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Take Responsibility.

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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[So at least now they can more or less establish that Tarrlok was the first to go.

But now what?]

I've been wondering - why is there water in the sauna in the first place? I thought it could have been condensation at play, but...

[It seems more likely that the sauna wasn't used at all completely... which then doesn't explain why there was water like they said.]

Not sure. There was some clothing damage but not enough to think she was soaked in the bleach. Probably just drips from her face.

...it would be pretty obvious to us if she had been totally soaked in bleach.

[So yeah, no.]

Refresh my memory again - exactly how bad are the burns on her?

Not really bad. Just red skin. The kind you'd expect from getting pure bleach on you for a bit.

I checked the bottle, it didn't smell like it was mixed with anything.

...so where'd all that bleach go?

Well maybe...

['Just red skin'?]

The bleach must have flowed down quick, then, if the burns weren't bad at all.

So the culprit poured it on her face, then! Misa-Misa thought that she died from having it poured down her throat, but...

Still dunno WHY though... but maybe she was wet cuz the killer tried to flush the bleach out?

...or maybe Lynne did it to herself? I know in Chem we have that shower to rinse if we get something in our faces?

Oh, oh, that's right, they always have those in the science lab! Even the little ones that squirt in your eyes!

But where would she have gotten the water from?

Dunno. I mean, we have bathrooms on every floor. But there's no shower in the sauna or anything.

Which is kinda gross, now that I think about it.

There probably should be, right? I mean, instead of you having to go downstairs being all sweaty and stuff.

[AT...RISK OF ASKING A DUMB QUESTION...]

...Why was she doing all of this in the men's sauna, of all places?

Lynne-san's body was moved too, maybe?

Or she was lured or chased in there after she got soaked? Then just... leaked all over the floor?

Why not put her in the women's, then, if that's the case? That would make more sense, if it was to look like she just-

[...just...uh...]

...How...did Lynne die, anyway?

...Isn't that the question of the day?

...Was Lynne injured at all? No one has really mentioned anything outside of the burns on her face, and unless the bleach was somehow applied directly to her brain by way of her chin I don't think that has anything to do with her actually dying.