First Investigation

[airlockedmods]

[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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[airlockedmods]

[Luckily, Ruri is uninterested in pursuit, unless you are planning to run in front of her all the way to the library. The door here is shut - she'll just start thumping against it once she's there.]

[le_mat]

Oh hey you.

[opens door]

There you go little dude.

[quadjumps]

[ WELL. LET'S PRETEND KORRA SMASHED IT NEAR THE LIBRARY. yuri is gonna turn back and head towards the library. ]

Hey, it was heading this way...

[ gonna go look inside the library. what's going on? ]

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[The library seems a little fucked up. We can get into that further a little later - for now, the important thing is the body slumped against the far wall. She's directly opposite the library door, plain to anyone who walks in, though her head has dropped against her chest and her school uniform is soaked through with blood.

Miki Naoki is dead.]

1/2

[quadjumps]

[ yuri doesn't know what he was expecting but--

it wasn't this.

he just...stares at miki's lifeless form for a couple of moments, frozen in shock. ]

[quadjumps]

[ and then he's going to storm out of the library, yelling: ]

I called it! I fucking called it! Fuck all of you!

[le_mat]

[guess who is right outside cuz he let the robot in? This guy]

Yuri, what are you-

[he freezes, eyes wide... Before darting in the room with shocking grace for a man with a busted knee. He hits the ground at a near slide and immediatly checks for a pulse]

[airlockedmods]

[Nah. But Ruri is gently and repeatedly butting into Miki's leg.]

[le_mat]

[sorry sad bot, akira isn't here right now.

I know it's pointless. You know it's pointless. But y'all get to watch a teenager attempt the most depressing round of cpr known to man cuz i hate myself and also you]

[challengesfate]

...

[Very, very gently. Lucina reaches out to Akira - her grip is rather strong, though, as she tries to pull him back.]

Akira, it's - it's too late. She...she's gone.

[le_mat]

[for a good few hours in fact,
based on the autopsy report. She's already started going cold. Akira let's himself be pulled back, shoulders stiff and unyielding.

He stands, pulling away and heading to the door with clear intent]

[challengesfate]

Akira...!

[...No. No, it's. He should go. Do what he has to do. If that's having a moment to cry or trashing something else, that's up to him. There's...bitter work to be done in here.]

[le_mat]

[if only it was so simple.

About that time the body announcements go off, and he starts shaking. He wasn't as close to Chitose as he was Miki, but that doesn't mean she deserves his rage any less.

Once he's out in the hall, the front of his white turtleneck tacky with old blood:]

Which one of you did it?

[he's not yelling, and not everyone is out here. But those that are most certainly can hear him]

[challengesfate]

[Ah fuck, fuck she can't just. She can't leave him like this, hold on Miki - she'll be back soon. Lucina gets up and hurries out to Akira.]

Akira, please - a murderer isn't going to confess so easily, we - we need to figure it out, for...for their sakes.

[lmafo]

[ Roxy is going to sit down by Ruri and kind of. Try to pet her? Please don't stab. ]

It's okay, you did your best.

[airlockedmods]

[Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

She butts against Miki again.]

[lmafo]

Aw, buddy. I know.

[airlockedmods]

Bwooooooooooop...

[challengesfate]

What? What did you-

[And then Lucina manages to step in just the right way to see

Miki's

Miki

Her face pales, and a mouth flies to her hand in horror.]

Miki...! No, no...Gods, no...!

[batfortheprincess]

[The commotion's loud and hard to miss, so he ends up following most of the crowd to the library. It's hard not to feel nervous about it and his instincts are telling him to stop, but he steps through anyways.

...That's--]

Ms. Miki...

[newcycle]

Miki!

[she never... thought someone would follow through with the motive. what.]

[discalibur]

[And one more person is drawn to all this chaos, it seems. Tsurugi almost stumbles into the room, almost a little half asleep still and...

...


Oh.]

T-That...

Miki-san... No...

[lmafo]

[ Oh, this is...

It's not the first body Roxy's seen, sure, but. Oh. ]

... so she's...?

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

[Zombina was just more or less following the crowd going to the library. She freezes when she sees Miki.]

What... the fuck?

[W H A T.]

WHAT THE FUCK!?

[Zombina tries and fails to resist the urge to punch something. It's a good thing she can't feel pain, otherwise punching that wall would've hurt.]

She- She was just- who the fucking hell- what!?

[challengesfate]

[Uh...follow roomba friend? Wtf is going on here...]