Not Again! With Lili

[shortforever]

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Week 1, post-trial

[shortforever]

[HEY LILI look who's coming to talk to you, wherever you are.]

Let's have a chat. Deer cabin?

[coastal]

[she's probably by the bonfire at this point - but she'll nod when he approaches her.]

That's fine.

[she'll follow after, walking a bit better today even tho she's favoring her right leg just a bit]

[shortforever]

[Hilariously it's probably better that she's still hurting, because when they get into the cabin he has words to say about an obvious topic.]

So I know it wasn't you, because you're hurt.

It wasn't me either.

[coastal]

[she just sighs]

... I want to believe you, and I'm inclined to believe you due to the effects.

But does this mean you think it was Escha?

[shortforever]

I mean, it has to be, right? If it was one of the four of us, but not Ogata, then it's her. Because I know it wasn't me, and you're injured.

It might be beneficial for all three of us to talk and figure it out too, just in case we're all wrong. But I wanted to talk to you first because I know it's not you.

[coastal]

[ . . . well,]

I'm willing to talk to her about it - because I don't know if I believe it was one of the four of us. There are too many things that still don't make sense.

Could it have been someone with feet smaller than ours? What was the point of throwing his shoes into the lake? We really didn't find enough in time to make sense of anything.

[shortforever]

Yeah, we didn't.

We might get another shot at it anyway. If whoever it was killed to try and win this game, then they'll try to kill again next week. And we can be ready for that.

[coastal]

... I suppose. If they pull the same tricks...

[ . . . ]

We had a few like that in the village - someone who killed and wasn't caught the first time, but the second time...

I just don't want to see who else we'll have to lose before we catch them.

[shortforever]

It's better to think 'they will kill again' and be ready for them, I think.

In the house, some of us set traps. Not ones that would kill anyone, but ones that made it difficult to get into rooms, or ones that made it impossible to go into a room without leaving behind evidence. Something like that might help.

[coastal]

[ . . . hm. she looks thoughtful at that.]

It'd take some effort on Thursdays... but that sounds workable.

Though if the knife was their primary weapon, it makes you wonder why they chose to put it back in the kitchen.

[shortforever]

Right? That part makes no sense whatsoever! Why not just throw it in the lake?

[coastal]

Precisely. And it was still bloody - but only on the edge. It wasn't plunged into someone's heart. It was just a shallow wound, but we couldn't find that on the body due to the bear mauling.

But why leave even that...

[shortforever]

You know, maybe someone just slit Yu's throat? That'd be why it's only bloody on the edge.

[coastal]

I was thinking that - it has to be someplace that's immediately fatal, though. Otherwise he would've put up more of a fight, even in those seconds that he was dying, right?

I don't know how long a man can survive after getting their throat slit...

[shortforever]

Depending on how deep it is, about ten seconds. But it makes an absolute mess, he'd have to have been killed in the woods to cover up that much blood.

[Maybe don't ask how he knows that.]

[coastal]

[listen, murder happens and lili has decided to stop judging people for things after certain canon happenings]

The woods where there weren't any footprints.

[ . . . ]

I hate this place.

[shortforever]

[When you control gravity, it's very easy to kill people with the bullets they're trying to shoot you with.]

It's just one mystery after another, isn't it?

[coastal]

It is - but at least tomorrow we're going to be able to find out Yu's power and see if it was utilized at all, so that might clear things up even just a bit.

We'll have to keep working from there.

[shortforever]

Watch it be that he had some bullshit power that turns this whole case on its head.

[coastal]

And of course he never told anyone what it was so we couldn't use that incredibly vital piece of information to actually catch his killer.

[shortforever]

How inconsiderate of him, really.

[coastal]

He didn't even tell his one close friend here? I get it if no one wants to broadcast to everyone, but at this point it's just about having a back-up plan.

[shortforever]

I've told exactly two people what my power is, and it's staying like that.

[Unless one of them dies, maybe.]

But I guess he really wanted to keep it a secret, or whoever knows it isn't coming forward.

[coastal]

[she shakes her head...]

There's no punishment for sharing the power of someone who's already passed. If Guy and none of Yu's roommates knew, then there probably isn't anyone who would've known.

[shortforever]

Then he really must have kept it to himself. Damn.