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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:07:25 GMT 12
Erika's declaration shuts Maria up for about half a second, before the girl turns her rage on Erika instead.
"Magic is real! It does exist! Uu! UU! UU!!! Beatrice began her ceremony with the first twilight!"
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:09:41 GMT 12
"Five of the victims were killed with shotgun fire! The only one that wasn't was Kinzo, who was already dead!"
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:11:48 GMT 12
Maria's protest catches in her throat.
"B-but- Beatrice," she whimpers in a shaking voice.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:16:07 GMT 12
"The culprit is human, there is no magic involved at all. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to see the last crime scene." Erika gets up from her seat and straightens out her dress. "Tell me, which room is it again?"
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:22:00 GMT 12
Maria is crying softly. The adults are looking at her with some pity, but it seems like they're all a little relieved she's stopped yelling at least.
Natsuhi finally drops the knife and it clatters on the tiled floor of the washroom.
"If you go up the stairs right next to here, the room right in front of you will be my room." She says.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:24:11 GMT 12
"Thank you." Erika heads up the stairs by herself to examine Natsuhi's room.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:28:11 GMT 12
The painted circle on Natsuhi's door is still bright red, but the blood on her sheets has dried. There are some vague outlines from two bodies that laid on the bed, the majority of blood seems to be on the top half of one outline.
Unlike the other siblings, there's no sign of remains of buckshot in the pillow from Krauss's murder scene.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:30:46 GMT 12
Erika takes note and searches Natsuhi's room for a diary.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:34:48 GMT 12
After some searching, Erika finds a bookshelf with a few diaries on it. Most are older, and secured with small metal locks, but one has no lock, and appears to have had about half it's pages ripped out. When Erika opens it, the first page falls out, the one that says "This Diary belongs to _____", but it seems that something has been spilled on the diary, and the name has been completely obscured.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:37:15 GMT 12
Erika thumbs through the remaining pages as she ponders over the scene on the bed.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:40:54 GMT 12
The remaining pages are blank, the diary appears relatively new, so it seems that all the written pages are the ones that were torn out.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:42:14 GMT 12
"Bah, useless!" Erika throws the book across the room and stands to leave it.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:46:30 GMT 12
The only thing interesting for Erika to note as she leaves is the lack of any blood trail leading in or out of Natsuhi's room. The blood is only on the bed.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:48:15 GMT 12
Erika takes a look around the other rooms on the floor to see if there's anything she's missed.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 7:52:47 GMT 12
Krauss's room is as Erika left it during the first twilight's investigation. The sheets are perfectly clean and neatly folded over the bed. There doesn't seem to be a single speck of blood in the room.
When she goes into Krauss's study, however, she finds a weird sort of bag made out of some dark bloodstained sheets, tied up with a rope that is slowly slipping and untying itself.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 7:54:16 GMT 12
"Oh ho, what do we have here?" Erika unties the rope and opens the makeshift bag.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 8:02:29 GMT 12
The 'bag' is filled with metal and ceramics. It seems to have been planned as some sort of diversion for later, intended to make a loud noise when it untied and fell. Mixed in is the gold headship ring.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 8:06:19 GMT 12
Erika pockets the ring and ties the bag back up as she found it. Afterwords she returns to the first floor.
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Post by Yarn Witch on Jul 30, 2014 8:09:37 GMT 12
"Listen, Erika. We were all talkin' and since it's gettin' so dangerous, we were thinking maybe we should get the guns up in the Study to arm ourselves with." Hideyoshi says when he sees her come back downstairs.
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Post by animex75 on Jul 30, 2014 8:19:35 GMT 12
"May as well." Erika removes the study key from her pocket and goes back upstairs with the group.
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