THE FIRST VICTIM

[strangerpeople]

THE FIRST VICTIM

[Friday morning is quiet enough.

Everything seems to be normal, as before. Normal and boring, even with the strange things happening around the Depths. After all, no one's killed yet. Why would they? Surely something as ridiculous as a weird fruit and a fleeting promise wouldn't provoke anyone to kill to see if something like that was actually true, right?

Right?

Still, if anyone was worried, they would at least feel justified at being tense. People were told to kill another in return for the safety and life of a loved one, after all. And it included a way out for someone who succeeded in getting away with it. There may be someone more than willing to kill for that chance.

And that's when you don't consider the two empty rooms, one of which was opened and resulted in more strange things happening. And what happened last week? It hasn't been solved, has it? And no one expected that.




Perhaps it's a thought to look around to make sure there's nothing off this morning.

Certainly, it couldn't hurt.]

Comments

[socialhacktivist]

[Now that the door's open, Futaba's going to take a look inside.

Is there anything else that looks like it should be there?]

[strangerpeople]

[Well, there is a pile of papers that look a bit odd...]

[socialhacktivist]

[...time to look through them. Futaba scans each paper one at a time. What's on them?]

[strangerpeople]

[There is various letters in there but only one connection between them all: all are addressed to Harley.]

[socialhacktivist]

[...Harley?

What kind of letters are they?]

[strangerpeople]

[Nothing special, just the letters that stated the rules including the recent one underlined. But that's not the more important matter: there's one that sticks out due to the red color.]

[socialhacktivist]

[Futaba flips through them and pulls up the red letter. What's on this one?]

[strangerpeople]

[The red is enough to be eye catching but Futaba will notice the blood splatter that's on there. It's a small amount but enough to have been taken notice. But that's not the only thing that is there: there's some faint impressions that it was on another page that was drawn on.]

[pursuitofbeauty]

Once he's feeling less faint, Yusuke has taken it upon himself to watch Futaba like a hawk. Which means he's following her into the room and staying close to her as he sorts through the pile of papers.

"These are all addressed to one person, but... they're not Laslow's. Why would they be here?"