The Murder Gang Doesn't Do A Murder (W4, Friday)

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[disreguarded]

[exhaustedly:] Uh, well. We didn't fucking kill Byleth, so.

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[well, there goes any question of whether beau went and did it without her.

so yeah, rita just nods vigorously.

the fuck????]

[ghoststrums]

[ SHIT ]

What?!

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Something weird happened. Like, I was awake long enough to see some other people in the room conk out at midnight?

... But that's the last thing I remember. I ended up falling asleep, too.

[ghoststrums]

... Shit.

[ fuck. fuck! fuck is the emotion ]

[disreguarded]

[yeah mood]

I was up a little longer too. So - our fucking intention was noted. Just, someone else beat us to it, somehow.

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... Guess we learned something about how this works, at least.

[her emotional state is still pretty ?????!? though]

[disreguarded]

[yea same

though she's also like, very tired. she looks it, too.]

Great. Yeah. Makes me wonder if the killers don't teleport, just the victims, since we didn't get dumped outside. Or if we just didn't get picked and it didn't activate.

[ghoststrums]

So technically... whoever it is just doesn't fall asleep, then.

[ that's... neat... but: ]

But that doesn't help us figure out who actually went through with it, and why.

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Well, we can already cross a whole lot of suspects off the list right now, at least...

[disreguarded]

I don't know. We found a bunch of sword slashes at the bookstore, but - I don't know if that tells us anything. Could be a sword against a sword, could just have been Byleth. I don't know anything about the Wang Lu guy, did he have a sword?

[ghoststrums]

That was his item. There were slashes at cosmetology where we found him, too.

[arcsplainist]

[ seconding: well, shit ]

... But then—who?

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[SHRUGS????]

[arcsplainist]

[ haha yeah! ]

Hm. I somehow failed to consider that another would have the same idea as us... I confess, however, that I am shocked that anyone followed through with it.

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I'm not really surprised someone else went for it, I guess...

Just didn't expect to get screwed with as a result. Must be some unwritten rules about how many people can go out in one night, or something...

[arcsplainist]

For the best, I would say. I do not wish to think of what would have come out of someone spotting you two during the night.

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Y, yeah... I mean, ultimately, we got what we were going for, without taking on the risks or expending the effort ourselves...

[and she should be happy about that? but she's not particularly...]

... Wonder if this changed anything.

[arcsplainist]

[ Yeah, no. It's hard to feel any joy in it. ]

They will all do their best to find her killer, I'm certain. Ideally, I would like that their focus is shifted elsewhere, but... that is easier said than done.

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Frankly, I'm not going to vote for someone who killed somebody I was going to kill anyway. I want to know who it was, in case there's more to it than it seems at a glance, but that's it.

So... we can focus on finding Wang Lu's killer, and if that fails...

Well, it's not like we'll have to risk voting for someone innocent.

[ghoststrums]

[ ... looking at his own hands a little ]

... Yeah.

[arcsplainist]

[ He nods in agreement. ]

My thoughts exactly. I wonder, though... If it comes down to it, if we can get everyone else to do the same.

[ghoststrums]

The problem with that is right now, we can't know for sure if it was someone acting against their own will or something else. It could even be that same group as always.

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It's always possible, but...

If this was a case of someone deliberately choosing to kill, unrelated to the two distinct types of murders we've seen so far... then that means that one of those two didn't happen this week, right?

[ghoststrums]

Right. That's why... something doesn't add up.