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Post by Cloud on Nov 6, 2013 17:15:22 GMT 12
"Krauss, Hideyoshi, we'll leave the others in here while we get the food." Rudolf cocks his sawn-off Wintchester's handle and readies it for any possible fight that may occur. "Very well... Kyrie, Rosa, Battler and Eva. You stay here, I can't risk you getting into harms way. If we don't return in an hour do not open this door for anyone." Krauss solemnly makes his final statement before rushing out of the study door.
After a loud thud followed by the clanging of the study door automatically shutting and locking, Krauss, Hideyoshi and Rudolf begin to make their way down the staircases, heading for the kitchen with guns at the ready. However, as they come across the majestic painting of Beatrice across from the entrance hall, they notice a large bulge protruding from the portrait. The bulge moves and twists, stretching further outwards and morphing into strange shapes. Before long, the morphed shapes become thinner and turn into what appears to be a hand, then an arm, a shoulder, a head then finally a body wearing what appears to be a mighty dress stepping out of the picture frame. Then it suddenly occurred to the two men - The figure that stepped out of the frame, wrapped up in what appeared to the painting was not actually "wrapped up" at all. The witch herself had emerged in front of the two, whose appearance was completely uncanny to the painting, like a twin or a carbon copy of the witch that had been painted and placed in the entrance hall. The witch held a childlike face with pure innocence however, but the witch broke the seemingly naïve beauty with an extremely maniacal laugh. A cackle that resounded throughout the minds and souls of Krauss, Hideyoshi and Rudolf who stood in front of her shocked. "Greetings and salutations, dear mortals. I am Beatrice, the golden witch!" Rudolf and Krauss stand speechless at the sight before them. Rudolf suddenly manages to break out of his state of surprise and awe and raises his gun, pulling back on the trigger and firing at the witch. Unexpectedly (*cough*) the witch bursts into a wall of red butterflies, completely dodging Rudolf's bullet. The witch creates her human-like form behind him with lightning pace. "Lucifer of Pride! Asmodeus of Lust! Beelzebub of Gluttony! I summon thee!" The witch waves her hands around, at the sides of Rudolf, Hideyoshi and Krauss, three young woman appear. "Lucifer of Pride, prese-" Lucifer and Asmodeus and Beelzebub cease their introductions as they look at the witch commanding them. "Who are you!?" Asmodeus cries out to the witch. "What do you mean? You know exactly who I am! Now, these three will be my sacrifices for second twilight!" The witch waves her arms around multiple times. In this instance, Krauss has already fired a bullet, but the extreme speed of the stakes and the witch only made the bullet appear to be completely still and heading towards empty space. "Whoever you are, we do not obey you!" Lucifer summoned a blade of light upon her arm and quickly launcheed at the witch, striking upwards and painting a beautiful luminescent curve in the sky which would burn into the retinas of whomever witnessed it. However the witch erupted into thousands of red butterflies once again and reformed above the three stakes. "If that's how you furniture wish to play things, then I'll abandon you three completely. You are now less the furniture! KAYAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" As she cackled, the witch swung her hands around once more whilst the stakes rapidly flew towards her with their blades at the ready. After swinging faster than light, the witch magically evaded the attacks. They stopped in order to regain energy, however, it became too late to attack when they felt something small quickly and painfully penetrating their bodies. The witch had directed them into the line of fire of Krauss and Rudolf as they foolishly rested for a moment. The stakes fell to the ground and disappeared. Soon afterwards, the witch summoned an array of crimson butterflies and pinned the initially planned victims to the walls. After another swinging of her arms, the witch summoned a large red beam of light that tore through the foreheads of Rudolf, Hideyoshi and Krauss. Their bodies slided down the wall slowly, leaving a large trail of blood on the wall behind them. Finally, as their bodies slumped to the ground, the second twilight had concluded. The witch, quite angrily, yelled another order. "Gaap, move these bodies into the VIP Room, and make sure you move whoever this OTHER witch killed out of there." Gaap summoned a black hole underneath the corpses which fell down into the void. In that same moment the witch vanished in another flash of red butterflies. As soon as she vanished, another woman with golden hair appeared with a flurry of blue butterflies. Her long hair was out, unlike the witch of the portrait whose hair was tightly done up in a German plait. Her clothes weren't as elegant but it was quite clear whom this woman was - This was Beatrice. She had observed the downfall of her furniture at the hands of an imposter. Beatrice realised she had to eliminate this threat at all costs and conclude her own resurrection ceremony. The woman closed her eyes and transformed into a silent trail of cobalt butterflies before disappearing.
Eva was starting to get impatient, anxious and angry - her husband had not returned in what felt like an eternity. Fear started to overwhelm her. Suddenly Eva threw open the study door with her gun clasped tightly in her hands and rushed out. Shocked, Rosa, Kyrie and Battler followed in tow. As they entered the hallway they had absolutely no idea where Eva had gone. Battler, Rosa and Kyrie rushed downstairs. Battler himself found that he was running at a much faster pace than his auntie and step-mother and slowed down to allow them to catch up. However, he could no longer hear their footsteps. Battler quickly ran back up to find Kyrie standing at the VIP Room door with the crumpled up letter that Krauss had thrown away earlier. "Battler... what do you think this letter means?" Kyrie handed the letter to Battler who noticed that the VIP Room was implied to be the scene of a crime. "Battler... please stick to me, I fear the worst for Krauss and your fath-Huh?" As Kyrie began to twist the doorknob, she found the door to the VIP Room locked.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 6, 2013 17:59:04 GMT 12
Eva runs through the house, looking for Hideyoshi, starting with the kitchen.
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Post by Epilos303 on Nov 7, 2013 11:49:38 GMT 12
Battler knocks on the door. "Anyone there!"
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Post by animex75 on Nov 7, 2013 13:45:58 GMT 12
"Uryuu~ I want to ask the lamp in the VIP room about the second twilight!"
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Post by Cloud on Nov 7, 2013 19:20:48 GMT 12
The VIP Room flicks on an off repeatedly, speaking in morse code, detailing what it witnessed previously. Luckily, Sakutarou is a studious lion whom had learnt all about morse code and was able to translate extremely quickly.
"It was rather strange STOP First someone laid down what appeared to be a body STOP Only I'm not sure if it really was STOP Then three men came by STOP It was very horrific when that other person showed up and shot them STOP Then that mean person moved that other body away STOP It didn't appear to be the same person that laid that other body down STOP But you can never be too careful STOP I'm afraid the storm is causing the odd power outage STOP I think I'm going to have to STOP"
The lamp stops flicking on an off due to a power outage.
Kyrie and Battler rush back downstairs, in search of Eva and - now Rosa. However as they run back downstairs they hear Eva scream atop the staircase they just finished running down. As they quickly move back up they find Eva in front of the VIP Room door which is now wide open. In the middle of the floor in front of them they discover Krauss, Hideyoshi and Rudolf lying on the floor with a bullet hole through their foreheads. As Kyrie and Battler start to move into the room they hear a startled shout from down the staircase. After quickly moving back downstairs with Eva, Kyrie and Battler find Rosa standing over the body of what appears to be Shannon in a pile of blood, however her face looks mangled and unrecognisable, but still wearing the same clothes as Shannon would. After checking for a pulse in a very rushed manner, Battler, Rosa, Kyrie and Eva move back upstairs for the VIP Room but, once again, it is locked. "No good, it simply won't budge." Rosa struggles to open the door before moving back down the hall with the rest of the party.
Prior to the entrance of the main party into the study, Beatrice stood by idly down the hall of the study and watched the party disappear into the room she could not enter. She moved downstairs and began to make her way into the kitchen before hearing someone running downstairs. After making sure whoever ran downstairs could not see her by hiding underneath the staircase, she heard what seemed like three loud gunshots nearby, coming from up the staircase she just finished descending. Following the gunshots, another set of descending footsteps were heard alongside an occasionally heavy thudding. Then another two sets of descending footsteps followed by a large communal ascension of footsteps. After moving back out of hiding, Beatrice witnessed the corpse of a sacrifice of her own - a corpse wrapped in the garb of some furniture - lying sprawled on the ground in the entrance hall. Beatrice moved back upstairs, discovering Rosa, Kyrie, Eva and Battler moving back down the hall and up the stairs for the study. However it only occurred to them that the door itself is locked whilst Krauss was the last person to have the key on him. Beatrice quietly moved back downstairs until the right time to continue her own ceremony.
Natsuhi is suddenly teleported away from the kitchen before finishing her conversation with the servants and emerging into the VIP Room. On the floor in front of her are three deceased corpses, one of them being her own husband. Kinzo appears behind her, placing his hand on her shoulder. "I apologise for the loss of your husband and also my own sons. But once my resurrection ceremony is complete, we may see them again alongside my beloved Beatrice in the Golden Land."
Sakutarou fumbled around in his room, still heavily nauseous an dizzy for some unknown reason to him. He felt around in his surroundings, tripping over a tray of some sort and crashing into a tea set on the ground. His current state was not of any fit reason to be moving about, but the dark surroundings and increasingly violent typhoon outside worried and scared him; he desperately wanted out. He wanted to see his beloved mother once more and to see his family happy and smiling at him. He wanted to play alongside the Chiesters. He wanted to play with the band of furry animals. He wanted to feel the comfort of the muffler his mother gave him. He wanted to leave this dark and scary place.
TURN TWO GAME BOARD PHASE END
After an unfortunately heavy delay, the second twlight is carried out with the murders of Krauss, Hideyoshi and Rudolf. However all is not as it seems when two witches appear in rivalry over whose ceremony takes place. An additional emergence of another Beatrice reveals a recount of her own as her attempts at retaining her resurrection ceremony (her first victim including the servant Shannon) is interrupted extremely abruptly on Eva's part when she searches frantically for whom she believes to be the murderer - Natsuhi - whom had in fact been moved into the location of the previous victims' corpses. Sakutarou laments to himself after failing to overcome his inexplicable intoxication of some sort.
TURN TWO META PHASE START
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 3:52:15 GMT 12
Yasu/Shannon is not dead. Nanjo was not around to verify the body was deceased and even if he had been, it was not recognizable as Shannon.
Eva has a master key.
The body in the VIP room before the men was Natsuhi.
There is more than one killer.
Maria is still alive and Sakutaro represents her.
The body that Sakutaro represents was drugged in order to prevent them from resisting without actually killing them.
The cousin's room is not a closed room. Rather, the culprit exited through a window with the help of an accomplice.
The garden shed was locked from the outside using a master key that was kept by the person who closed it with the other keys in it.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 4:33:13 GMT 12
Also, Natsuhi is dead. Willard would have been able to interrogate her if she was alive. I know that it doesn't specify in his role that he can only interrogate a living piece, but since that is Ange's power, it can be inferred that Willard can't interrogate the dead because that would be a pointless overlap. Add in the fact that there was another body in the VIP room before the three men and Natsuhi has been missing the entire game so far and has not appeared in front of the family as one of them is the detective. So yeah, what I'm saying is that I can guarantee that Natsuhi Ushiromiya is dead.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 4:39:33 GMT 12
Oh, yeah, while I'm at it: the detective is either Battler, Eva, or Kyrie.
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Post by NinjasPlayCardGames2 on Nov 8, 2013 5:01:30 GMT 12
The culprit is in possession of a master key, represented by Gaap.
The culprit is inside the VIP room.
The culprit has more than one personality.
The culprit has moved bodies.
The culprit moved the bodies of Rudolph, Krauss and Hideyoshi.
Natsuhi has been dismembered.
The servants did not hear anything coming from the main hall.
The servants have not left the kitchen from the time the men left the study to the time the men were murdered.
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Post by NinjasPlayCardGames2 on Nov 8, 2013 5:43:54 GMT 12
The person inside the cousins room who is still alive has been drugged. The first person to go down the stairs in Beatrices POV was Natsuhi. As we haven't seen Natsuhis body, she could be alive. The one moving the bodies is Natsuhi.
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Post by Zeus wiz of misfortune on Nov 8, 2013 6:41:48 GMT 12
Beato spins around in a magical girl transformation- Doki Doki pretty slaughter-witch~!. " Now with my MAGICAL POWERS, I must ask you Virgilia my teacher. How many people are truely on this island?." Beato smiles like a jackel.
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Post by Tea the witch of dreams on Nov 8, 2013 7:18:25 GMT 12
The corpse of " shannon" is truely Natsuhi wearing her clothes.
The other beatrice running around is really Natsuhi.
the other beatrice is the other culprit.
Kinzo represents Natsuhi.
Sakutaro represents George
Gaap represent the key the culprit stole off natsuhi's body.
The detective is Kyrie.
(( How interesting things have gotten!, my illness has been fought quite well!.))
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Post by Zeus wiz of misfortune on Nov 8, 2013 7:36:45 GMT 12
Beatrice is the detective.
Natsuhi is an accomplice to who ever succeeded Kinzo.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 7:42:04 GMT 12
Despite being the first player to solve it, I was not the first character to solve the riddle.
The riddle was solved by someone other than Eva.
Rosa didn't solve the riddle before Eva.
The Stakes represent the murder weapon for the second twilight.
The cause of deaths of Krauss, Hideyoshi, and Rudolf were not gunshots. The bullet wounds were added later using one of their very own guns.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 8:05:02 GMT 12
"Oh my god no... this can't be..." "I'm sorry you had to see this, I feel just as bad for what Genji himself saw." "We mustn't tell anyone at the conference about this, not yet..." "But sir, why would you not reveal it right away?" "Look, I need to make sure I can financially sustain everyone before telling everyone the bad news... If I tell them now, they'll know I've been embezzling father's funds... Then again... it would seem cruel of me to keep this a secret for very long..." I figure I should post my hint in the thread now.
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Post by Cloud on Nov 8, 2013 8:41:38 GMT 12
Yasu/Shannon is not dead. Nanjo was not around to verify the body was deceased and even if he had been, it was not recognizable as Shannon.
Eva has a master key.
The body in the VIP room before the men was Natsuhi.
There is more than one killer.
Maria is still alive and Sakutaro represents her.
The body that Sakutaro represents was drugged in order to prevent them from resisting without actually killing them.
The cousin's room is not a closed room. Rather, the culprit exited through a window with the help of an accomplice.
The garden shed was locked from the outside using a master key that was kept by the person who closed it with the other keys in it. Shannon is dead. However, Shannon was not murdered. Shannon did not commit suicide. Shannon did not die in an accident. Eva has no possession of any key whatsoever. The window of the cousins' room has been closed and locked from the inside. There are absolutely no accomplices.Everything else I shall let stand for now. Also, Natsuhi is dead. Willard would have been able to interrogate her if she was alive. I know that it doesn't specify in his role that he can only interrogate a living piece, but since that is Ange's power, it can be inferred that Willard can't interrogate the dead because that would be a pointless overlap. Add in the fact that there was another body in the VIP room before the three men and Natsuhi has been missing the entire game so far and has not appeared in front of the family as one of them is the detective. So yeah, what I'm saying is that I can guarantee that Natsuhi Ushiromiya is dead. I was given no question and I will not resort to making up a question. The body in the VIP Room as of this moment is the real body of Natsuhi. Natsuhi's living and breathing body has appeared in front of the detective.Oh, yeah, while I'm at it: the detective is either Battler, Eva, or Kyrie. I will not rebut. The culprit is in possession of a master key, represented by Gaap.
The culprit is inside the VIP room.
The culprit has more than one personality.
The culprit has moved bodies.
The culprit moved the bodies of Rudolph, Krauss and Hideyoshi.
Natsuhi has been dismembered.
The servants did not hear anything coming from the main hall.
The servants have not left the kitchen from the time the men left the study to the time the men were murdered. The culprit has moved bodies. Natsuhi's body is still holding all her limbs. Quite nicely actually, very little leakage if you ask me. Fine craftsmanship. The servants heard several things, why else would they be in the kitchen? The servants found in the kitchen did not leave the kitchen during the murders of the men. Before any questions are asked - yes, the servants found in the kitchen were in the kitchen to begin with during the murders of the men. This includes Nanjo.The person inside the cousins room who is still alive has been drugged. The first person to go down the stairs in Beatrices POV was Natsuhi. As we haven't seen Natsuhis body, she could be alive. The one moving the bodies is Natsuhi. Drugs - defined as a medicinal or intoxicating item considered neither food nor drink - have not been used at all during the course of this game.Beato spins around in a magical girl transformation- Doki Doki pretty slaughter-witch~!. " Now with my MAGICAL POWERS, I must ask you Virgilia my teacher. How many people are truely on this island?." Beato smiles like a jackel. At the start of this game there were exactly 20 people. Now, there are 13 people on the island of Rokkenjima.The corpse of " shannon" is truely Natsuhi wearing her clothes.
The other beatrice running around is really Natsuhi.
the other beatrice is the other culprit.
Kinzo represents Natsuhi.
Sakutaro represents George
Gaap represent the key the culprit stole off natsuhi's body.
The detective is Kyrie.
(( How interesting things have gotten!, my illness has been fought quite well!.)) Shannon has no corpse. Natsuhi is not Beatrice. Please, I demand you define the term "The Other Beatrice." Kinzo does not represent anyone, he is a person. Sakutarou does not represent George. Everything else may stand.Beatrice is the detective.
Natsuhi is an accomplice to who ever succeeded Kinzo. I will not rebut. Despite being the first player to solve it, I was not the first character to solve the riddle.
The riddle was solved by someone other than Eva.
Rosa didn't solve the riddle before Eva.
The Stakes represent the murder weapon for the second twilight.
The cause of deaths of Krauss, Hideyoshi, and Rudolf were not gunshots. The bullet wounds were added later using one of their very own guns. Eva was not the first to solve the Riddle. Rosa has not solved the riddle. As of this moment, the stakes as they appeared during the fight scene do not have anything to do with neither a cause of death nor a murder weapon.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 8:47:07 GMT 12
Beatrice represents Eva.
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Post by Cloud on Nov 8, 2013 9:29:28 GMT 12
I'll let that stand.
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Post by animex75 on Nov 8, 2013 9:51:11 GMT 12
While I've got the time, Yasu is still alive. Shannon is "dead" in that Yasu's ditched that particular personality.
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Post by Cloud on Nov 8, 2013 10:45:58 GMT 12
I will allow this.
TURN TWO META PHASE END
After a meta phase that was much shorter but full of much more red, the Game Master reveals the exact number of people as of this moment. Several blues are allowed to stand as the players begin to question exactly what represents who on KoH's game board. It becomes heavily theorised that Natsuhi may already be dead by KoH produces several red statements that provide a possible sense of confusion. The identity of both the detective and Beatrice (all of them) is left ambiguous.
TURN THREE GAME BOARD PHASE START
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"Hey, Virgilia." The golden haired child on Virgilia's knee begins to speak after their prior immersion in the story. "Your mystery is mean and tough. What was up with all those red statements there? And what about those people speaking in blue? Do they not think Beatrice is real?" The child shakes about. Virgilia waves her finger in the air, making several hushing noises. "Don't be so upset, dear apprentice. It's not that they don't believe in the magical scenes I am telling them, they simply are wishing to find another way to understand." "What do you mean!?" "It's a matter of how you look at things. Whilst a person may appear to be dead, I can simply say their soul has passed on through to another person. But our dear audience may wish to look at things in a different light. They might liken it to someone fulfilling the role of the deceased in their place. Perhaps this might be in order to suit another agenda but it certainly doesn't detract from the true meaning of it all. Although the method is different, what matters is that in the eyes of the one with the second soul or, as previously stated, to the one fulfilling the lost person's role, that person is alive." Virgilia gently pats the child's head, whose pouting starts to cease. "So... Is Shannon actually alive?" The kid's face brightens up at the thought of their favourite character's survival, "She must have faked her death! You're just tricking us all with the red you mean oba-san! Shannon being dead simply means she doesn't exist on the island, she just had to fly away with magic!" Virgilia chuckles at the detective work of her disciple. "It's always a possibility, but I'm sure for now we'll give our audience the chance to figure things out for themselves. What do you say? Should we give them a hint?" Virgilia winks at her young audience before waving her wand in the air and revealing the bright images of the next chapter in her story.
Natsuhi falls to her knees, tears in her eyes. As she begins to weep she starts to speak aloud. Neither to Kinzo, nor to her husband but to herself. "For a long time now... I've been thinking of ending my own life... I thought I was never good enough for this world. Or perhaps I was selfish. Maybe I thought the world was never good enough for me. All my life I thought I had endured nothing but pain and suffering. I was a whiny child, wasn't I? I used to always complain to my father about having to live on a shrine. I never thought of my niece and what she had to go through, until I left Hinamizawa I didn't think life could be any worse. I did nothing but make assumptions. I always thought..." Natsuhi clutched her head tightly as she began to feel her chilling tears move down her face like the raindrops on the window behind her. The darkened skies full of grey and black clouds moved into synchronisation with Natsuhi's heart. "I always thought my life with the Ushiromiya family - my emprisonment as I'd call it - would never get any better. I never thought I'd love my husband. I never thought he'd love me back. I never thought I'd bear a child... even after I attempted that horrible deed... But only now, after so long... after watching my daughter grow up in to the fine young woman she is today despite how many times I called her unworthy of Kinzo's title... Only now I realise how wrong I was. I loved my husband, he tried so hard to protect me." She placed her hand on Krauss' face which, despite the blood, held an elegant peace to it. "And my daughter... I've lost even her now... I've lost it all. There was a reason I never would even so much as consider hurting my husband and daughter, but I was far too late to ever see the rays of hope that shone in front of me." Kinzo turned away from Natsuhi and peered out the window. "I do hope that, even though you aren't really the head of this family... you understand that the rest of this family is worth being protected." He spoke in quiet manner generally unfitting for him as though he'd become a changed person. "There is hope still, Natsuhi." He turned back towards Natsuhi and held out his hand to her, lifting her back to her feet. She wiped away the tears across her face. "Right... I must find the one trying to steal away the light in my life... I'll do it... for them."
Kyrie, Battler, Rosa and Eva fiddle around with the doorknob of Kinzo's study to no avail. Kanon runs down the hallway to meet them, a sense of shock and urgency painted across his face. "Sh-Shannon is..." "I know, Kanon..." Battler moves over to him and pats him on the back, his own face shadowed by a sense of despair. A single tear streaks down his face. "I know... I wish I had the chance to tell her how I felt..." Kanon raises his head in complete surprise at Battler's notion before gradually melting away into his previous mournful state. "Kanon. Where are the other servants? You've been the only servant we've seen in a long time?" Kyrie breaks the mourning period to interrogate Kanon. "Kumasawa, Gohda, Genji and Nanjo are all in the kitchen, they send their apologies for barricading themselves in and not giving you that food you requested." Kanon bows lowly in apology. "Then why are you out here?" Kyrie's face holds a scornful disposition, almost accusing Kanon of recent events. Kanon suddenly stands back up straight, a slightly confused look across him. "I was... looking for Shannon before the others barricaded the kitch-" "Where did you get the letter you gave us? The one that told us to move to the VIP Room?" "I-" "If you were out here you must have heard the gunshots, where were you then?" "You heard gu-" "Don't play dumb with me, Kanon. There's obviously a reason why you're out here. Now answer me." Kyrie bombards Kanon with questions but they don't need any particular answer. She already has her sights set on who she thinks had killed her husband. Battler steps in front of Kanon, between him and Kyrie. "Kyrie. There's no reason to have these pointless accusations. Tomorrow when the storm clears, the police will be here and will be able to find out who killed dad and Shannon. They'll find the bastard. I promise everything will be alright in the end." Battler deflects Kyrie's merciless and deadpan accusations. Kyrie turns to Eva and Rosa without a response aside from a sigh. Battler feels something tugging at his sides. "Battler...." Kanon grabs onto Battler slightly, his voice trembling in much higher voice that's rather uncharacteristic of him. Battler turns around to find a large stream of tears pouring from Kanon's eyes. Battler brings him in for a very brief but tight hug in order to comfort him. Kyrie does not acknowledge the scene at all and begins to speak. "We'll have to barricade ourselves somewhere. Obviously we can't get into the study and we don't have any keys. Any suggestions?"
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