Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Live, Part 2

"It sounds like you don't want to work with me," Felicity frowned, nudging me gently with her elbow. "You really don't need to worry about that, you know. I promise that I'm not scary or anything. 

"It's not that," I immediately said. "I'm not exactly the best at working with new people. That's all." This was far more accurate than she could ever understand, to say the least. I didn't want to be dragged into anything unnecessarily when I had more than enough to stress over because of the Oracle project, but it seemed that I didn't have a choice. Besides, I had known Felicity loosely for quite some time now. Cotoli had trusted her enough to hire her, so it was surely fine for me to believe in her too. 

At least, that's what I hoped. 

"We'll figure it out then!" Felicity proclaimed, right back to her regular, chipper self. "What should we do first? Should we go and look at the body? I know that seeing the crime scene would be a great way to kick everything off."

"I think I would be able to get you two in," Mukuro said, crossing her arms as a frown festered on her features. "My father was able to pull a few strings, and I'm going to be acting as the lead detective for this case."

"They don't need you as a witness?" I questioned in surprise. "I would have expected them to want to hear your words in court..."

"Since the five of us saw basically the same thing, not all of us need to testify," Mukuro replied. "Yuri and Anton were the first two the police interrogated, so they're going to be the ones who have to stand in court. You've surely realized that they didn't want to talk to you for too long, right? The same applies to Niamh and me. She's going to be acting as a prosecutor for this case too."

"Wow... A lot happened while I've been standing out here," I whispered with a shake of my head. "Still, I suppose there's nothing that we can do about it now. Is there anything else that we should know?"

"We should probably get all of ur talking out of the way before we go inside," Felicity commented. "It seems really loud in there, and I don't know if I'll be able to hear what you're saying once we get inside."

Mukuro nodded her understanding. "Prosecutor Lin is going to be working with Niamh on this case. Apparently, Niamh called her as soon as her questioning session finished, so she came right down to see what was going on. I bet that you just missed her," she explained. "You'll probably see her at some point later today anyways, so I'm not all that worried, and I don't think you should be either."

"That's good to hear," I remarked. "At least we know now that the prosecutor isn't going to be searching for a guilty verdict using any means necessary... I truly doubt that James would want to kill his director this way. You heard what he said while we were on the tour. He called the rest of the cast his family, and I don't think that he was lying. Every part of him seemed far too sincere for that."

"I agree," Mukuro nodded. "Unfortunately, that wasn't enough for the police looking into the case... They made the arrest without talking to me or any of the other detectives. They sure did jump to a lot of conclusions because of the location of the body..."

"The body was found in the defendant's dressing room as far as I'm aware... That doesn't exactly bode well for us," Felicity sighed. "Still, I suppose there's nothing we can do about it aside from pray that we're able to find something that makes it obvious that he didn't do it, right?"

"Yeah," I agreed. "I'm not sure where we're going to start... But I feel like we should certainly check out the dressing room. On top of that, I want to know what happened before all of us arrived at the scene of the crime."

"What do you mean?" Felicity questioned with a frown. "You're making it sound like something happened before the corpse was even discovered."

"You could say that," I shrugged. "You see, we all arrived here for the tour of set. You already knew that we were going to be looking around the studios as part of the radio lottery Yuri won, but... We were supposed to meet various members of the cast and crew. When we got here though, there wasn't anybody around. The only one who we were able to see was James, and he said that nobody else had showed up."