THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

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[Friday is quiet. Seth will find his Champion unitards once again in his closet, Togami will find the collar and baby carrier both unlock to let him take them off, and the ring toss game is gone. By itself, this isn't too ominous; the sabotages were due to end on Friday anyway, and the "motive" earlier in the week had left people in arguably better spirits than they'd begun it.

But there's something...off, anyway. Especially on the second floor. And, well, it's officially been a full week since the last time someone tried to make a bid for escape...

>Investigate?]

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[Looks like it was knocked over.

While there is nothing currently in it, it smells like bleach.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[That... seems pretty suspicious. Does there seem to be bleach on the floor or at least some kind of residue?]

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[The floor also smells like bleach. There's no obvious residue here, though.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

[Well... That's not at all suspicious! She gives it a glance over again. She'll just take the glass with her.]

[voltrounds]

[Ricky chooses this moment to look up from pointlessly staring at the books.]

What are you doing?

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She holds up the glass.]

Found this. It smells like bleach and so does the floor. Was someone drinking bleach in here or what?

[voltrounds]

If they were, they would--

[OH FUCK]

[tasteslikesurvival]

We'd find them in the library, I'm sure. Though, I doubt they're here...

[That's pretty much a quick end, right? Right??]

[voltrounds]

Someone would, but not necessarily us.

[tasteslikesurvival]

Right... But I don't know if it would kill someone quickly or not.

[refusedtoleave]

[Natsuhi's going to join the kids.]

Have you found anything?

[tasteslikesurvival]

[She gives Natsuhi the nasty bleach glass.]

We found this. It kind of smells like bleach and so does the floor. I found it on the ground. [Kurumi rubs her neck.] Do you know what happens if someone drinks bleach?

[refusedtoleave]

[She going look at it.]

That would- It'd kill someone. But wasn't she-

[She's going to cut herself off there.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

I mean. That's what it looked like but Ricky and me didn't get a close look at her ourselves.

[Ricky needed to get out of there, after all.]

[voltrounds]

She didn't.

[It's the surest Ricky has sounded about anything today.]

[refusedtoleave]

[She's frowning, because what?]

You're saying she wasn't strangled then? That's what their report on here says.

[tasteslikesurvival]

It said she died because she couldn't breath. That doesn't mean she had to be strangled. She could have been choked or her mouth and nose could have been covered.

[Kurumi, you shouldn't sound so calm.]

[refusedtoleave]

And the bruises they're showing us on the chart?

[voltrounds]

Bruises can form after someone dies. The whole body doesn't shut down all at once.

[Ricky on the other hand is Mad.]

suicide mentions here probably

[tasteslikesurvival]

Unfortunately, it doesn't. [Zombie world, remember?] Besides... It just doesn't seem like the way she would have done it.

[Beat.]

Suicide by hanging usually happens in secluded places. [Kurumi, why do you even know that? She quickly adds,] Right?

[refusedtoleave]

Suicide? What are you talking about? She wasn't killed?

[You're just getting her even more confused.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

I meant, it was staged like a suicide but it clearly wasn't.

[Natsuhi...]

[refusedtoleave]

You saw the body?

[Because someone clearly hasn't.]

[tasteslikesurvival]

She was hung up in the gym. It... Looked like she had hung herself but now I'm doubting that.

[You're lucky, Natsuhi.]

[voltrounds]

[Aaaand this subject has switched Ricky back to despair mode.]