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murdermanor2013-11-07 09:26 am
productions) wrote in murdermanor2013-11-07 09:26 am
[As soon as they are out of earshot of the others, Susan will pause and speak again.]
None of the screaming and defiant laughter, please. Just answer the question.
There's something odd about what happened to his throat. I've only just recognized why. ...It's two wounds, isn't it? A stab wound and a slice.
When you found the kunai... was it in the throat?
None of the screaming and defiant laughter, please. Just answer the question.
There's something odd about what happened to his throat. I've only just recognized why. ...It's two wounds, isn't it? A stab wound and a slice.
When you found the kunai... was it in the throat?
...
[He follows her silently, and stops when she does. When she asks the question, he turns away, giving her the cold silence he'd given Alice before.]
[He follows her silently, and stops when she does. When she asks the question, he turns away, giving her the cold silence he'd given Alice before.]
...I agree. As well as that, there's another issue: he said that Beat willingly plotted to attack May, that he "challenged" her. Beat isn't someone like Touko -- if he would plot to kill someone, I can't ever imagine it being a little girl. It doesn't match up with what May said either.
The question is, why would he shoot Beat's corpse? If it's the protect May then that makes little sense, when May's attack is unlikely to have been the final blow.
The question is, why would he shoot Beat's corpse? If it's the protect May then that makes little sense, when May's attack is unlikely to have been the final blow.
Edited 2013-11-08 22:03 (UTC)
We- we need to go back even farther than that. We need to consider Beat's reasoning in the first place...
[And then, abruptly, he seems to change his mind, and turns back to face her.]
No. It was in his shoulder. I have attempted to deceive you, all my soft-hearted enemies, but I have failed.
Hm, hm, hm. It is difficult to understand why all of you persist in these delusions. Does it feel better, to think you know me? I do not see why there is such...wish for a scenario that is more troubling than the one that exists.
No. It was in his shoulder. I have attempted to deceive you, all my soft-hearted enemies, but I have failed.
Hm, hm, hm. It is difficult to understand why all of you persist in these delusions. Does it feel better, to think you know me? I do not see why there is such...wish for a scenario that is more troubling than the one that exists.
I do not have the power over life and death. Even I...
I still think Susan's theory is the best in that regard. Beat was attacked and blinded by the real killer. He tried to make chase but became disorientated without his sight and mistook May as the attacker. He attacked her, be it with or without intent to kill, and she fought back. She fell unconscious soon after and he was left with the kunai wound.
Two things could have happened, from what I think: either he fell unconscious from shock or the real killer waited during his fight with May and struck after she fell unconscious. Even with the bullet wound in his body, I think the most likely cause is the slit across his throat. It's a quick way to kill, without noise and far more impersonal than shooting someone point blank.
[She mentions the impersonal way of death because of the suspect pool. Only Rapture strikes her as someone who would look someone and point blank shoot them, but Gundam and Kaoru do not fit that image in her mind.]
Two things could have happened, from what I think: either he fell unconscious from shock or the real killer waited during his fight with May and struck after she fell unconscious. Even with the bullet wound in his body, I think the most likely cause is the slit across his throat. It's a quick way to kill, without noise and far more impersonal than shooting someone point blank.
[She mentions the impersonal way of death because of the suspect pool. Only Rapture strikes her as someone who would look someone and point blank shoot them, but Gundam and Kaoru do not fit that image in her mind.]
...Very well.
[She continues walking forward.]
I do still want you to show me something.
[Fortunately or unfortunately, that something is exactly what Sonia is pointing out below and so we can probably skip over RPing that part.]
[She continues walking forward.]
I do still want you to show me something.
[Fortunately or unfortunately, that something is exactly what Sonia is pointing out below and so we can probably skip over RPing that part.]
[ She considers this for a while- the silence seems to linger.
Then, suddenly, she seems very serious. ]
...
So you do not think it was Mr. Tanaka or May?
Then, suddenly, she seems very serious. ]
...
So you do not think it was Mr. Tanaka or May?
[ This is a repeat of Greece (but with less dead people) all over again. At least there isn't a love quadrangle involved. It's getting too serious for her usual taste though. ]
I think we need to focus less on him and more on the crime itself. We should find out what else was used or if there was anyone who saw someone — wether it be May, Gundam, Kaoru, or myself — come back to the manor in the allotted time frame. Looking at an alibi might help us considering there was apparently hardly anyone around the chapel to notice what was happening.
I think we need to focus less on him and more on the crime itself. We should find out what else was used or if there was anyone who saw someone — wether it be May, Gundam, Kaoru, or myself — come back to the manor in the allotted time frame. Looking at an alibi might help us considering there was apparently hardly anyone around the chapel to notice what was happening.
I'll show you whatever you like. But I would advise you not to ask questions that have an answer you will regret.
[Sounds fine.]
[Sounds fine.]
And we can do that as soon as we clear at least one person beyond any reasonable doubt. That is why I am bringing this up.
This is how you intend to defeat me?
By insulting me, as though I would shoot him if he were so unworthy an opponent? No. We fought. He lay crouching, prepared to spring. Why would I wish to shoot a man who was dead?
By insulting me, as though I would shoot him if he were so unworthy an opponent? No. We fought. He lay crouching, prepared to spring. Why would I wish to shoot a man who was dead?
...You did not, but something like this... It seems more suited to Bernkastel, not to one who cares for animals.
Really? Then did you also crouch when you shot him? What a peculiar way to battle!
...
Peculiar it may be, but it is what occurred.
Peculiar it may be, but it is what occurred.
But as long as he fights to obstruct us, the truth will be obscured.
Simply because I care for animals, you imagine I care for humans, as well? Do not make me laugh. It is because I care for animals that I despise humans.
No, it is not. You would not have needed to match his stance. Recall the location of the gunshot. You nearly had him backed up into a corner. Were you so threatened that you had to shoot him then, despite the fact that you had the tactical advantage and could have contained him there?
Or was it, like I said, that he was already dying? Or already dead?
Or was it, like I said, that he was already dying? Or already dead?
When Gundam tells us the truth, we'll arrive at the solution.
But, I think, we need to consider the possibility that he might refuse to do so. That's his choice to make - if he continues to insist on this line of reasoning, we won't get anywhere. There's plenty of evidence that his version of events is possible, if not entirely plausible.
But, I think, we need to consider the possibility that he might refuse to do so. That's his choice to make - if he continues to insist on this line of reasoning, we won't get anywhere. There's plenty of evidence that his version of events is possible, if not entirely plausible.
I had him in a corner. He lost our battle. I shot him to obtain the power over life and death. If he had won, he would have obtained that prize.
It is so very simply.
It is so very simply.
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