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Memory regained: Neutral Neutral - trial 1 - realizing that the culprit hid under the floorboards and then pointing him out (chapter 1, update #35)
Date: Day 369
Game won: Handless Faith's game
Form: crumpled paper (3/4 uses left)


Memory:

KOMAEDA: Well, then. What are we to do now?
KOMAEDA: If we agree the knife wasn’t the murder weapon, then there’s no conclusive evidence showing I’m the murderer.
KOIZUMI: Y…You should keep your mouth shut! This is up for the rest of us to decide!
HANAMURA: H…He said he was pushed away from under the table… but we don’t know that for sure, do we?
TANAKA: The pretentious one is correct. That some other weapon was used should not itself lift our suspicions…



TSUMIKI: B…But… there is another reason Komaeda-san can’t be the culprit…
HANAMURA: Huh?! There’s more?!
TSUMIKI: We all agree that the culprit killed Togami-san under the table… don’t we?
SONIA: Is that… a problem?
TSUMIKI: Um… I thought Komaeda-san was too clean to be the culprit.
KOMAEDA: Ah! Someone’s finally complimenting me for my impeccable personal hygiene! Even my mother never praised me for anything!
TSUMIKI: Uyu… Ah! No! That’s not what I meant!



HINATA: I SEE!
HINATA: What you’re saying is that Komaeda didn’t have any blood on him, right?
TSUMIKI: Y…Yes! That’s it!
TSUMIKI: I mean… there was a lot of blood splattered all over under the table, wasn’t there?
TSUMIKI: There were even splatters of blood all over the tablecloth…
PEKOYAMA: If he really had killed Togami under that table, it is strange that he did not get any blood on him…
KOMAEDA: Oh? As you can see, there isn’t any blood on me at all.
OWARI: Maybe… he simply used something to avoid the blood!
KOMAEDA: But, what is that “something”? Was there something that could be used to avoid the blood splatter…?
KOMAEDA: Oh… Actually, there was. Isn’t that right, Hinata-kun?



HINATA: THAT PROVES IT!



HINATA: There was a tablecloth with blood on it in the storage room… Is that what you’re talking about?
KUZURYUU: If there was blood on it, that must be it! Komaeda must have used it under the table to avoid the blood!
TANAKA: But, it was found in the storage room, was it not? Are we to believe he carried it there, after the murder?
NIDAI: Do you mean after the lights came back on? What did he plan to do if someone saw him?
HINATA: That’s right… that tablecloth was pretty large, so carrying it through the lodge in order to hide it…
KOMAEDA: Furthermore, it was enough trouble grabbing the knife in the darkness. Stabbing someone while wrapped in a tablecloth on top of that…
KOMAEDA: I don’t think the most talented people in this room could do that… let alone someone at my level.
HANAMURA: S…So… What does it mean…?



NANAMI: …………
NANAMI: Perhaps… the culprit didn’t stab Togami-kun under the table.



TANAKA: Impossible. That the victim died under the table is beyond question.
TSUMIKI: With the blood splattered all over the tablecloth… It’s clear that that’s where Togami-san was killed…



NANAMI: True. Togami-san was stabbed under the table. But… that doesn’t mean that that’s where he was stabbed from.



MIODA: Frankly, that makes no sense at all!
KOMAEDA: Oh? Hinata-kun… Your face suggests you just figured something out.
HANAMURA: R…Really?! You got that… riddle thing she just said?!
HINATA: I feel as if I’m about to get it… but it’s still vague…



NANAMI: It’s a place that both is under the table and isn’t under the table. That’s the only thing that makes sense!
NANAMI: You start with that notion… drop your preconceptions… and pick the right answer! …I think.



HINATA: I’ve got it… the culprit stabbed Togami from the crawlspace under the floor, didn’t he?!
KOIZUMI: H…He was stabbed through the floor?!
HINATA: The old lodge’s floor is full of gaps, and the carpet didn’t reach all the way to that table.
HINATA: If someone pushed a weapon through one of those gaps… they could probably stab and kill Togami.
KOMAEDA: In that case, the culprit would have to get into that crawlspace. How did they do that? Where is the entrance?



HINATA: I don’t know… but I think I have an idea who might.
HINATA: IT COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN YOU!
HINATA: Hey, Tanaka… you dropped your earring back at the big hall, didn’t you.



TANAKA: You mean, the Devildog Earring?
HINATA: That earring…
TANAKA: …You mean, the Devildog Earring?
HINATA: …The Devildog earring… ended up under the floor, right?
TANAKA: Hmhmhm… Long and arduous was the search. By its end, I was ready to raze that accursed lodge to the ground…
TANAKA: But, just as the ancient prophecies foretold it would, the Devildog Earring found its way back to its rightful owner!
HINATA: That earring… it’s the one that’s on your ear right now, isn’t it?
HANAMURA: Eh? So, you…?!
HINATA: Tanaka didn’t have the earring during the investigation…
HINATA: But just before the trial he had it back on.
HINATA: That means that during the investigation, he managed to retrieve his earring from under the floor.
PEKOYAMA: And so, it means he must know a way to get under the floor?



TANAKA: Hmhmhm… It is no wonder that your bead-like eyes could not perceive the truth…
TANAKA: But you were wrong! The power of the Four Dark Gods of Destruction renders every obstacle insignificant!
TANAKA: Behold, the power of their Fourth Eye of Evil!
TANAKA: Yes… Before this Evil Eye, visual chaos becomes order!
SAIONJI: What am I going to do?! Just listening to him speak is embarrassing!
NIDAI: GRAAAAAH! EXPLAIN IT LOUDLY AND CLEARLY, LIKE A MAAAAAN!
TANAKA: So be it, then! I shall tell you! The answer to this mystery lies in the storage room!



TANAKA: “Mirage Silver Falcon” Cham-P of the Four Dark Gods of Destruction perceived it within the chaos.
TANAKA: He discovered the “Passage of Doom” concealed among the piles of boxes…
TANAKA: I then acquired a lighter from the supermarket, and stepped into the space, unafraid to face the danger ahead…
TANAKA: And there I claimed the spoils of my solitary battle… the Devildog Earring, mine again at last!
TANAKA: Fuaahahaha! You know now the extent of my powers… Will you tremble in fear? Or kneel in reverence?
SAIONJI: You sure you’re not exaggerating just a teensy weensy bit? Aren’t you just a breeder?
PEKOYAMA: Anyway… it would seem he entered the crawlspace from the storage room.



NANAMI: In that case, that’s also where the culprit entered it from.
NANAMI: It didn’t look as though the lodges walls extend down there, so it wouldn’t be very far from the storage room to the hall.



NIDAI: Hmm… if they went by the storage room, that would explain why the tablecloth was there.
MIODA: The culprit snuck into the crawlspace from the storage room, and sent the weapon fwap into Byakuya-chan!
HANAMURA: Hmmm… is that really what happened?
MIODA: It might not have been fwap… maybe something more befitting a large mass, like splat or something?
HANAMURA: No, I wasn’t talking about the sound effect…
HANAMURA: If someone snuck into the crawlspace, that means they’d have had to slip out of the party, doesn’t it?
HANAMURA: But… No one did… did they?
SAIONJI: In that case, the culprit is someone who wasn’t at the party at all. All they had to do was wait under the floor the entire time.
OWARI: …Remind me. Who wasn’t at the party?



NANAMI: I wasn’t, but… I was standing guard at the lodge’s entrance. Monomi over there can confirm that… right?
MONOMI: Yes, Monomi over here can confiwm that!



PEKOYAMA: I don’t think it bears repeating, but… I was in the bathroom, and couldn’t leave…
HANAMURA: I was in the kitchen most of the time, but I carried food to the hall now and then.
KOIZUMI: Um… so the person who wasn’t at the party is…
KOIZUMI: As far as I can tell from the pictures I’d taken…
KOIZUMI: …He’s the only one left, right?
KUZUYRUU: …………
SAIONJI: Yay! This proves it!
KUZUYRUU: T…This proves nothing! I’m not the damn culprit!
KOIZUMI: Aren’t you…? Remind me who was it that said he won’t hesitate to kill any of us?
KUZURYUU: Shut your mouth! I’ll kill you!
KOIZUMI: See? There he goes again!
MONOBEAR: Oh, that sure hits the spot. Finally, some excitement I can approve of!



SAIONJI: During the party, the culprit…
SAIONJI: Lay waiting under the floor, like a cockroach.

With Kuzuryuu’s height…
Yes, it’s possible…



HANAMURA:In that case, not only did he have a perfect view of the girls’ panties…
That’s just you…
HANAMURA: …He didn’t have to go to the storage room when it was dark!



MIODA: How about it, Fuyuhiko-chan?!



KUZURYUU: Don’t just decide to make me the culprit!
That reaction sure is suspicious!



KOIZUMI: But, after the party started…
KOIZUMI: …No one saw you at all.
KOIZUMI: That means you have no alibi!
I concur with big sis Koizumi!
That girl…!



TANAKA: Being suspected is merely an axiom…



HINATA: YOU’VE GOT THAT WRONG!
HINATA: No, Kuzuryuu did have an alibi. Isn’t that right, Nanami?



NANAMI: Um… Oh, that’s right.
NANAMI: I saw Kuzuryuu-kun after the party had already started, so he couldn’t have been hiding under the floor since before the party.



KUZURYUU: Why didn’t you tell them that faster, you shithead?
KOIZUMI: Why didn’t you tell them? And why were you loitering around the lodge anyway?
KUZURYUU: S…Shut up…
HANAMURA: Maybe there’s a secret passage from outside the lodge to the crawlspace, and he was scouting for it…
KUZURYUU: …Shut the fuck up, asshole!!
HANAMURA: Yaaaaaa!!
SAIONJI: Waaah! He’s happy being shouted at?!
TANAKA: No… the crawlspace cannot be entered from outside. With the aid of the thoughtful one, I confirmed as much…
SONIA: So, someone did sneak into the crawlspace from the storage room during the party, then?
TSUMIKI: It probably wasn’t just during the party… but during the power outage…



NANAMI: Ah… If someone disappeared during the blackout, it’s not so strange that we didn’t notice.



HANAMURA: But, walking from the hall to the storage room in the dark is like trying to make Eggs Benedict without eggs!
SOUDA: He’s right… I couldn’t even find the office, which is right next to the hall…
HINATA: …………
HINATA: But, was it really impossible?
HINATA: I think we should explore this possibility just a little longer…
MIODA: In that darkness? It was definitely impossible to move to the storage room!
KOMAEDA: Somehow… it seems we’re reaching a conclusion…
KOMAEDA: The culprit and the innocents… we will soon discover whose Super High-school Level is superior.



HANAMURA: The corridor was completely dark during the outage, right?
HANAMURA: Moving all the way to the storage room in those conditions…
HANAMURA: That’s like a bowl of kaisendon without any fish!
That actually doesn’t sound so bad!



NANAMI: I wonder, is it really completely impossible?



NIDAI: Maybe they used a cord, like Komaeda did?
A cord…?
That’s probably easy to hide…



SAIONJI: Maybe they had their own night-vision goggles?
But, even if they did…
…Togami would have confiscated them, right?



OWARI: This is annoying, so I’ll just go with my intuition…
OWARI: They used light. That would do it, wouldn’t it?
Was… Was that a joke…?



TSUMIKI: It was impossible after all…



HINATA: I CONCUR!
HINATA: That’s it! The culprit used light!
OWARI: Oh! I was right?!
MIODA: But, where did they get light from?
HINATA: They had a light source. Here, it’s written right here in the equipment list for the kitchen.
HINATA: …It’s the portable stove.
MIODA: P…Portable stove?!
HINATA: You can turn on a portable stove even when there’s no electricity, and you can even carry it around…
HINATA: The culprit used that portable stove, and moved through the corridor all the way to the storage room!
KOMAEDA: I see… that portable stove is a plausible explanation, but your reasoning still has a hole in it.
HANAMURA: What hole might that be? Please tell us all about it.
HANAMURA: Ah! I didn’t mean that in a dirty way! I really didn’t!
KOIZUMI: Denying it so loudly just makes you more suspicious!
KOMAEDA: So, Hinata-kun! How about a little one-on-one with me?!



KOMAEDA: You’ve got that wrong.
KOMAEDA: …I wonder. Will you be able to crush my counterargument?
KOMAEDA: Have you forgotten Souda-kun’s testimony from before?
KOMAEDA: He said he couldn’t reach the office.
KOMAEDA: But, the light from the portable stove you claim was used…
KOMAEDA: …Would contradict that testimony.
KOMAEDA: Or maybe, you mean to doubt Souda-kun’s entire story?
HINATA: I have no reason to doubt Souda’s story!
HINATA: What are you even trying to say…?!
KOMAEDA: If Souda-kun failed to reach the office…
KOMAEDA: That means the corridors were completely dark, doesn’t it?
KOMAEDA: But, if someone used light in those pitch-black corridors…
KOMAEDA: They would be seen by Souda-kun, wouldn’t they?
KOMAEDA: I mean, he was loitering there for a while.



HINATA: I’LL CUT THAT CLAIM TO PIECES!
HINATA: Komaeda… have you forgotten? Or are you just pretending to?
KOMAEDA: …Eh? What are you talking about?
HINATA: There was a “wall” that can block light in that corridor.
HINATA: …The fire doors.
HINATA: If someone closed them, they could make a perfect wall blocking off the corridor.
HINATA: And that’s not all… just past the fire doors the corridor quickly makes a sharp turn…
HINATA: …So even if you only have a short opening… as soon as you round that corner you’re out of sight.
KOMAEDA: I see, so you noticed the fire doors. As expected from a Super High-school Level —
KOMAEDA: — Oops… you still don’t remember your own talent yet, do you?
HINATA: T…That doesn’t matter right now…!



PEKOYAMA: Komaeda. What is the meaning of this? You are putting up a lot of resistance for someone who is not the culprit.
KOMAEDA: You don’t have to speak in such a scary voice. When you’re mad, remember - take deep breaths!
KUZURYUU: Are you ever gonna shut the fuck up? Do you need some help with that?!
MONOBEAR: Hey! I don’t mind fighting, but not violent fighting that pulls in unrelated parties!
MONOBEAR: And would you just decide on a culprit, already? You know, if this gets boring, I can just add a time limit…
KOMAEDA: Alright… So. Time for me to hand over the baton, is it?
SONIA: H…Hand over the baton?
KOMAEDA: It’s time for the real culprit, not a fake like me, to make their appearance!
NIDAI: Ku… I’d say you probably are the culprit.
KOMAEDA: If that’s what you think, I don’t mind.
KOMAEDA: I’m going to accept any conclusion you guys make, as long as it’s one all of you Super High-school Levels reach together.
HINATA: …………

( translation from the orenronen lp! )

What was learned:
→ Somebody died?
→ And we're trying to figure out who did it, huh...

Effects:
+100 ability to solve puzzles