trusthell | Seventh.

Seventh.

The klaxons blare out bright and early Friday morning – granted, given the lack of windows in this place, it probably just feels early. Once again, things are quiet on the lower floors – the first-floor hallway isn't covered in blood, there aren't any bodies lying around, and things seem fairly normal to those just leaving their dorms.

Of course, that doesn't mean that nothing is wrong; seven weeks in this place have probably taught everyone at least that much.

Overall, though, things seem pretty sane until you get to the higher floors – where there are traces of blood on the fifth, in the general direction of the locker room between the saunas.

>Explore?

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[The detective and the doctor can handle this body like usual, it's time to detective in all the rooms on this floor.

So. Anything immediately wrong about this room?]

Looks like the blood came from in here...

[Sorry to crash, but he obviously followed it.]

Greaaat, the place I don't go. Young people and their noisy machines.

Right? I've basically never been in here.

I tried to play a few things and watched Bruce go at the pinball machine, but other than that... Nope. He was pretty good at it, by the way. Something to do with angles.

[... Mettaton liked it in here though, and so did Misa, so that makes this place sad to her.]

Sounds like somethin' he'd be good at. Pinball's either for nerds or cheaters. So me and Ford both used to be pretty good.

I thought about putting kittens in it myself. Since they're small and would enjoy chasing the ball.

[Murder what murder.]

[Look, he finds it easier to have a normal-person chat in between the exploded corpse discovery and the murder trial]

Brilliant! People'd pay out the nose for that! [but yeah okay let's go look at the blood]

[The first thing that's immediately noticeable is the faint pungent smell. That's certainly something to consider.

The second thing to notice is that something happened here.]

[... Gross? What kind of pungent smell? The same as with the body, or a different one?

Also... what kind of something happened here. Are there overturned machines or something? Are the bootleg plushes okay?]

[A different one! It smells like vinegar.

The bootleg plushes are just fine! The machines are also fine, but it looks like a scuffled happened in here at some point.]

[Vinegar? Oh, gross, that is worse than charred bodies. At least she's used to that.]

Soooo, you might've already guess this, Stan, but a fight happened here.

[An excellent observation. The blood led from here to the sauna area, so where is it in here?]

[That's the strange part, the room is mostly clean. There's no dust here at all... but if you're looking closely you might find traces of blood.]

[So they were clean about this place, then. Like how Mettaton did his.

wow it sucks that even murder scenes reminds her of that jerk

Anyway, that's weird. No dust. Mostly clean. Traces of blood, because she absolutely will look close enough considering, you know, trails don't end cold like this if there's blood dripping all the way here.

... And considering the murder weapon was the odd explosive mess that is Shirazu's body, she's out of luck in that. Are the traces of blood centralized, or are they spread out, much like the remains of Shirazu's gut? As far as she can tell, with her normal albeit used to seeing blood eyes.]

[They're centralized, actually!]

[Good to know! So their culprit is probably injured, provided the victim only has that kind of fatal stomach wound of theirs.

... She gets to ask for another strip search. She doesn't get to join this one, again, because the fuck is a chemical, and she's never going to get to show off the sparkly bras she got.

Anything else interesting, for the stupid?]

[Well, there's a Pac-Man Machine that's kind of interesting? And not just because it's Pac-Man!]

[... You know she should've played Pac-Man. She would've loved it. The little ghosts look just like Mettaton's cousin, now that she's looking at the design on the side!

Besides that cute thought... What's interesting about it? It'd be nice if it was still playable. Unlike the piano she investigated once.]

[It is still playable! Not only is it playable, but it looks like someone left it on the hi-score player name entry. Whoever they were, they did a good job! The only letter entered is S.]

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The thought crossed my mind.

What were they, eatin' fish and chips in here first?

If so, they should've invited me. I love fish.

[sigrun that's

Anyway. It's all really clean in here? So weird.]

Though I am great and amazing, I have noooo idea what... vinegar can be used for outside of like, cooking, and it's still not a huge favorite to be around. Any practical uses?

Yeah. Gettin' blood stains out.

[SO...]

[SO.......]

Theeen I am right. Someone's got the idea to clean, 'cause this place is pretty spotless. At least they'll be easy to sniff out if they didn't think ahead. Which I hope they didn't. Make it easy on us, right?

That'd be nice.

But they must've put a lotta thought into this. Cookin' up a bomb ain't exactly a crime of passion.

I can count the people who have the know-how on one hand, but I still don't really want to convict anyone. But they've gotta answer for their crimes and they know it.

[It just blows because KM's right.]