//------------------------------// // Class Trial 2: Chapter 3 // Story: Dangan RomPonya // by Serenade-Stereo //------------------------------// "That's right...her reporter microphone was missing from the crime scene..." "Huh?" Beau eyes Serenade Riiiight, they can't hear my inner monologue "I just remembered that whenever Moonlight was around, she's always have her microphone...yet...back at the crime scene it was nowhere to be found..." "Oh my...you don't believe..." Orion starts insinuating "that...this metal rod is part of said microphone, are you?" "Yes...it would make one more thing clear...she couldn't have been in the geography room" You can shut your mouth right now! Punch slammed her fist on the stand "COULDN'T HAVE ENTERED?!!" She yelled over to him. "What kinda bullshit is THAT?! How the hell do you suppose the microphone got in the geography room then?!" Urk! E-everyone is out to get me in this trial... Cross-Swords Evidence blades -Monokuma File 2 -Metal Rod -Globe -Vent Punch- Don't bullshit me, Serenade! That metal rod ain't the microphone she carried around! If it is, then where is the rest of it?! Without that answer, you can't prove nothing! Serenade- We don't the whole thing to say that this is Moonlight's microphone though and besides, I said that she couldn't have entered the geography room...it was kind of the reason you objected... Punch- Well...that's true to! She had to have put it there herself, nobody else could have! I'll cut that claim into pieces! "Punch, are you forgetting what we just discussed? Moonlight was already dead when that metal rod turned up in the geography room..." "H-huh?" "Have you not been listening to anything that has been said in the last five minutes?" Zoom asks her "...sorry, what?" "Ugh...my question was asked...and answered" "So...now we know that the killer entered the aquarium, storage closet...and now the geography room?" Samurai scratches the back of his head. "Yes, that's right" Serenade smiles. "Pfft, impossible" Nimbus scoffs "How could the culprit go to storage closet, aquarium and geography room without being detected?" "H-huh?" "Well? What is your answer?" A way for the culprit to move about without being detected... Of course! "The ventilation system" "The vents?" Nimbus repeats "Yes, let's say the killer is a Pegasus, they could go through the vents with ease and attack Moonlight, dispose of evidence and most importantly, avoid detection" "So...you're saying that the killer could fit inside the vent?" "I suppose I am..." "Then do you realise who you are indirectly naming as the culprit?" Who...I'm naming as the culprit...the culprit could fit inside the vent and other than Moonlight...only one other student could have fit inside... It could only be you! "Beau...is the only one that could easily travel through the vents..." Beau sighed and folded her arms "Of course...I'm unable to be the culprit since I was with Serenade the entire time..." "Exactly..." Serenade bit his lip. The only one that could have done it...was with me the entire time...so there's nobody else left to suspect Serenade let out a yell "There's just no freakin' end to this!" He hit the stand. "Who the hell are we supposed to say is the culprit?!" "Calm down, Serenade" Beau silenced "There's no reason to get so frustrated on a puzzle with a single piece left" she smirked "Think like this...one of us had a method of transporting the metal rod and the globe throughout the ventilation system...but if I'm the only one that could and I was with you...where could that lead you?" If Beau is the only one that could go through the vents aside from Moonlight...then...what does that leave? What does it mean...? Of course! "An accomplice...the killer had an accomplice!" "Good work" Beau smirked "W-what?!" Hammer said taken aback "A-an accomplice?! Not a chance! They wouldn't benefit from helping with the murder!" Wild says "You're right...they wouldn't" Serenade looks at him "I am...?" "Yes, which means that...the accomplice wasn't one of us!" "TICKERY HAS LOST THE PLOOOOOOT!!!" "H-how...?" Lock stuttered "Simple...one of us must have something that would be small enough to go through the vents and something strong enough to carry the small rod..." Beau explains "B-but that kind of accomplice...it must be completely out of the question! Surely!" Orion shakes her head in confusion "Of course not...not when we have 'Super High School Levels' that could use something like that...there are two actually...but the one that couldn't be the killer...is Hammer" "M-me?" "Yes, since you're the 'Super High School Level Mechanic' that mean you could build some sort of contraption to transport the metal rod...but I already figured out who the culprit is" Beau smirks "Y-you did?!" Wild's eyes widen "Who is it?!" "...I'm not going to say...where's the fun in that?" "...so...where are we supposed to go at this point?" Zoom asks "Well...the culprit used the metal rod to-" "STOOOOOP!!!" B yelled out cutting Hammer off "P-p-please! I insist you l-listen!" "Ugh, why are you butting in you stupid bitch?!" Beau barked "I-I'm sorry!" She cowered back "Hold on...what were you saying, B?" Serenade asked her "W-why haven't you been l-listening to me?" "What do you mean?" "I-I keep telling you all...t-the metal rod isn't the f-flat weapon!" "It isn't?" Punch tilts her head "N-no! It's to t-thin!" "Thin..." Dammit! I forgot about that! "So now we have to figure out the flat weapon..." Beau says "Right...well there is a limit on how many flat objects could have been used seeing the size of the wound" Samurai adds "Well...we know where this is going" Zoom sighed Non-Stop Debate Evidence bullets -Metal rod -Vent -Centre Tank -Globe Samurai- The murder weapon....had to be rather wide Wild- at least that limits the things that could have been used as the flat weapon Zoom- but We still have no idea on what it was You got that wrong! "Zoom, there is one thing that could be used as the flat weapon, one we overlooked from the start, the centre tank" "The tank?" Zoom questioned "Why the tank?" "Because the centre tank is a square tank, and considering it's size, it's more than enough to be the flat weapon with the right force" "S-so...the tank is the weapon?" Wild says "It must be...and actually we come back to question somebody again when we think about this!" Serenade says It can only be you! "Lock Heart" "M-me again?!" "You went into the aquarium at 1:25 and you saw nothing out of the ordinary...but that isn't true...because the tank should have had blood on it!" "N-nrg!" He grunted "L-Lock...?" Olive said worried. Lock didn't say anything. "Locky...please..."Tickery pleaded "I'm....not....the killer...." He finally said "Huh?" Serenade raised an eyebrow "It...wasn't me...It wasn't me! It wasn't me, it wasn't me, it wasn't me, IT WASN'T MEEEE!!!!" He broke down from pressure being put onto him. "You're right...you aren't the killer" Beau agreed "H-huh?" "But....you're something else aren't you?" Lock paused at what she was saying "...what are saying?" "More importantly, what are you not saying?" she responded Lock isn't the culprit...but something else...? What is she talking about...? Of course! "Lock is the witness we've mentioned before isn't he?" "W-witness?" Lock repeated "Yes, exactly, Lock didn't have the kind of accomplice that could transport the metal rod and he couldn't retrieve the globe either so that must mean that Lock Heart...is the secret witness to the murder!" Beau explained "....hehe....yep, you're right" He admitted "I saw the culprit leave the scene and then I went in there myself..." "W-what?!" Wild stood back "W-who is it Lock?! Who killed Moonlight?!" Zoom asked "...I shouldn't have to say...I left a clue after all...." A clue...oh right...that Of course! "The smudged writing was left my Lock...well the writing anyway..." "Then the killer came along and destroyed the only clue we had to finding them" Punch added "Well...most of it..." Serenade said back "One letter was left" "The capital 'M'" Orion says "Then the other three letters" Samurai scratches the back of his head as he says that. "So now we just figure out what those letters stand for and we have the culprit" Nimbus says "Exactly...ugh, but whose name could it be?" Hammer says confused So it comes down to this part of the trial again, making the accusation, the name of the culprit was rubbed out most of the way, three letters out of the four are unreadable and all that is left is a capital 'M'....so that means the culprit is... "By that face, I'd say, Serenade has figured it out" Beau smirks "Yes...I think so...the culprit...the one that killed Moonlight...that was..." It can only be you!