Week 7 - Trial

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week seven trial



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[allice]

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.]

[vytis]

Miss May mentioned that he didn't fight as if he were blinded, though, didn't she? Though I don't doubt something was wrong with him.

[allice]

What does that mean though? Is it because he used his powers against her and retained some coordination? His eyes were bloodshot but that doesn't make him entirely blind. As long as he saw something to attack, it wouldn't be hard to strike.

[vytis]

I suppose it's not completely beyond the realm of possibility. If he was being attacked immediately prior, though, then Miss May should have seen someone else leaving the chapel. There's only one exit as far as I'm aware--though considering the existence of secret passages, I suppose we can't leave that possibility out.

[allice]

Maybe we should check the chapel for any existence of passages then. Even if there are some, there wouldn't be many places to hide them when the chapel isn't connected to any building. This rules out the possibility of underground tunnels, for now. Though personally, I don't think the chapel has any. It's much simpler to just say that the killer left the same way they came and they couldn't lock the chapel from the outside.

[vytis]

It couldn't hurt. I believe Miss May also claims to have called Beat's name, though, so if he were blind he would also have to have had his hearing impaired as well--unless Miss May is lying. If someone did attack him beforehand and leave, without secret passages, we need to explain how Miss May didn't see them.

[allice]

It could happen, under the right circumstances. Sometimes a great rush of adrenaline comes hand in hand with loss of hearing due to the immense energy being pumped through the body. If Beat was already attacked, he may have been in an enraged state.

...And, with no offense to the deceased, he wasn't exactly the brightest person either.

[notyetlost]

[Did someone say... secret passages.]

... You think so?

[vytis]

Well, I can't be sure, but we shouldn't rule it out, either.

[notyetlost]

I'll help you look at the church if you want, but come with me because I like need to get a coat from my room.

[vytis]

[Lithuania blinks, but nods.] Alright, let's go.

[And they leave.]

[teenspirit]

[ 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?

[allice]

May, I highly doubt. Even if she claims to have attacked in self-defense, there's still a thirty minute time gap in which she was unconscious for and she only made one wound. As well as that, a kunai is a very small weapon and I don't think she could kill with it alone unless her aim was pinpoint accurate.

As for Gundam...well I'm officially sick of his attitude, but I don't think he did it either. The bullet doesn't add up as you said and his explanation doesn't make mention of the throat gash at all. All he mentioned was the kunai in the chest, but I trust May to say that she made that wound more. If anything he's just covering up for May, because she seems the most likely at this point with her claim of self-defense.

[teenspirit]

...May is a sort of warrior princess, you know? Who is to say that her aim is not accurate? Even myself, with my limited military training... I could fire an arrow accurately if I needed to.

[allice]

True, but at the same time she's also much smaller than you and was in a state of panic - she said to have retaliated without thought, like a jerk reaction, so it could be said her aim wasn't perfect when she wasn't focusing on it. Not to mention being flung against a wall, her aim could have been put off by injuries to her back.

[teenspirit]

Perhaps... we ought to ask her to recount her story in deeper detail, from the moment she woke up 'til the moment she realized Beat was dead...?

[allice]

That could help. May is a key witness in all of this: she was the last to see Beat alive and the supposed first to find him dead.

[pandacea]

[May has been listening to everything quietly, but at this statement she abruptly gets up and walks to Beat's body. She pulls out one of her kunai to confirm what Felicia had already discovered - that it fit into the center of the wound on the neck perfectly.]

[teenspirit]

...

Right on target.

[ And looking to Gundam, wondering if he will have an explanation for this. ]

[pandacea]

I knew it. You're right, Miss Sonia.

I don't miss.

[allice]

[...Tch.]

May, I need to ask you some questions about what you saw when you woke up. Is that alright?

[pandacea]

Yes, that's fine. I believe Miss Rapture is asking us to clarify our alibis anyway.

[souredsweet]

With such a large time discrepancy, it seems accurate. ...However, if you believe that the true culprit slit his throat and that was the killing blow, the entire front of his shirt would be bloodied, would it not?

[allice]

I wouldn't say for sure. It all depends from what point they slit him from. If behind then yes, but from the front it could be possible to hit him in a way that would let the blood pour without it touching his shirt I believe.

[souredsweet]

[Kaoru looks thoughtful for a second.]

Actually... If they slit his throat from behind, it would be possible that they could have bent him forward, correct? But then there would have been much more blood to clean up from the floor. It would have been risky, if they did not know when Miss May would regain consciousness.