the end of the day is up to you.

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[Mouri only realized there were two victims when Lynne was the only other person that wasn'tin the room. He takes a moment to mourn the loss of the other detective, but there was not much time for that. It was trial time]

I investigated the scene of Tarrlok's murder and...the conclusion I got to is that the body was moved. It was laid too neatly for it to have fallen down the stairs. It is possible he was killed somewhere else.

Misa-Misa thinks there was some kind of a scuffle in the dojo! The little pad thingies that you punch and kick and stuff were thrown around everywhere, and the whole place was a mess...

Hm. I see, I see.

[Connect the dots at the speed of light]

Tarrlok-san may have been killed in the dojo by having his neck broken. Then...he was...thrown down stairs to create those bruises and finally...he was laid in the first floor?

The bruises are what I don't understand!

...That would actually narrow down who could have done this quite a bit, wouldn't it. Tarrlok-darling wasn't a small man. In the best of ways, of course! But it isn't like most of us could carry him.

Wasn't he the biggest one here..?

He was. It would take someone with incredible strength to move him.

Well, at least that lets a few of us off the hook for Tarrlok's murder, if we assume he was moved after all!

He was! So unless someone else here is secretly something unnatural, we've got a narrow set to choose from.

Let's hope that isn't the case, right?

[...you know, between the vampire, the mermaid, the literal god, and fucking everything that Norman Bates decided to be- ]

Actually. My hopes aren't high.

People do tend to love their secret identities here, don't they?

We're four for four right now, sweetheart!

It's a tough habit to kick!

Those stairs are a pretty straight way down, in my opinion. If someone, say, was pushed from a certain amount of floors up, couldn't nature just take its course?