Once again, the contestants are ushered into the drawing room at 9AM Thursday morning. This trial, they will be investigating the death of Rin Kagamine.
Upon everyone's arrival in the drawing room, the doors are shut and the week's suspects are revealed. This week, the suspects will be Gundam Tanaka, Kanaya Maryam, Sonia Nevermind, Susan Sto Helit, and Touko Aozaki.
The trial started off by examining the alibis of the suspects. Susan pointed out that she sensed Rin was alive in the music room at 3:00 PM, but could no longer sense her presence at 3:15 PM, suggesting the time of death was that 15 minute window. After Gundam was made to clarify his whereabouts, a pattern became clear. With the exception of Touko Aozaki, who was outside at the time, every suspect was accounted for. Sonia and Gundam were together until 3:10 and seen entering the foyer at 3:00. Kanaya was in the kitchen with Kaoru and didn't step out except to get some china. Susan was in the courtyard with Yuzu.
Meanwhile, there's some discussion about the discovery of the body. Yuzu points out that the discovery bells tolled too early - only she and Poland were on the scene, while the rules indicate three people are needed. The possibility of an accomplice is raised, and it is noted the rules state an accomplice is always among the suspects. There is some resistance to this theory, however. Sonia insists that while the accomplice theory makes she and Gundam look guilty, that isn't what happened. Susan admits it does seem a little too obvious, and Stiles argues it would be a lot of risk for little gain to be an accomplice, though Kanaya says it might be possible for the incentive, being an item, to be shared. Latvia and Touko suggest someone could have happened on the body without knowing what they were seeing, but Yuzu thinks it wouldn't have counted unless they'd seen she was dead.
Poland brings up the box found at the scene. Since Rin was deadweight and only one deadweight item, the rapier, was recovered, some suggest this could be the set of poisons or the mystery box. Still, Rin is immune to poison, and Stiles argues that would be a pretty lame mystery box, and there wouldn't be any clear reason to bring it to the scene. Kanaya suggests the chemicals in the mystery box could be why Rin's wound was smoking, but Poland thinks that was just because she was a robot. Kanaya suggests a smoke bomb or taser was used, but Poland doesn't see much merit to that theory. Susan suggests the contents could have been used to drain leakage from the body. Touko doesn't see why anyone would pick a mystery box at all, but Poland seems to differ. May and Touko discuss the mystery box and believe it may be a "red trout."
Investigations are underway. Poland and Kaoru start to investigate the drawing room, but nothing stands out. Latvia inspects the mysterious box, while Touko gets to examining the body and rapier. Susan suggests the actual murder weapon could have been a heated poker. Latvia suggests maybe a third person arranged the scene, but Susan can't see how unless they were an accomplice, as they wouldn't have access to the sword.
As the first day drags into the afternoon, Poland sums up "weirdness" so far: the box itself and that it was left at the scene, that the weapon was left behind instead of hidden, that the crime scene wasn't cleaned and the door was left open where Susan could notice the disappearance, and that the clock chimed one person too early, indicating someone else besides the culprit was there before the discovery.
A bombshell was then dropped when Annie revealed belatedly that she was the person who stumbled on the body, and blowing most theories about the series of events of discovery out of the water.
Poland performs experiments and determines that a hot poker would explain the warped skin on Rin's body, and a poker is nearly consistent with the wound, at least more consistent than a rapier would be. Felicia wonders why they would bother disguising that they used a poker, and further suggests the sloppiness of the scene may be intention - the mystery box a red herring, and the choice of location with door open intended to set in stone the time of death. Susan agrees, and the two discuss how someone with an alibi for the window of the murder could have accomplished it.
Meanwhile, Sonia suggests everyone re-examine the list of deadweight items, considering the mystery box was a ruse and an item besides a sword would have been obtained. Spain and Felicia discuss the possibility of a skeleton key used to hide the poker in one of the now empty rooms, but the group settles on a theory that the secret passageway map was used.
At this point, Felicia drops a bombshell that several players had discovered a different secret room weeks earlier, and the trial gets distracted arguing about the decision to keep it secret.
The trial gets back on track through investigation. Poland discovers that the beakers in the chemistry area look very similar to the one in the mystery box, as do the dusty cardboard boxes in the pantry. Stiles has everyone explain their incentives, but nothing particularly new is elucidated.
At this point, Sonia, Felicia, and Clyde went to investigate the music room. The three discovered that, when playing several bars of music on the piano and then turning the bust of Mozart, a doorway will open behind the cabinet where the busts are kept. The doorway becomes a dusty stairwell, which descends down into the parlor and comes out again through the cabinet down there. The three also found a poker and a blank scrap of paper in the passage.
The three hurry back, and Sonia dramatically presents their findings to the group, just as the clock chimes, signaling the end of the first day.
DAY 2
The second day of the trial began with Alice summarizing the events as known. There was a little remaining debate over which alibis were still in tact, now that it was known the killer must have started from the ground floor. Susan's alibi in the courtyard with Yuzu seemed solid, as did Sonia's claim she went to the library, where Lithuania confirmed she was seen at 3:15. Although Touko was seen on the grounds, no one could confirm she didn't move elsewhere, so she was up in the air. Gundam's alibi was questioned as Sonia might have been generous with her time estimates on his behalf, but Sonia objected. Finally, Gundam logically objected that he could not cast spells on an iron poker, which Susan generously interpreted to mean there would not have been time for Gundam to start a fire unless Sonia was covering for him for a much longer period. Besides, neither Gundam or Sonia could have committed the crime, because Gundam would have chosen Susan to kill, and Sonia Jay Chou.
New suspicion about Kanaya was raised when Kaoru said Kanaya actually stepped out of the kitchen for five to ten minutes. This was even more time than Edward Cullen would have needed to make Bella his Queen of the Enrapturing Night. The trial somehow derailed for a little while at this point, as the wonderful tale of Mr. Cullen was shared. But as Felicia pointed out, the most likely culprits had been narrowed down to Kanaya and Touko.
Alice also took the morning to reveal the contents of Rin's computer. Susan was affronted to learn Rin was plotting against her, but in all fairness, as Poland pointed out, Susan is hogging the immunity and kind of a sourpuss to boot. So is there anything to Rin's claim that the Mastermind is one of the current players? The plot thickens...
On the other hand, Stiles, Alice, and Susan wondered if Rin couldn't be rebuilt. Susan's technical proficiency notwithstanding, no one determined whether R2D2 had a soul.
Latvia then chose to distract everyone from this important debate by bothering everybody with "evidence" to catch the "murderer." He pointed out Beat had said Kanaya had dirty gloves, which could have meant she moved one of the boxes in the basement. Beat corrected him that the gloves were dirty with soot, not dust. Kanaya claimed the soot was actually graphite from her drawing pencils.
Felicia checked the poker and found it did have soot on it, and then she and Latvia went with Kanaya to look at her room. Kanaya's gloves did appear to have soot on them, and no one was buying Kanaya's protests about graphite, not even Kanaya herself..
As the trial draws into the afternoon of the second day, Felicia makes an accusation, and Poland makes another one.
The Trial So Far