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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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Okay, so Sigrun, Speedwagon and me examined Lynne's body.

She was found in the men's sauna. it didn't look like it had been used and she was still fully dressed. I'm guessing she was face down and you guys moved her, right?

[He showed up late okay, let him be]

Anyways, there was no signs of a struggle. No bruises or any way to tell what killed her for sure. But she did have slight chemical burns on her face. They looked like something was poured down her face- most of it was centered around her mouth. Sigrun checked her mouth and I checked her nostrils. It doesn't look like she drank or inhaled any thing that would have burned her.

There was also an empty bottle of bleach. Which I'm guessing caused the burns. Plus there was water all over the floor- it hadn't evaporated yet.

How could you tell she didn't drink it..? She didn't have any burns or anything in her mouth?

None. Trust me, I thought she was forced to drink if our had it poured down her throat too.

Right. She was face down. And despite the sauna not looking like it was used, there was water all around miss detective.

The water, for the record, was perfectly safe to touch.

Doesn't seem like it was any of that 'bleach' stuff then, did it? Otherwise we'd both probably have burns right about now.

Right! And I used Lynne's hand to test it.

The water might have diluted it, but we'd smell it if it was. So I agree.

[shrugs lightly.]

I guess you would know better then we do.

Ugh yeah, bleach REEKS. Even the stuff I use in my hair smells really strong.

You should not use it. It looks really painful to get on you, and you being a fakey fake redhead is still hurting my heart.

Yeah it's really not good for you. The reason it changes my hair is cuz it literally strips the color off.

[Shrug. Just put poison on your head Yosuke it's fine]

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The water might have come from condensation and if that's the case, then perhaps the sauna was used much earlier and then turned off.

That's possible. The burny water could've been used to clean the sauna in the first place, but... I mean, she did have them on her face like someone poured it. And since it didn't get into her mouth, I'm guessing she must've been awake for that part.

...she must have had some very good pain tolerance or just an amazing amount of determination to withstand that.

[Because... yeah, having it poured on you certainly is Not Fun.]

Yeah, I moved her like that. Her clothes had damage too, I guess from the burny water, and it was wet 'cause of the not-burny water. Maybe they tried forcing her to drink it and it didn't work out.

... Still don't know what could've killed her though, short of drowning. If she was knocked out.

There wasn't enough water there to drown her, but at this point unless someone had poison I have no idea how else she could have died.

Didn't I hear about some people gettin' arsenic outta the machine?

...crap, really?! How would we even be able to test for that...?

No idea.

We wouldn't be able to. [ Don't got the resources or the time. ] Arsenic poisoning has a lot of... unfortunate side-effects that go with it though, aside from the whole "dying" thing, so it'd be pretty obvious if anyone had it.

Indeed. Her body would be a wreck, to put it lightly.

Seems like that machine's spitting out worse and worse things by the day.

...okay, good. That's one thing we don't have to worry about.

[THANK YOU FOR BLOCKING THIS THOUGHT PROCESS BEFORE IT STARTS BLACK]

....Christ, that's horrible to think about.