THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE FIRST INVESTIGATION

[Friday morning dawns. It's a surprisingly brisk day; the winds are cold outside, and the sky is dark with its lack of sky. Well, a normal sky that one would be used to, at least.

The rats can be heard scurrying to and forth, in the walls. All seems to be as normal as it can be, this morning.]

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[strangerpeople]

[What are you prodding this mound with?]

[awitchdidit]

[Might as well use that metal stake she's carrying. The blunt end, though, sometimes mounds are alive.]

[strangerpeople]

[It's not moving.

Also, as Beato gets closer, she might notice it's a body she is poking.]

[awitchdidit]

[Beatrice leaps back in shock.]

What the hell?

[strangerpeople]

[Yeah. It's a body.

You want to roll it over to see who it is, Beato?]

[awitchdidit]

[Rolling that bad boy or girl over!]

[strangerpeople]

[Yeah...Beato might realize this is a metal body.

And it's wet...]

[katzenpfote]

Is that...

[It wouldn't happen to be red, would it?]

[strangerpeople]

[It is. And given how he is in moving, not responding, there's no doubt what this is, along with the who.



Proto Man, the Alphabet, is dead.]

[telecosmetic]

[Eliza blinks, tears slowly forming in her eyes that narrow into a glare.]

If whoever did this thought he mattered less because he was a robot-shame on you! How dare you measure people's worth in that way! Go fuck yourself!

[zackthekiller]

... Wait, that guy was a robot?

[Dumbass couldn't tell.]

[awitchdidit]

H...ha...ow...of course. Someone fell to temptation.

[Beatrice shakes her hands out and steps back from the body, noticing the apparent fucking crowd in the dining car now.]

You all might want to get some rubber gloves if we're going to investigate.

[biddentodance]

[He freezes in place. That.... Just like the Vespertine. No.....no, no, no, no, no.

It takes a few long moments for him to do anything but stare.]

Is....he....

[katzenpfote]

[Caleb just gently leads Minato away for a moment.]

Go sit down.

[unwittingking]

[This is...not good...

King's gonna try to grab Minato's arm and pull him out of the room.]

Come on, kid. You...you shouldn't see this.

[otherworldlyking]

[ Eventually, when he wakes up, he is ultimately the last person to arrive on the scene. ]

...What a pain.

[ Might as well get something to eat. Off he goes. ]

[overworker]

Oh no...

[Being late because she didn't sleep so great, Towa is immediately greeted by a terrible scene.]

[awitchdidit]

[This time Beatrice leaps back in literal shock.]

Ow ow ow ow! Shit!

[zackthekiller]

Hah? Is that a dead body?

[whitemoontiger]

H-Hoping not but why would we be so lucky?

[ Guess who'd just come into the Dining car to see this? ]

[zackthekiller]

[Deadpanning at the guy who just walked up.]

Yeah, sure, maybe we just found a life size ragdoll that's filled with blood-

Of course we ain't gonna be lucky with a motive like that!

[unwittingking]

[...he just walked in, wanted breakfast, and now he's hearing that...]

Someone actually died, didn't they?

[whitemoontiger]

I was really just hoping that someone wouldn't have done it.

[ He's naturally a positive person at heart, okay? Stopping when King spoke up. ]

Yeah. Unfortunately.. that seems to be the case.

[zackthekiller]

[After watching the witch and the adventure guy prod at the body for a moment.] Yep! They killed the red guy.

[Goddamnit, it's always the smart ones that go first.]

[unwittingking]

…FUCK!

[Yelling at the ceiling because this day is just starting and it's already terrible.]