A- Alright. I think we need to take a step back and look at things from a new angle.
First of all, let's establish the order of events of the crime. It's simple compared to the last one, but once we know the basic timeline, everything else m- might just fall into place.
[Yasu opens her grimoire, where she's written her notes about the crime. She was already taking things seriously, but after the chaos of Edward's trial, she's on a whole new level of dedication.]
As for the murder itself, judging by the knife he had in his pocket and the letter, Valmont left his room with the intent to murder Dylan. I can't think of any other reason why he'd leave with a knife and then make a beeline to someone else's room. His murderer must've interrupted him before he got the chance, though. Taking a guess at what happened... Valmont reached Dylan's door when the culprit attacked him, aiming for a clean neck slice. They missed, just barely grazing him and leaving a small bloodstain. Then Valmont turned around, and tried to close the distance to defend himself. Or, er, maybe he ran?
T- That's all just speculation, sorry. After the initial graze, the culprit slit Valmont's throat in the middle of the floor and dragged him outside to the playground, where we found him.
Although we don't know why yet, the culprit entered the sensory deprivation chamber after the crime. A neck wound bleeds a lot, so some of it would've gotten on the culprit no matter what angle they attacked Valmont from. From there, we can assume that the culprit dried off and deposited the towels in the laundry room. The blood probably washed off in the sensory deprivation chamber, which would explain the color discrepancy between the towels and what was in the water... although wouldn't more of the blood have gotten on their clothes first? Hm...
This leaves us with a few questions.
[Yasu starts counting them off on her fingers.]
One, where did the dirt in the sensory deprivation chamber come from? Valmont was killed inside the academy, so there couldn't have been a struggle, and he was barely in the playground anyways. How could the killer's body have gotten so dirty as to leave so much mud in the water?
Two, why did the culprit bother taking Valmont's body into the playground? Considering the rest of the scene, I don't believe they were trying to hide where he was killed. Nothing else points to that.
Three, why were Valmont's shoes in the oven? That's just bizarre.
Four, where did the rest of his blood go? If your throat gets cut, you obviously, um, bleed a bunch, and there wasn't enough blood pooled under Valmont's body even without what he lost while he was dragged away.
Five, why did the culprit spread the paint? That splash of dried blood by Dylan's door was under the paint, and the trail must've been spilled around the same time given that they're equally dry. So the killer was the one to splash all that paint around, not Valmont.
[Yasu pauses, thinking for a few moments.]
I... might be able to answer one of those, actually. Is it possible that Edward wasn't the only blood-drinker in the class? If someone, um, drank from Valmont's neck-wound, that would explain how it got on their skin rather than just their clothes, and why there wasn't as much blood as there should've been.
ORDER OF EVENTS
First of all, let's establish the order of events of the crime. It's simple compared to the last one, but once we know the basic timeline, everything else m- might just fall into place.
[Yasu opens her grimoire, where she's written her notes about the crime. She was already taking things seriously, but after the chaos of Edward's trial, she's on a whole new level of dedication.]
As for the murder itself, judging by the knife he had in his pocket and the letter, Valmont left his room with the intent to murder Dylan. I can't think of any other reason why he'd leave with a knife and then make a beeline to someone else's room. His murderer must've interrupted him before he got the chance, though. Taking a guess at what happened... Valmont reached Dylan's door when the culprit attacked him, aiming for a clean neck slice. They missed, just barely grazing him and leaving a small bloodstain. Then Valmont turned around, and tried to close the distance to defend himself. Or, er, maybe he ran?
T- That's all just speculation, sorry. After the initial graze, the culprit slit Valmont's throat in the middle of the floor and dragged him outside to the playground, where we found him.
Although we don't know why yet, the culprit entered the sensory deprivation chamber after the crime. A neck wound bleeds a lot, so some of it would've gotten on the culprit no matter what angle they attacked Valmont from. From there, we can assume that the culprit dried off and deposited the towels in the laundry room. The blood probably washed off in the sensory deprivation chamber, which would explain the color discrepancy between the towels and what was in the water... although wouldn't more of the blood have gotten on their clothes first? Hm...
This leaves us with a few questions.
[Yasu starts counting them off on her fingers.]
One, where did the dirt in the sensory deprivation chamber come from? Valmont was killed inside the academy, so there couldn't have been a struggle, and he was barely in the playground anyways. How could the killer's body have gotten so dirty as to leave so much mud in the water?
Two, why did the culprit bother taking Valmont's body into the playground? Considering the rest of the scene, I don't believe they were trying to hide where he was killed. Nothing else points to that.
Three, why were Valmont's shoes in the oven? That's just bizarre.
Four, where did the rest of his blood go? If your throat gets cut, you obviously, um, bleed a bunch, and there wasn't enough blood pooled under Valmont's body even without what he lost while he was dragged away.
Five, why did the culprit spread the paint? That splash of dried blood by Dylan's door was under the paint, and the trail must've been spilled around the same time given that they're equally dry. So the killer was the one to splash all that paint around, not Valmont.
[Yasu pauses, thinking for a few moments.]
I... might be able to answer one of those, actually. Is it possible that Edward wasn't the only blood-drinker in the class? If someone, um, drank from Valmont's neck-wound, that would explain how it got on their skin rather than just their clothes, and why there wasn't as much blood as there should've been.