Shuichi's POV:
We walk out into the brightly lit trial room. Kaede and I walk to our podiums, which were moved next to each other. Everyone else moves to theirs. We look around, and we see that at Ryoma's old podium, there was a picture of him. It had three pink lines running from the bottom of the frame upwards. What a brutal way to die. I would feel bad for him if he didn't try to frame Kaede.
Me: "All right. Let's get started."
Maki: "Agreed."
Me: "I think that the first goal would be to determine when the murder occurred."
Kaito: "Sounds good! Any evidence to help us out there?"
Me: "Well..."
I open up my Monophone and find the image of the clock.
Me: "It was 8:30 pm when we found the body. Gonta was last seen at 1:00 pm, when he showed us the new bugs."
A few people shiver when I say that. Most notably, Tsumugi.
Korekiyo: "But that's over seven hours for someone to kill him! We need to narrow it down further, or we will never catch the killer. Unless, of course, you can't?"
Me: "What?"
Korekiyo: "Do you not have enough evidence? Are you not the Ace Detective that we thought you were?"
No, there is some evidence that can help us to narrow down the time. I look through all of my evidence. The bloody knife, the bug sorting sheet, and the various different reports, but then my eyes catch something.
The vial with the green liquid.
I hold it up.
Me: "This vial is the evidence that we need."
Korekiyo: "And how do you plan to solve it with that?"
Me: "Whatever this liquid is, it's fresh."
Korekiyo: "But what is it?"
I think I can tell what it is. The fact that I only found an extremely small amount of it on the ground, and the noxious green color both seem like a good place to start guessing.
I close my eyes and I start to think.
___ _____
B.
B__ B____
O.
B__ B_OO_
U.
BU_ B_OO_
G.
BUG B_OO_
L.
BUG BLOO_
D.
BUG BLOOD.
Me: "That's it!"
...
Me: "The liquid in this dial is the blood of one or more bugs."
Tsumugi: "Oh, that's... lovely..."
Himiko: "Nyeh, it's impressive that you were able to figure that out, but what does that have to do with the time of the murder?"
Me: "Well, the blood of bugs dries and hardens much faster than human blood. I'd give it around three hours maximum until it starts to dry."
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Guardian Angels (Saimatsu)
FanfictionMAJOR SPOILERS FOR DANGANRONPA V3 KILLING HARMONY! This is a Saimatsu fic (Danganronpa's Shuichi Saihara x Kaede Akamatsu) where Kaede is not found as the blackened in the first class trial. The two have to survive the killing game together while ke...