First Investigation

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[On Friday, C.E.C.E.'s morning announcement goes out as usual. But people coming out of their rooms to begin their day may notice a faint thumping sound coming from down the hall.

Investigate?]

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[It looks like there's something under her head!]

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[You touch that corpse, small child]

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[It's dry, and the spatter is...medium-sized. The size isn't particularly noteworthy.]

[karappo]

[MMM YEAH...heavy shovel noted. Karamatsu actually drops it point first the first time he tries to pick it up, and the second time he's straining a little to keep it up off the ground.

He'll hang onto it though. It seems like this is going to be important later...]

[immaculacies]

[Fantastic. While Kaiba sees what's beneath Chitose's head, Manaka is going to check her hands and other visible parts of her skin for surface wounds.]

[airlockedmods]

[There's something caught on the collar of her uniform! Careful while grabbing it, though - it's broken glass.]

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[The lacerations are indeterminate, but I would be shocked if you could stab through someone's body with a shovel.]

AREA CLEAR

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[WAIT NO I'M AN IDIOT

The floor around where the shovel was lying is also scraped up! Which is weird, since it's metal.]

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[There are bruises on her hands and arms, as if from a fight.]

[challengesfate]

[She'll gently take a piece and examine it - before going to Prompto and comforting him in his breakdown, of course. Is the glass a specific color or thickness that might tell us what it was originally part of? Is there any sort of residue on it? And - Lucina does a quick sweep of the floor around Miki - is there broken glass anywhere else in the library?]

[batfortheprincess]

[Hmm, alright. Guess he'll need to like... scrape it off with something later. He'll move on to the shelves, then? Mostly he'll be interested in seeing if there's anything missing there.]

[playthedamncard]

[Jinkies, Scoob, a c-c-c-clue! He gingerly lifts up her hair, smoothing her hair away, and we find...]

[karappo]

[NO ITS OKAY I MEAN LOOK WHO IS INVESTIGATING HERE HE PROBABLY MISSED IT

But he does notice the scrapes once he's stood up and has the shovel up off the ground. Huh, that is weird.

...just so I'm not remembering wrong, the floor here is also metal, yes?]

[challengesfate]

[Oh-

Oh no

Miki, she's so sorry, but Lucina hears that sad, small sound and turns, and it's Prompto, and he's got a knife in his hand, and - and the wounds on Miki don't look like knife wounds, so...

Gently, she rests Miki back and gets up, crossing the room to Prompto and kneeling next to him.]

Prompto...

[She pauses, uncertain about what to do, how to help him - how to help anyone, because there is no helping this situation. Two girls are dead. Everything smells like blood. There's at least one killer in their midst and too many people who are hurting all at once.

But despite all that, Lucina leans gently forward, and wraps Prompto in a hug.]

We'll find out who did this. It's...it's going to be okay. I promise you. We will find Miki's killer.

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[Just a regular big kitchen knife?]

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[The dent is wider than the scrape - that's long and narrow.]

[in4apounding]

[SHOVEL-KUN IS A STRONG BOY but okay, that's actually a weird kind of relief.]

[Anything she can glean about the wounds that Lucina hasn't, given her familiarity with ridiculous but advanced weaponry?]

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[It's bloody rags! They're the rags that are normally in the art room for the cleaning of paint and such, but now they're folded and pillowed beneath Chitose's head.

Also bloody.]

[immaculacies]

[And... With that noted, it's time to move on to anything underneath Chitose's clothes. Manaka will start by pulling her shirt up, so she can get a better look at that stab wound.]

[airlockedmods]

[The floor is what I was referring to! Definitely metal.]

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[There's a lot of stuff technically off the shelf - there's a lot of cardboard boxes fallen and scattered around here. But if you want to look through them, you're not going to find any of the supplies are gone.]

[karappo]

[OKAY SWEET, scraped up metal floor, got it.]

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[No residue! But it's clear glass, and some of the pieces are slightly curved.]

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[Not really, sorry!]