THE SECOND INVESTIGATION

[strangerpeople]

THE SECOND INVESTIGATION
(~SK. 10)


[It is freezing. The temperature? Who knows at this point.

Today is a day for blankets and whatever you can grab to keep yourself warm. It truly seems like there is a winter without end, and that eventually everything will wither and die, including you. So bitter. So harsh. So cruel.

It's not fair. Then again, didn't Zero say life isn't fair? Well, Zero isn't freezing his butt off. Really, it's just too cold on the ship to do much of anything outside of keeping warm. Like, say, murder.



Right? Well. There's only one way to find out. So, what are the Strangers doing as they wake up shivering on this cold, cold day, which may or may not be a Friday according to the calendar?]

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EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[There is.

There's a pile of empty little tubes that are beneath where the sword was.]

[yesorwoof]

?????????

[What part of the sword did they get underneath? No blood or pink gunk on them???

Makima will photograph and cautiously sniff?]

[strangerpeople]

[The tubes smell like there's something sweet in them. There is pink gunk on the insides of them on closer inspection.]

[yesorwoof]

[Nearly empty...

Fingerprints on the "right" sword?]

EVIDENCE

[strangerpeople]

[Smudges.


All but one, that is.]

[yesorwoof]

[???

They're smudged in blood? Or just a normal smudge on the surface?

Does that mean it looks like there are smudged fingerprints with one digit missing? Small hands like Akane or big hands like a lot of men would have? Taking extremely careful picture of this because Kira needs to see this but taking it out will compromise it a lot... Might not show up in the light either... She's trying]

[strangerpeople]

[It's the latter.

It looks like all but one of the fingerprints are smudged, and it's definitely not a small hand.]

[yesorwoof]

[Which digit is missing? This doesn't look like it was gloves, does it?]

[strangerpeople]

[It's a bit impossible to tell why all but one of the fingerprints are smudged.

It's the thumb that's not smudged.]

[yesorwoof]

[Are these proper fingerprints with some ripples inside? Or is it genuinely ambiguous whether or not it was gloves? They never did find the gloves that they were certain got used in case 1... Makima will later go to the kitchen or infirmary or wherever gloves are found and verify what size(s) of gloves are available and if they match.

...so a person without a thumb could have left this grip. DULY NOTED.]

[strangerpeople]

[The best guesstimate is large or bigger on the glove size.

However, the kitchen gloves themselves are not a match. The smudges are otherwise too ambiguous.]