FOURTH INVESTIGATION

[whimsicalism]

INVESTIGATION

Good morning!

...Except it really isn't a good morning for the students at Ira Academy, after all. The deadline prescribed in this week's motive came just as quickly as the one's before it. It might be difficult to repel the sinking sense of dread that bleeds into Friday's early hours. That secret written on a slip of paper might even feel heavier for some. Perhaps it's Father's hate-filled words instead: I’m getting a little antsy about your performance. Do something to spice things up, won’t you? By now, is a grisly discovery every Friday morning a guarantee?

Though you're surely awake at the same time as usual--if you slept at all--there's a certain gloomier, late-year feeling to the artificial light keeping the Academy illuminated and providing the illusion of a complete world outside. There are no real seasons to speak of in this part of Closetland; one step into the playground proves that easily enough. And yet, as you emerge from your rooms, free to go wherever you wish today, it's hard to deny it. You've been enrolled here for quite a while, and time has passed.

Will autumn come and go before you get out of here?

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[whimsicalism]

What are you even talking about?

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[shinedsobright]

[Fret pulls at his scarf, kind of reeling over this stream of revelations, but he pushes on. At least revisiting the room steeled him for this somewhat.]

This random girl who was in the dance studio this week. She was crying past the door, and she started to tell us where she came from, but then she got killed right away before she could say anything. I ran in and found the ashes.

If that wasn't you doing it then...

[shinedsobright]

[He points dramatically at the intercom] ... whoever killed her could also be the one who washed up Lady Nana!!

[whimsicalism]

What--don't lie to me, young mister! There's no one loose in the Academy other than you brats, the Brother Units, Miss Kiryuu, and myself! You don't need to invent someone else to explain someone shoving her into a washing machine and putting it on the spin cycle!

[shinedsobright]

Well what if we have proof that there's something else going on? Would you come here and do something about it? It's not easy to study when there's all these other mysteries, ya know!

[especially the murder ones!! but he is kind of on a roll here]

[whimsicalism]

Fine, whatever, if you have proof show it to me! But I'm pretty sure it's just one of your classmates playing a prank.

[shinedsobright]

Yeah, yeah. You just sit behind your 'change my mind' sign and we'll make with the clues at the trial if we're not too busy solving the murder.

[whimsicalism]

Why don't you not solve the murder? Then I can kill you all and we can forget this happened. By we, I mean me.

[shinedsobright]

You came to the wrong guy if you want to forget!

[whimsicalism]

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Too bad you don't have that anymore, huh?