FIFTH INVESTIGATION

[whimsicalism]

INVESTIGATION

After Thursday night, there are a few unexpected emotions injected into the atmosphere of Ira Academy: longing, determination...perhaps even hope, for some. After everything that's been learned and shared between realms, some students may even find themselves believing that victory can be achieved without any more death. Maybe there's just one more investigation, one more puzzle, one more piece of missing context left to find before the way forward is clear.

There's no shaking the knowledge of past patterns, however, and the morning brings with it a familiar apprehension. Ira Academy itself may not have gotten the memo about the shift in vibes. It's a dreary pseudo-fall morning like the week before, ushering in a bleak and eerily silent day as the students rise one by one to find what's in store for them this time. Many have said it by now - bad things happen on Thursday nights, and no amount of hearing the voice of a lost companion over an old touchtone phone can completely erase that experience.

Though your numbers are fewer now than they ever have been, the school is so much bigger than it was during your first week at Ira Academy. The extra amount ground makes it all the easier to recognize just how many of you there no longer are to cover it. The five vast floors of the school, now under new management, wait for someone to see if Kakuya's incentive forced another participant to play along - best get exploring to find what secrets are out there.

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Comments

[whimsicalism]

[There is in fact several things! First of all, at first glance none of the tables or stools seem out of place. Maybe you should look closer?]

[lets_dewey_it]

_{[Oh that is strange, he's coming closer to check that out! A scene like this, things should be out of place...]}

[whimsicalism]

[There's some scratches on the floor around some chairs and a table, though the furniture is in the right place.]

[lets_dewey_it]

<sub>[Oh wow. This stuff was shifted around and then hastily replaced.

Alright, is there anything else about the furniture or can he start looking elsewhere?]</sub>

[whimsicalism]

[There's not much else with the furniture, go on looking elsewhere. You can see a spilled glass.]

[lets_dewey_it]

_{[What a waste of soda... He will observe the soda glass and the spill closer.]}

[whimsicalism]

[It's a smoothie glass, actually. An open school notebook was next to it, whatever was in it is ruined by the smoothie. There's another notebook next to the ruined one, a page torn out of it.

You can see that someone was writing in pencil there but only the impressions remain but they're not deep enough to discover what was there.]

[lets_dewey_it]

_{[Oof. He'll take the ruined evidence anyway. Is that all?]}

[whimsicalism]

[It looks like it!]